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Forget grammar drills: High schoolers bargained for wares, ordered lunch in Chinese and painted Russian icons during National Security Agency programs on campus this summer.

As a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, alumnus Brian D'Cruz has treated trauma patients in Chad, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. In 2013, he headed to Syria.

The Tsinghua Scholars Program brings Chinese medical school students to Pitt for two years of rigorous biomedical research training.

Exploring 21st-century global partnership opportunities while renewing bonds that date to 1948, the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC traveled to Colombia in May for a weeklong visit.

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He graduated from the School of Computing and Information with a PhD in telecommunications and networking.

The Argentinian writer and poet is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century.

“Lament/Witches’ Sabbath” tells the story of Rosenblum’s grandmother, whose family fled Proskurov, Ukraine, in 1919 during that town’s massacre.

Pitt landed at No. 47 on the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking.

Gobat will receive the Friedrich Katz Prize for “Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America.”