It’s Possible at Pitt
Pitt’s AI Cloud Innovation Center is scaling up and branching out
A collaboration with Amazon Web Services, the center hosts students who solve real problems and build skills companies are hungry for.
Pitt’s BioForge earned LEED Platinum certification
The building, designed to connect people inside with the natural world outside, received the highest possible rank from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Piervincenzo Rizzo is developing a new glaucoma test with an NIH grant
The professor of civil engineering’s device, funded by the National Eye Institute, will be more comfortable and accurate.
$3B campaign kickoff, Cathedral celebration and light show highlight Pitt Homecoming weekend
Homecoming at Pitt was bigger than ever in 2026, as the University looked back on 100 years of a campus icon while setting up its next century of possibilities.
Pitt launches $3B ‘Proving Possible’ fundraising campaign
The campaign will champion transformation and growth at all University schools and campuses.
Pitt's $3 billion campaign is the most ambitious in its 239-year history
Pitt has launched a multi-billion-dollar fundraising effort to spur and support transformative ideas at the onset of the the institution's next century.
A new Pittsburgh life sciences startup incubator will grow early stage companies
The Pitt incubator, located in Oakland, will provide a much-needed link in the regional life sciences ecosystem.
How social science can lead the way toward better disaster preparation and recovery
Nine years after Hurricane Maria, Fernando Tormos-Aponte and his research group shared their findings with policymakers in Puerto Rico.
Pitt doctors performed the first artificial iris implantation in Western Pennsylvania
The transformative procedure largely saved the vision of Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Evan Facher.
Heart assembloids give researchers a new way to study heart valve disorders
Experts from the Swanson School, Pitt Medicine and Carnegie Mellon combined their skills to engineer these stamp-sized, working models of one of our most complex organs.

