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Pitt ranked No. 7 for NIH research funding in 2025
All six schools of the health sciences were among the top 20 recipients of National Institutes of Health dollars for their categories in the latest Blue Ridge Institute ranking.
Q&A: Pittsburgh’s little-known role in the Great Migration
We asked Pitt-Greensburg Assistant Professor Adam Cilli to share highlights from his research into this essential Black history that changed the city.
6 projects earned Dietrich Innovation Institute funding
The winning faculty come from Pitt departments ranging from English to geology and environmental science.
A new art display highlights Pittsburgh’s role in electric power history
The display, adorning the hallway outside a Benedum electric power lab, invites students to consider their place in engineering history.
Local middle schoolers brought Black history — and several Pitt figures — to life
Damon Young, Gertrude Wade and Damar Hamlin were just a few of those portrayed at The Neighborhood Academy’s Night at the Museum event.
Alumnus Donald Alstadt was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
The chemist invented Chemlok, a system of rubber-to-metal adhesives that’s widely used in cars, planes and more.
AI-generated ‘podcasts’ are useful but prone to errors, says this Pitt researcher
Ian Flynn’s findings on Google’s NotebookLM tool was selected as an American Geophysical Union featured story.
The Pitt Research Annual Report is out now
Read about the last year of advances in AI for medicine, next-generation energy sources, space research and more.
Pitt climbed in the National Academy of Inventors’ global patent ranking
Pitt innovators were issued 107 U.S. patents in 2025, moving the University’s ranking up two spots to No. 26.
Pitt researchers received $2.2M from the Gilbert Family Foundation to combat blindness caused by NF1
John Ash’s work at the UPMC Vision Institute and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine made him a member of the Vision Restoration Initiative Dream Team.

