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commencement 2024

Spring commencement 2024, in photos

Features & Articles

How nanotubes, nanoparticles and antibodies are used to detect tiny amounts of fentanyl

This Pitt-developed sensor is portable, affordable and orders of magnitude more sensitive than the next-best thing.

Pitt’s Sustainable Design Lab is developing novel materials to combat global water pollution issues

Researchers Hassan Nawaz and David Sanchez are designing metal organic frameworks (MOFs) to deal with arsenic and other heavy metals from Pittsburgh to Pakistan and beyond.

PFAS, the ‘forever chemicals,’ explained by Pitt engineer Carla Ng

A leading expert on forever chemicals, Ng explains what they are, where they’re found and what researchers are doing to eradicate them.

Hear from the graduates who earned this year’s top University honors

Benjamin Leslie is this year’s Emma W. Locke awardee; the ODK Senior of the Year award goes to Joshua Nguyen.

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Announcements and Updates
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Employees, benefits open enrollment is May 1-15

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Registration is open for the Swanson School’s summer day camp

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Attend pinning and commencement for Pitt-Titusville’s nursing graduates

Two people hold small black hearing aids

Learn about hearing health care at a June 7 symposium

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Accolades & Honors
Emily Elliott casts a bucket into a river

Emily Elliott was selected as a fellow of the Ecological Society of America

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Kiran Bambha is a 2024 AASLD fellow

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13 undergraduates earn Department of Studio Arts honors

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2 Pitt faculty are on the New Pittsburgh Courier’s 40 under 40 list

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