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This new report details the educational barriers Black students face in Greater Pittsburgh

The yearslong effort between community groups and Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems outlines ways to better support Black families in the region.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Social Work
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This Pitt-Bradford alum is fighting metal pollution with microbes

A childhood fascination with nature and support from Pitt-Bradford mentors helped Jonathan Josephs-Spaulding build a career that’s taken him around the world.

  • Technology & Science
  • Global
  • Pitt-Bradford
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainability
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November events you won’t want to miss

Honor veterans across Pitt’s campuses, attend jazz concerts and hop on some light-up seesaws this month.

  • Our City/Our Campus
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All Angles discussion series tackles climate change

The Pitt initiative, which helps students explore different viewpoints, continues Oct. 26 with geologist Scott Tinker and engineer Paulina Jaramillo.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
  • Sustainability
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Why don't adult heart cells regenerate? A new Pitt study provides an explanation.

As mice mature, their heart cells quiet their communication with their environment, details a recent paper in the journal Developmental Cell.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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Two Pitt faculty members were honored by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

Peter Strick and Boris Birmaher received outstanding achievement awards for their work in neuroscience and psychiatry.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • Faculty
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Gwen Sowa was elected to the National Academy of Medicine

The professor and chair of physical medicine and rehabilitation has earned one of the highest honors in health care.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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How a Pitt alumna is fostering recovery through literacy

Courtney Colligan uses performance arts and writing to help people in prison build self-esteem, self-worth and overcome trauma.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Learn about housing and community resources at October town halls

Pitt’s annual Be a Good Neighbor Tenant Town Halls will provide Pittsburgh students with resources for off campus living. The first town hall will take place on Oct. 25 from 5-7 p.m. in the William

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
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Peter Wipf has been honored for creative organic chemistry

Wipf won the 2023 Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Cathy vs. Cathedral: Which name won?

We asked you to take a side in the Cathedral of Learning nickname debate, and the results are in.

  • University News
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt’s Global Experiences Office has a new director

Hillary Koller, a two-time Pitt alum, brings 15 years of higher ed experience to the role. Her team is re-imagining what it means to study abroad.

  • University News
  • Global
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Two Pitt physicists were honored by the American Physical Society

Chandralekha Singh received an award for removing barriers to marginalized groups in physics, and Vittorio Paolono was named an APS Fellow.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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These Pitt faculty use pop songs to teach English

A new podcast from linguists Ece Ulus and Heather McNaught dissects song lyrics to teach pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar to language learners.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • English Language Institute
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Pitt’s Evan Schneider has earned a Packard Fellowship for galaxy modeling

Using her own code and the world’s fastest supercomputers, Schneider and fellow researchers can simulate galaxies with greater clarity than ever before.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt’s new $2.5 million partnership with the Pennsylvania Turnpike aims to improve the state’s roads

Electrified roadways, noise cancellation, sustainable geogrids and near real-time infrastructure modeling could soon become reality in Pennsylvania.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Support the Pitt United Way Campaign through donations, events, volunteering and more

The Pitt United Way Campaign is underway, with a goal of raising $750,000 to support our neighbors.

  • Our City/Our Campus
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Plan your schedule for Pitt’s Civic Action Week: The Path to Joy and Liberation

The annual event kicks off Monday and aims to deepen a collective institutional understanding of systemic challenges and work toward solutions.

The Indian Nationality Room mimics a university courtyard in Nalanda. The pillars are decorated with rosettes and fruit.

Submit your Nationality Room art by Oct. 17 to be featured later this month

Art inspired by the Nationality Rooms may be shown online or in person for International Artists Day Oct. 25.

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Register for the 2022 Latinx Connect conference

Panel discussions and workshops will spotlight dialogue about Latinx identities, cultures and contemporary issues.