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Shailendra Gajanan

Rural students took a mental health hit during the pandemic, a Pitt-Bradford professor found

Shailendra Gajanan is now helping several Pennsylvania counties make a plan to lower stress levels among youth.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Pitt-Bradford
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Former Pitt Olympians look back at their Games and what they’ll be watching this year

Here’s who hurdler Roger Kingdom, swimmer Susan Heon-Preston and Judoka Marisa Pedulla are keeping an eye on in 2024.

  • Global
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
Five volunteers pose in a line

Pitt Education alumni volunteered at a day camp for children impacted by cancer

Adjunct Assistant Professor Denise Esposto (EDUC ’77, ’81G, ’23G) serves at Camp Clubhouse each year.

  • Community Impact
  • School of Education
A goat eats invasive weeds, with Pitt's campus visible in background

These grazing goats helped the Pitt grounds crew clear a hillside

The herd provides a fossil fuel free solution to combating invasive vines and underbrush.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
Apples and leaves

This alum’s handbags are good enough to eat

OK, not really, but they are made from fruit.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Sustainability
  • Alumni
Chitiyo

Jonathan Chitiyo published a book for African educators

The associate professor of education investigated how teachers in Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe support students with disabilities.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Global
  • Pitt-Bradford
A box of Narcan, gloves and papers

How Pitt is taking on the next phase of the opioid epidemic

Those tracking fatal overdoses in Pennsylvania have seen increasing rates of the adulterant xylazine, or tranq. Pitt people are on the forefront of establishing best practices for treatment.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Pitt United Way volunteers participate in a kit packing and collection event.

Volunteers needed: Contribute your time to Pitt’s United Way Campaign

The campaign will earn $35 for each two-hour shift at the University Store on Fifth.

  • Community Impact
A high school student focuses on their laptop during Pitt's CyberCamp.

Pitt’s CyberCamp is diversifying the tech professional pipeline in Pittsburgh and beyond

The program, now in its eighth year, was spotlighted in a recent White House report for helping to develop the national cybersecurity workforce.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Prospective students
  • Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
Hirsch holds up her certificate and medal

Jennifer Hirsch won the International Association for Relationship Research Teaching Award

“Her teaching style engages us to be more creative and curious students,” according to one student testimonial.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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A new book by Pitt professors showcases the life of a pioneering Black journalist

Alumnus Mal Goode was the first Black broadcast reporter on national television. Learn about his career.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
Sherrard accepts the NACUBO award

Pitt was recognized with the NACUBO Excellence in Sustainability Award

The sole university recognized by the organization this year, Pitt earned the honor for its Climate Action Plan.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
A portrait of Anna Li

A Pitt student startup is a semifinalist for the Hult Prize

Korion Health enables at-home health screenings to combat heart and lung disease.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Alanna Howe

A Pitt honors student was selected for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals

Sophomore Alanna Howe will attend a two-month intensive language course, study at a German university and complete a mechanical engineering internship.

  • Global
  • Students
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
A man wearing glasses, surrounded by abstract paintings.

The birth of Benny Blindspots

When an autoimmune disease came for his sight, Pitt alum Benny Schwartz picked up a paintbrush. The rest is (art) history.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
A box of Polycarbin-branded pipette tips

These former Pitt Med students designed a lab plastic recycling system

Now, Polycarbin founders James O’Brien and Noah Pyles are back to help University researchers reduce their environmental impact.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Sustainability
  • School of Medicine
Ryan Tate poses with an apparatus of glass tubing

If it’s glass, Ryan Tate can make it

Pitt’s scientific glassblower crafts and repairs the flasks, pipes and apparatuses that make University research labs function.

  • Technology & Science
  • Staff
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Rory Cooper before his wheelchair race at the Paralympics

Rory Cooper was named to the U.S. Olympians and Paralympians Association Executive Committee

The Human Engineering Research Laboratories founding director won a bronze medal in the 1988 Paralympic Games.

  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Pitt researcher analyzes wires in a lab.

Pitt is No. 8 for public universities nationally in U.S. News’ Best Global University Rankings

The University ranked in the top 50 for 12 subjects, including a top 10 ranking for surgery.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine