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Apply for Pitt's Community Engaged Scholarship Forum by Dec. 22, 2021

The annual event highlights scholarship and partnership.

  • Community Impact
  • Students
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Keisha N. Blain’s work named among ‘best history books’ by Smithsonian Magazine

“Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America” was published by Beacon Press in 2021.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Pitt student Maja Lynn wins 2022 Marshall Scholarship

The anthropology and museum studies senior wants to ensure that museums are a force for good in post-conflict societies. She’ll use the prestigious award to study in Northern Ireland.

  • University News
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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How you can help your neighbors this holiday season

Calls to the United Way’s 211 crisis hotline have soared over the past 18 months. Help them help neighbors in need.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
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A team effort gets a child a new kidney for Christmas

Molly Trott gave her Pitt Athletics coworker Mary Beth George and her family an exceptional early Christmas present.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Athletics
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9 things to do in Pittsburgh if you’re sticking around for the holidays

Bonus: They’re all accessible from campus by bus.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Education's Tom Akiva publishes new book

His book examines how in-school and out-of-school learning systems can be improved to better support young people’s learning and development.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Education
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Chemical engineering students have fun with hot air balloons

Teams in Taryn Bayles’ Foundations of Chemical Engineering class used their problem-solving skills to design and launch their own hot air balloons.

  • Technology & Science
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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8 ways to study smarter, according to Study Lab tutors

Exams are approaching — here’s how to ace ’em.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Students
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Jennifer E. Woodward joins Society of Research Administrators International board of directors

Woodward is serving as one of six At Large Board members with full voting rights and significant responsibility for the stewardship of the organization.

  • Staff
  • Innovation and Research
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Pitt junior wins top international photography contest prize

Economics major Devin DePamphilis’ winning entry was titled “Bye Bye COVID.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Big changes to the Pitt Seed Project

The makeover will focus on our people, programs and purpose — and will provide more support to bring projects to fruition. Applications are due in January.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Lead from the front

Going to school for 23 years doesn't necessarily mean you can run a clinic. A new Pitt program helps physicians and other clinicians build their leadership skills and business savvy.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  • School of Medicine
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Why do some people get jet lag and others don’t?

A $6.2 million grant from the WoodNext Fund will help Pitt researchers find out — and potentially unlock other sleep mysteries in the process.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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Kenny Pickett is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy

The senior quarterback is Pitt's first Heisman finalist since 2003, when receiver Larry Fitzgerald finished as the runner-up.

  • University News
  • Athletics
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Get your booster and volunteer at pop-up clinics

Want to help boost community immunity? Register to volunteer at a Dec. 16 or Jan. 12 pop-up clinic.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
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Share your thoughts about the next business school dean during a virtual open forum

There will be an open forum via Zoom on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 2 p.m. All members of the community are invited to attend.

  • University News
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
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William ‘Buddy’ Clark and Steven R. Little are Pitt’s newest members of the National Academy of Inventors

It’s the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center recognized with international honor

This is the 12th year PSC has been recognized by HPCwire.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
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Pitt beat Wake Forest to take the ACC championship

Saturday’s 45-21 win is the program’s first ACC title after sharing the Big East title in 2004 and 2010. Next stop: The Peach Bowl.

  • University News
  • Athletics