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Introducing the 2024 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum honorees

These Pitt students, faculty and staff have made significant impacts on their communities.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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The Conceptual Foundations program takes a philosophical look at medicine

This rapidly growing certificate program in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science has students tackling medical questions in a new way.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Teaching & Learning
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Pitt Medicine researchers created a tool to help patients make informed decisions about sterilization

Developed by Sonya Borrero and CONVERGE, the web-based decision aid is available in English and Spanish.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
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Prachi Gupta's memoir tackles the model minority myth

Read "They Called Us Exceptional: and Other Lies that Raised Us" and more, out now from alumni authors.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
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2 Dietrich School faculty earned ACLS Fellowships

Dela Kuma and Kaliane Ung will conduct their research projects over the next year.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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5 undergraduates will represent Pitt at the 2024 ACC Meeting of the Minds

The annual conference showcases diverse research across the member institutions.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Undergraduate students
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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How to exchange diverse viewpoints on campus without the discord, according to Pitt experts

Faculty members Abdesalam Soudi and Ann Sinsheimer discuss centering respect and other lessons from Pitt's Year of Dialogue and Discourse with Clyde Wilson Pickett.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Provost
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Meet Pitt’s 2024 faculty Fulbright winners

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers faculty the opportunity to teach and conduct research abroad.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Faculty
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2 Pitt teams will compete in the Rice Business Plan Competition

The world’s most prestigious pitch competition begins April 4.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Graduate and professional students
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Pitt has 2 new Goldwater Scholars

The prestigious scholarship is awarded to sophomores and juniors who plan to pursue research careers in the sciences and engineering fields. Meet our winners.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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A first-generation Pitt alumna was selected for a Pickering Fellowship

Selected out of 1,400 applicants, Khadajah Muhammad will be equipped with foreign affairs skills before participating in both a domestic and international internship.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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A Pitt alumna and Fulbright scholar participated in the EU-US Young Leaders Seminar

Michelle Furmansky was among 40 people from across the globe in the invitation-only summit.

  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt seniors earned awards from the Dietrich School and College of General Studies

The March ceremony celebrated scholars for academics, perseverance and service.

  • University News
  • Undergraduate students
  • College of General Studies
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Registration is open for Faculty and Staff Development Program courses

Classes for Pitt employees to advance their potential start in April.

  • University News
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faculty
  • Staff
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A Pitt-Carnegie Mellon team will compete in the EnergyTech University Prize National Pitch Event

The Flow Battery Diagnostics for Energy Reliability project is among 28 student finalist teams to advance to the competition in Austin, Texas.

  • Technology & Science
  • Sustainability
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Students, annual student loan notifications are coming

Look out for an email in early April with the subject line “Track Your Pitt Borrowing History.”

  • University News
  • Students
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Sirry Alang earned a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The School of Education researcher, in partnership with Drexel University, will lead project designed to dismantle structural racism in health care.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
  • School of Education
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Leasa Maley earned the President’s Award for Staff Excellence

The assistant director of auxiliary services has worked at Pitt-Bradford for 37 years.

  • University News
  • Staff
  • Pitt-Bradford
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A Dell Technologies gift will provide Pittsburgh medical researchers with expanded computational power

A new high-performance computer system in the Innovation Hub for Health Science Medical Research will help improve outcomes for patients.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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Pitt Chancellor Joan Gabel is in pursuit of what’s possible

Forward-thinking and values-driven, she’s embraced Pitt’s boundless potential throughout her first year as the University’s 19th leader.