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An NIH director’s award will help Pitt researchers study the vast reach of tiny proteins

Their findings could affect our understanding of everything from genetic diversity to autoimmune diseases.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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Pitt Medicine researchers’ findings on brain cells linked to protection against dementia were published in Cell

The results from Hansruedi Mathys’ study suggest there is a link between inhibitory neurons and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease pathology.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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Comment on University policies to be decommissioned through Nov. 15

Members of the Pitt community are invited to provide feedback via an online form.

  • University News
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Deborah Moon received a CDC new investigator award

The School of Social Work researchers will study the effects of a community-based maltreatment prevention program for parents.

  • Faculty
  • School of Social Work
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The Pennsylvania Innocence Project will recognize the work of Pitt student interns

Since 2016, more than 50 University of Pittsburgh students have volunteered to help the wrongfully convicted.

  • Community Impact
  • Students
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Sean Morrissey won a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowments

The visiting assistant professor will use the $20,000 to establish an experimental printmaking studio.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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A new Pitt webpage promotes transparency and accountability

Visit the Government Relations and Advocacy site to see information the University provides to local, state and federal authorities.

  • University News
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The most memorable moments from Pitt homecoming 2023

Relive the weekend from the Snake to a Panthers football victory with this photo gallery.

  • University News
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Computing and Information
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Ronald Roth was honored with a proclamation by the City of Pittsburgh

Mayor Ed Gainey named Oct. 10 in Roth’s honor for his decades of serving community health as an emergency medicine instructor.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Medicine
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Tony Novosel was appointed as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

It’s one in a long line of recognitions for the longtime Pitt history professor’s work in Northern Ireland’s peace process.

  • Global
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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An alumna is Pitt's second Erasmus Mundus winner

Maria Anto will study children’s literature at universities around the globe as she earns a master’s degree.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Art and advocacy intersect through this soprano opera singer’s performances and scholarship

Zuly Inirio has performed across the United States and Europe. Now, through song and the Afro-Latinx Song and Opera Project, she aims to increase diverse representation in the industry.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Social Work
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R.A. Judy earned the 2023 Truman Capote Literary Trust Award

The professor of critical and cultural studies was selected by an Iowa Writers’ Workshop panel.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Amplify your voice with a 2024 Diversity Forum workshop. Proposals are now due Nov. 17.

The annual Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion event will be held Jan. 23-24, during MLK Social Justice Week.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Pittsburgh Campus
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This year’s State of the School reviewed 2 years of successes for Pitt Medicine

Anantha Shekhar detailed how the School of Medicine met or exceeded the key goals he set — in areas from clinical excellence to faculty development — when he joined the University.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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Alexander Deiters won the American Chemical Society Pittsburgh Award

The Pitt professor was recognized for distinguished service to the field of chemistry.

  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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These Pitt students are following the eclipse to Texas

The paths of two upcoming eclipses overlap outside of San Antonio. The Shadow Bandits won’t miss the chance to study them.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Hooman Henry Rashidi is Pitt’s new associate dean for AI in medicine

He will develop curricula for to better prepare Pitt Med students to understand, evaluate, use and develop technologies that will advance their research and improve patient care.

  • University News
  • School of Medicine
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Get ready for Pittsburgh’s single-use plastic ban

Pitt Sustainability offers advice on adjusting to the citywide change, which begins Oct. 14.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
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Omid Shekari earned a Sculpture Space residency

The assistant professor is spending October and November at the studio in Utica, New York.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences