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Pitt students posing with each other outside on Match Day

See photos from Match Day 2022

On March 18, fourth-year medical students learned where they’re headed for the next stop in their training.

  • Students
  • School of Medicine
  • Health and Wellness
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Pitt chemistry professor earns 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards

W. Seth Childers was part of two interdisciplinary teams that received the honor.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Terry Smith receives 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award

The award is presented to an individual who has been actively engaged in teaching art history for most of their career.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Nicole Scheff receives 2021 Award in Pain from the Rita Allen Foundation

This year’s Award in Pain Scholars will receive grants of $50,000 annually for up to three years to conduct innovative research on critical topics on the biological mechanisms of pain.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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Behind the scenes at the Dietrich School’s machine shop

Meet the people who mill, drill and 3D print the tools that keep Pitt research on the cutting edge.

  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Jamie Ducar smiling in front of grey background

How Pitt’s executive director of the engaged campus forges community connections

Jamie Ducar is helping Pitt be a responsive, effective and visible collaborator within its local communities.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Staff
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Appalachian Regional Commission awards School of Computing and Information $500,000

The Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative has awarded Pitt’s School of Computing and Information $500,000 for

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • School of Computing and Information
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All about Pitt’s plan to go carbon neutral by 2037

The newly released Pitt Climate Action Plan spells out how investments in clean energy, transportation and efficiency will reduce the University’s carbon footprint to zero.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Nursing’s Lora Burke named an expert in obesity

Burke’s studies have included testing various diet approaches to weight loss and learning how people self-monitor their dietary intake.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Nursing
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Pride Week at Pitt returns

The Rainbow Alliance-sponsored events run March 20-26 and include a chance to hear from actor-activist Indya Moore.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
Karen Ricco and Devin N. Ulm posing with their awards in front of Pitt backdrop

3 Pitt advisors earned the inaugural Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

Awardees include Danielle Andrews-Brown, Karen Ricco and Devin N. Ulm.

  • University News
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Colorfully decorated Psyanky eggs

Get ready for spring with Pitt Nationality Room tours

Psyanky eggs in Ukraine, tulips in Turkey: Learn how nine cultures celebrate the season during special tours March 18-19.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Our City/Our Campus
Middle schoolers dancing in giant puppet costumes in Oakland

Middle schoolers learn creativity and collaboration through puppetry

A grant from Heather Henson, puppet artist and daughter of “The Muppets” creator Jim Henson, is bringing joy to Pitt's Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Education
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32 faculty projects have earned Momentum Funds awards

The awards support both individual faculty members and large groups that are scaling up world-changing scholarly projects.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Faculty
  • Pitt-Bradford
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Graduate students address hunger to win 2022 Super Analytics Challenge; discussions will continue in Catalyst for Impact Symposium

Students teamed up to fight food insecurity and hunger in the Pittsburgh community. Discussions will continue in the first-ever Catalyst for Impact Symposium on April 8, 2022.

  • Community Impact
  • Students
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
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Register for Be a Good Neighbor Day

Staff, students and faculty can choose from over 20 volunteer projects across the region.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
Herb Douglas sitting in a chair and speaking into microphone

Pitt will name the indoor track at Victory Heights after Panthers legend Herb Douglas

The honor for the trailblazing alumnus and oldest living Olympic medalist was announced at his 100th birthday celebration March 12.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Athletics
  • School of Education
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Pitt’s Waverly Duck wins Scholarly Achievement Award for book ‘Tacit Racism’

The book lays out the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social interactions of Americans.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
William Klimstra and workers in yellow gowns in a lab

Decoy proteins could protect people from a deadly mosquito-borne virus

Pitt researchers received $14.5 million from the Department of Defense to fight viruses that cause brain infections and could be used in biowarfare.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
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Maureen Pastin named director of compensation in Pitt’s Office of Human Resources

The Pittsburgh native is an experienced compensation and human resources professional with more than 30 years of experience.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus