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A professor demonstrates taking a pulse on a dummy in a hospital bed

Pitt’s undergraduate nursing program is No. 4 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report

The University also joined the ranks of Most Innovative Schools in the 2025 Best College rankings.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Cultivate student success
  • School of Nursing
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Anthony Delitto

Anthony Delitto will lead Pitt’s new Center for Excellence in Digital Education

Known as Pitt EDGE, the dedicated hub will support the development of the University’s online and continuing education programming.

  • University News
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Daniel Pan

A Pitt medical student won the West Virginia Governor’s Service Award

Daniel Pan dedicated time to mentor high school students with an interest in STEM at Morgantown High School.

  • Community Impact
  • Teaching & Learning
  • School of Medicine
Pitt fans cheer during the Homecoming Football game.

Pitt Homecoming 2024 in photos

The Panthers made football program history. Students and alumni earned spirit awards. See all the highlights.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Jay Tan

Jay Tan received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

With funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the School of Medicine assistant professor will study how our cells repair one of their key components.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Andrey Parkhitko

Andrey Parkhitko will use a new National Institute on Aging grant to study the methionine cycle

Studying this pathway may reveal how nutrient sensing is related to the signs of aging.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
David Frederick stands with three honors students

Students, faculty and leadership welcomed the Frederick Honors College to Pitt-Greensburg

At the September celebration, David C. Frederick himself encouraged the new honors students to approach their education with a “thinking heart.”

  • University News
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Cultivate student success
Fall campus photo depicting trees and leaves on the Cathedral lawn.

7 Pitt faculty won Black Excellence in the Academy awards

The annual Office of the Provost honors recognize outstanding achievements, contributions and leadership.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Pittsburgh artist Morgan Overton smiles beside her "We Are Not Going Back" painting.

When words won’t suffice, Morgan Overton communicates through art

Join the Frederick Honors College artist-in-residence at a hands-on, creative peace-building workshop on Sept. 21.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Community Impact
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Price

Jamelle Price has graduated from the Appalachian Leadership Institute

The nine-month curriculum is designed to help fellows create positive change and strengthen economic development in their communities.

  • Community Impact
  • Faculty
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Hogan, Shekhar, Bethel and Lee hold up a framed research center logo

Hillandale Farms family giving tops $45M with the creation of the Orland Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center Biobank

The specimen repository ultimately will help develop treatments for painful conditions like arthritis that affect millions globally.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • School of Medicine
Cuilan Liu

Cuilan Liu published a new book on religion and law in China

The Oxford University Press publication examines a long-overlooked campaign for Buddhist monks and nuns to receive legal exemptions.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A spotted salamander on orange leaves

Humans aren’t the only creatures to make nostalgic returns home

In honor of Pitt Homecoming, we spoke with Professor Corinne Richards-Zawacki about natal philopatric amphibians, which habitually return to the place where they were born to reproduce.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
A woman wearing a lab coat smiles for camera.

¿Pero por qué?

Gretchen Rosado’s childhood curiosity led her to science. A Spanish-speaking lab at Pitt just may lead her home.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Cultivate student success
The Cathedral of Learning behind tree branches

Lark Song won a poster award from the Mathematical Association of America

The Pitt undergrad presented his research on the Truncated Octahedral Conjecture at MAA MathFest this year.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Cultivate student success
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Two people looking at a computer during a RECI event

Schools of medicine and social work researchers received a $5M NIH grant

A multidisciplinary team will conduct a study to find effective interventions for systemic racism. Plus, join the fall cohort of Pitt’s Racial Equity Consciousness Institute.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Social Work
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Students walk by the Hub at Pitt

New COVID-19 vaccines are available at the Hub

Getting your COVID-19 update along with a flu shot is the best way to decrease your chance of severe illness from either condition.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Staff
Alan George gives a presentation about Pitt Space

Pitt Space is bringing researchers together at the start of a new space race

The new initiative will focus on research and workforce development in space engineering, biomedicine and science.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Portrait of Commander Bradley Kiefer.

Commander Bradley Kiefer graduated from the FBI National Academy

He’s the second Pitt police officer ever to attend the 10-week law enforcement training.

  • Community Impact
  • Promote accountability and trust
Man wearing Pitt shirt.

Pitt celebrates Paul Supowitz upon his retirement

The alum and longtime vice chancellor helped to revitalize the Pittsburgh campus and community during his Pitt career.

  • University News