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Ken Ho won the 2023 Kerry Stoner Award

The award honors a Pittsburgh person annually for their work with HIV.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
Margaret Rosenzweig

Margaret Rosenzweig is an Oncology Nursing Society scholar-in-residence

The distinguished service professor will collaborate on a research agenda for the organization.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Nursing
LauraEllen Ashcraft

LauraEllen Ashcraft

Building bridges to connect people and research.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • School of Social Work
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Register for the Mental Health Champion Certificate program by June 23

The virtual training will teach faculty and staff how to better support students and their well-being.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • Staff
Aman Mahajan

Aman Mahajan was awarded funding to develop cardiovascular monitoring technology

The anesthesiology researcher earned two grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Benjamin Leslie wears a white coat in a lab

Hockey led this Pitt student-researcher to study heart valves

Forward Benjamin Leslie wants to make sure kids with congenital heart defects can play sports.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Undergraduate students
  • Athletics
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Charles Guthrie was named executive director of Student Health Services

He comes to Pitt off a 23-year nursing career at UPMC.

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  • Students
  • Staff
  • Health and Wellness
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Health care workers and students gathered for the 2023 White Coats against Racism and Injustice Kneel

Now in its fourth year, the multi-institutional movement has grown, spreading its message of equality and justice throughout Pennsylvania.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
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5 health science faculty members won 2023 Ascending Star Awards

Each of the highly productive and creative midcareer Pitt researchers will receive $25,000 in support and give a highly publicized lecture during the year.

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  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
Gloved hands pull a vaccine into a syringe

Pitt clinics now offer free mpox vaccinations

Anyone who’s at risk can get the JYNNEOS series at The Hub on the Pittsburgh campus. Students can also head to Student Health Services for the vaccine.

  • University News
  • Health and Wellness
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NFL Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis pledges donation to Pitt’s new National Sports Brain Bank

The long-term study will help researchers better understand head trauma in former athletes of all levels.

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  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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Marci Lee Nilsen earned a Betty Irene Moore Fellowship

The assistant professor in Pitt’s School of Nursing is one of 16 innovators chosen for the University of California, Davis program.

  • Faculty
  • Innovation and Research
  • Health and Wellness
  • School of Nursing
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Pitt’s School of Medicine awarded its highest honor to a Princeton bioengineer

Clifford P. Brangwynne will receive the 2023 Dickson Prize in Medicine.

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  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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Pitt’s latest Newman Civic Fellow is using data to fight food insecurity

Pitt Pantry volunteer and statistics grad Yunge Xiao is headed to Harvard to transform nutrition and well-being in communities.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Gurkar in a black dress with red flowers

Aditi Gurkar was awarded $375,000 to research healthy aging

The assistant professor in Pitt’s School of Medicine earned an inaugural New Investigator Award from Hevolution and the American Federation for Aging Research.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
A portrait of Anna Li

She’s Pitt’s first-ever recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Anna Li will receive $90,000 over two years as she completes her MD/PhD. If that wasn’t enough, she’s an inventor tackling health disparities as well.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Graduate and professional students
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • School of Medicine
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2 Pitt Pharmacy professors earned AACP awards

Neal Benedict and Sandra Kane-Gill were recognized for scholarly teaching and patient care research, respectively.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faculty
  • School of Pharmacy
  • Department of Critical Care Medicine
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Here are the winners of the 2023 Health Disparities and Social Justice Poster Competition

Researchers from across Pitt’s schools of the health sciences presented on mental health, occupational therapy, stroke treatment and more.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Students
  • School of Social Work
  • School of Public Health
  • School of Pharmacy
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Pitt professors’ work was acknowledged by the FDA commissioner

Robert Califf praised their approach to educating pharmacists on over-the-counter hearing aids.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • School of Pharmacy
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Daffodils in front of the Cathedral of Learning

Friday’s Self-Care Fair is your destination for relaxation

Stop by the William Pitt Plaza and lawn from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. to get creative, play games, snag giveaways and recharge before finals week.

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  • Health and Wellness
  • Students
  • Pittsburgh Campus