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Relationship Violence Awareness Month offers ways to support survivors

Speak with advocates, break through the bystander effect, and talk about healthy relationships.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
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Extremism prevention experts gather in Pittsburgh to ‘Eradicate Hate’

The inaugural summit features Pitt notables including Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Kathleen Blee and Chancellor Emeritus Pittsburgh Mark Nordenberg.

  • Community Impact
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Award-winning virologist Paul Duprex wants the best and brightest working on vaccines

The place to start? Kids in Pittsburgh.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Center for Vaccine Research
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How Lina Dostilio and the new Office of Engagement and Community Affairs connect Pitt to the larger world

In this Q&A, the new vice chancellor explains what “community engagement” is and how her created office continues to foster Pitt’s long legacy of community partnerships.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
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Civic Action Week gets students, faculty and staff out in the city

The second annual week of events prompted the Pitt community not just to volunteer, but to engage with bigger questions around civic responsibility and organizing.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Facilities apprenticeship program brings new levels of Hill District community partnership and collaboration

The new program is providing meaningful career opportunities for residents like Lemel Alexander.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pitt CFO Hari Sastry testifies before Pennsylvania House of Representatives

“Universities will look different,” he warned, if state appropriations are cut.

  • University News
  • Students
  • Community Impact
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Grad student Sean Sweat presented at a Smithsonian forum on reckoning with our racial past

Sweat, an MD/PhD student, spoke with other medical professionals on the topic of race, health and wealth.

  • Community Impact
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Changemakers unite — and volunteer

The Pitt United Way Campaign officially kicks off Oct. 1. Donate to a local organization that matters to you, or bring cleaning and baby supplies to an Oct. 6 drive at the William Pitt Union.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
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‘Divine Nine’ monument unveiled at the heart of Pitt’s campus

“This is a very definitive statement that Pitt supports its Black and Brown students,” said Erin Clarke (A&S ’05), who was an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. while at Pitt.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
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Campus Sustainability Month is bringing green events to Pitt

Take a mini-course, listen to a talk on environmental justice or attend a virtual sustainability conference. Find ways to get engaged with sustainability on and off campus.

  • Community Impact
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Register for Civic Action Week

On Oct. 4-9, show your commitment to addressing society’s most pressing challenges.

  • Community Impact
  • Teaching & Learning
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Remembering real estate pioneer and philanthropist Howard Hanna Jr. (BUS ’42, ’49G)

“His influence and positive impact are lasting examples of what we hope all of our graduates accomplish,” said Pitt Business Dean Arjang A. Assad.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
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Remembrances from all corners for Freddie Fu

Athletes, doctors and others around the world paid tribute to the orthopaedic surgeon at the news of his death.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
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Calling all faculty and staff volunteers

Register as a team or individual for the 2021 Staff and Faculty Day of Caring. The Friday, Oct. 8, event is the signature day of service during Civic Action Week.

  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Community Impact
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Pitt Community Engagement Center exceeds backpack drive goal

The Community Engagement Center in Homewood packed more than 100 backpacks for area school children.

  • Community Impact
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On Sept. 21, be a good neighbor

Join the Oakland community at Pitt's final Be a Good Neighbor Block Party from 5-7 p.m. at The Corner.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Alum wants no hero left behind

To honor a fallen friend from ROTC, Nick Liermann (CGS ’00) launched an organization to give service dogs to injured veterans. An upcoming cycling marathon will raise funds for the group.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
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Gallery brings outside in

Pitt’s Community Engagement Center in Homewood uses a gift from sculptor Thaddeus Mosley (A&S ’50) and works from other artists to highlight the value of art in building connections.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Community Impact
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Lecture to focus on disability policy beyond the pandemic

A Sept. 13 virtual lecture by Sen. Bob Casey will address the pandemic’s impact on people with disabilities and the need to bolster home- and community-based services.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion