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A Pitt program earned a first-of-its-kind Middle States Association accreditation

It’s a major milestone toward the STEM PUSH Network’s goal of increasing equity and opportunity for Black, Latino and Indigenous students in postsecondary STEM.

  • Technology & Science
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
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A Pitt program is connecting people through storytelling to build a more inclusive campus

The CuPID project received a $500,000 Pitt Seed grant to amplify dialogue-based curriculum across the University. An upcoming summer course focuses on the health sciences community.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
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5 key takeaways from Pitt’s first Year of Discourse and Dialogue

An April capstone event highlighted embracing differences and learning about the First Amendment as strategies to make difficult conversations easier.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
Matzo crackers on a plate with literature on Passover

Pitt’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute held a model Seder

The event was an interfaith and intergenerational gathering to learn about the ritual Jewish feast.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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A GSPIA education helped Carl Ware champion racial equality from Atlanta to South Africa

During his decades as an executive for Coca-Cola, he partnered with Desmond Tutu and other freedom fighters to support Black Africans.

  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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Attend the Make it Matter conference, co-hosted by Pitt-Greensburg

The May 8-10 event for employers, managers, HR professionals and executive leaders will focus on the importance of diversity.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Staff
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Pitt alumnus Sam Rosenzweig spent his career fighting injustice

He earned two degrees and met his wife on the Pittsburgh campus. He died at the age of 71 in Nevada.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Todd J. Clark was appointed head of Widener's Delaware Law School

As dean, he is making a case for achievement, inclusion and excellence.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
  • School of Law
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Prachi Gupta's memoir tackles the model minority myth

Read "They Called Us Exceptional: and Other Lies that Raised Us" and more, out now from alumni authors.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
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Pitt Medicine researchers created a tool to help patients make informed decisions about sterilization

Developed by Sonya Borrero and CONVERGE, the web-based decision aid is available in English and Spanish.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
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How to exchange diverse viewpoints on campus without the discord, according to Pitt experts

Faculty members Abdesalam Soudi and Ann Sinsheimer discuss centering respect and other lessons from Pitt's Year of Dialogue and Discourse with Clyde Wilson Pickett.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Provost
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Sirry Alang earned a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The School of Education researcher, in partnership with Drexel University, will lead project designed to dismantle structural racism in health care.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
  • School of Education
Black students at Pitt engage in various activities.

The 1969 publication of Pitt’s Black Action Society is now fully digitized

The annual issue, titled "As-Salaam-Alaikum," highlighted Black student life through artwork, poetry and photos.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Students
  • Alumni
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A Pitt professor is using virtual reality to connect to the Hill District’s past

The Time Traveling Project adds historical context to the photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris, a prolific chronicler of 20th-century Black life.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Join a dialogue on thriving Latinx futures at a free March 21-23 conference

Latinx Connect attendees will envision ways to empower diverse Latinx communities.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Alaina Roberts’ book takes a fresh look at freedom in the American West

In researching her family’s past, the Pitt historian found an oft-overlooked narrative of Black emancipation and Native displacement.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Pitt will pay tribute to 7 community leaders on Feb. 24

This year’s K. Leroy Irvis Black History Month celebration will recognize unsung champions of the arts.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
Kehinde sits in a podcast studio, surrounded by microphones and computer monitors

This Pitt junior’s podcast is transforming communities through conversation

“Let’s Talk Social Innovation” spotlights local and University leaders making an impact.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Junior Zachary Miller won the 2024 Dick Thornburgh Forum Disability Service Award

The junior bioengineering major won this year’s prize, granted to a student from any Pitt campus whose service has made a difference in the lives of people with disabilities.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Undergraduate students
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Pitt earned a federal Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development grant

April Belback in Pitt’s Office of the Provost spearheaded the process that earned the University $2.2M to develop supports for rural students over the next four years.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion