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Shekhar at a podium with a Pitt shield logo

This year鈥檚 State of the School reviewed 2 years of successes for Pitt Medicine

Anantha Shekhar detailed how the School of Medicine met or exceeded the key goals he set 鈥 in areas from clinical excellence to faculty development 鈥 when he joined the University.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
One student fills a large weather balloon with air while another holds it above her head

These Pitt students are following the eclipse to Texas

The paths of two upcoming eclipses overlap outside of San Antonio. The Shadow Bandits won鈥檛 miss the chance to study them.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Three students in Pitt gear hold reusable grocery bags on their shoulders

Get ready for Pittsburgh鈥檚 single-use plastic ban

Pitt Sustainability offers advice on adjusting to the citywide change, which begins Oct. 14.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
Hunt and Hatridge in the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute lab

The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute named a new co-director

Benjamin Hunt will join his longtime Pitt collaborator Michael Hatridge to further establish Pittsburgh as a headquarters for quantum computing.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI)
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A panther statue holds a pumpkin in its mouth

7 Halloween-themed events in Pittsburgh

Put these horror movies, haunted trails, rock climbing and more on your list of scary season activities.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
Bratman holds his hands out to a student during a scene

A new Pitt course is using improv to build more confident, empathetic lawyers

It鈥檚 no joke: Professor of Legal Writing Ben Bratman designed the class to teach 鈥渉uman skills鈥 to upper-class law students after seeing how the hobby benefited his teaching.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • School of Law
Bethel

Hillandale Farms family donates $25 million to launch Pitt鈥檚 Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center

The transformative gift 鈥 for which the 91porn视频 School of Medicine will make an equivalent co-investment 鈥 will support labs, fellows, research and clinical work to push orthopaedic

  • Health and Wellness
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • School of Medicine
Two nurses in white coats work on an IV stand

A $2 million gift will help Pitt support nursing students pursuing a second career

The Joanne and William Conway Nursing Scholarship Program will fund 60 students per year through an accelerated bachelor鈥檚 degree to address the 91porn视频鈥檚 nursing shortage.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • School of Nursing
Oakley

Marnie Oakley was named dean of Pitt鈥檚 School of Dental Medicine

As both an alumna and professor, she鈥檚 served the University for nearly three decades.

  • University News
  • School of Dental Medicine
A visualization of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope moving through purple space

Pitt researchers are key to NASA鈥檚 next space telescope

Four Pitt astronomers are helping bring the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to life to uncover the secrets of dark matter 鈥 and they鈥檙e hoping current theories are wrong.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Volunteers shovel mulch from a truck bed into a wheelbarrow

Pitt staff can receive paid time off to volunteer. Here鈥檚 how.

More than 5,000 Pitt people racked up over 100,000 volunteer hours last year. Why not join their ranks during Civic Action Week, Oct. 16-21?

  • Community Impact
  • Staff
Cestello holds a gavel

Pitt鈥檚 Board of Trustees elected Louis Cestello as its chair

The PNC Bank regional president previously served as the vice chair of the Board of Trustees and interim chair.

  • University News
Lafferty jumps on the lawn in front of the Cathedral of Learning

This Pitt senior opened for Jerry Seinfeld. Now he鈥檚 part of Pittsburgh鈥檚 comedy renaissance.

Meet the self-proclaimed 鈥渦gly white man鈥 who wants to be the next John Mulaney.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Undergraduate students
A person wearing a face mask talks to a therapist on a video call

The pandemic wasn鈥檛 the blanket mental health disaster that some predicted

Some groups took a big mental-health hit from COVID-19 鈥 but others showed surprising resilience, according to recent research led by a Pitt PhD student.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A tray of pretzels

Travel the world this October without leaving Pittsburgh

These five events put inter91porn视频al art, voices and perspectives on display.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Global
A radar image of lava flows on the surface of Venus

A new study lays the groundwork for detecting volcanic activity on Venus

Future space probes will travel to the nearby planet to look for signs of flowing lava. Pitt鈥檚 Ian Flynn is making sure they鈥檒l be able to find the evidence if it鈥檚 there.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Morgan Frank sits at his office desk

The biggest barrier to getting fossil fuel workers green jobs isn鈥檛 skills 鈥 it鈥檚 location

Fossil fuel workers have the right skills to join the green revolution. They鈥檙e just not in the right places, according to a new study by Pitt researcher Morgan Frank.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Sustainability
  • School of Computing and Information
The ecotone renewables team poses around their statue and certificate

The Pitt Sustainability Challenge winner has a solution for food waste on campus

Ecotone Renewables will receive $300,000 to install five anaerobic digesters, which divert carbon emissions by turning local food waste into fertilizer.

  • University News
  • Sustainability
A rendering of the BioForge facility

Pitt鈥檚 BioForge Manufacturing Center gets approval from Pittsburgh鈥檚 Planning Commission

Construction on the life sciences research hub is scheduled to begin this year.

  • Community Impact
  • Technology & Science
Kerrigan holds up a rock. A foggy seaside cliff is behind him.

What mountains in Portugal can tell us about Pennsylvania鈥檚 geologic past

Understanding how mountains formed could help us predict future tectonic events and find minerals for electronics, says Fulbright Fellow and Pitt-Johnstown Associate Professor Ryan Kerrigan.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Pitt-Johnstown