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12 events supporting a culture of consent on campus in September

From trauma-informed yoga and self-defense classes to a march across Oakland, here’s how you can support survivors this month.

  • Promote accountability and trust
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Check out Pitt’s newest academic offerings

Pick up a minor in dance, learn about giant monsters in cinema, become a data science expert and more.

  • University News
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
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Get a sneak preview of Pitt’s upcoming Campus Recreation and Wellness Center

A team of engineering and architecture students created a detailed model, which will be on display in the William Pitt Union through spring 2025.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Cultivate student success
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3 reasons to go to office hours this semester

Your professors can help you explore your academic interests, build your network and find resources to improve your Pitt experience.

  • Cultivate student success
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Students
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This professor’s insect collection will help measure ecosystem health across the continent

Mary Mulcahy spent the summer trapping, sorting, weighing and tracking key species around Bradford.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Sustainability
  • Pitt-Bradford
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
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People eating beef are less likely to live near the industry’s pollution, Pitt researchers found

The National Science Foundation study is the first to map county by county the impact of nitrogen from the U.S. cattle supply chain.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Sustainability
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • Swanson School of Engineering
The Kakapel Rockshelter, a rock formation in Kenya.

Pitt archaeologists helped uncover the earliest evidence of farming in East Africa

The ancient findings show how crop domestication spread bit-by-bit through the region.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
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How Pitt contributes to regional economic and community growth

Explore why the APLU recognized the University with an Innovation and Economic Prosperity desig91pornÊÓƵ.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • It's Possible at Pitt
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Pitt Arrival 2024 in photos

Here’s how returning and first-time Panthers are kicking off the school year.

  • University News
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center construction update tour with facilities and Business and Operations, April 2, 2024

Here’s the latest in campus construction at Pitt

Keep up with the projects transforming study, dining, wellness and research spaces across the University.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
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Your Pitt ID is a free bus pass. Here’s how to ride.

Follow these route planning and rider etiquette tips to make every trip a success.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Be welcoming and engaged
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Pitt’s people-first approach to boosting small businesses in rural Pennsylvania

The Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative is setting a new standard for community engagement in Fayette County.

  • Community Impact
  • Undergraduate students
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Alumna Pamela Michaels’ persistence fueled a career of firsts

The former Johnson & Johnson executive has helped to fund dozens of Pitt programs.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Supporter
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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Blue and gold on Broadway

Alumni spanning eight decades networked, met Chancellor Gabel and played some Pitt trivia in NYC.

  • Alumni
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Alumni updates: fall 2024

Pitt alumni share their news. Write to us to share yours.

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The Pitt Alumni Association has a new president

Bill Pierce believes in the power of Pitt pride.

  • University News
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Questions for the ‘Connecting King’

Vernard Alexander, the new director of Pitt’s Homewood Community Engagement Center, sees himself as the ultimate connector.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
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The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center earned an NIH grant to fund a third-generation Anton supercomputer

The five-year award will allow noncommercial biomedical researchers to use the system at no cost.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
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Pharmacists play a vital role in improving health care, says Lucas Berenbrok

The Pitt professor is showing how important community pharmacies are through his teaching and research.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
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Pitt will host the JCC Maccabi Games in summer 2025

More than 6,000 young athletes, coaches and family members are expected to attend the world’s largest in-person Jewish youth sporting event.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Community Impact
  • Pittsburgh Campus