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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 窪蹋勛圖厙 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 窪蹋勛圖厙 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 窪蹋勛圖厙.

  • 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 Pitts long legacy of community partnerships.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 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.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Students
  • Community Impact
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Divine Nine monument unveiled at the heart of Pitts 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.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • 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.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Community Impact
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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.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Community Impact
Daren Ellerbee and Thaddeus Mosley standing by wooden art piece

Gallery brings outside in

Pitts 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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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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Home installations are underway for a community Wi-Fi pilot

A program between Pitt and Every1online thats bringing Wi-Fi to local families in need is expanding. Residents of New Kensington and Homewood are encouraged to apply.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Block party series brings together Oakland residents

Pitt students and their South Oakland neighbors bonded over tacos and prizes at the first of four summer events.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Research sheds light on how children interpret dark tourism

Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Professor Mary Margaret Kerr shares insights on how to help children make meaning of tragic events.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Education
  • School of Medicine
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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 pandemics impact on people with disabilities and the need to bolster home- and community-based services.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Makerspace program helps people with disabilities design and build tech for daily life

From guitar picks to cup holders, assistant professor Anand Mhatres community-based class is helping people build their own assistive and fun technologies.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Pitt virologists teach kids about vaccines

A recent hands-on, kid-friendly event at the Carnegie Science Center sought to make good information go viral.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Center for Vaccine Research
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Students aid Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection

When should an aging oil and gas well be decommissioned? A group of Pitt students recently gave the state evidence-based advice.

  • Community Impact
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

At the Humane Animal Rescue of 窪蹋勛圖厙s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Katie Kefalos (A&S 12) helps injured and abandoned animals make it back home.

  • Community Impact
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences