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A crane lifts beams during construction of the Petersen Events Center

Park Lawrence Rankin, an architect who oversaw $1 billion in improvements to Pitts campuses, died at 73

During his 14 years at the 窪蹋勛圖厙, the devoted architect led hundreds of construction and renovation projects, including the Cathedral of Learning cleaning in 2007.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
An illustration of the Future Works building

A Pitt community partnership is transforming the Jupiter Building into a training hub

With support from the Richard King Mellon Foundation and local schools and businesses, Future Works is the outcome of a yearslong effort to revitalize downtown Johnstown.

  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Johnstown
The outside of Scaife Hall

What if we could talk to cells?

Nathan Lord earned an NIH New Innovator Award for his research on the chemical language of the bodys building blocks. Its work that could transform regenerative medicine.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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A new Pitt initiative will help lower-income students get to graduation

The Pitt Finish Line Grant will support financially vulnerable students so they can remain enrolled and complete their degrees.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Cooper, wearing a medal, poses with President Biden

President Biden gave the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Pitts Rory Cooper

The honor the nations highest for technological achievement is the latest and most significant recognition of Coopers decades of innovations in wheelchair technology.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Two students lift a poster for the Grafica de Puerto Rico exhibit

These 窪蹋勛圖厙 Art Gallery exhibits spotlight Latinx and Caribbean identities

The series features Puerto Rican silk screen posters and an exploration of water in the Americas. Heres how two Pitt students helped curate the works.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 Campus
A gloved hand uses a pipette to add liquid to a test tube

An NIH directors award will help Pitt researchers study the vast reach of tiny proteins

Their findings could affect our understanding of everything from genetic diversity to autoimmune diseases.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Roc the panther mascot spins a baton

The most memorable moments from Pitt homecoming 2023

Relive the weekend from the Snake to a Panthers football victory with this photo gallery.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Computing and Information
Anto

An alumna is Pitt's second Erasmus Mundus winner

Maria Anto will study childrens literature at universities around the globe as she earns a masters degree.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Zuly in a pink dress in front of a black background

Art and advocacy intersect through this soprano opera singers performances and scholarship

Zuly Inirio has performed across the United States and Europe. Now, through song and the Afro-Latinx Song and Opera Project, she aims to increase diverse representation in the industry.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Social Work
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 wont 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 窪蹋勛圖厙s single-use plastic ban

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

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
Shekhar at a podium with a Pitt shield logo

This years 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 in areas from clinical excellence to faculty development when he joined the 窪蹋勛圖厙.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Hunt and Hatridge in the 窪蹋勛圖厙 Quantum Institute lab

The 窪蹋勛圖厙 Quantum Institute named a new co-director

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

  • Innovation and Research
  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 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 窪蹋勛圖厙

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

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 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

Its no joke: Professor of Legal Writing Ben Bratman designed the class to teach human skills 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 Pitts Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center

The transformative gift for which the 窪蹋勛圖厙 of 窪蹋勛圖厙 School of Medicine will make an equivalent co-investment will support labs, fellows, research and clinical work to push orthopaedic

  • Health and Wellness
  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 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 bachelors degree to address the nations nursing shortage.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Community Impact
  • School of Nursing
Volunteers shovel mulch from a truck bed into a wheelbarrow

Pitt staff can receive paid time off to volunteer. Heres 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
Oakley

Marnie Oakley was named dean of Pitts School of Dental Medicine

As both an alumna and professor, shes served the 窪蹋勛圖厙 for nearly three decades.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • School of Dental Medicine