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Students using public transportation.

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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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.

  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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.

  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News
  • Community Impact
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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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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Campus
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A new Pitt program pairs biblical messages with the science of cognitive behavioral therapy

The CHURCH program aims to improve mental health outcomes in Black communities in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and beyond.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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This popular Pitt class reveals the city's secrets

A Pitt English class called Secret ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø invites students to explore the city's most interesting, unusual or historic sites — and discover some things about themselves along the way.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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She’s built a welcoming place for Latino immigrants in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø

GSPIA alum Rosamaria Cristello created the Latino Community Center to help the city's immigrant community thrive.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Alumni
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These Pitt students took to the world stage to share a database project designed to combat systemic racism

The Frederick Honors College scholars presented their research to international leaders at the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.

  • Community Impact
  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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Rural students took a mental health hit during the pandemic, a Pitt-Bradford professor found

Shailendra Gajanan is now helping several Pennsylvania counties make a plan to lower stress levels among youth.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Pitt-Bradford
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This alum’s handbags are good enough to eat

OK, not really, but they are made from fruit.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Sustainability
  • Alumni
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Former Pitt Olympians look back at their Games and what they’ll be watching this year

Here’s who hurdler Roger Kingdom, swimmer Susan Heon-Preston and Judoka Marisa Pedulla are keeping an eye on in 2024.

  • Global
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
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These grazing goats helped the Pitt grounds crew clear a hillside

The herd provides a fossil fuel free solution to combating invasive vines and underbrush.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
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How Pitt is taking on the next phase of the opioid epidemic

Those tracking fatal overdoses in Pennsylvania have seen increasing rates of the adulterant xylazine, or tranq. Pitt people are on the forefront of establishing best practices for treatment.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine