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11 Pitt veterans who made a major impact

嚜選遛嚜燉earn about how these military greats, from the author of the GI Bill of Rights to a former Army Surgeon General, shaped the world and how Pitt shaped them.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Alumni
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • School of Law
  • School of Medicine
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The Heinz Endowments gives $800,000 to Pitts Center for Sustainable Business

The two-year grant will be used to help companies large and small to improve overall business practices, environmental quality and economic equality.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Center for Sustainable Business
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
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A new Pitt-Titusville center is expanding manufacturing training in Northwestern Pennsylvania

Companies in the region are hungry for skilled machinists. Pitts Manufacturing Assistance Center is now providing them.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Titusville
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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APitt scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears

The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine

Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.

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

With The Heiress of 窪蹋勛圖厙, Duquesne 窪蹋勛圖厙 President Ken Gormley (A&S 77) has earned himself a new job title: novelist.

  • Alumni
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

To predict the climate impact of oil as demand shifts, we need to take into account the many ways it's extracted, according to a new study in Nature by Pitts Mohammad Masnadi.

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Technology & Science
  • Global

Eunice Yang will soon begin beta testing for OK2StandUP, a Fitbit-like monitor of the autonomic nervous system that predicts and prevents falls.

  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Community Impact
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You can rent a phone charger at 32 local businesses thanks to Pitt alumni

The portable charger will juice up your phone in just 30 minutes.

  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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New 窪蹋勛圖厙 budget model approved

The new model provides Responsibility Centers with greater authority, enabling them to better work toward Pitts strategic goals.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pitt's pay-it-forward debt relief and mentorship program will add 150 new students

Since launching in 2019, Panthers Forward has provided $2.25 million in federal loan relief.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Students
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An app could promote informed and healthy pregnancies

Some at-risk patients didnt know they had been prescribed aspirin to prevent a dangerous condition in pregnancy, Pitt researchers found. A smartphone app might be the answer.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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Pitt mourns the loss of Board of Trustees chair Thomas E. Richards

Richards (A&S 76) is remembered for his humility, leadership and service.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
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Innovation challenge winners tackle health disparities

Projects that address tooth decay in kids, parenting while Black and ventilator-associated pneumonia each took home $115,000 in this years Pitt Innovation Challenge.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  • School of Medicine
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What you need to know about COVID-19 boosters

Pitts COVID-19 Medical Response Office answers your most frequently asked questions.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Covid-19
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Places to study besides the library

If your usual study spot in Hillman is closed, weve got a few ideas for where else to go.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Students
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We rate Pitt therapy dog Halloween costumes

See what pups were wearing in the Cathedrals most fur-raising night of the year. Plus, hear from students organizing to spread the puppy love.

  • Health and Wellness
  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 Campus
Ricky Lyle Campbell wearing blue hat, red vest and red bowtie.

Procrastinators, this Pitt costume designer will save your Halloween 嚜

Ricky Lyle Campbell嚜 explains how to put together a last-minute look on a budget.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Community Impact
  • Department of Theatre Arts
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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See an archive of student reactions to the Tree of Life massacre

Memorabilia, notes, programs, historical documents and more are now housed at the Senator John Heinz History Center. Learn how students and faculty curated the materials.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences