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窪蹋勛圖厙 artist Morgan Overton smiles beside her "We Are Not Going Back" painting.

When words wont suffice, Morgan Overton communicates through art

Join the Frederick Honors College artist-in-residence at a hands-on, creative peace-building workshop on Sept. 21.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Community Impact
  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 Campus
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Daniel Kraus and George Romero

This author found an incomplete George Romero novel in Pitts archive. Heres how he finished it.

Daniel Kraus will talk about the new book, Pay the Piper, at a free Sept. 12 event.

  • 窪蹋勛圖厙 News
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
A woman and man stand inside a rusted industrial machine.

This popular Pitt class reveals the city's secrets

A Pitt English class called Secret 窪蹋勛圖厙 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
Apples and leaves

This alums handbags are good enough to eat

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

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Sustainability
  • Alumni
Man sitting at desk behind a microphone.

A new book by Pitt professors showcases the life of a pioneering Black journalist

Alumnus Mal Goode was the first Black broadcast reporter on national television. Learn about his career.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
A man wearing glasses, surrounded by abstract paintings.

The birth of Benny Blindspots

When an autoimmune disease came for his sight, Pitt alum Benny Schwartz picked up a paintbrush. The rest is (art) history.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
Arana

Cap off Pride Month with these book and film recommendations

Doctoral student and otaku scholar Alexandra Arana studies gender and sexual fluidity in anime and manga. Here are her top 5 picks.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Graduate and professional students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Cho-yun Hsu

Cho-yun Hsu is a 2024 laureate of the prestigious Tang Prize

The award, which confers a $1.7 million cash prize, recognizes the Pitt professor emeritus era-spanning scholarship on the history of China.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A man wearing hat and glasses leans against a wall.

What makes a career go?

A lifelong love of cars and his Pitt education drove KJ Jones (A&S 85) to become editor at MotorTrend.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Alumni
Bergman sits at a microphone in the WPTS studio

This man of many voices got his start at Pitts WPTS

Looney Tunes star Jeff Bergman paid a visit to the 窪蹋勛圖厙 campus before his appearance at Steel City Con.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Alumni
Rosella sits with his camera in front of photographic prints

See 1950s 窪蹋勛圖厙 through this alumnus lens

In his book, Michael Rosella provides a tender and compelling glimpse of Pitt in the past.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
Andrews inside the 窪蹋勛圖厙 Center for Creative Reuse

One persons trash is Ash Andrews treasure

The Pitt-Greensburg grad uses pluck and imagination to promote art, community and sustainability as executive director of the 窪蹋勛圖厙 Center for Creative Reuse.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
Maya Jones stands in front of her French court gown

Take a closer look at this undergraduate researcher's pi癡ce de r矇sistance

To create a garment worthy of an 18th-century queen, Maya Jones set her sights on a Creative Arts Fellowship from Pitt's David C. Frederick Honors College.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Four students huddle around a laptop

4 ways to make your voice heard on campus

From writing for The Pitt News to joining the Student Government Board, these groups can help you share your perspective and tackle tough topics.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
Gupta

Prachi Gupta's memoir tackles the model minority myth

Read "They Called Us Exceptional: and Other Lies that Raised Us" and more, out now from alumni authors.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
Students taking notes in a large lecture hall

The Conceptual Foundations program takes a philosophical look at medicine

This rapidly growing certificate program in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science has students tackling medical questions in a new way.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Teaching & Learning
Muhammad stands by flags at the White House

A first-generation Pitt alumna was selected for a Pickering Fellowship

Selected out of 1,400 applicants, Khadajah Muhammad will be equipped with foreign affairs skills before participating in both a domestic and international internship.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Roberts holds her book at the end of two library stacks

Alaina Roberts book takes a fresh look at freedom in the American West

In researching her familys past, the Pitt historian found an oft-overlooked narrative of Black emancipation and Native displacement.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Three plaques sit on a table with a blue tablecloth in front of a projection of 窪蹋勛圖厙's skyline

Pitt will pay tribute to 7 community leaders on Feb. 24

This years K. Leroy Irvis Black History Month celebration will recognize unsung champions of the arts.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
McCabe

A new satire novel by a Pitt-Bradford writing professor reflects on COVID-19

The Pamela Papers" by Nancy McCabe is out now.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Pitt-Bradford