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Aerial image of the BioForge construction site

A construction milestone for BioForge, Pitt’s biomanufacturing innovation facility

In a topping-off ceremony, leaders celebrated placing the last beam of a facility that promises to help push Pittsburgh into the life sciences century

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Pitt’s mobility specialist, Lucy Klug, rides her bike on campus.

This alumna is building a bike-friendly campus

Meet Lucy Klug, Pitt’s mobility specialist, who is working to make sustainable transportation options more accessible on the Pittsburgh campus.

  • Sustainability
  • Students
  • Staff
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • It's Possible at Pitt
A room full of people looking at a PowerPoint Slide about cyber-informed engineering

Experts are worried about cyber threats to infrastructure. This Pitt program is raising awareness.

The SHURE-Grid program brought together students from a variety of majors to create educational tools about designing with cybersecurity in mind.

  • Technology & Science
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
The World Trade Center beam at the Heroes Memorial

A beam from the World Trade Center is at the heart of Pitt-Johnstown’s Heroes Memorial

The campus is 20 miles north of the Flight 93 crash site, one of three locations of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Promote accountability and trust
Composite photo of Patrick Cornell and Elijah Volk.

Panthers Forward debt relief program, which has saved students $4.5 million, is accepting applications

Seniors, apply by Sept. 29 for federal student loan relief and exclusive mentoring opportunities.

  • University News
  • Cultivate student success
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A message to our readers

Some issues of Pitt Magazine arrived with incorrect mailing labels, and we apologize.

Portrait of Lesha Greene in front of books in Pitt's Fredrick Honors College.

After 6 years of helping Pitt students secure competitive scholarships, Lesha Greene has won her own

The director of national scholarships is heading to Germany with a Fulbright International Education Administrators award.

  • Community Impact
  • Global
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Prevention at Pitt team members pose for a group portrait.

12 events supporting a culture of consent on campus in September

From trauma-informed yoga and self-defense classes to a march across Oakland, here’s how you can support survivors this month.

  • Promote accountability and trust
Students attend a lecture.

Check out Pitt’s newest academic offerings

Pick up a minor in dance, learn about giant monsters in cinema, become a data science expert and more.

  • University News
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
Four students stand around their model behind glass

Get a sneak preview of Pitt’s upcoming Campus Recreation and Wellness Center

A team of engineering and architecture students created a detailed model, which will be on display in the William Pitt Union through spring 2025.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Cultivate student success
A professor helps a student during office hours.

3 reasons to go to office hours this semester

Your professors can help you explore your academic interests, build your network and find resources to improve your Pitt experience.

  • Cultivate student success
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Students
Aiden Minch-Hick and Mary Mulcahy

This professor’s insect collection will help measure ecosystem health across the continent

Mary Mulcahy spent the summer trapping, sorting, weighing and tracking key species around Bradford.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Sustainability
  • Pitt-Bradford
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
A herd of cattle stand in a field behind a wire fence

People eating beef are less likely to live near the industry’s pollution, Pitt researchers found

The National Science Foundation study is the first to map county by county the impact of nitrogen from the U.S. cattle supply chain.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Sustainability
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • Swanson School of Engineering
The Kakapel Rockshelter, a rock formation in Kenya.

Pitt archaeologists helped uncover the earliest evidence of farming in East Africa

The ancient findings show how crop domestication spread bit-by-bit through the region.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Pitt community members volunteer and bag items during MLK Day of service in the Hill District.

How Pitt contributes to regional economic and community growth

Explore why the APLU recognized the University with an Innovation and Economic Prosperity designation.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • It's Possible at Pitt
Students pose with Roc on Cathedral Lawn

Pitt Arrival 2024 in photos

Here’s how returning and first-time Panthers are kicking off the school year.

  • University News
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center construction update tour with facilities and Business and Operations, April 2, 2024

Here’s the latest in campus construction at Pitt

Keep up with the projects transforming study, dining, wellness and research spaces across the University.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
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
A lake and trees under blue skies with thin clouds.

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
Woman and man in dressy attire pose in front of palm trees.

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