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Baseball player throwing a pitch in a crowded stadium.

This Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher is taking a swing at raising mental health awareness

A family trauma almost toppled Pitt alum Isaac Mattson’s dream. A career roadblock may have saved it.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
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Pitt’s Institute for Learning earned a $1M Hewlett Foundation grant

The award will fund the Learning Research and Development Center unit’s study of cross-school networked improvement communities.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC)
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Chancellor Joan Gabel and Board of Trustees Chairperson John J. Verbanac pose with the retiring Director of Internal Audit John P. Elliott during a meeting with a special resolution for Elliott held in the William Pitt Union.

John Elliott will retire after 30 years as Pitt’s director of internal audit

The longtime University leader will be succeeded by Jayne McGoey, assistant director of internal audit.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • The Plan for Pitt
Charles Rinaldo poses for a portrait in the lab with a colleague.

40 years later, the Pitt Men’s Study is still breaking ground in the fight against AIDS

We spoke with principal investigator Charles Rinaldo and longtime participant and volunteer Marc Wagner about how the study has impacted their lives over the decades.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
Pitt-Greensburg graduates pose for a portrait during the campus' first-ever winter commencement celebration.

Pitt-Greensburg held its first winter commencement ceremony

President Robert Gregerson and other campus leaders recognized the 39 students who completed their degree requirements in the summer and fall semesters.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Cultivate student success
  • Commencement
An outside wall of Hillman Library

Students, sign up to collaborate with a local artist on a mural for Pitt’s Hillman Library

The University Library System is seeking up to eight students to create a mural that celebrates the rich diversity of textual and visual communication.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Confetti falls over winter commencement graduates and attendees.

Pitt celebrated its newest Class of 2024 graduates at winter commencement

See a gallery of the ceremony, which included speeches by Holden Thorp and Mihika Shah.

  • University News
  • Cultivate student success
  • Commencement
MLS participants smile and engage during the program's December retreat.

Nearly half of new moms in STEM leave their full-time positions. This Pitt program wants to change that.

Mothers Leading Science is helping health sciences faculty find a supportive community, strategies for work-life integration and renewed passion for their research.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • School of Medicine
An aerial view of the Cathedral of Learning during the winter that shows its entire front facade.

A podcast by 2 Pitt professors is among the year’s best, according to the New York Times

“Cement City” is a series documenting the English professor’s experience living in Donora, Pennsylvania, once a manufacturing hub.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Students in Jennifer Hirsch’s Social Psychology of Reality TV course deliberate.

This Pitt professor designed a ‘Survivor’-style game to teach social psychology lessons

Jennifer Hirsch’s unique course lets students get in the heads of reality stars — and learn some lessons while they’re in there.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A person in blue doctoral regalia hugs someone in a grey shawl

A guest’s guide to commencement at the University of Pittsburgh

Everything you need to know about parking, pictures, accessibility and more for your time on the Pittsburgh campus.

  • University News
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • Commencement
A Panther statue in front of the Cathedral of Learning

Pitt’s history and philosophy of science programs earned top honors in a recent report

The Philosophical Gourmet Report recognized the department’s philosophy of physics program as distinguished.

  • Technology & Science
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
The Cathedral of Learning

5 Pitt students received Gilman Scholarships

The undergraduates will travel to South America, Taiwan and more through the program, which supports Federal Pell Grant recipients with up to $5,000 during their study abroad experience.

  • University News
  • Global
Aerial view of the Cathedral of Learning and campus at sunset during the winter.

Joy Priest won an Advancing Black Arts Award

The Pittsburgh Foundation awarded the Pitt assistant professor $50,000 for her forthcoming poetry anthology, “The Black Outside.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Portrait of Charles “Chas” Bonasorte at The Pittsburgh Stop Inc.

Chas Bonasorte, Pitt football’s ‘Kamikaze Kid’ and owner of famed Pitt apparel kiosk, died at 70

After his career on the field, Bonasorte became a fixture on the Pittsburgh campus with his clothing kiosk at Forbes and Bigelow.

  • Community Impact
  • Alumni
  • Be welcoming and engaged
A woman smiles while petting her dog.

This Pitt alum got a humanitarian award from Farmworker Justice

Amy Liebman ensures the nation's immigrants are protected and supported.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Students embrace on the field of the Acrisure Stadium during a Homecoming Football game.

2024 at Pitt, in photos

Our photographers shared their 10 favorite images of innovative researchers, major developments and more from the year.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Promote accountability and trust
Man with dark hair sits in a wooded area and smiles for camera.

Live from New York, it’s Ben Asciutto

This Pitt alum’s childhood aspirations of working in the entertainment industry are coming true on the set of ‘Saturday Night Live.’

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Cultivate student success
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A parking lot near Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall

Download Pitt Mobility’s new parking reservation app

Pitt Park by ParkZen limits on-campus reservations to students, staff and faculty.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Staff
Group photo of winners in the microbiology category, Mackenzie Taylor Riley, Lesko and Taylor Podob.

Pitt-Greensburg hosted the Allegheny Branch of the American Society of Microbiology annual meeting

Four students placed first in research poster presentations throughout the two-day program.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Public Health