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Pitt Arrival 2024 in photos

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

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  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Three people smile and pose for a photo during a Be A Good Neighbor block party.

Connect with your neighbors during Pitt’s free block party series

Be A Good Neighbor celebrations will bring students, residents and community partners together across Oakland.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • 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
Two students face away from the camera, holding their degrees in the air.

Pitt’s winter commencement is now on Dec. 18

Eligible graduates, look out for your invitation in early October.

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  • Students
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The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center earned an NSF award to enhance its AI research capacity

The $4.9 million grant will fund an upgrade to the center’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
Soccer players on a Pitt-Bradford field

Pitt-Bradford earned its 5th Exercise is Medicine gold designation

The American College of Sports Medicine initiative has recognized the regional campus every year since 2018.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Pitt-Bradford
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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
Erin Clark

Erin Clark

This sports fan, radio host and honors student proves you can follow your passions at Pitt.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Cultivate student success
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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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.

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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.

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  • 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 Pittsburgh 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
Attendees and volunteers of the World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference in Niagara Falls, New York, pose for a portrait.

Pitt-Bradford sponsored the World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference

Faculty and staff also attended and volunteered at the event, which was hosted by the Seneca Nation of Indians in Niagara Falls.

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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
  • Pittsburgh Campus
A woman sitting at a table smiles to the person next to her.

Apply for a program on developing community engaged scholarship projects

Applications to join the Office of Engagement and Community Affairs cohort are due Aug. 30.

  • Community Impact
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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 Pittsburgh and beyond.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Oliver Eickelberg

Pitt will host the journal JCI Insight for the next 5 years

A team of physician-scientists led by Oliver Eickelberg will serve as the editorial board for the American Society for Clinical Investigation publication.

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