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New University Calendar Launches, Features Personalized Search Options

The new calendar, developed by the Office of University Communications, hosts information about events across participating Pitt campuses, centers and departments.

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Pitt physical therapy students won an annual donation challenge

They raised $50,552 for the Foundation for Physical Therapy.

  • Community Impact
  • Students
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Dining Options at Pitt Please the Palate, Promote Sustainability Efforts

New food options, locations and services bring more choice to the campus community, aiming to make sustainability synonymous with Pitt dining.

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Pioneering physician-scientist and Distinguished Service Professor Bernard Fisher marks 100th birthday

His work has led to an improved rate of survival and quality of life for countless women with breast cancer as well as patients with other forms of cancer.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
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Pitt's BYO[Bag] is featured in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education recognized the University's reusable shopping bag program.

  • Community Impact
  • Sustainability

Arrival Survival Smooths Transition to College

Arrival Survival, the annual move-in event for Pitt students starts Monday, Aug. 20, on the Pittsburgh campus and runs through the end of the week. The essential information and helpful links to more

Microgrid Designed by Pitt Engineers Drives Clean Energy at Trucking Facility

All amenities in the docking terminal of PITT OHIO’s Harmar facility — including lights, electric forklifts, computers and battery chargers — operate from power supplied by an on-site microgrid

  • Innovation and Research
  • Center for Energy

Advanced CyberCamp Prepares the Next Generation for Cyber Workforce

The second annual Air Force Association CyberCamp immersed 250 high schoolers in activities to identify malicious code, check for hackers and defend simulated network systems.

  • Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Frances Hesselbein

Hesselbein Global Academy celebrated 10 years of nurturing the next generation of leaders

Over its history, student leaders from 72 countries have participated.

  • Community Impact
  • Global
  • Division of Student Affairs

Model Predicts ‘Fishy’ Chemicals in Salmon

A team led by engineer Carla Ng has developed a computer model to predict the presence of pollutants in farmed salmon. She found that fish, too, are what they eat.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Jennifer Pruskowski received a new clinical practitioner award

This annual American College of Clinical Pharmacy award recognizes a member who has made outstanding contributions to the practice and the health of patients.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Pharmacy
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Mostafa Bedewy was awarded a $330K National Science Foundation grant

The assistant professor will study how to better understand and control the internal structure of nanotube-based materials for emerging applications.

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Innovation and Research
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Pitt-Johnstown hosts 10th annual Older Youth Retreat

Over the last decade, the School of Social Work event has supported more than 1,000 young people.

  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • School of Social Work

NASA Researcher and Intelligent Systems Program Alumnus Puts Safety First

At his work and in his latest book, Steve Casner (A&S ’90G) explores how people put themselves in harm’s way by underestimating risks and overestimating their own abilities.

  • Alumni
The Cathedral of Learning

Robert Brandom earns a Fellowship of the British Academy

The distinguished professor of philosophy is one of 20 academics outside the UK elected.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

New Vice Chancellor Named as Pitt Marks Another Record-breaking Year in Innovation

Under the leadership of Evan Facher, Pitt innovators started a record 23 new companies in FY18. Facher now moves into the new position of vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship.

  • Innovation Institute
  • Innovation and Research
Mpourmpakis

Giannis Mpourmpakis is named an emerging investigator by the American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data named Giannis Mpourmpakis, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Swanson School of Engineering

Retiring President Sharon P. Smith Praised for Strengthening Pitt–Greensburg

The fourth president of the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg has announced her retirement, effective in 2019, after more than a decade of influential leadership.

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A School of Public Health graduate student is named Ms. Wheelchair USA

At the pageant, Heather Tomko also won the Invacare People’s Choice Award and the Dr. Georgi Hudson Smith Quest for Knowledge Award.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Public Health
Swaminathan

Vanitha Swaminathan will serve as president of the American Marketing Association’s Academic Council

The group represents the diversity of scholarly interests in managerial, behavioral, modeling and public policy perspective with attention to strategic marketing implications.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business