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These University Art Gallery exhibits spotlight Latinx and Caribbean identities
The series features Puerto Rican silk screen posters and an exploration of water in the Americas. Here’s how two Pitt students helped curate the works.
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President Biden gave the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Pitt’s Rory Cooper
The honor — the nation’s highest for technological achievement — is the latest and most significant recognition of Cooper’s decades of innovations in wheelchair technology.
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A new Pitt initiative will help lower-income students get to graduation
The Pitt Finish Line Grant will support financially vulnerable students so they can remain enrolled and complete their degrees.
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An NIH director’s award will help Pitt researchers study the vast reach of tiny proteins
Their findings could affect our understanding of everything from genetic diversity to autoimmune diseases.
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Deborah Moon received a CDC new investigator award
The School of Social Work researchers will study the effects of a community-based maltreatment prevention program for parents.
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Pitt Medicine researchers’ findings on brain cells linked to protection against dementia were published in Cell
The results from Hansruedi Mathys’ study suggest there is a link between inhibitory neurons and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease pathology.
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Comment on University policies to be decommissioned through Nov. 15
Members of the Pitt community are invited to provide feedback via an online form.
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Sean Morrissey won a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowments
The visiting assistant professor will use the $20,000 to establish an experimental printmaking studio.
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The Pennsylvania Innocence Project will recognize the work of Pitt student interns
Since 2016, more than 50 University of Pittsburgh students have volunteered to help the wrongfully convicted.
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Ronald Roth was honored with a proclamation by the City of Pittsburgh
Mayor Ed Gainey named Oct. 10 in Roth’s honor for his decades of serving community health as an emergency medicine instructor.
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A new Pitt webpage promotes transparency and accountability
Visit the Government Relations and Advocacy site to see information the University provides to local, state and federal authorities.
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The most memorable moments from Pitt homecoming 2023
Relive the weekend from the Snake to a Panthers football victory with this photo gallery.
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Tony Novosel was appointed as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
It’s one in a long line of recognitions for the longtime Pitt history professor’s work in Northern Ireland’s peace process.
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An alumna is Pitt's second Erasmus Mundus winner
Maria Anto will study children’s literature at universities around the globe as she earns a master’s degree.
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R.A. Judy earned the 2023 Truman Capote Literary Trust Award
The professor of critical and cultural studies was selected by an Iowa Writers’ Workshop panel.
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Art and advocacy intersect through this soprano opera singer’s performances and scholarship
Zuly Inirio has performed across the United States and Europe. Now, through song and the Afro-Latinx Song and Opera Project, she aims to increase diverse representation in the industry.
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Hooman Henry Rashidi is Pitt’s new associate dean for AI in medicine
He will develop curricula for to better prepare Pitt Med students to understand, evaluate, use and develop technologies that will advance their research and improve patient care.
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Get ready for Pittsburgh’s single-use plastic ban
Pitt Sustainability offers advice on adjusting to the citywide change, which begins Oct. 14.
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Amplify your voice with a 2024 Diversity Forum workshop. Proposals are now due Nov. 17.
The annual Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion event will be held Jan. 23-24, during MLK Social Justice Week.
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This year’s State of the School reviewed 2 years of successes for Pitt Medicine
Anantha Shekhar detailed how the School of Medicine met or exceeded the key goals he set — in areas from clinical excellence to faculty development — when he joined the University.