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Pitt’s Dietrich School and College of General Studies honored longtime staff

Dean Adam Leibovich recognized those with 5, 10, 20, 25, 30, 40 and 50 years of service to the University.

  • Staff
  • College of General Studies
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A visualization of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope moving through purple space

Pitt researchers are key to NASA’s next space telescope

Four Pitt astronomers are helping bring the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to life to uncover the secrets of dark matter — and they’re hoping current theories are wrong.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Cestello holds a gavel

Pitt’s Board of Trustees elected Louis Cestello as its chair

The PNC Bank regional president previously served as the vice chair of the Board of Trustees and interim chair.

  • University News
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4 Pitt physicians will be honored by the National Pancreas Foundation

The School of Medicine faculty will receive their awards at an Oct. 6 gala at PNC Park.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
Three people in blue Pitt shirts shovel mulch into an orange wheelbarrow

The annual Pitt United Way Campaign is here

Show your support through a payroll deduction, vacation day donation or volunteering. Here’s the full schedule of events.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
Tafti points at a projected presentation

Ahmad Tafti won the 2023 Oracle Eureka Award

The director of Pitt’s Health + Explainable AI Research Laboratory was honored for his groundbreaking research on total joint arthroplasty.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Sindhi

Rakesh Sindhi uncovered the genetic basis of a liver disease that occurs in newborns

A new Pitt Medicine study, published in the Journal of Hepatology, performed the largest-ever genetic analysis for biliary atresia, the leading reason for liver transplant in children.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • Faculty
Lafferty jumps on the lawn in front of the Cathedral of Learning

This Pitt senior opened for Jerry Seinfeld. Now he’s part of Pittsburgh’s comedy renaissance.

Meet the self-proclaimed “ugly white man” who wants to be the next John Mulaney.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Undergraduate students
A fountain with bronze sculptures on Pitt's campus in front of the Cathedral of Learning

Angela Stewart earned $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation

Her project, funded by a Racial Equity in STEM Education award, will work to expand the range of perspectives and voices in AI technology.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC)
  • School of Computing and Information
Hingorani

Meghna Hingorani

Everybody’s bestie thrives in business and dreams of Bollywood.

  • Students
  • Pittsburgh Campus
A person wearing a face mask talks to a therapist on a video call

The pandemic wasn’t the blanket mental health disaster that some predicted

Some groups took a big mental-health hit from COVID-19 — but others showed surprising resilience, according to recent research led by a Pitt PhD student.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A tray of pretzels

Travel the world this October without leaving Pittsburgh

These five events put international art, voices and perspectives on display.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Global
two flags on campus, one with "Pitt" and another with the Panther logo

Pitt alumna Aditi Sridhar premiered a short film at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival

The Frederick Honors College graduate directed, co-wrote and produced the romantic drama “Pivot.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Alumni
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Mittal

Pitt Med student Adi Mittal is a Collegiate Inventors Competition finalist

He will pitch his blood-based cerebral aneurysm test on Oct. 24.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Graduate and professional students
  • School of Medicine
Morgan Frank sits at his office desk

The biggest barrier to getting fossil fuel workers green jobs isn’t skills — it’s location

Fossil fuel workers have the right skills to join the green revolution. They’re just not in the right places, according to a new study by Pitt researcher Morgan Frank.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Sustainability
  • School of Computing and Information
A radar image of lava flows on the surface of Venus

A new study lays the groundwork for detecting volcanic activity on Venus

Future space probes will travel to the nearby planet to look for signs of flowing lava. Pitt’s Ian Flynn is making sure they’ll be able to find the evidence if it’s there.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Linares stands in front of a red plane with a propellor

Undergraduate Alison Linares Mendoza received a Young Eagles engineering internship

The first Pitt student selected for the prestigious aeronautics program, she spent the summer working for Daher’s Aircraft Division in France.

  • Technology & Science
  • Undergraduate students
  • Swanson School of Engineering
The ecotone renewables team poses around their statue and certificate

The Pitt Sustainability Challenge winner has a solution for food waste on campus

Ecotone Renewables will receive $300,000 to install five anaerobic digesters, which divert carbon emissions by turning local food waste into fertilizer.

  • University News
  • Sustainability
A rendering of the BioForge facility

Pitt’s BioForge Manufacturing Center gets approval from Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission

Construction on the life sciences research hub is scheduled to begin this year.

  • Community Impact
  • Technology & Science
Fall leaves with Cathedral of Learning in background

Melissa Catanese won a creative development award from The Heinz Endowments

The teaching associate professor of studio arts received $20,000 for her project based on Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences