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Kevin Washo won a Pittsburgh Business Times C-Suite Award

The senior vice chancellor for university relations was recognized for collaborating with colleagues at Pitt and across the region.

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  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
The former Met Life building

Pitt-Johnstown will regain the former Met Life building, thanks to a gift from alumnus John R. Musulin

His $2.2 million donation supports the purchase of the 178,000-square-foot, four-story office building.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Cultivate student success
  • Promote accountability and trust
Lise Vesterlund and other Behavioral Economic Design Initiative workshop attendees smile.

6 Pitt faculty presented at this year’s Behavioral Economic Design Initiative workshop

The Department of Economics unit seeks to advance economic design within the areas of women's advancement, health economics, market design and more.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Doyen's photograph of a factory.

This Pitt grad student is creating a historical map of the Hill District, one photo at a time

Landscape photographer Kale Serrato Doyen’s PhD research is inspired by Teenie Harris and informed by her work documenting Latino spaces in her Michigan hometown.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
An individual rides an electric scooter on a Bigelow Boulevard sidewalk, passing by a bus shelter.

How to keep your scooter secure on campus

Register your ride on Pitt’s Bike Index and follow best practices for parking and protective gear.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Promote accountability and trust
A "Jitney" playbill in the Hillman Library from the August Wilson collection.

How Pitt helped August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ make its debut in Italy

The groundbreaking performance, translated in part by Lina Insana’s Italian language students, featured an all-Black Italian cast of actors.

  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Mantilla stands behind a table of books

The Pitt library’s vast and varied Latin American collection can ‘speak to anyone’

Meet Martha Mantilla, whose global experiences and passion for culture prepared her to manage the collection.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Silhouette of a SCI speaker during a conference.

Hear from computing and information experts at upcoming SCI talks

Attend the Dean’s Spotlight Series on Oct. 29 and Dec. 5.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Cultivate student success
  • School of Computing and Information
Portrait of Raed Rafei.

Raed El Rafei’s new film will premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

The assistant professor returned to his Lebanon hometown to create “Tripoli/A Tale of Three Cities.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Culley at a podium

Leigh Culley is Pitt’s interim assistant vice chancellor for accessibility

An alumna of the School of Education, she has served as director of Disability Recourses and Services since 2015.

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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  • It's Possible at Pitt
A student picks up grad gear during Graduation Central in the University Store on Fifth.

Pick up regalia and more at Graduation Central, Oct. 29-30

Plus, register for a Nov. 19 portrait session.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • Cultivate student success
  • Commencement
Portrait of Shatara Murphy

Shatara Murphy was selected as an AITF Anchor Fellow

The assistant vice chancellor for Anchor Initiatives is among four higher education and nonprofit leaders in the 2025 cohort.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Be welcoming and engaged
School of Medicine building sign behind tree

Pitt Medicine researchers will study ableism with a $3.2M NIH grant

Lynn Worobey and team will investigate how ableism contributes to health disparities over the next five years.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Gabel

Chancellor Joan Gabel has been named chair of the Fulbright Scholar Advisory Board

A Fulbright alumna herself, Gabel has served as a member of the board for three years.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Be welcoming and engaged
A Pitt shield flag on a lamppost in front of yellow leaves

Tao Han was honored by the American Physical Society

The Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics was recognized with the annual Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Portrait of chemist, pharmaceutical executive and editor-in-chief at the journal Science Holden Thorp

Science editor Holden Thorp is Pitt’s 2024 winter commencement speaker

Hear from the chemist, former UNC chancellor and pharmaceutical executive Dec. 18 at the Petersen Events Center.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Commencement
A close-up shot of gold on the periodic table

Michelle Ward was honored for encouraging women in the chemical sciences

The American Chemical Society Pittsburgh also recognized Pitt’s student chapter with a sustainability award.

  • Technology & Science
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.

Look to the western skies this month to see a once-in-a-lifetime comet

We talked with Edward Potosky about how to see Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which won’t be back for 80,000 years.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
The front of the School of Public Health Building and sculpture.

A recent Pitt study sheds light on the correlation between cholesterol and Alzheimer’s disease in women

Epidemiologist Samar El Khoudary found it’s a matter of HDL quality over quantity in women entering menopause.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Public Health
Karikari

Pitt scientists validated a new panel for blood biomarkers of Alzheimer’s

Senior author Thomas Karikari hopes the test could help physicians capture the disease’s multifaceted nature and develop an approach for early intervention.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt