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This Pitt program trains members of Black churches to provide bereavement counseling
Thanks to the Pitt Innovation Challenge, the TRIBUTE program is increasing mental health support in communities of color. You can fund your bold idea, too.
NFL Hall of Famer Rickey Jackson received his Pitt degree at age 65
Forty years after leaving Pitt for the NFL Draft, Jackson earned his diploma. “I’d put it up with the Super Bowl,” he said.
2023-24 is the Year of Discourse and Dialogue at Pitt
The theme, set by the Office of the Provost, will focus on the power of differing perceptions to enrich community and open inquiry on campus.
4 Pitt students earned Boren Awards to study language abroad
The recipients will travel to Croatia, Latvia, Montenegro and Tajikistan.
The graduates who received Pitt’s top honors in 2023
A political poet, the student behind Roc himself and a nurse in training earned the ODK Senior of the Year Awards and the Emma Locke award.
Aditi Gurkar was awarded $375,000 to research healthy aging
The assistant professor in Pitt’s School of Medicine earned an inaugural New Investigator Award from Hevolution and the American Federation for Aging Research.
The American Educational Research Association recognized Pitt Education researchers and reviewers
AERA presented awards to four faculty members and a PhD graduate.
Commencement 2023 at Pitt, in photos
Relive moments of graduates' joy and parents' pride with this gallery.
Your questions about doing research at Pitt, answered
The new Pitt Research Navigator is designed to connect Pitt researchers to resources with personalized customer service on grants, data management and more.
Vanessa Love is Pitt’s new director for civil rights and Title IX
The three-time University alumna will lead the office’s outreach, education and prevention efforts.
Gretchen Carlson Natter is Pitt’s new assistant dean of students for community and inclusion
She will lead the Division of Student Affairs in improving students’ social and academic development through community.
Panthers Forward — and Pitt — changed this senior’s life
First-generation scholar Hosea Wah said the debt-relief and mentoring program instilled professional and financial confidence as he gets ready to launch his career.
Pitt graduate programs retain high U.S. News and World Report rankings
Programs in public health, education, engineering and more saw jumps in the 2024 rankings.
She’s Pitt’s first-ever recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Anna Li will receive $90,000 over two years as she completes her MD/PhD. If that wasn’t enough, she’s an inventor tackling health disparities as well.
2 Pitt Pharmacy professors earned AACP awards
Neal Benedict and Sandra Kane-Gill were recognized for scholarly teaching and patient care research, respectively.
Moving out? Cleaning your office? Here's how to give your unwanted stuff a second life at Pitt
Across campus, you'll find many opportunities to help you give your things a second life or to properly recycle items, promoting a culture of reuse and diverting items from landfills.
Here are the winners of the 2023 Health Disparities and Social Justice Poster Competition
Researchers from across Pitt’s schools of the health sciences presented on mental health, occupational therapy, stroke treatment and more.
Oldest living U.S. Olympic medalist, Herb Douglas, a University of Pittsburgh alumnus, has died at 101
The track and field legend was a storied businessman and philanthropist.
Pitt’s Lisa Nelson is the new co-director of the Collaboratory Against Hate
The associate professor in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs will help advance the initiative’s goals to better understand and combat hatred based on prejudices.
