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Don’t let Pennsylvania families and students lose their tuition benefit

For more than 50 years, the commonwealth has funded a tuition discount for in-state Pitt students. This year, the discount is at risk. Learn more in this Pitt Magazine Q&A with Chancellor Patrick

  • University News
  • Community Impact
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Keep your mind sharp this summer with curated library guides from Pitt

Pitt experts and librarians have developed dozens of LibGuides to help you understand everything from Russian history to queer horror.

  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pitt historian Alaina E. Roberts won the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

The committee called her book on slavery, indigenous people and settler colonialism “a transformative work.”

  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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2022 Innovation in Education Award winners announced

Faculty were recognized for enhancing teaching at Pitt and fostering new instructional approaches that represent advances over existing methods.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Pharmacy
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When Pitt students move out, Clutter for a Cause finds a new life for stuff that’s left behind

The annual program diverts usable and quality items to reuse and recycle instead of landfills, and it also helps students be good neighbors.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Two Pitt-UPMC faculty were elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation

Zachary Freyberg and Jason L. Sperry of Pitt’s School of Medicine joined one of the oldest and most esteemed honor societies of physician-scientists.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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Citizens Police Academy gives ‘intense’ look at officer training

Participants had to make split-second decisions in a 180-degree simulator, among other activities that helped them better understand the challenges officers face.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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7 awards were presented at the 2022 Celebration of Innovation

The event recognized the achievements of Pitt faculty and student innovators who are seeking to improve people’s lives through the commercialization of their ideas and discoveries.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
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Pitt opens a cutting-edge biomedical research hub at The Assembly

The Pittsburgh space will serve as an epicenter of innovation in life sciences for Pitt researchers, entrepreneurs and established companies.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Medicine
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5 Stamps Scholars from Pennsylvania earned full tuition to Pitt

The award covers full tuition, room and board, and personal costs for four years.

  • University News
  • Students
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Pitt team Hoth Intelligence takes second place in Rice Business Plan Competition

The student team is developing hardware and software to “see through and into” patients to assist clinicians.

  • School of Medicine
  • Innovation and Research
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What it’s like to be a midwife

In honor of Mother’s Day, four midwives from Pitt’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program share their most memorable births and why their profession is so important.

  • Health and Wellness
  • School of Nursing
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Submit comments for draft policies on University travel advances and relocation

The draft policies are currently under development, and comments and suggestions provided during this period will be taken into consideration during the University’s policy development process.

  • University News
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Sandra Murray elected president of the American Society for Cell Biology

She will be the first person of color to lead the organization.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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School of Medicine research finds need for interventions against anti-Black racism in academic medicine

Researchers recorded experiences of anti-Black racism among faculty and trainees in academic medical centers across the United States and proposed strategies to address them.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
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Pitt sophomore Azariah Torain named board member for the National Student Nurses' Association

It is the first time in Pitt Nursing history that a student has been elected to the organization's Board of Directors.

  • Students
  • School of Nursing
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Two public health leaders on COVID-19 and what’s next

Pitt Public Health Dean Maureen Lichtveld and physician Georges Benjamin discuss pandemic preparedness, climate change and the future of scientific research.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Covid-19
  • School of Public Health
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2022-23 will be the Year of Emotional Well-Being at Pitt

Jay Darr and Jamie Zelazny will lead the yearlong efforts, which will support research and reflection on what it means to live a good life.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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12 Pitt students won a competitive NSF research fellowship

And University Honors College mentors want to help even more STEM students at Pitt win Graduate Research Fellowships next year.

  • Technology & Science
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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Their professor is in Ukraine. These students said it changed their lives. 

Economist Tymofiy Mylovanov gave his Pitt students a “heartbreaking and enlightening” look at the struggles of a war-torn nation.

  • Global
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences