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What Pittsburgh students need to know before Thanksgiving break

Here’s how to get home, what to do if you’re staying on campus and important COVID-19 info.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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For Roc’s birthday, we asked a Pitt ecologist about getting him some panther friends

Pitt’s mascot turns 112 this week, but his species hasn’t been spotted in the commonwealth for more than a century. Could we reintroduce panthers to the region? Should we?

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Take your first step toward a smoke-free life during the Nov. 18 Great American Smokeout

Participate in the American Cancer Society event and get support from Pitt at no cost.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Staff
Michael Meyer standing in front of bookshelf

Michael Meyer named Visiting Scholar at Oxford's Centre for Life-Writing

While in residence, Meyer is finishing research on a book recounting a scandalous 1877 trial in London.

  • Faculty
  • Department of English
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt’s new recreation and wellness center will champion students’ mental and physical wellness

"The newest, coolest and healthiest place on campus" is coming soon.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
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Harness the power of data analytics to address hunger during this year’s Super Analytics Challenge

All graduate students are invited to an information session on Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. to learn more about the competition.

  • Community Impact
  • Graduate and professional students
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
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Is this pain muscle strain or a minor heart attack?

An interdisciplinary Pitt team is using machine learning to more quickly and accurately identify heart attacks and their arterial origins.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Get fresh greens all year round at many Pitt dining locations

The University has partnered with local agricultural company Fifth Season to grow lettuce, spinach and other greens using 97% less land and 95% less water than traditional farming methods.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pitt Police respond to campus safety concerns

Students are urged to continue staying alert and reporting suspicious activity to police.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
Women sharing their entrepreneurial journeys at roundtable

How Pitt helps women business owners dream big

Five entrepreneurs share how Pitt’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence is setting them up for success.

  • Community Impact
  • Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence
Yunge Xiao sitting outside in a striped sweater

Meet the Pitt sophomore who won WYEP's 2021 Singer-Songwriter Competition

Listen to two of Yunge Xiao's original songs.

  • University News
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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11 Pitt veterans who made a major impact

Learn about how these military greats, from the author of the GI Bill of Rights to a former Army Surgeon General, shaped the world — and how Pitt shaped them.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Alumni
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • School of Law
  • School of Medicine
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Proposals for the 2022 Mentoring and Advising Summit are due Dec. 2

The fifth annual summit will explore how Pitt can continue to build a strong culture of inclusion and belonging in mentoring work.

  • University News
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Students
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A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff

A nurse anesthetist and Pitt alum watched veterans with PTSD “go to sleep in Pittsburgh but wake up in Iraq.” He knew something had to change.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Nursing
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Iris Marion Young Awards for Political Engagement winners announced

The winners of the award, which recognizes those who promote justice, will be honored at a Nov. 11 event.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Nursing

Present a talk, poster or workshop at the upcoming Community Engaged Scholarship Forum

Proposals are due Dec. 22. You can also nominate a person or group to win an award for their work in the community.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Students
Jessica Thompson smiling with glasses and blue jacket

Jessica R. Thompson wins doctoral award for community health planning and policy development

The American Public Health Association recognized Thompson for ground-breaking work that benefits under-studied population.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Alumni
  • School of Public Health
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The Heinz Endowments gives $800,000 to Pitt’s Center for Sustainable Business

The two-year grant will be used to help companies large and small to improve overall business practices, environmental quality and economic equality.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Center for Sustainable Business
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
Tracey Conti portrait

Tracey Conti elected as new chair of Department of Family Medicine

Conti will foster collaborative relationships across and beyond Pitt and UPMC, focusing on developing a community-based strategy for primary care in the region.

  • Faculty
  • Department of Family Medicine
  • School of Medicine
Thanos Tzounopoulos wearing grey shirt and glasses sitting in a chair

A Pitt scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears

The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine