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Get ready for the Peach Bowl with these recipes

When Pitt takes on Michigan State on Dec. 30, you'll be ready with these peachy recipes from a Pitt Athletics nutritionist.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Athletics
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Pitt researchers receive grant to explore wireless technology for people with disabilities

The team hopes to improve accessibility and promote mainstream wireless inclusion through technology services with a $4.6 million grant.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Scott Morgenstern receives Fulbright Specialist Program award

Morgenstern will complete his project at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Global
Pittsburgh skyline in the daytime with view of yellow bridges and rivers

Allegheny County Policing Project simplifies police policies for the community

This Pitt-initiated project is designed to create a greater understanding of local policing and police accountability.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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Ramona Reeves earns the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

The University of Pittsburgh Press will publish her book, “It Falls Gently All Around,” next fall.

  • University News
  • Arts and Humanities
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Pitt student Maja Lynn wins 2022 Marshall Scholarship

The anthropology and museum studies senior wants to ensure that museums are a force for good in post-conflict societies. She’ll use the prestigious award to study in Northern Ireland.

  • University News
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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Sign up to receive your 2021 Form W-2 electronically

Opt in before Dec. 31 to electronically receive this tax year’s paperwork.

  • University News
  • Faculty
  • Staff
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Faculty and staff are invited to 'Tip Off the Holidays' with Pitt men’s basketball

Get a free ticket to the Dec. 21 game, discounted family rates and enter to win prizes.

  • University News
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Athletics
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’Tis the season for a gingerbread Cathedral of Learning

Two Pitt teams took on this sky-high baking challenge. See the sculptures — and some familiar faces — on campus this week.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
  • Cathedral of Learning
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Pitt astronomers will be among the first to use the latest and greatest NASA telescope

Four faculty members are on teams that will point the James Webb Space Telescope at distant objects, galactic winds and exploding stars.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Apply for Pitt's Community Engaged Scholarship Forum by Dec. 22, 2021

The annual event highlights scholarship and partnership.

  • Community Impact
  • Students
Keisha Blain smiling, wearing glasses with earrings and black shirt

Keisha N. Blain’s work named among ‘best history books’ by Smithsonian Magazine

“Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America” was published by Beacon Press in 2021.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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How you can help your neighbors this holiday season

Calls to the United Way’s 211 crisis hotline have soared over the past 18 months. Help them help neighbors in need.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
Molly Trott holding Daniel George on Pitt volleyball court

A team effort gets a child a new kidney for Christmas

Molly Trott gave her Pitt Athletics coworker Mary Beth George and her family an exceptional early Christmas present.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Athletics
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9 things to do in Pittsburgh if you’re sticking around for the holidays

Bonus: They’re all accessible from campus by bus.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Education's Tom Akiva publishes new book

His book examines how in-school and out-of-school learning systems can be improved to better support young people’s learning and development.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Education
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Pitt junior wins top international photography contest prize

Economics major Devin DePamphilis’ winning entry was titled “Bye Bye COVID.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Chemical engineering students have fun with hot air balloons

Teams in Taryn Bayles’ Foundations of Chemical Engineering class used their problem-solving skills to design and launch their own hot air balloons.

  • Technology & Science
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Multiple Pitt students with face masks studying separately on a long bench

8 ways to study smarter, according to Study Lab tutors

Exams are approaching — here’s how to ace ’em.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Students
Jennifer Woodward standing outside with black jacket, smiling toward camera

Jennifer E. Woodward joins Society of Research Administrators International board of directors

Woodward is serving as one of six At Large Board members with full voting rights and significant responsibility for the stewardship of the organization.

  • Staff
  • Innovation and Research