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10 ways to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day

From adding alt-text to joining the Pitt Disability Community, here are 10 ways to advocate for yourself or colleagues with accessibility needs.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Earth Day is every day at Pitt

Revisit stories of Pitt’s many commitments to sustainability.

  • Global
  • Sustainability
  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus

Lessons from the HIV Epidemic

Pitt Public Health’s Jean Nachega and coauthors draw practical parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and HIV, including innovative ways to ensure scale-up of a vaccine or treatment in Africa.

  • Covid-19
  • School of Public Health
  • Global

Watch: Researchers Take Filmmaking to the Health Sciences

Sara Baumann (GSPH ’19) and Jessica Burke have created a new form of public health research called Collaborative Filmmaking. The six-step process engages its participants to create a detailed

  • Innovation and Research
  • Innovation Institute
  • Global
The Cathedral of Learning towers over Pitt's campus

Pitt will offer more than 100 new flexible courses for 2020

From Afrofuturism in music to a new graduate certificate on transnational Asia, this academic year is set to offer students even more academic opportunities.

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • University News
  • Global
  • Faculty

E. Maxine Bruhns, who dedicated her career to embracing cultural diversity, dies at 96

Known as a “citizen of the world,” Bruhns was responsible for raising the visibility of Pitt’s beloved Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs and growing the program to represent 31

  • Community Impact
  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Nationality Rooms Program and Intercultural Exchange

Pitt commits to carbon neutrality

The University has already reduced greenhouse gas emissions on the Pittsburgh campus by 22%. Building and infrastructure efficiencies are key to the new goal of carbon neutrality by 2037—Pitt’s 250th

  • Global
  • Our City/Our Campus
A person in a traditional Philippine dress walks in a procession

Pitt celebrated the newly dedicated Philippine Nationality Room with a festival of song and dance

The new Philippine Nationality Room, designed after consultation with scholars and architects from Manila, represents the influence of cultures that make up the nation, an archipelago of more than 7

  • University News
  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Nationality Rooms Program and Intercultural Exchange