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7 Halloween-themed events in Pittsburgh
Put these horror movies, haunted trails, rock climbing and more on your list of scary season activities.
A $2 million gift will help Pitt support nursing students pursuing a second career
The Joanne and William Conway Nursing Scholarship Program will fund 60 students per year through an accelerated bachelor’s degree to address the nation’s nursing shortage.
A new Pitt course is using improv to build more confident, empathetic lawyers
It’s no joke: Professor of Legal Writing Ben Bratman designed the class to teach “human skills” to upper-class law students after seeing how the hobby benefited his teaching.
Hillandale Farms family donates $25 million to launch Pitt’s Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center
The transformative gift — for which the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine will make an equivalent co-investment — will support labs, fellows, research and clinical work to push orthopaedic
Pitt staff can receive paid time off to volunteer. Here’s how.
More than 5,000 Pitt people racked up over 100,000 volunteer hours last year. Why not join their ranks during Civic Action Week, Oct. 16-21?
Marnie Oakley was named dean of Pitt’s School of Dental Medicine
As both an alumna and professor, she’s served the University for nearly three decades.
Pitt researchers are key to NASA’s next space telescope
Four Pitt astronomers are helping bring the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to life to uncover the secrets of dark matter — and they’re hoping current theories are wrong.
Pitt’s Board of Trustees elected Louis Cestello as its chair
The PNC Bank regional president previously served as the vice chair of the Board of Trustees and interim chair.
This Pitt senior opened for Jerry Seinfeld. Now he’s part of Pittsburgh’s comedy renaissance.
Meet the self-proclaimed “ugly white man” who wants to be the next John Mulaney.
The pandemic wasn’t the blanket mental health disaster that some predicted
Some groups took a big mental-health hit from COVID-19 — but others showed surprising resilience, according to recent research led by a Pitt PhD student.
Travel the world this October without leaving Pittsburgh
These five events put international art, voices and perspectives on display.
The biggest barrier to getting fossil fuel workers green jobs isn’t skills — it’s location
Fossil fuel workers have the right skills to join the green revolution. They’re just not in the right places, according to a new study by Pitt researcher Morgan Frank.
A new study lays the groundwork for detecting volcanic activity on Venus
Future space probes will travel to the nearby planet to look for signs of flowing lava. Pitt’s Ian Flynn is making sure they’ll be able to find the evidence if it’s there.
The Pitt Sustainability Challenge winner has a solution for food waste on campus
Ecotone Renewables will receive $300,000 to install five anaerobic digesters, which divert carbon emissions by turning local food waste into fertilizer.
Pitt’s BioForge Manufacturing Center gets approval from Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission
Construction on the life sciences research hub is scheduled to begin this year.
What mountains in Portugal can tell us about Pennsylvania’s geologic past
Understanding how mountains formed could help us predict future tectonic events and find minerals for electronics, says Fulbright Fellow and Pitt-Johnstown Associate Professor Ryan Kerrigan.
Pitt nursing, engineering jump in 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best College rankings
The University also ranked highly in two new categories, cracking the top 50 for psychology and economics undergraduate programs.
A career in IndyCar has taken this Pitt alumna for a wild ride
After more than a decade, Kate Gundlach has the experience and clout to hold one of the sport’s top engineering jobs and work for one of its most talented, unpredictable drivers.
Pitt is a top 20 leader in patents in the U.S.
Innovators at the University earned 105 utility patents in 2022, ranking Pitt at No. 16 in the nation among universities.
Go behind the scenes of Pitt’s new ACC commercial
See how our multimedia team captured the Cathedral of Learning and other spots around campus.
