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Pitt undergrads will offer free tax assistance starting in February

In partnership with the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program provides Pittsburgh residents with tax return and refund support.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Undergraduate students
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We just got a postcard from ...

Use Pitt Magazine's new interactive map to learn about your fellow alums' adventures.

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Jay Darr will serve as senior strategic advisor to Pitt’s vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion

He has previously served director of the University Counseling Center and associate dean of student wellness. Darr’s new role begins Jan. 21.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Cultivate student success
  • Promote accountability and trust
Woman stands in studio with her hands on a ballet barre.

For this Pitt alumna, to dance is to dream

At Pittsburgh’s Hill Dance Academy Theatre, Ayisha Morgan-Lee uses Black dance to teach history and possibility.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Alumni
  • School of Education
A person in a black jacket walks on a snowy day

Your Pitt winter survival guide

Taking these precautions from the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management will help keep you safe and warm all season.

  • University News
  • Prospective students
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PhD student Cody Hmelar won a CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award

The Department of English scholar will attend the organization’s annual convention in Baltimore this spring.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Cultivate student success
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Swanson School researchers will develop cutting-edge electric grid technologies with a $2.5M grant

The Department of Energy funding will bring together academics and industry representatives to test updates for a grid that’s under new pressures.

Baseball player throwing a pitch in a crowded stadium.

This Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher is taking a swing at raising mental health awareness

A family trauma almost toppled Pitt alum Isaac Mattson’s dream. A career roadblock may have saved it.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
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Pitt’s Institute for Learning earned a $1M Hewlett Foundation grant

The award will fund the Learning Research and Development Center unit’s study of cross-school networked improvement communities.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC)
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
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Students, sign up to collaborate with a local artist on a mural for Pitt’s Hillman Library

The University Library System is seeking up to eight students to create a mural that celebrates the rich diversity of textual and visual communication.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Confetti falls over winter commencement graduates and attendees.

Pitt celebrated its newest Class of 2024 graduates at winter commencement

See a gallery of the ceremony, which included speeches by Holden Thorp and Mihika Shah.

  • University News
  • Cultivate student success
  • Commencement
Chancellor Joan Gabel and Board of Trustees Chairperson John J. Verbanac pose with the retiring Director of Internal Audit John P. Elliott during a meeting with a special resolution for Elliott held in the William Pitt Union.

John Elliott will retire after 30 years as Pitt’s director of internal audit

The longtime University leader will be succeeded by Jayne McGoey, assistant director of internal audit.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • The Plan for Pitt
Charles Rinaldo poses for a portrait in the lab with a colleague.

40 years later, the Pitt Men’s Study is still breaking ground in the fight against AIDS

We spoke with principal investigator Charles Rinaldo and longtime participant and volunteer Marc Wagner about how the study has impacted their lives over the decades.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
Pitt-Greensburg graduates pose for a portrait during the campus' first-ever winter commencement celebration.

Pitt-Greensburg held its first winter commencement ceremony

President Robert Gregerson and other campus leaders recognized the 39 students who completed their degree requirements in the summer and fall semesters.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Cultivate student success
  • Commencement
Students in Jennifer Hirsch’s Social Psychology of Reality TV course deliberate.

This Pitt professor designed a ‘Survivor’-style game to teach social psychology lessons

Jennifer Hirsch’s unique course lets students get in the heads of reality stars — and learn some lessons while they’re in there.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
MLS participants smile and engage during the program's December retreat.

Nearly half of new moms in STEM leave their full-time positions. This Pitt program wants to change that.

Mothers Leading Science is helping health sciences faculty find a supportive community, strategies for work-life integration and renewed passion for their research.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • School of Medicine
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A podcast by 2 Pitt professors is among the year’s best, according to the New York Times

“Cement City” is a series documenting the English professor’s experience living in Donora, Pennsylvania, once a manufacturing hub.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt’s history and philosophy of science programs earned top honors in a recent report

The Philosophical Gourmet Report recognized the department’s philosophy of physics program as distinguished.

  • Technology & Science
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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5 Pitt students received Gilman Scholarships

The undergraduates will travel to South America, Taiwan and more through the program, which supports Federal Pell Grant recipients with up to $5,000 during their study abroad experience.

  • University News
  • Global
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A guest’s guide to commencement at the University of Pittsburgh

Everything you need to know about parking, pictures, accessibility and more for your time on the Pittsburgh campus.

  • University News
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • Commencement