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A Pitt community partnership was honored for advancing sustainable growth solutions in Fayette County

The Appalachian Bridges to the Future project earned a Climate Luminary Honor for its work fostering economic development and fighting brain drain in the region.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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3 Pitt projects that are helping keep service members and veterans healthy

From helping the Marines prevent injuries to extending the “golden hour” in trauma care, this research is advancing military medicine.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Leah Byrne stands beside a machine and liquid samples in a lab

Pitt’s growing research impact is on full display in the 2023-24 annual research report

Read stories of University researchers who have blended disciplines and put innovations into action, contributing to $1.2 billion in research expenditures over the last year.

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  • Innovation and Research
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CAP participants pose with their certificate of achievement.

In ‘community classrooms’ across Pittsburgh, Pitt med students are learning to be engaged physicians

The Community Alliance Program is rethinking traditional medical education, sending students into local public service organizations to learn critical communication and trust-building skills.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Health Equity
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • School of Medicine
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.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Promote accountability and trust
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
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.

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • School of Medicine
Students embrace on the field of the Acrisure Stadium during a Homecoming Football game.

2024 at Pitt, in photos

Our photographers shared their 10 favorite images of innovative researchers, major developments and more from the year.

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  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Promote accountability and trust
Three researchers in a lab

Chronic pain treatments can be dangerous and ineffective. These Pitt researchers are working on a solution.

Supported by NIH funding, the Vanish Therapeutics team is working to bring a bioabsorbable nerve stimulator to market.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
Fang on a staircase in the Honors College

This Pitt senior and cancer researcher is one to keep watching

Here’s what’s next for Richard Su Fang, a Goldwater scholar who has already received interview invitations from 17 MD/PhD programs.

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  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Cultivate student success
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
The Nonprofit Capacity Building Program cohort poses for a group photo at Café Momentum.

Nonprofits are scaling up their regional impact with support from Pitt

The Nonprofit Capacity Building Program connects local organizations working to improve economic stability with University training and resources.

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  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
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A new Pitt center will use AI to accelerate women’s health research globally

The Vijayalakshmi Innovation Center is funded by a gift from siblings and health care entrepreneurs Vishnu Vardhan and Harsha Vardhini, along with a significant investment from the School of Medicine.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • School of Medicine
Applied Physiology Lab researchers conduct a spaceflight hibernation study on a volunteer.

A NASA-funded Pitt team is exploring the benefits of sleeping in space

Kate Flickinger’s research on lower metabolic rates could help astronauts safely undergo long-duration spaceflights one day. It could also help ICU patients here on Earth.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Medicine
Alexander Deiters and Jason Lohmueller in the lab

How this Pitt duo’s startup plans to attack the ‘tricky beast’ that is cancer

A platform developed by Jason Lohmueller and Alex Dieters could allow immunotherapies to be delivered to tumors with more flexibility and precision.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Innovation Institute
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
James Huguley

This social scientist turned entrepreneur supports Black parents with an innovative program

Parenting doesn’t come with a manual, but it does come with community, thanks to James Huguley.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Innovation Institute
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • School of Social Work
Adi Mittal pipetting in the lab

This Pitt medical student wants to make tests for cerebral aneurysms simpler and more effective

Adi Mittal balances research, classwork and business as a student and startup founder.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Innovation Institute
  • School of Medicine
Peng Liu with a graphic featuring chemistry motifs

Peng Liu is unraveling new reactions — and new ways of working together

With a pair of Nature papers among a flurry of recent studies, the computational chemist is on a hot streak that shows no sign of stopping.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Manush Saydmohammed and Michael Tsang with a microscope in the lab

How a fish could lead to new hope for treating persistent wounds

An unexpected discovery by School of Medicine Professor Michael Tsang led to his startup Zegenex — and a new way to treat serious wounds.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Innovation Institute
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • School of Medicine
Pitt startup founders pose at a table with Pitt banners and Roc the panther

Pitt’s first signing day for startups celebrated a milestone for researcher-entrepreneurs

Five new companies founded by Pitt researchers aim to improve wound care, cancer immunotherapy, chronic pain care and more.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Social Work
Doyen's photograph of a factory.

This Pitt grad student is creating a historical map of the Hill District, one photo at a time

Landscape photographer Kale Serrato Doyen’s PhD research is inspired by Teenie Harris and informed by her work documenting Latino spaces in her Michigan hometown.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Portrait of chemist, pharmaceutical executive and editor-in-chief at the journal Science Holden Thorp

Science editor Holden Thorp is Pitt’s 2024 winter commencement speaker

Hear from the chemist, former UNC chancellor and pharmaceutical executive Dec. 18 at the Petersen Events Center.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Commencement