The Plan for Pitt: Advance Educational Excellence

Pitt Innovators Deliver Another Banner Year of Impactful Discoveries

Pitt innovators continued to demonstrate their passion for translating lab discoveries to solutions that make an impact...

Just Discipline Project Shows Progress in New Report

A project out of Pitt’s School of Social Work designed to reduce out-of-school suspensions at the Pittsburgh-area...

Three English Affiliates Receive 2019 Investing in Professional Artists Grant

Three affiliates of the Department of English in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences have been awarded...

Pitt Law Launches Graduate Program on Human Resources Law

Pitt’s School of Law is now taking applications for a new online graduate certificate program that tackles the legal...
3D printer at the Vibrant Media Lab

A Model Makerspace: 3D Printing at the Teaching Center’s Open Lab

The Open Lab in the University Center for Teaching and Learning has 3D printers and trained specialists who consult with faculty, staff and students to create 3D objects that you can hold in your hand from virtual 3D models on a computer screen.
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SHRS Offering New Online Master’s Degree in Health Informatics

The program is the school’s first-ever fully online degree and will enroll its first cohort in January 2020.

Valerie Kinloch Elected Vice President of National Council of Teachers of English

Valerie Kinloch, the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the School of Education, has been elected vice president of the...

Ipsita Banerjee Wins 2019 Faculty Diversity Award

Ipsita Banerjee, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School...

Sam Dickerson Named 2019 Outstanding Educator

The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering has presented Sam Dickerson, assistant professor of electrical...
Graham Hatfull looking at phages in his lab

Hatfull Lab’s Lifesaving Research Efforts Go Viral

Research efforts in Graham Hatfull’s lab involving phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, saved the life of a 15-year-old cystic fibrosis patient in London. His team’s work has drawn international media attention and has been called groundbreaking.