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Pittsburgh artist Morgan Overton smiles beside her "We Are Not Going Back" painting.

When words won’t suffice, Morgan Overton communicates through art

Join the Frederick Honors College artist-in-residence at a hands-on, creative peace-building workshop on Sept. 21.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Community Impact
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
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Pitt teamed up with Penn State and Temple to award a joint office supplies contract

The Â鶹´«Ã½ has contracted with ODP Business Solutions and Supra Office Solutions, a minority-owned Philadelphia business, for more than a decade.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Promote accountability and trust
Aerial image of the BioForge construction site

A construction milestone for BioForge, Pitt’s biomanufacturing innovation facility

In a topping-off ceremony, leaders celebrated placing the last beam of a facility that promises to help push Pittsburgh into the life sciences century.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Â鶹´«Ã½ of Medicine
The World Trade Center beam at the Heroes Memorial

A beam from the World Trade Center is at the heart of Pitt-Johnstown’s Heroes Memorial

The campus is 20 miles north of the Flight 93 crash site, one of three locations of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Promote accountability and trust
Portrait of Lesha Greene in front of books in Pitt's Fredrick Honors College.

After 6 years of helping Pitt students secure competitive scholarships, Lesha Greene has won her own

The director of national scholarships is heading to Germany with a Fulbright International Education Administrators award.

  • Community Impact
  • Global
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
A lake and trees under blue skies with thin clouds.

Pitt’s people-first approach to boosting small businesses in rural Pennsylvania

The Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative is setting a new standard for community engagement in Fayette County.

  • Community Impact
  • Undergraduate students
Man with hands in pockets, standing in front of window.

Questions for the ‘Connecting King’

Vernard Alexander, the new director of Pitt’s Homewood Community Engagement Center, sees himself as the ultimate connector.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
Berenbrok in front of a map of the United States

Pharmacists play a vital role in improving health care, says Lucas Berenbrok

The Pitt professor is showing how important community pharmacies are through his teaching and research.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
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Pitt will host the JCC Maccabi Games in summer 2025

More than 6,000 young athletes, coaches and family members are expected to attend the world’s largest in-person Jewish youth sporting event.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Community Impact
  • Pittsburgh Campus
A woman and man stand inside a rusted industrial machine.

This popular Pitt class reveals the city's secrets

A Pitt English class called Secret Pittsburgh invites students to explore the city's most interesting, unusual or historic sites — and discover some things about themselves along the way.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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A new Pitt program pairs biblical messages with the science of cognitive behavioral therapy

The CHURCH program aims to improve mental health outcomes in Black communities in Pittsburgh and beyond.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Meghana Dodda, Garrett Whitney and Gabriella Garvin

These Pitt students took to the world stage to share a database project designed to combat systemic racism

The Frederick Honors College scholars presented their research to international leaders at the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.

  • Community Impact
  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
A high school student focuses on their laptop during Pitt's CyberCamp.

Pitt’s CyberCamp is diversifying the tech professional pipeline in Pittsburgh and beyond

The program, now in its eighth year, was spotlighted in a recent White House report for helping to develop the national cybersecurity workforce.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Prospective students
  • Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
Woman tosses chess pieces into the air.

How a Pitt alum moved from chess board to board room

Ashley Lynn Priore uses chess to teach life and leadership lessons.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
Grier runs on the field at the 1956 Sugar Bowl

Bobby Grier, a Pitt trailblazer who broke a college football color barrier, died at 91

He made national headlines as a senior when he became the first Black player in the Sugar Bowl.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
A person waves a Pride flag

Why LGBTQ+ inclusion is essential to the academy, according to 7 Pitt researchers

From fighting HIV to studying adolescent social media use, these experts are using scholarship to advocate for their communities.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
A drone shot of Oakland in Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Study was honored for its child health equity programming

Community-centered youth leadership and data literacy events earned the Pitt-UPMC research initiative a National Institutes of Health recognition.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diaz leans on a table near a bookshelf

Pitt junior Connor Diaz was named a 2024 Newman Civic fellow

The civics enthusiast, Brackenridge Fellow and social justice activist was recognized for his commitment to increasing local engagement among Pitt students.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Berenbrok in front of a map of the United States

See US pharmacy closures over the last decade on an interactive Pitt map

The Â鶹´«Ã½ of Pharmacy and American Pharmacists Association project demonstrates the importance of health care access in local communities.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Â鶹´«Ã½ of Pharmacy
A rendering of an apartment building

Oakland will be home to a new affordable housing community for LGBTQ+ older adults

The Mosaic complex, which will offer 48 units for people 62 and older, is a first for Western Pennsylvania.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus