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See Images from the Proving Possible Launch

Visit our photo gallery from the September 25 campaign launch at Petersen Events Center.

Advance Scholarship, Creativity and Innovation

Pitt Ranked among Top Programs Worldwide in 17 Academic Fields

The University of Pittsburgh placed in the top 50 in 17 academic fields in recent world university rankings.

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State-of-the-Art Pitt Health Sciences Building Officially Opens

The Fifth and Halket building is home to the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Medicine’s Departments of Cell Biology and Computational and Systems Biology.

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Pitt’s Ishihara Lab to Receive $2.25M in Google.org Impact Challenge

The lab of Keisuke Ishihara, assistant professor of computational and systems biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, announced Oct. 14 that it has been selected as a recipient of the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science.

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Retinal Implant Restores Central Vision in Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Device improves sight for 80 percent of study participants, plus breakthroughs come as Pitt launches fight against NF1 blindness with $2.2 million gift from Gilbert Foundation.

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Pitt Social Work Turns Research into Better Child Welfare Training

What began more than two decades ago as a modest training effort has evolved into a statewide engine of care, building competence, compassion, and consistency.

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Pitt Ranked No. 20 for Granted Patents among U.S. Universities in 2024

Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship helps researchers translate groundbreaking inventions into market-ready technologies that boost the economy and offer solutions to challenges.

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Pitt’s National Sports Brain Bank Gains Momentum with Help of NFL Hall of Famer

Jerome Bettis is latest pro athlete to pledge his brain to the research effort looking at CTE, ALS, and other brain diseases.