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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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Bradford Faculty Publish, Present and Create
Librarians examine curriculum centers, teaching methods and more.
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Pitt School of Education Is Tackling Teacher Shortage with an Innovative, Multifaceted Approach
The national teacher shortage is a complex crisis, and Pitt is stepping up with a revamped undergraduate teacher education program and robust recruitment efforts.
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Dan Ding
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Three Ways Pitt Researchers Are Making Strides in Assistive Technology
Associate Professor Dan Ding leads an interdisciplinary team that empowers people with disabilities to embrace existing wireless technology to take control of their lives.
Dick and Sharon Chabal
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Alumni Couple Commits $1.5 Million to the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
The Chabals’ gift will advance treatments that improve survival and reduce disabilities after traumatic brain injury and cardiac arrest.
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Pitt Ranked No. 7 for NIH Research Funding in 2025
The University of Pittsburgh received $669.7 million in National Institutes of Health funding and six Schools of the Health Sciences were all ranked in the top 20 for their categories.
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Pitt Launches a First-of-Its-Kind Horror Studies Center to Spark Interdisciplinary Collaborations
If it goes bump in the night, the Pitt Horror Studies Center wants to know about it because to study horror is to probe our deepest fears and how we process them.