Pitt Archaeologists Helped Uncover the Earliest Evidence of Farming in East Africa
A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial Eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early farming but where scant evidence from actual physical crops has been previously uncovered.
Kati Csoman’s Ties to Nationality Rooms Run Deep
Decades of her life, including her family’s background and early experiences at Pitt, have shaped her career, Kati Csoman, director of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, told Staff Council’s Coffee and Conversation event on Aug. 1.
Spotlight on Kati Von Lehman
Kati Von Lehman has been working in higher education since she became a Resident Assistant back in 1998. Over the years, she has worked for several different institutions and in different areas, but her favorite school has been the University of Pittsburgh!
Jonathan Chitiyo Published a Book for African Educators
Jonathan Chitiyo, associate professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and Center for African Studies faculty affiliate, has published a new book about teaching children with disabilities in Africa.
Former Pitt Basketball Star Marcedes Walker Soaking in Olympic Experience with Azerbaijan
Pitt women’s basketball alumna Marcedes Walker doesn’t know how she’ll feel when she first steps onto the Olympic 3x3 courts in Paris.
“Oh, that goes beyond nerves,” Walker said. “It still hasn’t hit me yet.”
When Walker takes the floor for Team Azerbaijan on July 30, it’ll be the culmination of a career that began right here in Pittsburgh.
Love of Track and Field Carries Pitt Product Christie-Lee Coad to Olympic Games
This technically won’t be the first Olympic Games for Christie-Lee Coad, a Thomas Jefferson High School product who earned her master’s degree in sports medicine at Pitt.
Now the co-head athletic trainer for USA Track & Field, Coad traveled to Tokyo in 2021, though the pandemic certainly altered the experience.
Pitt Women's Soccer Coach Randy Waldrum Prepares to Lead Nigeria at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris
If you had asked Nigeria women’s national coach Randy Waldrum back when he took over if he’d be coaching in the Olympics just four years later, he would’ve told you no.
But that’s the reality for the Pitt women’s soccer coach, as his team is one of the 12 competing in France over the next couple of weeks.
Pitt's Team Behind Team USA
With the 2024 Summer Olympics about to begin in Paris, the schools of the health sciences are proud to have multiple connections supporting Team USA.
A Pitt Honors Student was Selected for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals
Alanna Howe, a sophomore in Pitt’s David C. Frederick Honors College, has been selected for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals.
Stand Tall For The Rule of Law: A Conversation with Professor Ronald Brand
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Honors Students Explore Wonders of Wyoming Land Preserved for Pitt
In the summer of 2023, about seven Frederick Honors College students found themselves trekking across a vast southern Wyoming prairie, ostensibly staging a search for artifacts remaining from a 19th century transcontinental railroad. Their discoveries, however, took them much farther back in time than the Western frontier in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.
Pitt is No. 8 for Public Universities Nationally in U.S. News' Best Global University Rankings
Pitt is in the top 50 universities in global research and has risen to No. 8 for U.S. public universities, according to the U.S. News and World Report’s 2024 Best Global University Rankings.
Go Behind the Scenes of the Pitt Nationality Room that Portrays Colonial Life in America
Ahead of Independence Day, you can get a closer look at how English colonists lived before the founding of the United States of America with a tour of Pitt’s Early American Room.
A Pitt Partnership Established This Kazakhstan Medical School, Which Just Earned its First MD Accreditation
In Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, there is now a medical school offering a fully accredited four-year medical program with a U.S.-based curriculum, thanks to a longstanding partnership with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Pitt Earns Spots in Best Global Universities and Times Higher Ed Impact Ranking
Pitt was 50th in the 2024-25 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities rankings.