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.
University of Pittsburgh and Taiwan's National Central Library Launch Collaborative Chinese Studies Initiative
The University of Pittsburgh signed a cooperation agreement alongside the National Central Library (NCL) of Taiwan on Monday, June 24, 2024, as part of the Taiwan Resource Collaboration for Chinese Studies (TRCCS).
Cho-yun Hsu is a 2024 Laureate of the Prestigious Tang Prize
Cho-yun Hsu, university professor emeritus of history and sociology in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences with a longstanding relationship to the Asian Studies Center, was awarded the prestigious Tang Prize in Sinology today.
Shyam Visweswaran was Inducted as an International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics Fellow
Shyam Visweswaran, a biomedical informatics professor and vice chair of clinical informatics in Pitt's School of Medicine, has been named a fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).
Lina Insana Will Study Italian American Experiences Through a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
Lina Insana, associate professor of Italian and ESC and GSC faculty affiliate, is part of a project with the Senator John Heinz History Center and partners at West Virginia University that received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Spotlight on Rys Shultz
Rys Shultz has been the Administrative Coordinator for the Center for African Studies at Pitt for over a year, where he has helped navigate several large grants, expand the role of social media, and plan events and seminars. Rys was program assistant in the Center for African Studies’ study abroad in Senegal program from May 1 to May 31, 2024.