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Volume 59 |
Issue 5: October 24, 2026

  • Pitt offers voluntary early retirement incentives to eligible staff and faculty for second time since 2020

Student Affairs shares encouraging numbers related to rec center, student sense of belonging and services

Mike Giancola, new dean of students, introduces himself to SAAA committee

Chancellor addresses federal travel visa program subpoena, college sports act in Senate Council report

Gabel reflects on Comprehensive Campaign launch, updates committee on Health Sciences leadership search.
Art exhibit at Hillman Library

Voices of Pitt: Narratives of Resilience

Interactive exhibit at Hillman shows that adversity is common, and commonly overcome.

Senate Council president discusses rural student success workshop, campus inclusivity challenges

Kanthak seeks changes to ‘whack-a-mole’ approach to ‘existential’ crisis of students not feeling included.
Rachel Maley in her office with items from the Childhood Material Culture Teaching Collection.

Toy archive enables experiential learning in film and media, digital narrative, interactive design courses

Vintage materials make up the Childhood Material Culture Teaching Collection, funded by a Pitt innovation in education award.

Educational Policies Committee prepares for potential changes to federal rules for international students

New length-of-stay limits stayed by state court, for now.
John Stoner

SENATE MATTERS: Rethinking Accommodation for the 21st century university

Spring Plenary will explore what it means to accommodate today’s students.

Staff Council takes part in Campus Safety Crawl and survey to assess areas of concern around Oakland

Parliamentarian reports on activity-rich fall, including Homecoming, Cathedral centennial, informational forums.

TEACHING AT PITT: The Analog Classroom in the AI Era

The rise of AI has educators examining their pedagogical practices, and for good reasons.
Roberta Mendonça De Carvalho

PERSPECTIVE: Learning Hurts - Higher-Ed Teaching in the Age of AI

Teachers and students can adopt technology while keeping the productive struggle that is essential to learning.

EIADAC committee discusses concerns about newer campus safety/emergency features

Panic buttons, privacy concerns, improved communication between Pitt, city police among topics shared.
Rhonda Schuldt, director of Pitt's Big Idea Center

Rhonda Schuldt talks about Big Idea Center at Staff Council’s latest Coffee and Conversation

“We help students start startups," says the center director.

Also in This Issue:

Search committee finalized for SVC for health sciences
'Flexible course engagement’ encouraged on Election Day
Art All Night: Artistic Expression of Bipolar Disorder on view in Scaife Hall
Pitt asks for increase in 2027-28 state funding
Pitt launches 2026-27 United Way campaign

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News From Around Pitt:

From the Provost’s Office

Leadership Transition in the University Center for Teaching and Learning

From The Pitt News

Pitt scientists explain impacts of Nobel Prize-winning optogenetics in research

Suspect named in Posvar Hall bomb threat

What candidates in swing states in the 2026 midterm elections stand for

‘Journalism pro’ Susan Jones retires after eight years as the editor of the University Times

Pitt one of nine universities under federal visa fraud investigation

Delanie’s Coffee opens new location in Big Idea Center

Student activists honor and protest Israeli military three years after Oct. 7

‘It’s counterproductive’: Students share opinions on combined fall break and Family Weekend

From Pittwire

Piervincenzo Rizzo is developing a new glaucoma test with an NIH grant

Lisa Bodnar elected to National Academy of Medicine

Pitt adds a doctoral hooding ceremony to its annual winter commencement celebrations

Cathedral of Learning always on display, thanks to this artist’s image-a-day vision

Study of cosmic rays continues high upon Pitt’s iconic tower

Pitt placed No. 24 among the nation’s public universities in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings

Pitt is globally ranked in 33 subjects, per ShanghaiRanking

4 Pitt researchers received a K-12 AI Infrastructure Program grant

Introducing the 2026 Rees-Chancellor’s Scholars cohort

From the Dietrich School

Pitt Appoints Jill Millstone Director of Petersen Institute for NanoScience and Engineering (PINSE)

Robin Brooks awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship

Pitt’s first undergraduate cancer-focused research program is underway

SCI and Dietrich School Student Build New Student Performance App

From School of Education

Betsy Levine Brown Returns to Pitt to Lead the Office of Child Development (Q&A)

Alumna Robyn Tedder named to Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 Under 40

Engaging School Boards and Administration for Maximum Effect



From Swanson School of Engineering

Society of Women Engineers Recognizes Pitt and Pittsburgh Section

Federal Railroad Administration Supports Piervincenzo Rizzo's New Rail Monitoring System

Listening for Trouble: Pitt team field-tests fiber-optic sensors for spent-fuel canisters at Idaho National Laboratory

Pitt Engineering Alumni Help Commercial Street Bridge Slide into the Future

Pitt’s Susan Fullerton Named a Moore Foundation 2026 Experimental Physics Investigator

Swanson School of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Tony Parasida reflects on a prolific career, a Pitt education, and giving back

From Health Sciences

Modifying the Gut Microbiome to Improve Immunotherapy Outcomes

Pitt School of Nursing Faculty Member Wins 2026 Nightingale Award

Four Health Sciences Faculty Members Receive Dr. Larry E. Davis Awards

Pitt Celebrates Health Sciences’ Momentum with Opening of New Building

Nobel Laureate Karl Deisseroth receives Pitt’s Dickson Prize

A Transcendent Gift: Pitt celebrates and remembers those who donated their bodies to medical research.

Rory Cooper Wins King Salman International Award for Disability Research

Therapy Extends Treatment Window for Acetaminophen Overdose in Preclinical Models

From School of Law

Pitt Law's Sue Leroy Honored with 2026 Chancellor's Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Career Achievement

Pitt Law Promotes Rob Wible to Assistant Dean and Launches Inaugural Office of Academic Excellence and Bar Success

Veterans Day at Pitt Law: Honoring Service, Leadership, and a Commitment to Justice

Dean Dickinson Announces Appointment of Professor Greer Donley as the Inaugural Roslyn M. Litman Endowed Professor of Law in Civil Liberties
 

 

 

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