Stories from Pitt Global
Learn more about the global experiences happening at Pitt and the stories that make Pitt Global a unique place to learn, work, and explore the world.
Helping scholars from troubled places around the world — particularly Afghans before the Taliban takeover and Ukrainians during the current war — has been “challenging, but certainly the most rewarding work I have ever done,” says Jennifer Brick...
The family of Marc Fogel attended a panel discussion about hostage diplomacy at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday. Fogel has been imprisoned in Russia since 2021. The panel was hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian, East...
When former Oakmont teacher Marc Fogel was arrested three years ago in Russia, the government there said it was because the longtime teacher at the Anglo-American School of Moscow possessed less than an ounce of medical marijuana.
But on Saturday,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Chitiyo, who is from...
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...
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...
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.
Rory Cooper, Distinguished Professor of Rehabilitation Science and Technology in the School of...
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. The program is a partnership between the U.S. Congress and the German Parliament. The program...