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.
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...
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. Pitt also ranked in 33 of the 51 subject areas covered by...
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.
Located on the third floor of the Cathedral of Learning, it’s one of...
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. It is the...
Pitt was 50th in the 2024-25 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities rankings.
This is the 10th annual global rankings by U.S. News. The overall ranking encompasses 2,250 institutions, up from 2,000 in the last ranking, spread across...
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). The agreement allows the...
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. In his...
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).
The director of the Center for...
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...
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...
When Danielle Tufts, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public Health, was asked to teach an infectious diseases course in Bolivia as one of Pitt’s study abroad offerings, she jumped at the chance.
As she was researching...
The amount of waste from expired and unused lab supplies always bothered Pitt researcher Danielle Tufts. But after reading about a sanctuary that rescues animals from abuse, illegal pet trade and wildlife trafficking in Bolivia, she saw an...