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Students in the Spotlight
Learn about four graduate students who took unconventional paths to their graduate education at Pitt.
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Federal Funding Updates
Pitt Research provides guidance, updates, and links to relevant resources to help you navigate executive orders and the evolving landscape.
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Three Minute Thesis 2025
School and online competitions are underway to determine who advances to the April 7 Pitt 3MT Competition. (2024 winners shown)
Pitt Graduate and Professional Studies
Beyond ensuring high-quality academic programming, the University of Pittsburgh provides the resources to help our graduate and professional students succeed and engage in the University community. Explore the website to learn more about all that is available to you as you pursue your graduate education.
Patrick Dunn and Alireza Mohammadzadeh, both graduate researchers in the Swanson School of Engineering, were named finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition (CIC) for their invention, AgriNUE.
Brent Vasquez, a PhD student in the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, has received a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award (NRSA).
Michael DeAngelo, Ryan Druffner, Angela Le, and Kristina Rajakovich were named winners of Boren Awards, which provides funding for U.S. students to study abroad in critical world regions, learning languages and cultures.
Dual master’s student Maria Salazar has been announced as the 2023 winner of the Bernard D. Goldstein Student Award in Environmental Health Disparities and in Public Health Practice.
Three graduate students named 2023 awardees of the LGBTQIA+ Endowed Research and Outreach Fund.
With their homelands under siege, a cohort of law students from Afghanistan and Ukraine came to Pitt to gain the skills needed to help their people thrive and their countries rebuild. These are their stories.
Two graduate students studying biological sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and their advisors were named Gilliam Fellows.
Carla Gómez Briones (MID '23) is leading conversations about clean energy on global stages. As a Global Shaper, she'll be presenting her ideas for a sustainable future at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Carla Escribano, a student in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education Doctor of Education (EdD) program, was named the 2023 Director of the Year by the School Nutrition Association of Pennsylvania.
Six grad students in the Department of Bioengineering, have received F30 and F31 Predoctoral Fellowships from the National Institutes of Health—competitive fellowships that allow graduate students in the health sciences to develop their research in aging and Alzheimer’s disease while earning their doctoral degrees.
Doctor of Occupational Therapy student Lydia Ott shares Asian American history in "Pittsburgh's Lost Chinatown" documentary.