16 Pitt affiliates were named to the Pittsburgh Business Times Power 100

- Ken Gormley (A&S ’77)
- Gregg Perelman (A&S ’84)
- Clifford Rowe Jr. (A&S ’72)
The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) is being hosted at Pitt, starting today, January 14, and will continue through to the 17. It will feature the Pitt Stages 2024-2025 production, The Inseparables.
Pitt’s Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Pitt’s Big Idea Center for Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship has several events and courses coming up including the Big Idea Blitz! Students who wish to participate can register for events below.
Today is National Fossil Day and the Dietrich School has some bone-afied fossil history of our own!
Did you know Pitt is home to the Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory? The Collaboratory was started in 2017 by faculty members from the Dietrich School’s Geology and Environmental Science Department. In 2018 they were granted funding by the Heinz Endowment and have been leading research and outreach efforts throughout the region. They are aiming to bridge efforts in water research, government, and taking action with sustainability.
Rachel Bezanson, observational astronomer and associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy was interviewed by KDKA about the moon tree that is coming to Pittsburgh from NASA. The moon tree, which is a sweet gum tree, will be coming to Riverview Park and the Allegheny Observatory on October 6. You can read the full article here.
Pitt and Riverview Park will soon be stewards of a seedling grown from seeds that flew around the moon on NASA’s Artemis I mission in 2022. The agency selected the site, within view of Allegheny Observatory, after careful review of hundreds of applications.