A new University of Pittsburgh-led research project aims to automate the scientific process, using a team of AI agents to harness a promising new type of quantum computing that could enable discoveries in chemistry and materials science. Led by School of Computing and Information Professor Youtao Zhang, the project is supported by the U.S.
The University of Pittsburgh moved up to No. 24 among public universities nationally in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 Best Colleges rankings, released Tuesday. Pitt sits at No. 59 among all national universities — a 10-spot jump from last year’s list, making the University the biggest mover among publics in the top 100.
Who doesn’t love a good horror story?
The curious architect stands at the base of the tower, looking up. Tall and magnificent, the structure looms above him, leaving him amazed and captivated.
It is March 2005, his first visit to Pittsburgh. He is here to interview for a faculty post and to check off items on a very specific architectural bucket list.
He’s been downtown, standing before the more-than-a- century-old Allegheny County Courthouse, a masterwork of civic architecture. He’s traveled through Pennsylvania’s woods to Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic home suspended over a rushing stream.
Before reaching Hillman Library’s front doors, passersby can look through the windows and see a phrase in bold blue letters running the length of the grand staircase inside. It reads: “I am made to leave I am made again to return.”
Kornelia Tancheva, director of Pitt’s University Library System (ULS), reads the line through her own experience as an immigrant from Bulgaria.
“Your past is always part of you, and you change all the time, but you don’t forget where you come from,” Tancheva said.
For the first time since 2009, Pitt will offer a journalism program in the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences this fall.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center shortly before 7:30 a.m. Aug. 30. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have spent decades working on Roman (pictured above) along with other recent missions, including the Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.
The moment one gets a job offer, the anxiety and stress that typically carries through the interview process and the waiting period that follow tend to melt away, replaced by a sense of accomplishment and eager anticipation to take on a new professional endeavor.
Before taking on actual job duties at Pitt, however, there’s still hoops to jump through. Employee orientation, or “onboarding,” involves a virtual deluge of institutional and Human Resources-based information of varying degrees of urgency and relevance.
