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New Graduates: You're Invited!
If your graduation date falls within May-December 2023, reserve your space at the December 17 University-wide Winter Commencement Ceremony.
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Ask Pitt Alumni
Current grads who Ask Pitt Alumni a career question by Dec. 8, 2023 will be entered for a chance to win a pair of noise-canceling headphones.
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Medical Hardship Assistance
Learn more about the fund established for graduate students affected by recent student health insurance changes and how to request assistance.
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.

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.

A team of University of Pittsburgh doctoral students in the School of Computing and Information is one of 10 finalists in Amazon’s second Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge.

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.

Recent PhD grad Courtney Colligan earned the Iris Marion Young Awards for Political Engagement graduate student award. In all of her work, Courtney seeks to raise up the voices of those who are overlooked and marginalized within society.

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.

Kory Winning, an MID student with a concentration in Governance and International Public Management, experienced the sweaty and unglamorous but deeply rewarding work of humanitarian aid.

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.