Pitt Green Suite Celebration 2024
On July 10, 2024, the second annual Pitt Green Suite Celebration honored Pitt’s Green Offices, Green Labs, Green Ambassadors, and Sustainability Professional Certificate recipients!
New Recycling Offering Reduces Pitt Labs’ Plastic Waste
The scientific community generates an estimated 12 billion pounds of plastic waste annually. To tackle this issue, former Pitt Med students James O’Brien and Noah Pyles founded Polycarbin in 2019, aiming to create a closed-loop recycling solution specifically for the life sciences and health care ecosystem.
Pitt Green Spotlight: Undergraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences (July 2024)
The Pitt Green Spotlight is a monthly series highlighting Pitt’s Green Offices & Labs!
Pitt Earns First Times Higher Education Impact Ranking
The University of Pittsburgh ranked 24 out of 46 U.S. institutions in the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, which measure global universities’ success in delivering the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Pitt-Johnstown Engineering & Science Building Becomes LEED Certified
The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown’s John P. Murtha Engineering and Science Building achieved a LEED Certified designation following its recent renovation.
Pollinator Month 2024
Join Pitt in a month-long celebration highlighting native pollinator species!
Pitt Green Spotlight: Open Lab (June 2024)
The Pitt Green Spotlight is a monthly series highlighting Pitt’s Green Offices & Labs!
Pipette Tip Box Recycling Pilot
The University of Pittsburgh is excited to announce a Pipette Tip Box Recycling pilot for the Pittsburgh campus!
Pitt’s Consolidated Endowment Fund ESG Report, 2022-23
Highlights from the University’s third report on how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are used in management of the Consolidated Endowment Fund (CEF).
2024-25 MCSI Sustainability Research Grant & Faculty Award Recipients
Congratulations to the research grant recipients of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation’s 2024-25 awards, which each help faculty engage in sustainability research at Pitt.
Pitt Celebrates Arbor Day 2024
In honor of Arbor Day 2024, we’d like to announce that the University of Pittsburgh’s Tree Campus designation has been renewed!
The University’s Pittsburgh campus first achieved its national Tree Campus Higher Education designation in 2021 from the Arbor Day Foundation.
Pitt Makes Health Sciences Sustainability Official
In conjunction with Earth Day 2024, the University of Pittsburgh formalized its decades of University-wide and Health Sciences-inclusive sustainability efforts with a new sustainability office in the Schools of Health Sciences.
EcoArtisan Sustainable Art Expo
About the Event:
This Sustainable Art Exhibition was curated by the EcoArtisans, a group of Environmental Studies/Science students in the GEOL 1333 “Sustainability” class. In this course, students are tasked with implementing a sustainability initiative to Pitt’s campus.
2024 Pitt Sustainability Awardees
In April 2024, the University of Pittsburgh recognized and celebrated the wonderful students, staff, and faculty working to create a more sustainable future at Pitt and beyond. Read more about their inspiring achievements below:
FacultyDr. Kevin Bell
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Green Lab Sample Box Pilot
The University of Pittsburgh is dedicated to establishing practices and educational tools to reduce the quantity and environmental impact of materials entering and exiting the University.