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Plan for Pitt

2022

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Active accommodations for laboratories

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Building the Foundation of a Diverse Health Care Workforce

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Creating a Culture of Inclusive Excellence to Promote Retention

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Creating a Diverse Cybersecurity Workforce

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Cultivating a Data Science Learning Community

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Early Bridge Program at Pitt-Greensburg

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Fostering Civic and Cultural Competency

Infant Oral Health Education at the Pitt CEC at Homewood

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Luso-Sphere Through the World

Pitt Commons Social Capital & Professional Networking Evaluation

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Pop Rocks Punctuation for Students with Reading Problems

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Promoting PEERs: Creating an inclusive environment through tiered mentoring to promote diverse STEM communities

Screenshot ASIA: Connecting Pittsburgh to 21st Century Film and Media

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Serving Those Who Protect the Public: The Pitt Center for Emergency Responder Wellness

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Social Listening for Institutional Resilience

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The Neighborhood Academy Social Justice Education Initiative

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The Pitt Cyber Range

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Understanding, Building and Achieving Diversity and Inclusion Excellence

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University of Pittsburgh Computational Genomics Training Program

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Wicked Problem Innovation: Community Development in Pittsburgh's Hill District and Hilltop Neighborhoods

2021

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Classroom to Community: Designing and Inventing for Real-World Impact

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Creating Infrastructure and Policies

EvolvingSTEM Afterschool Program at the Homewood Community Engagement Center

Personalized Course Coaching at Scale: Bringing ECoach to Pitt

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School of Medicine Human Rights Clinic

Pitt Shield and text - Wellness Pavilion School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

SHRS Wellness Pavilion at the Homewood CEC

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SPARKS: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion at Pitt-Johnstown

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The NSF GRFP Preparation Program

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Pitt-Advising Certification and Training Program

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Using Administrative Data to Measure Teaching Effectiveness

XProjects Applied Research XPloration

2020

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Art on Campus: Creating a Collection Management Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh

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Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology

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Black Women in Academia: Supporting, Healing, and Empowering (BWA: SHE)

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Creating a Student Outreach Services Program at Bradford Campus

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Creating Connections Through CREATES

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Culturally Sensitive Sexual Misconduct Prevention Programming

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Delivering a Smartphone-Based Intervention for Anxiety in the Community

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Development of the Broadening Equity in STEM Center

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Encouraging Faculty, Staff, and Student Participation

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Food Insecurity, Nutritional Literacy, and Heart Disease

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Graduate Certificate in Regional Intergovernmental Organization Management

CONNECTED participants during training

Inclusive Staff Mentoring in the Dietrich School

Westinghouse Justice Scholars students posing in front of the William Pitt Union after a day of campus-based college prep workshops

Justice Scholars – Pitt Enhanced College Prep Support

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LGBTQIA+ Empowerment Self-Defense

Participants of the LRDC Undergraduate Summer Internship Program

LRDC Undergraduate Summer Internship Program

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MilTeenChat™ App for the Military Community

Three students working on one computer in lab

Mobile Visual Feedback for Gait Training

Pitt Participation in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program

SHRS students and professor talking together at table

Pitt Startup Incubator for Students and Recent Alumni

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Pitt-Greensburg Center for Applied Research (CFAR)

Pitt-Greensburg Military & Veterans Program

Pitt Studios news table

Pittsburgh Public Schools Partnership: Entertainment Technology

Raising GIRL: Gender Inequality Research Lab @ Pitt

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ReligYinz: Mapping Religious Pittsburgh

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School-Based Trauma Intervention to Build Social and Cognitive Resilience

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Surveying Latin American Legislatures

Title IX/Green Dot Initiative

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Translating TGQN Campus Climate Findings into Practice

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Vibrant Media Lab

We Hear You, Let's Talk About It

Women In International Security Seed Project

2019

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A Makerspace on the Move

Students sitting on chairs talking at Pitt-Johnstown

A Place for Pitt–Johnstown in the Cure Violence: Johnstown Campaign

Nursing students in the hospital

Students sitting in classroom

Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latino Studies Initiative

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Building Bridges

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Contemporary Chinese Village Data (CCVD)

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Creation of the International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR)

Design Thinking and the Built Environment

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Developing the Pittsburgh Sarcoma Research Collaborative (PSaRC)

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Development of Functional Balance/Mobility Assessment Tools in Individuals with Central Vision Loss

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Feasibility Study for Two Online Programs

Global Water Concerns: An Experiential Learning Project

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Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts

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Humanities at Work in the Community, Health and Tech Industry

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LMS Platform for Online Continuing Education

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Pitt Prison Education Project (PPEP)

Pitt-Greensburg and Pitt University Libraries Develop Virtual Tours for West Overton Museums

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Serious and Transformational Games for Patient Education and Clinical Interventions

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The Allegheny County Breast Consortium (ACBC)

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The Business of Humanity®

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The Pittsburgh Black Media’s Frank Bolden Urban Multimedia Workshop

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U.S. Law and Legal English Program (LLEP)

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VentriculoAmniotic Shunting for Fetal Aqueductal Stenosis (VASFAS)