Community News
Sign up for the 2025 Day of Caring!
Sign up today to participate in the 2025 Day of Caring on Friday, Oct. 17!
Volunteer for the 2025 Pittsburgh Garbage Olympics!
On Saturday, Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., volunteers will be competing in the Garbage Olympics to clean up trash across the City of Pittsburgh. Register to compete today!
Dr. Jamilah Ducar to lead Office of Engagement and Community Affairs
Dr. Jamilah Ducar will serve as the new Associate Vice Chancellor for Engagement and Community Affairs within the Office of Engagement and Community Affairs effective Aug. 25, 2025.
2025 Be A Good Neighbor Block Parties
This September, join the Office of Engagement and Community Affairs throughout Oakland for fun, food, prizes, meeting your neighbors, and making connections!
How Pitt is developing — and hiring — workers close to home
As a workforce development career counselor in Pitt’s Office of Human Resources, Celiwe Jones is helping Pittsburgh residents navigate the hiring process and find meaningful careers at the University.
How Heidi Ward is helping write the next chapter of Greater Hazelwood
For Heidi Ward, home is where the heart is — and where her advocacy is rooted. She’s not only the director of Pitt's Neighborhood Commitment in Greater Hazelwood, she lives there, too.
OLLI marked 20 years of promoting lifelong learning, thanks to instructors like Tom Allen
For the last 20 years, OLLI at Pitt has engaged thousands of learners, all aged 50 and older. Current membership is almost 1,400 individuals from 21 different states. The program offers in-person and online courses that range from yoga to in-depth studies of literature classics to technology tutorials.
2 grants will advance Pitt life sciences and cyber training opportunities
The Richard King Mellon Foundation has awarded two grants to the University of Pittsburgh that will help fund new job training programs in Pittsburgh’s emerging cybersecurity, biomanufacturing and life sciences industries, among others.
How Pitt is preparing local small businesses for large institutional partnerships
On May 16, IEE will host the ninth annual Doing Business with Pitt, a half-day gathering designed to prepare local small businesses to partner and contract with large institutions like the University so their companies can grow and scale up.
Pitt honored 6 outstanding community champions and partnerships at a March forum
Join us in celebrating and learning more about the 2025 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum honorees.
Pathways to Pitt Employment: Career Counseling at Pitt's CECs
Navigating employment opportunities at a large institution like the University of Pittsburgh can be overwhelming, but Celiwe Jones is here to help.
Register for the 2025 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum
The 2025 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum takes place March 4, 2025.
Pitt and the Smithsonian have teamed up to teach life sciences skills to local middle schoolers
Middle school students in Pittsburgh’s Greater Hazelwood neighborhood are getting hands-on with biotechnology thanks to a partnership between Pitt’s Office of Engagement and Community Affairs and the Smithsonian Science Education Center.
Provost sees expanded role for UCSUR in community-engaged research, scholarship
As UCSUR engages in a search for a new director, Provost Joe McCarthy said he envisions community-engaged research as a natural outgrowth of the center’s work and key to broadening its scope.
Save the Date: 2025 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum
The 2025 Community Engaged Scholarship Forums takes place March 4, 2025.