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Oct30

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AI in Action: Building Your AI-Powered Brand-to-Market Engine

7:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Alumni Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way organizations research, analyze information, develop content, and make decisions. But knowing AI exists isn’t the same as knowing how to use it effectively. This immersive Pitt Business workshop moves beyond AI hype to practical application. Through expert instruction, live demonstrations, and collaborative exercises, you will learn how to use AI to solve real business challenges and build reusable workflows that improve productivity and decision-making. Working in a ready-made browser environment with mock business data, you will gain hands-o…

Oct30

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ISP AI Forum: Applying AI and Data Science to Clinical Decision-Making and Health Outcomes

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Sennott Square, Pittsburgh, PA

Please join us for the ISP Forum, taking place from 12:30–1:30 PM in SENSQ 5317! We're excited to welcome Xingyu (Mark) Zhang as our featured speaker — his presentation details are below. Lunch will be served at noon. Abstract The increasing availability of electronic health records (EHRs), clinical narratives, and large-scale healthcare datasets provides new opportunities to understand clinical decision-making and improve patient outcomes. My research applies and integrates biostatistical methods, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), causal inference, and artificial intell…

Nov4

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Engagement & Wellbeing Forum

7:30 AM – 2:00 PM

William Pitt Union, Pittsburgh, PA

Pitt faculty, staff and students are invited to join us colleagues from across the University and members of the Office of Institutional Engagement & Wellbeing for the first-ever Engagement & Wellbeing Forum — a day of learning, dialogue and connection, exploring how belonging, trust and community shape our sense of safety, space and health. Our facilitator will be Ame Lambert, founder and principal of Future Set Thriving. She helps leaders, organizations, and communities create the inner and structural conditions needed to thrive and lead the future amid technological, demographic and cult…

Nov10

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Pitt Business All Access: The Business for Health

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Pittsburgh, PAapproximate location

Pittsburgh is emerging as a national model for where business, healthcare, and technology meet—and Pitt Business is helping lead that work. Through the Business for Health Initiative, Pitt Business and the School of Health Sciences bring their expertise together to advance research and innovation, strengthen the regional economy, prepare the workforce, and build community partnerships. Students interested in this intersection learn across disciplines and build direct ties to industry. Join the faculty leaders behind the initiative to explore Pittsburgh’s evolving healthcare landscape and ho…

Nov13

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Reflections on a Career at the Intersection of AI and Medicine

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Sennott Square, Pittsburgh, PA

Please join us for the ISP Forum on Friday, November 13, 2026, from 12:30–1:30 PM in SENSQ 5317. Lunch will be served beginning at noon. We are pleased to welcome Gregory Cooper as our featured speaker. Additional details are provided below. We look forward to your attendance. Title: Reflections on a Career at the Intersection of AI and Medicine Abstract: In this talk, I will summarize my research at the intersection of AI and medicine/biomedicine, highlighting the motivations, key results, and insights, and suggesting promising directions for future research. I will also reflect on lesso…

Nov19

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CAAPP Presents: Facing The Wilderness w/ MaKshya Tolbert & Kira Tucker

5:00 PM

Frick Fine Arts Building, Pittsburgh, PA

National Poetry Series winners MaKshya Tolbert, author of Shade is a place (Penguin Poets, 2025), and Kira Tucker, author of Wildest (Akashic Books, 2026) will give a reading and join in conversation around lyric eco-poetics, the Black self and Black geographies, and the act of confronting the contemporary moment(s) through their craft. There will be a book signing to follow.

Dec9

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Global Appalachia Faculty Reading Series: Coal, Labor, and the Afterlife of Extraction

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Pittsburgh, PAapproximate location

The Global Appalachia Faculty Reading Series brings Appalachia into conversation with regions around the world that share similar histories and challenges. Through fiction, history, and global scholarship, participants explore themes of extraction, economic transition, migration, environmental justice, Indigenous land rights, cultural identity, and the future of rural communities. The series encourages participants to consider what Appalachia can teach us about global challenges and what the experiences of communities elsewhere can teach us about Appalachia. December 9 — Carbon Democracy by…

Jan19

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Pitt Business All Access: The Ecosystem Advantage

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Pittsburgh, PAapproximate location

Pittsburgh is one of the fastest-growing hubs for technology, robotics, healthcare, life sciences, and energy in the country, and that growth is creating opportunities for business professionals that did not exist before. Pitt Business sits at the center of it. Through deep relationships with regional employers, alumni, and innovators, and with the full breadth of the University of Pittsburgh behind it, Pitt Business is not just watching this ecosystem grow. We are working inside it. Join us for an inside look at how Pitt Business is connecting students to the industries and opportunities s…

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