News

To find more information about sustainability on campus, including the University of Pittsburgh's Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Sustainability Plan, Climate Action Plan, and more, please see Pitt Sustainability's full list of publications.

Celebrating 2023 Pitt Sustainability Superheroes

Honors & Awards, MCSI, Sustainability

Researchers Find that to Achieve Sustainability, Urban Systems Must Tackle Social Justice and Equity

Research, Civil & Environmental, MCSI, Sustainability

A Growing Conversation on Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare

Honors & Awards, Civil & Environmental, MCSI, Banner

Pitt Announces the Pitt Sustainability Challenge

Sustainability, All SSoE News, Banner, Features, MCSI

Students devote summer to sustainability research

Research, Sustainability, MCSI, Student

Relentlessly Paying it Forward

Honors & Awards, Features, Civil & Environmental, MCSI, Banner

How a Knee Replacement Impacts the Planet

Research, Civil & Environmental, Banner, MCSI

Turning Non-Conventional Into Non-Negotiable

Research, Civil & Environmental, MCSI, Banner

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation Announces 2022-23 Grant Awardees

Grants, MCSI, All SSoE News, Banner

Meet the 2022 Pitt Sustainability Award winners

MCSI, Honors & Awards

Taking Inventory of a Sustainable Campus

Student Profiles, Features, MCSI, Sustainability, Civil & Environmental, Banner

Windows that Outsmart the Elements

Electrical & Computer, Research, Banner, MCSI, Spotlight

Jeff Lebsack BSCE '91 appointed director of The Riverline

Alumni, Civil & Environmental, MCSI

Reshaping the Plastic Lifecycle Into a Circle

Research, Civil & Environmental, Sustainability, Banner, MCSI, Spotlight

Covestro LLC and University of Pittsburgh collaborate to establish groundbreaking Circular Economy Program

Features, Chemical & Petroleum, Civil & Environmental, Sustainability, Office of the Dean, Banner, MCSI, Spotlight

Optimus Technologies, co-founded by MEMS alumnus Colin Huwyler, helps DC Water reduce Scope 1 carbon emissions by 90%

Alumni, MEMS, MCSI

MCSI Advancing Student Engagement and Innovation

Features, Civil & Environmental, Sustainability, MCSI, Spotlight

Sustainable Agriculture from the Bottom Up

Grants, Chemical & Petroleum, Civil & Environmental, Banner, MCSI, Spotlight

Future-Proofing Infrastructure, Sustainably

Grants, Civil & Environmental, Sustainability, Banner, MCSI

Shedding Light on the Value of Solar Power

MEMS, Grants, Banner, UPCAM, MCSI, Spotlight

It’s urgent to act on PFAS—but how? New study proposes global roadmap

Civil & Environmental, Features, Banner, MCSI, Spotlight

Pitt’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation names Melissa Bilec as new Co-Director

Features, Civil & Environmental, Sustainability, Banner, Office of Development & Alumni Affairs, MCSI, Spotlight

SSOE Champions for Sustainability

MEMS, Honors & Awards, MCSI

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation Announces 2020 SEED Grant Recipients

All SSoE News, MCSI, PittsLab

Swanson School Industrial Engineering Administrator Liza Allison Honored with MCSI 2020 Sustainability Award

Industrial, UPCAM, MCSI

MCSI Summer Research Symposium Showcases Undergrad Sustainability Research

Civil & Environmental, Student Profiles, MCSI

Four Projects Receive Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation Seed Grants

Chemical & Petroleum, Civil & Environmental, Electrical & Computer, MEMS, MCSI

MCSI Seed Grants Fund New Round of Sustainability Research

Chemical & Petroleum, Civil & Environmental, Industrial, MEMS, MCSI

Pitt’s Mascaro Center Announces 2017 Faculty Fellows in Sustainability

Civil & Environmental, Electrical & Computer, MCSI

New MCSI Seed Grant Encourages Students to Get Their Hands Dirty for Sustainability

MCSI awards more than $190,000 in research seed grants to four Pitt faculty

Chemical & Petroleum, Electrical & Computer, MCSI

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation to host Heinz Dist. Lecture on Sustainable Design

Chemical & Petroleum, Civil & Environmental, MCSI

Lighten up: How the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation impacted Pittsburgh's new LED lighting program