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The Cathedral of Learning, a Pittsburgh landmark listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Standing at 535 feet (>163 m), the 42-story Late Gothic Revival Cathedral is the tallest educational building in the Western hemisphere and the second tallest university building (fourth tallest educationally-purposed building) in the world. The Cathedral of Learning was commissioned in 1921 and ground was broken in 1926. The first class was held in the building in 1931 and its exterior finished in October 1934, prior to its formal dedication in 1937. Designed by Charles Klauder, the Cathedral is a steel frame structure overlaid with Indiana limestone and contains more than 2,000 rooms and windows. Open to tour for the public, it contains and Gothic-style hall that covers half an acre (2,000 m²) and extends upwards four stories, reaching 52 ft (16 m) in height. It also is the home to a collection of 27 Nationality Rooms which are museum-quality functional classrooms each designed to celebrate a different culture that had an influence on Pittsburgh's growth. Containing significant works by stained glass artist Charles Connick and ironworker Samuel Yellin, it is an impressive scenic building that has been described as the figurative and literal culmination of Late Gothic Revival architecture.
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The Nationality Rooms are a collection of 30 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning depicting and donated by the ethnic groups that helped build the city of Pittsburgh. The rooms are designated as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation historical landmark and are located on the 1st and 3rd floors of the Cathedral of Learning, itself a national historic landmark, on the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Although of museum caliber, twenty-eight of the 30 rooms are in almost constant use as functional classrooms and utilized daily by University of Pittsburgh faculty and students, while the other two are display rooms which can be explored only via guided tour. The Nationality Rooms also serve in a vigorous program of intercultural involvement and exchange in which the original organizing committees for the individual rooms remain as participants and includes a program of annual student scholarship to facilitate study abroad. In addition, the Nationality Rooms inspire lectures, seminars, concerts exhibitions and social events which focus on the various heritages and traditions of the nations represented. The various national, traditional and religious holidays of the nations represented are celebrated on campus and the rooms are appropriately decorated to reflect these occasions.
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The University of Pittsburgh Stages, previously known as the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre or Pitt Rep, is the flagship theatre company for the University of Pittsburgh Department of Theatre Arts. Pitt Stages features students on stage with professional actors and teaching artists staging public performances of classic masterpieces, contemporary productions, and student-directed labs. The company's primary performance spaces include the University's Stephen Foster Memorial and Cathedral of Learning. Pitt Stages also runs the Shakespeare-in-the-Schools program which tours classic theater for K-12 students throughout the Pittsburgh area.
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"Hail to Pitt" is the most traditional fight song of the University of Pittsburgh, which is commonly referred to as Pitt. The saying Hail to Pitt! is also the most traditional and commonly used slogan of the University of Pittsburgh and its athletics teams. The slogan is frequently used in promotional material, printed on merchandise and souvenirs. It was also the title of a 1982 history of Pitt athletics by author Jim O'Brien. The slogan is often used among alumni as a statement of affiliation, including as a closing signature in conversation or correspondence between alumni, and is sometime abbreviated as HTP or H2P.
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The Oakland Zoo is the student cheering section for the University of Pittsburgh men's and women's basketball teams. The Zoo cheers on the Panthers from the bottom tier of the stands at the Petersen Events Center, primarily across from the teams' benches and on the baselines under the baskets. The "Pete" holds a rowdy crowd of 1,500 students and is consistently sold out for Panthers home game. The Oakland Zoo is named after Oakland, the neighborhood in which the university is located. The name "Oakland Zoo" is used for the basketball cheering sections only; the football cheering section is known as "The Panther Pitt".
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is an $8 billion integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 50,000 employees, 20 hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, a 1.3 million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and international ventures. UPMC is closely affiliated with its academic partner, the University of Pittsburgh, and is considered to be a leading American health care provider as it has been consistently ranked in U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" of the approximately 15 to 20 best hospitals in America over the last decade. As of 2010, UPMC ranked 13th among the best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and was ranked in 15 of 16 specialty areas, including seven specialties for which UPMC is in the top 10, not including Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC which was ranked among the top eight pediatric centers in a separate U.S. News ranking.
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The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, also known as Pitt-Bradford or UPB, is a comprehensive undergraduate college of the University of Pittsburgh that exists as a regional campus located in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Pitt-Bradford was listed among the Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the North by U.S. News & World Report in its "America's Best Colleges 2010" annual college guide and was named to the list of "Best Colleges in the Northeastern Region" by The Princeton Review.
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The University of Pittsburgh Honors College (termed the "Honors College" by students and often abbreviated UHC) is an undergraduate program of advanced study at the Oakland campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Arising out of the University Honors Program founded in 1978, it transitioned into a college formally dedicated in 1987. The Honors College awards a special Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.) degree to graduates and has successfully helped to culture its students to a school record number of national and international awards including six Rhodes Scholarships, nine Marshall Scholarships, 42 Goldwater Scholarships, 11 Truman Scholarships, and five Udall Scholarships, as well as Churchill and Gates Cambridge scholarships. The Honors College provides undergraduate classes that are more challenging and exhaustive than their non-honors counterparts in a wide variety of academic disciplines via collaboration with the other schools of the university. Rather than applying for admission to the UHC and then taking classes solely within it, students apply for permission to take certain UHC classes one at a time, although there are academic eligibility requirements.
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The Allegheny Observatory is an American astronomical research institution of the University of Pittsburgh. The facility is located in Riverview Park in the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. Founded on February 15, 1859, the current Classic Revival facility was begun in 1900 and completed in 1912. Noted aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley served as the observatory's director, as well as prominent astronomers James Edward Keeler and John Brashear. The observatory continues to serve as an important and active academic research facility of the university's Department of Physics and Astronomy which, among other projects, uses the facility in the search for extrasolar planets.
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Heinz Memorial Chapel is a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark and a contributing property to the Schenley Farms Historic District on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Complete in 1938, the chapel was a gift to the university from Henry John Heinz, founder of the H.J. Heinz Company, in honor of his mother, as well as his three surviving children, in honor of their father. Designed by Charles Klauder, the chapel also features 23 stained glass windows, among the tallest stained glass windows in the world, designed by noted artist Charles Connick, as well as iron work by Samuel Yellin. The non-denomination chapel is used for various religious services, concerts, weddings for university affiliates, and other special university events. It is also home to the university's Heinz Chapel Choir.
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The Panther (Puma concolor) is the animal that serves as the official mascot of the University of Pittsburgh and used as a nickname for both athletic teams as well as other organizations and affiliates of the university. The school adopted the Panther as its official animal and mascot on November 16, 1909 at a meeting of students and alumni. This adoption occurred shortly after the university, previously known as the Western University of Pennsylvania, obtained an alteration to its charter in the summer of 1908 in order to change its name to the University of Pittsburgh. It is the first known use of a Panther as mascot by any college or university. The mascot is generally referred to as the Pittsburgh Panther or Pitt Panther, while the costumed panther mascot is also named "Roc". Up to 20 physical representations of panthers can be found in and around the university's campus and athletic facilities.
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The Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building is a landmark Renaissance villa and a contributing property to the Schenley Farms-Oakland Civic Historic District on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. It consists of classrooms, a library, and art galleries around an open cloister and contains a 45 feet (14 m) high octagon capped by a pyramidal roof. It sits on the southern edge of Schenley Plaza, opposite The Carnegie Institute, and is the home of Pitt’s History of Art and Architecture Department, Studio Arts Department, and the Frick Fine Arts Library. Before its front steps is Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain. A noted 1965 low relief portrait of Henry Clay Frick by Malvina Hoffman in limestone sits above the entrance to the building.
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The Stephen Foster Memorial is an academic facility of the University of Pittsburgh, often referred to as Pitt, that is a contributing property to the Schenley Farms Historic District, is designated as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historical Landmark, and is a landmark whose significance is designated by a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Historical Marker.
The main structure houses the two theaters that server as performance spaces for the university's Department of Theatre Arts: the 478-seat Charity Randall Theatre and 151-seat Henry Heymann Theatre. The left wing of the building houses the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum and the Center for American Music which contains the University of Pittsburgh's Foster Hall Collection that includes manuscripts, copies of over 200 of his musical compositions, examples of recordings, songsters, broadside, programs, books, various memorabilia, and several musical instruments, including one of Foster's pianos. The memorial is also home to the university's Ethelbert Nevin Collection and the Society for American Music.
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The William Pitt Union is the student union building of the University of Pittsburgh main campus and is a Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. Constructed in 1898 in the Beaux-Arts style and rich with marble, chandeliers and Louis XV architecture, the former Schenley Hotel catered to local and visiting well-to-do that included Hollywood stars such as Lillian Russell, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy, as well as U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Schenley was acquired by the University of Pittsburgh in 1956 to serve as a student activities center, and in 1980, underwent an 18-month renovation that restored the hotel's original character, including its ballrooms and lobby. Containing a variety of lounges, ballrooms, a recreation room, and a food court in its lower levels, it houses the majority of student services and organizations in its upper floors, and also serves as the home to the International Academy of Jazz Hall of Fame.
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Litchfield Towers, commonly referred to on campus as the "Towers," is a complex of dormitories at the University of Pittsburgh. They are both the largest and tallest dormitories at the main campus, housing approximately 1,850 students. Designed by the architectural firm of Deeter & Ritchey, the complex was completed in 1963 and was named for former chancellor Edward Litchfield following his death in an airplane crash in 1968. The complex consists of a three story base that includes a dining complex, as well as the three towers, which were designated A, B, and C in the architectural plans. The names stuck after the towers were completed, and each individual tower are still designated by the same letter today.
Towers A and B house freshmen exclusively, but Tower C is open to students of all years. The towers are all of different heights, and differ slightly in their living accommodations. Tower B is the tallest of the three, at 22 stories. Tower A is 19 stories tall, and Tower C is 16 stories in height. Rooms in Towers A and B are the same size, roughly 17 ft (5.2 m) by 11 ft (3.4 m). These measurements are not exact, however, because the three towers are cylindrical in shape (although actually twenty-sided) and the rooms themselves are therefore somewhat trapezoidal.
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Petersen Events Center, commonly referred to as "The Pete", is a 12,508-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The Petersen Events Center opened in 2002 on part of the former site of Pitt Stadium, which housed the university's football team from 1925–1999. In addition to serving as home to the men's and women's Panthers basketball teams, is also contains the McCarl Panthers Hall of Champions, the 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) Baierl Student Recreation Center, and a food court. Also serving as a concert venue, the facility is open daily for student usage of its amenities. The arena is named for philanthropists John Petersen and his wife Gertrude, who donated $10 million for its construction.
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University Center for International Studies (UCIS), the first center of its kind when created in 1968, provides a university-wide integration of international scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh. Coordinating international education curricula and providing support services such as the Study Abroad Program, UCIS provides a university-wide framework for students, faculty, other scholars who have an interest in international studies. UCIS also oversees the university's centers on topical specializations in international studies. Included among these specializations are five component studies centers have been competitively designated National Resource Centers by the United States Department of Education: the East Asian component of the Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian and East European Studies, European Studies Center, and the International Business Center. These designations make the university one of only 17 to claim four or more study programs designated as such. In addition, Pitt's Asian Studies Center has been awarded status as a Confucius Institute by the Chinese Ministry of Education and Pitt has one of just ten European Union Centers of Excellence in the U.S. funded by the European Commission.
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The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, also known as UPJ or Pitt Johnstown, is a four-year, degree-granting regional campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The university's wooded, 650-acre (2.6 km2) campus is located just outside Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1927, UPJ was one of first the regional campuses of a major university in the United States. Offers a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degrees in more than 40 areas, UPJ is ranked as the 28th best baccalaureate college in the North and the eighth best public baccalaureate college in the North by U.S. News & World Report in its "America's Best Colleges 2010" annual college guide. UPJ is also listed among the "Best Colleges in the Northeastern Region" by The Princeton Review. Athletic teams at Pitt Johnstown compete in NCAA Division II.
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The UPMC Sports Performance Complex is a multipurpose, multisport training, sports science, and sports medical complex of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The complex is located along the shore of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is unique in that it is the only facility in the United States housing the practice and training facilities for both a collegiate NCAA football team and a professional National Football League team, the University of Pittsburgh Panthers and Pittsburgh Steelers respectively. It is also unique in that it combines these training facilities in one location with the University of Pittsburgh's academically based sports science and medicine program. The complex consists of four centers which include the Center for Sports Medicine, Sports Training Center, Indoor Training Center, and the Fitness and Conditioning Center located in three buildings along with four outdoor practice fields all situated on 40 acres (16 ha) of land. The UPMC Center for Sports Medicine located in the complex is an international destination for amateur and professional athletes alike for its training, medical, and rehabilitation studies and services.
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The Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology (PLE) is a year-round ecology field station of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences located in Linesville and South Shenango Township on the shores Pymatuning Lake in Pennsylvania. The station contains research facilities and equipment, conducts undergraduate education and courses, and serves as center for conferences, symposiums, and retreats. The Pyatuning Laboratory hosts researchers from the University of Pittsburgh as well as those from other universities which have included, among others, Duke University, the University of Virginia, the University of Georgia, and the University of Miami. Likewise, course instructors at the lab come from the University of Pittsburgh, but also have included instructors from other institutions including Georgia Tech, the University of Connecticut, and the National Aviary. In addition, the University of Pittsburgh has instituted a collaborative program for study at the Pymatuning Lab with other area universities in which students that are enrolled through any of these institutions register, pay tuition, and receive credit at their home institutions. Schools participating in the collaborative program include Clarion University, Edinboro University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Slippery Rock University.
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Friday Nite Improvs, or Friday Night Improvs (FNI), is a long-running weekly improvisational comedy show staged in the Cathedral of Learning's Studio Theatre on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The show functions as an improv jam, performed by improv actors who don't normally work together. FNI is unique in that, in addition to the audience's providing improv suggestions, the performers are all pulled from volunteers in the audience. Friday Nite Improvs is the longest-running theatrical/comedic production in the city of Pittsburgh. The show regularly features actors from every improv group in Pittsburgh, and alumni have gone on to act, write, and produce for television and film.
Readers of the Pittsburgh City Paper ranked Friday Nite Improvs as the 3rd best place to see comedy in Pittsburgh in the 2004 "Best of Pittsburgh" survey behind the professional stand-up clubs The Improv and The Funnybone. College Prowler ranked Friday Nite Improvs as the ninth best thing about Pitt.
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The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSOM) is one of sixteen schools that comprise the University of Pittsburgh and is located at the university's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of the city of Pittsburgh. The School of Medicine is also known as Pitt Med. Chartered in 1886 as the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, the school became affiliated with the university in 1892 and completely integrated into the university in 1908.
The school encompasses both a medical program offering the Doctor of Medicine and graduate programs including Doctor of Philosophy and Master's degrees in several areas of biomedical science, clinical research, medical education, and medical informatics. It is ranked as a “top medical school” by U.S. News & World Report in both the publication's research (14th) and primary care (12th) categories. In fiscal year 2008, Pitt and its affiliates ranked fifth among all institutions in the amount of NIH funding, making the School of Medicine one of the world's largest centers for medical and bioscience research. The School of Medicine is closely affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), an international health care provider which has been consistently ranked in U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" of the approximately 15 to 20 best hospitals in America over the last decade.
