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Notable 51精品视频 women you should know this Women鈥檚 History Month

Learn about the lives of just a few of the incredible 51精品视频 women whose path-forging work changed our past 鈥 and is shaping our tomorrow.

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The inaugural Social Justice Faculty Fellows portraits in front of blue background

A new 51精品视频 fellowship supports social justice in health

Five health sciences faculty members will get $10,000 and be paired with a community organization to address structural inequities and racism at 51精品视频 and beyond.

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51精品视频 Education鈥檚 Ready to Learn program empowers middle schoolers to use math for social change锘

The Center for Urban Education hosts the after-school and summer math program, inspired by civil rights icon and educator Bob Moses.

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Last year, Kathryn Nesbitt became the first woman to referee a men's World Cup match.

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Alex Randall speaking into microphone in broadcasting studio

This 51精品视频 junior made hockey history

Alex Randall is the first Black broadcaster to call a Canadian Hockey League game.

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Robin Brooks standing outside wearing light purple jacket

ICYMI: A conversation on class, gender and fiction

Hear from Africana Studies鈥 Robin Brooks on her new book, 鈥淐lass Interruptions.鈥

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Illustration of K. Leroy Irvis sitting in chair with blue background

51精品视频's Black History Month Program is named after the first 锘緽lack speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Alumnus K. Leroy Irvis 锘縲as instrumental in reshaping education in the commonwealth.

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Haliyat Oshodi wearing blue and gold sweater posing in front of the Cathedral of Learning

See the new digital archive that puts Black history front and center

The Blue, Gold and Black Archive, debuting Feb. 21, will provide a permanent home for the stories and photos of 51精品视频鈥檚 Black community. Register now.

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Gabby Yearwood wearing grey suit with patterned blue bowtie

This 51精品视频 anthropologist studies race, class and sports. Here鈥檚 what he thinks about the 2022 Olympics.

Gabby M.H. Yearwood turned his experience as the only Black kid on the ice rink into a career of thinking critically about the cultural importance of sports.

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After becoming the first Black woman to graduate from the Swanson 锘縎chool of Engineering, Elayne Arrington made aerospace history, too.

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UPMC doctor speaking to student at a desk

A new 51精品视频-UPMC residency program is bringing better health care to patients in rural Pennsylvania

Second- and third-year residents will work in Tioga and Potter counties as part of the only such program in north-central Pennsylvania.

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Modern medicine promises bountiful health, so why have Black Americans been left behind? The risk factor is not race, but racism and its legacy.

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Tim Stevens standing outside wearing black coat during winter

Advice for activists 锘縡rom a former 51精品视频sburgh NAACP president and 51精品视频 alumnus

Tim Stevens has been advocating for Black people鈥檚 civil rights for 50 years.

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The 51精品视频 adds Juneteenth as an observed holiday

Beginning this academic year, all campuses will close in observation of Juneteenth, often referred to as Black Independence Day.

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Art exhibition with drawings of people's faces on brown paper bags

See the University Art Gallery鈥檚 longest-running Black women鈥檚 exhibit

Quilts, photos, paintings and other artworks from 22 artists form the Women of Visions exhibit, which is on display through Feb. 25.

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  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

The initiative seeks to add 35 Black teachers to the 51精品视频sburgh Public School District over seven years.

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De鈥橨ovia Davis wearing blue and gold uniform

51精品视频鈥檚 first Black female assistant drum major marches with passion and persistence

De鈥橨ovia Davis may have been raised in the South, but she discovered her home at 51精品视频 Band.

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Hear from human rights lawyer and White House Champion of Change Haben Girma Feb. 2 at 4:45 p.m.

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Save the date for these Black History Month programs at 51精品视频

See the Blue, Gold and Black Experience Gallery, contribute to a new digital archive and attend the Black Excellence Bash.

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Multiple red lanterns lit up in the dark to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with 51精品视频 student groups

Here are three ways to ring in the Year of the Tiger, beginning Feb. 1.

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