Combating climate change in the healthcare sector is especially important for Melissa Belic, professor in civil and environmental engineering and co-director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.
Pitt's board of trustees will form an ad-hoc committee to study whether the University should divest its $4.3 billion endowment of fossil fuel investments.
As temperatures rise and extreme weather events become increasingly common, we need to anticipate expected changes in climate and modify our plans for public and private infrastructure accordingly.
A group of Pitt alumni and current students took to the Smithfield Street Bridge to drop a banner in protest of the Shell Chemical's proposed ethane cracker plant being built in Beaver County.
