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University of Pittsburgh

Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Nickname
Panthers
Established
28 February, 1787
University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related public research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the university's central administration and 28,391 undergraduate and graduate students. The 132-acre Pittsburgh campus includes various historic buildings that are part of the Schenley Farms Historic District, most notably its 42-story Gothic revival centerpiece, the Cathedral of Learning. Pitt is a member of the Association of American Universities, a selective group of major research universities in North America, and is classified as an R1 University, meaning that it engages in a very high level of research activity. Pitt was the third-largest recipient of federally sponsored health research funding among U.S. universities in 2018 and it is a major recipient of research funding from the National Institutes of Health.

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Originally founded as Pittsburgh Academy, the school was named Western University of Pennsylvania for nearly 100 years before becoming the University of Pittsburgh in 1908.

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The first polio vaccine was developed by Dr. Jonas Salk at the university's research labs in the 1950s. 

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