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The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is an urban state-related research university located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with four regional campuses throughout Western Pennsylvania. Founded in 1787, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of higher education in the United States.
Pitt is ranked as one of the top public research universities in the nation by the Center for Measuring University Performance (top cluster of 7) and U.S. News & World Report (top 20), has been named as a "best value" by various publications, and has appeared in multiple rankings of the world's top universities. Pitt has also been recognized for its positive campus atmosphere, with The Princeton Review ranking Pitt as having the 8th happiest student body and the 11th best quality of life in the nation in 2010.
Pitt is among the world's most active research institutions with over $700 million in annual research expenditures. Pitt and its medical school are also closely affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), a leading international academic medical center that 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.
Pitt is popularly recognized for its centerpiece building, the Cathedral of Learning at 535 feet (163 m), the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere; for its central role in developing the first polio vaccine; and for fielding nationally competitive NCAA Division I athletic programs.
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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 Pitt Panthers men's basketball team is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate basketball program of the University of Pittsburgh. The Pitt men's basketball team competes in the Big East Conference and plays their home games in the Petersen Events Center. The Panthers have won two Helms Athletic Foundation National Championships, reached one Final Four, received 15 First Team All-American selections, appeared in 22 NCAA and eight NIT tournaments, and through the 2009-10 season have recorded 1,437 victories against 1,041 losses since their inaugural season of 1905-06. The head coach of the Panthers since 2003 is Jamie Dixon.
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Richard Lewis "Dick" Thornburgh (born July 16, 1932) is a lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 41st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987. As Governor, he oversaw the emergency response efforts to the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg in 1979. Thornburgh was then served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991 and was noted for cracking down on drug trafficking and white-collar crime, and overseeing the prosecution against Exxon in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Thornburgh earned his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1957. The University of Pittsburgh houses the Dick Thornburgh Archive Collection and the school's Hillman Library contains the Dick Thornburgh Room which displays a rotating selection of artifacts from the collection.
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