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Students from the Western Pa. School for Blind Children tend UPMC's sensory garden

Spring gardening goes a little differently at the UPMC Mercy Pavilion, where a sensory garden for vision-impaired people is planted and tended by students from the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children. Read More

UPMC’s Surgery Live! program inspires students to become surgeons

City of Harrisburg partners with UPMC for 'Minutes Matter' initiative, stresses timeliness of life-saving aid

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, UPMC, and the UPMC Pinnacle Foundation are partnering to create the Surgery Live! program. The initiative connects students to UPMC operating rooms through interactive high-definition video conferencing technology.

Volunteers helping local animal shelters with Nourishing Our Communities campaign

The volunteers come from UPMC, including Shenay Jeffrey, who is with the Center for Engagement. It's for their Nourishing Our Communities campaign, which focuses on helping local shelters, human and pet... The campaign is a month-long effort to promote food security. The goal is to ensure everyone, pet, or human, has access to food because no one should go hungry.