美国著名大学介绍(英文版)PPT.pptVIP

First，I will give you a brief introduction of Pitt.Then I should tell you something history about this beautiful campus. At last, my colleague Zou dongyang will guide you around to appreciate the well-furnished infrastructure construction of Pitt. * The city is our campus! This is a powerful slogan which was pasted on Pitt’s official website. The 132-acre Pitt campus comprises multiple historic buildings, outstanding scientists, famous athletes, etc. So, before our trip across Pitt, let’s know something about Pitt’s history first. * There are so many breaking news in Pitt,and I just list few of them to display the process of Pitt’s development. * First,the University of Pittsburgh, originally named the Pittsburgh Academy, begins life in a log cabin on the American frontier. * The University moves into a three-story building on Third Street in downtown Pittsburgh that student (and future banker) Thomas Mellon calls “large and imposing.” Early on, some top-floor rooms are rented to students as living quarters. * Pittsburgh’s Great Fire of 1845 destroys some 900 buildings, including the University’s Third Street home—and with it, all of the University’s records, files, books, and scientific equipment. Some trustees want to cease operations, but a local church offers its basement as temporary classroom space until the University can construct a new building. * The University builds a new home, but in 1849 that building burns down, too, suspending classes and again destroying the institution’s records and equipment. Six years later, the University reopens in yet another new building, also downtown. The building’s cornerstone, laid on September 2, 1854, contains a copy of each of the city’s 11 newspapers and a list of those working on the project. To their names they append the exhortation: “God save the Union and abolish all slavery!” * The polio vaccine developed by Pitt professor Jonas Salk and his research team is declared to be “safe, effective, and potent”