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Pitt Make a Difference Day
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November 7, 2011 About 2,500 Pitt students gave back to the city of Pittsburgh by volunteering for the Fourth Annual Pitt Make a Difference Day (PMADD) on Oct. 22. Students departed on buses from the William Pitt Union and fanned out across the city to work on various projects.
![MAN-hams-025018_025_DIG_DSC_0265_01 Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg jokes with volunteers who gathered that morning.](/sites/default/files/images/MAN-hams-025018_025_DIG_DSC_0265_01.jpg)
![Frazier-&-Dawson-025018_025_DIG_DSC_0318_01 Volunteers construct a planter bench in the South Oakland community garden known as Frazier Farms.](/sites/default/files/images/Frazier-Dawson-025018_025_DIG_DSC_0318_01.jpg)
![Nature-025018_025_DIG_DSC_0324_01 Students work on paring back shrubbery in South Oakland’s Oakcliffe Overlook Park & Greenway, a protected greenway within the City of Pittsburgh.](/sites/default/files/images/Nature-025018_025_DIG_DSC_0324_01.jpg)
![Crowd-shot-025018_025_DIG_DSC_0238_01 Kathy W. Humphrey (far left), Pitt vice provost and dean of students; Pitt Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Patricia E. Beeson (beside Humphrey); and Chancellor Nordenberg (far right) pose with student volunteers.](/sites/default/files/images/Crowd-shot-025018_025_DIG_DSC_0238_01.jpg)
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On the Freedom Road
Follow a group of Pitt students on the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights bus tour, a nine-day, 2,300-mile journey crisscrossing five states.
Day 1: The Awakening
Day 2: Deep Impressions
Day 3: Music, Montgomery, and More
Day 4: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Day 5: Learning to Remember
Day 6: The Mountaintop
Day 7: Slavery and Beyond
Day 8: Lessons to Bring Home
Day 9: Final Lessons