Innovation & Research
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
A Pitt team found that the desire to protect others was the primary motivating factor for teens complying with social distancing requirements. They also learned what didn’t work.
Monday, May 17, 2021
Pitt holds a special place in the history of emergency medical services. During National EMS Week, learn how Pitt people paved the way for modern prehospital care.
Friday, May 14, 2021
The Department of Defense Office of Naval Research is funding Pitt research into refining the seawater-to-fuel process, with a goal to make it more energy efficient, safer and scalable.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
A trial led by Alejandro Hoberman and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found no long-term benefit for tubes over antibiotics for childhood ear infections.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Pitt engineers show how a simple AA battery can prevent workplace slips and falls.
Monday, May 10, 2021
Underneath Meghan Hodgson’s multiple face masks and face shield, tears threatened to overtake her. It was March 2020, and the registered nurse was working a regular night shift in the emergency room at her suburban New Jersey community hospital. But for Hodgson (NURS ’03), nothing about this night was normal.
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Researchers from Pitt were part of a multisite study that analyzed real-world nationwide CDC data to confirm the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Monday, May 3, 2021
The computers and sensors, specially designed for space, will be used to get a better view of Earth and its surroundings. The system will launch to the International Space Station on SpaceX-24 this fall.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Logan Rice will conduct experiments in high-energy physics through a U.S. Department of Energy program.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Pitt neuroscientists found that fruit flies, rodents and humans all have a protein called VGLUT that regulates sex differences in age-related neuron loss. It is not every day that scientists discover a phenomenon so fundamental across species.