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Brandie Jefferson
Making waves may be key to making memories
A new study, with contributions from G. Bard Ermentrout, shows the shapes and movement of activity correlate to different stages of memorizing and memory retrieval.
NASA recruited Pitt to track the Artemis II mission
Swanson School students merged ham radio and AI to search for the Orion spacecraft.
Paul Ohodnicki will lead a Pitt team supporting a new ARPA-E grant
The University will receive $600,000 in Department of Energy funding to develop transformers for a high-voltage DC power grid.
Pitt has partnered with Google to offer a real-time glimpse of our dynamic cosmos
An alert broker will make data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory freely available online within seconds of receiving them, lowering the barrier of entry to studying the universe.
AI-generated ‘podcasts’ are useful but prone to errors, says this Pitt researcher
Ian Flynn’s findings on Google’s NotebookLM tool was selected as an American Geophysical Union featured story.
A Pitt-Johnstown professor found syntax in the warbling duets of wild parrots
How wild birds use language has long flown under the radar — but now Christine Dahlin’s research is moving scientists closer to understanding.
Physics isn’t immune to the replication crisis. Sergey Frolov sees a way forward.
A critic of what he says are unjustifiably bold claims in his field, the Pitt physicist advocates for more data sharing in a new paper in Science.
Sara Morrison earned a Whitehall Foundation grant
The research assistant professor will study goal-directed vs. habitual behavior over the next three years.
This newly discovered, 11.5-billion-year-old galaxy shares a striking feature with our own
Pitt student Daniel Ivanov discovered what may be the earliest barred spiral galaxy that astronomers have ever found.
New Pitt research explains how massive canyons formed in Peru
A study out of Nadine McQuarrie’s lab found that river capture resulted in these vast geographical structures in the Andean Plateau.