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Nichole Faina
A Pitt clinician is helping trans people match their voice to their gender
Not sounding like yourself is linked to depression, if not also gender dysphoria, according to Leah Helou, founder of the Transgender Voice and Communication Training Program.
Want to feel less stressed? Take a tour of Pitt’s trees.
Pitt’s tree-planting efforts support more than the environment — there are health benefits, too. Here are five trees on the Pittsburgh campus that are worth a peep as the leaves begin to turn.
Ace finals using these memory tricks
Pitt cognitive neuroscientist Marc Coutanche advises on caffeine intake, sleep and whether music helps you study.
Learn about Ukraine's resilience and its history with Russia through these 4 songs
One way to better understand a country's culture and past is through popular music, says Pitt professor and ethnomusicologist Adriana Helbig.
Advice for activists from a former Pittsburgh NAACP president and Pitt alumnus
Tim Stevens has been advocating for Black people’s civil rights for 50 years.
This Pitt effort is relocating Afghan scholars to the US
Meet Omar Sadr, a political scientist who fled Taliban violence and now leads the Afghanistan Project at Pitt.
Pitt professors team up to increase access to hearing aids
A new FDA proposal could put hearing aids in the domain of pharmacists. Pitt professors want to make sure they’ll be ready.