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Combining Art and Engineering Skills, Pitt Alumnus Creates Career as a Muralist
A mural of the late baseball legend Roberto Clemente greets drivers on Interstate 279 thanks to Jeremy M. Raymer, a Pitt engineering alumnus whose studio art courses at the University led to a new
These Pitt researchers will create a vision system mimicking human sight
The project by Ryad Benosman and Feng Xiong earned $500,000 from the National Science Foundation.
Tether Device Aims to Improve Swimmers’ Times, Go Beyond the Pool
A University of Pittsburgh research team has developed a new device for swimmers, called Impulse, which measures force production to aid coaches and athletes in determining better ways to improve
An Idea, Leap of Faith Lead to Brewing Success
Carl Setzer (GSPIA ’07) opened Beijing's first craft brewery with his wife Liu Fang. Now, their business is at the forefront of China's growing craft-brewing scene.
Jason Rosenstock was named interim associate dean for Pitt’s School of Medicine
The associate professor of psychiatry will ensure high-quality teaching in courses and clerkships for each year of medical school.
Sylvia Rhor Samaniego was selected for a Getty Leadership Institute program
The University Art Gallery director was among 35 museum leaders selected for the Executive Education for Museum Professionals cohort this year.
Beyond the Donor Match
When one person becomes part of the other: New lungs and bone marrow help some patients with no other options.
Pitt Researchers Tackle the ‘Baby Penalty’
Working parents in academia face some tough challenges. Health science researchers Jackie Burgette and Kristin Ray are doing their part to remedy a big one: child care at conferences.
William Kramer will lead the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Kramer has held leadership roles at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at NASA Ames Research Center.
A new Hillman Library exhibit chronicles Holocaust-era French Jews
See the exhibit by alumnus David L. Rosenberg on display throughout August.
Pitt innovators have delivered another banner year of impactful discoveries
University inventors matched last year’s record number of licenses and options executed at 162 and set a new record for discoveries disclosed to the Innovation Institute at 367.
Jill Millstone won a career excellence award
The associate professor has been awarded the 2019 Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Chemists Committee Award for Career Excellence in the Chemical Sciences.
Rory Cooper completed the Heidelberg Hand-Bike Marathon
The director of Pitt's Human Engineering Research Laboratories finished with a time of 1 hour, 27 minutes.
LifeX Labs received an Economic Development Administration entrepreneurship grant
The Pitt startup is among 44 organizations nationwide — and the only one in Pennsylvania — to share a total of $23 million awarded under the EDA’s i6 Challenge grant program.
Alumna Finds ‘Something in the Air’
As a scientist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Mining Program, Lauren Chubb (A&S ’10, GSPH ’13, ’16) has developed on-the-spot air analysis software to help keep miners
Peyman Givi will deliver the Elsevier Distinguished Lecture in Mechanics
Givi joins a long line of distinguished lecturers, beginning with the 2008 inaugural lecture by Jan Achenbach.
A Pitt pre-med student hosts a medical humanities podcast
You can hear Emma Wolinsky bring conversations on medicine, anatomy and culture to life in “Remains to be Seen.”
Butterfly Wings Inspire New Glass Structure
With nature as their muse, Swanson School of Engineering researchers have developed a durable, clear, anti-fogging and liquid-resistant glass using machine learning to expedite design testing.
Pitt Cyber has announced its latest accelerator grant recipients
11 Pitt faculty earned initial funding for projects that advance Pitt Cyber’s mission: to bear on the critical questions of networks, data and algorithms, with a focus on the ever-changing gaps among
Researchers Work to Bring Precision Medicine to Patient Prescriptions, Primary Care
With the advent of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, patients are showing up at doctors’ offices with big questions about their genes. Physicians, however, aren’t usually trained to answer them
