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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.
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.
The Pitt Men’s Study, renewed by NIH, will enter its 4th decade of HIV research
The study will be renewed into 2026 at nearly $4 million per year.
Pitt’s Office of Child Development developed a parenting guide of original research
“You and Your Child” is a series of 49 guides, broken down into categories of behavior, health and nutrition, parenting, development and safety.
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
Pitt alumna Kakenya Ntaiya was recognized as an emerging leader by the Obama Foundation
With her PhD from the School of Education, Ntaiya founded a nonprofit organization that provides education, mentoring and health and leadership training for girls of her native Kenyan community.
Pitt faculty members’ Just Discipline Project shows progress in new report
In just two years, the report shows a 28% decrease in the number of students facing out-of-school suspensions at a Pittsburgh-area school.
Students Bring Heroes and Princesses to Life
Once upon a mid-semester morning, a group of Pitt students set out on a quest to share something special with the Pittsburgh community: the magic of imagination.
Pitt professor helped humanity make ‘one small step,’ keeps space research going
As a postdoctoral researcher, Bruce Hapke helped NASA determine the consistency of the moon’s soil, which helped engineers create the proper boots, rovers and wheeled equipment for the Apollo 11
4 Pitt student-athletes were named to the 2019 All-ACC Outdoor Track and Field Academic Team
Nate Sloan, Nikki Scherer, Nina Crawford and Flora Ahiarakwe all earned the recognition for the first time in their Pitt careers.
Pitt’s Center for Urban Education will host its annual Summer Educator Forum
Scholars, educators and researchers from across the globe will take part in intensive forums to re-imagine policies, practices and politics in education systems July 18-20.
Everette James was named interim dean of the Graduate School of Public Health
Everette James was recently appointed as interim dean of Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH). James is taking the place of Donald S. Burke, who stepped down from his position on July 1. “I
Alumna Bobbi Watt Geer will lead the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania
The GSPIA graduate is the first woman to lead the nonprofit, where she has worked for more than a decade.
Walid Gellad received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
It’s the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers.
Pitt’s new Jazz Studies Director topped recent jazz polls
Downbeat and the Jazz Journalists Association recognized flutist Nicole Mitchell
Dietitian Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Through partnerships with grocery stores and government entities, Judy Dodd, an assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics, has been educating students and consumers on healthier eating habits for
STEM camp sparks Pittsburgh kids’ curiosity
Students from Pittsburgh’s Hill District put their coding skills to the test to recreate the 1978 game Space Invaders, using a computer program provided by Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering and the
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center received NSF funding to build new tech
The supercomputer, Bridges-2, will contain different types of state-of-the-art hardware and larger memory space for solving problems.
