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This Pitt program is leveling up the gene therapy workforce in Pittsburgh

Leah Byrne’s Pittsburgh Gene Therapy Bootcamp teaches lab skills and connects grad students to biotech companies.

  • Technology & Science
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2 Pitt seniors competed at an ethics in engineering competition

Alison Linares Mendoza and Anvi Viji-Anand are the first to represent the University in the challenge.

  • Technology & Science
  • Undergraduate students
  • Swanson School of Engineering
A diagram highlights three red black holes in a galaxy

Rachel Bezanson was on a team of astronomers that detected a black hole in the early universe

Their findings on the supermassive red mass, which combined James Webb Space Telescope observations with gravitational lensing, were published in Nature.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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To find rare frogs and birds, Pitt researchers are using machine learning algorithms and hundreds of microphones

A new generation of conservation technologies is allowing researchers like Justin Kitzes to search more broadly and efficiently than ever before.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt research on small galaxies was published in Nature

Their findings from James Webb Space Telescope observations show they may be responsible for opening the universe to light.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Space
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Pitt experts predict the changes that will shape their field before the next leap day

Leap ahead with leaders in immunology, neuroscience and public health.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
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Solved at Pitt: What are Saturn’s rings made of?

Pitt researchers have made many leaps in their fields — here's how Professor James Keeler settled the debate about the planet at the University's own Allegheny Observatory.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Allegheny Observatory
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Jonathan Rubin will chair a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics activity group

In the role, the professor in Pitt’s Department of Mathematics will lead forum discussions on dynamical systems.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt researchers discovered a way to prevent hearing loss caused by loud noise

Free-floating zinc molecules in the inner ear may hold the key to why hearing loss occurs, according to a new paper from the School of Medicine.

  • Technology & Science
  • Center for Neuroscience
  • School of Medicine
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A Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center system was selected for the National AI Research Resource Pilot Program

Neocortex is among six elite artificial intelligence computers that will participate in the U.S. program to support AI research and education.

  • Technology & Science
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Lara Putnam was cited in the New Mexico Attorney General’s lawsuit against Meta

The professor of history’s article on online child sexual abuse and exploitation is part of demonstrating “flaws in Facebook’s design.”

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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A Pitt alumnus is developing ‘green steel’ to revolutionize the industry

Boston Metal CEO Tadeu Carneiro says, “We are privileged, all of us, to be living in the decade during which we will save the planet.”

  • Technology & Science
  • Sustainability
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The STEM Coding Lab was awarded a grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation

Pitt students and faculty volunteer with the nonprofit, which strives to provide under-resourced Pittsburgh-area children with essential computer skills.

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Technology & Science
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An R.K. Mellon Foundation award will help Pitt train Pennsylvania workers in responsible data science

The Office of the Provost initiative will use the funding to build online programs to ensure the region’s workers are job-ready.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Provost
An Xray of an impacted wisdom tooth

Why do people have wisdom teeth?

The answer has a lot to do with the distant past — and a bit about the present day, too.

  • Technology & Science
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The Office of the National Cyber Director visited Pitt to discuss workforce development

Government, academic and foundation leaders convened to share ways to grow and diversify the region’s cybersecurity workforce.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
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Pitt is making data science accessible worldwide with a new online master’s degree

The School of Computing and Information is partnering with Coursera to launch the flexible curriculum in May 2024.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • School of Computing and Information
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Kay Brummond published an editorial on Organic Syntheses’ century of service

The Department of Chemistry professor has served on the journal’s board of editors and board of directors.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
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LifeX won a $2 million economic development grant

The life sciences capital growth company will use the funds to accelerate technology entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh and beyond.

  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
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These Pitt students are following the eclipse to Texas

The paths of two upcoming eclipses overlap outside of San Antonio. The Shadow Bandits won’t miss the chance to study them.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering