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6 Pitt graduate students won NSF research fellowships
The students will receive an annual stipend and education allowance over three years.
3 Pitt-Greensburg student researchers won awards at a regional biology convention
The University’s TriBeta chapter also received an outstanding recognition.
Pitt researchers received a Foundational Integrity Research award from Meta Platforms
The School of Computing and Information associate professor will study how conspiratorial content spreads.
Salah Al-Zaiti earned a Fulbright Scholar Award
The Pitt Nursing vice chair of research will travel to Jordan to advance his research in cardiovascular disease, biomedical informatics and machine learning.
He’s going to predict your next favorite song
Pitt graduate student Hunter Osterhoudt is mixing his love of music with the power of algorithms as he pursues a master’s in computer science, thanks to Pitt2Pitt.
Pitt’s HexAI lab earned a grant to address challenges in total joint arthroplasty research
The Oracle for Research award will fund a project that uses AI to improve diagnosis and treatment mechanisms.
Lydia Grmai was selected for the NIH MOSAIC program
The award, which aims to enhance diversity in the biomedical research workforce, will fund her career development and research for up to five years.
Register for the Humanities @ Work conference on March 29
The event is a full day of interdisciplinary learning for Pitt people in the health, community and technology industries.
Michael Baker was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
The Pitt undergraduate will pursue his Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Cambridge in England.
David Hickton is a senior advisor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Pitt Cyber founding director will provide his expertise to the think tank’s Strategic Technologies Program.
A Pitt lab shows phage attacks in new light
The development of new imaging methods allowed researchers in Graham Hatfull’s lab to watch, in detail, as killer phages attached to bacteria — and as resistant bacteria fought off an attack.
Alexa, congratulate these Pitt graduate students
A team of doctoral students in the School of Computing and Information is working to make AI more inclusive. Their efforts landed them among 10 finalists in this year’s Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center named a new director
James Barr von Oehsen, who was also named vice chancellor for research computing, will lead the Pitt-Carnegie Mellon venture.
Worried about students using AI chatbots? This professor isn’t.
Ray Jones in Pitt Business is an avid user of ChatGPT — and he’s encouraging his students to try it, too.
See the new Webb telescope image that left a Pitt astronomer ‘starstruck’
Using galaxies like a magnifying glass allowed astronomers, including Rachel Bezanson, to capture never-before-seen details in a patch of sky known as Pandora’s Cluster. Look back in time with her.
Graduate students: Apply for paid Pennsylvania Robotics and Technology Fellowships by March 2
Help regional companies adopt autonomous technology through this Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business collaboration.
Pitt physicists investigate light vortices in a new paper
Led by graduate student Atreyie Ghosh, the publication in ACS Photonics explores ways to structure optical fields as elements understanding of fundamental physics.
The World History Center won a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant
Principal investigator Ruth Mostern will use the $350,000 award to fund an expansion of the World Historical Gazetteer.
4 Pitt faculty members won grants from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation
Andrea Berman, Judith Yanowitz, Alex Jones and Michael Hatridge won support for their innovative, interdisciplinary projects.
Pitt-Greensburg unveiled its new Life Sciences Building
The two-story building, which features seven lab spaces, will allow nursing and sciences programs to grow.
