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These windows will outsmart the elements
The Pitt and Oxford researchers' design harnesses the sun’s energy in winter and reflects it in the summer.
How emotions fuel fake news on social media
Angry about that headline? Then you’ll probably share this story, Pitt researchers show.
Why do some people get jet lag and others don’t?
A $6.2 million grant from the WoodNext Fund will help Pitt researchers find out — and potentially unlock other sleep mysteries in the process.
Alumnus Joseph Kannarkat is Pitt’s newest Schwarzman Scholar
He has studied health care systems in the U.K. and Kenya, hoping to bring insights back to the U.S. His next stop, supported by the prestigious scholarship, is China.
Robots might be bad for men, but give women more bargaining power
A new study from Pitt economist Osea Giuntella found that men had lower wages and workforce participation in areas with more industrial robots, among other gendered effects.
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.
A new Pitt pledge encourages health care providers to use opioid alternatives
The School of Dental Medicine was the first in the nation to implement opioid-free pain management for most procedures in its clinics. Now, the practice is spreading.
Pitt Black Faculty Development Initiative receives grant to tackle health disparities
The $250,000 from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will both support Black faculty at Pitt and address Black maternal and infant health in Western Pennsylvania and beyond.
One of Pitt’s oldest startups just got FDA approval for its artificial lung device
ALung was approved for emergency use during the pandemic. It’s now going to help asthma, cystic fibrosis and transplant patients, too.
Does Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill address America’s needs?
A Pitt professor in civil and environmental engineering weighs in.
Pitt to lead the region’s transformation into a life sciences powerhouse
The University of Pittsburgh, with a historic nine-figure grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, looks to bring manufacturing back to the city — and catalyze game-changing economic growth.
Is this pain muscle strain or a minor heart attack?
An interdisciplinary Pitt team is using machine learning to more quickly and accurately identify heart attacks and their arterial origins.
A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff
A nurse anesthetist and Pitt alum watched veterans with PTSD “go to sleep in Pittsburgh but wake up in Iraq.” He knew something had to change.
A Pitt scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears
The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.
Plastic surgery professors step into entrepreneurship
Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.
Pitt's pay-it-forward debt relief and mentorship program will add 150 new students
Since launching in 2019, Panthers Forward has provided $2.25 million in federal loan relief.
Innovation challenge winners tackle health disparities
Projects that address tooth decay in kids, parenting while Black and ventilator-associated pneumonia each took home $115,000 in this year’s Pitt Innovation Challenge.
An app could promote informed and healthy pregnancies
Some at-risk patients didn’t know they had been prescribed aspirin to prevent a dangerous condition in pregnancy, Pitt researchers found. A smartphone app might be the answer.
Placebo-inspired project wins $12 million grant to help Parkinson’s patients
The research, led by Pitt neuroscientist Peter Strick, will examine a brain circuit that could restore motor function to those with the condition.
Pandemic shutdowns had some mental health benefits for teen girls
A new Pitt study shows how girls spent their pandemic free time — and drives home the everyday stress of being a 21st century teen.
