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Meet the Pitt sophomore who won WYEP's 2021 Singer-Songwriter Competition
Listen to two of Yunge Xiao's original songs.
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.
The Heinz Endowments gives $800,000 to Pitt’s Center for Sustainable Business
The two-year grant will be used to help companies large and small to improve overall business practices, environmental quality and economic equality.
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.
A new Pitt-Titusville center is expanding manufacturing training in Northwestern Pennsylvania
Companies in the region are hungry for skilled machinists. Pitt’s Manufacturing Assistance Center is now providing them.
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.
This Pitt-Johnstown engineer wants to keep seniors standing tall
Eunice Yang will soon begin beta testing for OK2StandUP, a Fitbit-like monitor of the autonomic nervous system that predicts and prevents falls.
A pro bono past in Pittsburgh’s Orphans’ Court inspired an alum’s new book
With “The Heiress of Pittsburgh,” Duquesne University President Ken Gormley (A&S ’77) has earned himself a new job title: novelist.
In terms of carbon footprint, not all oil is created equal
To predict the climate impact of oil as demand shifts, we need to take into account the many ways it's extracted, according to a new study in Nature by Pitt’s Mohammad Masnadi.
You can rent a phone charger at 32 local businesses thanks to Pitt alumni
The portable charger will juice up your phone in just 30 minutes.
New University budget model approved
The new model provides Responsibility Centers with greater authority, enabling them to better work toward Pitt’s strategic goals.
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.
Pitt mourns the loss of Board of Trustees chair Thomas E. Richards
Richards (A&S ’76) is remembered for his humility, leadership and service.
What you need to know about COVID-19 boosters
Pitt’s COVID-19 Medical Response Office answers your most frequently asked questions.
Places to study besides the library
If your usual study spot in Hillman is closed, we’ve got a few ideas for where else to go.
We rate Pitt therapy dog Halloween costumes
See what pups were wearing in the Cathedral’s most fur-raising night of the year. Plus, hear from students organizing to spread the puppy love.
Procrastinators, this Pitt costume designer will save your Halloween
Ricky Lyle Campbell explains how to put together a last-minute look on a budget.
