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Anna Li’s million-dollar idea helps patients help themselves

The MD/PhD student has already designed a medical device, earned a patent and launched a company — but it’s what she hasn’t yet accomplished that keeps her going.

Graphic of living room with five points of interest, including a ceiling light with camera inside, security pole for lifting one's self out of a chair, a trip hazard at the edge of a rug, a low seating surface couch and an air quality monitor.

Step inside this innovative Pitt lab that looks a lot like your grandma’s house

The technology tested and developed in Pitt’s Healthy Home Lab is making it safer for older adults to age in place.

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Pitt engineers are leading the charge to improve the US power grid

As the aging network faces pressures it's never encountered before, these Swanson School researchers are carrying on Pitt's legacy as an electricity powerhouse.

‘The Good Mother Myth’ and more summer reading from Pitt alumni authors

Nancy Reddy's first work of narrative nonfiction asks "What makes a good mother?"

How Pitt Magazine’s new editor-in-chief touched down in Western Pennsylvania

'Life is like a book,” Pitt and NFL football great Larry Fitzgerald said in 2022. “I’m simply turning the page to the next chapter in my life.' Pitt Magazine's new editor-in-chief can relate.

5 of the top Yinzer-approved moments from HBO Max hit ‘The Pitt’

Pitt's Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine, served as a consultant for the writers of the show starting Noah Wyle.

If ChatGPT wrote this poem, would you like it more?

A study from Pitt Professor Edouard Machery suggests "AI-generated poems are now 'more human than human.'"

Is it OK to scratch that itch?

New research from the lab of Dan Kaplan, a professor in Pitt’s Department of Dermatology, not only helps to resolve that conundrum but also explains why we itch at all.

Alumni updates, summer 2025

Pitt alumni recently wrote books, opened rural health facilities in Africa, signed contracts to play professional volleyball, earned honors from NASA and the Whiting Foundation, and more.

In memoriam, summer 2025

Remembering lost members of our Pitt community

Cecile Springer, former Pitt Alumni Association president, died at 94

Former PAA leader’s legacy at Pitt continues with the Cecile M. Springer Endowed Scholarship, a need-based scholarship for undergraduate students.

Home field has a deeper meaning for Pitt-Bradford lacrosse

When the newly minted DIII team takes the field in March, they'll be playing for more than just a winning record.

One Pitt-Bradford student is reviving a (nearly) lost indigenous art

Tyrone Bowen-Collateta creates handmade lacrosse sticks from blocks of hickory.

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