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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.

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.'"

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.

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.

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

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

In memoriam, winter 2025

Remembering lost members of our Pitt community

Alumni updates, winter 2025

This winter, Pitt alumni wrote novels, directed plays, gave TEDx talks, won Emmys and made Pennsylvania history. Read about these accomplishments and many more.

Chas Bonasorte, Pitt football’s ‘Kamikaze Kid’ and owner of famed Pitt apparel kiosk, died at 70

After his career on the field, Bonasorte became a fixture on the Pittsburgh campus with his clothing kiosk at Forbes and Bigelow.

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