Innovation and Research

Pitt’s Kirk Savage says the Beyond Granite exhibit on the National Mall taps into fresh ideas about public memorials. See it through Sept. 18.

Pitt Research, the Swanson School of Engineering and the David C. Frederick Honors College partnered with the Department of Energy to establish the SHURE-Grid program for undergraduate students.

Ian Flynn argues that plumes of water shooting from below the moon’s surface merit a closer look for organic matter — and NASA agrees.

Associate Professor Caitlin Bruce studies how murals and graffiti vivify public spaces.

The awards are the foundation’s most prestigious honor and will provide more than $3.5 million in research funding to these early-career professors and researchers.

The research, published in Science by a team including Pitt chemists, could open the door to new protein-based therapies.

Three years after the emergence of COVID-19, Pitt scientists are studying the families of viruses that might produce the next one. 

These latest awards, which will fund four faculty projects, follow $750,000 in grants also made by the Richard King Mellon Foundation in fall 2022.

A new study from Pitt Med researchers might explain why some babies develop life-threatening gut diseases and others don’t.

A newly digitized collection of silent film music at Pitt is already getting attention from historians recreating an important era of cinema.