Innovation and Research

Konstantinos Pelechrinis in the School of Computing and Information examined whether players can continue a streak of making many consecutive shots, also known as having “hot hands.”

The book focuses on pedagogical practices that advance equity and encourage collaborations among stakeholders who are working to provide quality education within schools across the country.

Hoberman is the first person ever to receive this award from the Clinical Research Forum on two separate occasions.

Open educational resources are high-quality curricular materials such as textbooks, lab notebooks and videos. The submission deadline is April 1.

This year’s Award in Pain Scholars will receive grants of $50,000 annually for up to three years to conduct innovative research on critical topics on the biological mechanisms of pain.

The awards support both individual faculty members and large groups that are scaling up world-changing scholarly projects.

Burke’s studies have included testing various diet approaches to weight loss and learning how people self-monitor their dietary intake.

Pitt researchers received $14.5 million from the Department of Defense to fight viruses that cause brain infections and could be used in biowarfare.

Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson represented the University in Austin.

Yuri Nikiforov and Marina Nikiforova saw the effects of thyroid cancer on children in Belarus. Now, their test for the disease has eliminated thousands of unneeded surgeries.