Innovation and Research
Pitt researchers receive grant to explore wireless technology for people with disabilities
The team hopes to improve accessibility and promote mainstream wireless inclusion through technology services with a $4.6 million grant.
Three Pitt researchers earned Charles E. Kaufman Foundation grants
The awards support critical research at Pennsylvania universities.
Education's Tom Akiva publishes new book
His book examines how in-school and out-of-school learning systems can be improved to better support young people’s learning and development.
Jennifer E. Woodward joins Society of Research Administrators International board of directors
Woodward is serving as one of six At Large Board members with full voting rights and significant responsibility for the stewardship of the organization.
Why do some people get jet lag and others don’t?
A $6.2 million grant from the WoodNext Fund will help Pitt researchers find out — and potentially unlock other sleep mysteries in the process.
William ‘Buddy’ Clark and Steven R. Little are Pitt’s newest members of the National Academy of Inventors
It’s the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors.
Alumnus Joseph Kannarkat is Pitt’s newest Schwarzman Scholar
He has studied health care systems in the U.K. and Kenya, hoping to bring insights back to the U.S. His next stop, supported by the prestigious scholarship, is China.
Robots might be bad for men, but give women more bargaining power
A new study from Pitt economist Osea Giuntella found that men had lower wages and workforce participation in areas with more industrial robots, among other gendered effects.
A new Pitt pledge encourages health care providers to use opioid alternatives
The School of Dental Medicine was the first in the nation to implement opioid-free pain management for most procedures in its clinics. Now, the practice is spreading.
This Pitt effort is relocating Afghan scholars to the US
Meet Omar Sadr, a political scientist who fled Taliban violence and now leads the Afghanistan Project at Pitt.

