Innovation and Research

Pitt's Center for Research Computing is one of the first places in the country to access Intel's powerful new computing systems, allowing research of larger, more complex problems.

The Tsinghua Scholars Program brings Chinese medical school students to Pitt for two years of rigorous biomedical research training.

The Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing researches systems that can be broken apart and reassembled, like Legos, and also withstand an extraterrestrial environment.

Finding a suitable doula can be difficult, said graduate student Alysia Tucker. Her prize-winning idea could make the process easier.

The doc shows a Pitt-researched device called BrainPort — a set of glasses and a lollipop-like combo that allows people with vision impairments the ability to "see" through touch.

British Empire specialist Holger Hoock takes an unvarnished look at the violent history of the American Revolution — a theme rarely examined in the heroic stories of the War of Independence.

The discovery shows that the immune system can be tweaked in order to find and destroy cancer cells more effectively.

More than 90 patents were issued to the University this fiscal year as Pitt also advanced into the top third of the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents Ranking for 2016.

Among public institutions, Pitt ranked in the top 25 in seven of the nine measures, including research, endowment assets and faculty awards.

The National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer chose Pitt startups Aeronics and uTranslated to attend its University Startups Conference and Demo Day in Washington, D.C.