Innovation and Research

David Birnbaum and Kathryn Haines earned funding in digital humanities and American history, respectively.

This term-long leadership development program takes place on selected campuses worldwide, celebrating student leadership that advances the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

The project by Ryad Benosman and Feng Xiong earned $500,000 from the National Science Foundation.

Kramer has held leadership roles at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at NASA Ames Research Center.

The Pitt startup is among 44 organizations nationwide — and the only one in Pennsylvania — to share a total of $23 million awarded under the EDA’s i6 Challenge grant program.

The associate professor has been awarded the 2019 Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Chemists Committee Award for Career Excellence in the Chemical Sciences.

Givi joins a long line of distinguished lecturers, beginning with the 2008 inaugural lecture by Jan Achenbach.

University inventors matched last year’s record number of licenses and options executed at 162 and set a new record for discoveries disclosed to the Innovation Institute at 367.

11 Pitt faculty earned initial funding for projects that advance Pitt Cyber’s mission: to bear on the critical questions of networks, data and algorithms, with a focus on the ever-changing gaps among law, policy and technology.

The study will be renewed into 2026 at nearly $4 million per year.