A rare stellar explosion will soon reveal a ‘new’ star. Here’s how to see it.
Visible with the naked eye, the nova will be the brightest one most people ever see, says Pitt astronomer Carlos Badenes.
A unique Pitt major was highlighted by the National Humanities Alliance
The Digital Narrative and Interactive Design program is a collaboration between the Department of English and School of Computing and Information.
Cap off Pride Month with these book and film recommendations
Doctoral student and otaku scholar Alexandra Arana studies gender and sexual fluidity in anime and manga. Here are her top 5 picks.
Cho-yun Hsu is a 2024 laureate of the prestigious Tang Prize
The award, which confers a $1.7 million cash prize, recognizes the Pitt professor emeritus’ era-spanning scholarship on the history of China.
Pitt’s Department of Mathematics earned a grant to launch a public lecture series
Armin Schikorra, Carl Wang-Erickson and Ivan Yotov received funding from Pittsburgh’s Benter Foundation.
David H. Waldeck was awarded 2024 Edward W. Morley Medal
The director of the Petersen Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering has been in Pitt’s Department of Chemistry since 1985.
She was studying social media’s effects before TikTok even existed
A National Science Foundation CAREER Award will help Sophia Choukas-Bradley develop new ways to approach her research.
Pitt biologists are part of a $12.5M NSF grant to study a widespread genetic phenomenon
Tia-Lynn Ashman and Martin Turcotte will use the pond plant duckweed to learn about organisms with more than two copies of their chromosomes.
Tera Levin will study pathogenesis through a Burroughs Wellcome Fund program
The PATH program funds assistant professors studying points where human and infectious agent systems connect.
Pittsburgh high schoolers spend a summer engaged in STEM through this Pitt program
Students learn more than just lab work through Pitt Bio Outreach, which also provides mentoring as they prepare for college and fosters community connections.