These Pitt students are following the eclipse to Texas

The paths of two upcoming eclipses overlap outside of San Antonio. The Shadow Bandits won’t miss the chance to study them.

Alexander Deiters won the American Chemical Society Pittsburgh Award

The Pitt professor was recognized for distinguished service to the field of chemistry.

Omid Shekari earned a Sculpture Space residency

The assistant professor is spending October and November at the studio in Utica, New York.

The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute named a new co-director

Benjamin Hunt will join his longtime Pitt collaborator Michael Hatridge to further establish Pittsburgh as a headquarters for quantum computing. 

11 Pitt researchers earned support from the Competitive Medical Research Fund

Grants will help the cohort of junior scientists develop preliminary data, hypotheses and methods for competitive national grant applications.

A team of Pitt researchers earned a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging

The interdisciplinary team from Pitt’s School of Medicine and Department of Biological Sciences will investigate a mitochondrial target for Alzheimer’s disease.

Pitt researchers are key to NASA’s next space telescope

Four Pitt astronomers are helping bring the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to life to uncover the secrets of dark matter — and they’re hoping current theories are wrong.

Pitt’s Dietrich School and College of General Studies honored longtime staff

Dean Adam Leibovich recognized those with 5, 10, 20, 25, 30, 40 and 50 years of service to the University.

The pandemic wasn’t the blanket mental health disaster that some predicted

Some groups took a big mental-health hit from COVID-19 — but others showed surprising resilience, according to recent research led by a Pitt PhD student.

Pitt alumna Aditi Sridhar premiered a short film at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival

The Frederick Honors College graduate directed, co-wrote and produced the romantic drama “Pivot.”