Scott R. Beach has been awarded a five-year $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study will explore risk factors for financial frauds and scams in 700 adults age 60 and older.

The two teams will study how pollen can transmit viruses between plants and wiring for quantum computers.

The senior lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences will collaborate with 10 investigators from five Pitt schools.

The annual awards from Pitt’s discipline-based Science Education Research Center will support projects to improve learning in their classrooms.

She is one of only 75 Americans selected for the 2017-18 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals, which provides one year of academic, cultural and practical work experience.

The professor was one of two team leaders of the U.S. delegation at the July conference.

His nonprofit project in Cambodia, called Eco-Soap Bank, recycles discarded bars of soap from hotels and distributes it to people in need.

Coro Pittsburgh recognized the Social of Social Work faculty member and undergraduate student in a Jan. 28 ceremony.

He was honored for his proposal, "Bridging Quantum Chemistry and Chemical Intuition to Characterize, Understand and Design New Chemical Sensor Materials.”

She plans to further develop a hybrid work of poems, lyrical essays, images and family documents.