Sophia Choukas-Bradley and Longfei Shangguan were named Rising Stars of Science

The ranking by Research.com highlights exceptional early-career researchers.

Pitt’s AI Cloud Innovation Center is scaling up and branching out

A collaboration with Amazon Web Services, the center hosts students who solve real problems and build skills companies are hungry for.  

4 Pitt researchers received a K-12 AI Infrastructure Program grant

The awardees will create a multimodal writing and feedback dataset that captures the transitional phase between high school and college writing.

Pitt placed No. 24 among the nation’s public universities in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings

The University lept 24 places in undergraduate research and creative projects while maintaining high national rankings for nursing and bioengineering.

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center earned NSF funding to build a new hybrid quantum-classical computer

The $5 million grant will enable the center, along with partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Rigetti Computing, to construct the TangleLab testbed.

A Pitt-led team plans to automate quantum computing research with a Department of Energy grant

Part of the Genesis Mission, a national effort to harness AI for scientific discovery, the project could enable new chemistry and materials science.

Meet Pitt’s 2026-27 Fulbright scholars

Eight faculty members, more than double last year’s class, received awards to conduct research and teach abroad.

How science can escape the nostalgia trap

A new paper by Lingfei Wu in Science shows that older researchers produce less disruptive work — though they offer strengths of their own, too.

3 Pitt people were named Window Keepers by PA Humanities

Ervin Dyer, Jessica Kiefer and Allie O’Shea are among the first 25 Pennsylvanians to earn the honor for their work strengthening community and civic life.

Undergraduate Emily Boyle earned first place at a statewide GIS research conference

The senior in Pitt’s Dietrich School won the humanities poster competition at the 2026 Pennsylvania GIS Conference in State College.