This year’s theme was addressing hunger with bits and bytes.

The provost’s office will begin the search for a permanent dean with an open forum via Zoom on Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m.

A new $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund researchers from 29 organizations developing new approaches and techniques for divvying up the valuable and highly contested real estate of radio waves that connect many of our devices.

“So much of our lives are lived through our phone,” said Pitt School of Computing and Information Professor Martin Weiss. “The spectrum is a key part of making that work well.”

Multidisciplinary computer science options, a variety of Dietrich School certificates and accelerated graduate degree programs usher in the 2021-22 school year.

What was it like to choose Pitt sight unseen? To live on campus? Teach a class? Three Pitt people reflect on their first year at the University.

Meet Eleanor “Nora” Mattern, chair of the upcoming Year of Data and Society initiative.

For senior Julia Foust, computer science + bioengineering = a better life for patients.

After attending Pitt, Shawndya Simpson (SCI ’87, LAW ’90) made her way from assistant New York attorney general to bureau chief to civil court judge — then all the way to the Supreme Court of New York State.

Pitt scientists are investigating the causes and progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. — through the development of novel computational tools.