Walid Gellad, director of Pitt’s Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing, is using machine-learning algorithms to predict who is at risk of opioid misuse and overdose.

Through a partnership with genetics company 23andMe, Pitt public health and dental medicine researchers studied nearly 65,000 people to discover at least 49 genes underlying earlobe attachment.

Finding a suitable doula can be difficult, said graduate student Alysia Tucker. Her prize-winning idea could make the process easier.

The Pitt leaders are among 52 in the longest-running cohort-based higher education leadership development program in the U.S.