Technology & Science

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.”

Pitt engineers aim to break down social media echo chambers using the very technology that built them.

RIBBiTR, a new Pitt-hosted institute funded by a $12.5 million National Science Foundation grant, will research frogs and toads bouncing back after a catastrophic brush with disease.

A program between Pitt and Every1online that’s bringing Wi-Fi to local families in need is expanding. Residents of New Kensington and Homewood are encouraged to apply.

Lasers, fiendishly complex calculations and some of the coldest temperatures on Earth led to physicist Vincent Liu’s recent superfluid discovery.

Pitt physicist Jeremy Levy and a multidisciplinary team want to develop a new approach to building quantum computer memory.

Kim Wong and Adam Hobaugh, co-directors at Pitt’s Center for Research Computing, are on a mission to make advanced computing and data services accessible to all researchers.

From guitar picks to cup holders, assistant professor Anand Mhatre’s community-based class is helping people build their own assistive and fun technologies.

A YouTube channel run by Pitt students, bioZone, has expanded, adding new members and content to the educational effort.

Joining the crew are PhD students Marissa Di, Dante Poe, Roshni Bhatt and Mark Ebeid. Each of these new members are enrolled in the Computational and Systems Biology program in the School of Medicine .