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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.
A $5M gift from the Mario Lemieux Foundation will support microbiome research at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
The new center will help researchers better understand how microorganisms that naturally live in and on the human body can influence cancer development.
Robin Brooks was awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship
The associate professor in the Dietrich School will spend the duration of her fellowship writing her book-in-progress, “Death Proximity: Grief and Emotional Wellness Stories in Black Communities.”
A project co-led by Rachel Bezanson ‘expanded our view of the early universe’
The American Astronomical Society is honoring the James Webb Space Telescope UNCOVER team for changing researchers’ understanding of cosmic evolution.
A new Pittsburgh life sciences startup incubator will grow early stage companies
The Pitt incubator, located in Oakland, will provide a much-needed link in the regional life sciences ecosystem.
Hadi Noori won an NSF grant to develop an energy-efficient welding process
The assistant professor of engineering at Pitt-Bradford will receive $400,000 to study the method, which could have applications in extreme environments like space.
How social science can lead the way toward better disaster preparation and recovery
Nine years after Hurricane Maria, Fernando Tormos-Aponte and his research group shared their findings with policymakers in Puerto Rico.
Pitt is globally ranked in 33 subjects, per ShanghaiRanking
The University placed among the world’s top 50 in human biological sciences, clinical medicine, nursing and six other subjects.
Pitt’s first undergraduate cancer-focused research program is underway
PICTE offers a rare and transformative opportunity for early career scientists to step directly into the world of translational cancer biology.
The story of Pitt’s Horror Studies Center was published in Film Quarterly
The article explains the links between director Adam Lowenstein’s story, the collection and “Night of the Living Dead.”

