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Pitt Cyber held a successful 3rd annual Cyber Camp
This year, 213 high school students learned about cybersecurity basics as well as advanced skills like networking and operations security.
Sylvia Rhor Samaniego was selected for a Getty Leadership Institute program
The University Art Gallery director was among 35 museum leaders selected for the Executive Education for Museum Professionals cohort this year.
Jason Rosenstock was named interim associate dean for Pitt’s School of Medicine
The associate professor of psychiatry will ensure high-quality teaching in courses and clerkships for each year of medical school.
William Kramer will lead the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Kramer has held leadership roles at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at NASA Ames Research Center.
Rory Cooper completed the Heidelberg Hand-Bike Marathon
The director of Pitt's Human Engineering Research Laboratories finished with a time of 1 hour, 27 minutes.
LifeX Labs received an Economic Development Administration entrepreneurship grant
The Pitt startup is among 44 organizations nationwide — and the only one in Pennsylvania — to share a total of $23 million awarded under the EDA’s i6 Challenge grant program.
Peyman Givi will deliver the Elsevier Distinguished Lecture in Mechanics
Givi joins a long line of distinguished lecturers, beginning with the 2008 inaugural lecture by Jan Achenbach.
A new Hillman Library exhibit chronicles Holocaust-era French Jews
See the exhibit by alumnus David L. Rosenberg on display throughout August.
Pitt innovators have delivered another banner year of impactful discoveries
University inventors matched last year’s record number of licenses and options executed at 162 and set a new record for discoveries disclosed to the Innovation Institute at 367.
Jill Millstone won a career excellence award
The associate professor has been awarded the 2019 Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Chemists Committee Award for Career Excellence in the Chemical Sciences.
A Pitt pre-med student hosts a medical humanities podcast
You can hear Emma Wolinsky bring conversations on medicine, anatomy and culture to life in “Remains to be Seen.”
Pitt faculty members’ Just Discipline Project shows progress in new report
In just two years, the report shows a 28% decrease in the number of students facing out-of-school suspensions at a Pittsburgh-area school.
The Pitt Men’s Study, renewed by NIH, will enter its 4th decade of HIV research
The study will be renewed into 2026 at nearly $4 million per year.
Pitt’s Office of Child Development developed a parenting guide of original research
“You and Your Child” is a series of 49 guides, broken down into categories of behavior, health and nutrition, parenting, development and safety.
Pitt Cyber has announced its latest accelerator grant recipients
11 Pitt faculty earned initial funding for projects that advance Pitt Cyber’s mission: to bear on the critical questions of networks, data and algorithms, with a focus on the ever-changing gaps among
Pitt alumna Kakenya Ntaiya was recognized as an emerging leader by the Obama Foundation
With her PhD from the School of Education, Ntaiya founded a nonprofit organization that provides education, mentoring and health and leadership training for girls of her native Kenyan community.
4 Pitt student-athletes were named to the 2019 All-ACC Outdoor Track and Field Academic Team
Nate Sloan, Nikki Scherer, Nina Crawford and Flora Ahiarakwe all earned the recognition for the first time in their Pitt careers.
Pitt’s Center for Urban Education will host its annual Summer Educator Forum
Scholars, educators and researchers from across the globe will take part in intensive forums to re-imagine policies, practices and politics in education systems July 18-20.
Everette James was named interim dean of the Graduate School of Public Health
Everette James was recently appointed as interim dean of Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH). James is taking the place of Donald S. Burke, who stepped down from his position on July 1. “I
Alumna Bobbi Watt Geer will lead the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania
The GSPIA graduate is the first woman to lead the nonprofit, where she has worked for more than a decade.
