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Pitt Pharmacy researchers earned a grant to improve opioid use disorder treatment
The school’s Program Evaluation and Research Unit will receive $7.8 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse over five years.

Mubanga Kalimamukwento won the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Angie Cruz
Her collection, which will be published by University of Pittsburgh Press in October, explores Zambian womanhood.

Turn your winter from gray to green with these sustainable activities
Plus, here’s how Pitt reduced emissions and diverted a record number of donations from landfills.

Taylor Abel has been named chief of pediatric neurosurgery at UPMC
The Pitt Medicine and Engineering professor was tapped after a national search.

Regional high schoolers are getting a head start with this Pitt-Bradford program
More than 1,200 students from 30 high schools are earning college credits before they arrive on campus.

2 Pitt undergrads completed Pittsburgh Media Partnership internships
Read stories The Pitt News staffers James Paul and Betul Tuncer wrote throughout the fall semester.

Apply for a Summer Undergraduate Research Award by March 4
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences students can apply for the $4,000 stipend.

Pitt has joined the Keystone Space Collaborative to bolster out-of-this-world research
The move is just the latest effort to connect University researchers to the region’s space science ecosystem.

Registration is open for the Community Engaged Scholarship Forum
Network and celebrate the University’s commitment to community engagement.

A Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center system was selected for the National AI Research Resource Pilot Program
Neocortex is among six elite artificial intelligence computers that will participate in the U.S. program to support AI research and education.

14 Pitt people earned Year of Discourse and Dialogue funding
Units from around the University will pursue projects that foster open expression and productive conversation.

Lucas Berenbrok was elected as an American Pharmacists Association Fellow
The associate professor in Pitt’s Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics is honored for exemplary achievements.

Pitt has launched a research partnership with bioMérieux
The French biotech company’s analytical and sequencing team will collaborate with the University’s clinical microbiology and infectious diseases divisions.

Jared Magnani’s study on education and heart health was published in JAMA Cardiology
The associate professor of medicine’s research found lower education was associated with lifetime cardiovascular disease risk.

A Pitt study on substance use among cancer survivors was published in JAMA Oncology
Research by Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin sheds light on subpopulations of adult cancer survivors who may benefit from efforts to integrate cancer and addiction care.

Lara Putnam was cited in the New Mexico Attorney General’s lawsuit against Meta
The professor of history’s article on online child sexual abuse and exploitation is part of demonstrating “flaws in Facebook’s design.”

Here’s who won the University’s annual social justice awards
The students and staff who make Pitt more just, equitable and inclusive will be recognized during a Jan. 26 luncheon.

Jim Coleman’s book was honored by the American Association of Teachers of Italian
His exploration of Renaissance practices of improvisation and oral poetry, “A Sudden Frenzy,” won the organization’s First Book Prize.

2 Pitt Law professors were elected Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
John Linarelli and Christian Powell Sundquist join a prestigious group — no more than 1% of licensed attorneys with outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession.

Nicholas Rescher, a polymath who helped to establish Pitt as a philosophy powerhouse, dies at 95
Renowned for a “sheer range of intellect,” the professor’s career spanned six decades of teaching and researching topics such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science.