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Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets won a $2.4 million grant to study how societies overcome deep differences
Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili will co-lead the project, which will foster a global network of scholars to tackle polarization and social divisions.
Pitt geologists mapped how metal pollutants have traveled across the city
A new study shows where industry and weather dropped metals like lead and cadmium in Pittsburgh soils.
One way to help college students get enough sleep — pay them to go to bed
When Pitt economist Osea Giuntella offered students just $30 per week to sleep longer, they did — and the results persisted past the study period. Here’s what that could mean for other habits.
The Big Idea Center is opening in the heart of Oakland
Students, alumni and friends are invited to a Sept. 16 grand opening ceremony to meet entrepreneurs in residence and learn about upcoming programs.
Pitt and UPMC Enterprises partner to accelerate research commercialization and build Pittsburgh’s life sciences economy
Pitt investigators studying women’s health, autoimmune disease and rare neurological diseases can get up to $1 million per year for up to two years through a new partnership.
Pittsburgh’s ‘neighborly playground’ for neuroscience has new leadership
Pitt’s Julie Fiez and Carnegie Mellon’s Lori Holt will lead the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition into its next era of collaboration and curiosity.
Pitt and ElevateBio are partnering to bring cell and gene therapy manufacturing to Pittsburgh
With a 30-year agreement, the biotech company will be the first tenant at Pitt BioForge on Hazelwood Green.
How not to use brain scans in neuroscience
A Nature paper led by a Pitt PhD student revealed a crucial flaw in studies that attempt to predict complex personality traits from one-off brain scans.
Spousal caregivers with disabilities face a wide range of adversities
The first report from Pitt’s National Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Family Supports highlights the many challenges of caring for loved ones.
MLB, USA Softball and kids alike use a Pitt inventor’s smart bats and balls
Diamond Kinetics, founded by a Pitt professor and alumnus, creates sensors and other tech to help players analyze their game.
This Pitt-led program will help underrepresented minorities in science and medicine move into leadership roles
The multi-institutional TRANSFORM program supports mid-career faculty during a pivotal time for growth.
The inaugural Dickson Prize Day brought groundbreaking scientists to Pitt
Here’s what they had to say during their on-campus remarks. Previous awardees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.
Pitt researchers pulled 700,000 years of glacial history from an Andean lakebed
It’s the longest-ever glacier record for the tropics, and it could help scientists better understand modern-day climate change.
Stimulating the spinal cord helps improve arm control in paralyzed macaques, a Pitt study found
The team’s new technology could help humans with limited arm function regain movement.
This Pitt-supported free job training program is filling a dire need in research
A partnership with Manchester Bidwell Corporation is making sure the region’s clinical research studies have the talent they need to make groundbreaking discoveries.
The Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory at Pitt will host a regional network to improve water quality
As new host of the Southwest Pennsylvania Water Network, the collaboratory aims to help build a stronger regional identity around the area’s rivers.
This Pitt researcher is using data to fight the opioid epidemic
Jeanine Buchanich’s work with the Pennsylvania Department of Health is pinpointing which public health interventions show the most benefit.
From the archives: Father-kid dynamic duos
For these Pitt dads, teaming up with their children was a highlight of their careers.
Group living means safety from predators but nastier diseases for guppies
A new Pitt study describes a hidden cost of being social that can likely be found across the animal kingdom — even in humans.
Pitt researchers led the largest-ever series of phage therapy case studies
In a dramatic scaling up of an experimental treatment for deadly bacterial infections, 11 out of 20 patients responded well to the therapy and none showed adverse effects.
