Setting Campus Abuzz

Bee Friendly Pitt aims to protect and support solitary bees and raise awareness about these important native pollinators.

Managing Stormwater

A Pitt-founded "collaboratory" outlines challenges and solutions for the region's waterways, stormwater management and green infrastructure.

Hands-On Learning

An innovatiive course, taught by a Hollywood and TV news veteran, gives Pitt students hands-on broadcasting experience.

Detecting Evolution's Mysteries

Research by Pitt evolutionary geneticist Nathan Clark could significantly impact many species (including human beings).

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Pittsburgh as a Human Performance City

Elite athletes and members of the military need to keep trucking in the most challenging of circumstances. Pitt scientists are looking to these super users of the human body in the search for ways to optimize human performance.

Program Supports and Encourages Breastfeeding, One Text at a Time

A text messaging program called MILK developed in Pitt's School of Nursing educates and encourages new parents who breastfeed. The lead researcher, Jill Demirci (NURS ’05, ’10G, ’12G), focuses on developing a variety of clinical and community-based interventions to help mothers meet their breastfeeding goals.

Baby Emery Green Mullen with her mother and two surgeons

Pitt Researchers Perform University’s First In Utero Spina Bifida Surgery

Baby Emery Green Mullen, named after the lead surgeons who corrected a neural tube defect before her birth, is doing well as the first patient in Pitt history to receive in utero surgery for spina bifida.