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This Pitt effort is relocating Afghan scholars to the U.S.
Meet Omar Sadr, a political scientist who fled Taliban violence and now leads the Afghanistan Project at Pitt.
A new Pitt pledge encourages health care providers to use opioid alternatives
The School of Dental Medicine was the first in the nation to implement opioid-free pain management for most procedures in its clinics. Now, the practice is spreading.
Pitt Black Faculty Development Initiative receives grant to tackle health disparities
The $250,000 from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will both support Black faculty at Pitt and address Black maternal and infant health in Western Pennsylvania and beyond.
One of Pitt’s oldest startups just got FDA approval for its artificial lung device
ALung was approved for emergency use during the pandemic. It’s now going to help asthma, cystic fibrosis and transplant patients, too.
Pitt researchers are part of an international team awarded $1 million Magee Prize
The team, led by Pamela Moalli, is working to develop materials to repair tissue loss in people with compromised vaginal structure and function.
Does Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill address America’s needs?
A Pitt professor in civil and environmental engineering weighs in.
Pitt to lead the region’s transformation into a life sciences powerhouse
The University of Pittsburgh, with a historic nine-figure grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, looks to bring manufacturing back to the city — and catalyze game-changing economic growth.
Todd Reeser will be a fellow at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study
Reeser will spend next spring in residence at the university to work on a book project exploring trans representation and conceptions of French citizenship.
Is this pain muscle strain or a minor heart attack?
An interdisciplinary Pitt team is using machine learning to more quickly and accurately identify heart attacks and their arterial origins.
A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff
A nurse anesthetist and Pitt alum watched veterans with PTSD “go to sleep in Pittsburgh but wake up in Iraq.” He knew something had to change.
A Pitt scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears
The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.
412Connect project transforms grief to action
A Graduate School of Public and International Affairs project won an award for bridging research and practice.
Sierra Club recognizes Jeremy Weber’s research
Weber’s research was cited in a petition recommending the state increase bonding requirements for oil and gas wells.
Plastic surgery professors step into entrepreneurship
Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.
Pitt Challenge winners announced
The teams tackled issues such as burnout, virtual learning and simulation.
Pitt's pay-it-forward debt relief and mentorship program will add 150 new students
Since launching in 2019, Panthers Forward has provided $2.25 million in federal loan relief.
Brad Nindl assumes command of 139th Medical Brigade
In this role, Nindl continues his 25-plus years' work in the U.S. Army that focuses on human performance optimization and injury prevention.
Innovation challenge winners tackle health disparities
Projects that address tooth decay in kids, parenting while Black and ventilator-associated pneumonia each took home $115,000 in this year’s Pitt Innovation Challenge.
An app could promote informed and healthy pregnancies
Some at-risk patients didn’t know they had been prescribed aspirin to prevent a dangerous condition in pregnancy, Pitt researchers found. A smartphone app might be the answer.
Placebo-inspired project wins $12 million grant to help Parkinson’s patients
The research, led by Pitt neuroscientist Peter Strick, will examine a brain circuit that could restore motor function to those with the condition.
