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A new Pitt-Titusville center is expanding manufacturing training in Northwestern Pennsylvania

Companies in the region are hungry for skilled machinists. Pitt’s Manufacturing Assistance Center is now providing them.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Titusville
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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In terms of carbon footprint, not all oil is created equal

To predict the climate impact of oil as demand shifts, we need to take into account the many ways it's extracted, according to a new study in Nature by Pitt’s Mohammad Masnadi.

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Technology & Science
  • Global
Eunice Yang speaking with Rich Lunak at the 2019 Wells Lecture

This Pitt-Johnstown engineer wants to keep seniors standing tall

Eunice Yang will soon begin beta testing for OK2StandUP, a Fitbit-like monitor of the autonomic nervous system that predicts and prevents falls.

  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Community Impact
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Science paper shows how to make a key chemical reaction safer and faster

By avoiding a toxic and explosive chemical, Kazunori Koide’s lab could open the Birch reduction up to be used in chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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You can rent a phone charger at 32 local businesses thanks to Pitt alumni

The portable charger will juice up your phone in just 30 minutes.

  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Two Pitt physicists win American Physics Society awards

Vittorio Paolone and Andrew Mugler were recognized for their work detecting elusive particles and studying how cells behave.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Bob Casey and Paul Duprex walking and talking with face masks

Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research is the place to go to learn about pandemic preparedness

“We’re pretty blessed that we’ve got so much talent and the benefit of so much research here. I’m not at all surprised that Pitt has a global impact,” said Sen. Bob Casey during his Friday tour.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Center for Vaccine Research
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Pitt professors team up to increase access to hearing aids

A new FDA proposal could put hearing aids in the domain of pharmacists. Pitt professors want to make sure they’ll be ready.

  • Technology & Science
  • School of Pharmacy
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Community Impact
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Join Pitt IT’s cybersecurity awareness events

Win prizes, watch creepy cybersecurity horror stories and protect yourself online during the rest of October.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
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A little-studied brain circuit could have big effects on learning

New research led by a Pitt undergrad and psychology’s Jamie Hanson could inform interventions to help children who experience high levels of stress.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt teams tapped to develop 'Google Maps' of cells important in aging

The National Institutes of Health has given two Pitt projects $31 million to create a molecular atlas that could help researchers understand age-related diseases as diverse as cancer and dementia.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • School of Medicine
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Pitt team finishes third in NASA challenge

Pitt's VULCAN prototype received recognition for the Most Innovative Concept and Lightest System Mass.

  • Technology & Science
  • Students
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Space
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A laser concept developed by Pitt physicists could surpass a 60-year-old limitation

The proposed design, which uses tech borrowed from quantum computers, is so radical that it doesn’t even qualify as a laser.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Pitt undergrads at Indianapolis Autonomous Challenge standing next to their car

Pitt undergrads take on the world for a $1 million prize at the Indianapolis Autonomous Challenge

“The whole global autonomous community will be watching.”

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Students
  • Swanson School of Engineering
NIH awardees, individual portraits with golden stars in background

Pitt researchers receive National Institutes of Health grants to support 'trailblazing' ideas in biomedical science

“The science put forward by this cohort is exceptionally novel and creative and is sure to push at the boundaries of what is known,” the NIH director said.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
Paul Duprex sitting next to microscope

Award-winning virologist Paul Duprex wants the best and brightest working on vaccines

The place to start? Kids in Pittsburgh.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Center for Vaccine Research
Ihsan Qazi wearing black suit with glasses

Computer science alum wins Sheth award for making internet access more equitable

Ihsan Qazi is working to make cheap smartphones as efficient as more expensive models and re-engineer websites to render on affordable devices.

  • Technology & Science
  • Alumni
  • Global
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Behind the scenes of Antony Blinken’s campus visit

See the researchers, projects and spaces that greeted the Secretary of State.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Center for Vaccine Research
Circuit board close up, RISC-V

Engineering team studies new architecture for customized space computing

Students at Pitt’s NSF Center for Space, High-performance and Resilient Computing received the Best Paper Award for Research in Space Computing at the 2021 IEEE Space Computing Conference.

  • Technology & Science
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Space
Valdis Dombrovskis speaking with Erica Owen in front of crowd and camera crew

EU leader shares advice with students at a Pitt event

Valdis Dombrovskis tackled the complex global issues of carbon neutrality, trade and how to make technological changes work for all people in his Sept. 30 talk.

  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
  • Global
  • Technology & Science