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Hooman Henry Rashidi is Pitt’s new associate dean for AI in medicine
He will develop curricula for to better prepare Pitt Med students to understand, evaluate, use and develop technologies that will advance their research and improve patient care.
Get ready for Pittsburgh’s single-use plastic ban
Pitt Sustainability offers advice on adjusting to the citywide change, which begins Oct. 14.
Amplify your voice with a 2024 Diversity Forum workshop. Proposals are now due Nov. 17.
The annual Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion event will be held Jan. 23-24, during MLK Social Justice Week.
This year’s State of the School reviewed 2 years of successes for Pitt Medicine
Anantha Shekhar detailed how the School of Medicine met or exceeded the key goals he set — in areas from clinical excellence to faculty development — when he joined the University.
Alexander Deiters won the American Chemical Society Pittsburgh Award
The Pitt professor was recognized for distinguished service to the field of chemistry.
Omid Shekari earned a Sculpture Space residency
The assistant professor is spending October and November at the studio in Utica, New York.
The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute named a new co-director
Benjamin Hunt will join his longtime Pitt collaborator Michael Hatridge to further establish Pittsburgh as a headquarters for quantum computing.
Jill Stemple was selected for the Medicaid Pathways Program
The Master of Public Policy and Management candidate will participate in the Center for Health Care Strategies’ executive training initiative.
11 Pitt researchers earned support from the Competitive Medical Research Fund
Grants will help the cohort of junior scientists develop preliminary data, hypotheses and methods for competitive national grant applications.
Shyam Visweswaran was appointed to a National Institutes of Health study section
As a charter member, the School of Medicine professor will review investigator-initiated research applications related to clinical informatics and digital health.
Jamelle Price became an Appalachian Leadership Institute fellow
The external relations manager for the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine will participate in the Appalachian Regional Commission’s extensive training program.
Celebrate 10 years of the Pitt Innovation Challenge on Oct. 11
This year’s 6 finalist teams will pitch their ideas for funding awards totaling up to $550,000.
2 Pitt people were recognized as among the best in Pittsburgh tech
Paola Buitrago and Katrina Knight were on Technical.ly's RealLIST Engineers 2023 list.
7 Halloween-themed events in Pittsburgh
Put these horror movies, haunted trails, rock climbing and more on your list of scary season activities.
New COVID-19 shots are now available at The Hub
The CDC recommends that all people stay up to date on the vaccine to protect themselves and vulnerable members of the community.
A new Pitt course is using improv to build more confident, empathetic lawyers
It’s no joke: Professor of Legal Writing Ben Bratman designed the class to teach “human skills” to upper-class law students after seeing how the hobby benefited his teaching.
A team of Pitt researchers earned a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging
The interdisciplinary team from Pitt’s School of Medicine and Department of Biological Sciences will investigate a mitochondrial target for Alzheimer’s disease.
Hillandale Farms family donates $25 million to launch Pitt’s Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center
The transformative gift — for which the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine will make an equivalent co-investment — will support labs, fellows, research and clinical work to push orthopaedic
A $2 million gift will help Pitt support nursing students pursuing a second career
The Joanne and William Conway Nursing Scholarship Program will fund 60 students per year through an accelerated bachelor’s degree to address the nation’s nursing shortage.
Alumnus Yasir Aljohani won an abstract award at the 2023 American Orthotics and Prosthetics Association National Assembly
His research on child abandonment in Saudi Arabia was part of his Pitt capstone coursework.
