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Man in mask filling up syringes in lab

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.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Our City/Our Campus
a nurse tending to a prone patient in an ambulance

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.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Nurse holding the hand of a patient

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.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Nursing
Thanos Tzounopoulos wearing grey shirt and glasses sitting in a chair

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.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
Beth and Jeff Gusenoff smiling in front of Cathedral of Learning

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.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
  • Innovation and Research
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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.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Students
Jacqueline Burgette and Peggy Liu presenting their activity box idea

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.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  • School of Medicine
Pregnant woman using cellphone on the couch

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.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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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.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Pandemic shutdowns had some mental health benefits for teen girls

A new Pitt study shows how girls spent their pandemic free time — and drives home the everyday stress of being a 21st century teen.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
Eleanor Anderson wearing blue shirt

Why some education reforms stick and others don't

A study by Eleanor Anderson in the School of Education shows what it takes to make educational reforms rise above the ‘churn.’

  • School of Education
  • Innovation and Research
  • Teaching & Learning
Student sitting outside on a bench using cell phone

Brian Galla wants to help your teen kick their Instagram habit

Appealing to their sense of rebellion might be the key to helping teens cut back on social media use, the Pitt psychologist's research shows.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Psychology in Education
  • School of Education
Blinken wearing face mask and suit visiting lab

Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research

The secretary met with Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, Center for Vaccine Research Director Paul Duprex and other leaders as part of his tour.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Center for Vaccine Research
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Honors College undergrads relaunch old journal with new tech

The Honors College celebrates the relaunch of the Pittsburgh Undergraduate Review — a student-led journal of scholarship and creative works — with a new open-access platform thanks to the library

  • Innovation and Research
  • Students
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Three Pitt biologists in a field of grass

How to save rare plants? Protect their pollinators.

Tia-Lynn Ashman and a team of Pitt biologists put a network of plants and pollinators under the microscope to tackle a tough question in ecology.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Lakdawala in lab coat

They're trying to detect the next pandemic

Seema Lakdawala’s lab is part of a new multi-institutional partnership that will assess the pandemic potential of new viruses.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • Health and Wellness
A portrait of Mary Margaret Kerr

Research sheds light on how children interpret ‘dark tourism’

Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Professor Mary Margaret Kerr shares insights on how to help children make meaning of tragic events.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Education
  • School of Medicine
Artistic depiction of particles

Where the laws of matter break down, a quantum discovery crops up

Lasers, fiendishly complex calculations and some of the coldest temperatures on Earth led to physicist Vincent Liu’s recent superfluid discovery.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Kim Wong and Adam Hobaugh connected by waves of light

Research and IT foster strategic collaboration

Kim Wong and Adam Hobaugh, co-directors at Pitt’s Center for Research Computing, are on a mission to make advanced computing and data services accessible to all researchers.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
Two children taking part in balloon demonstration

Pitt virologists teach kids about vaccines

A recent hands-on, kid-friendly event at the Carnegie Science Center sought to make good information go viral.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Center for Vaccine Research