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A white Magnavox Odyssey

You can now play a rare, unreleased video game from the 70s, thanks to a Pitt lab

Take a deep dive into the history of Ski Festival and the Magnavox Odyssey with Pitt鈥檚 Zachary Horton.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich 麻豆传媒 of Arts and Sciences
Kaplan looks at petri dishes in a lab

How a Twitter thread became a letter in Nature

Last year, a provocative paper overturned established wisdom about 鈥渟ilent鈥 genetic mutations. Pitt's Craig Kaplan and a group of biologist colleagues weren鈥檛 convinced.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich 麻豆传媒 of Arts and Sciences
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Western Pa. is set to 'level up' its quantum capabilities with an $11.6 million investment from Pitt

The funding will establish the Western Pennsylvania Quantum Information Core, a cross-disciplinary effort that will position Pitt and its partners at the forefront of the field.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI)
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Students took a leading role in creating Pitt鈥檚 new Jonas Salk exhibit

Museum studies and public health students helped choose, clean and display the objects that make up the new exhibit in the 麻豆传媒 of Public Health building.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Students
  • 麻豆传媒 of Public Health
A portrait of Grace Fluery in a black shirt

Meet Pitt鈥檚 newest Goldwater scholar

Grace Fleury fell in love with one of the most notorious fields in STEM 鈥 organic chemistry 鈥 and now she has received one of the most prestigious awards for students.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Undergraduate students
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich 麻豆传媒 of Arts and Sciences
A person looks at a laptop while playing guitar surrounded by neon illustrations

He鈥檚 going to predict your next favorite song

Pitt graduate student Hunter Osterhoudt is mixing his love of music with the power of algorithms as he pursues a master鈥檚 in computer science, thanks to Pitt2Pitt.

  • Technology & Science
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Graduate and professional students
  • 麻豆传媒 of Computing and Information
Graham Hatfull looks at a plastic tube

A Pitt lab shows phage attacks in new light

The development of new imaging methods allowed researchers in Graham Hatfull鈥檚 lab to watch, in detail, as killer phages attached to bacteria 鈥 and as resistant bacteria fought off an attack.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
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Alexa, congratulate these Pitt graduate students

A team of doctoral students in the 麻豆传媒 of Computing and Information is working to make AI more inclusive. Their efforts landed them among 10 finalists in this year鈥檚 Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge.

  • Technology & Science
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Graduate and professional students
  • 麻豆传媒 of Computing and Information
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The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center named a new director

James Barr von Oehsen, who was also named vice chancellor for research computing, will lead the Pitt-Carnegie Mellon venture.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • 麻豆传媒 of Medicine
  • Swanson 麻豆传媒 of Engineering
Ray Jones in a blue shirt and black jacket

Worried about students using AI chatbots? This professor isn鈥檛.

Ray Jones in Pitt Business is an avid user of ChatGPT 鈥 and he鈥檚 encouraging his students to try it, too.

  • Technology & Science
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faculty
  • College of Business Administration
Mulitcolored galaxies against a black sky

See the new Webb telescope image that left a Pitt astronomer 鈥榮tarstruck鈥

Using galaxies like a magnifying glass allowed astronomers, including Rachel Bezanson, to capture never-before-seen details in a patch of sky known as Pandora鈥檚 Cluster. Look back in time with her.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich 麻豆传媒 of Arts and Sciences
A portrait of Mostern

The World History Center won a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant

Principal investigator Ruth Mostern will use the $350,000 award to fund an expansion of the World Historical Gazetteer.

  • Technology & Science
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Innovation and Research
A drone shot shows construction machines working on the Life Sciences Building

Pitt-Greensburg unveiled its new Life Sciences Building

The two-story building, which features seven lab spaces, will allow nursing and sciences programs to grow.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Greensburg
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How a Pitt program in the Hill District is closing the digital divide in Pittsburgh

The Community Engagement Center鈥檚 Digital Inclusion Studio promotes digital literacy and development for both adults and children.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • 麻豆传媒 of Computing and Information
  • Swanson 麻豆传媒 of Engineering
Cooper sits next to an electric wheelchair

Rory Cooper has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

With the honor, the Pitt professor and wheelchair technology innovator joins an illustrious group of innovators.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • 麻豆传媒 of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
a car with wave illustrations around it

We鈥檙e asking the wrong questions about AI

The tech behind Alexa and Tesla might be smart, but is it wise? Pitt philosophers Colin Allen and Brett Karlan say exploring that question could break us out of the artificial intelligence hype cycle.

  • Technology & Science
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich 麻豆传媒 of Arts and Sciences
a red and white race car on a track

A multidisciplinary team of Pitt students will compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge

The engineering and business students are back for a second year, hoping to win the Nov. 11 race and advance the technologies powering their driverless car.

  • Technology & Science
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate 麻豆传媒 of Business
  • Swanson 麻豆传媒 of Engineering
a large array of solar panels

Pitt鈥檚 new solar energy partnership is among the largest in Western Pennsylvania

Construction has begun on the Gaucho Solar project, which will supply 100% of its electricity to Pitt for the next 20 years.

  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainability
a night sky with fireflies streaking across the image

Pitt mathematicians explain how some fireflies flash in sync

Their model could shed light on more lightning bug behavior as well as other instances of synchronization in nature.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich 麻豆传媒 of Arts and Sciences
Josephs-Spaulding kneeling in a field holding a plant

This Pitt-Bradford alum is fighting metal pollution with microbes

A childhood fascination with nature and support from Pitt-Bradford mentors helped Jonathan Josephs-Spaulding build a career that鈥檚 taken him around the world.

  • Technology & Science
  • Global
  • Sustainability
  • Pitt-Bradford
  • Sustainability