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What Pittsburgh students need to know before Thanksgiving break
Here鈥檚 how to get home, what to do if you鈥檙e staying on campus and important COVID-19 info.
A new way to stop diseases from spreading in hospitals
How clinicians stop infectious disease transmission in hospitals hasn鈥檛 changed in more than a century. Pitt researchers are using AI and genome sequencing to change that.
For Roc鈥檚 birthday, we asked a Pitt ecologist about getting him some panther friends
Pitt鈥檚 mascot turns 112 this week, but his species hasn鈥檛 been spotted in the commonwealth for more than a century. Could we reintroduce panthers to the region? Should we?
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.
Pitt鈥檚 new recreation and wellness center will champion students鈥 mental and physical wellness
"The newest, coolest and healthiest place on campus" is coming soon.
Pitt Police respond to campus safety concerns
Students are urged to continue staying锘 alert and reporting suspicious activity to police.
How Pitt helps women business owners dream big
Five entrepreneurs share how Pitt鈥檚 Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence is setting them up for success.
Get fresh greens all year round at many Pitt dining locations
The University has partnered with local agricultural company Fifth Season to grow lettuce, spinach and other greens using 97% less land and 95% less water than traditional farming methods.
11 Pitt veterans who made a major impact
锘匡豢锘縇earn about how these military greats, from the author of the GI Bill of Rights to a former Army Surgeon General, shaped the world 鈥 and how Pitt shaped them.
Meet the Pitt sophomore who won WYEP's 2021 Singer-Songwriter Competition
Listen to two of Yunge Xiao's original songs.
A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff锘
A nurse anesthetist and Pitt alum watched veterans with PTSD 鈥済o to sleep in Pittsburgh but wake up in Iraq.鈥 He knew something had to change.
The Heinz Endowments gives $800,000 to Pitt鈥檚 Center for Sustainable Business
The two-year grant will be used to help companies large and small to improve overall business practices, environmental quality and economic equality.
A聽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.
A new Pitt-Titusville center is expanding manufacturing training in Northwestern Pennsylvania
Companies in the region are hungry for skilled machinists. Pitt鈥檚 Manufacturing Assistance Center is now providing them.
Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.
Eunice Yang will soon begin beta testing for OK2StandUP, a Fitbit-like monitor of the autonomic nervous system that predicts and prevents falls.
With 鈥淭he Heiress of Pittsburgh,鈥 Duquesne University President Ken Gormley (A&S 鈥77) has earned himself a new job title: novelist.
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鈥檚 Mohammad Masnadi.
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.
