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Pitt’s Office of Child Development developed a parenting guide of original research
“You and Your Child” is a series of 49 guides, broken down into categories of behavior, health and nutrition, parenting, development and safety.
Researchers Work to Bring Precision Medicine to Patient Prescriptions, Primary Care
With the advent of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, patients are showing up at doctors’ offices with big questions about their genes. Physicians, however, aren’t usually trained to answer them
The Pitt Men’s Study, renewed by NIH, will enter its 4th decade of HIV research
The study will be renewed into 2026 at nearly $4 million per year.
Pitt Cyber has announced its latest accelerator grant recipients
11 Pitt faculty earned initial funding for projects that advance Pitt Cyber’s mission: to bear on the critical questions of networks, data and algorithms, with a focus on the ever-changing gaps among
Pitt professor helped humanity make ‘one small step,’ keeps space research going
As a postdoctoral researcher, Bruce Hapke helped NASA determine the consistency of the moon’s soil, which helped engineers create the proper boots, rovers and wheeled equipment for the Apollo 11
Walid Gellad received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
It’s the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center received NSF funding to build new tech
The supercomputer, Bridges-2, will contain different types of state-of-the-art hardware and larger memory space for solving problems.
Geneticist Explores Evolution’s Mysteries
Through his research as an evolutionary geneticist, Pitt’s Nathan Clark is exploring how and why genes and genomes have evolved over time.
3 Pitt English affiliates earned Investing in Professional Artists Grants
Cameron Barnett, Adriana Ramirez and Anjali Sachdeva are among the 2019 recipients of the Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments program.
Stephen D. Meriney received a grant for neuromuscular disease research
The professor of neuroscience and psychiatry received more than $300,000 to support the development of a new therapeutic approach for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
3 graduate students won a thesis elevator pitch contest
Swanson School of Engineering student Piyusha Gade took first place in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Pitt Competition.
Pittsburgh as a Human Performance City
Elite athletes and members of the military need to keep trucking in the most challenging of circumstances. Pitt scientists are looking to these super users of the human body in the search for ways to
Pitt spinout Aruga Technologies won a business pitch competition
Alumnus Joseph Pugar’s 20-minute pitch on the company’s unique synthetic vascular graft implant technology won second prize among 12 competitors.
Program Supports and Encourages Breastfeeding, One Text at a Time
A text messaging program called MILK developed in the School of Nursing educates and encourages new parents who breastfeed. The lead researcher, Jill Demirci (NURS ’05, ’10G, ’12G), focuses on
PhD student Zina Ward earned a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
The fellowship awards a $30,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees in fellows’ final year of dissertation writing.
Anthony Delitto was appointed as a member of a national advisory council
The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences dean will serve on the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health.
A new Pitt partnership will expand research into rechargeable battery systems
The collaboration with Malvern Panalytical will enable Prashant Kumta’s lab to see the chemistry of what happens inside a battery while in use.
Caroline Runyan was named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
The award for young investigators comes with four years of flexible funding to invest in exploratory research.
Adam Shear received a grant from the American Academy for Jewish Research
The chair of religious studies will undergo training as part of the Footprints research project and database, which tracks the movement of Jewish books since the inception of print.
Giannis Mpourmpakis earned a prestigious Grecian award
The Bodossaki Award is given every two years to the most outstanding scientist of Greek descent below the age of 40.
