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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.
A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff嚜
A nurse anesthetist and Pitt alum watched veterans with PTSD go to sleep in 窪蹋勛圖厙 but wake up in Iraq. He knew something had to change.
APitt 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.
Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.
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.
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 years Pitt Innovation Challenge.
An app could promote informed and healthy pregnancies
Some at-risk patients didnt know they had been prescribed aspirin to prevent a dangerous condition in pregnancy, Pitt researchers found. A smartphone app might be the answer.
Placebo-inspired project wins $12 million grant to help Parkinsons patients
The research, led by Pitt neuroscientist Peter Strick, will examine a brain circuit that could restore motor function to those with the condition.
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.
A study by Eleanor Anderson in the School of Education shows what it takes to make educational reforms rise above the churn.
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.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured Pitts Center for Vaccine Research
The secretary met with 嚜澧hancellor Patrick Gallagher, Center for Vaccine 嚜燎esearch Director Paul Duprex and other leaders as part of his tour.
Honors College undergrads relaunch old journal with new tech
The Honors College celebrates the relaunch of the 窪蹋勛圖厙 Undergraduate Review a student-led journal of scholarship and creative works with a new open-access platform thanks to the library
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.
They're trying to detect the next pandemic
Seema Lakdawalas lab is part of a new multi-institutional partnership that will assess the pandemic potential of new viruses.嚜
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.
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 Lius recent superfluid discovery.
Research and IT foster strategic collaboration
Kim Wong and Adam Hobaugh, co-directors at Pitts Center for Research Computing, are on a mission to make advanced computing and data services accessible to all researchers.
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.
Pitt's Big Idea Center names new director
Entrepreneur Rhonda Schuldt will be the next leader of the Big Idea Center, an on-campus innovation hub open to all students.
