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Brandie Jefferson

Space engineering is just the first Swanson School course in a new effort to train students for the growing demand in aerospace and other industries.

The new initiative will focus on research and workforce development in space engineering, biomedicine and science.

A seed that circled the moon with NASA will be planted in Riverview Park. Celebrate its arrival on Oct. 6.

Pitt distinguished professor Bill Wagner discussed how new materials and techniques could change medical care in space.

Water from Marcellus shale gas wells could supply up to 40% of U.S. demand for the metal, according to a new Pitt study.

This Pitt-developed sensor is portable, affordable and orders of magnitude more sensitive than the next-best thing.

This rapidly growing certificate program in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science has students tackling medical questions in a new way.

The new award to the Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory will give agencies and community organizations more insight into local water quality.

Findings from the lab of Shawn Sorrells suggest the movement of immature cells is related to periods of neuroplasticity when the brain is especially receptive to changes and adaptation.

Their findings on the supermassive red mass, which combined James Webb Space Telescope observations with gravitational lensing, were published in Nature.