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A new Pitt class is taking engineering to greater heights
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.
Pitt Space is bringing researchers together at the start of a new space race
The new initiative will focus on research and workforce development in space engineering, biomedicine and science.
Researchers built an autonomous system to help detect the most urgent victims in mass casualty events
The Pitt and Carnegie Mellon team will keep testing and readying its robots for real-world missions as part of a three-year DARPA Triage Challenge.
Samuel Woolley won a book award from the Association of Internet Researchers
An AoIR committee recognized “Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity” with the Nancy Baym Book Annual Award.
Experts are worried about cyber threats to infrastructure. This Pitt program is raising awareness.
The SHURE-Grid program brought together students from a variety of majors to create educational tools about designing with cybersecurity in mind.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center earned an NSF award to enhance its AI research capacity
The $4.9 million grant will fund an upgrade to the center’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center earned an NIH grant to fund a third-generation Anton supercomputer
The five-year award will allow noncommercial biomedical researchers to use the system at no cost.
Jessica Ghilani presented to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
The Pitt-Greensburg professor is a well-regarded expert on misinformation and disinformation.
If it’s glass, Ryan Tate can make it
Pitt’s scientific glassblower crafts and repairs the flasks, pipes and apparatuses that make University research labs function.
A rare stellar explosion will soon reveal a ‘new’ star. Here’s how to see it.
Visible with the naked eye, the nova will be the brightest one most people ever see, says Pitt astronomer Carlos Badenes.
Pitt’s CyberCamp was cited in a White House report
The Pitt Cyber program has pledged to train 500 high school students in cybersecurity basics by 2028.
Pitt is hosting 4 youth science communication workshops in July
Middle schoolers will investigate a topic, gather data and use basic code to communicate their findings in these single-day outings.
What does the future of space medicine look like?
Pitt distinguished professor Bill Wagner discussed how new materials and techniques could change medical care in space.
Pitt alumna Kate Moran is using technical innovation to combat climate change
The award-winning researcher and engineer’s adventures have included advising the Obama administration and taking Arctic expeditions to advocate for global sustainability.
16 Pitt students will research electrical grid sustainability through SHURE-Grid
The summer program is a collaborative partnership between the David C. Frederick Honors College, Swanson School of Engineering, Pitt’s Office of Research and the Idaho National Laboratory.
Pitt’s national patent ranking improved to No. 14 in 2023
Some 114 patents put the University up two spots on the National Academy of Inventors list.
Michele V. Manuel is the first woman U. S. Steel Dean of the Swanson School of Engineering
The award-winning materials engineer, innovator and leader joins Pitt from the University of Florida Sept. 1.
Pittsburgh high schoolers spend a summer engaged in STEM through this Pitt program
Students learn more than just lab work through Pitt Bio Outreach, which also provides mentoring as they prepare for college and fosters community connections.
David Waldeck and Brian Bloom published a ‘spintronics’ paper in Science Advances
The research shows how certain materials could serve as gateways to control currents that harness an electron’s spin rather than its charge.
A Pitt program earned a first-of-its-kind Middle States Association accreditation
It’s a major milestone toward the STEM PUSH Network’s goal of increasing equity and opportunity for Black, Latino and Indigenous students in postsecondary STEM.
