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The Pitt Success Pell Match Program has invested more than $95 million in low-income students
Pitt’s groundbreaking financial aid program continues to make education more affordable for Pennsylvania students and their families. Here’s the proof.
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Got food cravings? What’s living in your gut may be responsible
A new Pitt study shows that the gut microbiome of mice influences their preferred diet. The results, researchers say, could apply to humans, too.
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How reflective writing and a nudge from an app increased college prospects for low-income students
Pitt’s Omid Fotuhi found that a combination of self-affirmations and deadline reminders made students more likely to complete the admission process and attend college.
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Pitt celebrated its first-ever Graduate and Professional Students Honors Convocation
Awardees have distinguished themselves through research, service and leadership.
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Volunteers for research studies should get access to their data, says this Pitt professor
"It’s hard, but it’s worth it," Mylynda Massart says in this Q&A about the extra effort involved in sharing data with study participants.
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How a circular economy could fix the supply chain
"The real innovation lies when you think about the beginning of design,” says Melissa Bilec, co-director of Pitt’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.
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This new program funds research on climate change and precision public health
The Public Health Trans-Disciplinary Collaboration Pilot Awards support projects that use data science to develop targeted health interventions. Here are the 5 winning projects.
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Basketball’s ‘hot hand’ phenomenon is real, says this Pitt computer scientist
Konstantinos Pelechrinis in the School of Computing and Information examined whether players can continue a streak of making many consecutive shots, also known as having “hot hands.”
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32 faculty projects have earned Momentum Funds awards
The awards support both individual faculty members and large groups that are scaling up world-changing scholarly projects.
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Decoy proteins could protect people from a deadly mosquito-borne virus
Pitt researchers received $14.5 million from the Department of Defense to fight viruses that cause brain infections and could be used in biowarfare.
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After living near Chernobyl, these Pitt researchers set their eyes on thyroid cancer
Yuri Nikiforov and Marina Nikiforova saw the effects of thyroid cancer on children in Belarus. Now, their test for the disease has eliminated thousands of unneeded surgeries.
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25 projects awarded Pitt Seed funding and support
The projects range from using Netflix in student services to diversifying academia.
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3 Pitt professors were honored by the National Academy of Inventors
They were recently named senior members for their work on tissue engineering and therapies for fibrosis and heart diseases.
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4 stories about Pitt’s vaccine legacy, 68 years after the first public polio shots
Arsenal Elementary School students in Pittsburgh rolled up their sleeves for Jonas Salk's polio vaccine on Feb. 23, 1954.
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A new global study will address disparities in access to insulin
Pitt has been awarded a grant to determine whether long-acting analogue insulin is better than other treatments for Type 1 diabetes.
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Advice for the best relationship from a Pitt psychologist
This Valentine’s Day, relationship expert Amanda Forest shares her research on how to be a supportive partner.
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Latest greenhouse gas inventory shows Pitt's progress toward carbon neutrality
A report led by grad student Jessica Vaden shows a decrease in campus emissions by almost a third since 2008.
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How fecal transplants could transform cancer care
Changing bacteria in the gut can cause remarkable effects in some melanoma patients, Pitt researchers proved.
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Pitt biologists found hundreds of plant viruses hitchhiking on pollen
The first-of-its-kind study points to honeybees as a potential “superspreader” of plant disease.
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New scholarship agreement helps graduate students in the sciences
Pitt’s partnership with an all-women, all-volunteer philanthropic organization is getting deeper, stronger and planning for perpetuity.