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The World History Center won a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant
Principal investigator Ruth Mostern will use the $350,000 award to fund an expansion of the World Historical Gazetteer.
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Pitt-Greensburg unveiled its new Life Sciences Building
The two-story building, which features seven lab spaces, will allow nursing and sciences programs to grow.
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How a Pitt program in the Hill District is closing the digital divide in Pittsburgh
The Community Engagement Center’s Digital Inclusion Studio promotes digital literacy and development for both adults and children.
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Rory Cooper has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
With the honor, the Pitt professor and wheelchair technology innovator joins an illustrious group of innovators.
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We’re asking the wrong questions about AI
The tech behind Alexa and Tesla might be smart, but is it wise? Pitt philosophers Colin Allen and Brett Karlan say exploring that question could break us out of the artificial intelligence hype cycle.
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A multidisciplinary team of Pitt students will compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge
The engineering and business students are back for a second year, hoping to win the Nov. 11 race and advance the technologies powering their driverless car.
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Pitt’s new solar energy partnership is among the largest in Western Pennsylvania
Construction has begun on the Gaucho Solar project, which will supply 100% of its electricity to Pitt for the next 20 years.
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Pitt mathematicians explain how some fireflies flash in sync
Their model could shed light on more lightning bug behavior as well as other instances of synchronization in nature.
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This Pitt-Bradford alum is fighting metal pollution with microbes
A childhood fascination with nature and support from Pitt-Bradford mentors helped Jonathan Josephs-Spaulding build a career that’s taken him around the world.
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Pitt’s new $2.5 million partnership with the Pennsylvania Turnpike aims to improve the state’s roads
Electrified roadways, noise cancellation, sustainable geogrids and near real-time infrastructure modeling could soon become reality in Pennsylvania.
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Pitt’s Evan Schneider has earned a Packard Fellowship for galaxy modeling
Using her own code and the world’s fastest supercomputers, Schneider and fellow researchers can simulate galaxies with greater clarity than ever before.
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Pitt researchers are leading the way toward a Google Maps of cells
By using the city’s supercomputing superpowers, their goal is to develop a global atlas of healthy cells in the human body that any researchers can access.
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9 essential apps for Pittsburgh campus students
Stay on top of your classwork, order food and keep yourself safe with these downloads.
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Why do galaxies stop making stars? A huge collision in space provides new clues.
Merging galaxies might hurl away the gas that fuels new stars, according to a discovery by Pitt astronomers and their colleagues.
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This new chip could lead to faster, more secure AI
Developed by a team including a Pitt engineering professor, the technology performs calculations locally instead of relying on the cloud.
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Pitt is the only university in the U.S. with this giant 3D printer for metal
With the technology finally maturing and industry taking notice, Pitt engineers now have access to a machine that pushes the limits of additive manufacturing.
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Pitt brings cybersecurity concepts to local high school students during 6th annual CyberCamp
Students learn a range of technical skills including introductory digital literacy, cyber ethics and systems security.
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1 in 2 Black adolescents faced online racial discrimination in 2020, a Pitt study found
That’s significantly higher than previously documented, say the Pitt researchers who studied more than 600 youth over an 8-month period.
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Pittsburgh’s Neighborhood 91 will be home to futuristic manufacturing
A recent event at the Neighborhood 91 campus brought together the regional defense manufacturing community and showed the promise of 3D printing for industry.
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Robots are driving their US co-workers to substance abuse, a Pitt study found
Analysis of data from the U.S. and Germany found that automation reduces workplace injuries but has a negative effect on American workers’ mental health.