University of Pittsburgh researchers have been awarded a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of a new program investigating how ableism contributes to health ...

After three years as a member, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Joan Gabel has risen to the role of chair of the Fulbright Scholar Advisory Board (CIES). Sarah Ilchman, co-president of the ...

Though it’s known as the “good cholesterol,” higher levels of HDL-C have been shown to correlate with heightened risk for Alzheimer’s disease. A new study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and ...

Tao Han, Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has won the American Physical Society’s (APS) 2025 Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award.

Holden Thorp — a chemist, pharmaceutical executive and editor-in-chief at the journal Science — will serve as speaker for Pitt’s 2024 winter commencement. The ceremony is Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. in the ...

Pitt Chancellor Joan Gabel and Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian celebrated Pittsburgh’s role as an AI Tech Community by signing a ceremonial memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA ...

We may be seeing mostly cloud cover in Pittsburgh, but there really is a comet in the skies. And it’s worth looking up for this once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon — Tsuchinshan-ATLAS won’t be back for ...

Kathryn Schmitz, an exercise oncology researcher in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Hillman Cancer Center, has won the Lifetime Impact Award from the President’s Council on Sports, ...

Pennsylvania faces one of the United States’ lowest levels of digital literacy and connectivity, according to its Department of Labor and Industry. To address this issue, the Greater Pittsburgh ...

Michael Deem and Jennifer Lingler, both core faculty within Pitt’s Center for Bioethics and Health Law, co-edited a new book, “Nursing Ethics: Normative Foundations, Advanced Concepts, and Emerging ...

Grete Gansauer, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, earned a National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The $188,360 in ...

The School of Medicine assistant professor covers how this group has historically exhibited resilience regarding their health, parenting and communities.