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Joao Barichello posing in scrubs on Pitt's campus

This Pitt senior savors the challenge

From a sixth grade Texas classroom to a Pittsburgh trauma ward, Joao Barichello’s story is one of overcoming tough situations.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Cultivate student success
Two people look down at a mannequin laying in a machine.

Pitt researchers presented several ongoing projects and their impact on PA

State Secretary Akbar Hossain met with University leaders, faculty and students during a campus visit on March 20.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Students gathered around a screen

Pitt-Greensburg’s new benchtop NMR device lets students study molecular structures

The undergraduate-friendly nuclear magnetic resonance instrument will ensure student researchers gain hands-on experience without having to leave campus.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Cultivate student success
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Pitt ranked No. 20 for granted patents among US universities in 2024

The annual National Academy of Inventors list highlights academic institutions that are driving innovation nationwide.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Pitt reasearcher looking at test tubes

Pitt researchers took the most detailed images ever of bacteria-killing viruses

The new images could help researchers engineer the phages to attack specific targets.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Cristina Murray-Krezan headshot

Cristina Murray-Krezan lent her statistical expertise to a new JAMA Internal Medicine study

The associate professor of medicine led data coordination for the research, which links a hospital-based addiction treatment to improved outcomes for patients.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Bhargava

This Pitt junior won a Goldwater Scholarship for his brain imaging research

Satyaj Bhargava, a bioengineering major, earned the national honor for undergraduates in STEM fields.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Swanson School of Engineering
A group of students stand in florescent vests on a snowy plain.

A Pitt course gave students the chance to learn firsthand from Iceland’s sustainable engineering practices

Over spring break, the Swanson School of Engineering class visited a geothermal power plant and learned how the country bakes climate resilience into everything it does.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Sustainability
  • Cultivate student success
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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2 Pitt English faculty won a Spencer Foundation grant

Jialei Jiang and Xiqiao Wang received $60,000 to conduct translingual research.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Price sits in front of a bookcase.

Rebecca Price

Transforming care for treatment-resistant depression.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Medicine
Brett Ranon Nachman

This Pitt researcher is using his own experience to help autistic students thrive on campus

After a decade of surveying and studying autistic college students, Brett Ranon Nachman has come away with some important, and surprising, insights.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • School of Education
Vesterlund in a black blazer

Lise Vesterlund will receive an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen Business School

Pitt’s Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics will give a lecture on March 21 in celebration of the honor.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt ranks among the top worldwide universities for granted patents

The list, published by the National Academy of Inventors, spotlights the role academia plays in U.S. innovation.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Portrait of Pitt alum Alex Firestine, the University's first Luce scholar.

Alum Alex Firestine is Pitt’s first Luce scholar

As part of the program, he will spend a year in Asia learning about language, culture and sustainable food systems.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Allen Hall on Pitt's campus

David Waldeck was honored by the American Chemical Society

The distinguished professor of chemistry earned the Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry for his work researching chiral-induced spin selectivity.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
The Cathedral of Learning against a blue sky

Pitt is a Fulbright Top Producer yet again

15 Pitt students and alumni earned the chance to participate in the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program in the past year.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Cultivate student success
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Ben Rubin, Horror Studies Collection Coordinator at the University Library System, stands in a darkly lit room before a table of newly acquired Blair With Project items in the Special Collections section of the Hillman Library. Items include film posters, props, pamphlets and more.

‘The Blair Witch Project’ archive has joined Pitt’s Horror Studies Collection

See props, original marketing materials and more on display at the University Library System’s Archives and Special Collections Exhibit Gallery.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
A snow-covered fountain in front of the Cathedral of Learning

Pitt is among the top 50 universities at producing research that leads to patents

The University ranked No. 43 on Clarivate’s list of universities powering global innovation.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Cooper smiles next to a simulation device, which a person in a wheelchair is using. Cooper is wearing a medal.

Meet Rory Cooper, a Hall of Fame innovator who’s been harnessing tech to build better wheelchairs for three decades

With inventions benefiting disabled veterans and other wheelchair users, the HERL director is pushing technology and entrepreneurship toward new possibilities.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Human Engineering Research Lab (HERL)
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
A student in a lab coat holds up a tray of plastic tubes

SEA-PHAGES has turned thousands of college students into more confident researchers

A $3 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant furthers the program, which is providing hands-on research opportunities at more than 150 schools, including Pitt-Greensburg.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences