Evan Facher, vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship and associate dean for commercial translation at Pitt's School of Medicine, has been named to the PGH Power 100 list for 2023 by Pittsburgh Business Times. This list features the region's most influential business leaders. Read more >>
Gooden became co-editor of Language, the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America, which publishes peer-reviewed articles exploring linguistic theory and a wide range of subfields of linguistics.
“It feels like a homecoming to have the journal at Pitt,” Gooden says. Former Language editor Sarah Thomason was a linguistics professor at Pitt from 1972 to 1999 and served as editor from 1988 to 1994. In addition to being the second woman from Pitt, Gooden is the first woman of color to serve as editor.
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Innovation pioneer Rory Cooper -- Pitt’s assistant vice chancellor for research for STEM-Health Sciences Collaborations, FISA – PVA distinguished professor, and director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) -- has just been honored as part of the 50th class of National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) Inductees. He will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in October for his extensive work in wheelchair technology.
Over the past five years, our sponsored projects have been consistently on the rise, and this past fiscal year, Pitt surpassed $1 billion in research expenditures for external awards. That puts us 15th in an elite group of American universities. Our annual report highlights our research. Read more >>
Pitt surpassed a landmark of $1 billion in research expenditures from external awards, placing the University among an elite national cohort of research peers.
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The Senior Vice Chancellor for Research provides strategic vision, leadership, and partnership expertise that helps University of Pittsburgh faculty and students advance their world-class research, scholarship, and innovation. Pitt Research couples the research efforts of faculty and students to funding agencies, corporate sponsors, other institutions, and government entities, and assures integrity, compliance, and excellence.
Rob A. Rutenbar is responsible for advancing Pitt’s mission to expand the frontiers of knowledge and positively impact the world through collaborative and multidisciplinary approaches to research. He leads six offices focused on the full breadth of the research enterprise -- from pursuing and securing sponsorships and funding, through ensuring adherence to the highest standards to research conduct, and providing cutting-edge resources to researchers, to creative collaborations that lead to successful commercialization.
