SheLeads Women’s Forum @ SCI
Thursday, Mar. 30 | 3 to 6 PM (In-person)
In honor of Women’s History Month, join the School of Computing and Information SheLeads Women’s Forum. A great opportunity for leaders in engineering and natural sciences, the event will kick off with a keynote by Dr. Catherine Marsh, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, followed by a panel of speakers from around the region.
Checklist for Investigators Leaving the University
If Spring Cleaning is on your calendar in the next few months, it is a good time to review the checklist for researchers leaving Pitt. This will help you and members of your research team plan any future moves with your research at Pitt and beyond. Be sure to complete this required online form as early as possible.
Celebration of Innovation
Tuesday, Apr. 25 | 5 to 7 PM (In-person)
Celebrate the accomplishments of Pitt innovators who are seeking to improve people's lives through the commercialization of their ideas and discoveries. The event will be held at the Petersen Events Center, Campus View Club.
Tip of the Week
The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) regularly sends Tip of the Week emails to its partners in the Pitt Research community to share information about internal processes, sponsor guidance and other helpful information related to sponsored projects.
IARPA Director Coming to Campus to Discuss Research Opportunities
Researchers interested in learning more about research opportunities relevant to U.S. intelligence have an opportunity to connect with Catherine Marsh, director of federal Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and her leadership team, on Thursday, March 30 at 3 PM.
Pitt Faculty Convocation: Creativity, Achievement and Two Fond Farewells
Pitt’s 2023 Faculty Honors Convocation on Thursday, March 16 honored high-achieving faculty in several categories, for the effort and creativity they put into research and teaching. Faculty from every school and discipline across the University community were recognized for work in virology and organ transplants, astronomy, chemistry and material science, engineering, history, and filmmaking, and far more. The roll call of the achievements of Pitt faculty make for a long, impressive list – that is inevitably incomplete.
James Webb Telescope Research “Fun and Intense”
Equipped with four sensitive instruments at frigid temperatures about a million miles from Earth, the Webb Telescope is able to resolve objects that are faint in the eyes of predecessors like the Hubble Space Telescope. Rachel Bezanson, Pitt associate professor of astronomy, described the days following these observations as “fun and intense.” Bezanson and her team will continue to look deeper into space for more ancient galaxies.Pitt Signs Agreement with Fisher Scientific for Scientific Supplies and Stockroom Services
Fisher Scientific, which has been a University-wide contracted supplier for scientific supplies since 2010, has entered into a seven-year agreement to provide the overall best value to Pitt’s scientists.Inventor’s Guide from Pitt's Innovation Institute
Have you invented something new while at Pitt? The Innovation Institute at Pitt negotiates licensing agreements and assists faculty throughout the process of commercializing new discoveries gleaned from research. This step-by-step guide can help you determine if you’re ready to take your work to market and how to start that process.
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Apply for $5,000 AWS Cloud Credits for Your Research Projects from CRC
In collaboration with Pitt Information Technology and Amazon Web Services (AWS), Pitt’s Center for Research Computing (CRC) offers up to $5,000 in seed funding and consultative services to Pitt faculty, as well as postdocs and graduate students with approval from their supervisor.
Cloud computing offers great benefits for researchers – virtually unlimited resources, no queues, cutting-edge applications, no hardware to buy or manage and the freedom to compute from any device, anywhere.
Community Engaged Scholarship Forum
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Engaging with the community is second nature at Pitt with a long history of finding and uncovering insights that propel all of us toward a better, safer world. Problems being tackled include climate change, social justice and education.
What Makes Your Research Trustworthy? Threats and Opportunities
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Annual Research Ethics Day Conference
This year’s conference will focus on the importance of optimizing and signaling the trustworthiness of research. Trustworthiness is necessary in order to maintain the trust of colleagues, participants, those who apply our research, and the wider public. National leaders will discuss the expectations of all these collaborators and audiences, including research funders, partners, participants, trainees, and journals.
James Barr von Oehsen Named PSC Director
James Barr von Oehsen has been selected the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, and concurrently, the vice chancellor for research computing at Pitt effective May 1, 2023. He will also hold appointments on the research faculty of Carnegie Mellon’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Pitt’s Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Informatics.
Kaufman Foundation Awards Pitt Teams in Quantum Computing and Genetics
Two teams of faculty were each awarded $300,000 grants from the Charles E.