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Peggy Liu Social Connection Study in Dozens of Publications

Have you ever assumed that sending your friends an unexpected text or email wouldn’t be welcomed?
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VC Mike Holland Talks to PG on CHIPS and Science Act

For the past few weeks, Pittsburgh-area universities and companies kept tabs on legislation that would direct billions of dollars to semiconductor manufacturers, and open new funding streams for advanced technology research and development.
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Pitt, UPMC Partner to Bring New Medtech Skills to Ireland

Pitt and UPMC will partner with the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland to bring medtech skills to Limerick and the surrounding community.
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Richard Garland Talks to PG on Gun Violence, Public Health

Richard Garland, director of the Violence Prevention Initiative at Pitt’s Center for Health Equity, looks at gun violence prevention through the lens of public health in an in-depth Q&A with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Pittsburgh Jumps to 13th Place on Startup Genome’s List

Technical.ly reports that Pittsburgh moved up 10 spots from its 23rd-place ranking in the last release of the Startup Genome report in September 2021.
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Murrell, PittBusiness Featured in WaPo on Return to Work Inequities

Audrey J. Murrell, senior research fellow for the David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership within Pitt Business, focuses her research on diversity, inclusion, mentoring and leadership and told the Washington Post (WaPo) the pandemic didn’t necessarily create these big-picture problems but it further exposed and exacerbated them.
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Whitney First Non-Physician Recipient of Hallpike-Nylen Award

Sue Whitney, co-director of the Post-Professional Program in Physical Therapy, received the Hallpike-Nylen Award for her lifetime achievements in vestibular clinical research at the 2022 International Bárány Society meeting.
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Skidmore Takes Research to the Next Level with Prestigious Award

The associate dean for research for Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS), Elizabeth Skidmore, has earned the 2022 Women in Rehabilitation Science Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine “to acknowledge world-class rehabilitation research conducted by a female scientist in rehabilitation science.”
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Jing Luo Pens Article for PG on 'Skyrocketing' Insulin Costs

Doctors have been treating diabetes with insulin since 1922. A century later, about 1 in 5 of the 37 million Americans living with diabetes take this medication, and the cost of that medication has caused as many as 1 in 4 diabetes patients to ration their life-sustaining medicine. 
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12 Students Win NSF Research Fellowship

Spanning disciplines in science and engineering, five undergraduate and seven graduate students received competitive awards to fund and support their research endeavors.

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Pitt Honors College Research Crosses Virtual Boundaries

This year's University Honors College Spring Research Fair allowed students to highlight their work both virtually and in person, showcasing student research, done alongside faculty mentors, across 45 majors. Students were able to share their work with the Pitt community, family, alum, and even potential employers.

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PSC to Lead New Generation of Democratized Computing

Begun in 2011 by the National Science Foundation (NSF), XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) developed a central system for researchers to share computing resources – hardware, data, and the expertise vital for first-time users applying advanced computing to creative new research. Call XSEDE an on-ramp to advanced computing.

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Pitt Researchers Work to Generate Hydrogen from Natural Gas

Two Pitt researchers from the Chemical and Engineering department were featured in a story on WESA radio about regional industry working to generate hydrogen from natural gas.
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Pitt Historian and Poet Recognized with Guggenheim Awards and More

Harvey is one of seven fellows selected in poetry. She draws on her writing while teaching in Pitt’s writing program, encouraging her students to embrace the complexity of the writing process, and allowing them to work through the discomfort and pressure of a messy first draft and revising. Similarly, her poetry and prose writing embark on topics that can bring discomfort – such as relationships between mothers and daughters and mental health – topics often not talked about.

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Pitt Researchers Help Explain How Ritalin Sharpens Attention

Several news outlets covered research from University of Pittsburgh neuroscientists led by neuroscience professor Marlene Cohen, that takes a rare look at how Ritalin affects activity in the brains of animals, providing a deeper understanding of how groups of brain cells govern attention and pointing to new possible uses for the stimulant.