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You can now play a rare, unreleased video game from the 70s, thanks to a Pitt lab
Take a deep dive into the history of Ski Festival and the Magnavox Odyssey with Pitt鈥檚 Zachary Horton.
How a Twitter thread became a letter in Nature
Last year, a provocative paper overturned established wisdom about 鈥渟ilent鈥 genetic mutations. Pitt's Craig Kaplan and a group of biologist colleagues weren鈥檛 convinced.
Western Pa. is set to 'level up' its quantum capabilities with an $11.6 million investment from Pitt
The funding will establish the Western Pennsylvania Quantum Information Core, a cross-disciplinary effort that will position Pitt and its partners at the forefront of the field.
Students took a leading role in creating Pitt鈥檚 new Jonas Salk exhibit
Museum studies and public health students helped choose, clean and display the objects that make up the new exhibit in the School of Public Health building.
Meet Pitt鈥檚 newest Goldwater scholar
Grace Fleury fell in love with one of the most notorious fields in STEM 鈥 organic chemistry 鈥 and now she has received one of the most prestigious awards for students.
He鈥檚 going to predict your next favorite song
Pitt graduate student Hunter Osterhoudt is mixing his love of music with the power of algorithms as he pursues a master鈥檚 in computer science, thanks to Pitt2Pitt.
A Pitt lab shows phage attacks in new light
The development of new imaging methods allowed researchers in Graham Hatfull鈥檚 lab to watch, in detail, as killer phages attached to bacteria 鈥 and as resistant bacteria fought off an attack.
Alexa, congratulate these Pitt graduate students
A team of doctoral students in the School of Computing and Information is working to make AI more inclusive. Their efforts landed them among 10 finalists in this year鈥檚 Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center named a new director
James Barr von Oehsen, who was also named vice chancellor for research computing, will lead the Pitt-Carnegie Mellon venture.
Worried about students using AI chatbots? This professor isn鈥檛.
Ray Jones in Pitt Business is an avid user of ChatGPT 鈥 and he鈥檚 encouraging his students to try it, too.
See the new Webb telescope image that left a Pitt astronomer 鈥榮tarstruck鈥
Using galaxies like a magnifying glass allowed astronomers, including Rachel Bezanson, to capture never-before-seen details in a patch of sky known as Pandora鈥檚 Cluster. Look back in time with her.
The World History Center won a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant
Principal investigator Ruth Mostern will use the $350,000 award to fund an expansion of the World Historical Gazetteer.
Pitt-Greensburg unveiled its new Life Sciences Building
The two-story building, which features seven lab spaces, will allow nursing and sciences programs to grow.
How a Pitt program in the Hill District is closing the digital divide in Pittsburgh
The Community Engagement Center鈥檚 Digital Inclusion Studio promotes digital literacy and development for both adults and children.
Rory Cooper has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
With the honor, the Pitt professor and wheelchair technology innovator joins an illustrious group of innovators.
We鈥檙e asking the wrong questions about AI
The tech behind Alexa and Tesla might be smart, but is it wise? Pitt philosophers Colin Allen and Brett Karlan say exploring that question could break us out of the artificial intelligence hype cycle.
A multidisciplinary team of Pitt students will compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge
The engineering and business students are back for a second year, hoping to win the Nov. 11 race and advance the technologies powering their driverless car.
Pitt鈥檚 new solar energy partnership is among the largest in Western Pennsylvania
Construction has begun on the Gaucho Solar project, which will supply 100% of its electricity to Pitt for the next 20 years.
Pitt mathematicians explain how some fireflies flash in sync
Their model could shed light on more lightning bug behavior as well as other instances of synchronization in nature.
This Pitt-Bradford alum is fighting metal pollution with microbes
A childhood fasci91porn视频 with nature and support from Pitt-Bradford mentors helped Jonathan Josephs-Spaulding build a career that鈥檚 taken him around the world.
