Patrick Monahan

Jan 10, 2025 | bicyclecoalition.org | Patrick Monahan

On Tuesday, January 7th, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced the first round of Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP) funding which provided $44.5 million for active transportation networks to connect walking and biking routes nationwide.

Dec 4, 2024 | pitt.edu | Patrick Monahan

Cancer, according to Pitt Department of Medicine Assistant Professor Jason Lohmueller, is a “tricky beast.” It changes in response to therapies and, as far as treatment is concerned, it’s sometimes better to think about it as multiple diseases at once. With a new modular technology to deliver immunotherapies to cancer cells, Lohmueller he believes he has helped create a weapon to slay that beast. And together with collaborator Alex Deiters, a chemistry professor in Pitt’s Kenneth P.

Nov 26, 2024 | bicyclecoalition.org | Patrick Monahan

Photo: Steve Buck with Chester County Planning Commission discussing the future of the Chester Valley Trail’s Downingtown Trestle Bridge shown in the distance. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) has announced its fall Community Conservation Partnerships Program grants for Circuit Trails, local trails, parks and safety improvement projects funded with a variety of state and federal funding sources in Pennsylvania.

Nov 21, 2024 | pitt.edu | Patrick Monahan

Adi Mittal was ready to click the button. He and his collaborator Kamil Nowicki were sitting on an important finding and were about to submit it to a major neurosurgery conference. They knew it would make a splash, maybe even win an award. But they hesitated. “And then prior to clicking ‘submit,’ Kamil says, ‘Wait. I think this could lead to an innovation,” Mittal described.

Nov 19, 2024 | pitt.edu | Patrick Monahan

Publishing in Nature is a crowning achievement for any researcher, marking the kind of work that can make a career. Peng Liu and his students managed it twice earlier this year — in the same month. The Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences professor is on a hot streak that shows no sign of stopping, and those two papers — though just a small sample of the many recent high-profile studies his team has published — serve as a guidepost for how he does it.