Thomas Riley

Aug 26, 2024 | pittnews.com | Leah McKown |Thomas Riley |Livia LaMarca

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Aug 13, 2024 | wvia.org | Thomas Riley

Their research began as a study on how animals interact with surfaces in nature, but their latest findings challenge one of our most fundamental suppositions about surface adhesion. Ali Dhinojwala, W. Gerald Austen Endowed Chair and H.A. Morton Professor at Akron University, with his team of University of Pittsburgh’s Tevis Jacobs, University of Friedberg’s Lars Pastewka and Anirudha Sumant of the Argonne National Laboratory wanted to examine nature’s solutions to the problem of adhesion.

Aug 13, 2024 | wesa.fm | Thomas Riley

Their research began as a study on how animals interact with surfaces in nature, but their latest findings challenge one of our most fundamental suppositions about surface adhesion. Ali Dhinojwala, W. Gerald Austen Endowed Chair and H.A. Morton Professor at Akron University, with his team of University of Pittsburgh’s Tevis Jacobs, University of Friedberg’s Lars Pastewka and Anirudha Sumant of the Argonne National Laboratory wanted to examine nature’s solutions to the problem of adhesion.

Aug 6, 2024 | wesa.fm | Thomas Riley

The Allegheny YMCA is set to receive a near-total makeover beginning in the first quarter of 2025, using an accumulated $24 million in funding from grants and donations. Chief Development Officer for YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh Carolyn Grady said it will be a complete renovation of the building, which has remained practically untouched for the past 97 years. “It will be top-to-bottom — basement all the way up to the fifth floor,” Grady said.

Jul 26, 2024 | wvia.org | Thomas Riley

The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics begin on Friday, July 26, and the Paralympics will soon follow on Aug. 28. Thirty-six athletes this year on Team USA have named Pennsylvania their home state, three of whom hail from Pittsburgh with two more from the surrounding Greensburg and Murrysville. Pennsylvania has athletes in 11 Olympic games and five Paralympic games, but the commonwealth is especially represented in field hockey, where they make up over half of the 2024 team.