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Pitt and the Smithsonian have teamed up to teach life sciences skills to local middle schoolers

Jan 13, 2025 | pitt.edu | Donovan Harrell

Middle school students in Pittsburgh’s Greater Hazelwood neighborhood are getting hands-on with biotechnology thanks to a partnership between Pitt’s Office of Engagement and Community Affairs (ECA) and the Smithsonian Science Education Center. This collaboration brings the Smithsonian Biotechnology Curriculum to Greater Hazelwood, providing students with engaging activities that highlight real-world applications of life sciences education.
Pitt senior Katie Currie and her twin won $88K on ‘Wheel of Fortune’

Jan 13, 2025 | pitt.edu | Donovan Harrell

Katie Currie, a senior studying finance and supply chain management in Pitt’s College of Business Administration, won big on “Wheel of Fortune” during the game show’s 50th anniversary week. She appeared on the episode with her identical twin, Christina, a senior at the University of Richmond. The sisters are from Severna Park, Maryland. The twins kicked off the game strong, winning $12,100 in an early puzzle and trips to Portugal and Hawaii in subsequent rounds.
For this Pitt alumna, to dance is to dream

Jan 7, 2025 | pitt.edu | Ervin Dyer

At 16, Ayisha Morgan-Lee pirouettes to her first International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference and Festival. The event, in Denver, Colorado, places her in a room full of dancers who remind her of all the greats that she has dreamed about and whose images she has collected in a scrapbook: Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Josephine Baker and more. “I fell in love with wanting to dance on stage because I saw people who looked like me,” says Morgan-Lee.
How this Pitt duo’s startup plans to attack the ‘tricky beast’ that is cancer

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.
James Maher, a provost emeritus who drove progress at Pitt for 16 years, died at 82

Nov 26, 2024 | pitt.edu | Ervin Dyer

James V. Maher, who served as a visionary and committed provost and senior vice chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh for 16 years, died at his Squirrel Hill home on Nov. 21. He was 82.
3 Pitt researchers presented at a local Sips of Science event

Nov 25, 2024 | pitt.edu | Donovan Harrell

An inaugural Sips of Science on Nov. 12 event brought together community members and University of Pittsburgh experts for discussions about groundbreaking research at Trace Brewing in the city’s Bloomfield neighborhood. Inspired by Pitt Professor Marlene Behrmann and her prior outreach efforts, the event was the result of a collaboration with the Eye and Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh and multiple departments in the School of Medicine.
This Pitt medical student wants to make tests for cerebral aneurysms simpler and more effective

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.
Employees, you can now share your career milestones with these Pitt graphics

Nov 20, 2024 | pitt.edu | Donovan Harrell

Announcements and Updates Have you recently hit a major career milestone, achieved a professional goal or celebrated a work anniversary? Now, Pitt employees can share these accomplishments with the world in style. The Office of Human Resources has created a collection of vibrant graphics designed to highlight your career achievements, education milestones and other major moments at Pitt.
Peng Liu is unraveling new reactions - and new ways of working together

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.
Out now: ‘Nightbloom’ and more winter reading from Pitt alumni authors

Nov 15, 2024 | pitt.edu | Ervin Dyer

After her parents left Liberia to escape its expanding civil war, Peace Adzo Medie grew up with her grandmother in Ho, in southeastern Ghana, West Africa. Her grandmother, Juliana, built a reading bubble around the little girl. If Peace had a book, she’d shoo away family members and free her granddaughter from housework and other responsibilities so she could melt into her reading. Though the grandmother couldn’t read, literacy was a gift she gave to Medie.