Patrick Dunn and Alireza Mohammadzadeh, both graduate researchers in the Swanson School of Engineering, have been named finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition for their invention, AgriNUE.
School of Medicine Assistant Professor Jay Tan received an R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project to research how our cells repair components called lysosomes.
Daniel Pan, a fourth-year medical student, received the 2024 West Virginia’s Governor’s Service Award. Pan was one of six recipients of this prestigious award and the only recipient in the adult category.
Assistant Professor Andrey Parkhitko earned a new grant from the National Institute on Aging to investigate whether the methionine cycle — a process crucial to many cellular functions — plays a role in controlling multiple hallmarks of aging.
Seven faculty members will be recognized at the Heinz History Center on Nov. 7.
Cuilan Liu, assistant professor of religious studies in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has published “Buddhism in Court: Religion, Law, and Jurisdiction in China” (Oxford University Press).
Pitt mathematics student Lark Song was recognized for his research poster at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) MathFest in Indianapolis.
Marc Coutanche, associate professor of psychology in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and research scientist in the Learning Research and Development Center, has been elected as board secretary to the Federation of Associations in Behavior and Brain Sciences.
Samuel Woolley, Endowed Chair of Disinformation Studies in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, won the Association of Internet Researchers’ (AoIR) Nancy Baym Book Annual Award.
Korion Health, a startup led by Pitt students, won $1 million in the competition, which challenges for-profit student entrepreneurs from around the world to create and launch businesses aimed at tackling the most pressing challenges they see in their communities.
