Charles Jones, a teaching professor in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science in the Dietrich School was recently featured in a WESA article. The article, “How ancestral rivers carved up — and flattened — Pittsburgh” talks about how the hills, valleys, and rivers of Pittsburgh have shaped the landscape of the city.
A research team at Pitt led by Alexander Star, a chemistry professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has developed a fentanyl sensor that is six orders of magnitude more sensitive than any electrochemical sensor for the drug reported in the past five years. The portable sensor can also tell the difference between fentanyl and other opioids.
David Waldeck, a professor in the Department of Chemistry in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences along with researchers from the University of North Carolina were published in
Undergraduate students with the Department of Mathematics in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the University Library System at Pitt have launched a new peer-reviewed open-access journal, the Pittsburgh Interdisciplinary Mathematics Review (PIMR).
Physics has long suffered from the perception that the most cutting-edge work is done by lone geniuses, usually white men. It’s a bias that’s seeped into how instructors interact with their students, and even into how students think about themselves. Prior research has shown that female students who get A’s in introductory physics think they’re as good at physics as male students who get C’s.
The GRFP is a prestigious program that supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in more than 100 NSF-supported STEM fields. NSF selects a pool of about 2,000 fellowships from 14,000 applicants. These fellowships serve as three years of financial support that can be used over a five-year period at accredited U.S. institutions, including an annual stipend of $34,000 and a cost-of-education allowance of $12,000 that graduate institutions agree to accept in lieu of charging tuition and fees.
When a single bacterial cell divides into two during periods of rapid growth, it doesn’t split in half once it reaches a predetermined size. Instead, data has shown, a cell will divide once it has added a certain amount of mass.
The two processes sound similar, but they each carry different risks. Many researchers believed it was a safer bet for the cell if it split once it reached a certain size.
“After working with students here at Pitt for more than a decade helping to design the DESI survey, it is extremely exciting to see the beautiful results coming out of just the first year’s worth of data,” said Jeffrey A. Newman, professor of physics and astronomy in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Newman was a member of the team that designed the DESI survey.
The 17th annual Pitt Sustainability Symposium is happening on April 19th. The Symposium will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Ohara Student Center Ballroom. It will feature student capstone presentations from two sustainability courses and the Pitt Sustainability Awards will be held at noon. You can register for the event here.
The Dietrich School is excited to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed open-access journal, the Pittsburgh Interdisciplinary Mathematics Review (PIMR), the first collaborative effort between the School’s Department of Mathematics and the University of Pittsburgh Library System. You can access the entire first issue at pimr.pitt.edu.
