“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.
Dietrich School students spent Monday, April 8 in the Texas Hill Country studying shadow bands during the solar eclipse. Sarah Boden, a reporter with Pittsburgh’s WESA, tagged along for an episode of NPR’s Short Wave podcast.
Join the Dietrich School's Department of Economics for the next part of their McKay Lecture series sponsored by the McKay Fund. The lecture is on March 29 from 2-3:30 p.m in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium and is open to the public. This year’s lecturer is John A. List who will be speaking on the topic “Leveraging Private Sector Data to Help Inform Major Social Challenges.”
The Pitt Momentum Funds are a collaboration between the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Research and the Office of the Provost and support researchers and scholars in fields from creative arts and humanities to the social sciences, to STEM and the health sciences.
The three-tiered structure of the awards makes it possible to fund work at all stages of the research cycle:
The Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant Recipients for Spring 2024 have been announced and include two Dietrich School Faculty.
Jamie Hanson, Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences was just published in The Conversation on March 8. Hanson’s article, Teenagers often know when their parents are having money problems − and that knowledge is linked to mental health challenges, new research finds, explores the psychology behind household income and child development.
Chloë Glover, a Department of Geology and Environmental Science Ph.D. Candidate in the Dietrich School has been awarded the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mendenhall Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Glover will be working with the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center on the project titled Integrated geophysical and structural analysis to identify 3D critical mineral resources and tectonic context of NE Washington.
