Yomna Badawi, research assistant professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Neuroscience, is among 11 University of Pittsburgh biomedical researchers to receive a grant from the Competitive Medical Research Fund.
George Romero and his body of work, beginning with the 1968 classic, Night of the Living Dead, are an essential part of Pittsburgh’s identity. Romero worked in Pittsburgh as an independent filmmaker specializing in the horror genre for more than four decades. His work lives on, thanks to Adam Lowenstein, professor of English and of film and media studies at the Dietrich School and director of Pitt’s Horror Studies Working Group,
This month a team of researchers from the Dietrich School's Department of Physics and Astronomy will collect atmospheric data for NASA as part of the agency’s Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning project. They’ll launch one weather balloon every hour for 31 hours, giving them a clear sense of conditions before, during and after the eclipse.
Michael Hatridge, associate professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Physics and Astronomy and co-director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI), just welcomed a new partner to PQI: Benjamin Hunt, associate professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon, has been named PQI's co-director.
A team of researchers from the Dietrich School and Pitt's School of Medicine received a five-year, $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. The three principal investigators — Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Amantha Thathiah and Associate Professors from the Department of Biological Sciences Kirill Kiselyov and Andrew VanDemark — will investigate a mitochondrial target and whether it protects cells from the neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
Spotting volcanic activity on another planet could give scientists insight into what’s going on under the hood. But that’s only if they recognize what they’re looking at.
Recent research led by Ian Flynn, a postdoctoral fellow in the Dietrich School's Department of Geology and Environmental Science, aimed to model how lava flows might look on Venus, work that will inform three upcoming missions to the planet from NASA and the European Space Agency. Their paper was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
“Books are the material form in which ideas move around,” says Adam Shear. “If we know one individual’s reading, we can see a micro-history. If we aggregate the data of what books were owned by many individuals where and when, we can see broader trends.”
Alison Langmead, director of the Visual Media Workshop in the Dietrich School's Department of History of Art and Architecture, received a $66,329 NEH grant for her project Teaching Art History with AI, which will convene college and university educators and develop open education resources on the topic.
W. Vincent Liu, a professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded $1.5 million from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to develop models in orbital physics.
Edouard Machery, distinguished professor in the Dietrich School's Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and director of Pitt’s Center for Philosophy of Science, was awarded a grant for $260,000 from the John Templeton Foundation.
