The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
Anna Li, winner of the Hult Prize, poses with a dog.

Pitt student wins “student Nobel Prize” by building her own medical device company

By Emma Hannan, Contributing Editor • September 26, 2024
Anna Li, a doctoral student at Pitt, won the Hult Prize in September. The $1 million in prize money was awarded to Li’s company Korion Health, which makes medical devices for patients to use at home.
The Big Idea Center on Forbes Avenue.

Big Idea Center’s new ChangeMaker Series encourages student entrepreneurship

By Elizabeth Primrose, Senior Staff Writer • January 31, 2024
The Big Idea Center aims to provide a place for Pitt students at any level or in any discipline to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation with the new ChangeMaker Series.
Becca Segal, a chemistry graduate student and CEO of FlowCellutions, explains her product, FlowCells, to two Pitt students at the Big Idea Center.

Saxbys opens location in Big Idea Center

By Khushi Rai, Staff Writer • September 19, 2022
The Big Idea Center opened up the third Saxbys location on the corner of Forbes and Meyran Ave. at the start of the fall semester.
Pitt’s Big Idea Center, a project newly established by the University’s Innovation Institute, is housed in Gardner Steel Conference Center. (Photo by Anne Amundson | Staff Photographer)

Big Idea Center brings innovation to Pitt

By Brittany Zortman | For the Pitt News • July 11, 2018

Pitt students will soon have the opportunity to fit their big ideas into one space — a workplace that will harbor the tools and resources they need to make these ideas a reality. This year the University...

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