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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
The Cathedral of Learning.

ScienceWriters2025 conference loses Pittsburgh as host after Pitt and CMU withdraw support

By Madeline Ward, Staff Writer • March 24, 2025
Research budget cuts led Pitt and CMU to cancel their commitment to host the ScienceWriters2025 conference, leaving hundreds of writers and journalists without a venue to meet.
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Potential NIH funding cut impacts cause fear among Pitt researchers and administration

By Emma Wu, Staff Writer • February 21, 2025
The NIH announced a funding cut, which caps indirect costs to 15% of funding in grants. With the potential decrease in funding, Pitt researchers and the Pitt community are worried about how careers, economy and research will be impacted.
The Cathedral of Learning.

44 Pitt students named Brackenridge Fellowship winners

By Emma Hannan, Staff Writer • June 18, 2024
44 Pitt students received the Brackenridge Fellowship from the Frederick Honors College, providing the students with funding to complete independent research or creative work under the guidance of a faculty member.
A row of test tubes in a lab.

Opinion | Undergraduate research is all about the experience

By Harsh Hiwase, Senior Staff Columnist • November 30, 2022
I don’t think being in a research lab is a means to an end — I find that is an end in itself.
Montez Newsome, a junior mathematics-economics major, studies for an organic chemistry project at Hillman Library on Friday evening.

Study finds that Pitt students’ mental, physical health still struggling one year into the pandemic

By Natalie Frank, News Editor • December 6, 2021
Despite loosened COVID-19 requirements, the start of in-person activities and the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine, a recent study revealed that many Pitt students’ mental health has not significantly improved since the onset of the pandemic.
Mosaic of Learning | The daunting first experience in research

Mosaic of Learning | The daunting first experience in research

By Khushi Rai, For The Pitt News • November 11, 2021
In this week’s edition of Mosaic of Learning, Khushi Rai talks about where students can find research opportunities at the University.
The Cathedral of Learning.

Pitt physicists win prestigious research awards

By Millicent Watt, Assistant News Editor • November 10, 2021
Two Pitt physicists — Vittorio Paolone and Andrew Mugler — received prestigious awards from the American Physics Society.
A team of researchers has recently shown seven independent virus variant lineages across the United States that have evolved a mutation in the same place on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Local sequencing company Microbial Genome Sequencing Center did the sequencing for this study.

Local sequencing efforts reveal patterns in COVID-19 variant evolution

By Mische Holland, For The Pitt News • April 21, 2021
A team of researchers has recently shown seven independent virus variant lineages across the United States, which have evolved a mutation in the same place on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
Rob Rutenbar, the senior vice chancellor for research, leads Pitt’s Task Force on Research Restart.

Pitt task force planning research restart effort

By Ashton Crawley, Senior Staff Writer • May 14, 2020
Rob Rutenbar, the senior vice chancellor for research, said at Thursday afternoon’s Senate Council meeting that research is restarting now on a rolling basis after originally shutting down in March. He added that due to the pandemic, labs are now required to place pandemic-specific protective measures in place. “That means that in many cases, laboratory environments have to be reconfigured to maintain social distancing,” Rutenbar said. “That may mean that schedules have to be modified in order to not have too many people in the room at the same time. They have to show that they’re ready to do that.”
Pitt alum Sarah DeMaria speaks about special education teacher retention at Tuesday morning’s “Breakfast with Disability Researcher Sarah DeMaria” in the Honors College.

Disability researcher Sarah DeMaria talks special education at Alumni Breakfast

By Natalie Frank, Staff Writer • February 5, 2020
Sarah DeMaria spoke about special education research at the Honors College’s Alumni Breakfast series on Tuesday morning in the Cathedral of Learning.
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