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When the Wireless Data Runs Dry
When the Wireless Data Runs Dry

Pitt Professor Wei Gao receives Best Paper Award for research to assess and improve the quality of synthetic wireless data

Hitting the Road to Retirement with a Legacy in the Rear View
Hitting the Road to Retirement with a Legacy in the Rear View

Pitt Civil Engineering Professor Leonard Casson retires after 38 years dedicated to his students

Surviving Hostile Venus Conditions, Finding Rare Earths and Other Critical Metals
Surviving Hostile Venus Conditions, Finding Rare Earths and Other Critical Metals

Two Pitt co-developed technologies receive prestigious 2025 R&D World 100 Awards

Trusting Your Neighborhood Satellites
Trusting Your Neighborhood Satellites

Pitt computer engineers develop trust algorithm to secure satellites in low Earth orbit

Tiny Swimmers, Big Impact: Pitt Professor Wins NSF Grant to Study Ocean Mixing
Tiny Swimmers, Big Impact: Pitt Professor Wins NSF Grant to Study Ocean Mixing

Pitt Professor Lei Fang receives $325,089 NSF grant to research the mechanics of swarms of tiny swimmers and their potential to produce large-scale flow structures

Pitt Researchers Rewire the Energy Pathways of Turbulence
Pitt Researchers Rewire the Energy Pathways of Turbulence

Pitt researchers demonstrate that the direction of turbulent energy flux can be reversed, creating a new type of turbulent flow that challenges long-standing assumptions about how energy moves through systems like oceans and the atmosphere

Translating Bamboo Across Continents and Cultures
Translating Bamboo Across Continents and Cultures

Visiting Fulbright Scholar Luisa Molari collaborates with Pitt’s Kent Harries to advance bamboo research

Saving Lives Through Simulation
Saving Lives Through Simulation

Pitt industrial engineers help develop first-of-its-kind discrete event simulation model of the blood continuum in Kenya

(Self) Determined to Inspire Students
(Self) Determined to Inspire Students

IEEE – HKN recognizes Pitt’s Kara Bocan as the 2025 C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teacher

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