University of Pittsburgh

April 2013

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April 30, 2013
Pitt’s Falk School Students to Test Young Visitor Booklets at Flight 93 National Memorial May 2
April 30, 2013
Pitt Participates in Global Research Exchange for Scholars Studying International Affairs Issues
April 30, 2013
Coaching Boys into Men Program Proves Effective in Preventing Teen Dating Violence, Follow-Up Study Finds »
April 30, 2013
Coaching Boys into Men Program Proves Effective in Preventing Teen Dating Violence, Follow-Up Study Finds »
April 29, 2013
The Greatest Compliment One Can Pay Is, “You Made a Difference,” Patrick D. Gallagher Tells Graduates at Pitt's Commencement
April 29, 2013
Many Stressors Associated With Fracking Due to Perceived Lack of Transparency and Trust, Pitt Finds »
April 29, 2013
Many Stressors Associated With Fracking Due to Perceived Lack of Transparency and Trust, Pitt Finds »
April 26, 2013
Pitt Hosts Second Annual University of Pittsburgh-Tsinghua University Joint Symposium on Medical Sciences »
April 26, 2013
Pitt Hosts Second Annual University of Pittsburgh-Tsinghua University Joint Symposium on Medical Sciences »
April 25, 2013
Pitt Students Receive Whitaker Awards for International Bioengineering Research and Study
April 25, 2013
Pitt Professor Lauren Resnick Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 25, 2013
Pitt Team Finds Melatonin Delays ALS Symptom Onset and Death in Mice »
April 25, 2013
Pitt Team Finds Melatonin Delays ALS Symptom Onset and Death in Mice »
April 25, 2013
First Mellon Scholars Appointed to The Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC »
April 25, 2013
First Mellon Scholars Appointed to The Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC »
April 24, 2013
2013 Omicron Delta Kappa Senior of the Year Award Granted to Urban Studies and Sociology Senior Katherine Malekoff
April 24, 2013
News of Note From Pitt
April 24, 2013
Mild Blast Injury Causes Molecular Changes in Brain Akin to Alzheimer’s Disease, Pitt-Led Team Says »
April 24, 2013
Mild Blast Injury Causes Molecular Changes in Brain Akin to Alzheimer’s Disease, Pitt-Led Team Says »
April 23, 2013
Pitt and Pittsburgh Filmmakers to Host 15th Annual Russian Film Symposium April 29-May 4
April 23, 2013
Graduating Pitt Senior Leah P. Swanzy Named 2013 Emma Locke Award Winner
April 23, 2013
Pitt’s University Center for Social and Urban Research Celebrates Four Decades of Accomplishments
April 22, 2013
Pitt Education Professor One of Only 10 Team Leaders Nationwide Awarded a Year’s Exclusive Access to Unique Gates Foundation-Sponsored Dataset on Teacher Evaluation
April 22, 2013
Pitt’s African American Alumni Council Honors Four Distinguished Alumni as Rising African American Leaders
April 22, 2013
Instructions for Media Covering the University of Pittsburgh April 28 Commencement Ceremony
April 22, 2013
University of Pittsburgh to Hold 2013 Commencement April 28 in the Petersen Events Center
April 22, 2013
Text Message Reminders Don’t Raise Flu Shot Participation in Pregnant Women »
April 22, 2013
Text Message Reminders Don’t Raise Flu Shot Participation in Pregnant Women »
April 19, 2013
Pitt—Among the “Most Environmentally Responsible Colleges in the U.S. and Canada”—Profiled in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges
April 19, 2013
Pitt Experts Available to Discuss Chechnya, Terrorism in the Wake of Boston Marathon Bombings
April 19, 2013
Pitt Law Expert Available to Comment on U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Company
April 19, 2013
Pitt Disaster Management Expert Available to Comment on Fertilizer Plant Explosion
April 18, 2013
Future Lawyers Day: A Look at the Legal Profession
April 18, 2013
Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Study Receives Top 10 Award From Nation’s Leading Medical Centers »
April 18, 2013
Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Study Receives Top 10 Award From Nation’s Leading Medical Centers »
April 17, 2013
Recipe for Making Large Numbers of Stem Cells Requires Only One Ingredient, says NIH/Pitt Team »
April 17, 2013
Recipe for Making Large Numbers of Stem Cells Requires Only One Ingredient, says NIH/Pitt Team »
April 16, 2013
Mark J. Shlomchik, M.D., Ph.D., Named Chair of Department of Immunology, Pitt School of Medicine »
April 16, 2013
Mark J. Shlomchik, M.D., Ph.D., Named Chair of Department of Immunology, Pitt School of Medicine »
April 16, 2013
Pitt Law Expert Available to Comment on Salinas v. Texas Case Challenging the Fifth Amendment’s Self-Incrimination Clause, to Be Argued April 17 Before the U.S. Supreme Court
April 15, 2013
“Swing Into Spring” at Annual Pitt Jazz Ensemble Concert April 18
April 15, 2013
J. Evans Rose Jr. Prize for Public Service Established at the University of Pittsburgh
April 15, 2013
Director of National Institute of Standards and Technology and Pitt Alumnus Patrick D. Gallagher Named University of Pittsburgh’s 2013 Commencement Speaker
April 12, 2013
Eat Any Good Books Lately? Pitt’s University Library System to Hold Edible Book Fest April 18
April 12, 2013
News of Note From Pitt
April 12, 2013
Aged National Power Grid Leaves U.S. Vulnerable to Outages from Spring Storms
April 12, 2013
Awards and Accolades: University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences Announce Faculty, Staff Achievements »
April 12, 2013
Awards and Accolades: University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences Announce Faculty, Staff Achievements »
April 11, 2013
Joseph Romm, “Hero of the Environment” and a Leading Climate Expert, to Deliver April 17 Pitt Lecture on Climate Change
April 11, 2013
Pitt Quantum Initiative to Gather Physicists, Chemists, and Other Researchers to Discuss Quantum Science April 18-19
April 11, 2013
Award-Winning Author, Essayist, and Journalist Anne Fadiman to Deliver Free Public Reading at Pitt April 15
April 10, 2013
Gerald Early, Noted Essayist and American Culture Scholar, Asks, At His April 16 Pitt Lecture, “Is Black Music Criminal?”
April 10, 2013
Pitt’s Attilio “Buck” Favorini Bids Farewell to Campus Community April 12 With Free Public Lecture, “The Last Class”
April 10, 2013
Pitt Team Gets $5 Million NIH Grant to Make Vaccine Component That Stimulates TB-fighting T-cells »
April 10, 2013
Pitt Team Gets $5 Million NIH Grant to Make Vaccine Component That Stimulates TB-fighting T-cells »
April 10, 2013
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Study Reveals Success Rate of Minimally Invasive Surgical Approaches in Infants »
April 10, 2013
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Study Reveals Success Rate of Minimally Invasive Surgical Approaches in Infants »
April 9, 2013
UPCI Researchers Present Early Findings of Cancer Studies at AACR Annual Meeting »
April 9, 2013
UPCI Researchers Present Early Findings of Cancer Studies at AACR Annual Meeting »
April 9, 2013
Pitt International Criminal Law Scholar Charles C. Jalloh to Participate in April 10 UN Thematic Debate on the Achievement of International Criminal Justice in Light of the Work of the Ad Hoc and Permanent International Criminal Courts
April 9, 2013
UPMC’s Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services (CABS) Program Receives National Honor for Integration Efforts »
April 9, 2013
UPMC’s Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services (CABS) Program Receives National Honor for Integration Efforts »
April 8, 2013
Artworks by Pitt Students Featured in Exhibition Through April 27
April 8, 2013
Penn’s Cooper to be Awarded Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology »
April 8, 2013
Penn’s Cooper to be Awarded Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology »
April 8, 2013
Pennsylvania Cancer Planning Summit To Be Held at UPMC »
April 8, 2013
Pennsylvania Cancer Planning Summit To Be Held at UPMC »
April 5, 2013
International Brazilian Conference to Be Hosted by Pitt April 12 and 13
April 5, 2013
Free April 11 Event at Pitt Explores “People’s Poetry/People’s History” With Two Nationally Renowned, Award-Winning Authors
April 5, 2013
Texas “Super Lawyer” and Raising the Bar Author Talmage Boston to Speak at Pitt at Noon and 5 p.m. April 11
April 4, 2013
News of Note From Pitt
April 4, 2013
University of Pittsburgh Calendar April 14-20
April 3, 2013
Pitt Presents Sixth Annual Student Sustainability Symposium April 12
April 3, 2013
Pitt Students Garner Three Goldwater Scholarships, a Udall Scholarship, and an Honorable Mention in Each of the Competitions
April 2, 2013
Total Buzz Kill: Metals in Flowers May Play Role in Bumblebee Decline
April 2, 2013
“Culturally Competent” Health Care the Topic of Pitt Lecture April 3
April 1, 2013
Pitt Announces Partnership With China’s Sichuan University to Establish Joint Engineering Institute
April 1, 2013
Pitt Team Finds Protein That Ramps Up Inflammation, and Agents That Can Block It »
April 1, 2013
Pitt Team Finds Protein That Ramps Up Inflammation, and Agents That Can Block It »