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Infecting Students With a Love of Science
National studies may show that high school students are losing interest in science, but don’t tell Andrew Hrykowian. As a sophomore at Greater Latrobe Senior High School, he began research that would … more →
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Infecting Students With a Love of Science
Karen wrote 3 years ago: National studies may show that high school students are losing interest in science, but don’t tell A … more →
Toward a Quantum Computer, One Dot at a Time
Karen wrote 3 years ago: Pitt researchers have developed a way to create semiconductor islands smaller than 10 nanometers in … more →
Lots of Flowers and Trees, Not Enough Birds and Bees
Karen wrote 3 years ago: In biodiversity hot spots like tropical rainforests, a dearth of pollinators could be putting many s … more →
The Many Tongues of the Arab World
Karen wrote 3 years ago: Under the Iraqi sun, sweat pours down the soldier’s face and into his eyes. He squints at the man st … more →
Pitt Researchers Develop Less Risky Treatment for Depression, Seizures
Karen wrote 3 years ago: Pitt researchers, with the help of a team of Pittsburgh high school science teachers, have developed … more →
Finding Superconductors That Can Take the Heat
Karen wrote 4 years ago: The search for superconductors that function at higher temperatures has taken a step forward with ne … more →
Pitt’s Schafmeister, Student Win Feynman Prizes for Work on “Molecular Lego® Set”
Karen wrote 4 years ago: A Pitt researcher and his student have been awarded prestigious prizes from the Foresight Nanotech I … more →
GSPIA Panel Discusses Economic Solutions to Global Problems
Karen wrote 4 years ago: Extreme poverty—defined as lacking access to adequate nutrition, clean drinking water, safe shelter, … more →
Roundup® Kills Frogs and Tadpoles, Pitt Biologist Rick Relyea Discovers
Karen wrote 4 years ago: As amphibians continue to mysteriously disappear worldwide, a Pitt researcher may have found more pi … more →
Pitt, Bell Labs Researchers Send “Heavy Photons” Over World-Record Distances
Karen wrote 4 years ago: Scientists from Pitt and Bell Labs reported that they have designed and demonstrated a two-dimension … more →
Pitt Researchers See Electron Waves in Motion for First Time
Karen wrote 4 years ago: Both the ancient art of stained glass and the cutting-edge field of plasmonics rely on the oscillati … more →
Pitt graduate and future doctor Kahleb Graham works to help underprivileged students succeed, too
Karen wrote 4 years ago: In the remote Ghanaian village of Jukwa last summer, Kahleb Graham and fellow Pitt students helped t … more →
Pitt professor says personalization is the key to more effective online searching
Karen wrote 4 years ago: To make searching for information more effective, make it personal: That is the message from Pitt fa … more →
Disease as an Enemy, and a Weapon
Karen wrote 4 years ago: “Technology is a queer thing,” writer and scientist C.P. Snow once observed. “It brings you great gi … more →
Herbicide Roundup ‘Extremely Lethal’ to Amphibians in Natural Setting, Relyea Finds
Karen wrote 4 years ago: The herbicide “Roundup” is widely used to eradicate weeds. But a new study by a Pitt researcher find … more →
Pitt Researcher, Colleagues Create Self-Assembling Nanoparticle/Polymer Mixtures
Karen wrote 4 years ago: Pitt researcher Anna Balazs and her colleagues announced March 3 in the journal Nature that they hav … more →
Cleaning Waste with Waste
Karen wrote 4 years ago: On Tuesday, March 15, the Environmental Protection Agency issued the Clean Air Mercury Rule, the fir … more →
Discovering the Secrets of Neutrinos
Karen wrote 4 years ago: Frederick Reines, discoverer of the neutrino, described it as “the most tiny quantity of reality eve … more →
“Extreme Diligence and Courage”
Karen wrote 4 years ago: How did Alice Scales get from a cotton farm in Mississippi to Pitt, where today she is a nationally … more →
