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Hope for Handwriting: Enhancing Skills Through Occupational Therapy
By Parmitha Chanduri
Photography by Rayni Shiring/University of Pittsburgh
In an era dominated by digital communication, handwriting remains a critical foundational skill—especially for young learners. Hope for Handwriting, an innovative program developed through the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, offers individualized...
Paula Marie Powe on Engaging Black Fathers: Reimagining Early Childhood Support
By Parmitha Chanduri
Photography by Joshua Franzos
At the heart of Paula Marie Powe’s work lies a simple but powerful belief: early intervention can change the trajectory of a child’s life. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, as well as an assistant professor of psychiatry, Powe has dedicated her career to understanding and preventing early childhood trauma—...
Pitt Named One of the Nation's Best Schools for Men in Nursing
At the Intersection of Machine Learning and Multiomics, Pitt Researcher Shares Keys to Understanding Disease
By Shannon Turgeon
Photography by Joshua Franzos
Hatice Ülkü Osmanbeyoğlu began exploring biomedical informatics—a rapidly evolving area of study that involves using technology to improve medical research and clinical care—at the University of Pittsburgh as a doctoral student.
Osmanbeyoğlu, who is now an associate professor of biomedical informatics at...
Pitt Dental and Medical Researchers Team Up on $17M Grant to Understand TMD Pain
Photography by Rayni Shiring/University of Pittsburgh
Alejandro Almarza, left, and Michael Gold, right
Two University of Pittsburgh researchers are leading a new $17 million study that is the largest collaborative funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to study temporomandibular disorders (TMD). The project, called the Collaborative...
Alumni Celebrate Their Pitt Health Sciences Roots
More than 300 alumni attended Health Sciences Alumni Weekend in September to reconnect with their Pitt peers and talk directly with deans, faculty members, students and staff.
Pitt Researcher Tera Levin to Discuss How Bacteria and Hosts Influence Each Other’s Evolution at Upcoming Senior Vice Chancellor’s Research Seminar
By Shannon Turgeon
Photography by Joshua Franzos
Tera Levin, assistant professor of biological sciences, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has always had an interest in “invisible things that have big impacts.”
She is now putting this interest into practice by using bacteria and amoeba to research how new pathogens evolve and emerge from...
Pitt Studies Highlight Access to Treatment in a Health Affairs Special Issue on Opioid Use Disorder
Caption: Jeanine Buchanich, vice dean and associate professor, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and J. Travis Donahoe, assistant professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. Photos courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh.
The Dawn of BioForge
Photo credit: Heidi Ward
“We are literally at the dawn of precision biological medicine, which is going to change the way we not only treat certain diseases and what kind of therapeutics we come up with, but is going to demand a completely different approach to the manufacturing and the associated tools,” Ken Gabriel, CEO of BioForge, explained during a University of Pittsburgh...
