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Pitt's 2025 Winter Commencement for Health Sciences Students in Photos
By Kat Procyk
Photography by Rayni Shiring, University of Pittsburgh
Despite frigid temperatures and snow-covered roads, hundreds of University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences graduates and their families and friends turned out to celebrate at Pitt’s 2025 Winter Commencement ceremony on Dec. 14, 2025, at the Petersen Events Center.
Of the 1,133...
Pitt Study Finds Signature of Pediatric Brain Injury
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh discovered a promising new biomarker of “complicated” mild to severe pediatric traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Unlike a concussion—which usually resolves within weeks—complicated TBI requires at least an overnight hospital stay, signaling a more serious injury.
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Pitt’s One Health Day Explores the Relationship of Sustainability and Health Care
By Kat Procyk Photography by Rayni Shiring, University of Pittsburgh
The second annual One Health Day on Nov. 14 hosted speaker Ann-Christine Duhaime, Nicholas T. Zervas Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and senior pediatric neurosurgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital. The event included awards for the Sustainable Healthcare Challenge...
Skill Shot: Deconstructing the “Pinball Mechanics” of TGF-β Cell Signaling
By Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Photography by Rayni Shiring, University of Pittsburgh
Cell signaling is how cells communicate at the molecular level to coordinate biological processes that shape our development, maintain our health and sometimes contribute to illness. That communication is an intricate blur of molecular motion, where molecules collide, bind and separate...
15 Pitt researchers were named to Clarivate’s annual Highly Cited list
Fifteen University of Pittsburgh faculty members have been named to this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list, an annual compilation of researchers whose work has made a significant impact across a broad range of disciplines.
How Pitt’s Genetic Counseling Program Faculty Makes Vision Restoration Possible
Participants in the GC BRIDGED 2025 Conference for ophthalmic genetic counselors gathered on the steps of the UPMC Mercy Pavilion, home of the UPMC Vision Institute, in October.
Photo credit: Will Smith
Sisters Tammy Krents and Kimberley Bell both inherited a genetic disorder that causes progressive blindness. Their story made headlines in July 2024 as they became...
Taking Speech and Hearing Health on the Road
By Ashley Parker
Photography by Rayni Shiring, University of Pittsburgh
This fall, the new Pitt/UPMC Communication Van has been all over the city providing hearing care to the community. The van also functions as a community-based mobile laboratory, allowing University of Pittsburgh investigators to study communication and hearing health in real-world settings,...
2025 Health Sciences Research Administration Award Winners Announced
The Fall 2025 Health Sciences Research Administration (HSRA) Recognition Award Ceremony took place on Monday, Oct. 13.
The HSRA Recognition Awards were created to acknowledge staff members whose job performance and dedication to their work merit special recognition.
All full-time and part-time Pitt and UPMC staff in good standing who support a health sciences...
From Statistical Methods to Personalized Treatment Solutions: Lu Tang’s Frameworks for Integrating Health Data
By Shannon Turgeon
Photography by Joshua Franzos
As an associate professor of biostatistics and health data science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Lu Tang acknowledges that he finds fun in looking at mathematical equations.
However, his research and collaboration across Pitt’s schools of the health sciences have motivated him...
In a Simulation Exercise, Nursing Students Experience the Despair of Living in Poverty
By Parmitha Chanduri
Photography by Rayni Shiring, University of Pittsburgh
“We are struggling greatly with four people living on one income. To combat this, we moved another family into our house.”
This was just one of the many eye-opening reflections by students in their senior year at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, who...
