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An archival photo of Marie Curie

A Curie-ous connection to 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ

A century ago today, 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ played host to the world’s foremost female scientist, Marie Curie. But 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ’s connections to the two-time Nobel Prize winner’s work go far beyond the honorary doctoral degree

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ engineers show how a simple AA battery can prevent workplace slips and falls.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Swanson School of Engineering

A trial led by Alejandro Hoberman and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found no long-term benefit for tubes over antibiotics for childhood ear infections.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Clinical and Translational Science Institute
  • Department of Pediatrics

It was March 2020, and Meghan Hodgson (NURS ’03) was working a regular night shift in the emergency room at her suburban New Jersey community hospital. But for the registered nurse, nothing about this

  • Innovation and Research
  • Alumni
  • Covid-19
A doctor in a mask and a face shield gives a vaccine to a masked man

Real-world results confirm vaccine effectiveness in older adults

Researchers from 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ were part of a multisite study that analyzed real-world nationwide CDC data to confirm the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Covid-19
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A 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ PhD student was awarded a research opportunity at the Fermi Lab

Logan Rice will conduct experiments in high-energy physics through a U.S. Department of Energy program.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy

51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ neuroscientists found that fruit flies, rodents and humans all have a protein called VGLUT that regulates sex differences in age-related neuron loss. It is not every day that scientists discover

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Cell Biology
  • Department of Psychiatry

Meet this year’s emerging innovator, startup of the year, small business of the year and more, as recognized by 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Innovation Institute

An analysis led by epidemiologist Wendy King also found that people in certain occupations report five-fold higher rates of hesitancy than others.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Covid-19

Research from Chris Kline in the School of Education shows how poor sleep health decreases the effectiveness of weight loss interventions.

  • Innovation and Research
Lopez

A 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ researcher is bringing attention to an emerging public health crisis

Daniel Jacobson López studies sexual assault survivors in the Black, Latino and LGBTQ communities.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Students showcased their entrepreneurial drive at the Randall Family Big Ideas Competition

ReSolution, a self-cleaning contact case, took home this year's top prize.

  • Innovation and Research
The Space Research Coordination Center

Transparent collaboration informed 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ's modernized IP policy

The policy improves the mechanisms that return revenues to 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ innovators, departments, schools and other research units when their inventions find commercial success.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
Riley Wolynn and her dad standing in front of river

Daughter and dad duo team up against misinformation on social media

Undergrad Riley Wolynn and her father Todd Wolynn (MED '92) teamed up to study misinformation surrounding vaccines online.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Covid-19
  • School of Medicine
Brightly colored cells as seen under a microscope

A new film parallels 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ's history with polio to battling the coronavirus

On the 66th anniversary of the Salk polio vaccine being declared safe and effective, 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ premieres a new film, “Chasing Covid."

  • Innovation and Research
  • Center for Vaccine Research
  • Covid-19
A small glass vaccine bottle

5 research-backed steps for a pro-vaccination social media campaign

What can vaccine proponents, clinicians and public health communicators learn from anti-vaxxers? A lot, say 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ researchers. See what they suggest.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Covid-19

51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ is one of 15 sites that will survey area residents to learn who has antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and who is carrying the virus at the time of the test.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Covid-19
Sundermann points at a graph on a computer screen

What is genomic surveillance?

And why do we need to do more of it to track coronavirus variants and end the pandemic? 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ’s Alexander Sundermann, Lee Harison and Vaughn Cooper explain in The Conversation.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Covid-19
The green Mr. Yuk logo for the 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵsburgh Poison Center

Happy birthday, Mr. Yuk

He’s mean. He’s green. And he’s turning 50! To kick off National Poison Prevention Week, hear the origin story of Mr. Yuk, as told by his creator, 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ alumnus Richard Moriarty (MED ’66).

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Joining forces against hate

51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ and Carnegie Mellon University will use their wealth of scholarly expertise in a new Collaboratory Against Hate Research and Action Center. Its goals: to study extreme hate and its impact and

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research