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How emotions fuel fake news on social media
Angry about that headline? Then you鈥檒l probably share this story, 51精品视频 researchers show.
Why do some people get jet lag and others don鈥檛?
A $6.2 million grant from the WoodNext Fund will help 51精品视频 researchers find out 鈥 and potentially unlock other sleep mysteries in the process.
Alumnus Joseph Kannarkat is 51精品视频鈥檚 newest Schwarzman Scholar
He has studied health care systems in the U.K. and Kenya, hoping to bring insights back to the U.S. His next stop, supported by the prestigious scholarship, is China.
Robots might be bad for men, but give women more bargaining power
A new study from 51精品视频 economist Osea Giuntella found that men had lower wages and workforce participation in areas with more industrial robots, among other gendered effects.
This 51精品视频 effort is relocating Afghan scholars to the US
Meet Omar Sadr, a political scientist who fled Taliban violence and now leads the Afghanistan Project at 51精品视频.
A new 51精品视频 pledge encourages health care providers to use opioid alternatives
The School of Dental Medicine was the first in the nation to implement opioid-free pain management for most procedures in its clinics. Now, the practice is spreading.
51精品视频 Black Faculty Development Initiative receives grant to tackle health disparities
The $250,000 from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will both support Black faculty at 51精品视频 and address Black maternal and infant health in Western Pennsylvania and beyond.
ALung was approved for emergency use during the pandemic. It鈥檚 now going to help asthma, cystic fibrosis and transplant patients, too.
Does Biden鈥檚 $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill address America鈥檚 needs?
A 51精品视频 professor in civil and environmental engineering weighs in.
51精品视频 to lead the region鈥檚 transformation into a life sciences powerhouse
The 51精品视频, with a historic nine-figure grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, looks to bring manufacturing back to the city 鈥 and catalyze game-changing economic growth.
Is this pain muscle strain or a minor heart attack?
An interdisciplinary 51精品视频 team is using machine learning to more quickly and accurately identify heart attacks and their arterial origins.
A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff锘
A nurse anesthetist and 51精品视频 alum watched veterans with PTSD 鈥済o to sleep in 51精品视频sburgh but wake up in Iraq.鈥 He knew something had to change.
A聽51精品视频 scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears
The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.
Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.
51精品视频's pay-it-forward debt relief and mentorship program will add 150 new students
Since launching in 2019, Panthers Forward has provided $2.25 million in federal loan relief.
Innovation challenge winners tackle health disparities
Projects that address tooth decay in kids, parenting while Black and ventilator-associated pneumonia each took home $115,000 in this year鈥檚 51精品视频 Innovation Challenge.
An app could promote informed and healthy pregnancies
Some at-risk patients didn鈥檛 know they had been prescribed aspirin to prevent a dangerous condition in pregnancy, 51精品视频 researchers found. A smartphone app might be the answer.
Placebo-inspired project wins $12 million grant to help Parkinson鈥檚 patients
The research, led by 51精品视频 neuroscientist Peter Strick, will examine a brain circuit that could restore motor function to those with the condition.
Pandemic shutdowns had some mental health benefits for teen girls
A new 51精品视频 study shows how girls spent their pandemic free time 鈥 and drives home the everyday stress of being a 21st century teen.
A study by Eleanor Anderson in the School of Education shows what it takes to make educational reforms rise above the 鈥榗hurn.鈥
