PITT'S BURGH As the City of Pittsburgh celebrates its 250th anniversary this year, alumnus
and senior editor Cara J. Hayden reflects on a freshman night when she
realized that the Pittsburgh campus extends far beyond a single neighborhood. »
Pitt physicist Jeremy Levy explores a frontier full of spinning electrons in
the realm of atoms. It’s a tiny world that’s key to a completely new era of
technology—maybe even the age of quantum computing.»
Nearly a century ago, Pitt alumnus Charles Florence was known on campus as a
skilled orator. He ultimately became a Harvard scholar and university president.
His wife, Virginia Proctor Powell, was equally gifted and also a Pitt graduate. For
the first time, through original research, their lives are reclaimed for the
University community. »
Conventional wisdom says that the arrival of a baby amounts to a joyful time in
the mother’s life. But the reality isn’t so rosy for many women. Throughout her
medical career, Pitt professor Katherine Wisner has been giving hope to moms who aren’t feeling so upbeat after giving birth. »
