News Coverage

December 2025

• Smithsonian Magazine: Volcanic Eruption May have Triggered a Chain of Events That Brought the Black Death to Europe (Pitt expert quoted: Monica Green)
• The New York Times: At the Center of Latest Mangione Hearings: A Battle Over a Backpack (David Harris)
• The Washington Post: Kennedy Center Adds Trump’s Name to the Building, Despite Legal Concerns (Philip Hackney)
• Wired: Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics (Samuel Woolley)
• Marketplace: Is remote work dying? (Mark Ma)
• Forbes: Ukraine’s Campaign Against Russia’s Shadow Fleet Goes Global (William Spaniel)
• Forbes: 3 Questions Boards Should Ask About Employee Financial Insecurity (research)
• Inside Higher Ed: Excessive Phone Use Can Hinder Student Success (research)
• GenEng News: Pitt is No. 7 in NIH funding for FY 2025

November 2025

• The New York Times: Dawn of the Zombie Mall (Pitt expert quoted: Adam Lowenstein)
• MSNBC: Trump’s new plan for Obamacare (Miranda Yaver)
• Forbes: AI Is Now Fundable In Higher Ed—But Only With Real Governance
• The Naked Scientists: Building bacteriophages to hit hard-to-treat infections (Graham Hatfull)
• New Mobility: This Wheelchair User Was Just Awarded $41.5 Million to Design the Power Wheelchair of the Future (Rory Cooper)
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pitt Honors College receives $30M gift from alumnus to recruit top talent (Nicola Foote)
• KDKA-TV: Democrats pick up key elections wins in Pittsburgh area (Chris Bonneau)

October 2025

• BBC: Billions of bacteria lurk in your shower, just waiting to spray you in the face — should you be worried? (Pitt expert quoted: Sarah Haig)  
• BBC: The AI job cuts are here — or are they? (Morgan Frank)
• The Guardian: We research AI elections threats. Here’s what we need to prepare for (Samuel Woolley and Dean Jackson) Additional coverage: The Washington Post, Wired
• The Atlantic: Resistance Is Cringe—But It’s Also Effective (Lara Putnam)
• The Washington Post: Conservative push for Charlie Kirk statues revives debate on memorials (Kirk Savage)
• Bloomberg: Trumponomics Is Targeting an Economic Revival Story (Tyler Bickford)
• The Wall Street Journal: Women’s Pay Is Falling Behind. Is the Return to the Office to Blame? (Mark Ma)
• Gizmodo:Times Einstein Missed the Mark, but Still Changed Physics (John Norton)
• Huff Post: Dangerous Chemical May Be In Your Tap Water — But The Trump Admin Doesn’t Want You To Know That (Carla Ng)
• Time: How Halloween Scares Can Soothe Anxiety (Adam Lowenstein and Greg Seigle)
• Inside Climate News: Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking (Daniel Bain)
• KDKA-TV: Former KDKA-TV personality Jon Burnett posthumously diagnosed with CTE (Julia Kofler, National Sports Brain Bank)
• WESA.fm: At Pitt, university heads say AI has potential to improve health care, but there are risks (Chancellor Joan Gabel)

September 2025

• Reuters: With little aid, Afghanistan's quakes spell 'inter-generational' crisis (Pitt expert quoted: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili)  
• Bloomberg: SCOTUS Lifts Restrictions on ICE Stops (David Harris)
• CBS News: “You can’t prosecute an ideology” (Michael Kenney)
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Professors Fear AI Will Rot Students’ Brains. The Research Shows It’s More Complicated Than That. (Annette Vee)
• The Associated Press: Facing stiff competition, remote workers up their game (Mark Ma)
• USA Today: How has teaching about 9/11 changed since 2001? We asked educators. (Melissa Nelson)
• Gizmodo: LIGO's Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory (Arthur Kosowsky)
• Axios: Kraft Heinz splits, but Heinz brand stays strong (Vanitha Swaminathan)
• Forbes: How Incentives, Not Bans, Curb College Phone Distractions (Lester Lusher)
• Forbes: Romania Reveals Its Magic From Cities to Mountains (Horia Dijmarescu)
• Forbes: AI Is Everywhere In Higher Ed. Where's The AI Governance?
• KDKA-TV: University of Pittsburgh creates horror study center

August 2025

• Mashable: I dated Character.AI's popular boyfriends, and parents should be worried (Pitt expert quoted: Sophia Choukas-Bradley)
• BBC: YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality (Samuel Woolley) Additional coverage: NBC News
• Gizmodo: Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Make Investors Money? (Peggy Liu)
• Inside Higher Ed: Why Write About Our Work?  (Katie Homar)
• Marketplace: AI in local government agencies may mean more work for administrators (Samantha Shorey)
• The New York Times: Statue of Martin Luther King Draws Criticism Over Its Proportions (Kirk Savage)
• The New York Times: Can’t Afford a House? Try Baltic Avenue. (Zachary Horton)
• Scientific American: Controversial Quantum-Computing Paper Gets a Hefty Correction  (Sergey Frolov) Additional coverage: Science, Nature
• The Associated Press: Fatal explosion at U.S. Steel’s plant raises questions about its future, despite heavy investment (Christopher Briem)
• The Hechinger Report: A largely invisible role of international students: Fueling the innovation economy (Rhonda Schulte, Big Idea Center)

July 2025

• Popular Science: Even old brains can make new neurons, study suggests (Shawn Sorrells) Additional coverage: Science
• Quanta Magazine:  RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System (Craig Kaplan)
• Scientific American: U.S. Budget Cuts Are Robbing Early-Career Scientists of Their Future (PhD student Sierra Wilson and PhD/medical student Tyler Yasaka)
• Science News: In a first, an image shows a dying star exploded twice to become a supernova (Carlos Badenes)
• NPR: Why the price of rice is so high in Japan (Kay Shimizo)
• NPR: Dude, the history behind the word dude is wild (Scott Kiesling)
• The Guardian: Grok’s behavior isn’t surprising – but we needn’t settle for Musk’s vision of the future (Samuel Woolley)
• Gizmodo: Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe (Arthur Kosowsky)
• Everyday Health: ‘Forever Chemicals’ May Be Lurking in Eco-Friendly Menstrual Products (Carla Ng)
• The Economist: Does working from home kill company culture? (Mark Ma)
• CBC News: The U.S. turns 249 today. Can Americans still find common ground? (Emily West)
• South China Morning Post: China’s optical chip advances such as Meteor-1 light the way for AI development (Nathan Youngblood)
• WESA.fm: CMU, Pitt join other universities to study artificial intelligence’s impact on workforce (Morgan Frank)
• PublicSource: Will a new advisory board help improve Allegheny County’s troubled record on youth detention? (Jeff Shook and Sara Goodkind)
• ESPN: Experts say no 'instant answer' as to whether gunman had CTE (Julia Kofler, National Sports Brain Bank)
• Inside Higher Ed: Advising Resources for Student Success

June 2025

• The Wall Street Journal: Far-right Groups Buzz With Violent Talk on How to Respond to 'No Kings' Protest (Pitt expert quoted: Kathleen Blee)
• The Guardian: How sorry are you? Why learning to apologise well could save your relationships (Karina Schumann)
• The Associated Press: Fans criticize Beyoncé for shirt calling Native Americans ‘the enemies of peace’ (Alaina Roberts)
• National Geographic: The 4 biggest mysteries the new Vera Rubin Observatory could solve (Michael Wood-Vasey) Additional coverage: The New York TImes
• The Christian Science Monitor: Trump promised to bring jobs to the Rust Belt. The Sun Belt may get them instead. (Chris Briem)
• The Associated Press: Inside the legal fight over the telehealth clinics that help women defy abortion bans (Greer Donley)
• Smithsonian Magazine: Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man’s Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea (Marcus Rediker)
• Houston Chronicle: How will Houston ISD continue to fund its sweeping reforms? Here’s an overview (Joshua Bleiberg)
• Cosmos Magazine: Mirror worlds: Can digital twins save humanity? (Alessandro Fascetti)
• PublicSource: Death of an ‘elder orphan’ warns that aging alone may become more dangerous (Pamela Toto)
• Pittsburgh Business Times: Richard King Mellon Foundation awards $2.64M in workforce grants for ‘emerging industries’ (Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher)
• The New York Times: The disappearing funds for global health (students Luzmariel Medina-Sanchez and Sierra Wilson)
• HealthDay: Teenage 'Night Owls' More Likely To Act Impulsively (doctoral candidate Riya Mirchandaney)

May 2025

• The Economist: Donald Trump is creating chaos at the IRS (Pitt expert quoted: Philip Hackney) Additional coverage: The Conversation, The Hill
• The New York Times: The administration pulled funding for research on devices for babies with heart conditions (Harvey Borovetz)
• The New York Times: Missteps and Party Fissures Bedevil Pittsburgh Mayor’s Re-election Run (Lara Putnam)
• Axios: Trump administration urges court to dismiss abortion pill challenge (Greer Donley)
• Deutsche Welle (Germany): How Malcolm X fought against the 'American nightmare' (Michael E. Sawyer)
• Slate: “We’ll Test Your Limits” (Samuel Woolley)
• Science: Research may be increasingly incremental—but studies making lasting paradigm shifts are on the rise (Yiling Lin, PhD student)
• Inside Higher Ed: Survey: What Online College Students Need (Omid Fotuhi)
• National Interest: What is Donald Trump’s Foreign Aid Plan?  (Jennifer Murtazashvili)
• Earth.com: Scientists discover a better way for kids to learn math (Melissa Libertus)
• Al Jazeera English: Is Harvard refusing to tell Trump admin who its international students are? (Sheila Velez Martínez)
• The Week: Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei does not want to lose the possibility of making a bomb: Analyst (Mohamad Machine-Chian)
• Pittsburgh Business Times: Pitt partners with Indian firm Vizzhy to develop and launch patient-focused AI health care platform (Anantha Shekhar)
• WESA.fm: Data shows racial disparities in juvenile detention at Allegheny County’s Shuman Center (Jeffrey Shook)

April 2025

• STAT News: HHS cuts leave future of mental health, substance use hotlines uncertain  (subscription required) (Pitt expert quoted: Nev Jones)
• The Atlantic (via AOL): Trump Is Gaslighting Us (Lara Putnam)
• The New York Times: Move Over Lone Ranger, Hopalong, Wyatt and Pals — History is Coming Your Way (Alaina E. Roberts)
• The New York Times: Another Group the Democrats Should Stop Taking for Granted (Emily West)
• The New York Times: The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It (Sam Woolley)
• Forbes: Is Remote Work Effective? Google, Big Tech, And The Data Say Maybe Not (Mark Ma research)
• Chemical & Engineering News: Scientists face deficiencies in leadership countering US policies (Fernando Tormos-Aponte)
• WHYY-FM: 'The Return of Benjamin Lay’ gives big props to one of history’s Little People (Marcus Rediker)
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 'We’re always forming links': How 'Severance' highlights the importance of memory (Marc Coutanche)
• Pittsburgh Business Times: AWS's first East Coast Cloud Innovation Center opens at University of Pittsburgh (Mark Henderson)

March 2025

• Financial Times: Business school teaching case study: how will companies navigate the promise and threat of dataism? (Pitt expert quoted: Tom Davis)
• The Wall Street Journal: The Man Behind Microsoft’s Decadeslong Quest to Build a Quantum Computer (Sergey Frolov) Additional coverage: The Verge, Salon, The Register, Science News
• The Wall Street Journal: The Snapchat Move That Leaves Teen Girls Heartbroken (Sophia Choukas-Bradley)
• The Guardian: Pronatalists are ascendant on the right. Can they agree on how to make Americans have more babies? (the late Laura Lovett)
• ProPublica: Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience (Deborah Brake)
• Reuters: Evidence mounts that universe's dark energy is changing over time (Jeff Newman)
• Money: Worried About a Recession? Make These 8 Money Moves Now (James Craft)
• PublicSource: Teenie Harris’ photo archive takes one man on a search for the Hill — and himself (Laurence Glasco)
• WTAE-TV: 'An incredible institution': 4 The Record speaks with Jerry Dickinson, dean of Pitt's School of Law

February 2025

• Bloomberg: What Happened to Black Lives Matter’s Momentum? (Pitt expert quoted: Lara Putnam)
• CNBC: What’s in store for remote work and RTO in 2025: ‘Hybrid will be dominant,’ says expert (Mark Ma) Additional coverage: The Economist, Fortune, Scientific American, The Hill, Financial Times (subscription required)
• The Guardian:My $30,000 health insurance claim was denied. Then I tweeted about it (Miranda Yaver)
• NPR: Some states ramp up pressure on local law enforcement to aid immigration efforts (David Harris)
• USA Today: How DOGE’s email to federal employees was ripped from private sector playbook (J.S. Nelson)
• The 19^th: Elon Musk brought his 4-year-old to the Oval Office. It wasn’t just a photo op. (Laura Lovett)
• South China Morning Post (Hong Kong): US aid freeze presents an opportunity for China in Afghanistan. Will it take it? (Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili)
• New Pittsburgh Courier: Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering named Top 20 school by Minority Engineer Magazine (Mary Besterfield-Sacre)
• WPXI-TV: Black Pittsburgh Satisfaction and Retention (Kyaien Conner)
• Study Finds: How marriage counseling might just save American democracy

January 2025

• NPR: Big reveals are unlikely in Trump-ordered Kennedy and MLK document drops, experts say (Pitt expert quoted: John Stoner)
• NPR: DNA reveals secrets of Australia's elusive marsupial mole (Nathan Clark)
• CBS News: What is driving the board game renaissance among younger Americans? (Zachary Horton)
• Forbes:  Return To Office? This Leader Treats Employees Like Adults (subscription required) (Mark Ma)
• The Washington Post: Federal judge revives legal effort to limit abortion pill (subscription required) (Greer Donley)
• The New York Times: Mexico Is Getting Ready for Trump. Here’s What’s Different This Time. (Scott Morgenstern)
• The Times of India: US teacher attrition hits 23-year high: 11% quit annually (Joshua Bleiberg)
• The Scientist: Why Do People Have Different Eating Habits? (Kevin Kohl)
• STAT News: ‘Rationing by inconvenience’: Health insurers count on customers not appealing denials (Miranda Yaver)
• Axios: Pittsburgh is more Midwest than you think (Chris Briem)
• Governing Magazine: Foundation Money Is Changing the Economic Course of Cities (Mark Nordenberg)
• The Hechinger Report: A little parent math talk with kids might really add up (Alex Silver)
• Pittsburgh Business Times: U.S. Steel, Nippon Steel face 'uphill climb' challenging Biden's ruling (Max Laun)
• STAT News: Legal overreaction to Supreme Court ban on race fueling loss of diversity at medical schools (Miracle Rogers, president elect of the Student National Medical Association)