2024
December
The Guardian: Republican talk of Jaguar’s ‘wokeness’ is overblown, but it has a long road ahead (Pitt expert quoted: Vanitha Swaminathan)
NPR: Examining the factors that play into the high rate of insurance denials (Miranda Yaver) Additional coverage: The Guardian I and II, Politico, Huff Post, NPR II
Forbes: How Often Do Companies Cook The Books? (Nicole Cade and Joshua Gunn)
The New York Times: The Extremely Offline Joy of the Board Game Club (Zachary Horton)
The New York Times: 24, and Trying to Outrun Schizophrenia (Nev Jones)
Inside Higher Ed: 4-Year Colleges Ride the Dual-Enrollment Wave (Michael Giazzoni)
The Washington Post: Beyond excessive force: How police abuse women, the poor, the homeless (David Harris)
Pittsburgh Union Progress: Contractor agrees to work with Pitt engineering, business schools to train students to not be ‘enginerds’ (Mary Besterfield-Sacre)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pitt named a top disability employer in the U.S.
WPXI-TV: University of Pittsburgh announces launch of virtual global health center for women Additional coverage: Politico, WESA.fm, Pittsburgh Business Times
November
CNN: In crucial Pennsylvania, claims and counterclaims about voting (Pitt expert quoted: Chris Bonneau)
CNBC: Young adults in Puerto Rico are struggling financially. Here’s what that means and why some return (Fernando Tormos-Aponte)
The Washington Post: ChatGPT is a poet. A new study shows people prefer its verses. (Edouard Machery and Brian Porter) Additional Coverage: The Guardian (UK), El Pais (Spain), Stern (Germany), Forbes, Smithsonian Magazine, New Scientist, International Business Times
The Associated Press: Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya (Claire Ebert) Additional coverage: Smithsonian Magazine
Financial Times: Research paper downloads act as proxy for academics’ real-world influence (Mark Ma) Additional coverage (new research): Bloomberg
Time: The 1994 Campaign that Anticipated Trump’s Immigration Stance (Eladio B. Bobadilla)
Financial Times: ‘Robot revolution’ forces China’s human workforce to adapt (Osea Giuntella)
The New Yorker: How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer (Michael Kenney)
The New York Times: How Red and Blue America Shop, Eat and Live (Nick Rogers)
The New York Times: Why Humans Cry (Lauren Bylsma)
The New York Times: Ground Game in Pennsylvania Was No Match for Groundswell of Grievances (Lara Putnam)
Live Science: New memory chip controlled by light and magnets could one day make AI computing less power-hungry (Nathan Youngblood)
Pittsburgh Business Times: Pitt's latest signing event wasn't for athletics, but life sciences companies (Evan Facher)
October
The Wall Street Journal: They’re Taking On Big Media and Changing How America Gets Political News (Pitt expert quoted: Sam Woolley) Additional coverage: The Washington Post, ABC News (a second story), The Hill
The Washington Post: Are abortion pills legal in my state? Here’s what you need to know. (Greer Donley) Additional coverage: The Atlantic
CNN: Voter registration update (Lara Putnam) Additional coverage: The Hill, CNN (a second story)
U.S. News & World Report: Bad Actors: These Foreign Countries Want to Influence the U.S. Election (David Hickton)
The Associated Press: Winter depression is real and there are many ways to fight back (Kathryn Roecklein)
Time Magazine: How a Racist Joke About Puerto Rico at a Trump Rally Could Impact the Election (Fernando Tormos-Aponte)
Voice of America: Religious education surges under Taliban as secular schooling languishes (Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili)
USA Today: Falling fertility rates, 'childless cat ladies': A deeper look at JD Vance's comments (Laura Lovett)
The Hill: Women of color running for Congress disproportionately targeted by offensive speech on X: Report (Ford Institute research)
VentureBeat: Nvidia makes 7 tech announcements in Washington D.C. (joint technology center)
WESA.fm: Control of Pennsylvania legislature could reshape laws, and the constitution itself (Jerry Dickinson)
WJAC-TV: Officials say they are working on bringing drones to rural healthcare (Ronald Poropatich)
NBC5 Boston: ‘The legacy I want to leave’: How a Maine teen is helping with concussion research (National Sports Brain Bank)
September
The New York Times: Buried for Years in an Archive, a Novel by a Master of Horror Is Out (Pitt expert quoted: Ben Rubin)
The New York Times: Harris Courts Polish American Votes in Pennsylvania (Oscar Swan)
Forbes: Scientists Document Cultural Change In The Dialects Of Wild Parrots Over 22 Years (Pitt-Johnstown’s Christine Dahlin)
The Wall Street Journal: Nippon Steel Finds Unlikely Ally in Pittsburgh Workers (Chris Briem)
The Washington Post: Who will follow Amazon back into the office? (Mark Ma)
Wired: Russia-Backed Media Outlets Are Under Fire in the US—but Still Trusted Worldwide (Sam Woolley)
ScienceAlert: Your Smartphone Could Soon Measure Your Blook Pressure With Just a Touch (Ramakrishna Mukkamala)
Live Science: Are people more honest when they’re drunk? (Michael Sayette)
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Is Pa. in the Midwest? Depends if it’s youse or yinz talking. (Michael Glass)
Agence France-Presse: Macho MAGA? Trump locks in America’s hyper-masculine vote (Paul Elliott Johnson)
France 24: US Presidential Election will be less about policy, ‘really about democracy’ (Miranda Yaver)
WTAE-TV: Back to school: Tips for seniors applying for college (Marc Harding)
CNN: The fight for the youth vote in Pennsylvania intensifies as momentum shifts toward Harris (Pitt and Pitt-Johnstown students)
August
NBC News: Ten years after Ferguson, data on police killings shows a lack of progress (Pitt expert quoted: Sirry Alang)
CBS News: Democrats turn to influencers to help share their message on social media (Sam Woolley)
ABC Good Morning America: Show Me The Money: College move-in edition
BBC: 'In some cases, it was the women who were fiercest in the fight': The female freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution (Crystal Nicole Eddins)
The Washington Post: Even Olympic athletes choke. Here’s how we can manage the yips. (Aaron Batista)
The Associated Press: Harris and Walz make small-town stops and campaign phone calls on Pennsylvania bus tour before DNC (Kristin Kanthak)
Axios: The hyper-politicization of the American family (Laura Lovett)
Science Magazine: Larger teams worsen academic career prospects (Lingfei Wu)
Inside Higher Ed: A Model for Advancing Institutional Effectiveness via Undergraduate Research (Brett Say, Caitlin Pingree)
Hechinger Report: PROOF POINTS: A little parent math talk with kids might really add up, a new body of education research suggests (Alex Silver)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Less sleep leads to worse test scores for kids, more school attrition, in the developing world (Osea Giuntella)
The New York Times: A Pattern of Lavish Spending at a Leading L.G.B.T.Q. Nonprofit (Phil Hackney)
Technical.ly: Pitt engineering students moonlight as racecar drivers – and they’re top 10 in the nation
July
Popular Science: Iron Age plant remains tell new agricultural story in east Africa (Pitt expert quoted: Steven Goldstein)
The New York Times: Even Disinformation Experts Don’t Know How to Stop It (Lara Putnam) Additional coverage: The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Associated Press: Sale of US Steel kicks up a political storm, but Pittsburgh isn’t Steeltown USA anymore (Christopher Briem) Additional coverage: The Wall Street Journal
Reuters: US judiciary to consider new ethical guidance for law clerk hiring (Arthur Hellman)
Science News: Tiny saunas help frogs fight off chytrid fungus (Cori Richards-Zawacki)
Inside Higher Ed: Conferencing for Career Development (Katie Homar)
Business Insider: Unraveling the Causes of the Great Depression (Barry M. Mitnick)
Parents: Why Your Teen Should (or Shouldn't) Get a Job (Thomas Akiva)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pitt Chancellor Joan Gabel reflects on a first year that included protests, a FAFSA debacle and Oakland growth goals (Joan Gabel)
PublicSource: Schizophrenia, stigma and systems hold so many back, which made it tough to celebrate my hard-won tenure (Nev Jones)
The New York Times: Bobby Grier Dies at 91; Overcame Resistance in Integrating Sugar Bowl
Fast Company: This is how AI can revive America’s middle class
June
National Geographic: It’s hard to reconnect with old friends. Science may have a solution. (Pitt expert quoted: Peggy Liu) Additional coverage: The New York Times
The Guardian: Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception (Greer Donley) Additional coverage: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Associated Press
Forbes: Black People’s Responses To Trump’s Notion Of ‘Black Jobs’ (Eboni Zamani-Gallaher)
NPR: A pioneering African-American TV reporter finally gets his due with new biography (Liann Tsoukas and Rob Ruck)
NPR: Money laundering charges raise questions about the direction of The Epoch Times (Philip Hackney)
Inverse: What Spider-Man 2 Gets Right (and Wrong) About Bionic Limbs (Aaron Batista)
Mashable: What does a meteorite taste like? Someone found out and bottled it. (Charles Jones)
Scientific American: How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dams Safer (Werner C. Rheinboldt)
New Scientist: How clever magnetic materials are enabling better electronic circuits (Paul Ohodnicki Jr.)
Quanta Magazine: Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? (Thomas Hales)
CNBC: Why a five-day return to office is unlikely (research)
Inside Higher Ed: On-Campus Thrift Stores Benefit Planet, Students’ Wallets (Thriftsburgh)
May
The New York Times: Are You Good at Apologizing? (Pitt expert quoted: Karina Schumann)
Inside Higher Ed: Scaling Up: Pitt Advising Advisers (April Belback)
Popular Mechanics: A Green Energy Paradox Is Unfolding in Appalachian Shale (Justin Mackey, Daniel Bain) Additional coverage: Science Alert, Live Science, Daily Mail, IFL Science
Wired: Elon Musk’s Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design (Andrew Schwartz)
ABC News: Houston community, teachers not happy after first year of state supervision of schools (Josh Bleiberg)
The Associated Press: Upside-down flag at Justice Alito’s home another blow for Supreme Court under fire (Arthur Hellman)
Scientific American: Has Quantum Physics Determined Your Future? (David Wallace)
Psychology Today: What Is the Real Impact of Flexible Work on Mental Health? (Mark Ma)
WESA-FM: Research suggests Pittsburgh archery program won't do enough to reduce deer population (Jeremy Weber)
April
The Wall Street Journal: ‘Now They’re Voting Red’: A Pennsylvania Fracking Boom Weighs on Biden’s Re-Election Chances (Pitt expert quoted: Chris Briem)
NPR: Scientists get another chance to study a solar eclipse mystery (Pitt research student group “Shadow Bandits”)
CBC: Ukraine willing to send more young people into war with Russia, but wary of impact on future population (Tymofiy Mylovanov)
NBC News: The Jewish vote could play a huge role in 2024. Pennsylvania is about to put up an early test. (Harry Hochheiser)
The Associated Press: Paramedic sentencing in Elijah McClain's death caps trials that led to 3 convictions (David Harris)
Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier: Global ocean temperatures are hitting record highs. What does that mean for SC estuaries? (John Gardner)
Pittsburgh Business Times: Pitt announces new Office of Sustainability in the Health Sciences
March
CNBC: ‘Cyber-physical attacks’ fueled by AI are a growing threat, experts say (Pitt expert quoted: Michael Kenney)
Fortune: The caregiver’s guide to anxiety and depression: How to help a loved one (and yourself) with mental health (Meredith Hughes)
The New York Times: How Peer Pressure Affects Voting (Emily West)
NPR: And the Oscar for best picture doesn't go to ... horror! (Adam Lowenstein)
USA Today: Baltimore’s Key Bridge, opened in 1977, had few ship defenses. Are modern bridges better? (Kent Harries)
The Washington Post: 10 things you can — and can’t — clean with vinegar (Eric Beckman)
Politico: Conservative nonprofit didn’t disclose some political spending, filings show (Philip Hackney)
Mother Jones: Meet the Influencer Who ‘Reverses’ Lupus — With Smoothies (Lisa Parker)
Undark: People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why. (Osea Giuntella)
Inside Higher Ed: Career Prep Tip: Helping Students See the Value in Summer Work (Max Schuster)
U.S. News & World Report: Does Your College Major Matter in MBA Admissions? (Laura Oknefski)
Post-Gazette: How Pitt Goalkeeper Ellie Breech Saved Her Father’s Life with CPR After Receiving Training Inspired by Damar Hamlin (student Ellie Breech)
Tribune-Review: Ambitious Pitt BioForge project could help cut medical treatment costs
February
ESPN: How fears over CTE and football outpaced what researchers know (Pitt expert quoted: Dr. Julia Kofler)
KDKA-TV: Former KDKA-TV personality Jon Burnett grateful for support after sharing suspected CTE diagnosis Additional coverage: Daily Mail (UK), Adweek (Dr. Kofler and National Sports Brain Bank)
BBC: The executive hubris driving five-day, in-office mandates Additional coverage: The Washington Post (Mark Ma)
The Wall Street Journal: Trump, Republican Lawmakers Forced to Defend IVF as GOP Abortion Woes Mount (Greer Donley)
The New York Times: When a Spouse Goes to the Nursing Home (Dr. Richard Schultz)
The Chronicle of Higher Education: ‘Something Has to Be Shaken Up’ (Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher)
Nature: Scientists under arrest: the researchers taking action over climate change (Fernando Tormos-Aponte)
Vox: How to handle the winter blues, no matter where you live (Kathryn Roecklein)
HuffPost: I Left My 6-Figure Career To Find Happiness. Here's How I Did It. (Adrienne Taren)
NBC News: Nation’s first Black opera company gets a new chance in old home (PhD candidate Candace Burgess)
January
NPR: Has remote work really been tragic for big companies' bottom lines? (Pitt expert quoted: Mark Ma) Additional coverage: Yahoo Finance, Forbes, Gizmodo, Business Insider
NPR: In Pittsburgh, some note the irony of U.S. Steel’s expected sale to a Japanese firm (Chris Briem)
The Wall Street Journal: Well Into Adulthood and Still Getting Money From Their Parents (Maria Ripoli)
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The 2 Liberty Universities (Philip Hackney)
El Pais (Spain): Taking your blood pressure with your phone or watch: There are devices for sale, but they lack medical validity (Ramakrishna Mukkamala)
Science Alert: Alcohol Doesn't Make People Seem More Attractive, Study Finds (Michael Sayette)
The Associated Press: Book Review: Scholars analyze extremist white supremacy’s grip on U.S. politics and culture (Kathleen M. Blee)