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Undergraduate Student Christina Austin Awarded Research Fellowship
Austin's work may one day be used to help diagnose lupus, today an arduous process that often takes years.
Course Spotlight: Natural Resources Leadership
Pittsburgh is a city of three rivers, in a county of 263 abandoned mine sites. If you appreciate water as a recreational resource, this is cause for celebration. If you’re savvy about pollution, it’s cause for concern.
Health Science Students Engage in Poverty Simulation
The challenge is to use what you have at hand – your resources and the community services in the room – to meet your basic needs, for four 15-minute periods, each of which represents one week.
Harvesting Rainwater at Eden Hall Campus
Miga is also proud that the project makes use of an existing structure, rather than calls for new construction. “We inherited this property, and we’re making an effort to use what is here,” he says.
Food Studies Students Produce New Whiskey
Students have been working since the fall to develop—from ideation to market—a ginger whiskey that they plan to release around Valentine’s Day 2016.
Starbucks Co-Founder Addresses Students
“Starbucks was not started by a guy in a nice suit with gray hair,” says the man in the nice suit with gray hair. This is Zev Siegl, and, to be fair, it’s been a couple years since he and two friends started Starbucks in 1970.
Undergraduate Research in Taiwan
Six undergraduate students spent four weeks in Taiwan, studying female entrepreneurs in small-scale, regionally-based restaurants and lodging businesses.