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July 28, 2020 Pitt innovators and the University’s regional entrepreneurial company partners had been setting another strong pace for growth when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in the later part of […]
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Medical School team wins $25,000 top prize with platform for recycling biomedical waste April, 23, 2020 As Pitt School of Medicine and research students, James O’Brien (Physician Scientist Training Program), […]
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Media Release HiberSense Wins $10K in AUTM Venture Challenge AUSTIN, Texas – February 14, 2019 — HiberSense, Inc., a start-up from the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute, has won the […]
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October 19, 2018 Over 100 students from across the University, and a few from neighboring Carnegie Mellon, took control of the Pitt School of Computing and Information building on Bellefield […]
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July 6, 2018 Rising junior engineering students Sneha Jeevan and Shivani Tuli came to Pitt with entrepreneurship on their minds. Following their participation in the Randall Family Big Idea […]
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April 11, 2108 Four Growers Wins Runner-up Prize, $10,000 at ACC InVenture Prize Competition Fresh off claiming top prize in the Randall Family Big Idea Competition, the student team […]
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March 30, 2018 Big Idea Winners Announced and News on the Brand New Big Idea Center for Student Entrepreneurship With a blast of confetti falling from above the stage […]
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By Mike Yeomans January 2018 Nearly 50 students with a pent up passion for entrepreneurship came to the Innovation Institute’s spring semester Startup Blitz armed with ideas […]
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The problems a few dozen Pitt students wrestled with this semester weren’t in a homework assignment or an exam. They were often intensely personal problems, the solutions to which they […]
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Story originally published: July 8, 2016, by Karen Woolstrum November 2017 Update: Nicole Xu and John Frazier receive the Pitt Innovator Student Award. Nicole Xu, John Frazier, and Lujing […]