Each spring Pitt Research announces the Pitt Momentum Funds project team awardees in each of the Priming, Teaming and Scaling categories that support faculty and their collaborators’ research, scholarship, and creative endeavors. The next cycle of applications opens September 5, 2023. This year, select research teams had the opportunity to go behind-the-scenes on their research projects and share their team's project story.
One Scaling team led by César Escobar-Viera, assistant professor of psychiatry, shares how they are working to better understand loneliness and perceived isolation in marginalized youth. Director of the Office of Child Development Shannon Wanless and her team are taking a whole-child approach to early childhood education interventions with their Scaling award.
Ann Sinsheimer, associate dean for equity and inclusive excellence, and her team are putting their Teaming award to work to develop methods for helping law students build psychosocial resilience. Associate Professor of Special Education Rachel E. Robertson and her team discuss how they will support mental and physical wellbeing for autistic adults through community-based, accessible yoga classes.
From special education to medicine and from law school to psychiatry, these teams share how the Pitt Momentum Funds program provides faculty the opportunity to collaborate strategically to advance their research interests while meeting genuine needs in local communities.
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