University of Pittsburgh

even begin why the University of Pittsburgh is a good school for me, my mom had me help her make a pot roast. Peeling back the brown crispy layer of an onion, the second layer of white skin appeared. Epiphany struck me; The University of Pittsburgh is like an onion. When buying an onion, the first impression of the onion is the top layer of skin. If the skin is broken, or too dark, or stained it may scare buyers away from picking that specific onion. The beautiful city of Pittsburgh is the top layer

When I started my college education at the University of Pittsburgh, like many freshman, I was uncertain about which career direction I wanted to pursue. However, I did know one thing for certain, that I had a passion for math and desired to study it at a higher level. I chose the major of Actuarial Mathematics. Looking back at that decision I am happy that I spent my undergraduate years taking difficult math classes, various economic and statistic classes, and computer programming classes. This

of other Pittsburgh notables: Andrew W. Mellon, Henry Frick, Andrew Carnegie, George Westinghouse and H. J. Heinz, Nicola formed the Bellefield Company, which constructed numerous iconic Oakland landmarks. Such ventures included: the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, the campuses of the University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Forbes Field, Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, the Masonic Temple (now Pitt’s Alumni Hall), the Pittsburgh Athletic

Most notably, Jonas Edward Salk was known for his work in the field of medicine, specifically the polio vaccine, his medical research institution, and the institution’s fight against AIDS. Salk was working with Thomas Francis Jr. at New York University College of Medicine, where they were developing a killed-virus vaccine (Britannica 1). A killed-virus or inactivated vaccine is an

Dean William McEllroy talked Salk into joining the university full-time. Though the school's research budget was a grant from the American Society for the Study of High Blood Pressure in the amount of $1,800, he saw the opportunity to do two things. One was to continue the work he was doing on influenza, second was to begin working with the polio virus. A few months after arriving in Pittsburgh, Salk was visited by the director of research at the National Foundation for

In the early 1800’s, there was an outbreak of polio, a potentially life-threatening disease, in the United States affecting most of the population (“What is Polio”). The oliovirus invades the brain and spinal cord that causes that dysfunction within the muscles and can eventually cause paralysis. The virus enters through the mouth and reproduces in the throat and intestines. The virus can be transmitted through person-to-person contact such as coughing or sneezing or by feces. The most common way

first person to attend college and he graduated with medical from NYU in 1939. After that Salk went to Study at the University of Michigan to work with a friend to create a flu vaccine. Then in 1947 Salk left the university of Michigan to become a Medical professor at the University of Pittsburgh and also work on finding a Polio vaccine. For the next eight years Salk worked at the university and finally found the cure for Polio that would save thousands of lives, change the medical world forever, and

In the medical field, there have been many achievements by both men and women. Whether it was developing, discovering, or being the first person to do something, they all shared an impact on the way the medical field is today. I researched Jonas Salk, the man who developed the Polio vaccine. I selected him because I believe he has one the of biggest impacts on the medical field today. In my opinion, without him, the Polio epidemic would still be killing many people, in not only the U.S., but around

He and a Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. eventually perfected a vaccine that was soon used on army bases. But Salk wanted position where he could direct his own lab, and he finally found one at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine, where he continued to research flu vaccines. It was at this point that he was approached by the director of research at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, a project established by FDR to eradicate polio.

I can’t remember when I first heard about the University of Pittsburgh; I’ve lived in Pennsylvania my entire life so Pitt was always in the discussion when in came to colleges. I do, however, remember when I started seriously consider Pitt as somewhere I’d like to attend. In the Summer before my senior year of highschool I was working a pizza place and one of my coworkers was attending Pitt in Fall. Whenever we had shifts together all she would ever talk about was how excited she was for school