April 2010 Archives

Whirl Magazine’s Christine Tumpson & Adrienne Wehr: an actress and producer, recently talked about Pittsburgh’s exploding film industry on KDKA.

The one-hour documentary provides insight into the Salk polio vaccine, a dramatic medical breakthrough that nearly extinguished the terrifying disease.

On April 14, Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg and Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Robert Hill will cohost a by-invitation-only world-premiere screening of a new film documentary, “The Shot Felt ‘Round the World”, produced by Pitt Film Studies Program faculty member Carl Kurlander.

A new documentary created by the Steeltown Entertainment Project shows how the city of Pittsburgh played an integral role in Jonas Salk’s discovery of the polio vaccine.