University of Pittsburgh Center for Global Health: In the global alliance to control the world's deadliest diseases, Pitt's Center for Global Health works with international partners to track infections and develop treatment strategies. Renowned Pitt researcher Donald S. Burke will explore those partnerships and demonstrate the tools Pitt lends to global disease prevention. Burke will create a computer simulation of the H1N1 virus to predict how best to prevent its spread.

University of Pittsburgh "Green" Tour: Researchers at Pitt investigate and develop sustainable methods for powering and building our society. This tour provides a glimpse of Pitt's Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation efforts to improve people's lives and environment. Featured projects include local, small-scale hydroelectric power, buildings constructed from bamboo, the first cradle-to-grave assessment of LED lights, and low-cost water purifiers for developing countries.

University of Pittsburgh Center for Energy: This tour offers demonstrations in energy research, including nanophotonics for better energy conversion, carbon dioxide capture and storage, harnessing the world's smallest transistors for more energy-efficient technologies, engine simulators that can test engine and fuel combinations at a low-cost, a virtual nuclear reactor used for training nuclear engineers, and advancing hydrogen-based fuel cells with enhanced hydrogen-storage technology.

UPMC's Children's Hospital: The $622 million hospital and research facility is one of the first all-digital pediatric hospitals in the U.S., a leader in using "green" practices, and a model of patient-centered care. The hospital enters 99.5 percent of its data electronically, from doctors' notes to medication orders.

UPMC Sports Performance Complex: The $40 million complex, the former site of one of Pittsburgh's steel mills, is home to the world-renowned UPMC Center for Sports Medicine and state-of-the-art training facilities for the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the University of Pittsburgh Panthers.

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