by Chris Csonka | Mar 5, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Ken Hackworth, Senior Allocations Manager, PSC. Ken Hackworth talks about his storied career at PSC, starting as a student, ultimately hiring, working with, and helping shape the careers of dozens of PSC interns, many of whom still work at the center. PSC40:...
by Chris Csonka | Jan 14, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Ralph Roskies, PSC founder and co-director. Photo credit: Tom Altany/University of Pittsburgh PSC’s Chris Csonka sat down with PSC co-founder Ralph Roskies to talk about his early days at PSC, its founding, and how he collaborated with Mike Levine and Jim Kasdorf...
by Chris Csonka | Dec 20, 2024 | Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Listing out PSCer’s who are on the team because of Deb Nigra quickly calls for webs and flow charts to get it all straight. Six Degrees of Deb Nigra PSC Interns – Where Are They Now? Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has hosted interns and employed...
by Emily Voelker | Sep 5, 2024 | Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Here at PSC, we’re extremely proud to say that PEARC24 was chaired by PSC Director Barr von Oehsen and former PSC Director Shawn T. Brown. No one at PSC has worked with PEARC longer, however, than Ken Hackworth, Senior Manager of the Allocations group at PSC, and a...
by PSC | Sep 16, 2021 | Features, Inside PSC
For some people starting a new job in the middle of a pandemic would be a disheartening experience—not seeing or meeting any of your coworkers except via Zoom could be lonely and a bit depressing. But not so for Ivan Cao-Berg who hit the ground running on his...
by Megan Carroll | Mar 8, 2021 | Inside PSC
PSC Staff share stories of the women who inspire them To celebrate International Women’s Day, we wanted to see what amazing women have inspired our staff and their journeys in science and technology. We asked team members to tell us about the women in their lives who...
