Socially distant science: Pitt student strives for truth during pandemic
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. Pitt grad student Emerson Ailidh Boggs is helping to do just that.Boggs, a second-year Ph.D. student in the infectious...
View ArticleUniversity responds to pandemic’s affect on mental health
Staying home from school would normally be a welcomed change of pace, but during a global pandemic, it can be a massive source of anxiety.Pitt students face a variety of disruptions in the wake of the...
View ArticlePeer educator helps students stay healthy
Imagine standing in front of a group of fellow college students and encouraging them to put a condom on a dildo as efficiently as they can. Kristen Steffes doesn’t have to.Steffes, a junior biology...
View ArticlePolice blotter: March 19 – March 25
The Pitt News collates and publishes the Pitt police’s media crime log on a weekly basis. Read more here.Thursday, March 193:54 p.m. An individual reported a theft of money that occurred between March...
View Article‘Resilient and committed’: First week of online classes proceeds without issue
The biggest technological issue Marcie Persyn encountered this week was her cat attempting to walk on her keyboard in the middle of a Zoom lecture. Pitt faculty had limited time to move all in-person...
View ArticlePitt moves summer classes online as pandemic continues
Provost Ann Cudd announced in a Friday email that all Pitt summer classes will be held online as the coronavirus pandemic continues. The move comes after classes finished their first week online, due...
View ArticlePitt engineers donate, create supplies for health care workers
On a typical day, Goetz Veser, a chemical engineering professor, uses his lab’s 20-liter batch reactors for complex dispersion reactions. But in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, he’s been using them...
View ArticlePitt dining workers struggling with no pay after mass layoffs
When Charisse Buchanan, a Pitt dining worker of 33 years, found out two weeks ago that the University’s dining halls would close and she’d be out of a job, she said one thing went through her mind.“How...
View ArticleCleaning house: Pitt tosses, stores student belongings to prepare facilities...
Pitt is cleaning and sanitizing several facilities around campus in an effort to make them available for the Pittsburgh medical community in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, though the process...
View ArticleApril Fools Edition | Pitt student puts on “real” clothes for the first time...
Pitt junior Joe Smith decided to challenge himself Tuesday and put on something other than his pajamas for the first time in three weeks. Smith was running dangerously low on his quarantine snacks and...
View ArticleSGB announces Student Emergency Assistance Fund
Student Government Board President Zechariah Brown announced the launch of the Student Emergency Assistance Fund at the board’s Tuesday night online meeting.Students can apply for a grant from the fund...
View ArticleApril Fools Edition | Local mother takes walks to escape children
A local mother went on three neighborhood walks yesterday after her children got on her last nerves.Karen Holland is a mother of two who has kept active in these unprecedented times by walking a 2-mile...
View ArticleOne person dead in shooting on Meyran
An unidentified man was killed in an early Wednesday morning shooting in South Oakland, according to City police.Shots were fired in the vicinity of 339 Meyran Avenue shortly after midnight Wednesday,...
View ArticleCourse enrollment continues as planned, academic advising moves online
Zoom has taken over classrooms, office hours, club meetings and now the advising process.While advisers are unable to meet with students in person, scheduling for the fall semester is still moving...
View ArticlePitt holds first online Admitted Students Day
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marc Harding wants incoming Pitt students to know that the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid is still open for business.“We’re keeping the front doors virtually...
View ArticlePitt researchers unveil potential COVID-19 vaccine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists announced on Thursday that they had developed a potential vaccine against COVID-19. The vaccine has so far been tested on mice and produced...
View ArticlePolice blotter: March 26 – April 1
The Pitt News collates and publishes the Pitt police’s media crime log on a weekly basis. Read more here.Police recorded nothing in the crime log for Thursday, March 26.Friday, March 2711:35 a.m. An...
View Article‘Kind of unnerving’: Student health care workers brave virus threat on the job
When paramedic Sarah Flenders first started responding to potential COVID-19 patients, she said the feeling was comparable to assisting a cardiac arrest patient.“That feeling while driving — knowing...
View ArticleBonner, McCarthy address student concerns in virtual town hall
During a time where much is uncertain, Pitt students had the chance to meet with administration and ask questions about topics like housing, grading and new technology — virtually, of course. Dean of...
View ArticleStudent emergency fund to begin notifying applicants
Student Government Board president Zechariah Brown announced the establishment of the new Student Emergency Assistance Fund during SGB’s public meeting Tuesday night. The fund was created in a joint...
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