Friendsgiving feasts to light shows: A guide to Pittsburgh’s Thanksgiving...
Whether your plans before Thanksgiving break include completing last-minute assignments or packing to go home — campus has you covered. The University is offering Thanksgiving events and services...
View ArticleExperts advise students on off-campus living, housing contracts and lease...
Marily Nixon said she’s “struck” by how many problems arise when students rent property and said it’s worth going through the entirety of the lease before signing it. “The language can seem very formal...
View ArticleSGB talks task force initiatives, student leader stipends
Student Government Board plans to raise student leader stipends funded by “unused” funds from the student activities fee, according to SGB President Danielle Floyd. The Task Force on Student Leader...
View ArticleFaculty, students complain about decade-long parking waitlist, lack of...
Helen Jarosz, an administrative assistant at Barco Law Library, stayed on Pitt’s parking services waitlist for 13 years before she received her parking spot in 2017. “I’ve worked at Pitt for 38 years,”...
View ArticleStudents value price, location when finding housing around campus
Madison Cherry, a sophomore on the pre-occupational therapy track, spent her first year living in Tower A. She said the dorm was not only in a convenient location, but helped her make new friends. “I...
View ArticleZ-Library shutdown ends years of free, but illegal, college textbook access
Sydnee Ruley has saved hundreds of dollars over her four years at Pitt by getting her textbooks from the library — Z-Library, that is. “I was able to save a lot of money just using Z-Library and using...
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‘It’s the best partner that I could ever ask for’: K-9 officers talk about...
Every Monday through Friday, Sergeant David Nanz wakes up and arrives to work by 6:30 a.m. with his trusted partner Sammy. Sammy is Nanz’s assigned K-9 dog. He is a German shorthaired pointer that...
View Article20-year old Pitt student owns and runs Vocelli Pizza in Hampton Township
Dylan Mitchell, a 20-year-old full time sophomore law, criminal justice and society and politics and philosophy major, began working at Vocelli Pizza in Hampton Township at 15 and became a shift lead a...
View ArticleExperts, students talk seasonal depression: How to cope and resources available
As days grow shorter, temperatures grow colder and the sky becomes a sea of gray, finding motivation to complete schoolwork or get out of bed each morning can seem like a difficult task, especially for...
View ArticlePolice Blotter: Nov. 9 – Nov. 16
Wednesday, November 9 Pitt police reported nothing in the crime log. Thursday, November 10 Pitt police reported a theft of a bicycle at the GSPH Garage. Investigation pending. Friday, November 11...
View ArticleMENASA student leaders concerned after Pitt says they have no plans to...
In response to a letter signed by 115 student leaders to Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, the Vice Provost of Graduate Students sent the Middle Eastern and North African Student Association Pitt’s...
View Article‘I couldn’t count on it’: Faculty express concerns about waitlist for...
Emily Snyder had her child in 2020 and when she was looking into daycare, she said she didn’t view the University Center for Developmental Care as an option for her family given how long the waitlists...
View ArticlePlanning Commission talks Hillman Library renovations, tree canopy on campus
A new three-story, glass window covered entrance addition to Hillman Library will one day sit on the corner of Forbes Avenue and Schenley Drive. Matthew Plecity, an architect working on the project,...
View ArticleSGB approves ad hoc committee against sexual misconduct, introduces bills at...
Student Government Board unanimously voted to approve the charter for the new Students Against Sexual Misconduct ad hoc committee. The ad hoc committee is intended to serve as a “central hub for...
View ArticlePitt School of Nursing joins the Nurses Climate Challenge to implement...
More than 300 heat records were broken in the U.S. this past summer, resulting in heat-related illnesses. If a patient enters a hospital with a heat stroke or symptoms of worsening asthma from air...
View ArticlePolice Blotter: Nov. 17 – Nov. 30
Thursday, November 17 Pitt police reported nothing in the crime log. Friday, November 18 Pitt police issued a citation for a retail theft at Forbes Street Market. Pitt police confiscated drug...
View ArticlePitt students share high screen-time usage, worry over its increasing...
When Kate Ryan, a sophomore psychology major, checked her screen time on her phone, she found she had an average of over seven hours a day. She said she spends 60% of her time looking at a screen,...
View ArticleFaculty Assembly discusses alleged unfair labor practice charge against...
Faculty Assembly President Robin Kear said that the faculty union is moving to file an unfair labor practice charge against the University at a recent Assembly meeting. Kear said the potential charge...
View Article‘There’s no gender to it’: Pitt named top school for men in nursing
Logan Koegler, a sophomore nursing major, said there’s a “large gap” between male and female enrollment in the School of Nursing. He said men accounted for around five out of the approximate 180...
View ArticleInfluenza more ‘prevalent,’ ‘severe’ than usual on Pitt’s campus
Viruses, like COVID-19 and influenza, can be totally unpredictable — even to people like Richard Zimmerman who have studied them for decades. “I’ve been around and have gotten to [eat] my prediction...
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