Universities aim to clean up city environment with new majors
Though the city is now mostly free of smog and blackened bricks, the environmental impacts of the steel industry still cloud Pittsburgh’s air. So what better a place for environmental studies students?...
View ArticleNew placenta model uses space-age technology
Channeling outer space, researchers at Magee-Womens Hospital have grown cells resembling those in the human placenta in March to study how infectious diseases lead to birth defects, especially the Zika...
View ArticlePitt Pantry simulates hunger
Darius Bittle-Dockery munched on rice for dinner, but he wasn’t nursing Sushi Fuku chirashi. He sat cross-legged on the floor, rationing out miniscule portions from a communal bowl. Bittle-Dockery, a...
View ArticlePitt ranked 29th among best large employers
Based on employee responses, Forbes Media has ranked Pitt among the country’s top large employers. Pitt ranked 29th overall of 500 companies included in the country’s top large employers in a survey of...
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Students inspired to move at TEDx event
When Kerry Harling got sick of organizing her pills in daily containers each week, she decided to nix medication altogether. Harling suffered from countless illnesses before realizing she could fix her...
View ArticleCrime map for March 16 – 25
Here’s the interactive crime map for March 16 – 25 Wednesday, March 16, 2016 5:59 p.m. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall. Pitt police are investigating a report of a damaged rear passenger window....
View ArticleUPMC to pay workers $15 per hour by 2021
After several years of workers calling for higher wages, UPMC announced on Tuesday that by 2021, its minimum starting wage for employees would reach $15 per hour, and average service worker pay would...
View ArticlePitt settles Johnston lawsuit, looks to form trans inclusion group
Four years after he was expelled, Pitt announced Tuesday that it had settled Seamus Johnston’s lawsuit and would establish a focus group on transgender inclusion. Pitt announced in a joint statement...
View ArticleSGB amends allocations manual
By amending its manual, the Allocations Committee of Pitt’s Student Government Board is working to give a competitive edge to non-athletic clubs. Nick Reslink, chair of the Allocations Committee,...
View ArticleAfghanistan reconstruction expert speaks at Pitt
Americans may be concerned about dishonest public officials, but at least they don’t have to worry about bribing doctors to receive hospital care. John Sopko, though, does. Sopko, the special inspector...
View ArticlePitt’s Board of Trustees approves money for renovations
At a public meeting Tuesday, the Property and Facilities Committee of Pitt’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved $34.7 million for seven renovation projects at three of its campuses, and said it...
View ArticlePitt senate discusses tenure
Faculty and staff from all of Pitt’s campuses came together Wednesday to take part in a discussion on academic freedom and how it promotes diversity and inclusion. Pitt’s University Senate hosted its...
View ArticleJoe Biden to visit Pitt
On a nationwide tour of three universities, Vice President Joe Biden will visit Pitt next week as part of the It’s On Us campaign, a White House official announced Tuesday. According to a release,...
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Pittsburgh feels the bern
Though thousands in Pittsburgh have long felt the Bern, the presidential candidate made his first official stop in the city Thursday morning. At a press conference and rally at the David L. Lawrence...
View ArticleCandidates dumb down speech for relateability
If the 2016 presidential candidates competed on the television show, “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?” some of them would do well to save their lifelines for the English section. Trump, for...
View ArticleMagee to study pregnancy, heart disease connection
Starting today, Pitt researchers will begin to pull at the strings potentially linking pregnancy complications and heart disease. The Magee-Womens Research Institute, along with researchers from four...
View ArticlePitt puts salaries in temporary freezer
When Pennsylvania legislators held Pitt’s state funding hostage for eight months this year, University administrators took a hit where it counts: their wallets. In response to the budget uncertainty...
View ArticleCathedral lighting up for high grades
Even though the football season is over, that doesn’t mean Pitt has turned the victory lights off. Fans who have noticed the lights shining more frequently — and seemingly without reason — this spring...
View ArticleCathy confused by lack of catcalls
Watching students trickle out of its doors around 10 p.m. last Thursday as they headed home from a long day of class, schoolwork and club meetings, Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning realized it hadn’t been...
View ArticleTheres no place like a Bernie rally
Just months after we thought we lost her for good, Dorothy, the Cathedral of Learning’s peregrine falcon, is back. And this time, she’s supporting democratic socialism. Four months after the National...
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