No one injured in Oakland shooting
Pittsburgh police are searching for someone who shot a gun into a park and a house in Oakland Friday night. According to the release, no one was injured, but police officers found four shell casings on...
View ArticleResearchers develop portable cell model
Remote communities often lack the kind of medical labs necessary for accurate diagnoses and treatments, but new lab-on-a-chip technology from Pitt could make these devices portable. Pitt researchers...
View ArticleQ&A: Soon to be Pitt grad and Republican delegate
By the end of this month, Cameron Linton will be a Pitt graduate — and a Republican delegate. As he’s running alongside just two other delegate candidates — Mike DeVanney and Mary Ann Meloy — for the...
View ArticleCrime Map for March 25 – April 1
Here’s the interactive crime map for March 25 to April 1. Friday, March 25, 2016 7:52 a.m. Nordenberg Hall. Police responded to a student’s report of their own consumption of alcohol. Police referred...
View ArticlePositive racial identities can help children learn
When parents and teachers start having conversations about race and racial identity with children — even when they’re as young as 3-years-old — those children go on to do better in school. That...
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Students honored with Goldwater scholarship
For the fourth year in a row, the foundation behind the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship recognized all of Pitt’s student nominees. Three Pitt juniors — Patrick Asinger, Natalie Dall and Charles Hansen —...
View ArticlePitt study links frequent social media use and depression in young adults
Even as she scrolls through her social media feeds, Erica Cunningham can see why the constant connection might not be so good for her. “When you are on social media, it is hard to compare what your...
View ArticleVice President Joe Biden speaks at Pitt
More than a year after Chancellor Patrick Gallagher declared that sexual violence “has no place” at Pitt, Vice President Joe Biden formally joined the University’s fight. Biden visited campus Tuesday...
View ArticleStudents critique Biden event
Though about 1,000 students cheered for the vice president on Tuesday, hundreds were turned away and others complained about the event’s tone. After waiting in line for more than an hour to hear Vice...
View ArticleSGB considers resolution to make campus smoke free
Pitt Student Government Board member Jack Heidecker wants Pitt’s campus to breathe easy. At SGB’s weekly public meeting Tuesday, Heidecker introduced a resolution supporting the ban of tobacco use on...
View ArticleStudents and alumni awarded research grants
The National Science Foundation awarded 10 Pitt students and eight alumni its Graduate Research Fellowship last week. On March 29, the foundation, which sponsored $22,510 of Pitt’s research and other...
View ArticlePitt develops new epilepsy drug
Pitt researchers are developing a drug that may help people with epilepsy see fewer medication side effects, according to a recent report. Epilepsy researchers have spent the past two-and-a-half years...
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Hillary Clinton campaigns at CMU
After touring a robotics lab and meeting a grieving family, Hillary Clinton took the stage at Carnegie Mellon University to tell Pittsburgh voters that the future belonged to them. And as for herself,...
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Curtis Smith: Officer, teacher, fighter
An arsenal of weapons lies across six tables in Curtis Smith’s self-defense class — not that you’d know it if you looked. At first glance, a cell phone, some pens and other everyday items sit on the...
View ArticleDoctors, professors consider the humanities in healthcare
Therapists aren’t the only medical professionals who should know how to talk about feelings. According to Amy Kennedy, an internal medicine resident in Pittsburgh, compassion is a skill all doctors...
View ArticleGerman language tool wins mobile app challenge
After seeing countless first-year students waste their dining hall swipes — and others who wished they had some — two former Resident Assistants hit their laptops. Asim Viqar and Shil Patel designed...
View ArticleInteractive Crime Map April 1-8
Here’s the interactive crime map for April 1 to April 8 . Friday, April 1, 2016 8:11 a.m. Sutherland Hall. Pitt police are investigating a report of criminal mischief. 12:38 p.m. Litchfield Towers...
View ArticlePastor speaks about gender, students protest
Scott Stiegemeyer wants churches to welcome and support transgender individuals — but he also thinks gender reassignment surgery is a sin. Stiegemeyer has written multiple books about theological...
View ArticleSuicide survivor talks awareness
Less than 1 percent of people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge survive. Kevin Hines is part of that 1 percent. On Sunday at 3:30 p.m., about 220 members of the Pitt community gathered in the O’Hara...
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PDM raises more than $200,000
On Saturday, the William Pitt Union transformed from a casual study and meeting space into a dance party with dubstep pumping and disco balls spinning. The 11th annual Pitt Dance Marathon, a 16-hour...
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