Counseling Center leaders talk mental health at SGB town hall
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Student Government Board replaced its regular public meeting this week with a mental health town hall, where four Pitt health professionals answered questions...
View ArticlePitt announces shuttle stop changes beginning in November
Pitt announced changes to lower campus shuttle stops that will begin on Nov. 1, due to Bigelow Boulevard closing between Fifth and Forbes avenues for construction. The University is preparing to begin...
View ArticleDiversity and Inclusion office reorganized in October
Pitt announced Wednesday that it reorganized the offices of Diversity and Inclusion and Disability Resources and Services at the beginning of October.ODI — previously composed of the Office of...
View ArticleJill Krantz named executive director of campus recreation
Vice Provost and Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner named Jill Krantz Pitt’s new executive director of campus recreation on Wednesday.Krantz is primarily charged with overseeing the construction of the new...
View ArticleUnpacking Pitt’s appeal as a campaign stop for 2020 candidates
Hannah Goldstein was thrilled to learn she’d get the chance to see two 2020 presidential hopefuls in the span of a week.Goldstein, an undeclared first-year and soon-to-be first-time voter, saw both...
View ArticleBirding Club to collect data on bird deaths from victory lights
The Victory Lights that shine up from the Cathedral of Learning may be a point of pride for Pitt students, but some Pitt community members worry that they’re also a potentially dangerous attraction for...
View ArticlePolice blotter: Oct. 3-9
The Pitt News collates and publishes the Pitt police’s media crime log on a weekly basis. Read more here.Thursday, Oct. 3 11:10 a.m. A store manager at Maggie and Stella’s reported an unknown customer...
View ArticlePitt launches new graduate research center with Koch funding
Pitt announced the launch of a new Center for Governance and Markets in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Thursday, funded by a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the Charles Koch...
View ArticlePitt institutes menstrual products in bathrooms around campus
The pad and tampon dispensers in women’s bathrooms across campus have sat empty for years. But check again — Pitt is stocking a number of bathrooms with menstrual products, and there’s no payment...
View ArticleSenate Council forms tobacco-free campus committee
As of Oct. 1, 2,044 colleges in the United States have adopted a 100% tobacco-free campus, according to the American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation. Pitt is considering following suit and amending its...
View ArticleThe Pitt News wins 13 collegiate journalism awards
Staff members at The Pitt News received thirteen awards in eleven different categories from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for print stories published between June 11, 2018 through June 10,...
View ArticleSecond fossil-free sit-in shut down by Pitt officials
Members of the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition had barely sat down in the waiting room of the chancellor’s office for their second weekly Friday sit-in demonstration before the chancellor’s deputy chief of...
View ArticleLovelytheband headlines 2019 Fall Fest
While Bigelow Boulevard won’t be shut down full-time between Forbes and Fifth avenues for construction until Nov. 1, the street was closed Sunday for an afternoon-long celebration — Pitt Program...
View ArticlePanel discusses health effects of family separations
Even though the U.S.-Mexico border is nearly 2,000 miles away, behavioral therapist Claudia Ardiles said at a Friday panel that the crisis of family separations, as well as the immigration crisis more...
View ArticleKathryn Fleisher is “willing to fight” for a future without gun violence
When the Tree of Life massacre rocked Pittsburgh nearly a year ago, Kathryn Fleisher, a member of the Reform Jewish Movement, was devastated.“I had trouble doing normal things like going to class or...
View ArticleCreating an intersectional conversation around mental health
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, nearly half of non-Hispanic white Americans get treatment for mental illness, but only 30% of black or African Americans do.Similar trends can be...
View ArticleSeries | Pitt included retirees, administrators in faculty union bargaining unit
When Pitt faculty filed for a union election in January after years of knocking on office doors, handing out fliers and persuading thousands of faculty to join the cause, organizers thanked University...
View ArticlePart 1 | Who did Pitt include on its list of union-eligible faculty?
Union organizers have long estimated that around 3,500 faculty at Pitt are eligible to be in a faculty union, citing employment numbers from the University factbook, which Pitt is legally obligated to...
View ArticleSGB to finalize naming guideline proposal by end of week
Student Government Board provided updates on several ongoing initiatives at their meeting Tuesday night, including the launch of board member Eric Macadangdang’s initiative to install free menstrual...
View ArticleSurvey results highlight misconduct, sexual assault on campus
The Association of American Universities released a 217-page report and data tables Tuesday examining the current state of sexual assault and misconduct on 33 university campuses, including Pitt.Rates...
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