Female cyclist dead after Forbes incident
A female cyclist has died after being hit by a car near the Cathedral of Learning this evening. Police were called to the intersection of Forbes Avenue and South Bellefield at 4:57 p.m. No word on the...
View ArticleStudents pitch in at PMADD
Dust, nails and shattered roof shale flew around inside the dingy house in East Liberty as a group of Pitt students worked furiously to rebuild the house for a needy family. The volunteers worked to...
View ArticlePitt Black Action Society hosts Bree Newsome
For Bree Newsome, the conversation on race violence didn’t end when she descended the South Carolina Statehouse flagpole, clutching a Confederate flag. Newsome is a social justice activist who climbed...
View ArticleOBITUARY: Remembering Susan Hicks
Susan Hicks was always learning, often traveling and never limiting her capacity for empathy or her dedication to students. Hicks, 34, was assistant director of academic affairs at Pitt’s Center for...
View ArticleTrustees approve Pitt plan, ADA elevators
Pitt’s Board of Trustees put an end to phase one of Pitt’s strategic plan and said it’s time to begin implementation by making changes through campaigns and committees. At a Board of Trustees meeting...
View ArticleTwo pedestrians killed in accident involving Port Authority bus near upper...
An accident involving a Port Authority bus has killed two pedestrians near upper campus this afternoon. Port Authority spokesman Adam Brandolph said two passengers, a woman and a man in a wheelchair,...
View ArticleMedia professionals give internship advice to students
If you send Sharon Walsh a cover letter addressed, “Dear Sir or Madam,” she will throw your application away. “If you don’t have the wherewithal to find the name of the editor when it’s right there on...
View ArticleAble to lead: Disability activist visits Pitt
Mark Johnson once chained himself to a bus to draw attention to disability-inaccessible public transportation. “Rosa [Parks] wanted to sit in the front [of the bus],” Johnson said. “I just want to get...
View ArticlePublic health program closer
After 10 months of work, Student Government Board member Lia Petrose now has a potential starting date for a public health certificate for undergraduate students. At SGB’s weekly public meeting...
View ArticleCWO marches to take back the night
With raised fists, marching feet and rhyming chants, students stopped traffic and caught the attention of camera phones in a demonstration seeking to fight back against sexual violence. “Whatever you...
View ArticlePitt professor to head Latin American research journal
Pitt professor Aníbal Pérez-Liñán’s new position will make Pitt a focal point of Latin American studies in 2016. The Latin American Research Review announced on Wednesday that Pérez-Liñán, a professor...
View ArticleThorpe Documentary: Voicing the truth
In 2010, David Thorpe was anxious about his “gay voice,” so he began seeing a vocal coach to make his voice sound more masculine. By 2014, he realized his voice was fine the way it was — Thorpe had...
View ArticleNationality Rooms: Tours of Terror
The Cathedral’s Gothic architecture can make it a spooky place, but its resident ghost makes it even spookier. Quo Vadis, which is Latin for “Where are you going?” is the name of the tour guide club...
View ArticleAcid attack survivor speaks to students
Hanifa Nakiryowa stood in front of a crowd in the William Pitt Ballroom proudly wearing a gray blazer, oval glasses and her scars. In 2011, at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, an unknown man...
View ArticlePetition for bike lanes seeks change, faces challenges
Pittsburgh bike advocates are calling for more bike lanes in Oakland following a death on Forbes Avenue last Friday. On Oct. 24, the day after Pitt adviser Susan Hicks died in an accident on Forbes...
View ArticleGlee club elite host first full-length show
Arranged in an arc at the front of Heinz Chapel, the 12 men of Pantherhythms stood in full tuxedos singing a range of music, from the Alma Mater to an Eric Clapton single. The Pantherhythms, a subset...
View ArticleStudents train for mass emergency
After she said the building had collapsed, Lily Roth shouted through a microphone Sunday in the William Pitt Union, directing other students to search for dead or injured people. “Guys, this person is...
View ArticleThe Pitt News wins national pacemaker awards
Five Pitt News staff members received awards from the Associated Collegiate Press national journalism competition this weekend. Four Pitt students and one Pitt alumnus won awards in the categories of...
View ArticleAddiction research hits home
Yan Dong’s research on illicit drugs’ movement through the brain has been a work in progress since 2006. Now, he is learning how to use that movement to reverse the negative effects of addiction. Dong...
View ArticleBirders flock to Audubon’s art
When John J. Audubon, the famous wildlife artist, came to Pittsburgh nearly 200 years ago, he paid specific attention to the passenger pigeon. Audubon, however, was more concerned in 1817 with the...
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