The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
Police responded to two similar bomb threats at Five Guys on Bouquet Street on Monday and Wednesday evenings.

Two bomb threats made at Five Guys in three days

By Jon Moss, News Editor • February 19, 2020
City and Pitt police responded to two similar phoned-in bomb threats at the Five Guys location on Bouquet Street on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Author and historian Daina Ramey Berry came to Pitt to discuss her new book, “A Black Woman’s History of the United States,” on Tuesday.

African American her-story: Author talks new book on history of black women in America

By Nathan Fitchett, Staff Writer • February 19, 2020
Faculty, students and community members gathered on Tuesday afternoon to hear Daina Ramey Berry discuss her new book, “A Black Women’s History of the United States.”
Grad union organizers "urge" Pitt administrators to grant one-year funding extension.

Labor board to hold hearing on proposed grad union ruling

By Neena Hagen and Jon Moss • February 18, 2020
Graduate students now have to wait until at least the end of May to see whether they will be granted a second chance to form a union.
SGB presidential candidates Ravi Gandhi (left) and Eric Macdangdang (right) disagree over the effectiveness of SGB’s current allocation system at Monday’s SGB presidential debate.

SGB candidates debate key issues for presidency

By Jon Moss, News Editor • February 18, 2020
Two presidential candidates for Student Government Board bounced ideas back and forth Monday night about key issues facing students.
Barbara Como, a senior anthropology major, was struck by a Port Authority bus turning from Fifth Avenue onto DeSoto Street on Jan. 18.

Investigation ongoing into Pitt student’s death

By Jon Moss, News Editor • February 18, 2020
The investigation into the mid-January death of a female Pitt student remains ongoing one month after her passing, City police said Monday.
The Pitt Pantry shares the excess food that it receives with Pitt Foodshare. The extra donated food is available to any student.

Facebook group helps eliminate on-campus food waste

By Madison Brewer, Staff Writer • February 18, 2020
Pitt FoodShare Facebook group began in 2016 as a Student Affairs-supported project to reduce uneaten, and therefore wasted, food on campus.
NASA’s Student Spaceflight Experiments Program chose Pitt students Marissa Defallo and Nikolas Vostal’s aluminum corrosion experiment to fly this summer to the International Space Station onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Pitt students reach new heights with NASA

By Madison Brewer, Staff Writer • February 17, 2020
When Marissa Defallo, a junior mechanical engineering major, worked at American Airlines for her engineering co-op, she spent a lot of time working with aluminum. Airplanes, as well as satellites, are made of the material because it is lightweight and flexible. When looking for an experiment to be performed onboard the space station, she instinctively began to think about the material that makes up the better part of the satellite — aluminum.
Assistant director of campus partnerships for the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Ryan Drysdale gives remarks at the Western Pennsylvania Student Voting Summit in the William Pitt Union Saturday afternoon.

Summit aims to inspire more student voters

By Rebecca Johnson, Senior Staff Writer • February 16, 2020
Students and seasoned volunteers, met at the nonpartisan Western Pennsylvania Student Voting Summit in the William Pitt Union ballroom on Saturday. Their aim was to collaborate on registering the most voters before the April 13 deadline for the Pennsylvania Democratic primary on April 28.
Graduate student union organizers delivered a broken heart for Valentine's Day to Chancellor Patrick Gallagher on Friday afternoon, in a demonstration to raise awareness for their ongoing campaign to establish a graduate student union.

Grad union organizers deliver broken heart to Chancellor Gallagher

By Jon Moss and Benjamin Nigrosh • February 14, 2020
Grad union organizers delivered a Valentine’s Day gift, with a twist, to Chancellor Patrick Gallagher on Friday afternoon.
As a part of Fossil Fuel Divestment Day, a nationwide event that, according to the organizers, only marks the beginning of the ‘mass escalation’ of the divestment movement in 2020, Fossil Free Pitt held a rally outside the Cathedral of Learning Thursday.

Students hold rally urging fossil fuel divestment

By Nathan Fitchett, For The Pitt News • February 14, 2020
About 100 protesters gathered in front of the balcony on the Bigelow Boulevard side of the Cathedral of Learning to protest Pitt’s continued investment of its endowment in the fossil fuel industry.
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