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
Pathways is a new advising platform that is currently being used by first-year and sophomore engineers, nursing students, undeclared Dietrich students and students in the College of General Studies and the School of Computing and Information.

Pitt to fully implement new advising platform by 2022

By Madison Brewer, For The Pitt News • September 24, 2019
Pitt is introducing a new advising platform, Pathways, to make students' advising experiences more centralized.
two high-risk violations and two low-risk violations in a Monday report.

Bruegger’s cited for four more health code violations

By Emily Wolfe, News Editor • September 24, 2019
A month after Bruegger’s Bagel Bakery closed and then reopened its doors in Oakland due to health risks, the Allegheny County Health Department returned to the location for a reinspection.
Starting in October, counselors will be available for consultation sessions in Sutherland Hall, Lothrop Hall and Towers Lobby.

Counseling Center adds staff, puts counselors in residence halls

By Charlotte Pearse, For The Pitt News • September 24, 2019
Placing counselors in residence halls is an expansion of the center’s “Let’s Talk” consultation services, which seek to bring counselors to students instead of the other way around.
The ACHD cited The Perch for one high-risk violation and six low-risk violations Monday.

ACHD finds one high-risk health code violation at Perch

By Emily Wolfe, News Editor • September 24, 2019
The Allegheny County Health Department visited The Perch at Sutherland Hall Monday for its first inspection in close to a year, citing the dining hall for one high-risk health code violation and six low-risk violations.
Provost Ann Cudd at a forum at the 74th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

Cudd speaks at U.N.’s “Spotlight on Pittsburgh”

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor • September 23, 2019
Ann Cudd, Pitt's Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor, spoke about University initiatives at U.N.'s "Spotlight on Pittsburgh" in New York Monday.
Pitt’s Center for Creativity and Department of Parking, Transportation and Services co-sponsored PARK(ing) Day last Friday outside Hillman Library.

Students park their creativity outside Hillman Library

By Rebecca Johnson, For The Pitt News • September 22, 2019
The cars were cleared out of Hillman Library’s parking spaces last Friday. in their place were students painting neurotransmitters on Christmas cards, presenting research opportunities in chalk drawings, scavenging for rare artifacts and forming melodic lines of prose on cardboard boxes.
Students hold handmade signs in Downtown Pittsburgh at Friday's Youth Climate Strike.

Hundreds of Pittsburghers join massive global climate strike

By Benjamin Nigrosh, Staff Writer • September 20, 2019
No one knows exactly how many people participated in Friday’s worldwide climate strike, but it’s clear the number is in the millions. In Pittsburgh, the youth-led protest brought hundreds Downtown.
Fetal death is twice as likely to occur in cases of pregnant black women as opposed to white women in Pittsburgh according to the City’s Gender Equity Commission report.

Pitt report: Quality of life for black residents worse in Pittsburgh than in other cities

By Emily Wolfe, News Editor • September 19, 2019
Pittsburgh has often been called one of the country’s “most livable cities.” But its relative “livability” might depend on whether or not you’re white.
Chaz Kellem (far left), director of Pitt Serves, speaks with students at Thursday afternoon’s Community Cafe event in the Cathedral of Learning.

For Chaz Kellem, it all comes back to service

By Jessica Steinberg, For The Pitt News • September 19, 2019
While community service might just be a resume booster for some students, Chaz Kellem, director of PittServes, believes service should be more substantial.
The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board filed a decision Wednesday ordering a new election for Pitt’s graduate student union.

Labor official: Pitt website, department chair email involved in unfair practices

By Emily Wolfe, News Editor • September 19, 2019
Unless the board files an exception to Helmerich’s ruling — it has 20 days to do so, in accordance with PLRB regulations — graduate students will soon vote again on the union question.
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