As the 2024 Presidential Election approached, many on-campus events took place encouraging students to participate in civic engagement by voting. One such event was the Pitt Open Lab’s “I Voted” Button Making Competition, which took place throughout the month of October and concluded with the official button-making between Nov. 5 and 6.  The Pitt Open Lab is a collaboration between the University...

Pitt students and faculty of all experience levels came together in the Understory of the Cathedral, the home of the Center for Creativity, to participate in an interactive crochet workshop. The event took place on the evening of Oct. 30 and featured an hour of instruction followed by another hour for participants to experiment with and practice the skills they learned. The Center for Creativity...

The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation hosted a viewing party of the environmental documentary “Hidden Rivers” in the Frick Fine Arts Theater on Oct. 29. The event was held as a sector of the international Moving the Cities program, hosted by the Swanson School of Engineering.  “Hidden Rivers,” conceptualized by Oregon-based non-profit Freshwater Illustrated, traverses the many waterways...

A stage light soars to the ground and bursts into flames. Two comedians flay insults at one another before lunging into a brawl. Illicit drugs are passed from person to person. To make matters worse, the show goes on in 90 minutes.  This is a mere snippet of the chaos that ensued before the first live episode of NBC’s sketch-comedy program Saturday Night Live, as presented in “Saturday Night,”...