Students who walked into the Text & conText Lab on Wednesday afternoon were able to use old scraps, receipts and pictures to create something wholly new. The Center for Creativity hosted a “Junk Journal Journey” event on Wednesday afternoon in Hillman Library’s Text & conText Lab. The lab is a collaborative space shared by the Center for Creativity and the University Library System. Participants...

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...

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,”...