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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

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher discusses the proposed changes to the Pitt-Titusville campus the Board of Trustees meeting Friday morning. (Photo by Christian Snyder | Multimedia Editor)

Pitt Board of Trustees endorses Titusville training hub

By Janine Faust | Assistant News Editor February 26, 2018

Pitt’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution Friday endorsing a strategy to transform the University’s Titusville branch into an educational and training hub that will share space with...

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher discusses the renaming of Parran Hall at Tuesday’s Senate Council meeting.  (Photo by Sarah Cutshall | Staff Photographer)

University Senate Council address Parran Hall, Titusville

By Hannah Schneider, Staff Writer February 21, 2018

The University Senate Council held its second meeting of the spring semester Tuesday afternoon and addressed recently contentious topics such as building names and budget concerns. Chancellor Patrick...

Pitts CFO Arthur Ramicone will retire in 2018. (Photo courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh)

Pitt announces long-time CFO’s retirement

By John Hamilton | Managing Editor February 20, 2018

Pitt’s chief financial officer and senior vice chancellor, Arthur Ramicone, will retire in August after a 30-year career at Pitt, the University announced Tuesday. Ramicone, 64, is the second senior...

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher speaks at UPMC and Pitts announcement of a research partnership. (Photo by Janine Faust / Contributing Editor)

Pitt, UPMC announce $200 million Immune Transplant and Therapy Center

By Janine Faust / Assistant News Editor February 14, 2018

Jeffrey Romoff, president of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, walked on stage at a century-old abandoned car factory Tuesday afternoon and wondered where some of its necessary facilities were. “This...

Pitts Sigma Chi chapter has been suspended after an alcohol incident left a student hospitalized. (Photo by Thomas Yang / Visual Editor)

Student safe after drinking ‘excessive amounts of alcohol’ at Sigma Chi event

By John Hamilton / Managing Editor January 25, 2018

After a week of sparse details about a Greek life function that left a student hospitalized, Pitt released a statement Thursday with some information about the Sigma Chi alcohol incident. At a Sigma...

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher discussed the communication department Title IX investigation and the GOP tax bill at Wednesday’s Senate Council meeting. (Photo by Chiara Rigaud | Staff Photographer)

University Senate avoids union, frat

While the Pitt community is buzzing about both the recent suspension of Pitt’s Sigma Chi chapter after a student was hospitalized Jan. 19 and the faculty union organizers’ card-signing campaign kickoff...

A new Amazon pickup location opened on Oakland Avenue in October. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Pittsburgh among finalists for Amazon’s second headquarters

By John Hamilton / Managing Editor January 18, 2018

Amazon announced 20 cities Thursday that the company is considering as a location to build its second headquarters — and Pittsburgh is on the list. The online retail giant received more than 200 proposals...

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher responds to recent allegation about sexual harassment and discrimination that might have taken place more than a decade ago in Pitts communications department.

Gallagher responds to communication department harassment claims

By John Hamilton / Managing Editor December 20, 2017

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher responded to allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination in Pitt's Department of Communication Wednesday in an email to the Pitt community. The email is a response...

An office on the 14th floor of the Cathedral of Learning, where Pitts Department of Communication is located. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Pitt Title IX to investigate harassment allegations from early 2000s

By John Hamilton / Managing Editor December 16, 2017

Pitt’s Title IX office will open an investigation after a former professor published an article Wednesday alleging harassment and discrimination in the Department of Communication in the early 2000s. Carol...

Signs supporting the grad and faculty unions hang on a window in the Cathedral of Leaning. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Pitt grad students file for union election

By John Hamilton / Managing Editor December 15, 2017

Graduate students at Pitt filed for a union election Friday, indicating that at least 30 percent of Pitt grad students have signed union cards. Students delivered union cards to the Pennsylvania Labor...

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