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Students critique Biden event

By Lauren Rosenblatt / Assistant News Editor • April 6, 2016

Though about 1,000 students cheered for the vice president on Tuesday, hundreds were turned away and others complained about the event's tone. After waiting in line for more than an hour to hear Vice...

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Pitt

By Lauren Rosenblatt and Andrew O'Brien / The Pitt News Staff • April 5, 2016

With his right hand raised, Vice President Joe Biden put sexual assault prevention “on us,” leading several hundred Pitt students in a pledge Tuesday to eliminate campus sexual assault. “I pledge...

Students honored with Goldwater scholarship

By Lauren Rosenblatt / Assistant News Editor • April 5, 2016

For the fourth year in a row, the foundation behind the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship recognized all of Pitt’s student nominees. Three Pitt juniors — Patrick Asinger, Natalie Dall and Charles Hansen...

Positive racial identities can help children learn

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • April 5, 2016

When parents and teachers start having conversations about race and racial identity with children — even when they’re as young as 3-years-old — those children go on to do better in school. That...

Joe Biden to visit Pitt

By Alexa Bakalarski / Staff Writer • March 31, 2016

On a nationwide tour of three universities, Vice President Joe Biden will visit Pitt next week as part of the It’s On Us campaign, a White House official announced Tuesday. According to a release, Biden...

Pitt senate discusses tenure

By Leo Dornan / Staff Writer • March 30, 2016

Faculty and staff from all of Pitt’s campuses came together Wednesday to take part in a discussion on academic freedom and how it promotes diversity and inclusion. Pitt’s University Senate hosted...

Pitt’s Board of Trustees approves money for renovations

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • March 30, 2016

At a public meeting Tuesday, the Property and Facilities Committee of Pitt’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved $34.7 million for seven renovation projects at three of its campuses, and said it would...

Pitt settles Johnston lawsuit, looks to form trans inclusion group

By Lauren Rosenblatt and Emily Brindley / The Pitt News Staff • March 30, 2016

Four years after he was expelled, Pitt announced Tuesday that it had settled Seamus Johnston’s lawsuit and would establish a focus group on transgender inclusion. Pitt announced in a joint statement...

Pitt ranked 29th among best large employers

By Lauren Rosenblatt / Assistant News Editor • March 27, 2016

Based on employee responses, Forbes Media has ranked Pitt among the country’s top large employers. Pitt ranked 29th overall of 500 companies included in the country’s top large employers in a survey...

Universities aim to clean up city environment with new majors

By Alexa Bakalarski / Staff Writer • March 24, 2016

Though the city is now mostly free of smog and blackened bricks, the environmental impacts of the steel industry still cloud Pittsburgh’s air. So what better a place for environmental studies students? On...