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

John Hamilton | Visual Editor

Pitt to offer dual-degree MBA/MHA graduate program

By Nolan Roosa / For The Pitt News January 25, 2017

A new collaboration between two Pitt graduate schools lets students save 39 credits and a year of school while walking away with two degrees. Pitt announced the dual degree program on Jan. 17. Beginning...

Crows perch in the trees oustide the William Pitt Union. Stephen Caruso|Online Visual Editor

What’s with the crows: facilities management, Aviary work to combat campus crows

By Amanda Reed / Assistant News Editor January 19, 2017

As junior Virginia Lefever walked out of her Vertebrate Morphology lab in Langley Hall on a Tuesday night last semester, she heard what sounded like the onset of a minor rainstorm. But it wasn’t raindrops...

SGB introduced a simpler way students register for classes and plan their semesters through a scheduling app. Jeff Ahearn | Senior Staff Photographer

SGB introduces new scheduling app for planning semesters

By Leo Dornan / Staff Writer January 18, 2017

SGB introduced a new scheduling application at Tuesday night’s meeting that would simplify the way students register for classes and plan their semesters. Vice President and Chief of Cabinet Rohit...

W. Kamau Bell speaks at an event at Pitt on Jan. 17, 2017. Anna Bongardino|Staff Photographer

Walter Kamau Bell kicks off Social Justice Week at Pitt

By Rebecca Peters / Staff Writer January 17, 2017

About 150 people from varying backgrounds walked into a room. They filled half the seats in the O’Hara Student Center ballroom. Someone cracked a joke. “Hey. How you doing? We’re half empty. Did...

Josh Lapalme presents at the oSTEM National Conference in 2015, held at Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy of oSTEM.

oSTEM making a space LGBTQ+ students in STEM fields

By Janine Faust / Staff Writer January 13, 2017

Before he came out as gay to his lab group, Alexander Rowden had to figure out what to say when his classmates asked his opinion on certain female celebrities. “They’d be like, ‘Scarlett Johansson's...

Pitt is making it one step easier for students to apply and renew their passports in order to encourage students to study and intern abroad.
Sean Hobson | Flickr

USPS to issue passports at Pitt

Instead of going to the post office to apply for a passport, the post office is coming to Pitt. Officials from the U.S. Postal Service will be on campus Jan. 17 and 18 to renew U.S. passports for Pitt...

First years students Cameron Kisailus (right) and Nathan Sugrue (left) play video ga​mes in Nordenberg Hall. Jeff Ahearn|Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt students game with new Wi-Fi network

When they aren’t in class, some students spend their time trekking through the forest for lost treasure while others creep through cityscapes stealing expensive cars. Some brave dorm-dwellers slay demons...

Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner talked to students about diversity on campus during Dialogue with the Dean on Tuesday night. Evan Meng | Staff Photographer

Pitt students, faculty talk diversity with Dean Bonner

By Janine Faust / Staff Writer January 11, 2017

Pitt students and faculty used markers, large posters and brainpower Tuesday evening to address diversity and inclusion at Pitt. In the second installment of Pitt’s Dialogue with the Dean, a University-sponsored...

SGB plans to increase advertising for elections to avoid an unchallenged ballot and increase student involvement with the organization. Jeff Ahearn | Senior Staff Photographer

SGB talks 2017 election, student involvement for future

By Leo Dornan / Staff Writer January 11, 2017

With more publicity and more communication, this year’s Student Government Board wants to break the three-year streak of candidates running unopposed. To encourage more students to run for positions...

Valerie Kinloch will replace Alan Lesgold as the dean of Pitts School of Education | Courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh

School of Education announces new dean

After the former dean stepped down in the summer, Pitt has named a new School of Education dean — one who has had a focus on diversity and inclusion in her past roles. Valerie Kinloch, who will begin...

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