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

Marchers pass the Washington Monument on Constutution Avenue. John Hamilton | Visual Editor

TPN reacts to weekend in Washington, D.C.

By The Pitt News Staff January 23, 2017

After returning from Washington, D.C., here's what some of The Pitt News staff had to say about inauguration weekend: Elizabeth Lepro, editor-in-chief I wasn’t able to make it to the inauguration,...

Jack Hayes, a senior microbiology major, served as an RA three times at Pitt before stepping down this year. Kyleen Considine | Staff Photographer

Jack Hayes: balancing res life and med life

By Janine Faust / Staff Writer January 20, 2017

For Christmas during his junior year, Jack Hayes received a “Pitt Dad” shirt as a gift from one of his floormates. No, he wasn’t an expectant father. He was the Resident Assistant — more commonly...

President-elect Donald Trump will become the 45th president on Jan. 20.|Gary Hershorn/Zuma Press/TNS

TPN’s Top 5 political moments in Pittsburgh

Before the moment Donald Trump puts his hand on the Bible and takes an oath to become the 45th president of the United States of America, The Pitt News took to its Twitter analytics to see which Pittsburgh...

Students who join the university in the fall of 2018 will be required to take a diversity course as part of their general education requirements. Wenhao Wu | Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences updates general education requirements

By Amanda Reed / Assistant News Editor January 20, 2017

For the first time in 35 years, general education requirements are changing in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. The Undergraduate Council, composed of 12 faculty members and five...

Peter Salk spoke to a crowd of 150 people on Wednesday evening at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. Evan Meng | Staff Photographer

Son of Salk: cooperation will end polio

By Rebecca Peters / Staff Writer January 19, 2017

Peter Salk knows the last step to eradicating polio: teamwork. His father, Jonas Salk, the inventor of the injected polio vaccine, began imagining an institute dedicated to investigating experimental...

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...

Interactive crime map Jan. 4 – 13

By The Pitt News Staff January 18, 2017

Jan. 4, 2017 Noon. University Store on Fifth. 4000 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police responded to a report of a retail theft. One student was referred for judicial action. 12:20...

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...

Dan Gilman speaks during Pittsburgh 350s Mass Rally for Climate Action on June 21, 2015. Mark Dixon | Flickr

Gilman proposes City for All agenda

By Amanda Reed / Assistant News Editor January 18, 2017

With Pittsburgh City Councilman Dan Gilman’s six piece legislation package, the city could become a fairer place for immigrants, refugees and those with disabilities. The six pieces of legislation,...

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