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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

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,...

David R. Williams, Director, Center for Visual Science and Professor, Optics, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, left, and his former student Ethan A. Rossi, assistant professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine photographed in Williams lab at the University of Rochester Medical Center January 9, 2017. Courtesy of J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester

Eye imaging helps glaucoma patients, according to study

By James Evan Bowen-Gaddy / Staff Writer January 18, 2017

With a few pictures, eye disease patients may get more focused help than before, according to a new study. Researchers at both Pitt and the University of Rochester Medical Center have developed a new...

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...

Henry Wagler, 9, puts a letter to President-elect Donald Trump into a mailbox at the corner of Forbes and Bigelow during the Pittsburgh Childrens March for Peace and Kindess Sunday in Schenley Plaza. Stephen Caruso | Online Visual Editor

Kids march for peace, kindness in Schenley Plaza

By Evan Bowen-Gaddy / Staff Writer January 17, 2017

Eleven-year-old Clara Swanson was hunched over a park table with her baby sibling Benny sitting comfortably in a carrier on her back Sunday afternoon. She was carefully penning a letter to President-elect...

TPN File photo.

It’s Dogg’n It victim of armed robbery

By Ashwini Sivaganesh / News Editor January 13, 2017

It’s Dogg’n It, a beer and convenience store, was robbed Wednesday evening by an unknown suspect with a handgun. Pitt police and city police responded to the store, located on the 200 block of...

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...

Dan Gilman speaks at a rally for Katie McGinty in September. John Hamilton | Visual Editor

New bill aims to end wage gap

By Amanda Reed / Assistant News Editor January 13, 2017

If a new bill passes in Pittsburgh, the city could be joining New York and Philadelphia in closing the pay gap. Pittsburgh City Councilman Dan Gilman introduced legislation on Jan. 10 that would prohibit...

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...

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