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The Pitt News

Zika researchers present their preliminary findings at Thursday's conference. | John Hamilton / Staff Photographer

Pitt researchers continue to fight against the Zika virus

By Erin Hare / Staff Writer September 1, 2016

Amidst the public’s rising fear of the Zika virus, Pitt researchers are on the forefront of those digging for explanations and cures. On Thursday afternoon, researchers from Pitt and from the Fundação...

An artist rendering of the new apartments by Humphreys & Partners Architects. | Photo Courtesy of Craig Wack

Old Pittsburgh makes room for new apartments

By Erin Hare / Staff Writer September 1, 2016

In North Oakland, new Pittsburgh, that of students, young professionals and blooming industry, is colliding with the old as a 17-story luxury apartment complex goes up next to a cozy dive bar filled with...

Thursday night's bonfire glowed in front of the blue and gold lights on the Cathedral of Learning. | Meghan Sunners / Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt is lit: bonfire sparks students’ school spirit

By Andrew O'Brien / Staff Writer September 1, 2016

Less than forty hours before the first football game of the season, head football coach Pat Narduzzi rallied Pitt students and alumni into a school spirit frenzy. In front of a blazing bonfire, a crowd...

Tim Kaine is coming to the Pittsburgh Labor Day parade. | TNS

Tim Kaine to speak at Pittsburgh Labor Day parade

By Lauren Rosenblatt / News Editor September 1, 2016

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s running mate, will make a brief stop at Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday. Kaine will jet off to join Clinton in Cleveland later...

Mike Carrol from Wilkinsburg directs a pack of cyclists riding in protest of PennDOT following the death of Susan Hicks on August 1, 2016. Theo Schwarz | Senior Staff Photographer.

Bike lanes coming to parts of Forbes Avenue

By Brad Smertz / For the Pitt News September 1, 2016

When Pitt adviser Susan Hicks was killed after a car struck her bicycle while she was riding home from work on Forbes Avenue nearly 10 months ago, the Pittsburgh biking community gathered in her memory. Almost...

SGB starts year with full agenda

SGB starts year with full agenda

In its first meeting of the new school year, Pitt’s Student Government Board picked up where it left off on the most pressing projects from the spring. Chief among those were its efforts to improve...

Internet outage temporarily shut down campus bookstore

An internet outage Tuesday afternoon lasted less than an hour but managed to throw Pitt’s bookstore into momentary disarray. Around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Pitt's Computing Services and Systems Development...

Rae Sremmurd's Swae Lee performs on the Sahara stage at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., late on Friday, April 15, 2016. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

PPC announces fall fest performers

Pitt Program Council is hopping in a hip direction for this year’s Fall Fest. The Council announced this week that Rae Sremmurd, a chart-topping hip-hop duo, will headline this semester’s Fall Fest,...

Police: Man Robbed North Oakland Subway

An unknown man wielding a butcher knife robbed a Subway restaurant in North Oakland on Tuesday morning, leaving with cash from the store’s register. According to a release from the Pittsburgh Police,...

President Obama speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

President Obama coming to Pittsburgh for Frontiers Conference in October

By Lauren Rosenblatt / News Editor August 30, 2016

  President Barack Obama is coming to Pittsburgh this fall to talk about technology and innovation. The Oct. 13 White House Frontiers Conference, jointly hosted by Pitt, Carnegie Mellon and...

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