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Interactive Crime Map May 17 – May 23

By The Pitt News Staff • May 24, 2016

Here is the Pitt police activity from May 17 to 23. Tuesday, May 17, 2016 2:06 p.m. Meyran Avenue and Forbes Avenue. Pitt police confiscated a small amount of marijuana during a traffic stop. 9:32...

Police Chief: There are enough officers to work the Beyoncé concert

By Alexa Bakalarski / News Editor • May 23, 2016

On Sunday night, Chief of Pittsburgh police Cameron McLay said there were enough officers to work Beyoncé’s upcoming concert, despite news that there would be a police boycott. According to Robert...

Q & A: Pitt Students Bike for a Cause

By Alexa Bakalarski / News Editor • May 17, 2016

Three Pitt students and fraternity brothers had barely put down their pencils after finals before they were strapping on helmets to raise money for a good cause. To support the V Foundation for Cancer...

Pitt Creates New Urban Education Certificate

By Alexa Bakalarski / News Editor • May 17, 2016

On Wednesday, Pitt’s School of Education announced a new graduate program certificate that specifically addresses cultural divides between teachers and students in urban schools. The Graduate School...

Nurse Practitioners Push for Full Authority

By Erin Hare / Staff Writer • May 17, 2016

The Department of Health and Human Services projects that by 2020, the country will face a shortage of 20,400 primary care doctors. While medical experts can only guess at the cause for the declining...

City Competes for Funds

By Alexa Bakalarski / News Editor • May 17, 2016

At a meeting of Pittsburgh minds on Monday, Mayor Bill Peduto lamented the city’s aging transportation system. “We have an infrastructure that is still based in the 1950s,” Peduto said. “We have...

Interactive Crime Map May 10 – May 16

By The Pitt News Staff • May 17, 2016

Here is the Pitt police activity from May 10 to 16. Tuesday, May 10, 2016 6:27 p.m. Schenley Quadrangle. Pitt police cited a male non-affiliate for defiant trespassing. 9:53 p.m. 200 block of Atwood...

Pitt and UPMC Create Microbiome Research Center

By Alexa Bakalarski / News Editor • May 13, 2016

UPMC and Pitt’s Schools of Health Sciences, along with the White House, announced a joint venture on Friday to try to understand the microbiome - the trillions of microbes that form an ecosystem within...

Bank Robbed in Oakland

By Alexa Bakalarski / News Editor • May 11, 2016

The Pittsburgh Police are looking for an unidentified man who robbed the Dollar Bank in Oakland on Wednesday afternoon. According to a release, a black man who appeared to be between 35 and 45 years...

In Case You Missed It

By The Pitt News Staff • May 10, 2016

Everything of note since our last print edition. See online for the full stories. April 26 — Man fatally shot in South Oakland At about 10:15 p.m. on April 26, an unidentified man was fatally shot...