Twenty-five years ago, Pitt’s faculty tried — and failed — to form a union after hitting problems with the administration and a lack of agreement among faculty.
Now, the faculty are trying again,...
When Agnes Haggerty was a Pitt student in 2003, she worked 50 hours a week, carried a full course load and looked after her toddler.
“The majority of my studying was done in the middle of the night,”...
At her high school in the foothills of Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, Monica Silny was in every AP class, a member of the history club — just as a “social thing” — and the 2015 prom queen. Silny, now a first-year at Pitt, said she still stands out — not because of her bubblegum pink hair, but because she has muscular dystrophy and uses a motorized wheelchair.At Pitt, Silny lives in Sutherland Hall on top of the hill. She hasn’t connected with the many athletes who live on her floor and spent
Here is the Pitt police activity from April 15 to 22.
Friday, April 15, 2016
12:11 p.m. Posvar Hall and Forbes Quad. Pitt police responded to a report of an Apple iPad theft from a female student.
9:19...
Six months after the wreck, Pittsburgh police are filing charges against a man for the death of the late Susan Hicks.
On Friday, police said in a release they were finalizing paperwork for the arrest...
Most Pitt students remember Mr. McFeely from “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” as the delivery man, but few expected to see him sink his first shot in “Pitt Tonight Pong” Thursday night.
David Newell,...
Looking to influence Pennsylvania voters before the upcoming primary, Hillary Clinton will make a return visit to Pittsburgh this Friday.
Clinton’s campaign has not announced any further details about...
Based on approval from a Port Authority committee Thursday, the Port Authority Board of Directors will vote next week on system-wide changes to the bus system.
The full board is scheduled to vote April...
Pitt pharmacy students reversed their traditional roles Thursday and collected drugs rather than distributing them.
Aiming to reduce drug misuse, members of Generation Rx — a student group within the...
When Caroline Eddy talks about her southern family’s sex education, it sounds something like Coach Carr from “Mean Girls:” “Don’t have sex ... because you will get pregnant and die.”
“That...