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Scott Stiegemeyer spoke in the O'Hara Student Center Friday evening.  Will Miller | Staff Photographer

Pastor speaks about gender, students protest

By Casey Schmauder / Staff Writer April 10, 2016

Scott Stiegemeyer wants churches to welcome and support transgender individuals — but he also thinks gender reassignment surgery is a sin. Stiegemeyer has written multiple books about theological perspectives...

Interactive Crime Map April 1-8

By Pitt News Staff April 10, 2016

Here’s the interactive crime map for April 1 to April 8 . Friday, April 1, 2016 8:11 a.m. Sutherland Hall. Pitt police are investigating a report of criminal mischief. 12:38 p.m. Litchfield Towers...

Dale Shoemaker | News Editor

German language tool wins mobile app challenge

By Josh Ye / Staff Writer April 7, 2016

After seeing countless first-year students waste their dining hall swipes — and others who wished they had some — two former Resident Assistants hit their laptops. Asim Viqar and Shil Patel designed...

Doctors, professors consider the humanities in healthcare

By Albert Giovanazzi / Staff Writer April 7, 2016

Therapists aren’t the only medical professionals who should know how to talk about feelings. According to Amy Kennedy, an internal medicine resident in Pittsburgh, compassion is a skill all doctors...

Curtis Smith: Officer, teacher, fighter

By Andrew O'Brien / Staff Writer April 7, 2016

An arsenal of weapons lies across six tables in Curtis Smith’s self-defense class — not that you’d know it if you looked. At first glance, a cell phone, some pens and other everyday items sit on...

Hillary Clinton campaigns at CMU

Hillary Clinton campaigns at CMU

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor April 6, 2016

After touring a robotics lab and meeting a grieving family, Hillary Clinton took the stage at Carnegie Mellon University to tell Pittsburgh voters that the future belonged to them. And as for herself,...

Will Miller | Staff Illustrator

Pitt develops new epilepsy drug

By Annemarie Carr / Staff Writer April 6, 2016

Pitt researchers are developing a drug that may help people with epilepsy see fewer medication side effects, according to a recent report. Epilepsy researchers have spent the past two-and-a-half years...

Students and alumni awarded research grants

The National Science Foundation awarded 10 Pitt students and eight alumni its Graduate Research Fellowship last week. On March 29, the foundation, which sponsored $22,510 of Pitt’s research and other...

Jack Heidecker introduced a bill that would make pitt a Tobacco-free campus. Will Miller | Staff Photographer

SGB considers resolution to make campus smoke free

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer April 6, 2016

Pitt Student Government Board member Jack Heidecker wants Pitt’s campus to breathe easy. At SGB’s weekly public meeting Tuesday, Heidecker introduced a resolution supporting the ban of tobacco use...

Kate Koenig | Visual Editor

Students critique Biden event

Though about 1,000 students cheered for the vice president on Tuesday, hundreds were turned away and others complained about the event's tone.  After waiting in line for more than an hour to hear Vice...

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