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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

Kenyon Bonner looks out the window during his public interview Tuesday afternoon. Dale Shoemaker | News Editor

Pitt names Kenyon Bonner new Dean

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor February 26, 2016

After months serving in the position, Kenyon Bonner is now settling into his vice provost and dean of students office. More than a year after the job opened, Pitt appointed Kenyon Bonner, the former interim...

Dale Shoemaker | News Editor

City launches redevelopment for West Oakland, Uptown

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer February 25, 2016

If the ideas they wrote on sticky notes are any indication, residents of Uptown and West Oakland know exactly what they want in their neighborhoods. On chalkboards, large maps and interactive cardboard...

Sarah Goodkind, associate professor, School of Social Work, Department of Sociology, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program, presented the lecture “Are My Pants Lowering Your Test Scores?: Blaming Girls for Challenges Facing Boys” Thursday afternoon in the Cathedral of Learning.  Donny Falk | Staff Photographer

Sociologist explores gender at high school

By Lianna Rana / For the Pitt News February 25, 2016

`In a Pittsburgh public high school, girls and boys spent a school year segregated. Sara Goodkind, a sociology professor in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies department at Pitt, learned through...

Theo Schwarz received an honorable mention for his centerspread design, “Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice — Summer Recipes Centerspread.|Theo Schwarz / Senior Staff Photographer

The Pitt News wins Keystone Press awards

By Zoë Hannah / Assistant News Editor February 24, 2016

The Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association awarded The Pitt News top prizes and honorable mentions for seven stories and design pieces published in 2015 in six categories Wednesday. The PNA’s 2016 Student...

Pitt buys parking lot from UPMC

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor February 24, 2016

Though it has no formal construction plans yet, the Property and Facilities Committee of Pitt’s Board of Trustees bought a 2.1-acre portion of land in Oakland Wednesday. The acquisition is the parking...

Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty model, Stacy Nadeau,  spoke to students in the O'Hara Student Center Tuesday night.  Jordan Mondell | Staff Photographer

Dove model brings ‘real beauty’ to Pitt

By Danni Zhou / Staff Writer February 24, 2016

Former Dove Real Beauty Campaign model Stacy Nadeau was shocked when a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times wrote in reference to her body that “the only time I want to see thigh that big is in a bucket...

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Pitt researchers map Huntington’s protein

By Alexa Bakalarski / Staff Writer February 24, 2016

Pitt researchers are closer to curing a nerve cell disease after creating a new protein model. For the first time, a team of 10 Pitt researchers from the School of Medicine mapped the tiny fibers of...

Will Miller | Staff Photographer

SGB proposes changes to constiution

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer February 24, 2016

Students may get to make Student Government Board’s constitution gender-neutral in next week’s election, the Board announced Tuesday night in the William Pitt Union. President Nasreen Harun announced...

Emilee Betz (right) explaining her team's app to a judge. Emily Brindley for the Pitt News

Hacking away stereotypes

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer February 24, 2016

At most Pitt hackathons, hundreds of men line the desks and tables, chattering and hammering away on keyboards. Yet the women who can design and code just as well as them are largely absent. The environment...

Matt Sykes and Natalie Dall participated in the SGB debate Monday night in Nordy's Place.  John Hamilton | Staff Photographer

Dall, Sykes debate for presidency

By Saskia Berrios-Thomas / Staff Writer February 23, 2016

With only one chance to face their competitors head-on, Student Government Board presidential candidates Matt Sykes and Natalie Dall faced off during the election debate in Nordy’s Place Monday night. With...

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