When John J. Audubon, the famous wildlife artist, came to Pittsburgh nearly 200 years ago, he paid specific attention to the passenger pigeon.
Audubon, however, was more concerned in 1817 with the aesthetically...
Yan Dong’s research on illicit drugs’ movement through the brain has been a work in progress since 2006. Now, he is learning how to use that movement to reverse the negative effects of addiction.
Dong...
Five Pitt News staff members received awards from the Associated Collegiate Press national journalism competition this weekend.
Four Pitt students and one Pitt alumnus won awards in the categories of...
After she said the building had collapsed, Lily Roth shouted through a microphone Sunday in the William Pitt Union, directing other students to search for dead or injured people.
“Guys, this person...
Arranged in an arc at the front of Heinz Chapel, the 12 men of Pantherhythms stood in full tuxedos singing a range of music, from the Alma Mater to an Eric Clapton single.
The Pantherhythms, a subset...
Two women were sexually assaulted at separate house parties in South Oakland between Saturday night and early Sunday morning, according to University crime alerts.
According to the first alert, Pitt and...
Pittsburgh bike advocates are calling for more bike lanes in Oakland following a death on Forbes Avenue last Friday.
On Oct. 24, the day after Pitt adviser Susan Hicks died in an accident on Forbes Avenue,...
Hanifa Nakiryowa stood in front of a crowd in the William Pitt Ballroom proudly wearing a gray blazer, oval glasses and her scars.
In 2011, at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, an unknown man threw...
The Cathedral’s Gothic architecture can make it a spooky place, but its resident ghost makes it even spookier.
Quo Vadis, which is Latin for “Where are you going?” is the name of the tour guide...
In 2010, David Thorpe was anxious about his “gay voice,” so he began seeing a vocal coach to make his voice sound more masculine.
By 2014, he realized his voice was fine the way it was — Thorpe...