The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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

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Pitt professor to head Latin American research journal

By Elizabeth Lepro / Assistant News Editor October 29, 2015

Pitt professor Aníbal Pérez-Liñán’s new position will make Pitt a focal point of Latin American studies in 2016. The Latin American Research Review announced on Wednesday that Pérez-Liñán, a...

Roy Ferguson, 63, who has lived with HIV for 18 years, is pictured at his Brookfield, Ill., home on Thursday, June 11, 2015. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Living, aging with HIV

By Dylan Shaffer / For The Pitt News October 29, 2015

Following the results of a new study, a Pitt researcher will begin to look at ways people with HIV can live healthy lives well into old age — a prognosis that was unthinkable when the epidemic began...

Campus Womens Organization hosted the annual Take Back the Night march around Oakland to demonstrate against sexual assault.  Wenhao Wu | Staff Photographer

CWO marches to take back the night

By Annemarie Carr / Staff Writer October 28, 2015

With raised fists, marching feet and rhyming chants, students stopped traffic and caught the attention of camera phones in a demonstration seeking to fight back against sexual violence. “Whatever you...

Lia Petrose updates the student body on her work with the Public Health Certificate program at this weeks Student Government Board meeting.  Abigail Self | Staff Photographer

Public health program closer

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer October 28, 2015

After 10 months of work, Student Government Board member Lia Petrose now has a potential starting date for a public health certificate for undergraduate students. At SGB’s weekly public meeting Tuesday,...

Medical examiner releases names of accident victims

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor October 28, 2015

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office has released the names of the two people who were killed in an accident involving an SUV and a Port Authority bus Monday in the Oakland/Hill District area....

Able to lead: Disability activist visits Pitt

By Mark Pesto / Senior Staff Writer October 28, 2015

Mark Johnson once chained himself to a bus to draw attention to disability-inaccessible public transportation. “Rosa [Parks] wanted to sit in the front [of the bus],” Johnson said. “I just want...

Pitt professor first woman to win Polymer Prize

By Leo Dornan / For the Pitt News October 27, 2015

As the first woman to win the Polymer Physics Prize, Anna Balazs remembers the women who came before her. “I look to the women before me and I am so impressed with all the work they have done themselves...

Candidates for United States naturalization gather at Schenley Plaza on Monday afternoon to officially become citizens.  Valkyrie Speaker | Staff Photographer

Pittsburgh inaugurates new citizens

By Dylan Shaffer / For the Pitt News October 27, 2015

Without immigrants, there wouldn’t be a Cathedral of Learning. “[Pitt’s neighbors] donated their own scarce resources, their own treasure, and their own sweat to complete the project,” Pitt Chancellor...

Students gathered in the William Pitt Union Ballroom to network with and hear from media internship panelists on Monday night.  Nikki Moriello | Visual Editor

Media professionals give internship advice to students

By Mark Pesto / Senior Staff Writer October 27, 2015

If you send Sharon Walsh a cover letter addressed, “Dear Sir or Madam,” she will throw your application away. “If you don’t have the wherewithal to find the name of the editor when it’s right...

The bus accident took place near upper campus in October 2015. | Dale Shoemaker / Contributing Editor

Two pedestrians killed in accident involving Port Authority bus near upper campus

An accident involving a Port Authority bus has killed two pedestrians near upper campus this afternoon. Port Authority spokesman Adam Brandolph said two passengers, a woman and a man in a wheelchair,...

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