A Pitt professor has publicly announced that University faculty will begin a campaign to organize a faculty union.
After gauging faculty interest, William Haywood Carey, lead organizer of the campaign...
When it comes to treating breast cancer, Pitt researchers say there won’t be a one size fits all solution.
Physicians at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute...
Adopting a child is meant to create a family, but narratives show that it can also isolate the individual.
Four panelists specializing in adoption studies participated in an English department- and Humanities...
When Denise McCaskill was in high school, a student not much older than herself — social activist Julian Bond, a college student at the time — convinced her that young people could make a change.
To...
Nasreen Harun wants more strong women leaders on campus — so, she’s set out to find them.
At Pitt’s Student Government Board’s weekly meeting Tuesday, Harun, SGB president, announced applications...
In an effort to make running student groups easier, Pitt’s Student Organization Resource Center has given its online management program a facelift.
Launched in September, SORC has been working to transition...
On fall weekends, while the air is fresh and still invitingly warm, the same scene rolls.
Speakers up, drinks poured and best clothes on, Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University students pour into South Oakland...
When UPMC organized a conference to discuss concussion treatment, its leaders had no idea what to expect from the experts.
“It was very unclear to us what the response was going to be among these 37...
Nearly 100 Pitt students got a chance to relive their prom night last weekend, but this time they boogied in a community that didn’t push them to conceal their gender identities or sexualities.
The...
Pitt police have issued a crime alert for Oakland after a home invasion early Saturday morning.
Pitt and Pittsburgh police responded to a call for a home invasion at 3313 Ward St. at approximately 12:10...