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Logan Meis, 20, balances on his hover board outside his apartment complex in Overland Park, Kan., on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. Meis purchased the personal transportation device for about $330 online. (Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/TNS)

Pitt bans hoverboards

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor January 12, 2016

Pitt put its foot down Tuesday with a new rule that bans hoverboards from campus housing. Panther Central said in an email to students that it is banning hoverboards, which are self-balancing electric...

Officials announce Terence S. Dermody, MD Pediatrics, new Chair of Pediatrics at Pitt and Scientific Director of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.  Photo courtesy of UPMC

Pitt, UPMC name new pediatric chair

Pitt and the Children’s Hospital of UPMC are getting new perspective with a researcher and leader focused on curing disease and increasing life expectancy. On Jan. 11, officials of Children’s Hospital...

Lia  Petrose introduced a bill Tuesday that would put a cap on the number of students who could receive grants for research conferences. Celia Millard led updates of SGB election code that would affect this semester's election.  Will Miller | Staff Photographer

SGB amends travel grant rules

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer January 12, 2016

Pitt Student Government Board has proposed new limits on the way it grants money to student researchers traveling to conferences. Board Member Lia Petrose introduced a new bill at SGB’s public meeting...

Ammar Zirli, right, puffs on a hookah along with friends Yussef Assaf, center, and Hassan Soueid while sitting at Off The Hookah at Las Olas Riverfront, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (J. Albert Diaz/Miami Herald/MCT)

New hookah study aims to educate young smokers

By Zoë Hannah / Assistant News Editor January 12, 2016

Young people are putting out their cigarettes in favor of hookah, but a new Pitt study has found that the latter may be much more harmful. According to the study, which Pitt’s School of Medicine published...

Students learned self-defense in preparation for studying abroad.  Valkyrie Speaker | Staff Photographer

Students teach study abroad safety

By Taylor Mulcahey / For The Pitt News January 12, 2016

Amber Montgomery felt safe when she studied abroad in Jordan in the summer of 2015 except when she went to a pool house. When Montgomery, a junior history and political science major, retreated to the...

The Wushu club stretches out.  Wenhao Wu | Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt student kicks off wushu club

By Emily Migdal / Staff Writer January 10, 2016

Before she had ever attended class, had midnight fries at market or swiped her panther card, Gina Bao had already written the constitution for her wushu club at Pitt. Bao, a first-year student studying...

Oakland Crime Map Jan. 5 – Jan. 8

By The Pitt News Staff January 10, 2016

From underage drinking to robberies, the Pitt police answer dozens of calls per day. Short of leaving a police scanner on all day, students often wonder why they hear so many sirens. The Pitt News aggregates...

Global nonprofit builds bridges over changing tides

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer January 10, 2016

Pitt grads Laura Amster and Nathan Darity park their car across the street from the gray, squat Global Switchboard building in Lawrenceville — a place they’ve come to call home. They spent the ride...

Nick Reslink at a recent SGB meeting.  Nikki Moriello | Visual Editor

Allocations Committee loses two members, replaces one

Student Government Board announced Friday, Jan. 8, that two Allocations Committee members resigned. Allocations Committee member John Garry resigned to study abroad and Allocations Committee member...

Sophomore Rachel Lauver and Junior Sarah Fullerton sew blankets made from old Pitt T-shirts for homeless people at a PittServes do-it-yourself event in the William Pitt Union on Thursday night.  Kate Koenig | Staff Photographer

Pitt students complete DIY service projects

By Zoë Hannah / Staff Writer January 7, 2016

In less time than it takes to catch a Cathedral elevator, students transformed ripped up jeans, construction paper and old T-shirts into blankets, letters and rugs Thursday at the PittServes Do-It-Yourself...

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