When Michael Tammaro had a 93-year-old woman fling a phone at his head, he knew he’d found the right internship.While interning as a patient care technician at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn.,...

A Pitt professor's research will be landing on Mars in 2020. 

Sanford Asher will watch the technology he developed blast off to Mars in 2020.The products of Asher’s research, which he conducted at Pitt where he is a distinguished professor of chemistry, is set...

A new proposal will prompt future Student Government Boards to pick up what this Board put down.Board member Graeme Meyer proposed a resolution at last week’s public meeting to create a long-term plan...

Poet Terrance Hayes, a newly named MacArthur Foundation Fellow, at his home in Pittsburgh.

Terrance Hayes has come a long way from being a starving artist. He is now considered a genius.Last week, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2014 class of fellows to receive...

Pitt is among the top 15 percent of military-friendly schools. 

Pitt is a 2015 Military Friendly School, according to Victory Media Inc., a Pittsburgh-based military services firm.Pitt announced in a release Tuesday its reception of the award, which puts the University...