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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Innovation Oakland officially unveiled the new digital plaza at the corner of Forbes Avenue and South Bouquet Street on Monday night.  Wenhao Wu | Staff Photographer

Oakland unveils digital plaza

By Dylan Shaffer / For The Pitt News November 17, 2015

The corner of Forbes and South Bouquet Avenues transformed into New York City on New Year’s Eve as community members counted down the opening of the Forbes Digital Plaza. On Nov. 16, at 6 p.m., around...

SORC adopts new website

By Mark Pesto / Senior Staff Writer October 21, 2015

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...

Colin Dean, software engineer at IBM Watson and representative of Code & Supply, shows off his hacking progress with Matt Burton, a staff member from the University Library System at Pitt.  Nikki Moriello | Visual Editor

Open data connects community

Call it a Pittsburgh-sized win for transparency. Pitt Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement and Chief of Staff Kathy Humphrey, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and City of Pittsburgh Mayor...

Graphic diagrams how researchers have created human stem cells from human skin cells; for the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells. Los Angeles Times/MCT

Pitt researchers propose new stem cell method

By Annemarie Carr / Staff Writer October 14, 2015

After six years of collaboration, Pitt researchers Ipsita Banerjee and Prashant Kumta, said  they can now launch a “very easy and cheap” way to grow stem cells to help cure Type 2 diabetes. With...

Pitt, FBI warn students of phone scam

By Elizabeth Lepro / Assistant News Editor October 13, 2015

Pitt warned students last week of a phone scam that targets college students. The University released a warning on Friday on the My Pitt home page and through Campus Connect about a phone scam where a...

Inventors show off their creations at Maker Faire Pittsburgh. | Courtesy of Emily Brindley

Pittsburgh becomes inventor’s paradise at Maker Faire

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer October 11, 2015

Handmade robots crawled along the asphalt and 3-D printers whirred quietly as artisans and creators of all ages flooded Buhl Community Park in Northside and transformed it into an inventor’s paradise...

Officer Steven Piel and his bomb sniffing dog, Radar, check cars outside of Fellowship Chapel in Detroit, Michigan, after there were rumors of a bomb threat, Wednesday, April 19, 2006. ( Susan Tusa/Detroit Free Press/KRT)

Give it the sniff test: Pitt to study olfactory senses

By Megan Tingley / For The Pitt News October 8, 2015

A rescue dog approaches a building collapsed into a pile of rubble. It has one mission: find a missing person. How does it know where to walk? The goal of a Pitt-led, multi-institutional project is to...

Students sign their names in support of the Habitat for Humanity pledge to help create a better world.  Kate Koenig | Staff Photographer

World Habitat Day’s Pitt debut

By Casey Schmauder / For The Pitt News October 6, 2015

Pitt’s Habitat for Humanity handed out Skittles and M&M packages Monday, but the messages on the candy wrappers were not so sweet. “By 2030, UN-HABITAT, [United Nations Human Settlements Program]...

Minking Chyu stands by a 3D printer in Benedum Hall. Emily Brindley | Staff Writer

Pitt prints in three dimensions

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer October 6, 2015

The labs beneath the basement of Benedum Hall look pretty barren to the uninformed visitor. But the Additive Manufacturing Lab, where Minking Chyu works, holds the weight of several million dollars’...

Dr. Fred Anderson, left, checks out Sharma Boboolal on April 7, 2015. (Peter Andrew Bosch/Miami Herald/TNS)

Baby boomer study makes sense of healthcare research

By Shumeng Yang / For The Pitt News October 4, 2015

As the baby boomer’s years increase, so will their medical demands. The “boomers,” people born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, outnumber Generation X 77 million to 65 million, according...

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