Katsiaryna Lohinava wants people to start calling her by her full name to preserve the first four years of her life. “Like yeah, I’m Kat, I go to school at Pitt, I speak English, I dress normally...

Maxine Bruhns is a fantastical woman. She has lived in Cambodia and Lebanon, feasted with Bedouins and offered her hand for a kiss from the former head of state of Poland. In the last five of her more...

D.J. Civiletti wakes up every Saturday at 4:45 a.m., picks up fellow rowers at 5 a.m. and hits the Allegheny River by 5:10 a.m. Rowing, a nearly year-round sport, demands long hours, short 2k times and...

Allie McCarthy came out as gay in 2010, before her junior year of high school, when an exchange with her mother went, “Mom? You know So-and-So? I think she likes me ... and I think I like her, too.”...

Since acting athletic director Randy Juhl introduced him as the 36th head coach in Pitt football history Dec. 26, Pat Narduzzi has injected some newfound vigor into the program. The Pitt News sat down...

Ophelia Ferguson’s church — the one she refers to as “my church” and the one officially known as Christ Temple Apostolic Church — is an old, yellow brick chapel in Homewood on Mt. Vernon Street. She...

Whether she’s on a stage or in a classroom, Cassandra DellaCorte won’t stand — or sit — for sexism. “Part of the reason I sit like an animal, with my legs everywhere, is because we all deserve...

When the director of Pitt’s production of “Avenue Q” offered Hsuan Chang the only Asian role in the show, her friends rolled their eyes. But Chang saw it differently. As her first stage performance,...

Terrance Hayes’ second most recent book, 2010’s “Lighthead,” may have won both a National Book Award and a MacArthur Fellowship — known informally as the “genius grant” — but the effects...

Self-proclaimed city person Kahlil Chaar-Perez has taken many pit stops on his route to Pittsburgh. He wants to find a settling point for his academic career, even if it’s not the Steel City. Geographically,...