Pitt and Carnegie Mellon are teaming up to create a new center to study extremist hate. The Collaboratory Against Hate — Research and Action Center will work to develop new ways to stop hate’s “creation, growth and destructive consequences.”

Despite the unprecedented circumstances for academia, Gayle Rogers said Pitt’s faculty members have adapted their curriculums to non-traditional learning spaces before and are ready to do it again.

In a world with an ever-increasing number of tech startups and engineering firms, our economy seems destined to be dominated by STEM specialists — which leaves universities scrambling to reinvent their...

The dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences said Thursday that previous investigations and a recent survey of the department of communication have revealed an environment where women remain undervalued. “The...