Pitt alum speaks about science policy
By Amanda Finney | Staff Writer
December 6, 2017
Women in STEM often leave their jobs mid-career to spend more time with their families, but then later struggle to integrate back into the workplace. To help women in this situation regain their careers, Martha Merrill worked to implement a STEM reentry workshop. This job is just one of the posi...
Editorial: GOP tax plan would aggrieve grad students
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 19, 2017
Republicans acted last week with their tax bill to relinquish the United States’ status as a country with one of the highest official corporate tax rates in the world. In its place, the GOP plans to tax another group at record rates — graduate students. Despite uniform resistance from congressional Democrats, Republica...
Editorial: On union, University should stay on sidelines
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 14, 2017
The push to unionize grad students at the University, while in the works since the beginning of 2016, has heated up significantly in the past few months. When Pitt graduate students arrived in the common room of the Cathedral of Learning on Tuesday to deliver a list of demands, the police presence seemed ...