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Pitt expands collaboration and opportunities to Hill District with new Community Engagement Center location

By Madison Dean, Senior Staff Writer • June 21, 2023

The Hill District Community Engagement Center, established in 2019, serves as a bridge for collaboration and opportunity between the University of Pittsburgh and the neighborhood. Currently located at the Blakely Program Center, the CEC offers various programs, educational resources and opportunities and events for Hill District residents.

Pitt CEC in the Hill District fosters community growth

By Jessica Snyder, Senior Staff Writer • June 22, 2022

According to the Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods, Pitt’s Oakland campus expanded in relation to the urban renewal crisis in Pittsburgh in the 50s, a little less than a century ago.

Pitt’s Office of Facilities Management offers new apprenticeship program for engineers

By Alaina Goldberg, For The Pitt News • October 31, 2021

A new apprenticeship program with Pitt’s Office of Facilities Management began this fall for individuals from the Hill District interested in becoming licensed engineers.

Pitt acquires archive of late playwright August Wilson

By Charlie Taylor, Culture Editor • October 30, 2020

Wilson wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson,” which are part of his 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle,” or “American Century Cycle.”

Pitt to lease historic New Granada Theater building for community center

By Jon Moss, Editor-in-Chief • September 25, 2020

Pitt is set to lease space in the Hill District’s historic New Granada Theater building for Pitt’s Community Engagement Center in the neighborhood, giving the center its first permanent physical space since its founding.

Photos: Hill District protests for Black trans lives

By Kaycee Orwig, Visual Editor • June 21, 2020

Protesters gathered at the Hill District’s Freedom Corner and then marched to Downtown on Thursday to protest discrimination of Black transgender people.

Jazz plays on in Pittsburgh

By Emma Maurice | Staff Writer • January 8, 2018

While the riverboats travelling up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers between 1916 and 1970 brought many people to Pittsburgh to work in the booming steel industry, it also brought a wave of musicians who...