‘AI didn’t cause this, but AI is revealing it’: Utah professor lectures on AI’s effect in higher education 

By Naomi Weiss, Assistant News Editor • February 20, 2026

Artificial intelligence has exposed structural flaws in higher education, according to one scholar. Hollis Robbins, a professor of English and special adviser for humanities at the University of Utah, spoke about AI's effects on higher education to about 50 professors in a lecture on Wednesday evening sponsored by the E3 project.

Lecture highlights racial disparities, prejudice within the medical field

By Betul Tuncer, Assistant News Editor • January 28, 2022

The third installment of the Race & … Lecture Series held on Thursday, on Zoom and in person, highlighted the underrepresentation of minorities in the healthcare system as well as racial and socioeconomic disparities in fetal mortality rates.

Cyber Law director talks democracy in the digital age

By Katie Sottile, For The Pitt News • February 26, 2020

Former U.S. Attorney David Hickton gave a lecture called “Can Democracy Survive the Internet?” on Tuesday afternoon regarding the state of American democracy in the digital age.

Law professor underscores reproductive rights

By Laura Howe | For The Pitt News • November 10, 2017

An older man in the audience of a reproductive rights lecture looked around the room and commented on the lack of people like him. “You know, I think Rep. [Tim] Murphy summed up the whole problem,...

Meghan Daum reads, shares stories with students

By Abhignya Mallepalli / Staff Writer • April 7, 2017

A casual game of charades between A-list celebrities was the perfect opportunity for writer and editor Meghan Daum to transcend the line between being present and invisible. Daum’s experience at...

LGBTQ visual activist discusses ‘curative rape’ in South Africa

By John Lavanga / A&E Editor • October 9, 2013

As South African photographer and LGBTQ visual activist Zanele Muholi — joined on the stage by Lerato Dumse, a participant in Muholi’s photography and member of her activist group, Inkanyiso — stared...