Degrees of age: Professors young and old talk teaching
By Nina Kneuer | For The Pitt News
October 2, 2017
Some professors look like they should be sitting with their students rather than standing in front of them. Others fit the teen movie stereotype of the gray-haired intellectual with wire-rimmed glasses. Professors on both sides of the spectrum have different ways of using technology and interactin...
Pitt professors teach what they write
By Zoe Pawliczek | Staff Writer
September 13, 2017
Few students enjoy buying textbooks for their classes, but Olivia Raymond was eager to purchase her elementary statistics textbook last spring knowing its author would also be her professor. “I was happy because I figured that the class would closely follow the book, so the book would be more rel...
Peduto nominates Pitt professors, city official to fill three vacant PWSA board seats
By Janine Faust / Senior Staff Writer
April 21, 2017
Mayor Bill Peduto nominated three people to fill vacant positions on the board of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority Friday — two of whom are Pitt professors. The nominees will fill spots left by three board members who all resigned in late March, although their terms officially ended at t...