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Opinion | Advice from a graduating senior — make friends with your professors

By Lynnette Tibbott, Staff Columnist • April 12, 2023

Listen in the classroom and make connections with your professors.

Opinion | Professors need to be more considerate of mental health

By Kelly Xiong, Staff Columnist • October 31, 2022

During the pandemic, teachers experienced a high rate of burnout, among other challenges. However, they still shouldn’t put unfair expectations on students.

Najeeb Shafiq: Embracing a messy reality

By Jack Troy, Senior Staff Writer • April 20, 2022

Najeeb Shafiq doesn’t always arrive at the most popular conclusions in his education research, but it’s all part of the honest, measured approach that guides his life, work and advice to students.

Professors navigate in-person semester, offer online learning options

By Natalie Frank, News Editor • October 19, 2021

Since Pitt began in-person instruction Sept. 13, after two weeks of online learning, many professors are still navigating both teaching in a classroom and accommodating students who need an online option.

Making the grade: Professors set aside time to score student work

By Salina Pressimone, Caroline Bourque and Rachel Glasser | TPN Staff • December 11, 2017

Last weekend you could probably find Leonardo Solano buried in the dissertation room of Hillman, or pocketed away somewhere in Panera Bread, grading 160 pages of undergraduate Spanish papers. While...

Study looks to link brain activity, suicidal thoughts

By Madeline Gavatorta | Staff Writer • November 27, 2017

After contributing work to a study on brain activity, Marcel Just described the effort to better understand human thought as “a psychologist’s dream.” “Scientifically, it is fantastically interesting...