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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The planned UPMC Heart and Transplant Hospital as depicted in the University of Pittsburgh Campus Master Plan. (Image via University of Pittsburgh)

Oakland community speaks out against UPMC building

By Dylan Giacobbe, For The Pitt News • October 17, 2018
Innovative health treatments could be coming to Oakland as soon as 2023 — but some Oakland residents disapprove of the buildings coming with it.
A Pittsburgh resident speaks against the UPMC Mercy Expansion at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Council passed a motion to let the hospital expand shortly afterwards.

UPMC Mercy expansion approved after community voices opposition

By Kieran Mclean, Staff Writer • August 9, 2018
UPMC Mercy's controversial expansion plan will proceed, after a 7-2 vote and more than two hours of public opposition to the plan.
Over 150 people gathered at Pittsburgh City Council to voice their concerns surrounding UPMC Mercy's planned expansion, which comes as part of the hospital system's $2 billion plan to construct three new hospitals around the City.

Community speaks out against Mercy Hospital expansion

By Kieran Mclean, Staff Writer • July 18, 2018
A group of community members gathered Tuesday to urge the Pittsburgh City Council require UPMC enter a community benefits agreement.
Participants start to run at Pittsburgh Attacks Cancer Together 5K Race and Color Run in Schenley Park. (Photo by Theresa Dickerson | Staff Writer)

Coloring out cancer: Students run for research

By Theresa Dickerson | For The Pitt News • April 15, 2018

Colors flew through the air in Schenley Park this past weekend at the Pittsburgh Attacks Cancer Together’s 5K Race and Color Run. Members of the Pittsburgh community came to support the student-led organization...

Audrey Wozniak and her PDM sponsor Kelsey Winters, a first-year nursing student, strut down the runway during the Pitt Dance Marathon Annual Fashion Show at the Soldiers and Sailors Auditorium Monday night. (Photo by Chiara Rigaud | Staff Photographer)

Kids strut for a cause: PDM raises money for Children’s Hospital

By Madeline Gavatorta and Kieran Mclean | The Pitt News Staff • March 20, 2018

Twelve children, ages 4 to 17, modeled personally selected JCPenney outfits in the Soldiers and Sailors auditorium Monday night on a runway of bright white Christmas lights. They were the main event at...

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher speaks at a Board of Trustees meeting in February.

Letter to the Editor | Is Pitt practicing what it preaches?

March 15, 2018

Pitt’s investment in immunotherapy cancer treatment is clearly in line with the University’s mission. But a growing number of students and faculty are calling on Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and...

Pitt police were recently outfitted with Tasers and body cameras. (Photo by Thomas Yang / Senior Staff Photographer)

Pitt police use Taser on woman

By Rachel Glasser | News Editor • December 5, 2017

Pitt police deployed a Taser on a woman who fled from UPMC Presbyterian Monday morning. A video aired on WTAE shows the woman wearing a hospital gown walking along Forbes Avenue in the direction of...

Kristin Davitt was hired to fill fundraising leadership roles at both Pitt and UPMC. (Courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh)

Pitt partners with UPMC to hire new vice chancellor for new position

By Janine Faust | Assistant News Editor • September 6, 2017

In partnership with UPMC, Pitt hired Kristin Davitt Tuesday as the University’s inaugural vice chancellor for development and alumni relations and president of UPMC’s Medical and Health Sciences Foundation. Davitt’s...

2014 Dick's Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon

2014 Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon

May 6, 2014

The race route took participants down Forbes Avenue. (Courtesy Pittsburgh Marathon)

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