Even one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and after four and a half online terms, grading policies and student and professor accommodations remain hot topics among the Pitt community. Ilia ...

The name Boris Yeltsin should ring a bell, whether it brings to mind images of him leaping upon a tank during a coup in 1991 Moscow or standing drunk in his underpants in Washington, D.C. in 1995.

Pittsburgh is often considered one of the premier sports cities in America — laden with a prosperous history of baseball, football and hockey championships. But the city was once home to a ...

This story is being updated. As upwards of 200,000 Pittsburgh residents and visitors are expected to attend the 2026 NFL Draft tonight, the city is gearing up for “a once in a lifetime opportunity.” ...

In a capitalist economy with few limits on how a person can acquire and maintain their wealth, we live with an abundance of billionaires. Social media, news sources and politics constantly bombard us ...

The Oct. 27, 2018, massacre of 11 Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life building — in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and just under two miles from the Pitt campus — not only had ...

As the Pittsburgh Steelers were officially on the clock, the crowd outside the glamorous stage looked up in anticipation. Inside the stadium, fans rallied in the seats and gathered on the field. And ...

This summer gave us a lot to talk about. It’s a tumultuous time for everyone, and marginalized communities are no exception. From the human rights crisis in Afghanistan to the transphobic health ...

Matthew Darby — convicted of killing Pitt student and ex-girlfriend Alina Sheykhet in 2017 in her South Oakland apartment — will get a hearing to argue that his attorney was ineffective. Darby — who ...

Shay Roth graduates from the University of Pittsburgh for the second time this spring — this time as a published author. “It’s funny — I never expected it to snowball into what it’s become, but it ...

Slang is a beautiful thing that makes my little linguistics-loving heart very very happy. Today we have all sorts of words that we use to describe sex, from the classic “f—ing,” to screwing to banging ...

As someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder, I’ve heard it mentioned in casual conversation more times than I can count — usually by people who don’t understand what OCD actually is. People throw ...