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Carnegie Mellon Lunar Gala designers to sell garments through digital pop-up shop
Carnegie Mellon University student designers planned to host a sale of their Lunar Gala collections at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland. The coronavirus pandemic prevented that. They found a way to sell the one-of-a-kind garments from the student-run annual fashion show. The Lunar Gala Digital Pop-Up Shop will...
Animals in motel rooms star in Carnegie’s next online exhibitionVideo
The Carnegie Museum of Art’s next online exhibition will feature video vignettes of “wild North American migratory animals relocated from their natural habitats to vacant motel rooms.” Launching Aug. 19, the unusual work is “migration (empire),” a 24-minute video by multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken. The film was exhibited on the...
Pitt to launch study of medical marijuana use to ease pain in sickle cell patients
Finding a way to use medical marijuana to treat sickle cell anemia will be the focus of a $3 million research program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. It is part of a 10-year agreement with Goodblend Pennsylvania LLC, Pitt’s new affiliate in medical marijuana research. State officials...
Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure goes virtual this year
Thousands of Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure participants may not be gathering in Schenley Park this year, but event organizers are not letting that stop their mission. The race, which typically draws 15,000 people to the Flagstaff Hill section of the park, will celebrate its 28th year virtually, said...
School officials: Beaver, Central Catholic athletes test positive for coronavirus
Two high school athletes in the region tested positive Sunday for the coronavirus and officials at both schools have taken steps to protect other students. A Central Catholic High School football player tested positive Sunday. School officials say the recent case is not indicative of a cluster of cases across...
Man jumps in Monongahela River after Pittsburgh crash injures 6
A man jumped into the Monongahela River to flee law enforcement after a two-vehicle crash that injured six people, according to the Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety. The crash happened shortly after noon Sunday near the intersection of Bates Street and Second Avenue, in the city’s South Oakland neighborhood. Five...
WPIAL football recruits share written scholarship offers as Aug. 1 arrives
Now, it’s in writing. Aug. 1 is the date each year that college football teams are first able to give written scholarship offers to high school seniors, and many of the recruits shared them Saturday on social media. The Class of 2021 still can’t sign a National Letter of Intent...
Sciulli’s Pizza in Oakland marks 40 years amid pandemicVideo
The phone rang, and the caller ID said “Pittsburgh Steelers.” “I picked it up and it was (Steelers security manager) Jack Kearney, who asked me if we could make 300 large pizzas for the following Friday,” said Eutimio “Tim” Sciulli, co-owner of Sciulli’s Pizza in Oakland. “Jack said one of...
Central Catholic’s Elliot Donald, nephew of Aaron, says he’ll enroll at Pitt
Surprising no one, Central Catholic defensive tackle Elliot Donald announced Friday he will enroll at Pitt next year, joining a program where his uncle Aaron was one of the most celebrated players in school history. In Due Time ?? | DIRECTED BY @prospectmedia_ ? pic.twitter.com/9xOPMVNACM— Elliot Donald (@ElliotDonald3) July 24,...
Pitt reopening plan spurs questions, concerns from student newspaper, neighborVideo
The University of Pittsburgh’s plan to reopen its Oakland campus in phases beginning Aug. 11 is raising questions among students and neighborhood residents. The hybrid plan, which calls for a mix of in-person and online classes, was months in the making. Among other features, the plan includes measures to reduce...
Backpack giveaway coming to Western Pennsylvania
The annual School Rocks Backpack Giveaway is set to donate 140,000 backpacks full of school supplies this weekend. Round Room LLC, a Verizon Wireless retailer, announced its TCC and Wireless Zone stores will give away school supplies at over 800 locations nationwide. This year will mark more than 1 million...
Bill Fuller: Changes in dining restrictions hurt Big Burrito Restaurant business
Constant fluctuations in the allowed restaurant dining capacity prompted Big Burrito Restaurant Group to temporarily close all of its specialty restaurants, including Alta Via, Casbah, Eleven, Kaya, Soba and Umi, company President Bill Fuller said Monday. “It just isn’t worth it,” said Fuller, who furloughed 193 people. “We decided to...
Pitt student engineers, Habitat for Humanity partner to make video for Bolivian village
Members of the University of Pittsburgh’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders toiled in the heat Saturday and Sunday to help make life better for people nearly 4,000 miles away. The group gathered to build a reinforced concrete slab at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in New Kensington as part of...
Trump administration rescinds rule that could have deported thousands of international students
Lawyers for the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a new rule that would have forced international college students to leave the U.S., transfer to another college or face deportation if their schools held classes entirely online because of the covid-19 pandemic. In the week since it was issued, the rule...
Columbus statue, Black Lives Matter mural vandalized in Pittsburgh
A Christopher Columbus statue in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood and a Black Lives Matter mural in Downtown Pittsburgh were both recently vandalized. It was at least the second time in the last two months that vandals hit the Columbus statue in Schenley Park, the Trib’s news partner, WPXI-TV, reported. Words including...
Carnegie Mellon names new business school dean
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal, was named the 10th dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business on Monday. Officials at CMU said Bajeux-Besnainou’s appointment follows an international search. She will assume her new role at CMU Oct. 15. She...
Pittsburgh Public Schools to offer online-only option to students in the fall
There is still no concrete plan for how Pittsburgh Public Schools will reopen in the fall — or what brick-and-mortar learning will look like — but administrators on Thursday said parents will have the option of all-online learning for the 2020-21 school year. Superintendent Anthony Hamlet said during a virtual...
University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon join push against Trump’s edict on student visas
Officials at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University joined leaders at research universities across the nation calling on the Trump administration to rescind its plans to deny visas and or deport foreign students unless they attend classes in person. Unlike Harvard, the University of Southern California and MIT,...
Curator chosen for 2022 Carnegie International exhibition
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has named Sohrab Mohebbi as curator for the 58th Carnegie International, set to take place in 2022. A curator, writer and art critic, Mohebbi recently commenced work on the exhibition, coming from New York, where he served as curator at the cutting-edge contemporary...
Schenley alumni D.J. Kennedy, DeAndre Kane in search of 5th title at The Basketball Tournament
Since they were kids, Schenley alumni D.J. Kennedy and DeAndre Kane have felt at home on the basketball court. From winning a state championship in high school to creating a career for themselves overseas on the hardwood, basketball has taken the duo a lot of places. But over the past...
Unlikely source helps Carnegie Mellon University make computers more polite
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed an automated method for making computers more polite. And they have the ill-fated energy company Enron to thank. How’s that? Well, it’s not unusual to receive impolite directives or requests such as “send me the data.” But the CMU researchers found a means of...
In solar project, Pitt looks to the sky in latest renewable energy endeavor
The University of Pittsburgh has signed an agreement to buy all of the solar energy produced by a planned local solar plant, which amounts to about 13% of the Oakland campus’s energy consumption. The announcement came last week from Aurora Sharrard, Pitt’s director of sustainability. It is part of the...
Pitt researchers find 4 coronavirus mutations arrived early in Pittsburgh, say pandemic could have been much worse in region
University of Pittsburgh researchers are studying tiny genetic differences in coronavirus samples to determine how the virus got to Pittsburgh and the region along with how it’s spreading — and they’ve found the early weeks of the pandemic in Southwestern Pennsylvania could have been much worse. “Why I think this...
Pitt police: Man sought after stabbing in Oakland
A man was stabbed Friday evening in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood and city and University of Pittsburgh police are investigating. The man was stabbed shortly after 7 p.m. Friday along the 500 block of Oak Hill Drive, University of Pittsburgh police said. The suspect fled in a black vehicle toward Eckstein...
Universities to advocate for international students amid visa restrictions
Leaders in higher education, including at local instititutions, are concerned over President Trump’s executive order Monday that suspends new visas for many international workers. The order, passed Monday and put into effect immediately, denies entry into the U.S. to four visa categories: H-1B, L, J and H-2B. These visas apply...
