Mihrigul Tursun tearfully recalled on Tuesday the torture she suffered in the Uyghur Muslim concentration camps in Xinjiang, China. “I asked why I was in prison. I asked why I was tortured,” Tursun ...

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 ...

Essie’s Original Hot Dog Shop, known around Oakland as The O, has closed its doors for good, a longtime manager confirmed Sunday.

The letter-grade system in grade schools should be replaced with a narrative system that will help students grow as learners.

Belkys Torres has changed a lot at Pitt, especially in regard to global engagement, throughout her time at the university. Most recently, she has taken on the inaugural role of associate vice provost ...

Panther Pit Sports Bar, located on 226 Meyran Avenue, was ordered to close Sunday after receiving seven health code violations from the Allegheny County Health Department. The incident report detailed ...

Transgender scholar Deirdre McCloskey has dropped out of an on-campus debate against conservative political commentator Michael Knowles about “transgenderism and womanhood” next week, and the ...

About 200 students protested at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard Monday afternoon, chanting “hate speech isn’t free, it costs lives” and carrying signs with phrases such as ...

Pitt’s budget, and the process to craft it, is full of jargon and specialized terminology. Sometimes all of the wording can take away from the fact that the dollars and cents affect people — students, ...

Students at universities across the world saved hundreds of dollars each semester on textbooks with Z-Library — until the FBI shut it down earlier this month.

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 ...

The process to create alcohol, collectively known as fermentation, is a complex biochemical process that starts from a simple ingredient found in everyone’s kitchen — sugar. The alcohol byproduct that ...