Sports editor Matthew Scabilloni says his goodbye to The Pitt News and the University of Pittsburgh after his three years.

Pitt football columnist Alex Kiger pens his final column of the year on the college football season, writing about Pitt’s ...

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.

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 ...

From cultural celebrations to gardens strung with light displays, Pittsburgh features many local festive events for students staying in the area this holiday season. Justin Dandoy, director of ...

All Pitt first-year students will now be required to take a course on anti-racism, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher announced in an email last Monday. The University is offering a one-credit, online ...

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 ...

One of the guiding principles of my life is to not ask people what books they read because it either depresses me or makes me feel like a pretentious loser. Do I abide by it successfully? No. Is it ...

I nearly failed or did fail every math class I’ve ever taken. I can’t do simple mental math. I can’t keep numbers straight. I thought I was just bad at math and clumsy until I failed a math class in ...

From the giant Christmas tree in the middle of PPG Place’s ice rink to Santa’s House at the Heinz Hall Courtyard, downtown Pittsburgh holds many fun events to celebrate the holiday season. One special ...

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 ...

When you think of what a film or television score sounds like, what comes to mind? Probably an orchestra, right? The orchestra is, after all, the standard form of film scores. However, film music is ...