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Newspaper Fires Editor For Secret Society Conflict Of Interest

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.18.2013 | College
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The Pitt News, a student newspaper at the University of Pittsburgh, fired one of its editors this week over his connection to a secret society on camp...

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Pitt Bomb Threats Phoned In By Nervous Grad Teacher: Police

AP | Posted 04.11.2013 | Crime
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PITTSBURGH -- A University of Pittsburgh grad student who was nervous about her ability to teach a class instead made two bomb threats so it would be ...

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Top Universities Call For Action On Gun Control

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 01.04.2013 | College
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The Association of American Universities issued a statement Thursday calling on President Obama and members of Congress to take quick federal action t...

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Raises OK'd For University Of Pittsburgh Officials

www.post-gazette.com | Posted 12.05.2012 | College
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University of Pittsburgh trustees Tuesday awarded Chancellor Mark Nordenberg a 3.3 percent salary increase to $580,000 and gave his top deputies raise...

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Pennsylvania Governor To Review Recommendations For Accessible Higher Ed

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Mary Niederberger | Posted 01.16.2013 | Home
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A blue-ribbon panel of educators and business leaders spent nine months studying higher education in Pennsylvania at the behest of Gov. Tom Corbett, m...

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Net Price Calculators Are Hard To Find, Compare On College Websites

| Posted 12.16.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's Community College Spotlight blog. Net price calculators - required on nearly all college ...

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WATCH: Colbert Reveals Treasure Hunt Winner

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 08.08.2012 | College
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Stephen Colbert gave a small antique silver turtle with a bell to a college student on Thursday night. "It's great for attracting women, if you're ...

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The Most Expensive 4-Year Public Colleges

Posted 08.14.2012 | College
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Students at Penn State pay the highest tuition bill in the country among four-year public colleges according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Depa...

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When Coal Smoke Blacked Out The Midday Sun

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 06.07.2012 | Green
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Many people have heard of the pea soup-thick London fogs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the coal smoke-choked mists that plagued the U.K. ...

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Pitt Files Lawsuit To Join ACC

AP | WILL GRAVES | Posted 05.14.2012 | College
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PITTSBURGH -- The University of Pittsburgh is going to court in hopes of expediting its exit from the Big East. The school filed a complaint in the C...

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University Of Pittsburgh Terrorized By Dozens Of Bomb Threats

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 06.10.2012 | College
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PITTSBURGH — Dozens of bomb threats at the University of Pittsburgh, including at least four on Monday, have made professors start holding class...

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University Of Pittsburgh Shooter Is Still Unknown

AP | JOE MANDAK and KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 05.09.2012 | College
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PITTSBURGH — A gunman who killed a worker and shot several other people at a psychiatric hospital on the University of Pittsburgh campus lived n...

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2 People Killed In Shooting At Psychiatric Clinic

AP | KEVIN BEGOS and JOE MANDAK | Posted 05.08.2012 | Crime
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PITTSBURGH — A man armed with two semiautomatic handguns entered the lobby of a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday a...

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Derrick Bell: Changing the Odds for Others

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.20.2012 | Politics
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Marian Wright Edelman

Throughout his storied career as a lawyer, law professor, and legal scholar until his death last October at age 80, Derrick Bell was well-known for his willingness to stand up and speak out about the injustices he saw around him, even when it cost him his own positions.

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Could The Aging Process Be Reversed?

www.foxnews.com | Posted 01.09.2012 | Fifty
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The secret to eternal youth may come in the form of stem cell injections, U.S. scientists claimed. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh ma...

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RIP

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 12.07.2011 | College
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PITTSBURGH — William S. Dietrich II, a longtime steel executive who pledged gifts to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University...

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Pittsburgh Running Back Rolls Over No. 16 South Florida

AP | WILL GRAVES | Posted 11.29.2011 | Sports
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PITTSBURGH — South Florida's national showcase turned into Ray Graham's coming out party. The Pittsburgh running back rushed for 226 yards and ...

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University Of Pittsburgh's Massive Pledge

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 11.22.2011 | College
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PITTSBURGH — A former steel executive has pledged $125 million to the University of Pittsburgh just weeks after pledging $265 million to Carnegi...

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30 Dumbest Universities In America

Dumb As A Blog | David Moye | Posted 11.22.2011 | Weird News
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These days, colleges not only offer no guarantee of better jobs, but are increasingly unaffordable, taught by disinterested graduate students, and pre...

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Syracuse And Pittsburgh Officially Join ACC

AP | JOEDY McCREARY | Posted 11.18.2011 | Sports
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The Atlantic Coast Conference has extended its northern reach, adding Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Now the question becomes, will the league stop there &n...

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Carnegie Mellon University Recoups $40M In Alleged Swindle

AP | Posted 06.25.2011 | College
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PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University is getting back $40 million, or about 83 percent of what it lost in an alleged investment swindle that t...

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Bailouts Don't Work: The Lotto Winners Study

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Don McNay

You can see why bailouts fail. Wall Street and lottery winners have a common bond. They have access to easy money without restraints.

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"MIRROR IMAGE"--Reflections on Fact and Fiction

Dennis Palumbo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Dennis Palumbo

Ray Bradbury once said, "There is only one type of story in the world--your story." In other words, all writing is autobiographical. ...

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Hedge-Fund Manager Allegedly Swindled Universities Out Of Millions Of Dollars

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Josh Keller | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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A former hedge-fund manager has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in an investment scam in which he bilked as much as $900-million from investors, in...

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Researchers Develop Material To Minimize Effects Of Chemical, Biological Weapons

The Pitt News | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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Pitt researchers have created a material that can neutralize some effects of chemical and biological weapons. Researchers created the material out ...

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