University Times

Pitt officials are applauding a federal appeals court's recent ruling that the University of Michigan law school can take race and ethnicity into account in admitting students, as long as the school doesn't use a quota system. The 5-4 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit conflicted with rulings by two […]

Faculty and staff won't be working out at the Petersen Events Center, Pitt's chief spokesperson has indicated. Besides housing a 12,500-seat arena, the Petersen Center will feature a student recreation center complete with four racquetball and two squash courts, weight machines, a free-weight area, an aerobics area with treadmills and stationary bikes, and a martial […]

Port Authority of Allegheny County will ask Pitt to increase its annual fee in exchange for continued ride-for-free service for Pittsburgh campus employees and students. The amount of the increase is pending while a new transit service-wide fare scale and service cuts are being approved, according to Bob Grove, assistant director of media relations for […]

You're driving down a hill. A child steps out into the street ahead of you. You hit the brakes. Your car stops well short of the child, but a cop gives you a speeding ticket anyway. Should you fight the ticket? That's one of the real-world questions that Pitt physics professor Chandralekha Singh poses to […]

Welcome to Organic Chemistry Jeopardy, the classroom game that tests Pitt undergraduates' knowledge of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and alkyl halides. "I'll take 'Potpourri' for $50," a student says — and, just like on TV's "Jeopardy" gameshow, a window slides open on a big board (in this case, a computer-projected one), revealing an answer. "Maitland Jones […]