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Transgender Awareness Week

Transgender Awareness Week is a time to foster understanding, promote inclusivity, and celebrate the lives and contributions of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. This week-long event is meant to engage our community in meaningful dialogue, raise awareness about the challenges faced by the transgender community, and highlight the importance of creating a supportive and affirming campus environment. Please join the Dietrich School’s Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies for events happening all week long:

GES Students Help out the Pitt Pantry Through Their Sustainability Course

The Sustainable Food Source course, taken by Department of Geology and Environmental Students, spends most of their weeks at an urban farm learning and working with community leaders. This past week the class helped Ebony Lunsford-Evans (Farm Girl Eb) get her urban farm in the West End, named 1 Sound Farm, ready for the winter. As students pulled plants for the compost bin they realized some of the plants had ripe fruit still on them and asked if they could take it to the Pitt Pantry.

Archaeology Day: Pitt Takes a Trip to Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village

The Department of Anthropology took a group of students, faculty, and staff to the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village this past weekend for Archaeology Day. Attendees heard lectures from archaeologists from the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology who also helped identify artifacts and demonstrated prehistoric technology like flintknapping.

WESA Talks New UAG Exhibit, Joe Magarac Returns, and Pennsylvania's Heavy Industry Collapse

The University Art Gallery, run by Teaching Professor of Art and Architecture, Sylvia Rhor Samaniego, was featured in a WESA article recently published. The article talks about the new exhibit, Joe Magarac Returns, and the heavy industry collapse that happened in Western Pennsylvania. You can read the article here.