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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.
Fine Art Appreciation Day at Pitt: Don’t Brush off the University Art Gallery!
It’s Fine Art Appreciation Day and the Dietrich School has a lot of fine art to offer. No this isn’t a pigment of your imagination, we do have an art museum located on our campus.
Jackie Smith Interviewed by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jackie Smith, a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Dietrich School was interviewed for a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article highlighting the affordable housing market crisis and how most Pennsylvanians favor making housing more affordable.
Lara Putnam Discusses the Upcoming Election
Professor in the Department of History at the Dietrich School, Lara Putnam, was interviewed for a Pittsburgh Union Process article. The article explores the ins and outs of how local election officials run elections, including how they keep them safe and fraud-free.
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.
Happy LGBTQIA Disability Month!
It’s LGBTQIA Disability Month and the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies has many events for you to enjoy! You can see their full list of events here.
Studio Arts Faculty Featured in Upcoming "Adaptation - Local Notes" Exhibtion
Teaching Associate Professor Melissa Catanese, Visiting Assistant Professor Sean P.
Preserving Democracy Forum
Calling all Political Sciences students and faculty! On Tuesday, October 8 the Institute of Politics has a program scheduled featuring Jeffrey Kovar, the U.S. Dept. of State Assistant Legal Advisor for Political-Military Affairs, and the program is titled, NATO at 75 and the Importance of Alliances in U.S. Foreign Policy: A Lawyer's View. This program is available to attend in-person and virtually.