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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.

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.

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.

October 2 Panel: Winners and Losers in the Next 2024 Election

The Department of Sociology in the Dietrich School is hosting a panel next Wednesday, October 2, on the upcoming 2024 election. Speakers include Lara Putnam, a Professor of History, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, an Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Kristin Kanthak, an Associate Professor of Political Science. The event will take place at the Center for Urban Education room, Posvar, 4th floor at 12 pm The event is sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science, and Pitt Cyber.