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A University of Pittsburgh trustees’ committee voted Monday to approve the $120 million construction of the core and shell of a planned cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility in Hazelwood. In a separate vote, the trustees’ Property and Facilities Committee authorized leasing space within the facility. Officials hope it will

The Compensation Modernization project has entered its second phase after six years of on-and-off progress toward overhauling how University staff members are classified, paid and promoted.

These are desperate days for the Colorado River. The pulsing lifeblood of the U.S. southwest is increasingly parched. To avert catastrophe, the U.S. government will, within weeks, propose historic cuts in water access to protect a system on which some 40 million people directly rely.

Generations of Pittsburghers know it as an exquisite wedding and worship space, a limestone cathedral that has 23 imposing yet beautiful stained-glass windows and an organ with 4,272 pipes. But that’s not what is drawing the most attention at the University of Pittsburgh’s Heinz Memorial Chapel these days. It’s the

With a new state-of-the-art irrigation project, Arizona’s Pima Indians are transforming their land into what it once was: the granary of the Southwest

It is racism, not race, that is a risk factor for dying of COVID-19.

Dakota State University’s College of Education is one of four organizations receiving a grant from the South Dakota Department of Labor to develop apprenticeship programs for high school students.

Ten top University of Pittsburgh officials will receive 4.25% raises next year, boosting their base salaries to between $260,625 and just more than $1 million. The Compensation Committee of Pitt’s board of trustees approved the raises for Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and nine of his top deputies in a unanimous vote

A panel of University of Pittsburgh trustees voted Wednesday to buy a $10 million piece of property in Hazelwood Green to develop a cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility there. The three-acre property known as Lot 18 would become home to BioForge. “BioForge will be designed to help define Pittsburgh

A Pittsburgh City Council hearing Wednesday on the proposed Oakland Crossings development revealed that some residents remain divided on the project, despite efforts by Mayor Ed Gainey to reach a compromise between the developers and concerned residents. Walnut Capital, the Shadyside developer that revitalized Bakery Square, has sought a zoning