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Pitt presented its two annual social justice awards at a luncheon on Jan. 26.  Pitt gave the Creating a Just Community Award to Ron Idoko, associate director of Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems, and gave the University Prize for Strategic, Inclusive, & Diverse Excellence award to Sexual Assault Facilitation and Education peer educators. ...

Helen Ladd and Charles Clotfelter ranked among the top educators according to Education Week for the 11th straight year.

Following the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Supreme Court decision, which ruled that race-based affirmative action programs in higher education admissions violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, underrepresented racial and ethnic groups are feeling dissuaded from applying to universities, according to Kyaien Conner.  “This decision has been the subject of much...

While walking along the streets you may come across the Manobotar Deyal, translated as Wall of Humanity, where people can hang clothes or other essentials. Similarly, cartoonist Morshed Mishu has built a unique display of kindness — a wall adorned not with ordinary embellishments, but with toys. The wall was set up on 25 December at Ibrahimpur in Mirpur-14. This unique