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Happy Halloween: The Dietrich School Zombie Survival Guide
It’s two in the afternoon, you’re starting to feel that after-lunch sleepiness when suddenly sirens go off and the Cathedral is thrown into chaos. A day you thought was only reserved for fiction has arrived: it’s a zombie apocalypse, and it’s time to use your brain before your brain gets used.

Sam Woolley Talks Influencers and the Election
Sam Woolley, the Dietrich School’s Endowed Chair of Disinformation Studies, was recently interviewed for a Washington Post article

Lara Putnam Interviewed in Technical.ly Article
Lara Putnam, a professor in the Department of History at the Dietrich School, was interviewed by Technical.ly about AI fakes and the upcoming election.

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.

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.

Sam Woolley Speaks on Election Misinformation
Sam Woolley, the Dietrich School’s Endowed Chair of Disinformation Studies, was interviewed for an ABC News article about election misinformation, especially concerning Elon Mus

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.

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.

Did You Know at Dietrich: The Cathedral is Haunted
Boo! Did we scare you? If we didn’t, maybe knowing that the Cathedral of Learning is haunted might spook you.

Peng Liu Part of Research Team Published in Science
Peng Liu, a professor in the Department of Chemistry in the Dietrich School, and a team of nine other researchers were published in Science on October 10.

Sophia Choukas-Bradley Talked to Scientific America About Respecting Your Children's Privacy
Sophia Choukas-Bradley, an associate professor of psychology in the Dietrich School, was interviewed in a Scientific America article about the effect of parents using GPS tracking on their children.

Lara Putnam Interviewed by CNN on Swing States in the Upcoming Election
Lara Putnam, a professor in the Department of History at the Dietrich School, was interviewed by CNN for a story on voters in swing states.

Chengcheng Huang won an NSF CAREER Award
Chengcheng Huang, assistant professor of neuroscience and mathematics in the Dietrich School, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.

Fossil Day at Pitt: Why You Shouldn't Take Rocks for Granite
Today is National Fossil Day and the Dietrich School has some bone-afied fossil history of our own!