Duquesne University spent $3.47 million on renovations this summer, with the majority - $1.8 million - going to updating the A.J. Palumbo Center. The majority of the Palumbo renovations was spent on removing chairs from the home-stands side and installing approximately 550 new seats with chair backs between the court's foul lines.
Pennsylvania failed for the second time to earn $400 million in federal education funding from the Race to the Top Initiative.
Entering its third season in the Northeastern Conference, the football team was picked to finish just seventh in the nine-team conference in a preseason coaches poll. And that's just fine with head coach Jerry Schmitt.
Bruce Kraus is always right. Yes, he may be a red-faced, winded broken record most of the time, but when it comes to his stance on E. Carson's late weekend night debauchery, it's hard to deny that he has a point - even if it is his only point.
After signing in at the front desk of 564 Forbes Avenue, taking the elevator to the 13th floor and walking to Suite 1302, the offices of One Vision One Life, a Pittsburgh violence prevention initiative, lie at the end of a narrow hallway, through a set of large double-doors.