MAY 2026
The Economist: Is AI putting graduates out of work already? (Pitt expert quoted: Morgan Frank)
The Economist: Why science is becoming less innovative (Ph.D. candidates Haochuan Cui and Yiling Lin)
The Washington Post: Appeals court limits abortion pill access nationwide (Greer Donley)
The New Yorker: This Midterm Season, Don't Forget Your Wine Mom (Lara Putnam)
Los Angeles Times: They tracked California hate groups. Now, Trump’s DOJ charges donors were defrauded (Kathleen Blee)
Popular Science: Why we crave 'comfort food' (Nick Rogers)
NBC News: Meet Hollywood’s new masters of horror: YouTubers (Adam Lowenstein)
USA Today: Judge Tosses Some Evidence in Luigi Mangione Case, Oks Gun and Notebook (David Harris)
Earth.com: Health concerns over wind turbines: Is there reason to worry? (Osea Giuntella)
The Scientist: Postdoc Portrait: Neil Carleton Studies the Intersection of Aging and Breast Cancer (Neil Carleton)
The Chronicle of Higher Education: What do we know about AI’s effect on critical thinking? (Annette Vee)
Forbes: Three New Studies on AI, Work and Jobs Tell Us (Narayan Ramasubbu)
Forbes: How to Build Resilient Economies Through Local Business Partnerships
APRIL 2026
The Chronicle of Higher Education: A University Is Scraping Course Materials for Its New AI Platform. It Didn’t Ask the Faculty. (Michael Madison)
The Guardian: Coordinated conflict: How the Ukraine and Iran wars are starting to overlap (William Spaniel)
The Guardian: Why was the Southern Law Poverty Center indicted on federal fraud charges? (Philip Hackney)
Forbes: Why Smart Organizations Are Betting On Executive Retreats in 2026 (Lingfei Wu)
The New York Times: Never Heard Him Before: In Italian (Lina Insana)
Quanta Magazine: The Ancient Weapons Active in Your Immune System Today (Tera Levin and Edward Culbertson)
Live Science: Do the microbes in your gut influence what foods you like? (Kevin Kohl)
Space.com: Is Venus volcanically active? Big Hawaiian eruption in 2022 could help scientists find out (Ian Flynn)
Popular Science: Parrots use names to talk to each other (Christine Dahlin, Pitt-Johnstown)
MARCH 2026
The New York Times: A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around (Pitt expert quoted: Lara Putnam)
The Washington Post: In Israel, wartime reality doesn’t match what you see on the internet (Jennifer Murtazashvili)
National Geographic: Giant salamanders are about to take a once-in-a-year midnight trek (Cori Zawacki)
BBC: I tried to prove I’m not AI. My aunt wasn’t convinced (Samuel Woolley)
Marketplace: FedEx brings back same-day delivery option (Prakash Mirchandani)
Marketplace: How much do the rich actually pay in taxes? (Anthony Infanti)
Fast Company: Stop thinking about work earlier today to be more productive (Mark Ma)
Fortune: The Iran and Ukraine wars have merged into a single conflict, but ‘we are still not at a true world war,’ expert says (William Spaniel)
Daily Mail: Dying steel city reinvents itself and is booming again offering affordable homes and a place to plant roots (Chris Briem)
The Christian Science Monitor: For Iranians abroad, no single vision for their homeland’s future (Mohamad Machine-Chian)
CBC: After deadly Hong Kong fire, the art of bamboo scaffolding hangs in the balance (Kent Harries)
KQED-FM: Farmworker Advocates Grapple With Legacy Changes as California Replaces Chávez Holiday (Eladio Bobadilla)
Popular Science: The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating (research)
WPXI-TV: Pitt announces $5M investment to support city parks, neighborhoods and public safety initiatives
FEBRUARY 2026
The Guardian: Whistles are a symbol of resistance amid Trump’s ICE crackdown. Some say they hurt more than they help (Pitt expert quoted: Fernando Tormos-Aponte)
The Guardian: No, the human-robot singularity isn’t here. But we must take action to govern AI (Samuel Woolley)
The New York Times: Minnesota’s ICE Watchers: How Tactics of 1960s Radicals Went Mainstream (Joshua Bloom)
The New York Times: Drinking Is a ‘Social Lubricant.’ That’s Not Always a Good Thing. (Michael Sayette)
STAT News: With federal research funding uncertain, states debate new science initiatives (Rory Cooper)
Science Magazine: U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs (Patrick Gallagher)
Smithsonian Magazine: How Do Researchers Identify Individual Bears in the Wild? They Could Soon Do It Through A.I. Facial Recognition Technology (Emily Wanderer)
CNBC: 5 days in the office is the least popular way to work. Bosses are mandating it anyway (Mark Ma)
Everyday Health: Your Social Rhythm Blueprint for Bipolar: Using Routine to Anchor Treatment (Ellen Frank)
Popular Science: The parrots having human-like conversations (Christine Dahlin, Pitt-Johnstown)
The Hill: Three years after East Palestine, research must be a commitment, not a moment (research)
WESA.fm: New biography centers on how Pittsburgh shaped August Wilson (Laurence Glasco)
JANUARY 2026
ABC News: Saks Global declares bankruptcy. What does it mean for shoppers? (Pitt expert quoted: Vanitha Swaminathan)
NBC News: Yes, alcohol is bad for you. But could it make us less lonely? (Michael Sayette)
The Economist: How big a threat is AI to entry-level jobs? (Morgan Frank)
The Wall Street Journal: Meet the 92-Year-Old Judge Presiding Over the Trial of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro (Arthur Hellman)
The Wall Street Journal: What CEOs Are—and Are Not—Saying About ICE and Minneapolis (CB Bhattacharya)
Associated Press News: What to know about the civil rights charges Don Lemon faces for covering church protest in Minnesota (David Harris)
Harvard Business Review: To scale AI agents successfully, think of them like team member (Muhammad Zia Hydari)
IFL Science: This Unlensed Barred Spiral Galaxy Might Be The Earliest Of Its Kind Ever Seen (Daniel Ivanov)
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Is it study abroad without overseas study? (student Myles Winegrad)
Becker’s Spine Review:University of Pittsburgh earns $53.5 million orthopedic gift