The Pitt News Rundown

PITTSBURGH (PTTP) – Pitt to the Point collaborates with The Pitt News to share their top three stories for the week. 

The Foreign Language and Area Studies program offers scholarships and grants to undergraduate and graduate students to study lesser-known languages. The yearlong FLAS Fellowship for undergraduate students provides a tuition scholarship of up to $10,000 with a $5,000 stipend.  

Read the full story here – ‘Most valuable discovery’: Foreign Language and Area Studies scholarship sends students around the world 

Pitt alum Yasmine Crawley wrote the short film “In Good Hands” which sensationalizes the workday of a Black doctor in Pittsburgh. The stories told in the film are based on Dr. Owusu-Ansah’s memoir, who is the only Black pediatric emergency attending physician working at The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The screening took place at The Center for Creativity last Thursday.  

Read the full story here – Pitt alum’s short film “In Good Hands” celebrates Black doctors in Pittsburgh 

Last Saturday, Post Genre hosted a three-concert series in the church on Atwood in Central Oakland. The Oakland-based music project hopes to make the church a permanent musical space for concertgoers, as it has not been regularly used in recent years.  

Read the full story here – Post Genre’s first Atwood church concert aims to transform the Oakland music scene