Upper Campus Tour Flashcards
Introduction
Name; year; major; hometown; activities; reasons for choosing Pitt
Lower Campus VS Upper Campus
Difference; importance of lower campus; constant expansion of upper campus
Bigelow Boulevard
Biannual Bigelow Bash and Fall Fest (free): feature games, crafts, food, and concerts (Ke$ha, One Republic, Hoodie Allen)
Shuttles to Heinz Field for football games
Beautification Plan
1905, Franklin Nikola put forth a beautification plan for the Oakland region along Bigelow Boulevard. Includes: Masonic Temple (Alumni Hall), Pittsburgh Athletic Association, and Soldiers and Sailors Memorial. And Schenley Farms
Schenley Farms
Beautiful residential area home to many of our professors
Office of Off Campus Living
Story of Sophomore friend; available for finding a place and working out relations with landlords.
Pitt Shuttles
Shuttles are available throughout the day to take students to various places on campus: upper campus, south oakland, etc.
Safe-Rider
No questions asked shuttle service in the late evening and early morning hours (7 pm to 3/5 am) for transport within the Oakland area. Each student gets 20 rides per semesters and for each ride you can bring up to two friends.
North Oakland
Ruskin Hall
Center Plaza
Forbes-Craig
Craig Street
Ruskin Hall
renovated apartment style housing students in 1, 2, or 3 person suites with amenities included)
Centre Plaza
200 students in 1, 2, or 3 person apartment style rooms.
Forbes-Craig
Apartment style housing for 100 honors-college upperclassmen in singles and doubles
Craig Street
Separates CMU and Pitt and filled with local business; story about Luca or Food for Thought
Squirrel Hill
Home to CMU campus; has bus to Pitt; various cafes and shops; quieter area
Shadyside
Head east of campus/ bus; separated from Squirrel Hill by Fifth (north of Squirrel Hill)
Ellsworth and Walnut
Walnut Street
Big name, higher-end shops: GAP, Apple Store, Coach, J Crew, American Apparel, etc.
story about khaki shopping.
Ellsworth Street
Locally owned, diversified businesses including boutiques, cafes, and art galleries
Schenley High School
First public school building to cost over one million dollars; closed with class of 2001; school of Andy Warhol
Petersen Sports Complex
Completed Spring 2011; baseball (900), softball (600), and soccer fields (735); free admission to Pitt students; all have synthetic turf, lighting, and press box.
Downtown
Point to location; 11x11 block business district; 5-10 minute bus ride (explain free buses); arts opportunities like Three Rivers Art Festival; internship opportunities; sports games
Pittsburgh Penguins
Consol Energy Center; student rush (before designated games 500 tickets are on sale to college students for reduced prices)
Pittsburgh Pirates
PNC Park
Pittsburgh Steelers
Heinz Field
Cost Center
Named after former Pitt running back Charle L. “Corky” Cost who donated upwards of $1 million dollars for its construction; Home to Pitt Band; two indoor soccer/football turf fields for football, baseball, and softball teams and intramural; also used as practice fields for intramural teams; batting cages and baseball field behind the center
Athletic Activities
D1 vs Club vs Intramural
Club Teams
Ultimate Frisbee, softball, baseball, ice-hockey, Frisbee, gymnastics, soccer
Intramural Teams
Fencing, Mixed Martial Arts, tennis, table tennis, cricket curling
Trees Hall
Multi-purpose student recreational facility; Joseph C. Trees Pool: 770,000 gallons, sound system, windows; swimming team and water polo teams; dance studio; weight room; racquetball courts, basketball/volleyball courts; gymnastics area; archery range; golf cage; weight room
Fitzgerald Field House (after former chancellor Rufus Fitzgerald)
Ex-home to the basketball team; wrestling, volleyball, and gymnastics matches are held here; Five dollar concerts (in the past= Kid Cudi, NERD, Wale) Pitt Dance Marathon
Greek Life
9% of students; most are social but involved with local philanthropies (service, charity, etc.); also include professional fraternities and service fraternities
Sutherland Hall (General)
Houses 737 first-year students; 1992 named after Jock Sutherland, an alumnus and head football coach; SE 8-floors student athletes (and others interested); SW 10-floors honors students
The view of lower campus
talk about from hill to panther and Pennsylvania; cathy
Sutherland Hall (Lobby)
Conjoined and shared; quick zone, hill o’beans, perch, dining plan; mail center; police station; Computer Lab (hours); (Pitt business?)
Point out blue lights for safety
always one visible somewhere, press and you’ll be talking to some one within a couple seconds and within a couple minutes an officer will be at your side
Sutherland Hall (Wing)
Security Station; laundry facility; fitness center; meeting/study areas
Sutherland Tour Room
same-sex Suite-style (4,6, or 8); semi-private bathrooms; study lounge and tv lounge; co-ed floor; furniture included (bed, dresser, desk) movable and bunk-able; fire safety alarms and detectors; climate control; microwave/fridge (rented or bought); ethernet port per pillow; basic cable jack; no candles open flames hot plates or coils; anything else is good like single cup coffee makers; same despite different LLC
Panther Hall
2006; 500 students; 3/5 person suites; LLC’s civic engagement and community service; upper-class engineering; entrepreneurial; multicultural; social science research
Pennsylvania Hall
2004; 420; 2/4 person; LLc’s Health sciences; leadership; pre-law; study abroad
Panther and Pa
Private Baths; A/C; coffee car; student mail center; fitness room; meeting room; each floor has lounge, laundry room and quiet study area
Former Location of Pitt Stadium
Played from 1925-1999; last game against Notre Dame; now at Heinz Field; describe games at Heinz Field (ride shuttles down; my floor got to hold Pittsburgh flag, interview; everybody cheering; etc.) ; shared with Pittsburgh Steelers
Petersen Events Center (general)
Opened in 2002 on former spot of Pitt Stadium and with a dramatic view of lower campus; home to men’s and women’s basketball teams it frees up Fitzgerald and trees for other activities; basketball tickets - lottery system- and loyalty points through other athletic events; 2008 Big east Champions; black logo; big screen tv; food court
Oakland Zoo
student section here at Peterson Events Center; named the “Toughest Place to Play”; voted #1 student section
Other Events
Activities fair at start of fall semester where all clubs and organizations gather to provide students with the opportunity to get involved with groups on campus; Career fair also hosted here that brings together businesses in the area
The Baierl Recreation Center
Students only; largest fitness center on campus; dance studio, racquetball courts, free weights, tv screens, treadmills and other machines; fitness classes that can even be taken for credit including yoga and karate.
McCarl Hall of Champions
honors achievements of great athletes at Pitt
Salk Hall
Named after Jonas Salk who discovered the vaccine for polio; other things discovered at Pitt include Vitamin C in pill form and synthetic insulin; houses school of pharmacy and dental medicine; pharmacy is ranked 14th but dental schools are not ranked nationally
Scaife Hall
Houses School of medicine and the Falk Library, lecture rooms, labs, and classrooms for medical students: 17th for Research, 18th for Primary Care, 5th for Research Funds
UPMC (General)
one of the nation’s top 5 medical providers; 10th best hospital in the nation; best hospital in PA; provides the opportunity for internship, volunteer, research, and job oportunities.
UPMC Locations
Montefiore; Presby; Western Psych; Magee; Ear and Eye
Children’s now in Lawrenceville
World: two cancer centers and a hospital in Ireland; transplant location in Italy; emergency system in Qatar
UPMC (additional)
satellites throughout Pittsburgh including shadyside southside and uptown; children’s hospital ranked 9th; ranked 3rd in ear, nose, and throat; highly ranked in all 16 categories of the US news and World Report
Victoria Hall
Nursing school; ranked 7th in the nation; freshman apply directly and follow a strict curriculum starting freshman year; each year builds and there is a strong emphasis on clinical work starting sophomore year
Lothrop Hall
600 residents - freshman and upperclassmen - in singles and a few doubles; communal bathrooms with a sink in each room; home to nursing LLC
Benedum Hall
Home to the John A Swanson School of Engineering; donated 41.3 million dollars for a 5 year renovation of the building; like nursing, engineers have a strict curriculum freshman year which includes a seminar in engineering; discusses all disciplines of engineering and gives info so students can pick sophomore year; includes library, computer lab, and Einstein’s Bagels
Disciplines of Engineering
Bioengineering, Civil engineering, chemical engineering, computer and electrical engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering and material science, engineering physics
Mid Campus Buildings
Learning Research and Development Center
Thackeray Hall
Academic Resource Center
O’Hara Student Center
Learning research and Development Center
Research labs for graduate students; largely focuses on school structure and the learning process; freshman in intro to psych must complete a number of “research hours” which allows students to view the process of studies by actively being a part
Thackeray Hall
Math department location and advising center for the School of Arts and Sciences; registrars office (add/drop, transcripts, registration, etc.)
Academic Resource Center
Open 9-5 in the G-1 of the Gardener Steel Building; Study Skills Workshop; Study Groups; Subject Tutoring; 1-on-1 peer mentoring
Math Assistance Center
Second floor of the O’hara student center; No appointment needed; Ta’s office ours online; story about missing class and meeting with TA
O’Hara student center
underwent a 5.8 million dollar upgrade in 2011 ; lounges; MAC; WAC; Freshman Studies Program
Writing Assistance Center
Third floor of O’Hara; appointments necessary for one half hour or one hour; scheduling online; brainstorm edit peer critique
chevron Science Center
Chemistry department; one of most popular majors at Pitt; founded in 1875 the chemistry department is one of the biggest in the nation; recently renovated 2008-2011: first floor now has electronic reference library and Bunsen Brewery, second floor has tutoring area, and fourth floor has new organic teaching facility; Paul Lauterbur, an alumnus, got a Nobel Prize for his work in developing MRI
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial
Commemorates Allegheny county soldiers and sailors, both men and women, of all branches of the military in all nine of the Us major wars; underground owned by Pitt; 2008 Barack Obama spoke here during his campaign for PA primary; largest memorial building in US dedicated sole to America’s fighting personnel; scenes from Silence of the Lambs were filmed here; warning to the South; Pittsburgh Athletic Association
