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Mission Statement
The Pitt Pulse is a University of Pittsburgh-affiliated student organization committed to providing a respectable, reliable and relevant quarterly magazine available to all on Pitt’s campus. We focus on issues concerning science and pre-health students. Within these pages you can find advice on academics and gaining experience, accounts of volunteering and conducting research, discourse on admission and standardized tests and opinions of politics and medicine. You can also enjoy profiles of local health care professionals and graduate schools of interest.
Parallel with our mission to provide a forum for science-oriented undergraduates at the University, is our goal to provide such students with an opportunity to write. Writing in the sciences has traditionally been considered a foreboding task, but this need not be the case. There is a tremendous public need for people who can write in the sciences, for various reasons. We hope your experience with The Pitt Pulse will prompt you to nurture an interest in science writing.
History (2010-present)
The Pitt Pulse was conceived by a student working at The Pitt News, in the spring of 2010, a columnist and Opinions editor for the daily student newspaper. By April 2010, a logo and front page was designed.
In the months that followed, the group garnered interest from fellow students, students without whom the paper would surely have perished.
The group then overcame the task of getting the magazine together, editing articles, learning new software, finding funding, getting it printed and distributing it all over campus. In the past, funding for the magazine has come from the Department of Neuroscience, Department of Biological Sciences, Student Activity Fee and most recently, the University Honors College.
With time, the magazine has become a regular addition to Pitt's campus. It can be found in the advising offices of the Departments of Neuroscience, Biological Sciences and Chemistry. It is also available in the Career Development Office, and the University Honors College.
If you are interested in joining us, please contact us. Science writing is what it seems, a science and an art. It is enjoyable and an essential public service. We promise, you will enjoy learning how to handle this duality and become a science writer sooner than you think.
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