The Accommodation Office is the place to find everything concerning accommodation during your studying at this university. It offers a free service and a wide range of handbooks and checklists covering the full range of housing available. In addition, the office also offers other services such as the allocation of places in local residences and the provision of information regarding privately owned accommodation.

Opening Hours: Monday through Friday   1:30 pm～4:30pm

Phone: (412)396-6754   Fax: (412)396-6752

The staff of the Medical Center aim to provide convenient and comprehensive medical care for students and staff of the university. The center is well equipped and the staff here are trained to deal with a broad range of medical problems. Both female and male doctors as well as nursing staff are available for consultation. Also all kinds of medicines are sold here and are cheaper for students than other drugstores

Opening Hours: 24 hours from Monday to Sunday

Phone: (412)396-6649   Fax: (412)396 6648

Tasty nutritious meals and a wide variety of snacks are available from the cafeterias on campus. Maybe you are not familiar with different cafeterias here and find it difficult to get a good meal. Don’t worry!The Food Service can provide you with specific information on the food available here and offer meal plans based on your individual needs

Opening Hours: Monday through Friday   1:30 pm～ 5:30 pm

Phone: (412)396-6899   Fax: (412)396-689C

There are various books and reference materials on every subject here including literature art and math. Besides books there are also photo-copying video and computer facilities. Our collection is big and our main task is to help you solve problems on making use of the library

Opening Hours: Monday through Friday   8:30 am～5:30 pm

Phone: (412)396-6312     Fax: (412)396-6706

【推荐1】Picture yourself driving down a city street. You go around a corner, and suddenly see something in the middle of the road ahead. What should you do? Of course, the answer depends on what that “something” is. A paper bag, or a lost shoe? You can drive right over it without a second thought. But if it’s some broken glass, you’ll certainly change the direction. In short, you’ll quickly determine the actions that best fit the situation — what humans call having “common sense”.

Human drivers aren’t the only ones who need common sense. Even the best of today’s self- driving cars are challenged by the object-in-the- road problem. When sensing something in the road, these self-driving cars will slow down suddenly and unexpectedly, causing the cars behind it to rear-end it. Rear-ending the front car by human drivers is the most common accident. Self-driving cars are no exception. The challenges for them probably won’t be solved by giving cars more training or clear rules for what to do in unusual situations. To be trustworthy, these cars need common sense: broad knowledge about the world and an ability to apply that knowledge in different situations.

Common sense is the knowledge that humans share — knowledge we are born with or learn by living in the world. That includes knowledge about the properties of objects, animals, other people and society in general, and the ability to flexibly apply this knowledge in new situations.

While we’ve made great progress in self- driving cars, the machine intelligence of our age remains unreliable. To create more general and trustworthy self-driving cars, we might need to design our machines to learn more like babies, instead of training them specifically for success against some standards. If we can find out how to get our machines to learn like babies, perhaps after some years of curiosity — driven, physical and social learning, they will finally become “teenagers” — ones who are sensible enough to be trusted with the car keys.

【推荐3】We’ve all been there-starting at a book, hoping that what we study will stick in our mind. Many of us have probably wondered. “Is there any way to improve memory?” So, why don’t we look at what memory experts say about this?

Every student knows that it’s helpful to review what they’ve studied before. According to experts, we can learn things better if we wait some time before trying to study them again. They say that trying to remember something from your memory after you have had some to forget it will make it easier to remember in future.

Similarly, studies have shown that taking some time to just do nothing after studying might mean that you can remember things better afterwards. It is not clear why this happens. But some think it has to do with the relationship between long-term and short-term memory.

Another study tip is to change between different ideas. Now, connecting them to each other or to images (图像) is often considered a good way to remember something. A word champion Jonathan Hancock says how picturing pieces of information in different physical locations or connecting them to memorable images makes them easier to remember.

There are also more things that we can do to improve our memory. Hancock says that being generally organized makes things easier for your brain. Many other experts also suggest that we should get a lot of rest and exercise. So, the good news to take from this is that while it may be hard, improving our memory is something we can do.