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July 21, 2011

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Ret. Brigadier Gen. Belinda Pinckney will speak on the state of global engagement, leadership and military service when she delivers the Hesselbein Lecture July 25 at 5 pm in the O’Hara Student Center. The lecture is open to the public.

Ret. Brigadier Gen. Belinda Pinckney will speak on the state of global engagement, leadership and military service when she delivers the Hesselbein Lecture July 25 at 5 pm in the O’Hara Student Center. The lecture is open to the public.

Thursday 21

HSLS Workshop

“PowerPoint for Beginners,”

Julia Jankovic;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 9:30-11 am

CIDDE Workshop

“CourseWeb Level 1”;

B23 Alumni, 10 am-noon

(also Aug. 22; registration: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshop-registration-form)

Friday 22

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Complications of Cirrhosis: Evaluation & Management (Part 2),”

Shahid Malik;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

Sr. VC’s Research Seminar

“HCV’s Receptor Addition: Implications in Viral Entry, Pathogenesis & Therapeutics,”

Tianyi Wang, infectious diseases & microbiology;

Scaife aud. 6, noon

Monday 25

Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership & Civic Engagement Lecture

Ret. Brigadier Gen. Belinda Pinckney;

O’Hara Student Ctr., 5 pm (4-5203)

Tuesday 26

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“GERD, H. Pylori & Peptic Ulcer Disease,”

Kenneth Fasanella;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

CIDDE Workshop

“Blackboard Mobile Learn”;

B23 Alumni, 10 am

(also Aug. 17 at 10 am & Aug. 30 at 2 pm; registration: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshop-registration-form)

GSPIA Johnson Inst. Leadership Luncheon

Saleem Ghubril, Pgh. Promise;

Rivers Club, 301 Grant St., Downtown, 11:30 am-1 pm

Molecular Medicine Research Seminar

“Immune Aging: Rheumatoid Arthritis as a Model System,”

Cornelia Weyand;

Rangos Research Ctr. 3rd fl. conf. ctr., noon

Wednesday 27

CIDDE Workshop

“CourseWeb Level 2”;

B23 Alumni, 10 am-noon

(also Aug. 25; registration: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshop-registration-form)

Friday 29

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Evaluation of Motility Disorders,”

Klaus Bielefeldt;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

Saturday 30

Kennywood Day

Pavilion No. 5, 11 am-10 pm

(tickets: WPU; info: 4-4236)

August

Tuesday 2

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Management of Ingested Foreign Bodies,”

Kevin McGrath;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

Wednesday 3

HSLS Workshop

“Genome Browsers,”

Carrie Iwema;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm

Friday 5

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Acute & Chronic Pancreatitis,”

Georgios Papachristou;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

CIDDE Workshop

“Assessing Learners: Assignments, Tests, Surveys & Adaptive Release”;

B23 Alumni, 10-11:30 am

(registration: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshop-registration-form)

Tuesday 9

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Evaluation & Management,”

Leonard Baidoo;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

HSLS Workshop

“Advanced PowerPoint for Presentations,”

Julia Jankovic;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 9:30-11 am

GSPIA Johnson Inst. Leadership Luncheon

Christina Gabriel, Univ. Energy Partnership;

Rivers Club, 301 Grant St., Downtown, 11:30 am-1 pm

HSLS Workshop

“EndNote Basics,”

Andrea Ketchum;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm

Wednesday 10

HSLS Workshop

“PubMed Basics,”

Robyn Reed;

Falk Library classrm. 1, 10-11:30 am

Friday 12

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“ERCP: Indications & Complications,”

Andres Gelrud;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

Sunday 14

Nationality Rooms Indian Festival

CL Commons Rm., noon-4 pm (4-6150)

Tuesday 16

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“The ABCs of EUS,”

Randall Brand;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

HSLS Lunch With a Librarian

“Making a Dent in Your Personal Paper Silo,”

Patricia Weiss;

Falk Library conf. rm. B, noon

CIDDE Workshop

“What’s New in Blackboard 9.1”;

B23 Alumni, 2-3:30 pm

(also Aug. 31, 10 am; registration: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshop-registration-form)

Wednesday 17

ULS Open House

Special Collections Department Open House,

363 Hillman, 2-4 pm (8-8190)

Thursday 18

CIDDE Workshop

“Introduction to CourseWeb”;

B23 Alumni, 10 am-noon

(registration: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshop-registration-form)

Friday 19

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Nutrition Assessment, Parenteral Nutrition & Venous Access,”

Toby Graham;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

Tuesday 23

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Enteral Nutrition & Enteral Access: Successful Feeding in the ICU,”

Stephen O’Keefe;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 6:30-8:30 am

Wednesday 24

HSLS Workshop

“Beyond PubMed: Next Generation Literature Searching,”

Carrie Iwema;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm

Freshman Convocation

Petersen, 3 pm (4-7100)

Thursday 25

New Faculty Orientation

Connolly Ballrm. Alumni, 8 am-2pm

(register by Aug. 18: www.cidde.pitt.edu/-1)

Friday 26

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Diarrhea & Malabsorption,”

Toby Graham;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

Tuesday 30

GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Lecture

“Screening for GI Malignancies,”

Robert Schoen;

M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

PhD Defenses

Medicine/Neurobiology

“Dissecting the Registration & Processing of Olfactory Events During General Anesthesia,”

Andrew Samuelsson;

July 21, 1495 Starzl BST, 10 am

Social Work

“Is Family Therapy Effective, Acceptable & Sustainable for Mothers & Children? An Examination of Structural Family Therapy Implemented Within a Semi-Rural Community Mental Setting,”

Addie Weaver;

July 21, 2117 CL, 1 pm

A&S/Physics & Astronomy

“Intermediate Stable Phase Locked Solutions in Neural Oscillators,”

Alexander Urban;

July 21, 316 Allen, 2 pm

IS/Library & Information Science

“Responses of Listener-Viewers in Digital Storytelling: Collaborations in the Intermediate Classroom & the Middle School Library,”

Rebecca Morris;

July 22, 522 IS, 10 am

Education/Administrative & Policy Studies

“Mapping Human Capital in the Process of Job Creation for Self-Employment: Alternative Approach to Youth Unemployment,”

Yuki Yamamoto;

July 22, 4321 Posvar, 10:30 am

GSPH/Epidemiology

“Impacts of Vaccine Logistics on Vaccine Epidemiology,”

Tina-Marie Assi;

July 22, Parkvale Annex 1st fl. conf. rm., 3520 Forbes, 3 pm

Medicine/Molecular Pharmacology

“Preclinical Studies on ATM Kinase Inhibitors as Anti-Cancer Agents,”

Serah Choi;

July 25, 1395 Starzl BST, 10 am

Medicine/Cellular & Molecular Pathology

“Understanding the Interaction Between LRRK2 & PINK1: Implications for Parkinson’s Disease,”

Salvatore Cherra;

July 25, 1104 Scaife, 2 pm

A&S/Philosophy

“Happiness, Approbation & Rational Choice Studies in Empiricist Moral Philosophy,”

Hans Lottenbach;

July 25, 1001B CL, 2 pm

Pitt/CMU Medicine/Computational Biology

“Rational Design of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions: Application to the Oncogenic cMyc-Max Interaction,”

Lidio Meireles;

July 26, 3073 BST3, 9 am

A&S/Physics & Astronomy

“Survey of Transiting Extrasolar Planets at the University of Pittsburgh,”

Melanie Good;

July 27, 416 Allen, 11 am

Medicine/Cellular & Molecular Pathology

“ECM Degradation, Matricryptic Peptides & Stem Cell Recruitment,”

Vineet Agrawal;

July 27, 402 Bridgeside Point II, 1:30 pm

A&S/Biological Sciences

“A New Spin on Specificity: EcoRI Endonuclease-DNA Complexes Studied by Thermodynamics & Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy,”

Jacqueline Townsend;

July 28, A219B Langley, 2 pm

Engineering /Industrial Engineering

“Optimal Design of the Annual Influenza Vaccine,”

Osman Y. Ozaltin;

July 29, 1060 Benedum, 10 am

Medicine/Pharmacology

“Demonstrating Functional Crosstalk Between DNA Base Excision Repair & Cellular Bioenergetics: A Strategy for the Treatment of Chemotherapy Resistant Glioblastoma,”

Eva Goellner;

July 29, 1395 Starzl BST, 1 pm

A&S/Linguistics

“Testing the Aspect Hypothesis in L2 Russian,”

Wendy Martelle;

Aug. 2, 2809 CL, 10 am

A&S/Biological Sciences

“Signaling From Depolarization to Alternative Splicing: Identification of Molecular Links Mediating Inducible Exon Skipping,”

Ping Zhang;

Aug. 2, A219B Langley, 1 pm

A&S/Physics & Astronomy

“Confinement Models at Finite Temperature & Density,”

Pok Man Lo;

Aug. 4, 216 Allen, 3 pm

A&S/Neuroscience

“Cortical Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase 67 Expression in Schizophrenia: Defining the Deficit,”

Allison Curley;

Aug. 5, S120 Starzl BST, 9:30 am

Medicine/ Molecular Virology and Microbiology

“Seeking a Mechanism of Action for the Anti-HIV Properties of the CD8 Antiviral Factor (CAF),”

Varsha Shridhar;

Aug. 9, A115 Crabtree, 10 am

GSPH/Biostatistics

“Joint Modeling of Multivariate Ordinal Longitudinal Outcomes,”

Zhen Jiang;

Aug. 9, A622 Crabtree, 11 am

GSPH/Biostatistics

“Genomic Meta-analysis Combining Microarray Studies With Confounding Clinical Variables: Application to Depression Analysis,”

Xingbin Wang;

Aug. 15, 308 Parran, 10 am

IS/Information Science

“Navigation Recommender: Real-Time iGNSS QoS Prediction for Navigation Services,”

Duangduen Roongpiboonsopit;

Aug. 15, 522 IS, 10 am

A&S/History & Philosophy of Science

“On Causal Inferences in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Actual Causation,”

Jonathan Livengood;

Aug. 17, G28 CL, 1 pm

A&S/Anthropology

“Dealing With Grievances: The Latino Experience in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,”

Laura Macía-Vergara;

Aug. 19, 3106 Posvar, 10 am

A&S/Philosophy

“Self-Knowledge Rationality & Interpretation,”

Brett Caloia;

Aug. 22, 1001B CL, 3 pm

A&S/Philosophy

“Logic & Intelligibility,”

James Pearson;

Aug. 24, 1001B CL, 10 am

Exhibits

Audubon Exhibit

“Canada Goose,” through Aug. 2;

“Red-Throated Diver,” Aug. 2-16;

“Fresh Water Marsh Hen,” Aug. 16-30;

“Salt Water Marsh Hen,” Aug. 30-Sept. 13;

Hillman ground fl. exhibition case, reg. library hours (8-7715)

Deadlines

New Faculty Orientation

Registration deadline is Aug. 18 for orientation to be held on Aug. 25, 8 am-2 pm in Connolly Ballrm., Alumni (www.cidde.pitt.edu/-1)

Event Deadline

The next issue of the University Times will include University and on-campus events of Sept. 1-15. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on Aug. 25 at 308 Bellefield Hall. Information may be sent by fax to 4-4579 or email to utcal@pitt.edu.

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The University Times events calendar includes Pitt-sponsored events as well as non-Pitt events held on a Pitt campus. Each events calendar covers a two-week period; material must be submitted one week prior to publication.

For deadlines, see the current publication schedule.

Information submitted for the calendar should identify the type of event, such as lecture or concert, and the program’s specific title, sponsor, location and time. The name and phone number of a contact person should be included. Information should be sent by email to: utcal@pitt.edu, by FAX to: 412/624-4579, or by campus mail to: 308 Bellefield Hall. We cannot guarantee publication of events received after the deadline.


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