Calendar
Simon Sinek will deliver the July 23 Student Affairs Hesselbein Academy lecture.
Simon Sinek will deliver the July 23 Student Affairs Hesselbein Academy lecture.
Thursday 12
Blood Drive
9 am-2 pm, WPU Ballrm.
HSLS Workshop
“EndNote Basics,”
Ahlam Saleh;
Falk Library conf. rm. B, 10 am
Friday 13
Trustees Budget & Executive Committees Mtg.
2700 Posvar, 8:05 am
Trustees Property & Facilities Committee Mtg.
2700 Posvar, 9:20 am
Oakland Farmers Market
Sennott St. between Atwood & Meyran, 3-6:30 pm
(Fridays through Nov. 9; www.oaklandfarmersmarket.org)
Tuesday 17
HSLS Workshop
“Adobe Photoshop,”
Julia Jankovic;
Falk Library classrm. 1, noon
Wednesday 18
CTSI Workshop
“Authorship & Publication,”
Michael Zigmond;
WPU Lower Lounge, 1 pm
(register: www.rcr.pitt.edu)
HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Melissa Ratajeski;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 1 pm
HSLS Workshop
“Pathways Analysis Tools,”
Ansuman Chattopadhyay;
Falk Library conf. rm. B, 1 pm
CRSP Inst. on Racial Disparities
“Programs to Diminish Racial Disparities in Diabetes,”
Mim Seidel, Chatham;
“Promising Practices for Decreasing Adult Health Disparities,”
Rhonda Moore Johnson, Highmark;
2017 CL, 1:30-4:30 pm
(register: llg34@pitt.edu)
Thursday 19
Engineering Symposium
“Mascaro Ctr. for Sustainable Innovation Undergraduate Research Symposium,”
102 Benedum, 10 am-2 pm
(rsvp: 4-6718)
Friday 20
• Summer 6-wk-2 session deadline for students to submit monitored withdrawal forms to dean’s office.
Sr. VC Research Seminar
“Dysregulation of IL-13 by CD8+ T-cells in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis,”
Patrizia Fuschiotti;
aud. 6 Scaife, noon
Saturday 21
Pitt-Greensburg Admissions Open House
Various campus locations, UPG, 9:30 am
(register: www.greensburg.pitt.edu/discovery)
Monday 23
Student Affairs Hesselbein Academy Lecture
Simon Sinek, author of “Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”;
O’Hara Student Ctr. 2nd fl. ballrm., 5 pm, reception follows
(RSVP by July 18: 4-5203 or angelamm@pitt.edu)
Tuesday 24
Biomedical Informatics Workshop
“Text Information Extraction System: A New Tool for Research,”
Rebecca Crowley; S123 BST, 11 am
(register: http://ties.upmc.com/register)
Wednesday 25
• Summer 4-wk-3 session deadline for students to submit monitored withdrawal forms to dean’s office.
Thursday 26
PancreasFest Conf.
Through July 27; U Club, 7 am-3 pm
(register: www.pancreasfest.org)
HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Jill Foust;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 10 am
CRSP Inst. on Racial Disparities
“Racial Disparities in Cancer & Decreasing Disparities in Prostate Cancer,”
Raymond Wynn, UPMC;
“Interventions for Decreasing Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer,”
Lyn Robertson, medicine;
2017 CL, 1:30-4:30 pm
(register: llg34@pitt.edu)
Defenses
GSPH/Behavioral & Community Health
“Evaluation of a Community-developed Intervention to Reduce HIV Risk Among African-American Women,”
Mary Hawk;
July 12, Parran conf. rm., 1 pm
A&S/Psychology
“The Development of Anti-social Behavior: Genes, Brain & Environment as Direct & Interactive Predictors of Anti-social Behavior From Early Childhood to Young Adulthood,”
Luke W. Hyde;
July 12, 4127 Sennott, 2 pm
Engineering/Civil & Environmental Engineering
“Performance-Based Design of Coupled Wall Structures,”
Abdelatee Abdalla M. Eljadei;
July 13, 153 Benedum, 10 am
Medicine/Cellular & Molecular Pathology
“The Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products Is a Central Mediator of Asthma Pathogenesis,”
Pavle Milutinovic;
July 17, 995 BST, 9 am
SHRS/Rehabilitation Science
“The Effect of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in Inducing Muscle Hypertrophy & Improvement in Muscle Torque Within the Quadriceps Muscle of Elderly People,”
Ibrahim M. Altubasi;
July 17, 4060 Forbes Tower, 10 am
Business
“When Is Computerized Continuous Auditing Less Effective at Deterring Fraud?”
George Gonzalez;
July 17, 102 Mervis, 10 am
A&S/Biological Sciences
“The Regulation of Apical Constriction: Rock ‘N’ Shroom Structures,”
Swarna Mohan;
July 17, A219B Langley, 10 am
A&S/Psychology
“My Brother, My Friend: Positive Sibling Relationships, Peer Acceptance & Internalizing Problems in Low-Income Boys,”
Sara Nichols;
July 17, 4127 Sennott, 1:30 pm
A&S/Economics
“Three Essays on Housing & Credit,”
Yilan Xu;
July 18, 4716 Posvar, 10 am
A&S/Physics & Astronomy
“Precision Cosmology With Weak Gravitational Lensing,”
Andrew Hearin;
July 18, 216 Allen, noon
GSPH/Biostatistics
“The Latent Group-based Trajectory Model: Development of Discrimination Measures & Joint Modeling With Subdistributions,”
Nilesh Shah;
July 18, 110 Parran, 1 pm
Medicine/Immunology
“Integration of HSP90 Inhibition in Combinational Immunotherapy Targeting Receptor Tyrosine Kinase EphA2,”
Aparna Rao;
July 18, S123 BST, 1 pm
GSPH/Biostatistics
“Survival Analysis of Shared-Path Adaptive Treatment Strategies,”
Kelley Kidwell;
July 18, A215 Crabtree, 1pm
GSPH/Biostatistics
“Analysis of Variance for Right Censored Survival Data,”
Chetachi Akunna Emeremni;
July 19, A622 Parran, 1pm
A&S/Biological Sciences
“Examining the Contribution of Chromatin & Chromatin-Associated Factors to Transcription Regulation,”
Sarah J. Hainer;
July 19, A219B Langley, 1 pm
A&S/Chemistry
“Intramolecular [2 + 2] Cycloaddition Reactions of Allene-Ynes: Exploring the Scope, Mechanism & Application to the Synthesis of Carbocyclic Spirooxindoles,”
Joshua Osbourn;
July 19, 307 Eberly, 4 pm
GSPIA
“The Formation of Inter-organizational Networks in Extreme Events:
A Comparative Study of the 1999 Chi Chi Earthquake & the 2009 Typhoon Morakot,”
Wen-Jiun Wang;
July 20, 3200 Posvar, 8:30 am
Medicine/Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
“HSV-1 ICP4, A Multifaceted POLII Transcription Factor,”
Lauren M. Wagner;
July 20, 503 Bridgeside Point II, 2 pm
A&S/Chemistry
“Synthesis & NMR Studies of a Beta-Turn Mimetic Molecular Torsion Balance,”
Melissa Liberatore;
July 23, 307 Eberly, 10 am
A&S/Anthropology
“The Referential Functions of Agency: Health Workers in Medical Missions to Madiha (Kulina) Indians in the Brazilian Amazon,”
Christian Frenopoulo;
July 23, 3106 Posvar, 1 pm
A&S/Philosophy
“Mental Capacities & Their Imperfect Exercises: The Essential Normativity of the Mind,”
Kim Frost;
July 23, 1001B CL, 2 pm
GSPH/Biostatistics
“Semiparametric Estimators in Competing Risks Regression,”
Jonathan Yabes;
July 25, 309B Parran, 1 pm
Nursing
“Comparing the Effectiveness of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training & Acupuncture for the Treatment of Urinary Incontinence & the Impact on Heath-related Quality of Life for Non-homebound Women >50 Years of Age: A Secondary Analysis,”
Rosemary Bolinger;
July 26, 451 Victoria, 10 am
GSPH/Biostatistics
“Incorporating Diagnostic Accuracy Into the Estimation of Discrete Survival Function,”
Abidemi Adeniji;
July 26, 109 Parran, 11 am
GSPH/Epidemiology
“HPV & Lifestyle in the Translational Epidemiology of Head & Neck Cancer,”
Jesse D. Troy;
July 26, 5150 Centre Ave., Suite 4C, 1 pm
Deadlines
Student Opinion of Teaching Survey
Log onto omet.pitt.edu & click on the direct link. Survey periods & deadlines for requesting vary by session.
Fox Center for Vision Restoration Postdoctoral Research Funding
Application deadline is July 29.
(info: www.foxcenter.pitt.edu/197; munschl@upmc.edu)
CTSI Patient-Centered Outcomes Funding
Final applications due July 31.
(www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/)
UPG 5K Run/Fun Walk
Early registration due by Sept. 25 for Oct. 13 event.
UPG Golf Outing
Register for Oct. 12 event: www.greensburg.pitt.edu/golfouting.
2013 Searle Scholar Program
Nominations from health sciences must be submitted to broidoms@pitt.edu by noon on July 17;
nominations from all other schools must be submitted to emr@pitt.edu by July 23.
(Info: 8-2233; www.searlescholars.net/go.php?id=1)
Event Deadline
The next issue of the University Times will include University & on-campus events of July 26-Aug. 30. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on July 19 at 308 Bellefield Hall. Information may be sent by fax to 4-4579 or email to utcal@pitt.edu.
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