Thursday 7

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar

“Extending Capabilities of Solution Scattering for Protein Structure Determination: Challenges & Opportunities,”

Alexander Grishaev;

6014 BST3, 11 am

EOH Seminar

“Hexavalent Chromium … & Some Food for Thought,”

Herman Gibb;

540 Bridgeside Point, noon

(beagle@pitt.edu)

Epidemiology Lecture

“Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases &  Intervention Strategies,”

Eunha Shim;

A115 Crabtree, noon

EU & Germany Colloquium

“Figuring out Europe: Nation, State & the European Union in the German Public Sphere,”

Russell Berman, Stanford;

602 CL, 12:30 pm

(jblyon@pitt.edu)

HSLS Workshop

“Advanced PowerPoint for Presentations,”

Julia Jankovic;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 1:30 pm

(jcj6@pitt.edu)

MMG Seminar

“Lost in Translocation: Quality Control at the Endoplasmic Reticulum Translocon,”

Eric Rubenstein, Ball State;

503 Bridgeside Point II, 3:15 pm

(kmd78@pitt.edu)

Chemistry Seminars

“Thioamides: Minimalist Chromophores for Monitoring Protein,”

James Petersson, Penn, 2:30 pm;

“Propagation Chemistry on a Carbon Lattice,”

Yuhuang Wang, U of MD, 4 pm;

150 Chevron

(4-8200)

Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium

“Climate Variability & Vegetation Changes During Pleistocene Interglacial Transitions From Southwestern North America: Valles Caldera Sedimentary Record,”

Sergio Contreras, U of MN-Duluth;

11 Thaw, 4 pm

(chavez@pitt.edu)

Bradford Campus Workshop

“Fundraising & the Nonprofit Board: Helping Your Board Reach Its Full Potential”;

200 Seneca, UPB, 5:30 pm

(register: contined@pitt.edu)

Friday 8

• Spring term withdrawal deadline.

Anthropology Conference

“Mobility in Japan”;

PAA, 8 am through Mar. 9

(register: https://webspace.utexas.edu/jt27/www/JAWS_2013_Conference/Registration.html)

Dental Medicine Lecture

“Local Anesthesia Review for Dental Hygienists,”

Marie George & Paul Moore;

2148 Salk, 9 am-noon

(8-8370)

Physical Therapy Clinical Rounds

“I Can’t Fit Into My Boots: A Case Report of a Patient With Endometrial Cancer,”

Alaina Newell;

4060 Forbes Twr., noon

GI Research Rounds

“Immune Signaling in Inflammatory Disease,”

Mandy McGeachy;

Presby conf. rm. M2, noon

(joj2@pitt.edu)

Human Genetics Seminar

“The Advent of Genome Medicine in Patient Care,”

Hakon Hakonarson;

A115 Crabtree, noon

(amd186@pitt.edu)

Emerging Legends Concert

The Early Mays;

Cup & Chaucer, gr. fl. Hillman, noon

Memorial Service

For history professor Robert Doherty, who died Feb. 5;

Heinz Chapel 1:30-3 pm;

gathering 3:30-5 pm at the UClub

Saturday 9

CreatION Sound Concert II

“Music & Art for Humans & Robots”;

Bellefield aud., 7 pm

(412/422-8042)

Sunday 10

• Spring recess for students begins.

Episcopal Service

Heinz Chapel, 11 am

(Sundays: http://pittepiscopalchaplaincy.wordpress.com/)

Organ Recital

IUP students;

Heinz Chapel, 3 pm

Bradford Campus Southern Tier Symphony Concert

“Favorites With Flutes”;

Blaisdell Hall, UPB, 3 pm

Monday 11

SAC Spring Assembly

“Effectively Using Technology in Your Job 2.0”;

WPU Assembly Rm., noon-4 pm

Tuesday 12

GI Fellows’ Program

“GI Health Care Economics,”

Barry Kisloff;

Presby conf. rm. M2, 7:30 am

(joj2@pitt.edu)

Bradford Campus Workshop

“Hosting International Visitors From China”;

Frame-Westerberg Commons, Mukaiyama U Rm., UPB, 8:30-11:30 am

(register: contined@pitt.edu)

Basic & Translational Research Seminar

“The Role of Telomeres & Telomerase in Aging & Cancer,”

Jerry Shay, U of TX;

Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper classrm. D, noon

(toyg@upmc.edu)

HSLS Workshop

“EndNote Basics,”

Pat Weiss;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 2 pm

(pwf@pitt.edu)

Pitt Bowling League

PAA, 5:30 pm

(Tuesdays through April; 4-8956)

Wednesday 13

Clinical Oncology & Hematology Grand Rounds

“Hemostasis: An Anesthesiologist’s View,”

Kenichi Tanaka;

Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper classrm. B & C, 8 am

(412/692-2751)

Pathology Seminar

“Therapeutic Targeting of Androgen Receptor & Cytoskeleton Organization in Prostate Cancer,”

Natasha Kyprianou;

1104 Scaife, noon

(szalkuskict@upmc.edu)

SAC Mtg.

630 WPU, noon

Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Resident Lecture

“Microvascular Tissue Transfer,”

Anand Kumar;

G33 Salk, 4 pm

(fordam@upmc.edu)

Provost’s Inaugural Lecture

“Metacognition: The Next Frontier in Patient Safety & Medical Education,”

Paul Paris;

Scaife lect. rm. 6, 4 pm

(4-0784)

GI Grand Rounds

“Center of Excellence Update: Intestinal Health & Nutrition Support”;

11 Scaife, 5 pm (joj2@pitt.edu)

Bradford Campus Workshop

“Innovative Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses”;

200 Seneca, UPB, 6-8:30 pm

(register: contined@pitt.edu)

Friday 15

• Spring holiday, University closed.

Memorial Service

For Piera Kost, clinic coordinator in GSPH, who died Feb. 27;

Riverside Community Church, 401 Allegheny Ave., Oakmont, 11 am

Sunday 17

• Spring recess for students ends.

Monday 18

HSLS Workshop

“PowerPoint for Conference Posters,”

Julia Jankovic;

Falk Library classrm. 2, noon

(jcj6@pitt.edu)

Global Health Film

“A Sense of Wonder”;

A115 Crabtree, 3 pm

Provost’s Inaugural Lecture

“A Trip Down Memory Lane: Neurochemical Mechanisms of Cognition Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury,”

Clifton Dixon;

Scaife lect. rm. 6, 4 pm

(4-0784)

Graduate Composers Concert

“New Works”;

Bellefield aud., 8 pm

Tuesday 19

The Healthy Lifestyle Experience 6

WPU Ballrm., 11 am-2 pm

Basic & Translational Research Seminar

“Protecting the Genome Through Homologous Recombination,”

Maria Jasin, Cornell;

Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper classrm. D, noon

(toyg@upmc.edu)

Senate Community Relations Committee Mtg.

272 Hillman, noon-2 pm

Lecture

“Molecular Mechanisms of the Keap1-Nrf2 Pathway in Stress Response & Cancer Evolution,”

Masayuki Yamamoto, Tohoku U;

Scaife lect. rm. 6, 2 pm

Clifford Brubaker Distinguished Lecture

“Employment Concerns & Vocational Rehabilitation Considerations for Americans With Multiple Sclerosis: An Analysis of 20 Years of Research,”

Phillip Rumrill, Kent State;

4060 Forbes Twr., 3 pm

Faculty Professional Development Series

“Innovation Commercialization: The Path From Discovery to Market,”

Barbara Barnes & Marc Malandro;

S100 Starzl BST, 3 pm

(register: www.oacd.health.pitt.edu/innovation)

Pharmacology & Chemical Biology Lecture

“Nox4 Is Different: An Enigmatic NADPH Oxidase & the Search for Its Function,”

Ralf Brandes, Goethe-Universität;

1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pm

Social Epidemiology Journal Club

Forbes Twr. 7th fl. conf. rm., 4 pm

Bradford Campus Presentation

Lori Jakiela;

Mukaiyama U Rm., UPB, 7:30 pm

(814/362-5113)

Wednesday 20

Bradford Campus Workshop

“Microsoft Access 2010 Intermediate”;

200 Seneca, UPB, 8 am

(register: contined@pitt.edu)

Clinical Oncology & Hematology Grand Rounds

“The Neo-Adjuvant Breast Cancer Experience at Magee,”

Shannon Puhalla, Rohit Bhargava & Kandace McGuire;

Herberman conf. ctr. aud., 8 am

(millerc5@upmc.edu)

Asia Over Lunch Lecture

“Gamelan & Musical Healing,”

Kaitlyn Myers, music;

4130 Posvar, noon

IRB Workshop

“International Research: Going Global,”

Michelle LeMenager;

211 Lawrence, noon

(www.irb.pitt.edu)

Pathology Seminar

“Cytokines as Unexpected Survival Signals to Cholangiocytes,”

Jorge Bezerra;

1104 Scaife, noon

(szalkuskict@upmc.edu)

HSLS Workshop

“Sequence Similarity Searching,”

Ansuman Chattopadhyay;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 1 pm

(ansuman@pitt.edu)

Bradford Campus Workshop

“Excel 2”; 200 Seneca, UPB, 1-5 pm

5-Campus College Fair for Faculty & Staff

Alumni Connolly Ballrm., 2-7 pm

(drupert@pitt.edu)

World History Lecture

“In a Brown Mantle? South Asian Politics, the Indian Ocean Sphere & the Making of East African Independence, 1923-1978,”

Gerard McCann;

4130 Posvar, 4 pm

(joneskh@pitt.edu)

Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Resident Lecture

“Craniofacial Growth”;

G33 Salk, 4 pm

(fordam@upmc.edu)

GI Grand Rounds

“GI Pediatric Case Presentations”;

11 Scaife, 5 pm

(joj2@pitt.edu)

Johnstown Campus Lecture/Book Signing

George Bilgere, John Carroll;

Whalley Memorial Chapel, UPJ, 7:30 pm

(schwerer@pitt.edu)

Thursday 21

GSPIA Lecture

“How to Put a Business Out of Business: A Look at Transnational Organized Crime as a Business vs. an Organization,”

Charles Gardner;

3911 Posvar, 10:30 am

(RSVP: beb38@pitt.edu)

HSLS Workshop

“Painless PubMed,”

Pat Weiss;

Falk Library classrm. 1, 11 am

(pwf@pitt.edu)

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar

Daniel Zuckerman, medicine;

6014 BST3, 11 am

ADRC Lecture

“Walking & Chewing Gum at the Same Time: Implications in Aging & AD,”

Neelesh Nadkarni, geriatric medicine & gerontology;

S439 Montefiore, noon

Epidemiology Lecture

“The Role of Novel Vaginal Bacterial Infections in Pregnancy,”

Catherine Haggerty;

A115 Crabtree, noon

EOH Seminar

“Firm Level Management Practices to Minimize Impacts From Produced Water Management in the Marcellus,”

Meagan Mauter, CMU;

540 Bridgeside Point, noon

(beagle@pitt.edu)

Postdoctoral Professionalism Lecture

“Promote Your Science … & It Will Promote You,” Timothy Maul;

S100 Starzl BST, 3 pm

(register: www.oacd.health.pitt.edu/promote)

LRDC 50th Anniversary Lecture

“Learning to Read & Learning to Comprehend,”

Kate Nation, Oxford;

UClub, 3 pm (4-7020)

Provost’s Inaugural Lecture

“Beta-Catenin in Liver Pathobiology: You WNT Some, You Lose Some,”

Satdarshan (Paul) Singh Monga;

Scaife lect. rm. 6, 4 pm (4-0784)

Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium

“Geochemistry of Flowback/Produced Water From Marcellus Shale Wells, Southwest Pennsylvania,”

Elisabeth Rowan;

11 Thaw, 4 pm

(chavez@pitt.edu)

Chemistry Seminars

“Noncovalent & Reversible Covalent Interactions: Fundamental Studies & Applications in Catalysis,”

Mark Taylor, U of Toronto;

150 Chevron, 4 pm,

(4-8200)

German Lecture

“Why Wagner? Some Thoughts on the Occasion of His Bicentennial,”

Nicholas Vazsonyi, U of SC;

602 CL, 5 pm

(grmndept@pitt.edu)

Bradford Campus Dinner

“Empty Bowls & Baskets Dinner”;

Frame-Westerberg Commons, Mukaiyama U Rm., UPB, 5 pm

Bradford Campus Workshop

“Sugar Blues: Overcoming Sugar Addiction”;

200 Seneca, UPB, 6:30 pm

(register: contined@pitt.edu)

Contemporary Writers Seminar

Eileen Myles; FFA aud., 8:30 pm

(4-6508)

Defenses

GSPH/Behavioral & Community Health Sciences

“Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Health & the Social Environment of Older Adults,”

Jason Flatt;

Mar. 8, 309B Parran, 10 am

A&S/Linguistics

“Multimodality as a Sociolinguistic Resource: A Case Study of a World of Warcraft Community,”

Lauren Collister;

Mar. 8, G-24 CL, 10 am

A&S/Psychology

“Unpacking Cognitive Benefits of Distributed Complex Visual Displays for Expert & Novice Scientists,”

Jooyoung Jang;

Mar. 11, LRDC Glaser aud., 2 pm

GSPH/Epidemiology

“Coronary Heart Disease Risk & HIV Infection: The Roles of Inflammation & Co-Morbid Disease,”

Kaku Armah;

Mar. 13, A622 Crabtree, 10 am

Medicine/Cell Biology & Molecular Physiology

“Virus-Host Interactions at the Maternal-Fetal Interface,”

Elizabeth Delorme-Axford;

Mar. 14, 503 Bridgeside Point II, 1 pm

Medicine/Immunology

“Mechanisms of T Cell Migration to Vascularized Organ Transplants,”

Jeffrey Walch;

Mar. 14, Scaife lect. rm. 5, 2 pm

A&S/History

“The Battle for Harmony: Intergroup Relations Between Blacks & Latinos in Philadelphia, 1950s-80s,”

Alyssa Ribeiro;

Mar. 18, 3703 Posvar, 10 am

A&S/History

“Jamaica Brasileira: The Politics of Reggae in São Luís, Brazil,”

Kavin Paulraj;

Mar. 18, 3703 Posvar, 1 pm

SHRS/Rehabilitation Science & Technology

“Ultrasonographic Measurement of Acromiohumeral Distance in Manual Wheelchair User,”

Yen-Sheng Lin;

Mar. 18, 4065 Forbes Twr., 2 pm

A&S/Religious Studies

“Antidotes to Deism: A Reception History of Thomas Paine’s ‘The Age of Reason’, 1794-1809,”

Patrick Hughes;

Mar. 20, 4130 Posvar, 10 am

Exhibits

Bradford Campus

“T.E. Hanley: A Local Man With a World View”;

Blaisdell KOA Art Gallery, UPB, through Mar. 8, Th 8:30 am-8 pm, F 8:30 am-6 pm

(kaa54@pitt.edu)

Barco Law Library

“Dream,”

Sue Vincent;

through Mar. 22, M-Th 7 am-10 pm, F 7 am-8 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-10 pm (8-1376)

University Art Gallery

“Capturing the Street,”

Garry Winogrand & Ned Bosnick;

FFA, through Mar. 22, M-F 10 am-4 pm

(8-2423)

ULS

“Reconstruction of Leibniz’s Amazing 1670s Cipher Machine,”

Nicholas Rescher;

363 Hillman, through Apr. 28, reg. library hours

(rescher@pitt.edu)

Deadlines

Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law & Public Policy Grant

Application deadline Mar. 13.

(www.thornburghforum.pitt.edu)

Steven Manners Faculty Development Awards

Application deadline Apr. 12.

(dmuc@pitt.edu)

Event Deadline

The next issue of the University Times will include University and on-campus events of March 21-April 4. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on March 14 at 308 Bellefield Hall. Information may be sent by fax to 4-4579 or email to utcal@pitt.edu.

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