Calendar
Journalist Marc Lamont Hill, a faculty member at Morehouse College, will be the guest speaker at this year’s annual social justice symposium, which will be held Jan. 16 in the William Pitt Union. The Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development in Student Affairs is sponsoring the event as part of MLK Week events on campus. Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend and participate in the breakout sessions following the presentation. Later that day, Hill will facilitate a student-focused town hall meeting sponsored by the Black Action Society. He will lead a panel discussion with students, University staff and community partners on race issues on college campuses and in society in general.
Thursday 8
CIDDE Workshop
“Panopto Video Hosting & Streaming”;
B26 Alumni, 10 am
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
“Advances in Electron Microscopy Reveal Secrets of HIV & Other Viruses,”
R. Holland Cheng, UC-Davis;
6014 BST3, 11 am
Women’s Basketball Vs. NC;
Petersen, 7 pm
Friday 9
SBDC Workshop
“The 1st Step: Mechanics of Starting a Small Business”;
Mervis, 7:30-10 am
(register: www.entrepreneur.pitt.edu)
Endocrine Grand Rounds
“Lipodystrophies: Disorders of Extreme Insulin Resistance,”
Abhimanyu Garg, UT Southwestern Medical Ctr.;
1195 BST, 9:30 am (kal134@pitt.edu)
Psychiatry Lecture
“Do the Means Justify the Ends? The Role of Firearms Availability in Violent Death,”
David Brent;
WPIC aud., noon-1:30 pm
CIDDE Workshops
“Introduction to Blackboard,” 10 am;
“Blackboard: Using the Grade Center,” 1 pm;
B26 Alumni
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
Saturday 10
MLK Week of Service Projects
“Poverty Simulation,” WPU, 8:30 am-noon;
“Kids Craft,” Carnegie Library, 5801 Forbes Ave. Squirrel Hill, 10:45 am–1:30 pm
(www.noblehour.com/pittserves)
Men’s Basketball Vs. Clemson;
Petersen, noon
Monday 12
MLK Week of Service Projects
“Donation Sorting,” Light of Life Rescue Mission, North Side, 8 am-12:30 pm;
“School Supply Drive Donations Pick Up,” Towers lobby, 9-11 am
(www.noblehour.com/pittserves)
CIDDE TA Workshop
“Getting Started in the Classroom”;
815 Alumni, 1 pm
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
Tuesday 13
MLK Week of Service Project
“Repack at the Greater Pgh. Community Food Bank”;
1 N. Linden, Duquesne, 8 am-1 pm
(www.noblehour.com/pittserves)
HSLS Workshop
“PowerPoint for Conference Posters”
Julia Dahm;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 9:30 am
(jdahm@pitt.edu)
CIDDE Workshop
“Blackboard: Communication Tools”;
B26 Alumni, 10 am
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
Global Health Film
“Bhopali”;
109 Parran, noon-2 pm
HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Jill Foust;
Falk Library classrm. 1, noon
(jef2@pitt.edu)
MMR Seminar
“Interrogating Beta Cell Proliferation in Type 1 Diabetes,”
Rohit Kulkarni, Harvard;
Rangos aud., noon
(linda.cherok@chp.edu)
UPCI Basic & Translational Research Seminar
“Cancer Vaccines & Tumor Antigens in Melanoma & Hepatocellular Cancer,”
Lisa Butterfield;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper conf. rm. D, noon
(toyg@upmc.edu)
Philosophy of Science Talk
“Alien Science,”
Nicholas Rescher;
817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)
Faculty Assembly Mtg.
2700 Posvar, 3 pm
Wednesday 14
IEE Workshop
“Best Practices Are Stupid,”
Stephen Shapiro;
Rivers Club, 301 Grant St., Downtown, 7:30-10:30 am
Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds
“ASH, ASTRO & San Antonio Breast Conf. Presentations,”
Ryan Hartmaier, Margaret Ragni & John Vargo;
UPMC Shadyside west wing aud., 8 am
(millerc5@upmc.edu)
MLK Week of Service Project
“Donation Sorting”;
Community Human Services, 374 Lawn St., Oakland, 8:30 am-1:30 pm
(www.noblehour.com/pittserves)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Open House
1400 Posvar, 10 am-noon
(RSVP: osher@pitt.edu)
MMG Seminar
“Evolutionary History Reveals Function & Adaptation of Genes,”
Nathan Clark, biological sciences;
503 Bridgeside Pt. 2, noon
SAC Mtg.
Members only;
102 Benedum, noon
Pathology Seminar
“Implications of Molecular Advances in Thyroid Pathology,”
Sylvia Asa; U of Toronto;
1104 Scaife, noon
Oral & Maxillofacial Lecture
“Pathology,”
Mark Sosovicka; G33 Salk, 4 pm
Bradford Campus Reading/Launch Party
“From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood,”
Nancy McCabe;
Mukaiyama U Rm. Frame-Westerberg Commons, UPB, 7 pm
Men’s Basketball Vs. FL St.;
Petersen, 9 pm
Thursday 15
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
Maumita Mandal, CMU;
6014 BST3, 11 am
Biobehavioral Oncology Lecture
“Search for Genomic Predictors of Nausea & Vomiting,”
Piotr Janicki, Penn State;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper classrm. C, noon
(oliverdo@upmc.edu)
Senate PUP Committee Mtg.
153 Benedum, 3 pm
Provost’s Inaugural Lecture
“How Students & Colleagues Have Impacted My Scientific Trajectory,”
Kenneth Jordan, chemistry;
lecture rm. 6 Scaife, 4 pm
Friday 16
• Spring term add/drop period ends.
MLK Week of Service Projects
“Programming Prep,” Asset STEM, 2403 Sidney St. South Side, 8:30 am-1:30 pm;
“Pantry Prep,” Bellefield Presbyterian Church, 10 am-2 pm;
“Organize & Distribute Donated Clothing & Food,” FOCUS, 2228 Centre Ave., Hill District, noon-3:30 pm
(www.noblehour.com/pittserves)
MLK Week Social Justice Symposium
“Race Matters, or Does It: A University’s Response,”
Marc Lamont Hill, Morehouse College;
WPU Assembly Rm., 9 am-1 pm
CIDDE Workshops
“Introduction to Blackboard,” 10 am;
“Blackboard: Content & Publisher Building Blocks,” 1 pm;
B26 Alumni
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
State of the UHC Address
Dean Edward Stricker; FFA aud., 11 am
Bradford Campus Opening Reception
“Passion,”
KOA Gallery Blaisdell, UPB, noon-3 pm
(kaa54@pitt.edu)
Philosophy of Science Talk
“What Happened to Phlogiston? Reconsidering the Chemical Revolution,”
Wayne Myrvold, U of W. Ontario;
817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)
MLK Week BAS/Student Affairs Town Hall Meeting
Marc Lamont Hill, Morehouse College;
WPU Assembly Rm., 6 pm
Saturday 17
MLK Week of Service Projects
“Give A Thread Clothing Drive,”
Delanie’s Coffee, 1713 E. Carson St., South Side, 2-hour shifts, 10 am-5 pm;
“Pantry Prep: Painting,” Bellefield Presbyterian Church, 10 am-2 pm;
“Pantry Prep: Mural Painting,” Bellefield Presbyterian Church, 1-2 pm
(www.noblehour.com/pittserves)
Men’s Basketball Vs. GA Tech;
Petersen, 4 pm
Music on the Edge Concert
Amernet String Quartet;
Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Shore, 8 pm (4-7529)
Sunday 18
MLK Week of Service Project
“Pantry Prep: Sorting Donations”;
WPU, 2-5 pm
(www.noblehour.com/pittserves)
Monday 19
• University closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
MLK Week National Day of Service
“A Day On, Not a Day Off!”;
various locations, 9 am-2 pm, check-in at 9 am in the WPU Assembly Rm.
MLK Week Alpha Phi Alpha Candlelight Vigil
In memory of Martin Luther King Jr.;
CL steps, 7:06 pm
Tuesday 20
Senate Community Relations Committee Mtg.
272 Hillman, noon-2 pm
Senate Admissions & Student Aid Committee Mtg.
229 Alumni, noon
MMR Seminar
“Deciphering the Genetic Basis for Craniosynostosis in Rabbits,”
Greg Cooper;
Rangos aud., noon (linda.cherok@chp.edu)
UPCI Basic & Translational Research Seminar
“Getting the Gist of GIST: Targeted Therapies 2.0,”
Anette Duensing, pathology;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper conf. rm. D, noon (toyg@upmc.edu)
Philosophy of Science Talk
“Two Impossibility Results for Popperian Corroboration,”
Jan Sprenger, Tilburg U;
817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)
CIDDE Workshop
“Introduction to Blackboard”;
B26 Alumni, 1 pm
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
Wednesday 21
HSLS Workshop
“EndNote Basics,”
Melissa Ratajeski;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 9-11 am (mar@pitt.edu)
MMG Seminar
Barry Rouse, U of TN;
503 Bridge-side Pt. 2, noon
Senate Mental Health Workshop
“The Effect of Stress Hormones on Physical Health: Behaviors That Reduce the Response of the Brain to Stress,”
Bruce Rabin, medicine;
WPU Kurtzman Rm., noon
Pathology Seminar
“How Autoimmunity Gets Started,”
Mark Shlomchik;
1104 Scaife, noon
CIDDE Workshop
“iPad Meetup”; B26 Alumni, noon (register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
CRSP Lecture
“Try on the Outfit & Just See How It Works: The Psychocultural Responses of Disconnected Black Youth to Work,”
Orlando Patterson, Harvard;
2017 CL, noon (4-7382)
HSLS Workshop
“Gene Regulation,” Ansuman Chattopadhyay;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-4 pm
(ansuman@pitt.edu)
CIDDE TA Workshop
“Dealing With Difficult Situations in the Classroom”;
815 Alumni, 1 pm
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
Senate Council Mtg.
2700 Posvar, 3 pm
Oral & Maxillofacial Lecture
“Pathology,”
Mark Sosovicka;
G33 Salk, 4 pm
Bradford Campus Literary Magazine Celebration
“Baily’s Beads”;
Mukaiyama U Rm. Frame-Westerberg Commons, UPB, 7:30 pm
Thursday 22
CIDDE Liaison Breakfast
B26 Alumni, 9 am
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
CIDDE TA Workshop
“Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement (Part 1)”;
815 Alumni, 11 am
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
Terry Gullion, WVU;
6014 BST3, 11 am
CIDDE Workshop
“Blackboard & Mobile Learn”;
B26 Alumni, 1-2:30 pm
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
CNBC Colloquium
“A Category-free Neural Population Supports Evolving Demands During Decision-making,”
Anne Churchland, Cold Spring Harbor Lab;
115 Mellon Institute, CMU, 4 pm (lbopp@pitt.edu)
Women’s Basketball Vs. Syracuse;
Petersen, 7 pm
Defenses
Center for Neuroscience
“Representation of Value & Salience in the Primate Brain,”
Marvin L. Leathers;
Jan. 16, 2nd fl. aud. LRDC, 10 am
Public Health/Environmental & Occupational Health
“Spatiotemporally Modeling of Air Pollutants & Their Health Effects in Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area,”
Tao Xue;
Jan. 16, 5th fl. conf. room Bridgeside Pt., 11 am
A&S/English
“Authors Exposed: Victorian Literary Celebrity & the Graphic Revolution,”
Joanna Collins;
Jan. 20, 602 CL, 11 am
Medicine/Molecular Pharmacology
“Allotopic RNA Expression Strategy to Rescue an Endogenous Mitochondrial ATP6(1) Mutation in Drosophila,”
Atif Towheed;
Jan. 20, 11:30 am
Public Health/Health Policy & Management
“Health Care System, Provider & Patient Predictors of Medication Use & Prescribing Quality,”
Yan Tang;
Jan. 20, A622 Crabtree, 1 pm
Center for Neuroscience
“Cocaine-based Signaling Changes in the Nucleus Accumbens, the Lateral Habenula & the Thalamus,”
Peter A. Neumann;
Jan. 20, A219B Langley, 2:30 pm
A&S/Anthropology
“Subsistence Economy & Chiefdom Emergence in the Muisca Area: A Study of the Valle de Tena,”
Pedro Garcia;
Jan. 21, 3307 Posvar, 9 am
Information Science/Library & Information Science
“Exploring Factors Influencing K-12 Teachers’ Information Behavior in Using Educational Portals,”
I-Ling Cheng;
Jan. 21, 828 IS, 10 am
Exhibits
Bradford Campus Photo Exhibit
“Passion”;
through Jan. 30, KOA Gallery Blaisdell, UPB
(kaa54@pitt.edu)
Barco Law Library Exhibit
“The Surface” by Ruth Drescher;
through Jan. 23, M-Th 7:30 am-10 pm, F 7:30 am-5 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun noon-8 pm (8-1376)
Deadlines
Competitive Medical Research Fund
Application deadline Jan. 12.
(Info: www.oorhs.pitt.edu/funding/cmrf.aspx)
UHC Scholarship Program
Applications due Jan. 14 by 1 pm.
(www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/uhc-scholarships)
ADRC Seed Monies Grant Program
Proposals due Jan. 16. (412/692-2731)
Provost’s Annual Assessment Conference
Registration deadline Jan. 20 for Jan. 30 conference.
(https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2015AssessmentConference)
David C. Frederick Public Service Award
Applications due Jan. 30.
(www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/frederick-public-service-award)
Sustainable Innovation Grant
Proposals due Jan. 30. (gmk9@pitt.edu)
KL2 Award for Multidisciplinary-Based Research
The deadline for submission of completed applications is Feb. 16.
(Info: www.icre.pitt.edu/crsp/application_process.html)
Thornburgh Faculty Support Grant
Proposals due March 18.
(www.library.pitt.edu/thornburgh)
Event Deadline
The next issue of the University Times will include University & on-campus events of Jan. 22-Feb. 5. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on Jan. 15. Send information to utcal@pitt.edu.
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