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October 1, 2015

Calendar

Thursday 1

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
James Schneider, CMU;
6014 BST3, 11 am-noon

Epidemiology Seminar
“Use of Linked Birth Certificates, Cancer Registry, PHC4 & Vital Statistics for the Surveillance of Health Outcome Effects of Marcellus Shale Drilling in PA,”
Zhen-qiang Ma, PA Dept. of Health;
A115 Crabtree, noon
(eot@pitt.edu)

Studio Arts Conversations With Artists
“Reverberations,”
Becky Slemmons & Lenore Thomas;
FFA Gallery, noon

Humanities Ctr. Colloquium
“The Poetry of the Americas From Good Neighbors to Countercultures,”
Harris Feinsod, Northwestern;
602 CL, 12:30 pm
(www.humcenter.pitt.edu)

CIDDE Workshop
“Role of the TA”; B23 Alumni, 2 pm
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Geology/Planetary Science Colloquium
“Discovering the World’s Youngest Exhumed Ultrahigh-Pressure Terrane,”
Suzanne Baldwin, Syracuse;
11 Thaw, 3:50 pm
(www.geology.pitt.edu/event/fall-2015-colloquium-series)

Provost’s Inaugural Lecture
“Etch-a-Sketch Nanoelectronics,”
Jeremy Levy, physics;
2500 Posvar, 4 pm

Chemistry Seminar
“Mapping Conformational Changes in Proteins Using EPR Spectroscopy,”
Stefan Stoll, U of WA;
150 Chevron, 4 pm
(chemrcpt@pitt.edu)

CNBC Alumni Lecture
“Correlations & Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease in Molecular & Brain Networks,”
Chris Gaiteri, Rush U;
6014 BST3, 4-5 pm
(412/383-9872)

Friday 2

Philosophy of Science Workshop
“Effective Theories, Mixed Scale Modeling & Emergence”;
817 CL, 1 pm
(through 11 am Oct. 4; www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr)

Greensburg Campus Golf Outing
Ligonier Country Club, 8 am
(register: www.greensburg.pitt.edu/about/golf-outing)

Pitt United Way Day of Caring
Various locations, 8:30 am-3:30 pm
(www.unitedway.pitt.edu/dayofcaring)

CIDDE Workshop
“Developing a Teaching Portfolio”;
B23 Alumni, 10 am
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

CIDDE Workshop
“Class in Ruins”;
815 Alumni, noon
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Humanities Ctr. Symposium
“Spectacles of Labor: Performance & the Working Class”;
602 CL, 1 pm
(humanities.pitt.edu)

Writers Workshop
“The Fatal Flaw,”
Elizabeth Kadetsky;
317B O’Hara, 3:30-5:30 pm

Health Disparities Conf.
“A Long Journey to Health Equity in America,”
Louis Sullivan, Natl Health Museum;
Public Health aud., 4 pm

Film Studies Conf.
“Screening Politics: Affect, Identity & Uprising: Film Studies GSO Conference,”;
FFA aud., 7 pm
(also Oct. 14, 1 pm; www.fsgso.pitt.edu/conference/screening-politics/)

Bradford Campus Ballet
Pgh. Ballet Theatre;
Bromeley Theater, UPB, 8 pm
(www.upb.pitt.edu/TheArts)

Family Weekend Concert
Heinz Chapel, 8 pm
(www.heinzchapel.pitt.edu)

Saturday 3

Greensburg Campus 5K Run/ Fun Walk
UPG, 7:30 am
(register: www.greensburg.pitt.edu/blueandgoldweekend/5k)

Bradford Campus Book Sale
Hanley Library, UPB; 11 am-3 pm

Pitt Arts Fest
WPU porch & lawn, 11 am-4:15 pm

Sunday 4

Pitt Choirs Showcase
Women’s Choral Ensemble, Men’s Glee Club & Heinz Chapel Choir;
1st Baptist Church of Pgh., 4 pm
(concerts@pitt.edu)

Monday 5

Flu Shot Clinic
Posvar Galleria, 10 am-2 pm

CIDDE Workshop
“Developing a Lesson Plan”;
815 Alumni, 2 pm
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Tuesday 6

Research Coordinator Orientation
120 BST, 8:30 am-4 pm
(also Oct. 7, 8:30 am-3:45 pm; register: www.ctsi.pitt.edu/registrationrco.shtml)

HSLS Workshop
“PowerPoint for Conference Posters,”
Julia Dahm;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 9 am
(jdahm@pitt.edu)

Johnstown Campus Flu Shot Clinic
Student Union Cambria Rm., UPJ; 11 am-2 pm

Basic & Translational Research Seminar
“UPCI Retreat Poster Winners,”
Nancy Davidson;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper conf. rm. D, noon
(toyg@upmc.edu)

Philosophy of Science Talk
“Attribution, Prediction & the Causal Interpretation Problem in Epidemiology,”
Alex Broadbent, U of Johannesburg;
817R CL, 12:05 pm
(www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr; 4-1052)

CIDDE Workshops
“Gamifying the Classroom”;
815 Alumni, 1 pm;
“Audience Response Systems”;
B26 Alumni, 2 pm
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Faculty Assembly
2700 Posvar, 3 pm

Green Roof Walking Tour: Oakland
Soldiers & Sailors, 4-6:45 pm
(jonathan@oaklandbid.org)

Wednesday 7

• Science 2015 runs through Oct. 9; see pages 10 & 11 for schedule.
(www.science2015.pitt.edu)

• Homecoming runs through Oct. 11; see Homecoming calendar this issue.
(www.alumni.pitt.edu/alumni/homecoming/homecoming-2015/)

Flu Shot Clinic
Salk Commons, 11 am-1 pm

Stimulating Pgh Research in Geoscience Seminars
“Synuclein Binds Tom20 & Inhibits Mitochondrial Protein Import in Parkinson’s Disease,”
Paul Barrett;
“Molecular Jekyll & Hyde: The Opposing Roles of TCER-1/TCERG1 in Regulating Lifespan & Stress,”
Francis Amrit Raj Gandhi Das;
1695 BST, noon

Pathology Seminar
“Membrane-Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Tumor Cell,”
Mark McNiven;
1104 Scaife, noon (8-1040)

Career Symposium
7th fl. aud. & gallery Alumni, 1:30-3:30 pm
(register: www.oacd.health.pitt.edu)

HSLS Workshop
“Gene Regulation: TRANSFAC, NextBio, ENCODE,”
Ansuman Chattopadhyay;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm
(ansuman@pitt.edu)

Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery Lecture
“TMJ & Myofascial Pain,”
William Chung;
G33 Salk, 4-6 pm

Science 2015 Michael G. Wells Entrepreneurial Scholars Lecture
“Today’s Commercialization Partners Are Driving Tomorrow’s Innovations,”
Gerald Vardzel Jr., Global Specimen Solutions;
7th fl. aud. Alumni, 4 pm

Science 2015 Opening Reception/Technology Showcase
Connolly Ballrm. Alumni, 5 pm

Pitt Symphony Orchestra
Bellefield Aud. 8 pm (concerts@pitt.edu)

Thursday 8

Developmental Affective Neuroscience Symposium
“The Fear System: Developmental & Translational Research”;
S120 BST, 8:30 am-5 pm
(also Oct.9, 8:30 am-1:30 pm)

Dickson Prize in Medicine Lecture
“Optical & Chemical Tools for High-Resolution Investigation of Intact Biological Systems,”
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford;
7th fl. aud. Alumni, 11 am

TIAA-CREF Tech Showcase
Parklet, 5th & Oakland Ave., 11 am-4 pm

Farmers’ Market
WPU driveway, 11:30 am-2:30 pm

Health Services Research Seminar
“Using Ecological Momentary Assessment in Clinical Research,”
Claude Messan Setodji, RAND;
305 Parkvale, noon
(www.crhc.pitt.edu/hsr-seminar.asp)

Bradford Campus Piano Concert
Xak Bjerken & Miri Yampolsky;
Studio Theater, Blaisdell, UPB, noon

CRSP Lecture
“Black/White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the US,”
Bhashkar Mazumder, Fed. Reserve Bank;
2017 CL, noon
(crsp.pitt.edu)

Studio Arts Conversations With Artists
“Reverberations,”
Aaron Henderson, Michael Morrill & Mathew Rosenblum;
FFA Gallery, noon

Hispanic Lecture
“Juan Bosch: El último cuentista dominicano,”
Fernando Valerio;
Colorado St. U, 1 pm
(plocante@pitt.edu)

Chemistry Seminar
“Self-Assembled Nanomaterials: Using Basic Science to Move Toward Solution to Practical Problems in Energy Harvesting & Storage,”
Sarah Tolbert, U of CA;
150 Chevron, 2:30 pm

HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Charlie Wessel;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 3 pm
(cbw@pitt.edu)

Geology/Planetary Science Colloquium
“Coastal Change at Fire Island, NY: Influences of Storms, Geology & People,”
Cheryl Hapke;
11 Thaw, 3:50 pm
(www.geology.pitt.edu/event/fall-2015-colloquium-series)

Year of Humanities Seminar
“Unbecoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child,”
J. Allan Mitchell, U of Victoria;
G-24 CL, 4-6 pm
(cweikle@yahoo.com)

Chemistry Seminar
“Design & Application of New Reagents for Signal Amplification,”
Scott Phillips, PSU;
150 Chevron, 4 pm
(chemrcpt@pitt.edu)

Science 2015 Provost Lecture
“Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology,”
James Collins, MIT;
7th fl. aud. Alumni, 4 pm

TIAA-CREF Tech Crawl
Revv Oakland offices, 3710 Forbes Ave., 5-8 pm
(www.onlyinoakland.org)

HSLS Lecture
“Erythropoietin, a Case History: The Promise & Perils of Harnessing Nature,”
Jamie Johnston;
1105 Scaife, 6pm

Friday 9

Hispanic Languages & Literatures Grad Student Conference
“Representation, Mediation & Dialogues Between Text & Image”;
5th & 6th floors CL, 8 am-8 pm
(also Oct. 10 9:15 am-8 pm; www.hispanic.pitt.edu/event/desarticulaciones-2015-5th-biennial-international-symposium)

UPJ Campus WV Philosophical Society Conf.
“The Ethics of Ayn Rand,”
Cambria Rm. Student Union, UPJ;
12:30-9 pm
(also Oct. 10, 9 am-1 pm; rice@pitt.edu)

CIDDE Workshop
“Encouraging Student Participation”;
815 Alumni, 10 am
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Science 2015 Mellon Lecture
“A Molecular Arms Race: The Immune System vs HIV,”
Pamela Björkman, CalTech.;
7th fl. aud. Alumni, 11 am

Year of the Humanities Workshop
“Notes Toward a Play Ecology,”
J. Allan Mitchell, U of Victoria;
512 CL 1-3 pm (caw57@pitt.edu)

Science 2015 Klaus Hofmann Lecture
“Epigenetics at the Intersection of Genes & the Environment in Common Human Disease,”
Andrew Feinberg, Johns Hopkins;
7th fl. aud. Alumni, 4 pm

Saturday 10

Football vs. VA;
Heinz Field, 12:30 pm

UPJ “Being Human” Event
Keynote Tammy Bernstein, 12:30 pm;
Blackington, UPJ, 9:30 am-2:30 pm
(klynn@pitt.edu)

Monday 12

Flu Shot Clinic
503 Bridgeside Point, 11 am-1 pm

CIDDE Workshop
“Using Mid-Semester Student Surveys to Improve Your Course”;
815 Alumni, noon
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Tuesday 13

Basic/Translational Research Seminar
“Understanding Mechanisms of Herpesvirals Oncogenesis to Facilitate Early Diagnosis & Targeted Therapies,”
Ethel Cesarman, Cornell;
Cooper conf. rm. D, noon
(toyg@upmc.edu)

Global Health Film
“A Path Appears”;
109 Parran, noon

Philosophy of Science Talk
“On Stuff,”
James Weatherall, U.C. Irvine;
817R CL, 12:05 pm
(www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr; 4-1052)

CIDDE Workshop
“Designing a Syllabus”;
815 Alumni, 2 pm
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Humanities Ctr. Film
“The Desktop Documentary,”
Kevin Lee; 407 CL, 5 pm
(jrf16@pitt.edu)

Tibetan Chant Ceremony
Heinz Chapel, 7 pm

Wednesday 14

Greensburg Campus St. Clair Lecture
“PA’s Role in Presidential Politics: Past & Present,”
Terry Madonna;
Ferguson Theater, UPG, 7:30 pm

Faculty Development Seminar
“Tenure Track Checkpoint: Strategies to Stay on Target”;
S120 BST, 8:30-10:30 am
(register: www.oacd.health.pitt.edu)

UPCI Anniversary Symposium
“Cancer Drug Development”;
Herberman conf. ctr., 9 am-5 pm

Grand Rounds
“Extracorporeal Therapies in AKI: 40 Years in 40 Minutes,”
Claudio Ronco;
S120 BST, noon

HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Barb Folb;
Falk Library classrm. 1, noon
(folb@pitt.edu)

SAC Mtg.
102 Benedum, noon

IRB Meet & Greet
O’Hara ballrm., noon-2 pm

Pathology Seminar
“Advances in the Molecular Pathogenesis of Lung Cancer,”
Adi Gazdar;
1104 Scaife, noon

Senate Council Mtg.
2700 Posvar, 3 pm

Chemistry Kaufman Lecture
“Ozone Depletion: A Science & Policy Success Story,”
Susan Solomon, MIT;
O’Hara 1st fl. dining rm., 4 pm

Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery Lecture
“Maxillary Surgery,”
Mark Ochs;
G33 Salk, 4-6 pm

Thursday 15

Family Medicine Grand Rounds
“Family Medicine & Academic Medical Centers: Strangers in a Strange Land,”
Thomas Schwenk, U of NV;
Scaife lect. rm. 3, 7:30 am
(412/383-2248)

Adolescent/Young Adult Health Research Symposium
Children’s Hospital, 8 am-4 pm
(register: https://www.ctsiredcap.pitt.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=RyEnjWM2Qk)

Health Services Research Seminar
“Computation for Decision Support in Population Health”;
305 Parkvale, noon
(Jareed@pitt.edu)

HSLS Workshop
“EndNote Basics,”
Pat Weiss;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 am
(pwf@pitt.edu)

Studio Arts Conversations With Artists
“Reverberations,”
Delanie Jenkins & Barbara Weissberger;
FFA Gallery, noon

Humanities Ctr. Colloquium
“Connecting the Dots: Making Air Pollution Visible in Pgh,”
Olga Kuchinskaya;
602 CL, 12:30 pm
(www.humcenter.pitt.edu)

Chemistry Kaufman Lecture
“Emerging Signals of Climate Change: Where in the World Will Local Climate Change First?”
Susan Solomon, MIT;
150 Chevron, 2:30 pm

French & Italian Mediterranean Metageographies Workshop
“Spaces of Migration & Aesthetics of Immobility: ‘Bidonvilles’ in the Francophone Mediterranean Imagination,”
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College;
602 CL, 3 pm

CGS Open House
1400 Posvar, 3-6 pm
(cgs.pitt.edu/OpenHouse/Pitt)

Geology/Planetary Science Colloquium
“Triple Oxygen Isotopic Variation in Continental Waters & the Utility for Paleoclimate Research,”
Naomi Levin, Johns Hopkins;
11 Thaw, 3:50 pm

Heinz Chapel Talk
“Death & Dying: The Tibetan Tradition”;
Heinz Chapel, 7 pm

Titusville Campus Concert
“Gone With the Wind,”
Lake Erie String Quartet;
Henne aud., UPT, 7 pm
(tickets: 814/827-4431)

Defenses

Medicine/Molecular Pharmacology
“NHERF1/EBP50 Regulation of WNT Signaling in Epithelial Tissues,”
Anny Treat;
Oct. 1, E1395 BST, 2 pm

A&S/Hispanic Languages & Literatures
“Boyscoutismo as Chilean National Literature: Masculinities, Militarism & Nationhood,”
Parker Shaw;
Oct. 12, 910 CL, noon-2 pm

Public Health/Epidemiology
“Negative Male Partner Influences on Reproductive Health & Contraceptive Use Among Adolescent & Young Adult Women,”
Kelley A. Jones;
Oct. 13, 309B Crabtree, 2-4 pm

Medicine/Clinical & Translational Science
“Cost Effectiveness Analyses of Radiation Therapy Treatments,”
Hayeon Kim;
Oct. 14, 142 CL, 8 am

Exhibits

Bradford Campus
Works by arts faculty & staff;
KOA Gallery, Blaisdell, UPB, through Oct. 16, M-F 8 am-6 pm
(www.upb.pitt.edu/thearts)

Falk Library
“From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine & Industry”;
through Oct. 10, M-Th 7 am-mid., F 7 am-10 pm, Sat 9:30 am-10 pm, Sun 11 am-mid.
(info.hsls.pitt.edu/updatereport/?p=8658)

FFA
“Reverberations,”
studio arts & music faculty members;
FFA Gallery, through Oct. 23
(www.studioarts.pitt.edu/content/reverberations)

Barco Library
“Panoptica,”
by Jessica Kalmar;
through Nov. 6, M-Th 8 am-10 pm, F 8 am-5 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun noon-10 pm
(8-1376)

Deadlines

ADRC Call for Proposals
Letter of intent due Oct. 2;
proposals due Oct. 30. (dunnlo@upmc.edu)

Sleep Medicine Institute Poster Presentations
Abstracts due Oct. 5.
(willrichl@upmc.edu)

Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Submit nominations to 801 CL by Oct. 9.
(www.pitt.edu/~graduate?maguidelines.pdf)

Academic Entrepreneurship Course
Register by Oct. 15 for course  on Thursdays Oct. 22-Dec. 3
(bcarryer@innovation.pitt.edu)

Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Awards
Nominations due Oct. 16.
(lkirsch@pitt.edu)

Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Awards
Nominations due Oct. 16.
(ghuber@pitt.edu)

Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Awards
Nominations due Oct. 16.
(mredfern@pitt.edu)

Coulter TPII $100K Awards for Translational Research
Letter of intent due Oct. 19.
(www.engineering.pitt.edu/coulter; coulter1@pitt.edu)

Ampco-Pittsburgh Prize for Excellence in Advising Award
Submit nominations to 140 Thackery by Oct. 31.
(eht3@pitt.edu)

A&S Bellet Teaching Excellence Awards
Submit nominations to 140 Thackery by Oct. 31.
(clynch@pitt.edu)

ICRE 2016 Admission
Applications due Oct. 31
(www.icre.pitt.edu/degrees/degrees.aspx)

Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Nominations due by 9 am Oct. 19 for physical sciences, engineering & chemistry to rkc12@pitt.edu. Send nominations for life sciences to sac32@pitt.edu.

Event deadline

The next issue of the University Times will include University & on-campus events of Oct.15-29. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on Oct. 8. Send information to utcal@pitt.edu.

 

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