University Times

Thursday, June 8

Faculty and Staff Development Program
“Making Meetings Work,” Maureen Lazar and Diane Chabal, Learning and Development; 342 Craig Hall, 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (Register: FSDP Workshop)

Farmers Market
William Pitt Union Driveway, 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m.

Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar
“Leveraging a Lifetime of Asthma Translational Research Into a New Paradigm for Environmental Medicine,” Sally Wenzel; Bridgeside Point, Fifth Floor, Conference Room 540, Noon

Human Resources Workshop
“International Travel Benefits,” William Pitt Union Ballroom, Noon

University Library Systems Webinar
“Mendeley Basics Workshop,” G74 Hillman Library Amy Knapp Room, 2 p.m. (Register: gototraining)

Innovation Institute Blast Furnace Demo Day
William Pitt Union Lower Lounge, 5 p.m.

University Library Systems Webinar
“EndNote Basics,” Online, 7 p.m. (Register: gototraining)

Friday, June 9

Small Business Development Center Workshop
“The First Step: Mechanics of Starting a Small Business,” Mervis Hall, 7:30-10:30 a.m. (Register: SBDC Program)

Senior Vice Chancellor’s Research Seminar
“The Great Platelet Paradox: Regulating Hemostasis, Inflammation and Thrombosis After Injury,” Matthew Neal, Surgery and Critical Care Medicine; Scaife Hall, Lecture Room 6, Noon

Tuesday, June 13

Biomedical Informatics Lecture
“Supporting Population Health Research With Natural Language Processing,” Danielle Lee Mowery, University of Utah; 407A/B Baum, 5607 Baum Blvd., 9 a.m. 

Faculty and Staff Development Program
“Behavioral-Based Interviewing,” Mark Burdsall, Organization Development and Michelle Fuller, Recruiting and Client Services; 342 Craig Hall, 9 a.m.-noon  (Register: FSDP)

Health Science Library System Workshop
“Painless PubMed,” Charlie Wessel; Falk Library Classroom 1, 11:30 a.m.

Center for Teaching and Learning
“From Wrongs to Rights: A Living History of an Unfinished Civil Right Movement,” 528 Alumni Hall, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. (Register: Eventbrite)

Health Science Library System Webinar
“Getting Systematic About Systematic Reviews,” Mary Lou Klem; Noon (Register: HSLS)

Molecular Medicine Research Seminar
“Noonan Syndrome and Related Disorders: RAS-pY Voices Heard Along the Pathway,” Bruce Gelb, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Rangos Research Conference Center, Noon

Clinical and Translational Science Institute Workshop
“Involving the Community Partners in Research,” 7039 Forbes Tower, 1 p.m. (Register: CTSI/RCR)

Wednesday, June 14

Clinical Oncology and Hematology Grand Rounds
“Clinical and Translational Research in Lung Cancer and The Price of Leukemia: An Institutional Cost Analysis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia,” Saveri Bhattacharya and Rahim Remtulla; UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Herberman Auditorium, 8 a.m.

Faculty and Staff Development Program
“Student Privacy and FERPA,” Jennifer Seng, Office of General Counsel; 342 Craig Hall, 9-10:30 a.m. (Register: FSDP)

Health Science Library System Workshop
“Trim Down Your Search: Focusing PubMed in on a Topic,” Barb Folb; Falk Library Classroom 1, 11 a.m. (Register: HSLS)

Staff Association Committee Meeting
102 Benedum Hall, Noon

Faculty and Staff Development Program
“Building Social Capital by Managing Relationships, Conflict, and Incivility in the Workplace,” Ray Jones, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business; 531 Alumni Hall, 1-4 p.m. (Register: FSDP)

Health Science Library System Workshop
“RNA-seq analysis: CLC Genomics Workbench,” Ansuman Chattopadhyay; Falk Library Classroom 2, 1-4 p.m. (Register: HSLS)

Thursday, June 15

Office of Diversity and Inclusion Diversity Retreat
University Club, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. (Information and Register: Diversity Pitt)

Health Science Library System Workshop
“Endnote Basics,” Andrea Ketchum; Falk Library Classroom 2, 11 a.m.

Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar
“Asthma in Hispanics,” Juan Celedón; Bridgeside Point, 5th Floor Conference Room 540, Noon

Shadyside Medicine Grand Rounds
“A Year in Review: Rheumatology,” Ghaith Noaiseh; Shadyside West Wing Auditorium, Noon

Friday, June 16

Biomedical Informatics Special Seminar
Lana Garmine, University of Hawaii Cancer Center; 5607 Baum Boulevard, Classroom 407 A/B, 11 a.m.

Saturday, June 17

The Next Generation of Black Poets Reading and Performance
The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Avenue, 6 p.m.

Sunday, June 18

Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Workshop
The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave, Noon

Monday, June 19

Health Science Library System Workshop
“Data Visualization for Beginners,” Rose Turner; Falk Library Classroom 1, 11 a.m. (Register: HSLS)

Tuesday, June 20

Molecular Medicine Research Seminar
“Cancer as a Ribosomopathy,” Edward Prochownik; Rangos Research Conference Center, Noon

Clinical and Translational Science Institute Workshop
“Responsible Use of Animals in Biomedical Research,” 7039 Forbes Tower, 1 p.m. (Register: CTSI/RCR)

Wednesday, June 21

Faculty and Staff Development Program
“Effective Interpersonal Communication,” Diane Chabel, Organization Development; 342 Craig Hall, 9-11:30 a.m. (Register: FSDP)

Critical Care Medicine Grand Rounds
“How Do We Resuscitate a Brain? Deciphering the Mystery of Human Brain Injury Using Subarachnoid Hemorrhage,” Sherry Chou, Neurology and Neurosurgery; 1105AB Scaife Hall, Noon

Health Sciences Library System Workshop
“Pathway Analysis: NIH DAVID, IPA, KPA and More,” Ansuman Chattopadhyay, Molecular Biology; Falk Library, Classroom 2, 1-4 p.m.

Thursday, June 22

Farmers Market
William Pitt Union Driveway, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Health Sciences Library System Workshop
“Advanced EndNote for Savvier Information Management,” Pat Weiss; Falk Library, Classroom 2, 11 a.m.  (Register: HSLS)

Medicine Grand Rounds: The T.S. Danowski Memorial Lecture
Vijay Bahl, Endocrinology and Metobolism; UPMC Shadyside West Wing Auditorium, Noon

Defenses

Education/Instruction and Learning
“Integrating Language and Culture through Conceptual Metaphor in Teaching Chines as a Foreign Language,” Haixia Wang; June 8, 5511 Posvar Hall, 1 p.m.

Arts and Sciences/English
“Complex Descriptive Systems: An Object-Oriented Poetics for Rhetoric and Writing,” Kerry Banazek; June 9, 501 Cathedral of Learning, 11 a.m.

Medicine/ Immunology
“Heat Shock Protein gp96 Drives Dichotomous Lymphocyte Responses via DNA Methylome Remodeling and STAT1 Signaling in Antigen Presenting Cells,” Lauren Kinner-Bibeau; June 9, 1105A Scaife Hall, Noon

Arts and Sciences/Statistics
“Bayesian Inference on a Mixed-Effects Location-Scale Model With Normal and Skewed Error Distributions,” Brian McGill; June 12, 1811 Posvar Hall, 11 a.m.

Public Health/Epidemiology
“Using Pharmacoepidemiologic Methods to Study Pharmacotherapy in Pregnancy: Application to Opioid Maintenance Therapy and 17-OHPC for Prevention of Preterm Birth,” Lara Siminerio Lemon; June 15, A521 Crabtree Hall, Noon

Medicine/Molecular Virology and Microbiology
“Mechanism of Alphavirus Restriction by the Interferon-Induced Exonuclease, Isg20,” Christopher Michael Weiss; June 15, 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3, 1 pm

Arts and Sciences/English
“Now You’re Playing With Pedagogy: Video Games, Digital Literacies, and Trans-Media Participatory Cultures,” Matthew Kelly; June 16, 512 Cathedral of Learning, Noon

Arts and Sciences/Communications and Rhetoric
“Mobtown Memories: Reflections on Violence in Baltimore Under the War on Drugs,” Katie Kavanagh O’Neill; June 16, 1128 Cathedral of Learning, 1 p.m.

Arts and Sciences/English
“(Re)Presenting the Public in Print: Examining African American Media Activism at the Century’s Turn,” Tara Propper; June 17, 501 Cathedral of Learning, 11 a.m.

Arts and Sciences/History
“The Sparrow’s Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan,” Nyri Bakkalian; June 19, 3703 Posvar Hall, 9 a.m.

Medicine/Molecular Pharmacology
“Identification of Acquired Molecular Dependencies in Advanced Breast and Ovarian Cancers,” Nolan Priedigkeit ; June 19, 1395 Biomedical Science Tower, 2 p.m.

Exhibits

Falk Library Exhibit
“As the Years Go By: Scope and Scalpel Retrospective,” Through August 15, Falk Library upper floor, Monday – Thursday 7 a.m.-midnight, Friday 7 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 9:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-midnight

Deadlines

Med Ed Day Call for Abstracts
Submission deadline is July 7. For information, visit OACD.

Home Run for Health Campaign
Registration deadline is June 9.  For details and registration, visit Home Run for Health.

University Prize for Strategic, Inclusive and Diverse Excellence Award
Nominations due by July 14. For information, visit UPSIDE Award.