CALENDAR
Thursday
Russian and East European Studies Lecture
"Ethnic Identity of Jews in Cracow, 1918-1939,"
Sean Martin, Ohio State; 2428 CL, 12:15 pm (648-7407)
National Parkinson Foundation Lecture
"Transplantation Procedures in Parkinson's Disease,"
Steven Dunnett;
224 Clapp, 4 pm
Pitt-Johnstown Financial Aid Workshop
Sponsored by the Johnstown campus Financial Aid office;
UPJ Living/Learning Center, 7-8:30 pm (814-269-2083)
Friday
Pharmacology Seminar
"Subnuclear Trafficking of Steroid Receptors,"
Donald DeFranco, biological sciences;
1395 BST, noon (648-9400)
Economics Lecture
"A Bayesian Approach to Dynamic Macroeconomics,"
M. Beth Fisher-Ingram, U. of Iowa;
4P58 FQ, 3:30-5 pm
Saturday
Survival Skills Workshop
"Teaching: A Brief Introduction";
WPIC 2nd fl. aud., 9 am-4 pm (To register: 624-7098)
Marathon Training Seminar
"Training for a Personal Record,"
Cheryl Colline;
Scaife lecture rm. 1, 10 am (624-2607)
Monday
UPMC Winter Blood Drive
UPMC Conference Ctr., 1104 Scaife; 6:30 am-5:30 pm (To schedule preferred time: 647-3785)
Senate Council Meeting
2P56 FQ, 3 pm
Cell Biology and Physiology Seminar
"In Vitro and In Vivo Studies on the Tissue and Cell Type Specific Regulation of the Human PDGFRaGene,"
Gijs B. Afink, Uppsala U., Sweden;
EEI 5th fl. board room, 4-5 pm (648-9376)
Tuesday
History of Art and Architecture Colloquium
"The Arts of Reform and Persuasion,"
Sarah Nichols, Carnegie Museum of Art;
203 FFA, noon
History Lecture
"NAFTA and Organized Labor's Attempt to Respond Cross-Nationally,"
Barry Carr, La Trobe U.;
3P11 FQ, noon
Intercultural Bag Lunch
Suite 500 Medical Arts Bldg., noon (383-1813)
Ctr. for Philosophy of Science Talk
"On the Plethora of Modal Dynamics,"
Laura Ruetsche; 817R CL, 12:05 pm
Biostatistics Seminar
"Statistical Methods for Quality-of-Life-Adjusted Survival Analysis,"
Bernard F. Cole, Brown;
A-115 GSPH, 3:30 p.m. (624-3023)
Wednesday
UPMC Winter Blood Drive
404A-B WPIC, 9 am-2:45 pm (To schedule preferred time: 647-3785)
Linguistics Colloquium
"Working Memory Limitations on Sentence Comprehension: Locality of Syntactic Dependencies,"
Edward Gibson, MIT; 144 CL, 3 pm (624-5900)
Research Commercialization Open Meeting
"Commercialization of Research Through Start-Up Companies: New University Policies and Procedures";
Scaife lecture rm., 3-5 pm (648-2206)
Skin Cancer Screening
Falk Clinic, 4:30-5:30 pm (648-3250)
BAS Lecture
In honor of Martin Luther King's birthday, Bev Smith, Pgh.'s first consumer affairs reporter;
WPU Assembly Rm., 8 pm (624-9101)
Thursday
Ethics Grand Rounds
"Licensing Infertility Treatment Centers & Human Embryo Research: British Strategies Versus the American Status Quo,"
Gladys White, National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction;
Scaife lecture rm. 1, noon-1 pm
Russian and East European Studies Lecture
"The Resurgence of the Left in Central Europe,"
Sharon Wolchik, George Washington U.;
4E51 CL, noon (648-7407)
Ethics Grand Rounds
"Infertility Diagnosis and Treatment: Has Technology Gone Too Far?"
Gladys White, National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction;
G-18, law school, 3-4:30 pm (647-5700)
Friday
Pharmacology Seminar
"Turning Off the Mind: Where Is the Switch? A Quest for the Mechanisms of General Anesthesia,"
Yan Xu, anesthesiology; 1395 BST, noon (648-9400)
Ctr. for Philosophy of Science Talk
"Ich Bin Ein 'Realist': James's Attempts to Placate Realism,"
Richard Gale; 817R CL, 12:05 pm
Monday
* *University closed in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday
Tuesday
Executive Education Seminar
"Innovative Compensation and Reward Program";
244 CL, Jan. 21&22, 9 am-4:30 pm (To register: 648-1600)
Organization Development Workshop
"Supervisory Skills: Core Skills";
100 Craig, 9 am-5 pm (To register: 624-8036)
History of Art and Architecture Colloquium
"Trinity Church, Wall Street: Pioneer Skyscraper for New York,"
Judith Hull; independent scholar;
204 FFA Bldg, noon
CLAS Screening
"Fire in the Andes" and "The Magnum Eye: A Peruvian Equation";
4E51 FQ, noon
Ctr. for Philosophy of Science Talk
"Nonseparability and Quantum Chaos,"
Frederick Kronz, U. of Texas at Austin;
817R CL, 12:05 pm
Wednesday
Organization Development Workshop
"Diversity Initiatives at the University";
WPU Kurtzman Rm., 9 am-noon (To register: 624-8036)
Intercultural Bag Lunch
Suite 500 Medical Arts Bldg., noon (383-1813)
Cell Biology and Physiology Seminar
"Development of Herpes Simplex Virus Vectors for Human Gene Therapy,"
Joseph Glorioso III, molecular genetics and biochemistry;
EEI 5th fl. board room, 4-5 pm (648-9376)
Health Management/Policy Lecture
"Assessing Performance in Integrated Health Care,"
Karen Morgan Erickson, KPMG Peat Marwick's National Health Care Strategy Practice;
GSPH Aud., 4:30 pm
Thursday
UPMC Winter Blood Drive
Nese-Barkan Bldg., classrooms B and C; 9 am-2:45 pm (To schedule preferred time: 647-3785)
Architecture Lecture
"Revisiting Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in the Light of Contemporary Art,"
Neil Levine, Harvard;
125 FFA, 4 p.m.
Pgh. Tissue Engineering Initiative Seminar
"Tissue Engineering and the Cardiovascular System,"
Robert Nerem, Georgia Inst. of Tech.;
2nd fl. Aud., Mellon Inst. CMU, 4 pm (383-9703)
Ph.D. Defense
SIS
"An Investigation of the Information Seeking Behavior of Nurses in Botswana,"
Baluwami Grand, library/information science;
Jan. 22, 503 SIS, 1-3 pm
Deadlines
Central Research Development Fund
Small Grant Proposals due by 4 pm Jan. 17 to 350 Thackeray.
Competitive Medical Research Fund
Grant Applications due by 2 pm Feb. 14 to Office of Research, Health Sciences. (692-4671)
REES Faculty Development Grant
Applications due by Feb. 17 to 4G15 FQ. (648-2290)
Calendar Deadline
The next issue of the University Times calendar will be published Thursday, Jan. 23. It will contain events of Jan. 23-Feb. 6. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 p.m. Jan. 16 at 308 Bellefield Hall. Information will not be accepted over the phone but can be sent by FAX: 624-4579 or e-mail to utcal+@pitt.edu. For additional information about calendar deadlines, call 624-1376.
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