CALENDAR
Thursday 22
TIAA-CREF One-on-One Counseling Sessions
4570 5th Ave. Suite 300, 8:30 am-4:30 pm (also March 1 & 6-8; appointment: 877/209-3136)
Vanguard Financial Counseling Sessions
1st fl. meeting rm. Craig., 9 am-5 pm (also Feb. 27, 28 & March 8; appointment: 800/662-0106)
Asian Studies Lecture
“Power of Bonds: 2 Cases of Factional Politics in China’s Great Cultural Revolution,”
Jay Li, Duquesne; 4130 Posvar, noon (8-7370)
Immunology Seminar
“New Biomaterials for the Delivery of Genetic Vaccines,”
Steven Little, McGowan Inst.;
aud. 5 Scaife, noon (8-7050)
Pitt Christian Seminar
“Protestant Modernism: The ‘Warfare’ of Science & Religion & the ‘Religion of Science,’”
Ted Davis, Messiah College;
151 CL, noon (4-9007)
Chemistry Seminar
“Bioinorganic Chemistry of Titanium in Medicine & the Environment,”
Ann Valentine, Yale;
12B Chevron, 4 pm (4-8200)
Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium
“Late-Quaternary Dynamics of Arctic Thermokarst Lakes as a Source of Feedbacks to Deglacial Climate Warming,”
Mary Edwards, U of Southampton;
203 Thaw, 4 pm
Provost Inaugural Lecture
“A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: From Spins & Atoms to Molecules & Cells,”
Angela Gronenborn, medicine;
125 FFA, 4 pm (4-5750)
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture
“From the Hand of God to the Human Genome: The Changing Frame of Multiple Sclerosis Over 6 Centuries,”
Jock Murray, Dalhousie U;
lecture rm. 5 Scaife, 6 pm (8-8927)
Friday 23
Small Business Development Ctr. Seminar
“The Second Step: Developing a Business Plan”;
209 Mervis, 7:30-10 am (register: 8-1542)
Board of Trustees Meeting
Assembly Rm. WPU, 9 am
Computer Science Day
5th & 6th fls. Sennott, 10 am-5 pm
Asian Studies/Women’s Studies Talk
Hisa Uzawa, actor; 4130 Posvar, noon (8-7370)
Classics Lecture
“On the Nature & Origin of the Orthos Logos in Aristotle’s Ethics,”
Dorothea Frede, UC-Berkeley;
208A CL, 2 pm (4-4494)
Honors Convocation
Carnegie Music Hall;
2-3:30 pm;
reception follows in CL Commons Rm. (4-7100)
SIS Seminar
Dawn Song, CMU;
404 IS, 2-3:30 pm (4-2677)
HPS Alumni Lecture
“When Mechanistic Models Explain: The Hodgkin & Huxley Model of the Action Potential,”
Carl Craver, WA U-St. Louis;
817R CL, 3:30 pm (4-1052)
Univ. Art Gallery Open Mic Night
“The Spirit of Haiti”;
Univ. Art Gallery, 6 pm (8-2423)
Caribbean & Latin American Students Assn. Lecture
“Black People in Latin America, Past, Present & Future,”
Clinton Cruickshank;
Kurtzman Rm. WPU, 6:30 pm (412/383-6446)
Bradford Campus Recital
Katherine Rohrer, Marilyn Horne Foundation;
Bromeley Family Theater Blaisdell, UPB, 7:30 pm (814/362-0248)
Saturday 24
HA & A Symposium
“Current Directions in Historic Preservation Education”;
Babcock Rm. CL, 8 am-4 pm (RSVP: 8-2400)
HPS/Philosophy of Science Workshop
“Causality, Mechanisms & Psychology”;
817R CL, 9 am-5:15 pm (register: pittcntr@pitt.edu)
Pitt/America on the Move Free Ice Skating
Schenley Ice Skating Rink, 1:30-3:30 pm
UPMC Office of Diversity Presentation
“Amandla! A Celebration of African Arts,”
Scaife aud., 6 pm (7-3555)
BAS Concert
Penn Masala a Capella Group;
Lawrence aud., 7 pm
Sunday 25
Art, Science & Ethics Lecture
“Perspectives on Deadly Medicine,”
Stephen Thomas, GSPH;
The Warhol Museum, North Side;
4 pm (412/237-8355)
Monday 26
Toastmasters Meeting
104 Mervis, 11:45 am-12:45 pm (also March 5)
Jewish Studies Lecture
“Mild Men or Wild Men? The Invention of the Non-Violent Jew,”
Elliot Horowitz, Johns Hopkins;
115 Mervis, 4:30 pm (4-5990)
Physics/CMU Colloquium
“Quasi-Crystals: Some of Nature’s Most Intriguing Forms of Matter,”
Ron Lifshitz, Tel Aviv U;
7500 Wean, CMU, 4:30 pm
Chinese Student & Scholar Assn./Cross Cultural & Civic Leadership Chinese Coffee House & Spring Festival
Main fl. WPU, 5-mid. (8-9523)
Tuesday 27
Research Health Sciences Workshop
“Starting Your Research Program at Pitt: Biosafety & Animal Care & Use,”
S123 BST2, 8:30 am-11:30 am
Toastmasters Meeting
2203 Sennott, 12:30-1:30 pm (also March 6)
Faculty Assembly Meeting
2700 Posvar, 3 pm
Book Signing/Presentation
“Almost Human, Making Robots Think,”
Lee Gutkind, English;
7500 Wean, CMU, 4 pm
GSPIA Panel Discussion
“National Security for a New Era: Challenges in the Complex Strategic Environment of the 21st Century”;
3911 Posvar, 4-5:30 pm (8-7640)
Men’s Basketball
vs. WVU; Petersen, 7 pm
BAS Black Cinema Night
540 WPU, 7 pm (8-7880)
BAS Open Mic Night
“Not My Words”;
Kurtzman Rm. WPU, 9 pm (8-7880)
Wednesday 28
Orthopaedic Surgery Resident Teaching Session
“Tissue Homeostasis & the Envelope of Function: An Emerging Orthopaedic Paradigm,”
Scott Dye, UC-San Francisco;
LHAS aud. Montefiore, 7-8 am
GSPIA Presentation
“The Third Nuclear Age,”
Ariel Levite, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission;
3911 Posvar, noon-1 pm (8-7640)
HA & A Colloquium
“Neither Here nor There: European Travel Writing on Asia in the 19th Century,”
Ting Chang, CMU;
203 FFA, noon-1 pm (8-2400)
Pathology Seminar
“Morphologic & Molecular Studies in Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma,”
Alain Borczuk, Columbia;
1105 Scaife, noon (8-1040)
Survival Skills & Ethics Lunch
“Careers in 4-Year Colleges”;
S100 BST2, noon (register: 412/578-3716)
Tennis
vs. Robert Morris; Washington’s Landing, 1 pm
UPMC Lecture
“Mechanisms Leading to the Formation of Human Tumors,”
Robert Weinberg, MIT;
aud. 6 Scaife, 3:30 pm (7-3555)
Asian Studies/Religious Studies Lecture
“Dangerous Religion? Cultural Constructions of Religion in Post-Aum Japan & Their Wider Implications,”
Ian Reader, U of Manchester;
4127 Sennott, 4 pm
Geology & Planetary Colloquium
“Impacts of Changing Land Use on Subsurface Water Resources in Semiarid Regions,”
Bridget Scanlon, Bureau of Economic Geology;
203 Thaw, 4 pm
Germanic Languages & Literatures Films
“Nicht der Homosexuelle ist Pervers, Sodern die Situation in der er Lebt,”
“Rohfil,”
“Love Stinks” &
“Baby I Will Make You Sweat”;
205 Lawrence, 7:30 pm (8-2614)
Bradford Campus Film
“Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories,”
Mike Shiley;
Bromeley Family Theater Blaisdell, UPB, 7:30 pm (814/362-0248)
Global Studies/European Studies Film
“Beyond Borders, the Immigrant Chimera-Inch Alla Dimanche”;
4130 Posvar, 8:30 pm (4-2918)
March
Thursday 1
A&S Grad Expo
Assembly Rm, Ballrm. & Kurtzman Rm. WPU, 8:45 am-4:30 pm (4-6698)
Asian Studies Lecture
“Community Based Healthcare in War-Torn Afghanistan,”
Abdullah Hanif, H.J. Heinz Co. Foundation;
4130 Posvar, noon
Bioethics & Health Law Grand Rounds
“Early Stopping of Clinical Trials for Efficacy: An Ethical Dilemma & a New Approach,”
Julia Slutsman, NCI; 113 Law, noon-1 pm (8-1320)
Immunology Seminars
“Immunity & Tolerance to Tumor-Associated Forms of MUC1,”
Sean Ryan;
“Viral Infection as a Natural Cancer Vaccine: Immune Response to the Self (Tumor) Antigen Cyclin B1,”
Laura Vella;
aud. 5 Scaife, noon (8-7050)
Women’s Studies Undergraduate Internship Fair
Lower lounge WPU, 3-5 pm (4-6485)
Chemistry Seminars
“Chemical Adventures at a Biomedical Powerhouse,”
Jef De Brabander;
U of TX, 2:30 pm;
“Resonantly Tweezing Single Plasmonic Objects to Controlling Plasmonic Excitations of Metal Nano-Particles,”
Norbert Scherer, U of Chicago;
12B Chevron, 4 pm (4-8200)
Univ. Art Gallery Talk
Ian Rawson, Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, & Lucy Rawson, Friends of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer;
Univ. Art Gallery, 5 pm (8-2423)
Univ. Symphony Orchestra Concert
Bellefield aud., 7 pm (4-4125)
Friday 2
Small Business Development Ctr. Seminar
“The First Step: Mechanics of Starting a Small Business”;
209 Mervis, 7:30-10 am (register: 8-1542)
Mental Health Conference Planning/Continuing Education in the Health Sciences Conference
“Advances in the Treatment of Mood Disorders: 2007”;
Sheraton Station Square, 8:30 am-4 pm (412/802-6900)
Pharmacology Seminar
“G Protein-Coupled Receptor Interactions With PDZ Scaffolds,”
Randy Hall, Emory;
1395 Starzl BST, noon
Senate Budget Policies Committee Meeting
501 CL, noon
East Asian Colloquium
“The Social & Political Implications of the Market Reforms in China,”
Karen Studeny;
4130 Posvar, 2 pm
Sunday 4
• Spring recess for students through March 11;
all offices and buildings will remain open and staffed.
Art, Science & Ethics Lecture
“Perspectives on Deadly Medicine,”
Mary Crossley, law;
The Warhol Museum, North Side;
4 pm (412/237-8355)
Tuesday 6
Office of Research/NCURA Broadcast Workshop
“Effort Reporting”;
S120 BST2, 11:30 am-3:30 pm (4-7405)
Wednesday 7
Health Sciences Faculty Professional Development Presentation
“Managing Your Personnel”;
S120 BST2, 8-10 am
Pathology Seminar
“Transcriptional Control of Hepatocyte Proliferation,”
Linda Greenbaum, Penn;
1104 Scaife, noon (8-1040)
Thursday 8
FSDP Workshop
“Purchasing Fundamentals”; 342 Craig, 9 am-3 pm (4-2728)
Parking Services Info Session
204 Brackenridge, 2-4 pm
PhD Defenses
Bioengineering
“The Effect of BMP4 & Mechanical Stimulation on Muscle Derived Stem Cells: Implications for Bone & Articular Cartilage Regeneration,”
Karin Corsi;
Feb. 23, 1100 Rangos, 2 pm
Business
“Geographical Clusters, Alliance Networks & Innovation in the US Biopharmaceutical Industry,”
Carrie Woods;
Feb. 26, 102 Mervis, 10-11:30 am
A&S/History
“For Nation & Gain: Economy, Ethnicity & Politics in the Czech Borderlands, 1945-1948,”
David Gerlach;
Feb. 26, 3526 Posvar, 2 pm
Theatre
Johnstown Campus
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”;
Feb. 22-25 at 8 pm, Feb. 25 at 2 pm, Studio Theatre Pasquerilla, UPJ (814/269-2080)
Asian Studies/Frick Art & Historical Ctr.
“The Lady Aol” & “The Feather Cloak”;
Feb. 23 at 7 pm, Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial (tickets: 4-7529)
Exhibits
Hillman Library
“Hooded Warbler”
through Feb. 26; Audubon exhibit case, ground fl. Hillman, M-Th 7:50 am-2 am, F 7:50 am-10 pm, Sat. 9 am-mid., Sun. 10 am-2 am (8-7715)
Asian Studies/ULS East Asian Library
“Advertising a Dream: Movie Posters From Post-War Korea”;
through March 1, Hillman foyer, M-Th 7:50 am-2 am, F 7:50 am-10 pm, Sat. 9 am-mid., Sun. 10 am-2 am (8-7370)
Bradford Campus
“Playing With Fire & Kiln Gods”;
through March 2, KOA Art Gallery Blaisdell, UPB, M-Th 8:30 am-8 pm, F 8:30 am-6 pm (814/362-0248)
Univ. Art Gallery
“Revolution, Ritual & Remembrance: The Art of Haiti”;
through March 17, Univ. Art Gallery FFA, M-Sat 10 am-4 pm, Th until 8 pm (8-2423)
Deadlines
Honors College/COPC Research Service Learning Proposals
Proposals due to 3600 CL by Feb. 26. (4-6880)
Volunteer Pool Sock-a-thon
Annual collection of socks for homeless people runs through March. 2. Drop off donations at 710 Alumni. (4-7702)
ADRC Seed Monies Grants
Brief description of pilot study due March 1 to Steven DeKosky at dekoskyst@upmc.edu & Leslie Dunn at dunnlo@upmc.edu;
Applications due April 2. (2-2731)
Univ. Research Council Multidisciplinary Small Grant Program
Preliminary proposals due to Office of the Provost by 4 pm March 8;
final proposals due April 27.
European Studies Student Exchange Program
Applications due March 16; call 8-7422 for more info.
EU Ctr. for Excellence Faculty Fellowship
Applications due March 12;
go to www.ucis.pitt.edu for more info.
Steven D. Manners Faculty Development Awards
Applications due April 6;
call 4-6172 for more info.
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