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September 11, 2008

CALENDAR

Thursday 11

Sept. 11 Memorial Service

ROTC;

CL lawn, 9 am (412/310-2086 or 4-2382)

Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds

230 McKee Pl., classrm. A, 9 am-noon

Greensburg Campus Roth 403(b) Info Session

Lecture Hall, Campana Chapel, UPG, 10:30 am (also 2:30 pm; 4-8057 or 8-7858)

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar

“DNA Damage Recognition by the Bacterial UvrA & UvrB Proteins,”

Ben Van Houten;

6014 BST3, 11 am

Endocrine Research Conference

“Integrated Metabolism of Fat Oxidation & Gluconeogenesis in the Liver,”

Shawn Burgess;

1195 Starzl BST, noon

Epidemiology Seminar

“5 pm, June 24, 1991—Tipping Point for Folic Acid-Preventable Spina Bifida & Anencephaly,”

Godfrey Oakley Jr.;

A115 Crabtree, noon

Sociology Lecture

“Post-9/11 Politics & the Political Representation of Muslim Women in the West,”

Melanie Hughes;

2431 Posvar, noon

European Studies Panel Discussion

“Transatlantic Perspectives on Health Care Reform: The EU & US Compared,”

Marc Smyrl, Beaufort Longest & Anne-Laure Beaussier;

4130 Posvar, noon

Bioethics & Health Law Grand Rounds

“Reconceptualizing & Managing Incidental Findings of Genetic Research,”

Lisa Parker;

113 Barco, noon

Asian Studies Student Reception

WPU lower lounge, 3-4:30 pm (8-7370)

Chemistry Seminar

“Science & Application of Carbon Nanostructures,”

Eric Snow;

12B Chevron, 4 pm

Latin American Studies Salsa Dance Workshop

Marlon Silva;

Galleria, 1st fl. Posvar, 9:15 pm (also Sept. 19; 8-7394)

Friday 12

SBDC Seminar

“The First Step: Mechanics of Starting a Small Business,”

115 Mervis, 7:30-10 am (4-5678)

Pharmacology & Chemical Biology Seminar

“Streptolysin S-Like Bacterial Toxins: Biosynthesis, Structure & Attenuation,”

Douglas Mitchell;

6014 BST3, 9:15 am

Bariatric Surgery Info Session

Ramesh Ramanathan;

zero level aud., Magee, 11:30 am-1 pm (412/641-3632)

Medical Education Grand Rounds

“Preliminary Results of the Spaced Education Progress Testing (SEPT) Trial,”

B. Price Kerfoot, Harvard;

Scaife lecture rm. 3, noon (8-9000)

Philosophy of Science Talk

“Classical Mechanics Is Langrangian; It Is Not Hamiltonian,”

Erik Curiel;

817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)

Dental Medicine Ceremony

Dedication of Ctr. for Patients With Special Needs;

4th fl. aud., Salk, 1 pm

Psychology Colloquium

“Nicotine Use & Dependence: A Translational Perspective,”

Eric Donny;

Martin Colloquium Ctr., 4127 Sennott, 3 pm

African Studies Open House/Reception

4138 Posvar, 3-5 pm (8-2058)

Contemporary Writers Reading

Claudia Rankine;

FFA aud., 7 pm (4-9101)

Saturday 13

Minority Health Yoga Certification Program

Kingsley Assn., 6435 Frankstown Ave., East Liberty, 8 am-5 pm (also Sept. 14, 8 am-3 pm, 800/237-6242)

Pitt Kennywood Day

Tickets can be purchased at WPU 1st fl. ticket office, cash only, until Sept. 12. Pavilion #5; park hours: 11 am-11 pm

European Studies Lecture

“The Dutch Presidency & Turkish Accession,”

Michael Wright;

4130 Posvar, noon (8-7422)

Women’s Poetry Conference

“Lifting Belly High,”

FFA aud., 7 pm (runs Sept. 11-13 in various off-campus locations; www.duq.edu/womenpoets)

Sunday 14

NARSAD Healthy Minds Across America

Anthony Grace, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, Mary Phillips; moderator: Bita Moghaddam;

FFA aud., 1-4 pm (800/829-8289 or 516/829-0091)

Vietnamese Students Picnic

WPU patio & lawn, 1-4 pm

Monday 15

UCIS EUCE Lecture

Pierre Vimont, French ambassador to the US;

WPU lower lounge, 1 pm

Physics & Astronomy Crawford Lecture

“More Perfect Than We Imagined: A Physicist’s View of Life,”

William Bialek, Princeton;

343 Alumni, 4:30 pm

UPMC Book Discussion/Lecture

“Anticancer—A New Way of Life,”

David Servan-Schreiber;

Herberman Conf. Ctr., UPMC Shadyside, 7 pm (412/623-3023)

Tuesday 16

Pulmonology/Allergy & Immunology Research Conference

“Th17 Cells in Hyper-Ige Syndrome,”

Joshua Milner;

1100 1st fl. conf. ctr., Rangos Research Ctr., 8 am

Roth 403(b) Info Session

S100A Starzl BST, 8 am (also 5:30 pm; 4-8057 or 8-7858)

Basic Research Seminar

“Immunotherapy of Breast Cancer Using a Live Recombinant Bacterial Vector,”

Yvonne Paterson;

Cooper Conf. Ctr., classrm. B & C, Hillman Cancer Ctr., noon

Senate Community Relations Committee Mtg.

272 Hillman, noon-2 pm

Philosophy of Science Talk

“Mechanistic Explanation in Top-down Systems Biology,”

Ulrich Krohs, U of Hamburg;

817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)

Pharmacology & Chemical Biology Seminar

“The Genetic Code Revisited: Four Decades After Francis Crick,”

Dieter Soll, Yale;

1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pm

Arts & Sciences Teaching Exellence Lecture

“The Other Half of Western Civilization: An Experiment in Science Education for 1st-Year College Students,”

William Bialek, Princeton;

102 Thaw, 4:30 pm

Global Studies Lecture

“Great Products That Create Tremendous Impact: Choosing Fair Trade,”

Carmen Iezzi;

4130 Posvar, 5 pm (4-2918)

Greensburg Campus La Cultura Lecture

“The Cold War & Its Hot Consequences,”

Frank Wilson;

Campana Chapel, UPG, 7 pm (724/836-7741)

Wednesday 17

Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds

“Publication of Articles in Scientific Journals: How to Succeed in 2008,”

James Heckman;

LHAS aud., 7th fl. main level MUH, 7 am

Roth 403(b) Info Session

S100A & S120 Starzl BST, 9:30 am (also 2 pm; 4-8057 or 8-7858)

Bradford Campus LEAF Day

Law Enforcement Awareness & Familiarization Day, Dan Songer;

Frame-Westerberg Commons, UPB, 10 am-3 pm (814/362-7509)

Pitt Arts Fair

WPU Ballrm., 11:30 am-1:30 pm

Pathology Research Seminar

“From Birth to Death: Roles of HGF in Development & Maintenance of the Central Nervous System,”

Elizabeth Powell, U of MD;

1105 Scaife conf. ctr., noon

Law Constitution Day Discussion

“Important (but Little-Noticed) Supreme Court Constitutional Cases,”

Deborah Brake, Andrew Taslitz & Rhonda Wasserman;

113 Barco, noon

Physics & Astronomy Seminar

“Statistical Mechanics for Networks of Real Neurons,”

William Bialek, Princeton;

319 Allen, noon

SAC Mtg.

1175 Benedum, 12:15 pm

Latin American Studies Conference

“The Caribbean & Its Borderlands, Revolution & Aftermath,”

Walnut Rm., PAA, 1 pm (4-4238)

Latin American Studies Reception

Mercury Rm., PAA, 4-6 pm (4-4238)

Physics & Astronomy Seminar

“Physics Problems in Early Embryonic Development,”

William Bialek, Princeton;

102 Thaw, 4:30 pm

Latin American Film

“Casa de Areia (House of Sand)”;

FFA aud., 7:30 pm

Thursday 18

Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds

230 McKee Pl., classrm. A, 8 am-noon

Pathology Fetterman Lecture

“Hirschsprung Disease & Related Disorders,”

Raj Kapur, U of WA;

McCluskey Aud., Children’s, 8 am

Roth 403(b) Info Session

WPU Kurtzman Rm., 10 am (also 2 pm; 4-8057 or 8-7858)

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar

“This Is HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase on Drugs,”

Mary Barkley;

6014 BST3, 11 am

Geology & Planetary Science Lecture

“Microbes, Metals & Minerals: Over 3.5 Billion Years of ŒGeobiological Interactions,”

John Stolz, Duquesne;

203 Thaw, 4 pm (4-8873)

Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership Lecture

“Women & the Labyrinth of Leadership,”

Alice Eagly;

Schenley Lounge, PAA, 4:30 pm (8-1336)

Integrated Medicine Lecture

“Maintaining Good Health With Self-Shiatsu,”

Stephanie Ulmer;

Suite 310, 580 S. Aiken Ave., 5:30 pm (412/623-3023)

Friday 19

Philosophy of Science Lecture

“The Reality of Group Agency,”

Philip Pettit, Princeton;

817R CL, 3:30 pm (4-1052)

Saturday 20

Football vs. Iowa; Heinz Field, noon

Music Concert

IonSound Project, Bellefield aud., 8 pm

Monday 22

Dental Education Seminar

“Individualized Endodontics,”

James Wallace;

2148 Salk, 8:30 am-4:30 pm (also Sept. 23, 8:30 am-4:30 pm)

Pgh. Consortium for Adoption Studies Film Discussion

“The Girls Who Went Away,”

Ann Fessler, RI School of Design;

FFA aud., 8 pm

Tuesday 23

Global Travel Grantee Presentations

109 Parran, 10 am

CVR Seminar

“SIVagm Pathogenesis in African Green Monkeys,”

Ivona Pandrea;

6014 BST3, noon

UCIS Int’l Week Lecture

“Higher Education & Society in Slovakia,”

Gabriela Pleschova, Comenius U of Bratislava;

4217 Posvar, noon-1:30 pm

Race & Social Problems Lecture

“Harnessing Possible Selves: Identity-Based Motivation & Improved Academic Attainment,”

Daphna Oyserman, U of MI;

2017 CL, noon

Pharmacy Distinguished Lecture

“Discovery of Bcl-2 Family Inhibitors for the Treatment of Cancer,”

Stephen Fesik;

355 Salk, noon

Bioethics & Health Law Grand Rounds

“Ethical & Legal Challenges of Decision Making During Pregnancy: Intact & Impaired & Intact Capacity,”

Frank Chervenak, Cornell;

113 Barco, noon

Philosophy of Science Talk

“Science of the Universe? Physical Cosmology & Our Limited Horizon,”

Claus Beisbart, U of Dortmund;

817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)

GSPH Cutler Lecture in Global Health

“The Eradication of Smallpox: What We Should Have Learned … but Didn’t,”

Donald Henderson;

FFA aud., 3 pm (412/383-8849)

Pharmacology & Chemical Biology Seminar

“Bending & Breaking the DNA Code: Implications for Transcriptional Regulation,”

Mark Gillespie, U of S. AL;

1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pm

ReSET Tobacco Research Roundtable

“Scheduled Smoking & Nicotine Replacement: Impact on Cue Reactivity & Cessation,”

Joel Erblich;

109 Parran, 3:30 pm

Bariatric Surgery Info Session

Anita Courcoulas;

zero level aud., Magee, 6:30-8 pm (412/641-3632)

Mini-Medical School

“Breast & Prostate Cancer: Pink & Blue Ribbons, Gold Medal Research,”

aud. 6 Scaife, 7-8:30 pm (412/383-7255)

Wednesday 24

Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds

Mollie Manley; LHAS aud., 7th fl. main level Montefiore, 7 am

Int’l Week Lecture

“Chin-dia Rising: How China & India Will Benefit the Global Economy,”

WPU lower lounge, 11:30 am (4-2918)

Pathology Research Seminar

“Finding a Pharmacological Treatment for Ataxia-Telangiectasia,”

Rodney Shackelford;

1105 Scaife conf. ctr., noon

Women’s Studies Lecture

“Who Cooked the Last Supper? Bodies, Boundaries & New Questions of Female Leadership in Early Christianity,”

Rebecca Denova;

2201 Posvar, noon

Roth 403(b) Info Session

342 Craig, 1-2:30 pm (4-8057 or 8-7858)

Psychology Lazovik Memorial Lecture

“Post-Partum Depression: A 30-Year Odyssey,”

Michael O’Hara, U of Iowa;

4127 Sennott, 3 pm

OED Limbach Lecture

“From California to Pittsburgh: Starting a Biopharmaceutical Company to Discover Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease,”

Susan Catalano;

1105A Scaife, 4-6 pm (4-3160)

Greensburg Campus Lecture

“The Art of Business Theater,”

Thomas Tierney;

Campana Chapel, UPG, 7 pm (724/836-7497)

Latin American Film

“El Método (The Method)”;

FFA aud., 7:30 pm

Music Concert

“Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4,”

Pitt Symphony Orchestra; Bellefield aud., 8 pm

Thursday 25

Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds

230 McKee Pl., classrm. A, 8-11 am

Science 2008 Supplier Showcase

Petersen, 10 am-3 pm (4-8586)

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar

“ESR Spectroscopic Rulers: Putting Another Spin on Protein Dynamics,”

Sunil Saxena;

6014 BST3, 11 am

EOH Seminar

Robert Sobol;

Bridgeside Point, 100 Technology Dr., 5th fl. conf. rm., noon

ADRC Lecture

“MR Imaging Methods & Their Application to Alzheimer’s Disease & Late-Life Depression,”

Howard Aizenstein;

ADRC conf. rm. S439, noon (412/692-2700)

Endocrine Research Conference

“Suppression of Beta-Cell Autoimmunity in Type 1 Diabetes With the Immuno-Regulatory Lectin Galecin-1,”

Adrian Morelli;

1195 Starzl BST, noon

Asian Studies Lecture

“Why Is Pacific Island Studies Part of Asian Studies? Asian Connections in Pacific Prehistory,”

Richard Scaglion, anthropology;

4130 Posvar, noon

Epidemiology Seminar

“Supercourse & Global Health (from Pittsburgh & Tehran),”

Ronald LaPorte & Ali Ardalan;

A115 Crabtree, noon

Roth 403(b) Info Session

342 Craig, 1 pm (4-8057 or 8-7858)

CILE Law Lecture

“The Rule of Law in Modern Iraq: Personal Perspectives,”

Haider Ala Hamoudi & USMC Col. Paul Amato;

Teplitz Memorial Courtrm., Barco, 6 pm

PhD Defenses

GSPH/Biostatistics

“Statistical Issues in Meta-Analysis for Identifying Signature Genes in the Integration of Multiple Genomic Studies,”

Jia Li;

Sept. 11, 325A Parran, 10 am

IS/Telecommunications

“A Location Fingerprint Framework Toward Efficient Wireless Indoor Positioning Systems,”

Nattapong Swangmuang;

Sept. 11, 522 IS, 10 am

A&S/Chemistry

“Mechanisms & Kinetics of Microtubule Perturbing Agents,”

Brianne Raccor;

Sept. 17, 325 Eberly, 1 pm

A&S/Physics & Astronomy

“Search for CP Violation in B0sgJ/,”

Chunlei Liu;

Sept. 19, 319 Allen, 2 pm

SHRS/Rehabilitation Science

“Developing & Implementing a Practical Model of Real-Time, Redesign & Problem Solving for Front-Line Healthcare Professionals,”

Diane Frndak;

Sept. 23, 6053

Forbes Tower, 1 pm

A&S/Physics & Astronomy

“Spatially Resolved Galaxy Star Formation & Its Environmental Dependence,”

Niraj Welikala;

Sept. 25, 319 Allen, 10 am

A&S/Chemistry

“Development of Fluorescent-Based Fluorescent Chemosensors & Convergent Approaches in Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis,”

Amanda Garner;

Sept. 25, 307 Eberly, 2 pm

Exhibits

Hillman Library Audubon Exhibit

“Pine Swamp Warbler” through Sept. 22;

“Sharp-Tailed Finch,”

Sept. 23-Oct. 6;

Hillman Library ground fl. exhibit case, reg. library hours (8-7715)

Study Abroad Office Photography Contest

Public judging of entries for

“Pitt Around the Planet,”

Sept. 23-Oct. 3; Kimbo Art Gallery, WPU 1st fl.

Barco Law Library Photography Exhibit

“Pittscapes” by Kaoru Tohara through Nov. 7;

Barco 4th fl. exhibit gallery, reg. library hours (8-1376)

Deadlines

Teaching Evaluation Surveys

Completed request forms due in G39 CL by Sept. 12. (4-6148)

UCIS Hewlett Int’l Grant Competition

Applications due Sept. 15. (Info: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/events/ucisextra.pl?jid=2643)

Study Abroad Office Photography Contest

“Pitt Around the Planet” submissions due by 5 pm Sept. 16. Entry forms at 802 WPU or abroad@pitt.edu.

Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Awards

Nomination letters due Oct. 10 to Patricia Beeson, c/o Nancy Reilly, G33 CL.

Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Awards

Completed nomination forms due Oct. 24 to George Klinzing, 826 CL.

Pittsburgh Innovates

Submissions due online Oct. 26 for technology competition. (Info: www.pittsburghinnovates.com)

Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Awards

Nomination letters due Nov. 14 to Andrew Blair, 826 CL.

GSPIA Johnson Award for Best Papers in Ethics & Accountability in Public Service

Entries due by Nov. 1. (8-1336 or ethics@gspia.pitt.edu)

Study Abroad Scholarship

Applications for the Summer 2009 Vira Heinz Scholarship are due by 4 pm Nov. 7. Applications are available online at www.abroad.pitt.edu/viraheinz/application.html. (8-7413)

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