CALENDAR
Thursday 22
Five Campus College Fair
Ballrm. Alumni, 11 am-2 pm & 5-7 pm (4-7170)
Immunology Seminar
“Tec Kinase Signaling Regulates Conventional Versus Innate T Cell Development,”
Leslie Berg, U of MA;
aud. 5 Scaife, noon (8-7050)
UPMC/PPC Lecture
“Food Shopping & Preparation for People on the Go,”
Sandra Carpenter;
Schenley Park Visitor Ctr., noon
Chemistry Seminar
“Phosphine Catalysis of Allenes in Target-Oriented Synthesis (TOS) & Diversity-Oriented Synthesis (DOS),”
Ohyun Kwon, UCLA, 2:30 pm;
“Xenon, Liquid Crystals & SPIONs: Tools for Enhancing Sensitivity & Information Content in NMR & MRI,”
Boyd Goodson, S. IL U;
12B Chevron, 4 pm (4-8200)
Biostatistics Seminar
“Functional Based Multi Level Models for Multiple Longitudinal Outcomes,”
Kiros Berhane, USC;
A115 Crabtree, 3:30 pm
Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium
“Carbon Sequestration,”
John Harper, PA Geological Survey;
203 Thaw, 4 pm
Johnstown Campus Poetry Reading
Nick Flynn, author;
J. Irving Whalley Chapel, UPJ, 7:30 pm (814/269-2080)
Pgh. Contemporary Writers Reading
“The Butcher Boy,”
“Breakfast on Pluto,”
& “Call Me the Breeze,”
Patrick McCabe, novelist;
FFA aud., 8:30 pm (4-6506)
Friday 23
Film Studies/Cultural Studies Conference
“The Virtues of Fidelity: Film Adaptation as Literary Truth”;
FFA aud., 10 am (4-6564)
Senate Budget Policies Committee Meeting
501 CL, noon
GSPIA Luncheon
“The Flip Side of Globalization,”
John Lauder;
Kurtzman Rm. WPU, 12:30 pm (4-4238)
Honors College Lecture
“Terrorism, Iraq & the Rise of Anti-Americanism,”
William Keller, Mathew B. Ridgeway Ctr. for Int’l Security Studies;
1700 Posvar, 2 pm (4-9101)
Music Colloquium
Jean-Paul Montagnier, Université Nancy;
132 Music, 4 pm (4-4125)
Saturday 24
Survival Skills & Ethics Workshop
“Grant Writing”;
lecture rm. 2 Scaife, 9 am-3 pm (412/578-3716)
Johnstown Campus Concert
Ramsey Lewis Trio;
Pasquerilla, UPJ, 7 pm (814/269-2080)
Music on the Edge Concert
Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo;
Bellefield aud., 8 pm (412/394-3353)
Sunday 25
Men’s Glee Club Spring Concert
Heinz Chapel, 8 pm (4-4125)
Monday 26
Bioethics & Health Law Grand Rounds
“Should We Disclose Harmful Medical Errors to Patients &, If So, How?”
Thomas Gallagher, U of WA;
aud. 5 Scaife, 9 am (8-1320)
Toastmasters Meeting
104 Mervis, 11:45 am-12:45 pm (also April 2)
OIS Program
“PASSPORT to Academic Success”;
Dining Rm. A WPU, noon-1:30 pm (4-7120)
Physics/CMU Colloquium
Washington Taylor, MIT;
7500 Wean, CMU, 4:30 pm
Music Monday Concert
Bellefield aud., 8 pm
Tuesday 27
TIAA-CREF Personal Financial Counseling Sessions
4570 5th Ave. Suite 300, 8:30 am-4:30 pm (also March 28, April 3 & 5; appointment: 877/209-3136)
Vanguard One-on-One Info Sessions
1st fl. meeting rm. Craig, 9 am-5 pm (also March 28 & April 5; appointment: 800/662-0106)
UPCI Research Seminar
“Tumor-Associated Variants of DNA Polymerase Beta,”
Joann Sweasy, Yale;
Cooper Conf. Rm. Hilman Cancer Ctr., Shadyside Hospital, noon (412/623-3959)
Toastmasters Meeting
2203 Sennott, 12:30-1:30 (also April 3)
IS Info Session
5th fl. IS, 1:30-3 pm (4-2677)
Provost Inaugural Lecture
“Justice O’Connor & the Threat to Judicial Independence: The Cowgirl Who Cried Wolf?”
Arthur Hellman, law;
2500 Posvar, 4 pm
French & Italian Lecture
“Introducing Dante’s Paradiso,”
Robert Durling, UC-Santa Cruz;
501 CL, 5 pm (4-5221)
Bradford Campus Spring Concert
Bradford College-Community Choir;
Bromeley Family Theater Blaisdell, UPB, 7:30 pm (814/362-0248)
Titusville Campus Concert
Hot House Jazz;
Henne Aud., UPT, 7:30 pm (814/827-9930)
Wednesday 28
E U Center of Excellence Lecture
“Poland’s Membership in the European Union: Pre- & Post-Accession Challenges,”
Jaroslaw Ksiazek, counsel general of Poland;
4130 Posvar, noon (8-7763)
HA & A Colloquium
“Architecture, Pedagogy, Memory: Making a Monument to a Hero of the Arts in Revolutionary Paris,”
Drew Armstrong;
203 FFA, noon (8-2400)
Pathology Seminar
“Genetic Etiology of Common Disease: A Breast Cancer Example,”
Michael Gould, U of WI-Madison;
1105 Scaife, noon (8-1040)
Pharmacy Lecture
“Research on Pharmacy Operations & Medication Safety: A Lifetime of Challenges & Fun,”
Kenneth Barker;
lecture rm. 6 Scaife, noon-1 pm (8-9941)
Senate Plenary Workshop
“Planning Your Career at the University of Pittsburgh,”
Sherry Miller Brown, McCarl Ctr.;
4127 Sennott, noon-1:30 pm
Women’s Studies Lecture
“The Proliferation & De-Sexualization of Sadomasochistic Narrative in Contemporary Media,”
Clair Donato, Queereading Group;
2201 Posvar, noon (4-6485)
GSPIA Lecture
“A U.S. Policy for Iran”;
3911 Posvar, 2-3 pm (8-7640)
Senate Spring Plenary Session
“Protecting Science From Bias by Private Interests”;
Assembly Rm. WPU, 2-5 pm
Bradford Campus Performance
“Games of Steel,”
Attack Theatre;
March 28, 7:30 pm, Bromeley Family Theater Blaisdell, UPB (814/362-0248)
Thursday 29
Small Business Development Ctr. Program
“The Myths, the Markets & the Money: Finding Funding for Your Innovative Research”;
PAA, 9 am-4 pm (8-1542)
Wellness Program Wellness Fair
Ballrm. & Kurtzman Rm. WPU, 10 am-2 pm
Asian Studies Lecture
“Religion, Power & Vernacularization in Medieval India,”
Richard Cohen, UCIS;
4130 Posvar, noon (8-7370)
Immunology Seminar
“Alternative Means to an End: Alternative Polyadenylation in Human Cells,”
Carol Lutz, U of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ;
aud. 5 Scaife, noon (8-7050)
UPMC/PPC Lecture
“Geriatric Health,”
Cynthia Rosenberg;
Schenley Park Visitor Ctr., noon
Asian Studies/Honors College Lecture
“Desired & Disdained, Elevated & Abused: Lady Rukujo in the Noh Drama,”
Paul Atkins, U of WA;
3504 CL, 2:30 pm (8-7763)
Philosophy of Science Talk
“Naturalizing Aesthetics: The Wonderful Case of Wine,”
George Gale, U of MO;
5130 Posvar, 3 pm (4-1052)
Greensburg Campus Lecture
Kong Ho, UPB;
Hempfield Rm. Chambers, UPG, 7 pm (724/836-7741)
Inst. for Early Childhood Education Conference
“Child Honoring: How to Turn This World Around,”
Raffi Cavoukian, keynote speaker;
Assembly Rm. WPU, 7-9:15 pm (3-2100)
Friday 30
History Symposium
“Sovereign Space in Early Cities”;
FFA aud., 8:30 am-5 pm
Pharmacology Seminar
“Insights Into Programmed Cell Death Through Structural Biology,”
Yigong Shi, Princeton;
1395 BST, noon (3-7757)
German Conference
“After the Avant-Garde: European Experiments With the Moving Image”;
232 CL, 3:15-6:30 pm (also March 31, 9 am-7 pm) (4-5909)
Philosophy of Science Lecture
“The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in Evolutionary Science,”
Elisabeth Lloyd, IN U;
817R CL, 3:30 pm (4-1052)
UCIS Film
“Romance of Their Own”;
4130 Posvar, 6:30 pm
Saturday 31
African Music & Dance Ensemble Concert
Bellefield aud., 8 pm
April
Monday 2
Physics/CMU Colloquium
“Counterflow Conductivity of Bilayers at Filling Factor 1: Evidence for a Charge Neutral Superfluid,”
Emmanual Tutuc; 102 Thaw, 4:30 pm
Philosophy of Science Talk
“Aristotle & the Aristotelian Tradition in Antiquity: Physics as a Case Study,”
Andrea Falcon, Concordia U;
817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)
Wednesday 4
HA & A Colloquium
“Artisans in Early Imperial China,”
Anthony Barbieri-Low, history;
203 FFA, noon (8-2400)
Pathology Seminar
“Expression & Proteomic Analysis of Glioma Cell Response to Novel Chemotherapeutics,”
Oliver Bogler, MD Anderson Cancer Inst.;
1104 Scaife, noon (8-1040)
Pgh. Contemporary Writers Discussion
“Hybrid Vigor: American Poetry Out of School,”
David St. John & Cole Swenson, poets;
501 CL 2 pm (4-6506)
Faculty Assembly Meeting
2700 Posvar, 3 pm
Greensburg Campus Lecture
“Just Care: Rationing in a Public Health Care Crisis,”
James Childress, UVA;
Ferguson Theater, UPG, 7 pm (724/836-7741)
Pgh. Contemporary Writer’s Reading
“Study for the World’s Body, the Face: A Novella in Verse,”
David St. John, poet;
“Goest, Try, the Book of a Hundred Hands,”
Cole Swenson, poet;
FFA aud., 8:30 pm (4-6506)
Thursday 5
Asian Studies Lecture
“Eastern & Western Fusion: The Beauty of Jade Stone & Nautilus Shell,”
Kong Ho, UPB;
4130 Posvar, noon (8-7370)
Race & Social Problems Lecture
“Poor, Young, Black & Male: A Case for National Action?”
Elijah Anderson, Penn;
2017 CL, noon-1:30 pm
UPMC/PPC Lecture
“Stress Management & Resiliency,”
Rose Gantner;
Schenley Park Visitor Ctr., noon
Chemistry Seminar
“Through the Looking Glass: New Developments & Applications of Unconventional Bond-Forming Methodology,”
Karl Scheidt, Northwestern U;
12B Chevron, 2:30 pm (4-8200)
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Mark M. Ravitch Lecture
“The Century of the Cardiovascular Surgeon, 1900-2000,”
Allen Weisse, NJ Medical School;
lecture rm. 5 Scaife, 6 pm (8-8927)
PhD Defenses
GSPIA
“The Implications of Public Housing Design: A Study of HUD’s Hope VI Program,”
Brock Onque;
March 23, 3430 Posvar, 10 am
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Science
“The Metabolism of Three Anticancer Drugs in Vitro,”
Yun Fan;
March 23, 456 Salk, noon-1 pm
Medicine/Molecular Virology & Microbiology
“Investing the Molecular Mechanism of Action of Clostridium Perfringens Enterotoxin Using Structure-Function & Oligomeric Analyses,”
James Smedley;
March 23, S120 BST, 1 pm
Nursing
“Development of a Scale: Barriers to CBT Homework Completion Scale,”
Judith Callan;
March 26, 340 Victoria, 2 pm
Engineering/Bioengineering
“Structural Analysis Driven Shoulder Arthroplasty,”
Gulshan Sharma;
March 26, B63 Benedum, 3:30 pm
Education/Administrative & Policy Studies
“Information Decision-Making Enrollment Management in a Public Research University,”
Thomas Riley;
March 27, 5700 Posvar, 10 am
Medicine/Cellular & Molecular Pathology
“EGF Like Repeats: Novel Matrikine Ligands for EGF Receptor,”
Anand Iyer;
March 27, 1104 Scaife, 10 am
Education/Instruction & Learning
“Conversations With Coaches: Their Roles in PA Reading First School,”
Kathryn Carroll;
March 27, 5140 Posvar, 10:30 am
Education/Administrative & Policy Studies
“Vocational Students’ Engagement & Career Objectives: Assessment of Processes in New Vocational Students,”
Martha Diamond;
March 28, 4307 Posvar, 1 pm
Engineering/Bioengineering
“Classifying Chronic Lower Back Pain Groups Using a Time Series Model of Lifting,”
Jill Slaboda;
March 29, B63 Benedum, 10:30 am
GSPH/Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
“Examination of the Perceptions of an Elderly Population in Subsidized Housing & Their Utilization of Community-Based Health Care,”
Teresa Mastromatteo Beigay;
March 29, 2nd fl. conf rm. Parran, 1-3 pm
Medicine/Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
“Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes & MicroRNAs in HPV-Associated Cancers Using Gene Expression, Tissue & MicroRNA Microarrays,”
Ivan Martinez;
March 30, S100 BST, 10 am
Education/Health & Physical Activity
“The Effect of Vitamin D on Neuromuscular Function in Crohn’s Disease Patients,”
Amanda Salacinski;
March 30, Bairel Conf. Rm., 1 pm
Nursing
“Preterm Infant Feeding & Cardiorespiratory Stability,”
Emily Stevens;
March 30, 446 Victoria, 2:30 pm
Medicine/Cellular & Molecular Pathology
“Investigation of the Mechanism & Therapeutic Potential of a Transcription Factor Decoy Targeting Signal Transducer & Activator of Transcription-3 (STAT3) for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head & Neck (SCCHN),”
Amanda Boehm;
April 2, 5th fl. boardrm. EEI, 10 am
SIS/IS & Technology
“The Effect of Interactions Between Protocols & Physical Topologies on the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks,”
Debdhanit Yupho;
April 2, 522 IS, noon-2 pm
SIS/IS & Technology
“Sync & Sense Enabled Adaptive Packetization VoIP,”
Boonchai Ngamwongwattana;
April 2, 522 IS, 12:30-2:30 pm
Engineering/Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
“Deformation of Nanocrystalline Nickel by Cold Rolling,”
Andi Kulovits;
April 3, 1220 Benedum, 1:30-3 pm
A&S/English
“Making Feminism Matter Again,”
Jennifer Michelle Cotter;
April 5, 526 CL, 11 am-1 pm
Theatre
Kuntu Repertory Theatre
“Relativity”;
March 22-April 7, Th-Sat. at 8 pm, Sun. at 4 pm, March 31 at 1 pm & April 5 at 11 am, 7th fl. aud. Alumni (4-7298)
Pitt Repertory Theatre
“The Proposal & The Wedding & the Bear”;
March 22-24 & 28-31 at 8 pm, March 25 & April 1 at 2 pm, Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial (tickets: 4-7529)
Greensburg Campus
“Mother Courage & Her Children”;
March 29, 30 & 31, 7:30 pm, Ferguson Theater, UPG (724/836-7483)
Exhibits
Hillman Library
“Hooded Warbler” through April 2;
“Pileated Woodpecker” April 3-April 16;
Audubon exhibit case, ground fl. Hillman, M-Th 7:50 am-2 am, F 7:50 am-10 pm, Sat. 9 am-midnight, Sun. 10 am-2 am (8-7715)
Bradford Campus
“Affairs of the Art: Pitt-Bradford Student Art Exhibition”;
through April 13, KOA Speer Electronics Lobby Blaisdell, UPB, M-Th 8:30 am-8 pm, F 8:30 am-6 pm (814/362-0248)
Deadlines
Latin American Studies/Mascaro Sustainability Initiative Workshop
RSVP to amaguina@ucis.pitt.edu by March 30.
Steven D. Manners Faculty Development Awards
Applications due April 6, call 4-6172 for more info.
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