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October 15, 2015

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Thursday 15

The Center on Race and Social Problems will host a commemoration of social activist and civil rights leader Julian Bond at 5:30 pm Oct. 20 in the Alumni Hall Connolly Ballroom.

The Center on Race and Social Problems will host a commemoration of social activist and civil rights leader Julian Bond at 5:30 pm Oct. 20 in the Alumni Hall Connolly Ballroom.

CIDDE Workshops
“Technology for Large Lecture Courses,” 10 am;
“Qualtrics Online Survey System,” 2 pm;
B23 Alumni
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

HSLS Workshop
“EndNote Basics,” Pat Weiss;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 am
(pwf@pitt.edu)

Physical Therapy Rounds
“Quantifying Movement & Tissue Health to Improve Function in Osteoarthritis,”
Deepak Kumar;
232 Bridgeside Pt., noon

Health Services Research Seminar
“Computation for Decision Support in Population Health,”
Donald Burke, public health;
305 Parkvale, noon
(jareed@pitt.edu)

Studio Arts Conversations With Artists
“Reverberations,”
Delanie Jenkins & Barbara Weissberger;
FFA Gallery, noon

Ctr. for Urban Education Discussion
“When Children First Recognize Race,”
Shannon Wanless & Jenn Briggs;
4118 Posvar, noon-1:30 pm

Humanities Ctr. Colloquium
“Connecting the Dots: Making Air Pollution Visible in Pgh,”
Olga Kuchinskaya;
602 CL, 12:30 pm
(www.humcenter.pitt.edu)

Chemistry Kaufman Lecture
“Emerging Signals of Climate Change: Where in the World Will Local Climate Change First?”
Susan Solomon, MIT;
150 Chevron, 2:30 pm
(chemrcpt@pitt.edu)

French/Italian Mediterranean Metageographies Workshop
“Spaces of Migration & Aesthetics of Immobility: Bidonvilles in the Francophone Mediterranean Imagination,” Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College;
602 CL, 3 pm
(humanities.pitt.edu)

CGS Open House
1400 Posvar, 3-6 pm
(cgs.pitt.edu/OpenHouse/Pitt)

Geology/Planetary Science Colloquium
“Triple Oxygen Isotopic Variation in Continental Waters & the Utility for Paleoclimate Research,”
Naomi Levin, Johns Hopkins;
11 Thaw, 3:50 pm

Senate Student Admissions, Aid & Affairs Committee Mtg.
272 Hillman, 4 pm

Heinz Chapel Talk
“Death & Dying: The Tibetan Tradition”;
Heinz Chapel, 7 pm
(www.heinzchapel.pitt.edu)

Titusville Campus Concert
“Gone With the Wind,” Lake Erie String Quartet;
Henne Aud., UPT, 7 pm
(tickets: 814/827-4431)

Greensburg Campus St. Clair Lecture
“PA’s Role in Presidential Politics: Past & Present,”
G. Terry Madonna, Franklin & Marshall;
Ferguson Theater, UPG, 7:30 pm
(pgnews@pitt.edu)

Friday 16

SBDC Program
“The 2nd Step: Developing a Business Plan”;
Mervis, 7:30-10 am
(register: iee@innovation.pitt.edu)

ULS Director Search Open Forum
WPU ballrm., 9 am

Biomedical Informatics Lecture
“AMD Genetics: Methods & Analyses for Association, Progression & Prediction,”
Wei Chen;
407A/B Baum, 11 am
(tls18@pitt.edu)

Tech Sale/Info Session
“Techtober”;
U Store on 5th, noon
(pittuniversitystore.com)

Psychiatry Lecture
“Cancer & Dementia? It’s Complicated,”
Mary Ganguli; WPIC aud., noon-1:30 pm
(patrickfm@upmc.edu)

Medical Education Grand Rounds
“Integrating Public Health Into Medical Education: Tales From the Trenches & Lessons Learned,”
Christine Seibert, U of WI; 4th fl. Scaife lecture rm. 1, noon
(www.megr.pitt.edu)

Sr. VC Research Seminar
“A Novel Zebrafish Model for Biliary-Driven Liver Regeneration,”
Donghun Shin; Scaife lecture rm. 6, noon
(www.svc-seminar.pitt.edu)

Philosophy of Science Talk
“Managing Complexity: Challenges of Modeling in Integrative Systems Biology,”
Nancy Nersessian, Harvard; 817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)

Senate BPC mtg.
1817 CL, 2 pm

German Lecture
“Reunification for Everybody? Minoritarian Perspectives on German Reunification,”
Priscilla Layne, UNC-Chapel Hill;
4130 Posvar, 3 pm
(www.german.pitt.edu)

Writers’ Café
“Technically Creative/Creatively Technical,”
Nancy Koerbel & Beth Newborg;
317B O’Hara, 3:30-5:30 pm
(writingcenter.pitt.edu)

 

PA Breast Cancer Photo Exhibit Opening Reception
“67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in PA”;
AJ Palumbo Hall, Carlow, 5:30 pm
(pbcc.me/Carlow)

Allegheny Observatory Lecture
“Everything in the Universe Is Terrible: Here’s Why That’s Awesome,”
Brendan Mullan, Buhl Planetarium;
159 Riverview Park, North Side, 7:30 pm
(reservations: www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry/tours.html)

Music on the Edge Concert
“Musical Fusions: Chinese, Japanese & American Intersections”;
Bellefield aud., 8 pm
(also Oct. 17; music.pitt.edu)

Saturday 17

Greensburg Campus Discovery Day
UPG, 9:30 am-1:30 pm
(register: www.greensburg.pitt.edu)

Music on the Edge Symposium
“Musical Fusions: Chinese, Japanese & American Intersections”;
132 Music, 10 am-4 pm
(also Oct. 18; music.pitt.edu)

Sunday 18

The English department and The Pitt News are sponsoring a panel discussion and Q&A Oct. 26 on “Media Internships: Writing on the Job.”  The event will be held in the William Pitt Union ballroom, 7:30-9:30 pm.  Among the participants are, from left: Pitt alumnus Mike Darling, senior editor of Men’s Health; Anne Linaberger, news director of KDKA-TV/WPCW-TV; and Jamie Stockwell, managing editor, San Antonio Express-News.  Other panelists are Brian Braiker, executive editor, Digiday; Hattie Fletcher, managing editor, Creative Nonfiction; Omar Khan, director of football and business administration, Pittsburgh Steelers; Nick Murosky, vice president of public relations and account service, LarsonO’Brien; and Sharon Walsh, founding editor, PublicSource.

The English department and The Pitt News are sponsoring a panel discussion and Q&A Oct. 26 on “Media Internships: Writing on the Job.” The event will be held in the William Pitt Union ballroom, 7:30-9:30 pm.
Among the participants are, from left: Pitt alumnus Mike Darling, senior editor of Men’s Health; Anne Linaberger, news director of KDKA-TV/WPCW-TV; and Jamie Stockwell, managing editor, San Antonio Express-News.
Other panelists are Brian Braiker, executive editor, Digiday; Hattie Fletcher, managing editor, Creative Nonfiction; Omar Khan, director of football and business administration, Pittsburgh Steelers; Nick Murosky, vice president of public relations and account service, LarsonO’Brien; and Sharon Walsh, founding editor, PublicSource.

Feminist Zine Fair
FFA Cloisters, noon-5 pm
(gsws@pitt.edu)

Monday 19

Flu Shot Clinic
102 Benedum, 10 am-2 pm

HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Rose Turner;
Falk classrm.1, 4 pm
(rlt@pitt.edu)

Humanities Lecture
“From Jewish to Black: The Strange Career of the Word Ghetto,”
Daniel Schwartz, GW;
602 CL, 4 pm
(www.jewishstudies.pitt.edu)

Tuesday 20

UPMC Health Plan Wellness Fair
“MyHealth Trip”;
WPU Assembly Rm., 11 am-2 pm
(myhealthtrip@upmc.edu)

Cell Biology Seminar
“A Matter of Architecture: Building Epithelia With Kidney or Hepatocyte Polarity,”
Anne Muesch;
5th fl. boardrm. E&E Inst., 11 am
(cspokora@pitt.edu)

Basic & Translational Research Seminar
“Developmental Pathways in Cancer: Implications in Biology & Therapy,”
Satdarshan Singh Monga;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper conf. rm. D, noon
(toyg@upmc.edu)

Molecular Medicine Research Seminar
“New Pathways of Inflammatory Lung Injury Leading to Small Molecule Discovery,”
Rama Mallampalli;
Dively Aud. Rangos Conf. Ctr., noon
(linda.cherok@chp.edu)

Health Sciences Humanities Workshop
“Connecting to the Present Moment,”
Dennis Schebetta;
402 Salk, noon

Senate CRC Mtg.
272 Hillman, noon

Julian Bond Commemoration
“Building on the Bond Legacy: Where Do We Go From Here?”
Video of Bond’s “Race in America” keynote address & panel discussion;
Connolly Ballrm. Alumni, 5:30-8 pm
(prm15@pitt.edu)

Wednesday 21

Hepatology Rounds
“Liver Pathology,”
Anthony Demetris;
pathology conf. rm. Montefiore, 7 am

Molecular/Cellular Cancer Biology Seminar
“Single Molecule Studies of XPA on DNA,”
Emily Beckwitt;
2nd fl. conf. rm. Hillman Cancer Ctr. Research Pavilion, 9 am
(nixonw@upmc.edu)

Pathology Research Seminar
“Detection of Biliary Tract Malignancy: Cytomorphology & FISH,”
Amy Clayton, Mayo Clinic;
1104 Scaife, noon
(8-1040)

TIES Info Session/Luncheon
Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper classrm. A, noon
(register: http://ties.upmc.com/#infosession)

HSLS Workshop
“Pathway Analysis: NIH DAVID & IPA,”
Ansuman Chattopadhyay;
Falk classrm. 2, 1-3 pm
(ansuman@pitt.edu)

Adoption Studies/English Panel
“Adoption & Narratives of the Human,”
Maggie Jones; Margaret Homans, Yale; Frayda Cohen & SooJin Pate;
602 CL, 3:30 pm
(mnovy@pitt.edu)

Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery Lecture
“Adjunctive Procedures 2,”
Peter Demas;
G33 Salk, 4 pm

Philosophy Lecture
“Wittgenstein on Rule Following: Some Elements,”
Paul Snowdon, U College London;
144 CL, 4:30-6:30 pm
(www.philosophy.pitt.edu)

Pgh Contemporary Writers Lecture
Anthony Marra; FFA aud., 8:30 pm
(www.pghwriterseries.wordpress.com)

Thursday 22

CIDDE Workshop
“Not Speaking the Same Language? 4 Steps to Engaging Your International Students”;
815 Alumni, 10:30 am
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Ctr. for Causal Discovery Lecture
“Integrative Causality Tests for Complex Diseases,”
Jun Zhu, Mt. Sinai;
407A/B Baum, 11 am
(www.ccd.pitt.edu)

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
Chakra Chennubhotla;
6014 BST3, 11 am

Farmers’ Market
WPU driveway, 11:30 am-2:30 pm

Health Services Research Seminar
“eHealth Interventions in Behavioral Health”;
305 Parkvale, noon
(jareed@pitt.edu)

Alzheimer Disease Research Ctr. Seminar
“The Role of the Periphery in Alzheimer’s Disease From a Proteomics Viewpoint,”
Renã Robinson;
ADRC conf. rm. S439 Montefiore, noon

Brain, Behavior & Cancer Seminar
“Subjective Cognitive Decline in Aging,”
Beth Snitz, neurology;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper classrm. C, noon
(oliverdo@upmc.edu)

Humanities Lecture
“Minding the Body: The Animate Body in Antebellum Literature,”
Matthew Rebhorn;
602 CL, 12:30 pm
(www.humanities.pitt.edu)

Chemistry Seminar
“No Strain, No Gain: Advances in the Synthesis & Use of Cyclobutanes,”
Kevin Brown, IN U;
150 Chevron, 2:30 pm
(chemrcpt@pitt.edu)

Academic Career Development Seminar
“Maximize Your Mentoring Relationships: How to Cultivate a Productive Relationship With Your Mentor,”
Darlene Zellers;
O’Hara dining rm., 3-5 pm
(oacd@hs.pitt.edu)

Geology/Planetary Science Colloquium
“Unraveling the Tectonic History of the Southern Appalachians in Alabama: An Orogenic Battleground,”
John Hawkins, Auburn;
11 Thaw, 3:50 pm
(www.geology.pitt.edu/event/fall-2015-colloquium-series)

Archaeological Inst. of America Lecture
“War & Wine: Archaeological Contributions to Ancient Greek Military History,”
Mark Lawall, U of Manitoba;
221 CL, 4 pm

Ctr. for Urban Education Seminar
“You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Look at: Acknowledging Race in Addressing Disproportionality,”
Russell Skiba, IN U;
UClub, 4 pm
(cue@pitt.edu)

Iris Marion Awards Ceremony/Panel Discussion
PAA, 4 pm
(gsws@pitt.edu)

Friday 23

GSPIA Conf.
“Gangs & Trafficking in Central America”;
WPU Assembly Rm., 9 am-4:30 pm
(ridgway.pitt.edu)

Philosophy Master Class
“Persons & Their Identities,”
Paul Snowdon, U College London;
1001B CL, 10 am
(www.philosophy.pitt.edu)

Psychiatry Lecture
“Viewing Eating Disorders Through New Lenses: Genetics & the Intestinal Macrobiotic,”
Cynthia Bulik;
WPIC aud., noon
(patrickfm@upmc.edu)

Memorial Service
For Edward Anthony Jr., professor emeritus in linguistics, who died July 12;
Heinz Chapel, 1:30 pm
(anthonyted@gmail.com)

Classics Lecture
“Virgil’s Mars & the Crafting of Roman Identity,”
Lee Fratanuono;
208A CL, 3 pm

German Colloquium
“A Hotel Fantasia in the Key of Heimat: Carl Lamac’s ‘Im weißen Rößl’ and the Escape of the Cinema in 1930s Austria,”
Andrew Behrendt, history;
“Heteropathia in the Novel: Conceptualizing the Mediation of Emotion in Fin-de-Siècle German Literature,”
Holly Yanacek;
352 CL, 3-4:30 pm

Saturday 24

Bradford Campus Open House
10 am, UPB
(register: www.upb.pitt.edu/visit.aspx)

UCSUR Seminar
“Urban Renewal in Europe: Is Renewing Deprived Areas of European Cities a European Matter?”
Aisling Healy, Université Jean Monnet;
3343 Forbes Ave., noon
(rsvp: swpa@pitt.edu)

Pharmacy Rxtravaganza
CL Commons Rm., 6:30-11 pm
(rsvp: www.pharmacy.pitt.edu/gala)

Monday 26

CSSD Cyber Security Symposium
WPU Assembly Rm., 11 am-2:15 pm
(technology.pitt.edu/security/cyber-security-awareness)

CIDDE Workshop
“Preventing & Monitoring Cheating & Plagiarism”;
815 Alumni, noon
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Humanities Lecture
“The America That Greeted the Diary of Anne Frank: Postwar Jews & the Memory of the Holocaust,”
Hasia Diner, NYU;
144 CL, 7 pm
(jsp@pitt.edu)

English/Pitt News Internship Panel
“Media Internships: Writing on the Job”;
WPU ballrm., 7:30-9:30 pm

Tuesday 27

HSLS Workshop
“Painless Pubmed,”
Rebecca Abromitis;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 9 am
(baa@pitt.edu)

Molecular Medicine Research Seminar
“Autophagy & Lipid Metabolism,”
Rajat Singh;
Dively Aud. Rangos Conf. Ctr., noon
(linda.cherok@chp.edu)

MWRI Work-in-Progress Mtg.
“Feasting, Fasting & Fermenting: Using Yeast as a Model for Glucose Stress Signaling,”
Martin Schmidt;
MWRI conf. ctr., noon

Philosophy of Science Talk
“Reasoning From Regularities: Science & Cognitive Science,”
Matthias Unterhuber, U of Bern;
817 CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)

Thornburgh Disability Law/Policy Lecture
“Taking It Personally,”
Mark Johnson, Shepherd Ctr.;
UClub ballrm. B, 1 pm
(register: www.thornburghforum.pitt.edu)

Pharmacology/Chemical Biology Seminar
“Parallel Genomic Evolution in Late Breast Cancer Recurrence & Metastasis,”
Ryan Hartmaier, MWRI;
1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pm
(412/383-7757)

Greensburg Campus Reading
George Looney & Richard St. John;
Campana Chapel, UPG, 7 pm
(pgnews@pitt.edu)

Wednesday 28

Hepatology Rounds
“PHTN Conference”;
pathology conf. rm. Montefiore, 7 am

Molecular/Cellular Cancer Biology Seminar
“STORM Super-Resolution Imaging in Nucleosome Organization in Breast Cancer Progression,”
Jianquan Xu;
2nd fl. conf. rm. Hillman Cancer Ctr. Research Pavilion, 9 am
(nixonw@upmc.edu)

HSLS Workshop
“Advanced PowerPoint for Presentations,”
Julia Dahm;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 9 am
(jdahm@pitt.edu)

CIDDE Workshop
“Effective Teaching With & Without PowerPoint”;
815 Alumni, 1 pm
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Thursday 29

Ctr. for Simulation/Modeling Seminar
“ARC 2015: Advancing Research Through Computing”;
UClub ballrm. A, 8:20 am-7:30 pm
(wjanocha@gmail.com)

CIDDE Workshop
“Class Participation: What’s It Worth?”;
815 Alumni, 10 am
(www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Health Services Research Seminar
“RAND Mini Presentations”;
305 Parkvale, noon
(jareed@pitt.edu)

Chemistry Seminars
“Targeting Mitochondrial DNA With Organelle-Specific Peptides,”
Shana Kelley, U of Toronto;
150 Chevron, 2:30 pm;
Theodore Goodson III, U of MI;
150 Chevron, 4 pm
(chemrcpt@pitt.edu)

Geology/Planetary Science Colloquium
Marcus Bursik, U at Buffalo;
11 Thaw, 3:50 pm

French/Italian Anniversary Conf.
“Is the Sea History? The Marine Life of Recent Haitian Fiction,”
Martin Munro;
602 CL, 5 pm

Bradford Campus Performance
“Good Night Moon” & “The Runaway Bunny”;
Bromeley Theater, UPB, 6:30 pm
(www.upb.pitt.edu/thearts)

OvreArts Resident Ensemble Concert
Heinz Chapel, 7:30 pm
(www.heinzchapel.pitt.edu)

Football Vs. NC;
Heinz Field, 7 pm

Defenses

Public Health/Human Genetics
“The Role of Mediator Complex Subunit 12 (MED12) in the Murine Reproductive Tract,”
Priya Mittal;
Oct. 23, 109 Parran, 1:30 pm

A&S/Chemistry
“Environmental & Substrate Effect on the Surface Properties of Graphene & Graphite,”
Zhiting Li;
Oct. 28, 307 Eberly, 10 am

GSPIA
“The Politics of Privatizing Governance: The Political & Institutional Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa,”
Caitlin Corrigan;
Oct. 28, 3430 Posvar, 1 pm

Education/Instruction & Learning
“Investigating the Nature of the Relation Between Pre-Service Teachers’ Attention to Students’ Thinking Around High-Level Tasks During Lesson Planning & Students’ Implementation of the Tasking During Instruction,”
Scott Layden;
Oct. 29, 5700 Posvar, noon

A&S/Chemistry
“The Use of Graphene & Its Derivatives in Chemical & Biological Sensing,”
Gregory Morgan;
Oct. 29, 307 Eberly, 1 pm

Theatre

Pitt Stages Production
“Water by the Spoonful”;
Henry Heymann Theatre, Oct. 22-Nov. 1, T-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm
(play.pitt.edu/content/water-spoonful)

Exhibits

Bradford Campus
Works by arts faculty & staff;
KOA Gallery, Blaisdell, UPB, through Oct. 16, 8 am-6 pm
(www.upb.pitt.edu/thearts)

FFA
“Reverberations,”
studio arts & music faculty members;
FFA Gallery, through Oct. 23
(www.studioarts.pitt.edu/content/reverberations)

PA Breast Cancer Coalition Photo Exhibit
“67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in PA”;
AJ Palumbo Hall, Carlow, Oct. 16-26
(pbcc.me/Carlow)

Barco Library
“Panoptica,”
by Jessica Kalmar;
through Nov. 6, M-Th 8 am-10 pm, F 8 am-5 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun noon-10 pm
(8-1376)

Deadlines

Academic Entrepreneurship Course
Register by Oct. 15 for course on Thursdays Oct. 22-Dec. 3
(bcarryer@innovation.pitt.edu)

Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Awards
Nominations due Oct. 16.
(lkirsch@pitt.edu)

Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Awards
Nominations due Oct. 16.
(ghuber@pitt.edu)

Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Awards
Nominations due Oct. 16.
(mredfern@pitt.edu)

Coulter TPII $100K Awards for Translational Research
Letter of intent due Oct. 19.
(www.engineering.pitt.edu/coulter; coulter1@pitt.edu)

Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Nominations due by 9 am Oct. 19. For physical sciences, engineering & chemistry, send to rkc12@pitt.edu. Send nominations for life sciences to sac32@pitt.edu.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Prize for Excellence in Advising Award
Submit nominations to 140 Thackeray by Oct. 31.
(eht3@pitt.edu)

A&S Bellet Teaching Excellence Awards
Submit nominations to 140 Thackeray by Oct. 31.
(clynch@pitt.edu)

ICRE 2016 Admission
Applications due Oct. 31.
(www.icre.pitt.edu/degrees/degrees.aspx)

Event Deadline

The next issue of the University Times will include University & on-campus events of Oct. 29-Nov. 12. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on Oct. 22. Send information to utcal@pitt.edu.

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