March

Thursday 17

Alzheimer Seminar
“The Alzheimer’s Assn. — Services & Prog rams,” Suzanne Weisses; S439 Montefiore, noon

CIDDE Workshop
“Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement”; 815 Alumni, noon

Senate AAA Mtg.
272 Hillman, 4 pm

History & Philosophy of Science Distinguished Lecture
“Framing Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives & Investigative Practices,” Domenico Meli; 817R CL, 4 pm

Global Health Film Screening
“The OxyContin Express”; G23 Parran, 7 pm

Global Health Film Screening
“The Naked Truth: Death by Fentanyl”; G23 Parran, 7 pm

Friday 18

UPCI Symposium
“Viruses & Cancer”; Herberman Conf. Ctr., 8 am-1:30 pm

CS Day
5th & 6th fl. Sennott, 11:30 am-5:30 pm

East Asian Colloquium
“Turning Crisis Into a Blessing: The Evolution of Japanese Culture Through Disaster”; 4130 Posvar, noon

Careers à la Carte
“Marketing”; S100 Starzl BST, noon (register: www.oacd.health.pitt.edu)

Psychiatry Lecture
“Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex: This Is Your Brain on Steroids,” David Rubinow; WPIC aud., noon

Titusville Campus Buffet Dinner
McKinney Commons, UPT, 4:30 pm (rsvp: 814-827-4431)

Senate Research Com. Mtg.
156 CL, 1 pm

Saturday 19

Mindfulness Fair
FFA, 10 am (www.humanities.pitt.edu)

Latin American/Caribbean
Festival Posvar, noon-10 pm

Jazz Ensemble Big Band Festival
Bellefield aud., 1-4 pm (www.music.pitt.edu)

Sunday 20

Humanities Seminar
“Poetry & Race in America: How the Humanities Engage With Social Problems,” Janera Solomon; Kelly Strayhorn Theater Alloy Studios, East Liberty, 5 pm (www.humanities.pitt.edu)

Humanities Concert
“Happy Hour!” Ion Sound Project; Bellefield aud., 7 pm (www.music.pitt.edu)

Monday 21

GSWS Seminar
“Taking the Heat: Women Chefs & Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen,” Deborah Harris; 1228 CL, 4 pm (www.gsws.pitt.edu)

Mindfulness/Consciousness Seminar
“The Promises & Problems of Mindfulness: Between Mental Stillness & Mental Illness,” James Robson, Harvard; WPU, 5 pm

Humanities Seminar
“Poetry & Race in America: How the Humanities Engage With Social Problems,” Terrance Hayes, English; FFA aud., 7 pm (www.humanities.pitt.edu)

Tuesday 22

Cell Biology Seminar
“Mechanisms of Intercellular Adhesion in a Contractile System,” Adam Kwiatkowski; 5th fl. boardrm. Eye & Ear Institute, 11 am

Basic/Translational Research Seminar
“The Pros & Cons of DNA Repair,” Leona Samson; Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper Conf. Ctr. rm. D, noon (toyg@upmc.edu)
English Discussion
“A Long View: Some Turns (& Returns) of an Academic Life,” Judith Summerfield; 601 CL, 12:30 pm (www.english.pitt.edu)

CIDDE Workshop
“Gamifying the Classroom”; 815 Alumni, 2 pm (www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Humanities Film Screening
“Kings on the Hill: Baseball’s Forgotten Men”; 3106 Posvar, 2 pm (www.humanities.pitt.edu)

HSLS Workshop
“Advanced PowerPoint for Presentations,” Julia Dahm; Falk Library classrm. 2, 2:30 pm

Wednesday 23

Humanities Seminar
“Baroque Art: A Global Style,” Rachel Miller; WPU Assembly Rm., 1 pm (www.cgs.pitt.edu)

CGS Panel
“Enriching or Riches? A Panel on the Role of Humanities in Our Professional & Personal Lives”; WPU Assembly Rm., 3 pm (www.cgs.pitt.edu)

English Reading
“The Places We Come From & the Shape of Our Lives,” Judith Summerfield; 501 CL, 4:30 pm (www.english.pitt.edu)

Documentary Screening
“In Football We Trust”; Public Health Laboratory Pavilion G23, 6 pm

Thursday 24

Senate EIADAC Mtg.
826 CL, 11 am

HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,” Pat Weiss; Falk Library classrm. 1, 1 pm (pwf@pitt.edu)

Provost’s Inaugural Lecture
“Adult Stem Cells & Biomimetic Matrices for Tissue Engineering & Modeling: Repair, Restore & Re-create,” Rocky Tuan, medicine; Scaife lecture rm. 6, 4 pm

Institute of Politics Civic Forum
“Never a Spectator”; Alumni ballrm., 4-7:30 pm

Chemistry Seminar
“Targeting Pathogenic Microorganisms With Stapled Hellices,” Federico Bernal; 150 Chevron, 4 pm

Women’s History Month Seminar
“Shaping Your Future Through Mentoring”; UClub Gold Rm., 4 pm

Friday 25

Senate CUC Mtg.
717 CL, 10 am

Senate BPC Mtg.
156 CL, 2 pm

Monday 28

• Fall term enrollment appointments begin.

HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,” Rebecca Abromitis; Falk Library classrm. 1, 11:30 am (baa@pitt.edu)

Hispanic Lecture
“From Atlantis to Babylon: Hart Crane & Jose Lezama Lima in Havana & New York,” José Quiroga; 230 CL, 1 pm

French/Italian Seminar
“Transforming the Château de Versailles Into a National Museum,” Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre, 6 pm

Tuesday 29

Senate Mental Health Task Force Seminar
“Depression: Cost, Stigma & Treatment,” Crystal White; Kurtzman Rm. WPU, noon

Molecular Medicine Research Seminar
“Molecular Determinants of Influenza Virus Transmission,” Seema Lakdawala; Rangos Research Conf. Ctr., noon (linda.cherok@chp.edu)

Basic/Translational Research Seminar
“Role of the BRCA2-DSS1 Complex in Chromosome Damage Repair,” Patrick Sung; Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper Conf. Ctr. rm. D, noon (toyg@upmc.edu)

Wednesday 30

Pathology Research Seminar
“PAPERCLIP: A Powerful New Technique to Decode mRNA Alternative Polyadenylation & Identify Regulatory 3’UTR Sequence Elements,” Hun-Way Hwang; 1104 Scaife, noon

Univ. Senate Plenary Session
“Academic Freedom in the 21st Century: Challenges & Opportunities”; WPU Assembly Rm., noon-3 pm

German Lecture
“The Hebrew Bible & the Roots of Modern German Literature,” Karin Schutjer; 602 CL, 4 pm

Thursday 31

PACWC Women’s History Month Workshop
“Negotiating Skills for Women,” Ayana Ledford, 548 WPU, 11 am

Dick Thornburgh Discussions on Governance Lecture
“Public-Private Partnerships: The Best Governance Structure to Create Transformation Change,” William Generett, Urban Innovations21; WPU lower lounge, noon (rsvp: www.thornburghforum.pitt.edu)

Library Freedom Workshop
“Digital Privacy Workshop for Librarians”; 3rd fl. Information Sciences, 1 pm (rsvp: https://ischoolatpitt.wufoo.com/forms/library-freedom-project-rsvp/)

Senate EPC Mtg.
826 CL, 3 pm

Defenses

A&S/Music
“Validating the Voice in the Music of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross,” Lee Ellen Martin; March 23, 114 Music, 9 am

A&S/Religious Studies
“Tradition & Individualism in Suburbia: An Ethnographic Study of Orthodox Jewish Women,” Rebecca Slavin-Phillips; March 28, 2628 CL, 10 am

A&S/Geology & Environmental Science
“Contaminated Groundwater Flow Control Across an Inverted Groundwater Divide With 3 Groundwater Control Devices,” Christopher Hortert; March 28, 214 SRCC, 10 am

A&S/Music
“Composing Between the Sounds: A Structural Excursion Into Gérard Grisey’s Modulations,” Nizan Leibovich; March 28, 302 Music, noon
A&S/Geology & Environmental Science
“Integrated Analysis & Interpretation of Microseismic Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale,” Erich Zorn; March 28, SRCC 519, 1 pm

A&S/Philosophy
“Cognition in Practice: Conceptual Development & Disagreement in Cognitive Science,” Mikio Akagi; March 28, 1001D CL, 1:30 pm

Public Health/Human Genetics
“Computational Methods for Calculating Meiotic Recombination From Nuclear Pedigrees,” Nandita Mukhopadhyay; March 29, 309B Parran, 10 am

A&S/Religious Studies
“The Funerary Buddha: Material Culture & Religious Change in Introduction of Buddhism to China,” Margarita Delgado Creamer; March 30, 2628 CL, 8:45 am

A&S/Biological Sciences
“Capsid Structure & DNA Packing in Jumbo Bacteriophages,” Jianfei Hua; March 30, A219B Langley, noon

A&S/Linguistics
“(Re)structuring Structures, Speech & Selves: Yoruba Language Learning & Redevelopment in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil,” Adrienne Washington; March 30, 2809 CL, 12:30 pm

A&S/Chemistry
“In Vivo Monitoring of Neurotransmitter Serotonin & Dopamine in the Striatum of Freely Moving Rats With 1 Minute Temporal Resolution by Online Microdialysis Coupled With Capillary HPLC,” Jing Zhang; March 30, 307 Eberly, 1 pm

A&S/Linguistics
“The Development of English Vowels by Native Spanish Speakers,” Andrew Jeske; March 31, 2818 CL, 10 am

Health & Rehabilitation Sciences/Sports Medicine & Nutrition
“Comparisons in Physical Characteristics of Professional Ballet & Collegiate Dancers,” Valerie Williams; March 31, 104 Neuromuscular Research Lab, noon

Medicine/Molecular Virology & Microbiology
“Characterization of Inducible Reservoirs of HIV-1,” Anthony Cillo; March 31, 1103 Scaife, 1 pm

Exhibits CGS
“Human Beings/Being Human”; March 23, 1400 Posvar, 4 pm (www.cgs.pitt.edu)

Barco Law Library
“Oracles & Vesicles,” Michael Walter; through May 27, 5-8 pm

WPU Kimbo Gallery
“A Visual Perspective: A Celebration of Campus, Culture & Community,” Pitt CIDDE photographers Tom Altany, Mike Drazdzinski & Aimee Obidzinski ; March 29-April 6, WPU main fl., M 10 am-5 pm, T-Th 10 am-6 pm, F 10 am-5 pm (www.cidde.pitt.edu)

Deadlines

Humanities Video Contest
Submissions due March 21. (www.humanities.pitt.edu)

Ctr. for Industry Studies Research Grant
Proposals due March 31. (www.universityannouncements.pitt.edu/RFP0215.pdf) Pitt Innovation Challenge 2-minute videos due April 4. (www.universityannouncements.pitt.edu/CTSI-PINCH%200219.pdf)

Kappa Delta Pi Book Drive
Donate new/gently used books for ages 4-7 at 311 Bellefield Hall by April 8. (kdppitt@pitt.edu)

ProtoHype
2-minute videos due April 11. (www.universityanouncements.pitt.edu/hype030316.pdf)

Event Deadline

The next issue of the University Times will include University & on-campus events of March 31-April 14. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on March 24. Send information to utcal@pitt.edu.

***

The University Times events calendar includes Pitt-sponsored events as well as non-Pitt events held on a Pitt campus. Each events calendar covers a two-week period; material must be submitted one week prior to publication.

For deadlines, see the current publication schedule.

Information submitted for the calendar should identify the type of event, such as lecture or concert, and the program’s specific title, sponsor, location and time. The name and phone number of a contact person should be included. Information should be sent by email to: utcal@pitt.edu, by FAX to: 412/624-4579, or by campus mail to: 308 Bellefield Hall. We cannot guarantee publication of events received after the deadline.