Calendar
Thursday 12
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
Andrea Berman,
6014 BST3, 11 am
Epidemiology Seminar
“Do Women Live Too Long?”
Lewis Kuller;
A115 Crabtree, noon
Social Work Lecture
“A Glass Half Full? Discrimination Against Minority Housekeepers,”
Margery Turner;
2017 CL, noon (socialwork.pitt.edu)
EU Ctr./European Studies Seminar
“Sustainability in Sweden: Environmental Issues & the Food Debate,”
Malin Olofsson;
4217 Posvar, noon
Neurobiology/Neuroscience Seminar
“Contemplating Alzheimer’s as Cancer: The Role of Cell Cycle Regulation in Neurodegenerative Diseases,”
Karl Herrup;
S210 BST, noon (cnup.neurobio.pitt.edu)
Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium
“Reconstruction Climate Variability & Vegetation Changes During Pleistocene Interglacial Transitions From Southwestern North America: Valles Caldera Sedimentary Record,”
Sergio Contreras;
11 Thaw, 3:45 pm
Women’s Studies/MRS Panel
“Responses to New Books by Marianne Novy & Jennifer Waldron”;
602 CL, 4 pm
(reception follows; www.wstudies.pitt.edu)
Greensburg Campus Lecture
“The New York Daily News,”
Zerlina Maxwell;
Campana Chapel, UPG, 7 pm
Friday 13
ADHD Conf.
“ADHD & Executive Function: Research & Current Treatment Strategies”;
UClub, 8 am-4 pm (healymk@upmc.edu)
Anthropology Lecture
“Households Inside-Out: Gender as a Fiduciary Device,”
Laura Brown;
2201 Posvar, 10 am (www.anthropology.pitt.edu)
CIDDE Workshops
“CourseWeb: Communication Tools”;
B23 Alumni, 10:30 am-noon;
“The American Recitation”;
815 Alumni, noon-1 pm (cab251@pitt.edu)
Otolaryngology Lecture
“From Calls to Cortex: Auditory Plasticity for Acoustic Communication,”
Robert Liu;
1395 BST, noon (cnup.neurobio.pitt.edu)
Psychiatry Lecture
“Neural Markers of Emotion Regulation in Depression: Toward Understanding Individual Differences in Treatment Response,”
Jay Fournier;
WPIC aud., noon
Human Genetics Seminar
“Consanguinity & Risk for Psychoses,”
Hader Mansoour;
A115 Crabtree, noon
Emerging Legends Concert
Bill Weiner;
Cup & Chaucer, gr. fl. Hillman, noon
Philosophy of Science Talk
“What Makes a Good Experiment? Mendel, Millikan & Others,”
Allan Franklin;
817R CL, 12:05 pm
Oakland Farmers Market
Schenley Plaza, 3-6 pm
(Fridays through Oct. 25; www.oaklandfarmersmarket.org)
Saturday 14
Football Vs. New Mexico;
Heinz Field, 12:30 pm
Sunday 15
Episcopal Service
Heinz Chapel, 11 am
(Sundays: http://pittepiscopalchaplaincy.wordpress.com/)
Concert
Daria Burlak; Heinz Chapel, 3 pm
Pgh Compline Choir Concert
Heinz Chapel, 8 pm
(Sundays: www.compline.lucpgh.com)
Monday 16
Social Work Leadership Program
2017 CL, noon
Engineering Diversity Lecture
“Cross-Cultural Awareness & Understanding,”
Charles Nieman;
102 Benedum, noon (4-9842)
Economics Seminars
“Price Convergence & Fundamentals in Asset Markets With Bankruptcy Risk: An Experiment,”
Tekin Kose; noon;
“On the Side-Corrected Subset LM Test for a Hypothesis on the Coefficient of an Exogenous Variable in the Linear IV Model,”
Patrick Gugenberger;
3:30 pm; 4716 Posvar (www.econ.pitt.edu)
Adoption Studies Film Screening/Panel
“Somewhere Between,”
Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Sarah Springer & Penny Edwards;
1500 Posvar, 7:30 pm
Tuesday 17
• Constitution Day.
Basic & Translational Research Seminar
“Epigenetics of Nuclear Receptor Function,”
Myles Brown;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. conf. rm. D, noon (toyg@upmc.edu)
MMR Seminar
“How Do People Get Type 2 Diabetes & What Should We Do About It: A Translational Science Story,”
Thomas Buchanan;
Rangos aud., noon (linda.cherok@chp.edu)
Senate Community Relations Committee Mtg.
272 Hillman, noon-2 pm
Biology Seminar
“Genes & the Microenvironment: The Two Faces of Breast Cancer,”
Mina Bissell;
A219B Langley, noon (www.biology.pitt.edu)
Philosophy of Science Talk
“Collaborative Explanation,”
Melinda Fagan;
817R CL, 12:05 pm (www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr)
HSLS Workshop
“How to Process Histology Images in Photoshop: The Basics,”
Tejas Tirodkar;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 1 pm (iwema@pitt.edu)
MMG Seminar
“The Battle for Metal Between Bacterial Pathogens & Their Hosts,”
Eric Skaar;
503 Bridge-side Pt. II, 3:15 pm
Bioethics Lecture
“A Journey With Anatomist Antonio Valsalva, From 18th-Century Bologna to 21st-Century Rockport, Maine, With Some Surprising Side Trips,”
Richard Kahn;
Scaife lect. rm. 5, 6 pm (www.bioethics.pitt.edu)
Wednesday 18
HSLS Workshop
“Prezi for Presentations,”
Julia Jankovic;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 am-noon (jcj6@pitt.edu)
ULS Media Day
UClub Ballrm. A, 10 am-12:30 pm (jerin@pitt.edu)
HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Michele Klein-Fedyshin;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 11:30 am (kleinf@pitt.edu)
Artful Wednesdays
Callan;
WPU Nordy’s, noon (pittarts@pitt.edu)
History of Art & Architecture Lecture
“Archaeological Evidence for the Origins of Christianity in Florence,”
Franklin Toker;
FFA aud., noon (8-2400)
HSLS Workshop
“Locating Gene/Protein Information 1: Literature,”
Ansuman Chattopadhyay;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm (ansuman@pitt.edu)
Chancellor Search Forum
WPU Assembly Rm., 3-4:30 pm Greensburg Campus Performance
Brad Yoder;
Village Coffeehouse, UPG, 9 pm
Thursday 19
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
“RNA’s Role in Assembly of Small Icosahedral Viruses,”
Alexander McPherson;
6014 BST3, 11 am
Neurology Lecture
“Risk Factors for Dementia in Normal Elderly Individuals: A Compensation & Vulnerability Pattern,”
Oscar Lopez;
A115 Crabtree, noon
HSLS Workshop
“NIH Public Access Policy Compliance Boot Camp,”
Andrea Ketchum;
Falk Library classrm. 1, noon
(ketchum@pitt.edu)
Immunology Seminar
“Genetically Modified T Cells for HIV,”
Carl June;
Starzl BST 10th fl., noon
(cdw10@pitt.edu)
iSchool Colloquium
“Roadmaps, Roles & Reengineering: Developing Data Informatics Capability in LIS,”
Liz Lyon;
IS 3rd fl., 1:30 pm
HSLS Workshop
“EndNote Basics,”
Melissa Ratajeski;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 2-4 pm
(mar@pitt.edu)
LRDC 50th Anniversary Lecture
“Federalism & School Reform in a Changing Environment,”
Marshall Smith, former undersecretary of education;
UClub, 3 pm (4-7020)
Anthropology Lecture
“Are We Developed Yet? Gender & Development 20 Years After Beijing,”
Kathleen DeWalt;
2700 Posvar, 3 pm
Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium
Clair Welty;
11 Thaw, 3:45 pm
Chemistry Seminar
“Advanced Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials for Waste Heat Recovery,”
Yue Wu;
150 Chevron, 4 pm
Postdoctoral Assn. Fall Family Picnic
Vietnam Veteran’s Pavilion, Schenley Park, 5-8 pm (8-8486)
Greensburg Campus Admissions Presentation
UPG, 5-7 pm (724/836-9880)
Film Studies Lecture
“Beautiful — Hard — & Dangerous! Béla Balázs, Sport Cinematography & the Bergfilm Camera Operator,”
Katie Bird;
1228 CL, 5:30 pm
Book Signing
“Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh’s North Side,”
Dan Rooney & Carol Peterson;
U Store on 5th, 6 pm
Contemporary Writers Lecture
Charles Bock;
FFA aud., 8:30 pm
(www.pghwriterseries.wordpress.com)
Friday 20
Chancellor Search Forum
UClub Ballrm. B., 9-10:30 am
Immunology Lecture
“Immunotherapy for Cancer & Beyond to Autoimmunity,”
Carl June;
520 E&E, 9 am (cdw10@pitt.edu)
CIDDE Workshops
“CourseWeb: Assessment Tools”;
10:30 am-noon; “
Turning Technologies Audience Response Systems”;
B23 Alumni, 1:30-3:30 pm
(cab251@pitt.edu)
Sr. VC’s Research Seminar
“Mechanisms & Functions of Neuronal Plasticity During Normal & Pathological Auditory Processings,”
Thanos Tzounopoulos;
Scaife lect. rm. 6, noon
Psychiatry Lecture
“Brain Structure, Cognitive Function & HIV Disease,”
James Becker;
WPIC aud., noon (wallacecl@upmc.edu)
Economics Seminar
“Leadership & the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: Field Evidence From Bolivia,”
Maria Recalde;
4716 Posvar, noon (www.econ.pitt.edu)
Bioethics & Health Law Colloquium
“When the Patient Is Racist,”
Lisa Parker;
G46 Barco, noon (pischke@pitt.edu)
IS Lecture
“#Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtags,”
Yu-Ru Lin;
5317 Sennott, 12:30 pm (www.isp.pitt.edu)
Dental Medicine Lecture
“Comprehensive Patient Health Care: Back to the Future,”
W. H. Milligan;
2148 Salk, 12:30-3:30 pm
Philosophy Mini-Conf.
“Remembering Joseph Camp”;
UClub Ballrm. A, 1-7 pm (collie@pitt.edu)
Anthropology Lecture
“Farming Friendly Property Rights in the Early Holocene? Neolithic Food Storage, Surplus & Social Differentiation,”
Ian Kuijt;
3106 Posvar, 3 pm
Saturday 21
Greensburg Campus Westmoreland Symphony Chamber Music Concert
Curtis Piano Trio;
Campana Chapel, UPG, 7:30 pm
Sunday 22
Latin American Fair
WPU, noon-5:30 pm
Bradford Campus Concert
Southern Tier Symphony;
Bromeley Theater, UPB, 3 pm
(www.southerntiersymphony.org)
Concert
Kyle Lively, Heinz Chapel, 3 pm
Monday 23
Alumni Assn. Blood Drive
WPU lower lounge, 9 am-2 pm
(hlaraine@pitt.edu)
Johnstown Campus Chancellor Search Forum
Student Union Cambria Rm., UPJ, 10-11:30 am
Chemistry Seminar
“Thermodynamic Strategies for Designing New Catalytic Processes: Coupling Methane to Ethylene & Biofuel Processing,”
Tobin Marks, Northwestern;
150 Chevron, 4 pm
Himalaya Health Care Film/Discussion
“Hearts in the Himalayas,”
David Johnson & Anil Parajuli;
S120 E&EI 5 pm
Tuesday 24
United Way Day of Caring
Various locations, 9 am-4 pm, buses board at 8 am on Bigelow side of Soldiers & Sailors
(Register: www.unitedway.pitt.edu/dayofcaring/projects.php)
CTSI Workshop
“Text Information Extraction System”;
S123 BST, 11 am
(legowskie@upmc.edu)
MMR Seminar
“FLT3: Biology & Targeting for Treatment of Leukemia,”
Donald Small; Rangos aud., noon
(linda.cherok@chp.edu)
Philosophy of Science Talk
“The Philosophy of Space & Time & the Metaphysics of Presence,”
Ori Belkind;
817R CL, 12:05 pm
HSLS Workshop
“PowerPoint for Conf. Posters,”
Julia Jankovic;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 12:30-2:30 pm
(jcj6@pitt.edu)
Medieval & Renaissance Studies Lecture
“Shakespeare. Same-sex. Marriage,”
Julie Crawford, Columbia;
602 CL, 12:30 pm
Chemistry Seminar
“Plastic Solar Cells With Interface Engineering,”
Tobin Marks, Northwestern;
150 Chevron, 2:30 pm
Provost Inaugural Lecture
“Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: Discovery & Implications,”
Yuan Chang, medicine;
Scaife lect. rm. 6, 4 pm
Falk Library Exhibit Presentation
“Life & Limb: Toll of the American Civil War,”
Jeffrey Resnick;
1105 Scaife, 6 pm
Wednesday 25
Hematology & Oncology Grand Rounds
“Update of Targeted Therapies & Molecular Classification of Breast Cancer,”
Adam Brufsky;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. conf. rm. B&C, 8 am (millerc5@pitt.edu)
Titusville Campus Chancellor Search Forum
Henne Aud., UPT, 9-10:30 am
Artful Wednesdays
Jeremy Frantz;
WPU Nordy’s, noon (pittarts@pitt.edu)
HSLS Workshop
“Locating Gene/Protein Information 2: Databases,”
Ansuman Chattopadhyay;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm
(ansuman@pitt.edu)
Greensburg Campus Chancellor Search Forum
Campana Chapel, UPG, 3-4:30 pm
Wine Tasting
“Wine World’s ‘Noble Grapes’”;
UClub Grand Ballrm., 6:30 pm
(RSVP: 8-8213)
Pitt Symphony Orchestra Concert
With cellist David Russell;
Bellefield aud., 8 pm
Greensburg Campus Performance
Jared Mahone;
Village Coffeehouse, UPG, 9 pm
Thursday 26
Pitt-Shanghai People’s Hospital Conf.
“Focus on Metabolism, Vascular & Endocrine Disorders”;
Scaife lect. rm. 1, 9 am-6 pm
(Register: www.surveymonkey.com/s/C8D3TH9)
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
Frank Heinrich;
6014 BST3, 11 am
OTMA Transportation Fair
UClub Ballrm. A, 11 am-2 pm
Sr. VC’s Laureate Lecture
“Coats, Tethers, Rabs & Snares Work Together to Mediate the Specificity of Vesicle Traffic,”
Susan Ferro-Novick;
Scaife lect. rm. 6, noon
Public Health Seminar
“Exposure to Traffic, Air Pollution & Community Noise in Relation to Autoimmune Diseases,”
Anneclaire De Roos, Drexel;
A115 Crabtree, noon
Emerging Legends Concert
Joy Ike;
Cup & Chaucer, gr. fl. Hillman, noon
Chemistry Seminar
“Rational Design of Molecular Materials: Molecular Springs, Solar Cells & More,”
Geoffrey Hutchinson;
150 Chevron, 2:30 pm
Senate PUP Mtg.
4127 Sennott, 3 pm
HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Andrea Ketchum;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 4 pm
(ketchum@pitt.edu)
Concert
“Odd Pairings,”
OvreArts;
Heinz Chapel, 7:30 pm
Defenses
A&S/Chemistry
“Single Molecule Piezoelectrics: From Theory to Experiment,”
Xinfeng Quan;
Sept. 13, 655 Chevron, 10 am
Business/Accounting
“Corporate Social Responsibility: Three Experimental Studies,”
Patrick Martin;
Sept. 13, B75 Mervis, 11:30 am
Medicine/Cellular & Molecular Pathology
“An Expanding Role for Nuclear Factor-KB in Muscle Stem Cells: Implications for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy,”
Jonathan Proto;
Sept. 16, 1103 Scaife, 10 am
Education/Instruction & Learning
“Understanding Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge & Enactment of Text-Based Documents,”
Tracy Humes-Busse;
Sept. 17, 5140 Posvar, noon
A&S/French & Italian Languages & Literatures
“Religious Differences: Subjectivity & Alterity in the ‘Chanson de Roland,’”
Normand Raymond;
Sept. 20, 1325 CL, 11 am
A&S/Hispanic Languages & Literatures
“Entre el Caribe colombiano y el Río de la Plata: modernidad y literatura fantástica,”
Gina Villamizar;
Sept. 23, 1325 CL, 10 am
A&S/Hispanic Languages & Literatures
“Insurgent Poetics: Literature & Alternative Textualities in Contemporary Abya Yala,”
Hannah Burdette;
Sept. 25, 1528 CL, 10 am
SHRS/Communication Science & Disorders
“Influence on Earcanal Occlusion & Air-Conduction Feedback on Speech Production in Noise,”
David Byrne;
Sept. 25, 6012 Forbes Twr., 12:30 pm
Theatre
Pgh Irish & Classical Theatre
“A Skull in Connemara”;
Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster, through Sept. 28; for production times, go to picttheatre.org.
(pittarts@pitt.edu)
Exhibits
Univ. Art Gallery
“Rediscover: The Collection Revealed”;
through Oct. 19, FFA, M-Th 9 am-9 pm, F 9 am-5 pm, Sat & Sun noon-5 pm
Bradford Campus KOA Gallery
“Harri Emery Airport”;
through Oct. 6;
UPB, M-Th 8:30 am-8 pm, F 8:30 am-6 pm
Falk Library
“Life & Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War”;
Sept. 16-Oct. 26, M-Th 7 am-mid., F 7 am-10 pm, Sat 9:30 am-10 pm, Sun 9:30 am-mid.
Barco Law Library
“Collected Posters on Civil Rights & Social Injustice,”
Daniel Paul Melaney;
through Nov. 8; M-Th 7:30 am-10 pm, F 7 am-5 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun noon-8 pm (8-1376)
Deadlines
ADRC Seed Monies Grants
Letter of intent deadline is Sept. 13. Submission deadline is Oct. 11.
(412/692-2731)
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Nomination deadline is Sept. 13.
(gfs49@pitt.edu)
Sloan Foundation Fellowship
Submission deadline is Sept. 16.
ADRC Research Projects
Submission deadline is Sept. 20.
(dunnlo@upmc.edu)
NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
Nominations due Oct. 1.
(gfs49@pitt.edu)
Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Nominations due Oct. 11.
(manfredi@pitt.edu)
Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Award
Nominations due Oct. 11.
(cbalaban@pitt.edu)
NIH Pioneer Award
Submission deadline is Oct. 18.
(jberg@pitt.edu)
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Submission deadline is Oct. 25.
(jberg@pitt.edu)
Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award
Nominations due Oct. 25.
(mredfern@pitt.edu)
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Nominations due to 801 CL by Oct. 25.
(www.pitt.edu/~graduate/maguidelines.pdf)
All Together Better Health VII Call for Abstracts
Submission deadline is Oct. 25.
(atbh7@pitt.edu)
Event Deadline
The next issue of the University Times will include University and on-campus events of Sept. 26-Oct. 10. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on Sept. 19 at 308 Bellefield Hall. Information may be sent by fax to 4-4579 or email to utcal@pitt.edu.
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For deadlines, see the current publication schedule.
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