Thursday 28

Faculty & Staff Development Program
“Online Tools: Connect to Financial Clarity,”
Chris Yoest;
342 Craig, 9-10:30 am

Immunology Eberly Lecture  
“Regulatory T Cells,”
Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.;
Scaife lecture rm. 6, noon

PittServes Farmers’ Market
WPU, noon-3 pm

Provost’s Inaugural Lecture
“Academization of Nursing,”
Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, nursing;
Scaife lecture rm. 6, 4 pm

Friday 29

Faculty & Staff Development Program
“Traveling on University Business,”
Vincent Johns & Rebecca Marcej;
342 Craig, 9 am-noon
(register: www.hr.pitt.edu/training-development/faculty-st)

iSchool Callery Lecture
“Charting the Future of Archives & Archival Work: A Panel Discussion,”
3rd fl. IS, 10:30 am
(RSVP: mbc20@pitt.edu)

Psychiatry Weniger Lecture
“Guns & Mental Illness,”
Paul Appelbaum, Columbia;
WPIC aud., noon
(knoxjv@pitt.edu)

SVC Research Seminar
“Targeting Heart Muscle Cell Proliferation for New Heart Failure Therapies in Infants & Children,”
Bernhard Kühn;
Scaife lecture rm. 6, noon

June

Monday 1

OTMA Community Planning Meetings
“Proposed Bike Share Street Network”;
WPU ballrm., 8 am & 5:30 pm

Psychiatry Conf.
“Mental Health & Public Safety: Issues & Answers — A Community Conversation,”
Karen Hacker, Allegheny Cty. Health Dept., & John Wetzel, PA Dept. of Corrections;
PAA, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
(www.wpic.pitt.edu/oerp/conferences)

Flow Cytometry Workshop
Hillman Cancer Center 2.42 pod lunch area, 9 am

HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Ester Saghafi;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 11:30 am
(esaghafi@pitt.edu)

Tuesday 2

Ctr. for Pharmaceutical Policy & Prescribing Conf.
“The Science of Medication Adherence,”
keynote speakers: John Steiner, Kaiser Permanente, & David Cutler, Harvard;
WPU, 7:30 am–8 pm
(register: http://www.cp3.pitt.edu/conference/registration)

Faculty & Staff Development Program
“Writing With Style — Official University Style, That Is!”
Sarah Jordan Rosenson;
342 Craig, 9-11 am
(register: www.hr.pitt.edu/training-development/faculty-st)

CIDDE Workshop
“Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement”;
815 Alumni, 1 pm
(register: www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)

Wednesday 3

Clinical Oncology & Hematology Grand Rounds
“Immunotherapy in Sarcoma: A New Frontier & PARP Inhibitors in BRCA-Mutated Malignancies & Triple-Negative Breast Cancer,”
Melissa Burgess & Shalu Pahuja;
UPMC Cancer Pavilion Herberman aud., 8 am
(millerc5@pitt.edu)

UPCI Basic Biology of Aging Work Group Retreat
“Mitochondria, Aging & Metabolism,”
Julie Andersen, Buck Institute;
UClub, 11:45 am-5:30 pm
(register: upci.upmc.edu/secure/mamRetreat/index.cfm)

Pathology Seminar
“Adverse Vascular Effects of Radiation Therapy on the Nervous System,”
Bette Kleinschmidt-DeMasters, U of CO;
S120 BST, noon
(8-1040)

Provost’s Inaugural Lecture
“Taking the Road Less Travelled: New Pathways to Promote Immunological Tolerance,”
David Rothstein, surgery, medicine & immunology;
Scaife lect. rm. 6, 4 pm

Thursday 4

• Pitt Alumni National Networking Day
(www.alumni.pitt.edu/news-events/national-networking-day/)

ADRC Seminar
“Does Physical Activity Help Your Brain?”
Kirk Erickson, Ctr. for the Neural Basis of Cognition & Ctr. for Neuroscience;
Hill House Kaufmann Ctr. 2nd fl. conf. rm. 1835 Centre Ave., 2 pm
(RSVP: 412/692-2722)

Friday 5

• Summer 6-week-1 session deadline for students to submit monitored withdrawal forms to dean’s office.

SBDC Workshop
“The 1st Step: Mechanics of Starting a Small Business”;
Mervis, 7:30-10 am
(register: www.entrepreneur.pitt.edu)

UPCI Genome Stability Seminar
“Surprises From Time-lapse X-ray Crystallography of DNA Polymerase Beta,”
Samuel Wilson, NIH;
UPMC-Shadyside west wing aud., noon
(nixonw@upmc.edu)

Psychiatry Meet the PI Lecture
Shirley Hill;
WPIC aud., noon

UCSUR Conf.
“Neighborhood Information Users”;
UClub, 1-5 pm
(pncis@pitt.edu)

Saturday 6

• Summer 4-week-1 session ends. Final exams scheduled during last class meeting.

Sunday 7

Ukrainian Nationality Rm. Concert
“Ukrainian Rm. 25th Anniversary”;
FFA aud., 3-5 pm
(4-6150)

Monday 8

• Summer 4-week-2 session enrollment period ends & classes begin.

Dental Presentation
“Are Dental Implants the Right Choice for You?”
Richard Bauer & Steven Kukunas;
355 Salk, noon
(register: 8-8402)

Tuesday 9

Faculty & Staff Development Program
“Making Meetings Work,”
Mark Burdsall, 342 Craig, 9 am-12:30 pm
(register: www.hr.pitt.edu/training-development/faculty-st)

HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,”
Andrea Ketchum;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 4:30 pm
(ketchum@pitt.edu)

Wednesday 10

• Summer 4-week-1 session grades must be approved by instructors by 11:59 pm before final posting can begin.

• Summer 4-week-2 session add/drop period ends.

Clinical Oncology & Hematology Grand Rounds
“Research Efforts to Improve Clinical Outcomes of Gastrointestinal Cancer & Outcomes in Metastatic Breast Cancer: The Pgh. Experience,”
Gaurav Goel & Aju Mathew;
UPMC Cancer Pavilion Herberman aud., 8 am
(millerc5@pitt.edu)

HSLS Workshops
“EndNote Basics,”
Andrea Ketchum;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 am-noon
(ketchum@pitt.edu);
“Gene Regulation Resources,”
Ansuman Chattopadhyay;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 1 pm
(ansuman@pitt.edu)

Pathology Seminar
“Pancreatic Cancer 2015: Advances & Challenges,”
Anirban Maitra;
1104 Scaife, noon
(8-1040)

Thursday 11

Faculty & Staff Development Program
“Recruiting 101: Understanding the Staff Hiring Process at Pitt,”
Amy Miller & Sarah Morgan, 342 Craig, 9-11:30 am
(register: www.hr.pitt.edu/training-development/faculty-st)

HSLS Workshop
“Advanced PowerPoint for Presentations,”
Julia Dahm; Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 am
(jdahm@pitt.edu)

CTSI Workshop
“Performing Animal Research: The Do’s & Don’ts (RCR)”;
S123 BST, noon
(www.ctsi.pitt.edu/registration.aspx?number=147)

UPCI Seminar
“Role of the Microbiota in Tissue Immunity & Cancer,”
Yasmine Belkaid, NIH, & Giorgio Trinchieri, NIH;
UPMC-Shadyside west wing aud., 2 pm
(alisasisva@upmc.edu)

Yugoslav Nationality Rm. Lecture
“The Christian Heritage of Kosovan & Metohija,”
Bishop Maxim, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North & South America;
142 & 144 CL, 7 pm
(4-6150)

Defenses

SHRS/Rehabilitation Science & Technology
“Development & Evaluation of an Assistive Prompting System for People With Traumatic Brain Injury,”
Jing Wang;
May 28, 4060 Forbes Twr., 9 am

A&S/Religious Studies
“Mother Knows Best: Methodism, 7th-Day Adventism & Dietary Morality in Victorian America,”
Emily Bailey;
May 28, 2628 CL, 10 am

A&S/Geology & Planetary Science
“Geometry, Kinematics, Exhumation & Sedimentation of the Northern Bolivian Fold-Thrust-Belt-Foreland Basin System,”
Adam Rak;
May 28, 214 SRCC, 1 pm

Business
“Why Auditors Are Unable to See Their Own Behavior as Others Do: Understanding a Potential Blind Spot,”
Michele Frank;
May 28, 101 Mervis, 1 pm

A&S/English
“Compliant Circulation: Children’s Writing, American Periodicals & Public Culture, 1839-82,”
Jessica Issac;
June 3, 501 CL, 10 am

Medicine/Ctr. for Neuroscience
“Quantification of GAD67 Protein Levels in Axonal Boutons From GABA Neuron Subtypes in Schizophrenia: Redefining Cell-type Specific Alterations,”
Brad R. Rocco;
June 4, LRDC 2nd fl. conf. rm., 9 am

Medicine/Molecular Pharmacology
“PTPRT/D Mutation of Promoter Methylation: Implications for STAT3 Inhibition,”
Noah David Peyser;
June 5, 1395 BST, 1:30 pm

Business
“Promotion, Relative Performance Information & the Peter Principle,”
Eric Chan;
June 9, 101 Mervis, 10 am

Medicine/Computational Biology
“Probabilistic Latent Factor Models for Transformative Drug Discovery,”
Murat Can Cobanoglu;
June 9, 6014 BST3, 3 pm

A&S/Economics
“Essays in International Economics,”
Kiyoung Jeon;
June 10, 4716 Posvar, 9 am

A&S/Economics
“Essays in International & Financial Economics,”
Zeynep Kabukcuoglu;
June 10, 4900 Posvar, 10:30 am

A&S/Economics
“The Lasting Impact of Early Life Inequalities,”
H. Ray Miller;
June 10, 4940 Posvar, 1 pm

Public Health/Epidemiology
“Maternal Obesity, Gestational Weight Gain & Offspring Cognition, Behavior & Academic Achievement,”
Sarah Pugh;
June 11, A622 Crabtree, 10 am

A&S/English
“Public History & Social Archives: Toward a New Look at Murder in the 21st Century,”
Trisha Campbell;
June 11, 501 CL, noon

Theatre

PICT Production
“How the Other Half Loves”; Randall Theatre, through June 13
(times & tickets: www.picttheatre.org/play/half-loves)

Exhibits

Falk Library
“Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health & Illness,”
through May 31;
Th 7 am-mid., F 7 am-10 pm, Sat 9:30 am-10 pm, Sun 11 am-mid.

Special Collections
“Building Global Networks: The Habsburg Monarchy’s Contribution to the Age of Discovery & Exploration”;
through June 30, 363 Hillman, M-F 9 am-4:45 pm

Barco Library Exhibit
“The Only Perfect Quiet,”
Tony Cavalline;
through June 20, M-Th 8 am-6 pm, F 8 am-5 pm, Sat 9 am-5 pm

Deadlines

Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise
Application deadline is June 15.
(www.vilcek.org/prizes/creative-promise/biomedical-science.html)

CTSI Pitt Innovation Challenge (PInCh)
Submit a 2-minute video by June 29.
(www.pinch.pitt.edu)

Pew Scholars Program to Fund Assistant Professor Research
Application package due July 8.
(www.ctsi.pitt.edu/documents/Pew.pdf)

Event Deadline

The next issue of the University Times will include University & on-campus events of June 11-25. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm on June 4. Send information to utcal@pitt.edu.

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For deadlines, see the current publication schedule.

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