University Times

Thursday 21

Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds

“Hand Conditions: What Every Emergency Physician Should Know,” Kodi Azari;

“Morbidity & Mortality Conference,” Tracy Moore;

“Oral Core Content Session,” Gary Pollock;

“Potpourri,” Kaveh Ilkhanipour;

230 McKee Pl. classrm. A, 8 am-noon

Business & Financial Services Workshop

“Purchasing Fundamentals”;

342 Craig, 9 am-3 pm

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar

“DNA Poised for Release in Phage phi29: A Tale of 3 Tails & 1 Twist,”

Timothy Baker;

6014 BST3, 11 am

Asia Over Lunch Lecture

“Is Resultative Meaning More Difficult Than Progressive Meaning in the Acquisition of the Imperfective Aspect -te i-ru in Japanese?”

Yasuhiro Shirai;

4130 Posvar, noon (8-7370)

Endocrine Research Conference

“Regulation of Cell Death & Survival in Tissue Injury & Cancer Therapy,”

Xiao-Ming Yin;

1195 Starzl BST, noon

Epidemiology Seminar

“Pathways to Preterm Delivery: A Missing Link?”

Claudia Holzman;

A115 Crabtree, noon

CIDDE Faculty Development Workshop

“Preventing Cheating & Plagiarism,”

Barbara Frey & Rich Oravetz;

815 Alumni, noon-1:30 pm (3-9729)

Immunology Seminar

“Immunotherapy of Cancer: Directing the Right T Cells Into Tumors,”

Pawel Kalinski;

Scaife aud. 5, noon (8-7050)

Chemistry Colloquium

“Alkyne Functionalization in the Service of Natural Product Synthesis,”

Joseph Ready, U of TX;

12B Chevron, 2:30 pm

Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Seminar

“Dangerous Duplications: Genomic Instability Induced by the HPV-16 E7 Oncoprotein,”

Stefan Duensing;

1295 Starzl BST, 2:30 pm

Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium

“Spatial Properties of Soil Moisture & Data Assimilation,” Xu Liang; 203 Thaw, 4 pm

Chemistry Colloquium

“Optical Properties of Metal Nanostructures: Electrodynamics & Electronic Structure Studies,”

George Schatz, Northwestern;

12 A Chevron, 4 pm

Ctr. for Integrative Medicine Workshop

“Everyday Exercise & Healing Without Stress,”

Mark Shefsiek;

580 S. Aiken Ave. Suite 310, Shadyside, 5:30 pm (412/623-3023)

Medical History Society Lecture

“Southern History, Rats & Fleas: Murine Typhus in the U.S.,”

Gregory Anstead, U of TX;

Scaife aud. 5, 6 pm (8-8927)

McLean Lecture in World Law

“U.S. Sovereignty & the War on Terror After Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,”

Charles Swift;

Teplitz courtrm., Barco, 6 pm

Public Debate

“Should Investors Adopt Guidelines for Socially Responsible Investing?”

William Pitt Debating Union;

343 Alumni, 6:30-7:30 pm (4-2887)

Global Studies Film Screening

“Turtles Can Fly”;

FFA aud., 7 pm (4-4238)

UHC Panel Discussion

“2008 Political Pundits: On the Bus & on the Beat”;

20th Century Club, 4201 Bigelow Blvd., Oakland, 7:30 pm (4-9101)

Women’s Studies Film Screening

“Searching for Angela Shelton”;

G324 CL, 7:30 pm

Friday 22

EUCE Conference

“Interzone EU: Crossroads of Migration”;

1228 CL, 9 am-6:30 pm (also Feb. 23, 232 CL; 4-5909)

Endocrine Conference

“Update in Diabetic Nephropathy,”

Linda Fried;

1195 Starzl BST, 9:30 am

Computer Science CS Day ’08

Sennott Sq. 5th & 6th fls., 10 am-4 pm

General Internal Medicine Conference

“‘A Tale of 2 Patients’: A Review of Risks & Benefits of Antithrombotic Therapy for Stroke Prophylaxis in the Elderly,”

Harish Jasti;

“Meta-Analysis: Antithrombotic Therapy to Prevent Stroke in Patients Who Have Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation,”

Rosanne Granier;

W933 Montefiore, 10 am

Pulmonary Grand Rounds

“MAC versus PC: The Never-Ending Struggle,”

Robert Hoffman;

NW628 Montefiore, noon

Senate Budget Policies Committee Meeting

527 CL, noon-2 pm

Ctr. for Philosophy of Science Lecture

“Making Models Count,”

Anna Alexandrova, U of MO-St. Louis;

817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)

Dental Oral Health Lecture

“Candidate Gene Studies in Dental Caries,”

Mary Marazita; 458 Salk, 1 pm

Translational Neuroscience Program Seminar

“Hippocampal Neurogenesis & Depression: New Insights From Rodent Models,”

Catherine Belzung;

1695 Starzl BST, 1 pm

Classics Lecture

“Aristotle on the Pleasures of Tragedy,”

Pierre Destree, U of MD;

244A CL, 3:30 pm (4-4494)

Global Studies Film Screening

“Forget Baghdad”;

FFA aud, 7 pm (4-4238)

Saturday 23

Greensburg Campus FAFSA Workshop

McKenna, UPG, 9 am-noon (724/836-9880)

European Studies Lecture

“Accented Cinema & Multiplexity,”

Hamid Naficy, Northwestern;

232 CL, 2 pm

Johnstown Campus Alumni Assn. Dinner

“UPJ Proud Celebration”;

Living/Learning Ctr., Heritage, UPJ, 5:30 pm (814/269-2080)

REES Lecture

“Where Historians Fear to Tread: History & Memory in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation,”

Kate Brown, U of MD;

FFA aud., 5:30 pm

Bradford Campus Concert

Tempesta di Mare;

Bromeley Family Theatre, Blaisdell, UPB, 7:30 pm (814/362-5113)

Sunday 24

Men’s Basketball vs. Louisville;

Petersen, noon

Monday 25

Continuing Dental Education

“Potpourri of Endodontics Issues,”

George Bruder;

2148 Salk, 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Infectious Disease Seminar

“Persistence of Mycobacteria in Fatty Biofilms,”

Anil Ojha;

A115 Crabtree, noon

Music Monday

Bellefield Hall aud., 8 pm

Tuesday 26

GI Pathophysiology Meeting

“Vascular Disease of Liver/Portal Hypertension & Budd Chiari Syndrome,”

Kapil Chopra & Sandra El-Hachem;

Presby, GI admin. conf. rm., M2, C Wing, 7:30 am

PACCM Joint Collaborative Conference

“Mathematical Modeling of Biological Uncertainty,”

Gilles Clermont;

NW628 Montefiore, 11:30 am-1 pm

Ctr. for Vaccine Research Seminar

“Regional Innate & Adaptive Immune Responses to Infection With Enteric Viruses,”

Christopher Cuff;

6014 BST3, noon

EUCE Lecture

“Entrepreneurship in Europe & the U.S.,”

Thomas Schott, U of S. Denmark;

4130 Posvar, noon (4-5404)

CGS Lunch & Learn

“Dress for Success,”

Michelle Talbert-Horsey;

McCarl Ctr., 4th fl., CL, 1-2 pm

Faculty Assembly Meeting

2700 Posvar, 3 pm

Health Sciences Faculty Professional Development & Postdoc Professionalism Seminar

“Managing a Lab: Practical Tips for Early Career Investigators,”

Sally Kornbluth;

S120 Starzl BST, 3-5 pm

Computational Biology Seminar

“Drug Discovery: Changing Approaches & the Roles of Biology & Chemistry,”

Christopher Lipinski;

6014 BST3, 4 pm

Green Chemistry Seminar

“Design Rules for Molecular Structures of Reduced Hazard,”

Paul Anastas, Yale;

12A Chevron, 4 pm

Ridgway Panel Discussion

“National Security for a New Era,”

U.S. Army War College current affairs panel;

630 WPU, 4-5:30 pm

Endocrinology & Metabolism Bone Club

“Pathophysiology of Paget’s Disease,”

David Roodman;

1195 Starzl BST, 4:30 pm

Women’s Basketball vs. WVU:

Petersen, 8 pm

Wednesday 27

Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds

Michael Pagnotto;

Montefiore 7th fl. aud., 7 am

Clinical Oncology & Hematology Grand Rounds

“Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Challenges & Progress,” Joseph Kiss; UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Herberman Conf. Ctr., 2nd fl. aud., 8 am

Healthy Lifestyle Fair

WPU Ballrm., 11 am-2 pm

HSLS Workshop

“PubMed Basics”;

Falk Library classrm. 1, 10-11:30 am

Global Studies Lecture

“Effective Programming for International Students Based on Their Perceived Social & Cultural Needs,”

Mayumi Terano;

4130 Posvar, noon (4-2918)

NIH Career Development Award Workshop

“K99/R00 Workshop,”

Joan Lakoski & Robert Milner;

S120 Starzl BST, noon-2 pm

Pathology Maud Menten Lecture

“Met & Malignancy,”

George Vande Woude;

1105 AB Scaife, noon (8-1040)

Women’s Studies Lecture

“Subtly Sexist Language,”

Pat Chew, law;

2201 Posvar, noon

HSLS Workshop

“Peptide Mass Fingerprinting for Protein Identification”;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm

Men’s Basketball vs. Cincinnati;

Petersen, 7:30 pm

Pgh. Contemporary Writers Reading

Philip Gourevitch;

FFA aud., 8:30 pm

State of the Black Student Union Address

WPU Ballrm., 9 pm (8-7880)

Thursday 28

NIH Career Development Award Workshop

“General K Award Workshop,”

Joan Lakoski & Robert Milner;

S100 Starzl BST, 8:30-10:30 am

International Conference

“Beyond Global Warming”;

9 am-5:10 pm, Sennott Square (www.as.pitt.edu/news/articles/global_warming_conf.html)

HSLS Workshop

“Adobe Photoshop for Beginners”;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 am-noon

Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar

“The Role of Flanking Sequences in Polyglutamine Aggregation:A Glimpse Behind the Veil of Intrinsic Disorder,”

Ronald Wetzel;

6014 BST3, 11 am

Immunology Seminars

“The Role of CD137 Co-stimulatory Molecule in Autoimmune Diabetes,”

Kritika Kachapati;

“Costimulation via TNF Receptor Family Members Induces Late-Stage Tumor Rejection,”

Angela Pardee;

Scaife aud. 5, noon (8-7050)

Asia Over Lunch Lecture

“Does Public Health Reach Them?”

Ying Peng;

4130 Posvar, noon (8-7763)

Ctr. for Bioethics & Health Law Grand Rounds

“The Controversy Over Complicity of Health Professionals in Abusive Post-9/11 Interrogation Tactics,”

Gregg Bloche, Georgetown;

G23 Parran, noon

Epidemiology Seminar

“The Duquesne Project: Development of an Awareness & Training Model for Community-Based Emergency Preparedness,”

Sam Stebbins;

A115 Crabtree, noon

Women’s Studies Lecture

“Victim Stories,”

Francesca Polletta, UC-Irvine;

2413 Posvar, noon

Dental Medicine Faculty Development Lecture

“Anesthesia Department Update on Clinic Emergency Kits,”

Michael Cuddy;

457 Salk, 1 pm

Chemistry Colloquium

“Tracking Electrons & Atoms in Molecules by X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy: From Ultra Slow to Ultra Fast,”

Lin Chen, Northwestern;

12B Chevron, 2:30 pm

Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium

“NASA’s Future Lunar Exploration Program: What Can We Learn About Earth Processes From the Lunar Surface?”

Mike Ramsey;

203 Thaw, 4 pm

HA&A Lecture

“Strangers in a Strange New Land: How the Immigrant, the Colonizer and the Conqueror Used Sacred Architecture to Establish Identity,”

Ann Wilkins & David Wilkins;

202 FFA, 4 pm

History E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture

“Magna Carta Manifesto,”

Peter Linebaugh, U of Toledo;

FFA aud., 7:30 pm (8-7451)

Friday 29

SBDC Workshop

“The 2nd Step: Business Planning Workshop”;

Mervis, 7:30-10 am (8-1542)

Endocrine Conference

“Permanent Neonatal Diabetes,”

Louis Phillipson; 1195 Starzl BST, 9:30 am

HSLS Workshop

“PowerPoint for Beginners & Advanced PowerPoint”;

Falk Library classrm. 2, 9 am-1 pm

Board of Trustees Meeting

WPU Assembly Rm., 10:15 am

CIDDE Faculty Development Workshop

“PowerPointers: Or, Avoiding That Glazed-Over Stupor,”

Carol Washburn; 815 Alumni, noon-1:30 pm

Pharmacology Seminar

“Role of Estrogen Receptors in Lung Cancer,”

Harish Srinivas; 1395 Starzl BST, noon

Dental Oral Health Lecture

“Molecular Therapies for the Prevention & Treatment of Craniosynostosis,” Mark Mooney; 458 Salk, 1 pm

East Asian Languages & Literatures Colloquium

“Mulan on Stage & Page,”

Xiaosu Sun;

4130 Posvar, 2 pm (4-5568)

Honors Convocation

“Hard Times on Planet Earth: How Human Ingenuity Has Gotten Us in Trouble With the Natural World & How It Can Help Us Build a Model of Stewardship for the Future,”

Maxwell King;

Carnegie Music Hall, 2 pm (4-4202)

Linguistics Colloquium

“Adult Learners, Native Speakers & ‘Gaelic Grannies’: How Ideologies Shape the Gaelic Language Socialization of Adults in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland,”

Emily McEwan;

332 CL, 3 pm

Ctr. for Philosophy of Science Lecture

“Mutation, Chance & Heredity: Some Historical Roots,”

Theodore Porter, UCLA;

817R CL, 3:30 pm (4-1052)

History/Religious Studies Lecture

“Jewish Eyes, 1140-1180,”

Sara Lipton, SUNY-Stony Brook;

501 CL, 4 pm (4-5220)

Johnstown Campus Dance Show

Wacongo Dance Company;

Pasquerilla Performing Arts Ctr., UPJ, 7 pm (814/269-2080)

March

Saturday 1

EUCE Grad Student Conference

“The Future of the EU: Addressing the Challenges of Governance, Economics & Multiculturalism”;

PAA, 9 am-5:30 pm

Greensburg Campus Concert

“Venerable Rivers of Gold,” Pitt Gamelan;

Ferguson Theatre, UPG, 7 pm (724/836-7741)

Monday 3

CIDDE Faculty Development Workshop

“Go the Distance: Teaching Online,”

Barbara Frey;

815 Alumni, noon-1:30 pm

Ctr. for Vaccine Research Seminar

“West Nile Virus Inhibition of the Interferon Signaling Pathway,”

Jared Evans;

6014 BST3, 3 pm

Women’s Basketball vs. Georgetown;

Petersen, 7 pm

Tuesday 4

Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds

“1st Trimester OB/GYN Ultrasound,”

Adam Duhl;

“Update in the Treatment of STDs in 2008,”

Doug Rockacy;

“Procedural Review-Gyn,”

Plomarz Irani, Stacy Reynolds & Allyson Whyte;

“Ultrasound Case of the Month,”

Tom Kehrl;

2126 Mercy Hospital, 8:30-10:30 am

Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar

“The Unstoppable Cx43 Carboxy-terminus: New Roles in Cardiac Gap Junction Organization & Wound Healing,”

Robert Gourdie;

E&EI 5th fl. boardrm., 11 am

PACCM Joint Collaborative Conference

“Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis,”

Harold Collard;

NW628 Montefiore, 11:30 am-1 pm

HSLS Lunch With a Librarian

“Finding Full-Text Articles”;

Falk Library conf. rm. B, noon

Distinguished Lecture

“Toward a Medicine for the Person: Articulating Science & Humanism,”

Juan Mezzich;

355 Salk, noon

Computational Biology Seminar

“Driving Forces for Polyglutamine Oligomerization & Implications for Aggregation,”

Rohit Pappu;

6014 BST3, 4 pm

Education Instruction & Learning Colloquium

“The Significance of a Preservice Teacher Social Justice Identity,”

S.J. Miller;

5604 Posvar, 4 pm (8-1774)

Pulmonology/Allergy & Immunology Research Conference

“Immunoglobulin Super Family 4 (IGSF4) in Asthma,”

Monica Ghoshhajra;

1100 Rangos Research Ctr., 4 pm

Wednesday 5

Clinical Oncology & Hematology Grand Rounds

“Individualized Cancer Care: The Role of Chemosensitivity Assays,”

Holly Gallion;

UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Herberman Conf. Ctr., 2nd fl. aud., 8 am

REES Lecture

“The Undisputed Border, Shifting Liminalities: Bulgarian Turks Across the Bulgaria-Turkey Border,”

Hande Sozer;

4217 Posvar, noon (8-7407)

Women’s Studies Literary Reading

Elmaz Abinader;

2201 Posvar, noon

Senate Council Meeting

2700 Posvar, 3 pm

Pgh. Contemporary Writers Discussion

“Writing & Social Responsibility,”

Elmaz Abinader, Andrew Lam & Tim Bascom;

501 CL, 6 pm

Thursday 6

SBDC Workshop

“The Art of Successful Selling”;

PAA, 8-10:30 am (8-1542)

5-Campus College Fair

Connolly Ballrm. Alumni, 11 am-2 pm & 5-7 pm

Asia Over Lunch Lecture

“Social & Cultural Needs & Participation of International Students: A Case Study at the University of Pittsburgh,”

Mayumi Terano;

4130 Posvar, noon (8-7763)

CIDDE Faculty Development Workshop

“Leading Effective Classroom Discussions,”

Carol DeArment;

815 Alumni, noon-1:30 pm

Ctr. for Bioethics & Health Law Grand Rounds

“The Ethics of Allocating Scarce Health Care Resources: A New View,”

Ezekiel Emanuel;

113 Barco, noon

Epidemiology Seminar

“Translational Research for Treatment & Prevention of Diabetes,”

Janice Zgibor;

A115 Crabtree, noon

Chemistry Seminars

“Building Approach for the Design & Synthesis of Functional Porous Materials,”

Mohamed Eddaoudi, USF;

12B Chevron, 2:30 pm;

“Photochemistry & Conformational Change in Circadian Clock Light-Sensing Proteins,”

Brian Crane, Cornell;

12A Chevron, 4 pm

Geology & Planetary Science Colloquium

“Sources & Atmospheric Transformations of Organic Aerosols,”

Allen Robinson, CMU;

203 Thaw, 4 pm

PhD Defenses

Education/Administrative & Policy Studies

“Support Resources Utilized by Minority Students Majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematical Disciplines,” Renee Galloway;

Feb. 27, 5700 Posvar, 10 am

GSPIA/Int’l Development

“Regional Governance & Collaboration: A Comparative Study on Economic Development Policy Process in Minneapolis & Pittsburgh Regions,”

Joo Hun Lee;

Feb. 28, 3216 Posvar, 3 pm

Education/Health & Physical Activity

“Physical Activity Patterns From Adolescence to Young Adulthood & Parental Support for Physical Activity in Children,”

Ethan Hull;

March 4, 130 Trees, 11:30 am

Education/Administrative & Policy Studies

“The Challenges of a Change in Practice: The Story of an Experienced Principal’s Journey Through the Change Process at a Struggling Urban Elementary School,”

Eileen Amato;

March 4, 4321 Posvar, 1 pm

Theatre

Pitt Repertory

“The American Clock”;

Feb. 21-23 & Feb. 27-March 1 at 8 pm, also Feb. 24, 29 & March 2 at 2 pm, Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial (4-7529)

Johnstown Campus

“South Pacific”;

Feb. 22-24 at 8 pm, Feb. 24 at 2 pm, Pasquerilla Performing Arts Ctr., Mainstage, UPJ (800/846-2787)

Johnstown Campus

“Blast!”;

March 4, 7:30 pm, Pasquerilla Performing Arts Ctr., Mainstage, UPJ (800/846-2787)

Exhibits

Black Action Society Exhibit

“The Black Arts Expo”;

Feb. 23, WPU, 4 pm (8-7886)

Bradford Campus

“A Boundless Journey,”

Dennis Driscoll;

through Feb. 29, KOA Art Gallery, Blaisdell, UPB (814/362-0248)

Hillman Library Audubon Exhibits

“Black-poll Warbler”;

through Feb. 25;

“Hemlock Warbler”;

Feb. 26-March 10, Hillman gr. fl. exhibit case (8-7715)

Kuntu Repertory Theatre

“Telling Our Stories”;

through Feb. 29, City-County Bldg. lobby, Downtown, 8 am-5 pm (412/255-2493)

Barco Law Library

“Teacher-Student,”

Tim Fabien & Bryan Conley;

through April 11, Barco Law Library Gallery, M-Th 7:30 am-11:45 pm, F 7:30 am-8 pm, Sat. 10 am-8 pm, Sun. 10 am-11:45 pm

Deadlines

Hewlett Int’l Grant Program

Applications due Feb. 28 to 4400 Posvar. (8-7390)

CGS Student Choice Award

Nominations due Feb. 29 to 824 WPU.

CITSA 2008 Proposals

Deadline for papers, abstracts & invited sessions proposals: March 5. (http://www.infocybereng.org/citsa2008)

University Research Council Multidisciplinary Small Grant Program

White papers due to the Office of the Provost by 4 pm March 14. Full proposals due to the Office of the Provost by 4 pm May 2. (klinzing@ provost.pitt.edu or lyoncw@pitt.edu)

Int’l Studies Fund Grand Competition

Applications due March 15 to 4400 Posvar. (Info: Lenora Lewandowski, 8-7390)

Women’s Assn. Scholarship

Applications due March 15. (cain.jackie@yahoo.com)

Newman Award for Intergenerational Project Initiatives

Applications due March 21 to 4400 Posvar. (8-7390)

Steven Manners Faculty Development Award

Applications due April 7. (4-6172)

Event Deadline

The next issue of the University Times calendar will be published March 6. It will contain events of March 6-20. Information for events during that period must be received by 5 pm Feb. 28 at 308 Bellefield Hall. Information may be sent by fax to 4-4579 or email to utcal@pitt.edu.

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