University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, March 1-7

LECTURES

3/1 Julia Slutsman, a cancer prevention fellow for the National Cancer Institute, will deliver a lecture titled "Early Stopping of Clinical Trials for Efficacy: An Ethical Dilemma and a New Approach" at noon, Room 113, Pitt's Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This free event is part of the Grand Rounds lecture series and is sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Health Law, the Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, and Pitt's School of Law as. For more information, contact Matt Moon at 412-648-1320 or by e-mail at moon@law.pitt.edu

3/1 Abdullah Hanif, H.J. Heinz Company Foundation Fellow of the Studies Global Studies Program at Pitt, will deliver a lecture titled "Community-Based Health Care in War-Torn Afghanistan" at noon, Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This free event is part of the Pitt Asian Studies Center Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Brenda Jordan at 412-648-7763 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

3/1 Jef K. De Barbander, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, will deliver a lecture titled "Chemical Adventures at a Biomedical Powerhouse" at 2:30 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry as part of the 2007 Levine Lecture Series. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu.

3/1 Norbert Scherer, a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, will deliver a lecture titled "Resonantly Tweezing Single Plasmonic Objects to Controlling Plasmonic Excitations of Metal Nano-particles" at 4 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry as part of the 2007 Levine Lecture Series. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu.

3/1 Ian Rawson, board chair of the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, and Lucy Rawson, president of Friends of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, will present a lecture discussing Haitian Art and the history of the Hôpital Albert Schweiter at 5 p.m., University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This free event is part of the University Art Gallery's, Gallery Talk Series for the exhibition Revolution, Ritual, and Remembrance: The Art of Haiti, which will run through

March 17. For more information, contact Josienne Piller at 412-6 48-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

MUSIC

3/1 Pitt's University Symphony Orchestra, directed by Roger Zahab, will give a free performance at 7 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. For more information, call 412-624-4125 or visit www.music.pitt.edu.

EXHIBITIONS

3/1 The final day of the exhibition titled "Advertising a Dream: Movie Posters From Post-war Korea" will be held in the foyer of Pitt's Hillman Library, 3960 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and University Library System's East Asian Library. For more information, contact 412-648-7370 or turker@pitt.edu.

3/1 An exhibition titled "Revolution, Ritual, and Remembrance: The Art of Haiti" will run through March 17 in the University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive, Oakland. For more information, contact Josienne N. Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

OTHER

3/1 Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences will host the Seventh Annual Arts and Sciences Grad Expo from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, contact Jessica Smoker at 412-624-6698 or asgso@pitt.edu.

3/1 The Pitt Women's Studies Program will host a Women's Studies Undergraduate Internship Fair from 3 to 5 p.m. in the William Pitt Union Lower Lounge,

3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, call 412-624-6485 or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies.

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