University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, April 19-25

LECTURES

4/19 Sidney Hecht, the John W. Mallet Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia, will deliver a lecture titled "Protein Synthesis Using Tandemly Activated tRNAs" at

2:30 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is part of the 2007 Levine Lecture Series and is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu.

4/19 Kristina Hakansson, the Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, will present a lecture titled "Gas-phase Radical Ion Chemistry for Biomolecular Structural Characterization" at 4 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is part the 2007 Levine Lecture Series and is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu.

4/20 David Parker, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University, will deliver a lecture titled "Engineering Lanthanide Probes for Use in Assays, Sensing, and Imaging" at 3 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is the final presentation in the 2007 Levine Lecture Series and is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu.

4/20 Malgorzata Peszynska, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University, will deliver a lecture titled "Non-Local Models of Transport in Multi-Scale Porous Media" at 4 p.m., Room 704, Thackeray Hall, 139 University Place, Oakland. The free event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Mathematics and is part of its 2007 colloquium. For more information, contact David Swigon at swigon@pitt.edu.

MUSIC

4/19 Pitt's Jazz Ensemble, directed by Nathan Davis, will give a performance at 8 p.m., Assembly Room, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Music. For more information, call 412-624-4125 or visit www.music.pitt.edu.

4/22 As part of the 2006-07 Organ Artist Series, organist Carol Williams will give a performance at 4 p.m. in Heinz Memorial Chapel, Fifth and Bellefield avenues, Oakland. General admission is $12 and student tickets are $2. This event is sponsored by the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Guild of Organists. For more information, call

412-731-0266.

FILM

4/20 Pitt's Asian Studies Center and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures will host a free screening of the film My Boyfriend Is Type B (2004), directed by Choi Seok-Won, at 6:30 p.m., Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, contact Ebru Turker at 412-624-5562 or turker@pitt.edu.

EXHIBITION

4/19 The Studio Arts Student Exhibition will continue through April 29 in the University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Plaza, Oakland. Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 4-8 p.m. Thursdays. For more information, visit http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/uag.

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