University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Feb. 23-Mar. 1

CONCERT
Andrew Sords, performing unaccompanied violin works by composers including Bach, Ysaye, and Kreisler, 3 p.m. Feb. 23, Heinz Chapel, www.heinzchapel.pitt.edu

LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS
“Small RNA Sorting is Critical for Germline Surveillance and Fertility,” Carolyn Phillips, research fellow of molecular biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 4 p.m. Feb. 24, 169 Crawford Hall, Pitt Department of Biological Sciences, www.biology.pitt.edu

“If We are Safer than We’ve Ever Been, Why are We so Worried?” Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University, 2 p.m. Feb. 26, University Club, Ballroom B, Pitt’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies Inaugural Paul Hammond Memorial Lecture, www.ridgway.pitt.edu, RSVP to beb38@pitt.edu

“Using Histone Variants to Modify the Epigenetic Landscape Flight,” Laura Banaszynski, postdoctoral associate, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University, 4 p.m. Feb. 26, 169 Crawford Hall, Pitt Department of Biological Sciences, www.biology.pitt.edu

“Molecular Approaches to Artificial Photosynthetic Reduction of CO2,” Michael Hopkins, professor of chemistry, University of Chicago, 2:30 p.m. Feb. 27, 150 Chevron Hall, Pitt Department of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu

“The Economist as Engineer,” Alvin Roth, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Economics and former Pitt Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics, now Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emeritus, Harvard University, 3:30 p.m. Feb. 27, Frick Fine Arts Building, Pitt Department of Economics, www.econ.pitt.edu

“Another Legend Bites the Dust,” James “Whitey” Hagadorn, assistant professor of geology, Amherst College, 3:45 p.m. Feb. 27, 11 Thaw Hall, Pitt Department of Geology, www.geology.pitt.edu

“The Bottom-Up Organic Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes,” Ramesh Jasti, professor of chemistry, Boston University, 4 p.m. Feb. 27, 150 Chevron Hall, Pitt Department of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu

“Politics of Global Climate Change—Outside Pressure: NGOs as Climate Change Stakeholders,” Daniel Lashof, director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Natural Resource Defense Council, 4 p.m. Feb. 27, O'Hara Student Center, Pitt Global Studies Center, www.ucis.pitt.edu/global

“The Trans* Inclusive Classroom,” workshop for instructors, Justin Adkins, transgender consultant and assistant director for gender, sexuality, and activism, Davis Center, Williams College, 4 p.m. Feb. 27, 1228 Cathedral of Learning, Gender and the Global Spring 2014 Events, Pitt Women’s Studies Program, www.wstudies.pitt.edu

“What’s the ‘T’' in LGBT?” workshop for undergraduates, Justin Adkins, transgender consultant and assistant director for gender, sexuality, and activism, Davis Center, Williams College, 7 p.m. Feb. 27, 1501 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Gender and the Global Spring 2014 Events, Pitt Women’s Studies Program, www.wstudies.pitt.edu

“Spatial Epidemiology: Beyond John Snow/GIS in Healthcare: Emerging Tools and Technologies,” David Wallace, Pitt assistant professor of critical care medicine and emergency medicine, noon Feb. 28, 3343 Forbes Ave., Oakland, University of Pittsburgh Center for Social and Urban Research’s Urban and Regional Brown Bag Seminar, www.ucsur.pitt.edu

“Light Manufacturing and The Strategy Of Economic Development,” Hinh Dinh, lead economist, operations and strategy, development economics, World Bank, 2 p.m. Feb. 28, 3911 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Pitt Department of Economics International Trade and Development Seminar, www.econ.pitt.edu

“Electrochemistry and Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Files, Cells, and Vesicles,” Andy Ewing, professor of analytical chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, 2:30 p.m. Feb. 28, 150 Chevron Hall, Pitt Department of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu

“The History of the Bedside Cardiac Exam: An Ancient Relic or a Forgotten Clinical Tool?” Barry Silverman, clinical assistant professor of medicine, Emory University, 6 p.m. Feb. 28, Lecture Room #5, Scaife Hall, Pitt Center for Bioethics and Health Law, C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series, 3rd Annual Jonathon Erlen History of Medicine Lecture, www.bioethics.pitt.edu

Written by Melissa Carlson

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