Happenings

EXHIBITIONS

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Bug Works, specimens, live bugs, and photographs of insects, through July 28; Garden of Light: Works by Paula Crevoshay, featuring nearly 70 fine-art jewelry pieces, through Aug. 11, 4400 Forbes Ave., 412-622-3131, www.carnegiemnh.org

Carnegie Museum of Art, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 102nd Annual Exhibition, celebrates 102 years of exceptional art by members of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, through June 23; One and the Same, sound installation by Susan Philipsz, Forum Gallery, through July 14; Japan is the Key: Collecting Prints & Ivories, 1900–1920, visual art from the early years of the Carnegie Institute, through July 21, 4400 Forbes Ave., 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, What We Collect: Recent Art Acquisitions, 2007–2012, botanical illustrations from the early 19th century through the present, through June 30, 5000 Forbes Ave., 412-268-2434

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Butterfly Forest, various butterfly species, including Monarchs and Zebra Longwings, through Sept. 2; Summer Flower Show: Glass in the Gardens, featuring lifelike floral forms, whimsical long-legged birds, rotating stained-glass towers, and a large, articulated woolly mammoth skeleton, through Oct. 6, One Schenley Park, Oakland, 412-622-6914, www.phipps.conservatory.org

Senator John Heinz History Center, From Slavery to Freedom, Antislavery Movement to the Modern Quest for Civil Rights, including material from Pitt-produced exhibition Free at Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries displayed at Heinz History Center in 2008-09, ongoing, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District

LECTURES/SEMINARS/READINGS

“Of Moles and Men,” Miguel Reyes-Múgica, professor of pathology, Pitt School of Medicine, 4 p.m. June 19, the Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Series, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall, www.provost.pitt.edu

“Vaccines for a 21st-Century Society,” Rino Rappuoli, global head of vaccines research at Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences’ 2013 Laureate Lecture Series, noon June 20, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall, www.svc-laureate.pitt.edu

“Towards Seamless Integration of Brain and Machine Directed by Neurobiology Road Map,” Takashi Kozai, postdoctoral associate, Pitt Department of Bioengineering, 4 p.m. June 25, 1495 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower, Pitt Center for Neuroscience, cnup.neurobio.pitt.edu

MISCELLANEOUS

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Farmers at Phipps, shop for organic produce from local farms and meet the farmers who grew them, 2:30-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday through October, One Schenley Park, Oakland, 412-622-6914, www.phipps.conservatory.org

OPERA/THEATER/DANCE

The Kreutzer Sonata, based on Tolstoy’s novella and featuring Beethoven’s Sonata, Op. 47, for piano and violin, through June 22, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Henry Heymann Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, (412) 682-0439, www.picttheatre.org

The Tempest, or The Enchanted Isle, a comedy based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, through June 29, Unseam’d Shakespeare Company, Studio Theatre at the Cathedral of Learning, www.unseamd.com

PITT PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSES

Bokgyo Jeong, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, “Forces Shaping the South Korean NPO Sector and Their Impact on the NPO Accountability Environment,” 2 p.m. June 18, 3600 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Yi-Fan Chen, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, “Statistical Issues in Comparative Effectiveness Research,” 10 a.m. June 19, A425 Crabtree Hall

Charles-Louis Morand-Metivier, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, “Apprendre des Massacres: Emotions et Nation dans la Littérature du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance,” 11 a.m. June 20, Babcock Room, Cathedral of Learning

Cem Akkaya, Dietrich School’s Department of Intelligent Systems, “Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation: A Tool for Sense-Aware Subjectivity Analysis,” 10 a.m. June 20, 5317 Sennott Square

Lauren C. Frazer, School of Medicine’s Graduate Program in Immunology, “Characterizing the Role of Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses in the Pathogenesis of Chlamydia Genital Tract Infection,” 2 p.m. June 20, Children’s Hospital, Rangos Conference Center, Rooms B and C

Heartley Egwuogu, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, “The Longitudinal Effect of Low Kidney Function on Bone Mineral Density Change and the Association of Body Composition With Markers of Kidney Function Among Afro-Caribbean Men of  West African Ancestry,” 10 a.m. June 21, A548 Crabtree Hall

Yun Wang, Dietrich School’s Department of Economics, “Three Essays on Information Transmission Games and Belief-Updating Rules,” 10 a.m. June 21, 4716 Posvar Hall

Eric Williams, Dietrich School’s Department of Intelligent Systems, “Computational Detection of Anomalous Combinations of Modal Validation Scores in Large Sets of X-Ray Structures Deposited in the Protein Data Bank,” 1 p.m. June 21, 5317 Sennott Square

Leigh Miller, School of Education’s Department of Instruction and Learning, “An Investigation of How a Literature-Based Reading Workshop Shapes a Reader’s Identity Over the Course of a Year,” 9 a.m. June 24, 5700 Posvar Hall

Qian Sun, School of Medicine’s Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Pathology, “The Role of Inflammasome and Caspase-1 in Regulating Adaptive Response to Oxidative Stress in Mouse Hepatocytes,” 8 a.m. June 24, 1103 Scaife Hall

Justin Hogg, School of Medicine’s Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology, “Advances in Rule-Based Modeling: Compartments, Energy, and Hybrid Simulation With Application to Sepsis and Cell Signaling,” 1 p.m. June 27, 1018 Biomedical Science Tower 3

Brian R. Rosborough, School of Medicine’s Graduate Program in Immunology, “Manipulation of Regulatory Myeloid Cell Differentiation and Function and Its Therapeutic Implications,” 4 p.m. July 1, 1095 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower

Nicholas Robert Thorne, Dietrich School’s Department of Classics, “The Unity of the Gorgias,” 1 p.m. July 1, 1518 Cathedral of Learning

Travis Bui Klimke, Graduate School of Public Health, “Investigating the Impacts of Mycotoxin Regulations on Human Health and Trade,” 12 p.m. July 9, 5th-Floor Conference Room, Bridgeside Point, Thermo Fisher Building

Ching-Wen Lee, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, “Joint Modeling With Censored Data and Group-Based Trajectory Clustering,” 8:30 a.m. July 9, A522 Crabtree Hall

Laura Grantmyre, Dietrich School’s Department of History, “Conflicting Visions of Urban Renewal: Visual Representations of Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, 1943-1968,” 1 p.m. July 12, 3703 Posvar Hall