Happenings

Exhibitions

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

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Roads of Arabia: Archaeology & History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, archaeological materials exploring the cultural history of the Arabian Peninsula, through Nov. 3, 4400 Forbes Ave., 412-622-3131, www.carnegiemnh.org

Carnegie Museum of Art, The Playground Project, exploring the history of postwar playground design and highlighting important examples of playgrounds from the 20th century, through Aug. 11, 4400 Forbes Ave., 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Butterfly Forest, includes 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

Miscellaneous

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

Pitt PhD Dissertation Defenses

Denis Parra, School of Information Sciences’ Information Science and Technology Program, “User Controllability in a Short-Timespan Recommendation Domain,” 9 a.m. July 22, 522 Information Sciences Building

David Garcia, School of Education’s Department of Health and Physical Activity, “Feasibility of a Campaign Intervention Compared to a Standard Behavioral Weight Loss Program in Overweight and Obese Adults,” 1 p.m. July 22, Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center, Oak Hill Commons, Room 101

Andrew Althouse, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, “Peripheral Arterial Disease—Risk Factors, Prevention, and Detection,” 3 p.m. July 22, Crabtree Hall, 5th Floor Conference Room

Ida Bastiaens, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, “The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment in Authoritarian Regimes,” 3 p.m. July 22, 3430 Posvar Hall

Lu Chen, School of Medicine’s Department of Immunology, “Immunotherapeautic Action of T-bet Gene Modified Dendritic Cells,” 11 a.m. July 23, S123 Biomedical Science Tower South

April Gibbs Scott, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’s Department of Communication Science Disorders, “Perceptual Conformity in Facial Emotion Processing,” 9:30 a.m. July 24, 6012 Forbes Tower

Andreea Cristina Bostan, School of Medicine’s Center for Neuroscience, “Basal Ganglia Pathways: Beyond the Closed-Loop Circuits with the Cerebral Cortex,” 10 a.m. July 25, 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3

Yi-Ling Lin, School of Information Sciences’ Information Science and Technology Program, “Enhancing Image Findability Through a Dual-Perspective Navigation Framework,” noon July 25, 522 Information Sciences Building.

Chayadevie Nanjundeswaran, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’s Department of Communication Science Disorders, “Metabolic Mechanisms of Vocal Fatigue,” 10:30 a.m. July 26, 4065 Forbes Tower

Zaheda Radwan, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Human Genetics, “A Comprehensive Association Study of Apolipoprotein E-C1-C4-C2 Gene Cluster Variation With Plasma Lipoprotein Traits” 2:30 p.m. July 29, A312 Crabtree Hall

Adam Farkas, School of Medicine’s Department of Immunology, “Dendritic Cells Are Both Targets and Initiators of Peripheral Immune Tolerance to Self,” 10 a.m. July 30, 1104 Scaife Hall

James Gardiner, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’s Department of Geology and Planetary Science, “Isotopic Investigation of Subsurface Rock and Fluid Interactions: Case Studies of CO2 Sequestration and Gas-Bearing Shale Units,” 10 a.m. Aug. 1, 214 Space Research Coordination Center

Jessica L. Ghilani, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’s Department of Communication and Rhetoric, “Selling Soldiering to Consumers: Advertising, Media Representations, and the Volunteer Army,” 1 p.m. Aug. 5, 1128 Cathedral of Learning

Kristen Lynn Leslie, School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, “Exploring the Role of EBP50 in Vascular Inflammation,” 12:30 p.m. Aug. 6, 1395 Biomedical Science Tower

Todd Bear, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, “Childhood Adversity and Its Effects on Health Over the Lifespan: An Analysis of the Allegheny County Health Survey,” 2 p.m. Aug. 6, 207C Parran Hall