Happenings

Exhibitions 

Carnegie Museum of Art, She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, work by 12 leading photographers who question tradition and challenge perceptions of Middle Eastern identity, through Sept. 28; Teenie Harris Photographs: Cars, showcases a selection of 25 elegant photo-graphs of automobiles from the 1930s to 1970s, and emphasizes the roles they played in Pittsburgh’s segregated African American communities, through Oct. 16; Sketch to Structure, reveals the architectural design process to show how buildings take shape from an initial concept, through Aug. 17, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, www.cmoa.org 

Lectures/Seminars/Readings

“The First Step: The Mechanics of Starting a Small Business,” Pitt Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, 7:30 a.m. Aug. 7, Mervis Hall, Small Business Development Center, www.entrepreneur.pitt.edu

“The Second Step: Developing a Business Plan,” Pitt Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, 7:30 a.m. Aug. 21, Mervis Hall, Small Business Development Center, www.entrepreneur.pitt.edu

PhD Dissertations

Kidane Ghebrehawariat, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, “Parametric Inference on Quantile Residual Life,” 10 a.m. July 27, A215 Crabtree Hall

Yingda Jiang, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, “Gene-Based Association Testing of Dichotomous Traits Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Family Data,” 2:30 p.m. July 27, A216 Crabtree Hall

Tracy Taylor Smith, Dietrich School’s Department of Psychology, “Increasing Nicotine Cost and Decreasing Nicotine Dose Are Not Equivalent Manipulations,” 2 p.m. July 28, 4127 Sennott Square

Jia Xu, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, “Low Birth-Weight Delivery and Long-Term Maternal Cardiovascular Health,” 10 a.m. July 29, A522 Crabtree Hall

Valerie Marie Villanueva, School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, “Characterization of an Unusual Phage Repressor Encoded by Mycobacteriophage BPs,” 11 a.m. July 30, A219B Langley Hall

Vipavee Niemsiri, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Human Genetics, “Genetic Influence of Sequence Variants in SCARB1 and ABCA1 Genes on Major Lipid Traits: A Candidate Gene Association Study,” 2 p.m. July 30, A622 Crabtree Hall

Adam Popchak, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’ Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, “Soft Tissue Changes Associated with Repetitive Overhead Throwing and Risk Factor Assessment in a Youth and Adolescent Population,” 1 p.m. Aug. 21, 4060 Forbes Tower