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

Carnegie Museum of Art, 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

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

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

Pitt PhD Dissertation Defenses

Jeffrey Evancho, School of Education’s Department of Administrative and Policy Studies, “After-School Programming:  A Visual Arts Perspective,” 1:30 p.m. July 2, 4321 Posvar Hall

Amanda Kay Kinnischtzke, School of Medicine’s Center for Neuroscience, “Cell Type Specific Connections From Primary Motor to Primary Somatosensory Cortex,” 12 p.m. July 8, 1495 Biomedical Science Tower 

Gerald Schafer, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, “The Participant Experience in Translational Diabetes Prevention Interventions: Health-Related Quality of Life and Direct Non-Medical Expenses,” 10 a.m. July 11, Parran Hall A523

Ferdouse Begum, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, “GWAS Meta-Analysis: Methodology and Application to Human Meiotic Recombination,” 11 a.m. July 11, A622 Crabtree Hall

Mitchell George Springer, School of Medicine’s Program in Molecular Pharmacology, “Consequences of Immune Activation During Infection With Francisella Tularensis,” 10 a.m. July 12, 1395 Biomedical Science Tower

David White, School of Education’s Department of Health and Physical Activity, “Parental Influences on Child Weight Loss:  Perception, Willingness to Change, and Barriers,” 12 p.m. July 15, 134 Trees Hall

Jeffrey Meteer, School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, “Activity Profiles & Mechanisms of Resistance of 3’-Azido-2’,3’-Dideoxynucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors of HIV-1,” 9:30 a.m. July 18, 1103 Scaife Hall

Grant David Schauer, School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology, “Impact of Nonnucleoside Reverse Transcriptase (RT) Inhibitors on the Enzyme-Substrate Interactions and Intramolecular Dynamics of Wild-Type and Drug Resistant HIV-1 RT,” 2 p.m. July 18, 1018 Biomedical Science Tower 3

Alina R. Bodea Crisan, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, “An Exploration In the Professional Ideology of Health Promotion and Implications For a Critical Public Health,” 10 a.m. July 19, 210 Parran Hall

Nina Chi Sabins, School of Medicine’s Graduate Program in Immunology, “Engaging the Immune Response to Normalize the Tumor Microenvironment,” 11 a.m. July 19, 1095 Biomedical Science Tower

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,” 3:00 p.m. July 22, Crabtree Hall, 5th Floor Conference Room

Wazo Zaw Myint, School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology, “NMR Relaxation Methods to Detect Protein Dynamics: Evaluation of Accuracy, Improvement of the Methodology, and Its Application,” 1 p.m. July 23, 1018 Biomedical Science Tower 3