Friday Afternoon Lectures

Each fall and spring we offer a series of lectures open to anyone. Our lectures are announced here and via the Student Honors Activities Council (SHAC) e-mail distribution list.

If you have a suggestion for a lecture or you would like to volunteer to present a lecture, please contact:

Edward McCord
emccord@pitt.edu
412-624-6886

 
FALL 2007 SCHEDULE (Term 2081)
  Date

Lecture Topic
  August 31 No Lecture
  September 7 at 2 pm
(3500 CL) 		"Other Fools Have Done It, Too"
Nir Kossovsky, MD, CAS '79; Founder, President and CEO Technology Option Capital, LLC
  September 14 at 2 pm (3500 CL) "Etymology and Literary Criticism in the Odyssey, Books 19 and 23"
Edwin Floyd, Professor, Department of Classics
  September 21 at 2 pm (3500 CL) "What Is Life Like for a Contractor in Iraq?"
William Laboon, CAS '01; Systems Programmer, Department of Radiology; Contractor in Iraq for US Military, 2005-6
  September 28 at 3 pm (11 Thaw Hall) "Geoengineering: A Possible Insurance Policy Against Large Changes in Climate"
Michael MacCracken, PhD; Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute, Washington, DC
  October 5 at 2 pm (3500 CL) "Mining Material"
Delanie Jenkins, Chair, Department of Studio Arts; 2007 Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
  October 12 at 2 pm (3500 CL) "How Cyber Crime Will Change the Internet"
Matt Tolbert, Information Security Officer, Pitt
  October 19 No Lecture
  October 26 at 2 pm (3500 CL) "Health Care Crimes and Misdemeanors"
Nathan Hershey, JD; Professor of Health Law (Emeritus), Graduate School of Public Health
  November 2 at 2 pm (3500 CL) "CO2 Sequestration 101: An Overview"
William Harbert, Professor, Department of Geology and Planetary Science
  November 9 No Lecture
  November 16 No Lecture
  November 23 No Lecture (Thanksgiving Break)
  November 30 No Lecture
  December 7 No Lecture

 

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Spring 2007 Schedule (Term 2074)

Fall 2006 Schedule (Term 2071)

 

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