This Seminar will be led by PNA T32 faculty Dr. Rosso and Dr. Rosano. Together, they will offer clear, expert perspectives focused on academic writing targeted toward the public.      

This Seminar will be led by Dr. Moriah Kirdy, providing an in-depth discussion of practical strategies and tools for public writing. Dr. Kirdy is the Associate Director of the William S. Dietrich II Institute for Writing Excellence. She teaches in Composition and Public and Professional Writing programs with a focus on genre and interdisciplinary writing.

This Seminar will be led by Dr. Meredith Phillips. The topic of this Journal Club will be Representation/Generalizability. The following articles will be discussed: Why representativeness should be avoided. Commentary: Should we always deliberately be non-representative? Rebuttal: When it comes to scientific inference, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. For more information, please contact jul291@pitt.edu.

This Seminar will be led by Dr. Meredith Phillips. The topic of this Journal Club will be Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia. The following article will be discussed: Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission. For more information, please contact jul291@pitt.edu.