The Johns Hopkins Gazette: February 22, 1999

THE GAZETTE CALENDAR
Feb. 22-Mar. 1

CAREER DAY

Fri., Feb. 26, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Public Health Career Fair, sponsored by Student Career Services; Gallery and Courtyard (1st floor), SHPH. 410-955-3034. JHMI

COLLOQUIA

Tues., Feb. 23, 4:15 p.m. "Structural and Dynamical Properties of Metal Clusters and Cluster Ligand Systems," a Chemistry colloquium Julius Jellinek, Argonne National Laboratory; 233 Remsen. HW

Thurs., Feb. 25, 3 p.m. "Cultivating Guayule: The Creation and Sale of Industrial Research," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Joshua Levens; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. JHMI

Fri., Feb. 26, 2 p.m. "Verification of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty," a colloquium with Corey Gay, Institute for Science and International Security. Program will be simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus. Parsons Auditorium. APL.

DANCE

Mon., Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m. Black History Month Event--Dance Clinic with the Sankofa Dance Company, dance with the company during rehearsal for Feb. 27 performance; Great Hall, Levering. HW

Fri., Feb. 26, noon. Black History Month Event--Rehearsal of Sankofa Dance Company for Feb. 27 performance; Shriver Hall. HW

Sat., Feb. 27, 8 p.m. Black History Month Event--Performance by the Sankofa Dancers. $10 general public, free for JHU students (but tickets must be picked up by Feb. 24 at the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, Merryman Hall). Shriver Hall. HW

DINNER

Fri., Feb. 26, 7 p.m. Black History Month Event--Annual African Heritage Dinner with traditional American, Caribbean, West and East African foods; music provided by the Sixth Dimension Sax Quartet. $10. For more information, call 410-516-5435. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

DISCUSSIONS/
TALKS

Tues., Feb. 23, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Roaming Year 2000 Briefing--"Are You Y2K Okay?" a formal presentation followed by open discussion and one-on-one conversation; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., Feb. 24, noon to 3 p.m. The Roaming Year 2000 Briefing--"Are You Y2K Okay?" a formal presentation followed by open discussion and one-on-one conversation; 100 Mudd. HW

EXHIBIT

Sat., Feb. 27, 1 to 3 p.m. Potthast Craftsmen Reunion and Discovery Day, firsthand accounts of furniture-making techniques by members of the Potthast family. $10. Part of the Homewood in the Colonial Revival exhibit. Homewood House Museum. HW

FILM

Wed., Feb. 24 and Thurs., Feb. 25, 8 p.m. Happiness; a Weekend Wonderflix/Reel World presentation; Shriver Hall. HW

GRAND ROUNDS

Wed., Feb. 24, 4 p.m. "Curbside Consultation," Endocrine Grand Rounds with Alan Krasner; 1 Marburg. JHMI

LECTURES

Mon., Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m. "The Future of the U.S.-European Relationship," a European Studies Program lecture by Jacques Andreani; Rome Auditorium. SAIS

Psychologist and author Na'im Akbar will lecture on "African Heritage: Foundation for Our Modern-Day Presence" on Tuesday at Homewood. See Lectures.

Tues., Feb. 23, 8 p.m. Black History Month Event--"African Heritage: Foundation for Our Modern-Day Presence," a lecture by psychologist/author Na'im Akbar; Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

Wed., Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m. "Lessons from Navajo Medicine: A Cultural Dimension in Healing," a lecture by Jack Coulehan, SUNY, Stony Brook. Part of the humanities lecture series, "Colliding Cultures: Medicine in the Millenium." Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 25, 12:30 p.m. "Behind the Headlines: The Human Impact of Sanctions against Iraq," a Social Change and Development Program brown bag lecture by G. Simon Harak, Fairfield University; 812 Rome. SAIS

Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:30 p.m. "The New Europe: A Business Perspective," a European Studies Program lecture by Judith Paulus, Sara Lee Corp.; Rome Auditorium. SAIS

Thurs., Feb. 25, 8 p.m. 1999 Johns Hopkins Symposium on Foreign Affairs--"Policy Debate: Weapons of Mass Destruction" with Stephen David and Jonathan Schell; Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Mon., March 1, 5:15 p.m. "Natural Pharmaceuticals," a Complementary and Alternative Medicine lecture by Douglas Campbell, The Medicine Shoppe. Part of the "Building Bridges" lecture series, co-sponsored by the School of Medicine and the Traditional Acupuncture Institute; 1024 Blalock. JHMI

MUSIC

Tues., Feb. 23, noon. Midday Performance by Roy Battle and the Altones playing swing and jazz; Asthma and Allergy Center Auditorium. Bayview

Thurs., Feb. 25, 2:30 p.m. Black History Month Event--Performance by jazz pianist Charles Covington; Asthma and Allergy Center Auditorium. Bayview

Thurs., Feb. 25; Fri., Feb. 26; Sat., Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 28, 3 p.m. Peabody Opera Theatre production of Where Angels Fear to Tread, the world premiere of a three-act opera by Mark Lanz Weiser. $22 general admission, $11 for senior citizens, $8 for students with I.D. Friedberg Concert Hall. Peabody

Fri., Feb. 26, 8 p.m. Evergreen Carriage House Concert by Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. $10, including a reception after the performance to meet the artists. 410-516-0341. Evergreen

Sat., Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. "Halleluyah," Jewish a cappella festival with groups from Hopkins, Maryland, Chicago, Boston and New York universities. $5 general admission, $2 for students. Bloomberg Auditorium. HW

READING

Wed., Feb. 24, noon. "Just Let Me Say This About That," a reading by John Irwin. Part of the Wednesday Noon Series sponsored by Special Events. Shriver Hall. HW

SEMINARS

Mon., Feb. 22, 10:30 a.m. "A Helicase-Driven Switch That Couples Splicing to Intron Recognition," a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Jonathan Staley, University of California, San Francisco; 517 PCTB. JHMI

Mon., Feb. 22, noon. "Optimal Visualization of Local Contrast in Multispectral Imagery with Applications to Fusion and Registration of Medical Images," a Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology Engineering Research Center seminar with Lawrence Wolff; 301 Shaffer. HW

Mon., Feb. 22, 4 p.m. "Cell Adhesion Molecules of Mammalian Fertilization," a Biochemistry seminar with Janice Evans; W2030 SHPH. JHMI

Mon., Feb. 22, 4 p.m. "Cyclostratigraphic Patterns in the Appalachian Basin during the Late Devonian Mass Extinction--A Record of Climate/Sea Level Instability," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Jonathan Filer, Towson University; 305 Olin. HW

Mon., Feb. 22, 4 p.m. "Nation, Governance and Modernity in Early 20th-Century China," a History seminar with Michael Tsin, Columbia University; 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., Feb. 22, 4 p.m. "Studies of Cross-Modal Plasticity in Blind Braille Readers," a Mind/Brain Institute seminar with Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School; 341 Krieger. HW

Tues., Feb. 23, noon. "Protons, Peppers and the Perception of Pain," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Michael Caterina, University of California, San Francisco; 612 Physiology. JHMI

Tues., Feb. 23, 3 p.m. "Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Elfatih Eltahir, MIT; 234 Ames. HW

Tues., Feb. 23, 4 p.m. "Modernity and Its Others: Culture, Race and Liberalism," an Anthropology seminar with Joel Kahn, University of Sussex; 404-BA Macaulay. HW

Tues., Feb. 23, 4 p.m. "The Role of Neurotrophins and Activity in Regulating Growth of Pyramidal Neurons in Developing Visual Cortex," a Biology special seminar with Kimberley McCallister, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 100 Mudd. HW

Wed., Feb. 24, 9:30 a.m. "International Financial Institutions: Up to the Task?" a Pew Fellowships in Journalism seminar with Robert Zoellick, Center for Strategic and International Studies; 812 Rome. SAIS

Wed., Feb. 24, noon. "Explaining the Comfort Factor: West Indian Immigrants and American Race Relations," a Sociology seminar with Mary Waters, Harvard University; 526 Mergenthaler. HW

Wed., Feb. 24, 12:30 p.m. "Nicaragua after Mitch: Reconstruction and Transformation," a Conflict Management and Latin American Regional Studies Programs seminar with Ambassador Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa; Herter Room, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Wed., Feb. 24, 4 p.m. "Liberty and Slavery, Mind and Body: The Meaning of the Somerset Case," an American History seminar with David Marshall; 315 Gilman. HW

Wed., Feb. 24, 4 p.m. "Role of Kaposi's Sarcoma--Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV-8) in Human Malignancies," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Ethel Cesarman, Cornell University Medical College; 303 WBSB. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 25, 11 a.m. "What Good Is Bioinformatics to a Pharmaceutical Company If You Can't Find Drugs in Database?" a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Kenneth Fasman, Astra AB Pharmaceutical, Cambridge, Mass.; 709 Traylor. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 25, noon. "Invariance and Morphometrics: A Critical Appraisal of Statistical Techniques for Analysis of Shapes," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Subhash Ramkrishna Lele; 110 WBSB. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 25, 1 p.m. "AIDS and the Brain: Is There a Chemokine Connection?" a Neuroscience research seminar with Richard Miller, University of Chicago; 811 WBSB. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 25, 3 p.m. "Pinchoff and Reconnections in Interfacial Flows," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with John Lowengrub, University of Minnesota; 110 Maryland. HW

Thurs., Feb. 25, 4 p.m. "The Body Impolitic: Apprenticeship and Identity in Crete," an Anthropology seminar with Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Thurs., Feb. 25, 4 p.m. "Securing Information with Optics and Photonics," an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut; 117 Barton. HW

Thurs., Feb. 25, 4 p.m. "Linking Histone Modifications to Gene Activation," a Biology seminar with David Allis, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center; 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., Feb. 25, 4 p.m. "Expression and Function of Unique Gene Products in Spermatogenesis," a Hopkins Reproductive Biology seminar with Deborah O'Brien, University of North Carolina; 240 Houck. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 25, 4 p.m. "In Statistical Consulting, There Are No Main Effects, Only Interactions (Or: Consulting with Clarity, Certainty and Velocity)," a Mathematical Sciences seminar with Douglas Zahn, Florida State University; 304 Whitehead. HW

Fri., Feb. 26, 1 p.m. "Neuroengineering: Engineering for Basic and Clinical Neurosciences," a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Nitish Thakor; 709 Traylor. JHMI

Mon., March 1, 4 p.m. "Secular Changes in Seawater Chemistry: Testing the Hardie Hypothesis," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Tim Lowenstein, SUNY, Binghamton; 305 Olin. HW

Mon., March 1, 4 p.m. "A Framework for Analog Computation by Neural Populations," a Mind/Brain Institute seminar with Charles Anderson, Washington University School of Medicine; 341 Krieger. HW

THEATER

Fri., Feb. 26, and Sat., Feb. 27, 8 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 28, 2:15 p.m. Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, a Theatre Hopkins production. 410-516-7159. Merrick Barn. HW

WJHU

<>Mon., Feb. 22, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. Kyle Secor of NBC's Homicide: Life On The Streets, followed at 1 p.m. by parental perspectives on schools and education issues.

Tues., Feb. 23, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. Mark Hartsgaard, author of Earth Odyssey.

Wed., Feb.24, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. Michael Massing, author of The Fix: Under The Nixon Administration America Had an Effective Drug Policy. We Should Restore It.

Thurs., Feb. 25, 1 p.m. The Marc Steiner Show. David Zurawik and Sheri Parks of WJHU's Media Matters.

Fri., Feb. 26, 1 p.m. The Marc Steiner Show. Dave Brubeck.

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