The Johns Hopkins Gazette: April 9, 2001
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COLLOQUIA

Tues., April 10, 4:15 p.m. "Paramagnetic Particles: Uses and Applications," a Chemistry colloquium with Mitchell Gore, Polysciences; 233 Remsen. HW

Mon., April 16, 12:30 p.m. "A Multicenter Clinical Trial of Exercise to Mitigate Cancer-Related Fatigue," a brown bag research colloquium with Victoria Mock. Sponsored by the School of Nursing. 10 Pinkard Bldg. JHMI

  

GRAND
ROUNDS

Thurs., April 12, 4 p.m. "The Chronically Acute Patient: an Urbanscape of Health," Preventive Medicine/Public Health Grand Rounds with Veena Das; W2030 SPH. JHMI

  

LECTURES

Mon., April 9, 4 p.m. The 2001 GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture--"The Permeability of the Continental Crust" by Steve Ingebritsen, U.S. Geological Survey at Menlo Park. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. 305 Olin. HW

Mon., April 9, 5 p.m. "Molecular Basis of Human Cancer," an Oncology lecture by Carlo Croce, Kimmel Cancer Institute. Part of the "Biology of Cancer" series sponsored by the Oncology Center. Hurd Hall. JHMI

First Jerome Frank Lectureship Series, with Sir David Goldberg. JHMI

Mon., April 9, 5 p.m. "Future of Psychiatry"; 191 Meyer.

Tues., April 10, noon. "Vulnerabilities to Depression and Anxiety"; 240 Phipps.

Tues., April 10, 12:30 p.m. "Globalization and the Welfare State," an International Health lecture by Vicente Navarro; W2008 SPH. JHMI

Tues., April 10, 12:30 p.m. "The World Bank and Community-Driven Development," a Program in Social Change and Development brown bag lecture by Dan Owen, World Bank. No reservations required. 202-663-5600. 507 Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Wed., April 11, 5 p.m. "Studying the Substructure of the Nucleus: How DNA Synthesis and RNA Transcription Are Organized Within the Mammalian Nucleus," an Oncology lecture by Edward Harlow, Harvard Medical School. Part of the "Biology of Cancer" series sponsored by the Oncology Center. Hurd Hall. JHMI

Wed., April 11, 7 p.m. "The Digital Harbor: Linking Business and Education," a lecture by Bill Struever, president/CEO, Struever Bros. Eccles and Rouse. 5:30 p.m. Reception preceding the talk. Reservations required. 410-516-7190. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg. HW

Thurs., April 12, noon. "CD14+ Peripheral Blood Monocytes as You Never Knew Them: A Rapidly Recruited Precursor Pool for Myeloid Dendritic Cells Mobilized by Contact with Bacterial and Viral Agents," an Infectious Disease and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology lecture by Gary Koski, Frederick Cancer Research Center; W2030 SPH. JHMI

Thurs., April 12, noon. "Locating Funding for Your Research," a Welch Lecture by Bradley Otterson. Part of the series "Information Tools for Science and Medicine." W1214 SPH. JHMI

Mon., April 16, noon. "Cerebellar Motor Learning: From Molecules to Behavior," a Neuroscience lecture by David Linden; 1-191 Meyer. JHMI

Mon., April 16, 5 p.m. "Hereditary Cancer," an Oncology lecture by Alfred Knudson Jr., Fox Chase Cancer Center. Part of the "Biology of Cancer" series sponsored by the Oncology Center. Hurd Hall. JHMI

  

MUSIC

Tues., April 10, noon. Midday Performance by pianist Margarita Glebova; Hurd Hall. JHMI

Tues., April 10, 8 p.m. Peabody Computer Music Consort presents a concert of interactive multimedia works by composer Gary Lee Nelson. 410-659-8124. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Wed., April 11, noon. Wednesday Noon Series--Violinist Annaliesa Place, 2000-2001 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition Winner; Shriver Hall. HW

Thurs., April 12, noon. "The Art of Healing: A Music and Lecture Series" featuring pianist Jeanne-Minette Cilliers and featured lecturer Lillie Shockney on "The Use of Humor in Dealing with Illness"; Lobby, Weinberg Bldg. JHMI

Thurs., April 12, 10 p.m. "Charles Street at E-level," a performance by JHU's Charles Street Band; E-level, Levering. HW

Sat., April 14, 7 p.m. Spring concert by JHU a cappella Christian group Adoremus. 410-516-2273. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg. HW

  

SEMINARS

Mon., April 9, 12:10 p.m. "Injury Surveillance in a Large Corporation and Its Use to Evaluate a Companywide Injury Intervention for Forklift/Pedestrian Encounters," a Fourth-Term Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Gordon R. Reeve, Ford Motor Company. 410-614-4023. Hampton House Lecture Hall. JHMI

Mon., April 9, 12:15 p.m. "Reduction of Passive Smoke Exposure Among Low-Income Families," a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Karen Emmons, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard School of Public Health; W2008 SPH. JHMI

Mon., April 9, 12:15 p.m. "Signals From Above: The Effects of Environment on Phenotype Production," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., April 9, 12:15 p.m. "Biomarkers and Sexual Behavior--The Debate and New Developments," a Population and Family Health Sciences/Population Center seminar with Jonathan Zenilman; W2030 SPH. JHMI

Mon., April 9, 4 p.m. "Economy, Internet and Information Security: What Lies Ahead" with Alice M. Rivlin, Brookings Institution. Part of the Spring 2001 Policy Seminar Series sponsored by the JHU Information Security Institute. Kenney Auditorium. SAIS

Mon., April 9, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience --"How the Brain Uses Time to Represent and Process Visual Information" with Jonathan Victor, Cornell University. Sponsored by the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 9, 4 p.m. "Husbanding Power in Kankan-Bate, West Africa, 1650-1910," a History seminar with Emily Lynn Osborn; 315 Gilman. HW

Tues., April 10, noon. "Recent Progress in Understanding Three Interesting Topics: Trypanosome RNA Editing, Yeast rRNA Processing and Nuclear Honing of Specific DNA Sequences," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Barbara Sollner-Webb; 612 Physiology. JHMI

Tues., April 10, 12:15 p.m. "Genetic and Molecular Dissection of the LATS Tumor Suppressor Pathway in Drosophila," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Rodney Stewart, Yale University School of Medicine; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Tues., April 10, 4 p.m. "Families Who Left Welfare: Who Are They and How Are They Doing?" an Institute for Policy Studies seminar with Pamela Loprest, The Urban Institute. Co-sponsored by Economics and Health Policy and Management. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW

Tues., April 10, 4:30 p.m. "Deterministic Annealing for Clustering, Compression, Classification, Re-gression and Speech Recognition," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Kenneth Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara; 101 Shaffer. HW

Wed., April 11, 12:15 p.m. "Health Systems Performance Measures and International Health Injury Control," an International Health seminar with Thomas Novotny, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; W2008 SPH. JHMI

Wed., April 11, 12:15 p.m. "Research on the Reach: Scaling Up and Transporting Effective Intervention in Child Mental Health," with Kimberly Hoagwood, NIMH; Hampton House Auditorium. JHMI

Wed., April 11, 12:15 p.m. "Women's and Perinatal Health Services Utilization," a Population and Family Health Sciences seminar with Wanda Nicholson; W2030 SPH. JHMI

Wed., April 11, 4 p.m. "Picturing Atrocities: Allied Concentration Camp Films and the Visual Construction of the Holocaust," an American History seminar with Birte Horn; 315 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 12, noon. "The Cell's Compass: How Do Cells Know Where to Crawl?" a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Peter Devreotes; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. JHMI

Thurs., April 12, 3 p.m. "Material Challenges for Gas Turbines," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Tony Evans, Princeton University; 110 Maryland. HW

Thurs., April 12, 4 p.m. "Control of the Budding Yeast Cell Cycle," a Biology seminar with Angelika Amon, MIT; 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., April 12, 4 p.m. "Mademoiselle Clairon's Profession: Scandal and Enlightenment at the Comédie-Française," a European History seminar with Jason Kuznicki; 315 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 12, 4 p.m. "Nash-Cournot Equilibria in Linearized DC Electric Power Markets with Arbitrage: Formulations and Properties," a Mathematical Sciences seminar with Benjamin Hobbs and Jong-Shi Pang; 304 Whitehead. HW

Thurs., April 12, 4 p.m. "The Political Economy of Africa Revisited," an Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History faculty general seminar with Pauline Peters, Harvard University; 400 Macaulay. HW

Mon., April 16, noon. "Learning From Silicon Valley," an Institute for Policy Studies seminar with Bill Leslie; 526 Wyman Bldg. HW

Mon., April 16, 12:10 p.m. "Effects of Low-Dose Alcohol Exposure on Occupational Performance," a Fourth-Term Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Jonathan Howland, Boston University. 410-614-4023. Hampton House Lecture Hall. JHMI

Mon., April 16, 12:15 p.m. "Social Epidemiology, Health Policies and Prevention in Communities," with Ross Brownson; W2008 SPH. JHMI

Mon., April 16, 12:15 p.m. "Welfare Reform Study," a Population and Family Health Sciences/Population Center seminar with Andrew Cherlin and Robert Moffitt; W2030 SPH. JHMI

Mon., April 16, 4 p.m. "Mechanisms of M2 Muscarine Receptor Dysfunction," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Allison Fryer; W2030 SPH. JHMI

Mon., April 16, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience--"Rewiring Cortex" with Mriganka Sur, MIT. Sponsored by the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 16, 4 p.m. "Solution Chemistry-Based and Surface Process-Based Understanding of Mineral-Water Interactions: Are They Telling the Same Story?" an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Henry Teng, George Washington University; 305 Olin. HW

Mon., April 16, 4 p.m. "The Building of a Literary History of al-Andalus," a History seminar with Maria Rose Menocal, Yale University; 315 Gilman. HW

  

SPECIAL
EVENTS

"SpeakOUT," a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Awareness Days program sponsored by JHU Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance. 410-516-4088 or dsaga@jhu.edu. HW

Mon., April 9:
8 p.m. A talk by gay icon Danny Roberts; Glass Pavilion, Levering.

Wed., April 11:
8 p.m. A talk by James Dale, former Boy Scouts member, on his battle against discrimination; 110 Gilman.

Fri., April 13
10 p.m. The Drag Show and Dance; prizes will be awarded; E-Level, Levering.

Mon., April 16:
8 p.m. A representative from COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) will lead a discussion about growing up with lesbian or gay parents; 110 Gilman.

Asian Awareness Month: "Asian-American Dreams." HW

Mon., April 9, 9 p.m. Film: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; E-level, Levering.

Thurs., April 12, 8 p.m. Joo Hyun Kang, director of the Audrey Lordes Center, the only safe house for gay, lesbian and bisexual people of color. Co-sponsored by DSAGA. Garrett Room, MSE Library.

Tues., April 10, 7 p.m. "From Physics to Epidemiology: A Story of Redemption," a "Voyage and Discovery" lecture by epidemiologist Les Roberts; Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW

Wed., April 11, noon. "Baltimore's Biotech Future," a Baltimore Architecture Foundation public forum with Ann Lansinger, Emerging Technology Center-BDC. 410-962-0241. Bring a brown bag lunch. Downtown Center, Charles and Fayette streets.

Wed., April 11, 11 a.m. "Breastivas Maximus," an Alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority event to raise breast health awareness among young women, featuring food and music, informational lectures, updates on diagnosis and treatment. For information, contact shockli@jhmi.edu. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Thurs., April 12, 4 p.m. 24th Annual Young Investigators' Day, a forum for the presentation of work by student investigators (see story, in The Gazette). Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. JHMI

Thurs., April 12 to Sun., April 15--The Johns Hopkins Film Festival 2001, at various times and screening locations (see story, in The Gazette). General admission is $3, free for JHU students and affiliates with I.D. 410-516-4046 or www.jhu.edu/~jhufilm/fest.

Sat., April 14, 10 a.m. to noon. Annual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the International Society; rain or shine. Decker Garden (adjacent to the Johns Hopkins Club). HW

  

SPORTS

Wed., April 11, 3:30 p.m. Women's Tennis, vs. College of Notre Dame (Md.), Homewood Field. HW

Fri., April 13, 3:30 p.m. Men's Baseball, vs. Western Maryland. Baseball field. HW

  

SYMPOSIA

Tues., April 10, 12:15 p.m. "University-Community Partnerships for Youth Development," with Kara McDonagh, Southeast Youth Academy, and Debra Mekos, Thomas O'Toole and Robert Strack; W4013 SPH. JHMI

  

THEATER

Fri., Sat. and Sun., April 13, 14 and 15, 8 p.m. Tommy, the Barnstormers' spring musical production. $5, $3 for students; Arellano Theater, Levering. HW


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