Johns Hopkins Gazette | May 2, 2005
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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University May 2, 2005 | Vol. 34 No. 32
 

Weekly Calendar

Blood Drive | Colloquia | Discussion/Talks | Film/Video | Grand Rounds | Lectures | Music | Open House | Seminars | Special Events | Sports | Theater | Workshops

 

Blood Drive

Tues., May 3, and Wed., May 4, 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. JHU/American Red Cross Blood Drive; to schedule an appointment online go to webapps.jhu.edu/blooddrive. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

 

Colloquia

Thurs., May 5, 3 p.m. "Searching Eyes of Government: Public Health Surveillance and the Landscape of Privacy in 20th-Century America," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Amy Fairchild, Columbia University; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Thurs., May 5, 3:30 p.m. "The Secret Order of the Cuprates," a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Seamus Davis, Cornell University; Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Fri., May 6, 2 p.m. "Permissive Action Links and the History of Public Key Cryptography," an APL colloquium with Steven Bellovin, Columbia University; Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., May 6, 4 p.m. "Interpretive Semantics and Ontological Commitment," a Philosophy colloquium with Richard Manning, Georgetown University; 348 Gilman. HW

 

Discussion/Talks

Wed., May 4, noon. "Enhancing Humane Science: Improving Animal Research," an Animal Care and Use Committee discussion with James Owiny and Alan Goldberg; 403 Ross. EB

Wed., May 4, 12:30 p.m. "Research Ethics Consulting Service," an Office for Research Subjects brown bag discussion with Nancy Kass and Holly Taylor; W2017 SPH. EB

 

Film/Video

Thurs., May 5, and Mon., May 9, 7:30 p.m. Screening of Far From Heaven (2002), starring Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid. Part of a diversity film series sponsored by the Whiting School of Engineering, the Diversity Leadership Council and Student Multicultural Affairs. 101 Remsen. HW

Thurs., May 5, 8 p.m. Trojka presents Red (1994), part of director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Color Trilogy; 3 Shaffer. HW

 

Grand Rounds

Wed., May 4, 4 p.m. "Sanctions and Sanctuary: Preventing the Health Consequences of Domestic Violence," last of four Preventive Medicine grand rounds, with Jacquelyn Campbell. Sponsored by General Preventive Medicine Residency. W1020 SPH. EB

 

Lectures

Tues., May 3, 4 p.m. The 11th Philip Bard Lecture in Medical Physiology — "Ion Conduction and Selectivity in K+ Channels" by Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University. Sponsored by Physiology. WBSB Auditorium. EB

Wed., May 4, 4 p.m. The Carlson Lecture — "Gating Mechanisms in Potassium Channels" by Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University. Sponsored by Biophysics. 26 Mudd. HW

Fri., May 6, 4:30 p.m. "Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity," a Black Faculty and Staff Association lecture by Jeffery O.G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut. (See "Book discussion, signing set with 'Black Power' author O.G. Ogbar," this issue.) Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Press, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Sheridan Libraries and Multicultural Student Affairs. Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., May 9, noon. "CAM and Cultural Diversity," a Complementary and Alternative Medicine lecture by David Hufford; Weinberg Auditorium. EB

 

Music

The Vocal Chords celebrate 10 years of a cappella singing with an anniversary concert and the debut of a CD called 'Vintage.'

Mon., May 2, 7:30 p.m. Shriver Hall Concert Series presents violinist Gidon Kremer with Kremerata Baltica. $33, $17 for students and $8 student rush (one hour before concert). Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

Wed., May 4, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Latin Jazz Ensemble performs; $18, $10 for senior citizens and $8 for students with ID. East Hall. Peabody

Thurs., May 5, and Sat., May 7, 8 p.m. Peabody Chamber Opera presents Henry Mollicone's Hotel Eden (A Musical Theater Piece in Three Acts). $24, $12 for senior citizens and $10 for students with ID. Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St. Off campus

Fri., May 6, 5:45 p.m. Peabody at Homewood Concert Series — "Shakespeare's Music" with soprano Elizabeth Baber and Charles Weaver (lute). Last in the series. $15 per person. Reservations required. Sponsored by Homewood House Museum. HW

Fri., May 6, 8 p.m., and Sun., May 8, 3 p.m. Peabody Opera Workshop presents "Singing Shakespeare," combining spoken excerpts from the Bard with musical settings, including short operas written for the program by three Peabody student composers. $18, $10 for senior citizens and $8 for students with ID. Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St. Off campus

Sat., May 7, 8 p.m. The Vocal Chords, JHU a cappella group, presents a 10th-anniversary concert featuring the debut of its new CD, Vintage. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Sun., May 8, 7 p.m. The Johns Hopkins University Gospel Choir spring concert. Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center. HW

Mon., May 9, 8 p.m. The Peabody Trio performs the third of a three-part series of the complete Beethoven piano trios. $18, $10 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

 

Open House

Mon., May 9, 4:30 to 7 p.m. Spring open house for part-time graduate degree and certificate programs in biotechnology, education, engineering and public health, providing an opportunity to meet one-on-one with advisers. 301-294-7000 or www.mcc.jhu.edu. Montgomery County Campus.

 

Seminars

Mon., May 2, 12:15 p.m. "Emerging Patterns of Childlessness by Race and Education Among U.S. Women," a Population and Family Health Sciences seminar with Steven Martin, University of Maryland; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., May 2, 12:15 p.m. "Genomic Analysis of Retinal and Hypothalamic Development," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Seth Blackshaw; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., May 2, 4 p.m. "The POLQ Enzyme Family in Mammalian Cells," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Richard Wood, University of Pittsburgh Medical School and the Hillman Cancer Center; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., May 2, 4 p.m. "On the Interaction of Internally Mixed Dust and Sea Salt Particles With Clouds and Precipitation," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Zev Levin, Tel Aviv University; Olin Auditorium. HW

Tues., May 3, noon. "Methods and Applications of Protein Structure Prediction," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Roland Dunbrack Jr., Fox Chase Cancer Center/Institute for Cancer Research; 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., May 3, noon. "Syphilis," a JHU Center for STD Research and Prevention seminar with Anne Rompalo; W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., May 3, 2 p.m. "Quantum Statistical Mechanics of Q-Lattices," a Mathematics seminar with Matilde Marcolli, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn; 302 Krieger. HW

Tues., May 3, 3 p.m. "The Great Land-Use Sediment Experiment: Early American Alteration of the Conestoga Watershed and Its Impact on Modern, High Sediment Yields to the Chesapeake Bay," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Dorothy Merritts and Robert Walker, Franklin and Marshall College; 234 Ames. HW

Tues., May 3, 4 p.m. "Linear Circularity: (A)Temporal Poetics in a Kabbalistic Key," a Humanities Center seminar with Elliot Wolfson, New York University; 111 Gilman. HW

Tues., May 3, 4 p.m. "A Survey of the Farkas Lemma," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with Kevin Byrnes; 304 Whitehead. HW

Tues., May 3, 4:30 p.m. "Conversational Speech and Language Technologies for Structured Document Generation," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Juergen Fritsch, Multimodal Technologies; 100 Shaffer. HW

Tues., May 3, 4:40 p.m. "Three-Fold Divisorial Contractions I," an Algebraic and Complex Geometry seminar with Masayuki Kawakita; 302 Krieger. HW

Wed., May 4, 12:15 p.m. "Advocacy for Public Health: The Crucial Role of Communications," a Population and Family Health Sciences seminar with Andy Burness, Burness Communications; W2030 SPH. EB

Wed., May 4, 12:15 p.m. "Depression and Parkinson's Disease: Functional Impact and Screening," a Mental Health seminar with J.R. Williams; B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., May 4, 4 p.m. "Keeping the Genome Together: Repair of DNA Strand Breaks," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Alan Tomkinson, Greenbaum Cancer Center; 303 WBSB. EB

Wed., May 4, 4:30 p.m. "Three-Fold Divisorial Contractions II," an Algebraic and Complex Geometry seminar with Masayuki Kawakita; 304 Krieger. HW

Thurs., May 5, 9:30 a.m. "The Role of Biobehavioral and Psychosocial Development in Adolescent Injury and Violence Prevention: Toward a Developmental Approach to Intervention," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Sara Johnson; 461 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., May 5, noon. "The Nuclear Envelope, Emerin and Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy," a Cell Biology seminar with Kathy Wilson; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., May 5, noon. "Evolution of Immunity of Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Surface Protein-1 in Human Beings," a Molecular Microbiology/Immunology and Infectious Diseases seminar with James Kazura, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine/Center for Global Health and Diseases; W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., May 5, 1 p.m. "Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Determining the Dendritic Shape of Pyramidal Neurons in the Cortex," a Neuroscience research seminar with Franck Polleux, University of North Carolina; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., May 5, 2 p.m. "Renormalization and Motivic Galois Theory," a Mathematics seminar with Matilde Marcolli, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn; 308 Krieger. HW

Thurs., May 5, 3:30 p.m. "How Complex Innate Behaviors Are Built Into the Nervous System: Emerging Lessons From Courtship Behavior in Drosophila," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Bruce Baker; 517 PCTB. EB

Thurs., May 5, 4 p.m. "Depth Functions in Multivariate Analysis and Computational Geometry," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Robert Serfling, University of Texas, Dallas/National Science Foundation; 304 Whitehead. HW

Thurs., May 5, 4 p.m. "PAS Domains: A Versatile Way to Build a Biological Switch," a Biology seminar with Kevin Gardner, UT Southwestern Medical Center; 100 Mudd. HW

Fri., May 6, 10 a.m. "Determinants of Health Care Spending Using a Co-Integration," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Varduhi Petrosyan; 339 Hampton House. EB

Fri., May 6, 3:30 p.m. "A Comparison of Unsteady RANS Simulations with PIV Data in an Axial Turbomachine," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Oguz Uzol; 107 Latrobe. HW

Mon., May 9, 10 a.m. "The Effect of L-Arginine on Arterial Stiffness, Cardiac Diastolic Function and Exercise Tolerance," a Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with Susan Zieman; E6519 SPH. EB

Mon., May 9, 12:15 p.m. "BDNF Signaling in Neural Plasticity and Age-Related Disease," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Mark Mattson, NIH/NIA; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., May 9, 12:15 p.m. "Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products," an Environmental Health Engineering seminar with Donald Versteeg, Procter & Gamble; W2015 SPH. EB

Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. "Trans-Translation: A Tail of Protein Demise, Ribosome Rescue and Nonstop mRNAs," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Wali Karzai, SUNY, Stony Brook; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Seasonal Neuroplasticity in Songbirds" with Gregory Ball. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., May 9, 4:30 p.m. "Toledo Invariants on 2-Orbifolds," an Algebraic Topology seminar with Michael Krebs; 308 Krieger. HW

 

Special Events

Tues., May 3, 4 to 6 p.m. "Who Will Care For Us? Who Will Receive Care?" an expert-to-expert town hall discussion of health care disparities; with moderator Sam Donaldson, ABC News. Part of the School of Nursing's milestone celebration. (See "Expert-to-expert town hall to focus on health care disparities," this issue.) SoN Alumni Auditorium. EB

Wed., May 4, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. "Three Sentences or Less: Communicating Public Health Research in an Era of Headline News" begins with an advocacy workshop with Karen Goraleski and Shannon Dzubin of Prevention Research Initiative Research!America. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Media science forum with Goraleski; Susan Baker; William Bronrott, Md. House of Delegates; Denise Koch, WJZ-TV; Shannon Brownlee, New America Foundation; and Christopher Hanson, University of Maryland College of Journalism. Register at http://commprojects.jhsph.edu/subscribe/ communicate.cfm or call 410-955-2221. E2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., May 4, 7 p.m. Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), a community-wide observance featuring the Maryland Jewish Choral Arts Society and students from Jewish day schools performing selected adaptations of The Holocaust Cantata: Songs From the Camps; a candle lighting service and reading of a memorial prayer, with guests Mayor Martin O'Malley, Benjamin Greenwald and Marc Terrill of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore; and Sol Goldstein. Sponsored by The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and the Baltimore Jewish Council. Shriver Hall. HW

Thurs., May 5, 5 to 7:30 p.m. "Finding Harmony Between Academic Research and Entrepreneurship," a Hopkins Biotechnology Network panel discussion on academic-industry relations, with Henry Brem, Chi Dang, Jennifer Elisseeff and Jeffrey Rothstein. R.S.V.P. to hbiotech@hotmail.com (include name, title and affiliation). Anne M. Pinkard Bldg. EB

Fri., May 6, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. "Building Capacity Through Community and Academic Partnerships," a Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Scholars Program poster session. Student Lounge, SPH. EB

Fri., May 6, 3 to5 p.m. Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program poster session; seniors present posters describing the results of completed undergraduate research. (See "Projects that fuel the mind," this issue.) Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Sat., May 7, 7:30 p.m. "Music, Art and Beautiful Things," an evening of music and readings featuring original musical compositions by Darryl Harper and The Onus and Tom Goldstein and Friends; the evening includes a sharing of words and images from the Kids on the Hill afterschool program and the Johns Hopkins Advanced Writing Seminars. $5 per person. Reservations required; call 410-516-0341. Bakst Theater. Evergreen

Mon., May 9, 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. MHS Presentations — "Educational Attainment and HIV Infections Among Voluntary Counseling and Testing Clients in Ethiopia" by Heather Bradley; "The 'Storyteller," a Pilot Communication Program to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma in Rural Malawi" by Lisa Folda; "Revitalizing the Use of VBAC in the U.S.: An Overview of the Issue, the Evidence and Recommendations" by Fonda Kingsley; and "Policy Recommendations to Improve the Health Status of Foster Care and Homeless Adolescents" by Lauren Wolfson. Sponsored by Population and Family Health Sciences and the Hopkins Population Center. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., May 9, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. "The Future of Social Security," with Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Millie Tyssowski, former Social Security administrator; Hans Riemer, Rock the Vote; and Christopher Carroll. Sponsored by League of Women Voters of Baltimore City and Baltimore County. After remarks from the panel, there will be an opportunity for questions from the audience. Clipper Room, Shriver Hall. HW

 

Sports

Sat., May 7, 3 p.m. Men's Lacrosse, vs. Loyola. $20 field level, $10 reserved and $7 general admission; $5 for groups or children. Homewood Field. HW

 

Theater

Fri., May 6, and Sat., May 7, 8 p.m.; Sun., May 8, 2:15 p.m. Theatre Hopkins presents the comedy Boy Meets Girl, starring John Astin; in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Theatre. $15 general admission, $14 senior citizens and $5 student rush tickets. Merrick Barn. HW

 

Workshops

Thurs., May 5, 1 to 2 p.m. Tai chi classes with master Liu Xiao Ling. Sponsored by Asian Americans in Public Health, the Asian-Pacific Islander Health Society and the Student Assembly of JHSPH. Main exercise studio, Cooley Center. EB

Mon., May 9, 1 p.m. AMCAS essay writing workshop with Mary Catherine Savage and Jean Kan. Sponsored by Preprofessional Advising. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

 
Blood Drive | Colloquia | Discussion/Talks | Film/Video | Grand Rounds | Lectures | Music | Open House | Seminars | Special Events | Sports | Theater | Workshops

 
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