Mon., Feb. 28, 11 a.m. "Race and Measurement of
Major De-pression," a Mental Health thesis defense seminar
with Oyelola Faparusi; 845 Hampton House. EB
Mon., Feb. 28, 12:15 p.m. "An Overview of Findings
from the WHO Multi-Country Study on Domestic Violence and
Women's Health," a Population and Family Health
Sciences/Population Center seminar with Mary Ellsberg.
Co-sponsored by the Hopkins Population Center. W2030 SPH.
EB
Mon., Feb. 28, 12:15 p.m. "Identification and
Characterization of Nociceptive Neuron Specific Genes," a
Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Xinzhong Dong;
Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW
Mon., Feb. 28, 12:15 p.m. "Emotion and Reproductive
Health," a Population and Family Health Sciences/Population
Center seminar with Alaka Basu, Cornell University; W2030
SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 28, 4 p.m. "Initiation and Spreading of
Agriculture in the Mediterranean: A Working Hypothesis and
Speculations on the Possible Relationship with Abrupt
Climate Events at the End of the Late Glacial and Early
Holocene," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with
Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State University; Olin Hall
Auditorium. HW
Mon., Feb. 28, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Perceptual Learning and Cortical
Self-Organization" with Michael Kilgard, University of
Texas, Dallas. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute.
338 Krieger. HW
Mon., Feb. 28, 4 p.m. "Role of the GATA Family of
Transcription Factors in Reproductive Function: More Than
Just a Matter of Sex," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
seminar with Robert Viger, Laval University; W2030 SPH.
EB
Tues., March 1, 12:15 p.m. "Healthy Russia:
Progress, Politics and HIV Prevention," a Center for
Communication Programs seminar with Neil McKee, Healthy
Russia Project; International Room, 111 Market Place.
EB
Tues., March 1, 3 p.m. "Megalopolis Revisited," a
Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with John
Rennie Short, UMBC; 234 Ames. HW
Tues., March 1, 4 p.m. "Solving Mathematical
Programs with Equilibrium Constraints: From Local to Global
Optimal Solutions," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics
seminar with Andrew Liu; 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., March 1, 4 p.m. "Work, Marriage and Poverty,"
a Social Policy seminar with Ron Haskins, Brookings
Institution. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Policy
Studies, Economics and Health Policy and Management; 526
Wyman Park Bldg. HW
Tues., March 1, 4:30 p.m. "Multi-Rate and
Variable-Rate Acoustic Modeling of Speech and Phonesyllable
and Time Scales," a Center for Language and Speech
Processing with Ozgur Cetin, University of California,
Berkeley; 100 Shaffer. HW
Wed., March 2, 8:15 a.m. "Clinical Trials and IRBS,"
a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Mark Steinhoff;
W2008 SPH. EB
Wed., March 2, 12:15 p.m. "Baltimore's Public Health
Response to Drug Dependence," a Mental Health seminar with
Robert Schwartz, Friends Research Institute; B14B Hampton
House. EB
Wed., March 2, 12:15 p.m. "Experimental and
Non-Experimental Examinations of Neighborhood Effects on
Children's Achievement," a Population and Family Health
Sciences/Population Center seminar with Tama Leventhal;
W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., March 2, 1:30 p.m. "Neural and Endothelial
Stem/Progenitor Cells," an Oncology seminar with Sharon
Louis, StemCell Technologies Inc.; Tilghman Auditorium
(enter through Ross). EB
Wed., March 2, 3:30 p.m. "Relationships Between
Protein-based Materials Structure and Biological Function,"
a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with David
Kaplan, Tufts University; 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., March 2, 4 p.m. "Signal Transduction and
Angiogenesis: Melanoma as a Model System," a Pharmacology
and Molecular Sciences seminar with John Arbiser, Emory
University School of Medicine; 303 WBSB. EB
Wed., March 2, 5 p.m. "The Great Influenza: The Epic
Story of the Deadliest Plague in History," an External
Affairs seminar with author John Barry; W1020 SPH. EB
Wed., March 2, 5 p.m. "Sailing the Seven Cs:
Inspiration of Multiple Mechanisms," a Biology seminar with
Robert Schleif; Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW
Thurs., March 3, noon. "Molecular Mechanisms of Iron
Transport," a Cell Biology seminar with Marianne
Wessling-Resnick, Harvard School of Public Health; Suite
2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., March 3, noon. "Development and Testing of
the Human Hookworm Vaccine," an Infectious Diseases and
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology seminar with Peter
Hotez, George Washington University; W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., March 3, 1 p.m. "Molecular Mechanisms of
Axon Regeneration," a Neuroscience research seminar with
Zhigang He, Harvard Medical School; West Lecture Hall
(ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., March 3, 3 p.m. "Organic Semiconductor
Devices: Mole-cular Design, Film Deposition, Morphology and
Architectures," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with
Howard Katz; 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., March 3, 4 p.m. "From Gene Action to
Genomics and Back!" a Biology seminar with Robert Larossa,
DuPont Company; 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., March 3, 4 p.m. "Adversarial Mixing Theory,
or How to Keep a System Mixed Under Adversarial Behavior,"
an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with
Christian Scheideler; 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., March 3, 4 p.m. "Modeling and Analysis of
Protein Signaling Networks Using Hybrid Automata," an
Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Ronojoy
Ghosh, Stanford University; 117 Barton. HW
Fri., March 4, 4 p.m. "Structural Health
Monitoring," a Civil Engineering seminar with Andrew Smyth,
Columbia University; 110 Maryland. HW
Mon., March 7, 10 a.m. "Determinants of Mental
Health Services in Maryland School-based Health Centers," a
Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with
Marjorie Alice Innocent; 744 Hampton House. EB
Mon., March 7, 12:15 p.m. "Unlimited Numbers of
Purified Midbrain Dopamine Neurons From Human Embryonic
Stem Cells," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Lorenz Studer, Sloan-Kettering Institute; Seminar Room, 115
W. University Pkwy. HW
Mon., March 7, 12:15 p.m. "The Meaning and
Measurement of Unintended Pregnancy: Theory and Empirical
Findings," a Population and Family Health
Sciences/Population Center seminar with John Santelli,
Columbia University; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., March 7, 2 p.m. "Most Studied Yet Least
Understood: Social Perceptions Related to Genetic
Technology in Orthodox Jews," a Health Policy and
Management thesis defense seminar with Ilana Suez Mittman;
744 Hampton House. EB
Mon., March 7, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuro-science — "Cortical Mechanisms of Reinforcement
Learning and Decision Making" with Daeyeol Lee, University
of Rochester. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., March 7, 4 p.m. "Nanoscale Analyses of Sheet
Silicates in Primitive Meteorites: Clues to
Aqueous-Alteration Processes in the Early Solar System," an
Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Thomas Zega,
Naval Research Laboratory; Olin Hall Auditorium. HW
Mon., March 7, 4 p.m. "Complementing Mutant Nuclear
Receptors by Molecular Design: Molecular Rescue of Vitamin
D Resistant Rickets and Resistance to Thyroid Hormone," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with John Koh,
University of Delaware; W2030 SPH. EB