Mon., Nov. 28, 12:15 p.m. "The Politics and Practice
of Surgical Sterilization in Costa Rica: An Ethnographic
Case Study of the Challenges of Making a Reproductive
Right," a Berman Bioethics Institute seminar with Gwynne
Jenkins, SPH; W2015 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 28, 12:15 p.m. "Fishing for Functional,
Non-Coding DNA," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar
with Andrew McCallion, JHMI; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Nov. 28, 4 p.m. "Frontiers in Ocean Sciences:
Looking Ahead to the Next 25 Years," an Earth and Planetary
Sciences seminar with Margaret Leinen, National Science
Foundation; Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., Nov. 28, 5 p.m. "The Working Poor: Invisible
in America," a Press and Public Policy seminar with David
Shipler, author of the book by the same name. Sponsored by
the Institute for Policy Studies. Reservations requested;
ksottak@jhu.edu.
Copies of Shipler's book will be available for purchase and
signing. Great Hall, Levering. HW
Mon., Nov. 28, 5:30 p.m. "From Fortress to
City-State: Tell Es-Sweyhat, Syria, in the Early Bronze
Age," a Near Eastern Studies seminar with Richard Zettler,
University of Pennsylvania; 123 Gilman. HW
Tues., Nov. 29, 10 a.m. "Epigenetic Regulation of
Estrogen Receptor Alpha in Human Breast Cancer Cells," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar
with Julie Parson Blum; W3008 SPH. EB
Tues., Nov. 29, noon. "How to Write a Winning Animal
Protocol," an Animal Care and Use Committee seminar with
James Owiny, JHMI; 403 Ross. EB
Tues., Nov. 29, 12:15 p.m. "Youth Talent Beats AIDS:
Taking Programs to Scale in Ethiopia and Madagascar," a
Center for Communication Programs seminar with Peter
Gottert, Health Communication Partnership; 310 Candler
Bldg., 111 Market Place. EB
Tues., Nov. 29, 3 p.m. "Measuring Heterogeneous
Distributions of Immobile Liquids in Soil and Bioreactor
Landfills," a Geography and Environmental Engineering
seminar with Paul Imhoff, University of Delaware; 234 Ames.
HW
Tues., Nov. 29, 4 p.m. "A New Direction in
Structural Condition Assessment and Nondestructive
Evaluation," a Civil Engineering seminar with Chris Earls,
University of Pittsburgh; 110 Maryland. HW
Tues., Nov. 29, 4 p.m. "The Past, Present and Future
Wonder Woman," an Anthropology seminar with Stanford
Carpenter, KSAS; 400 Macaulay. HW
Wed., Nov. 30, noon. "Without External
Picturesquences, or, Why I Am Not a Patriot," a Political
Science seminar with Steven Johnston, University of South
Florida; 338 Mergenthaler. HW
Wed., Nov. 30, 12:15 p.m. "Taking Evidence-Based
Practices in Children's Mental Health to Scale: Building a
Science Base on Implementation Process and Outcome," a
Mental Health seminar with Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood,
Columbia University; B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., Nov. 30, 1:30 p.m. "X-Ray and Solid-State NMR
Measurements of Entropic Forces in Biological Membranes," a
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Horia
Petrache, NICHD/NIH; 517 PCTB. EB
Wed., Nov. 30, 4 p.m. "Special Values of Rankin
L-Functions Over Real Quadratic Fields and Applications," a
Number Theory seminar with Alexandru Popa, Princeton
University; 304 Krieger. HW
Wed., Nov. 30, 4 p.m. "Mechanisms of Damage
Recognition and Incision in Human Nucleotide Excision
Repair," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with
Orlando Scharer, SUNY, Stony Brook; West Lecture Hall
(ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Dec. 1, 11 a.m. "Polymer-Clay
Nanocomposites: From Clay Dispersion Rheology to
Flow-Induced Crystallization," a Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering seminar with James Oberhauser, University of
Virginia; 110 Maryland. HW
Thurs., Dec. 1, noon. "Stem Cells for Cardiac
Regeneration," a Cell Biology seminar with Eduardo Marban,
SoM; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Dec. 1, 3 p.m. "Patterns, Universality and
Computational Algorithms," an Applied Mathematics and
Statistics seminar with Nigel Goldenfeld, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Dec. 1, 3 p.m. "Size Effects on the
Deformation and Fatigue Behavior of Thin Metal Films," a
Mechanical Engineering seminar with Oliver Kraft,
Universitat Karlsruhe; 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Dec. 1, 4 p.m. "Mechanics of Bacterial Type
IV Secretion," a Biology seminar with Peter Christie,
UT-Houston Medical School; 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., Dec. 1, 4 p.m. "Imaging Tissue Deformation
Using Strain-Encoded Magnetic Resonance Imaging," an
Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Ahmed
Fahmy, WSE; 117 Barton. HW
Fri., Dec. 2, 10:30 a.m. "Compact E-Cash," an
Information Security Institute seminar with Susan
Hohenberger, MIT; 311 Hodson. HW
Fri., Dec. 2, 11:30 a.m. "An Examination of
Depression's Association with Cardiovascular Health
Behaviors and Disease Risk Among Urban Young Adults," a
Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with
Alyson Hall; 461 Hampton House. EB
Fri., Dec. 2, 2 p.m. "Effect of Hormonal
Contraception on Natural History of HPV-16 Infection," a
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense
seminar with Utaiwan Utaipat; W2017 SPH. EB
Mon., Dec. 5, 12:15 p.m. "Controlling Gene
Expression by ATP Dependent Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes,"
a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Carl Wu,
NIH/NCI; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Dec. 5, 1 p.m. "Characterization of the
Vall08met Cathechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT)
Polymorphism," an Environmental Health Sciences thesis
defense seminar with Anne Elizabeth Doyle; W7023 SPH.
EB
Mon., Dec. 5, 4 p.m. "Expression and Function of the
PGD2/SOX9 Pathway in Embryonic and Pathologic Gonad," a
Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Safia Malki;
3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Dec. 5, 4 p.m. "Multivariate
Cue/Signal/Response Analysis of Cell Decision Processes,"
an Institute in Multiscale Modeling of Biological
Interactions seminar with Douglas Lauffenburger, MIT;
introductory remarks by President William R. Brody. Mudd
Auditorium. HW