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Weekly Calendar
Blood Drive
Wed., Nov. 14, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. JHU/Red Cross
blood drive. Homewood Field. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. JHU/Red Cross
blood drive. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Hopkins at
Mt. Washington blood drive. McAuley Hall
Gymnasium, Mt. Washington Conference Center
Colloquia
Tues., Nov. 13, 4 p.m. "E.T. Diplomacy," an
Anthropology colloquium with Debbora Battaglia, Mount
Holyoke College. 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., Nov. 13, 4:15 p.m. "Selenocysteine, the 21st
Amino Acid in the Genetic Code: Its Biosynthesis
and Role in Human Health," a Chemistry colloquium with
Dolph Hatfield, CCR/NCI/NIH. 233 Remsen.
HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 3 p.m. "Extreme Value Statistics,"
a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Zoltan
Racz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Schafler Auditorium,
Bloomberg Center. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 3 p.m. "The Defects of Flesh:
Bodies and Rights in 17th- and 18th-Century Germany,"
a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Mary
Lindemann, University of Miami. Seminar
Room, 3rd floor, Welch Library. EB
Fri., Nov. 16, 2 p.m. "Bionanotechnology and
Mechanoevolution," an Applied Physics Laboratory
colloquium with Bradley Layton, Drexel University.
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium. APL
Fri., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m. "The Dragon Cart: The Femme
Fatale in 17th-Century French Opera," a Peabody
Musicology colloquium with Susan McClary, UCLA.
Cohen-Davidson Family Theatre. Peabody
Forum
Thurs., Nov. 15, noon. "Battling 'Brokeness' in
Baltimore — Achieving Financial Competency," a Johns
Hopkins Women's Network forum with mathematician Peggy
Winfield. Asthma & Allergy Center.
Bayview
Information Sessions
Tues., Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m. Information session for
the Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and
Policy program. RSVP to
advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=664.
Sponsored by
Environmental Sciences and Policy, Advanced Academic
Programs. Olin Auditorium. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 6 p.m. Information session for the
Master of Arts in Government program. RSVP
online to
advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=650.
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins
University Government Program, Advanced Academic Programs.
Washington Center.
Lectures
The renowned Salzburg Marionette
Theatre performs Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' at Homewood's
Shriver Hall. See Music.
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Mon., Nov. 12, 12:15 p.m. Native American Heritage
Month lecture by Jeffrey Sachs, director, the
Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sponsored by the
Center for American Indian Health. E2014
SPH. EB
Welch Library lectures. EB
Mon., Nov. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Expert Searching in
Public Health" by Claire Twose, SoM. B14B
Hampton House.
Tues., Nov. 13, 1 p.m. "RefWorks" by Ivy Garner,
SoM. West Lecture Hall, WBSB.
Fri., Nov. 16, 1:15 p.m. "Life Beyond PubMed" by
Catherine Craven, SoM. Weinberg Auditorium.
Tues., Nov. 13, 6 p.m. The Percy Graeme Turnbull
Memorial Poetry Lecture — A reading by Scottish
poet Douglas Dunn. (See story, "Scottish poet Douglas Dunn
to read at Homewood, in East Balto.," in
this issue.) 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., Nov. 14, noon. "A Century After the
Unparalleled Invasion: East Asia After the Financial
Crisis,"
a Political Science lecture by Meredith Jung-En Woo,
University of Michigan. Co-sponsored by the
James Schouler Lectureship and the Racism, Immigration and
Citizenship Program. 366 Mergenthaler.
HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, noon. "Perspectives of Africa,
1936-2007," a Center for a Livable Future lecture by
Ed Dodge. W1214 SPH. EB
Thurs., Nov. 15, 7 p.m. The Ginder Lecture —
"Freeing the Digital Consumer" by journalist Walt
Mossberg. (See story, "'Wall Street Journal' tech expert to
give Carey School's Ginder Lecture," in
this issue.) Sponsored by the Carey Business School. Rome
Bldg. SAIS
Fri., Nov. 16, 3:30 p.m. "How Our Hands Help Us
Think," a Cognitive Science lecture by Susan Goldin-
Meadow, University of Chicago. 210 Hodson. HW
Sun., Nov. 18, 2 to 6 p.m. "War on the Chesapeake,
1813-15: Archaeological Discoveries and Citizen
Soldiers of Maryland," a Center for Liberal Arts
presentation with Susan Langley and Scott Sheads.
Part of the lecture series The War of 1812. 110 Hodson.
HW
Tues., Nov. 20, 5:15 p.m. "Politics and Psychosis,"
a German and Romance Languages and Literatures
lecture by Lawrence Rickels, University of California, UC
Santa Barbara. 223 Gilman. HW
Tues., Nov. 20, 7 p.m. "Venezuela's Proposed
Constitutional Reforms," a German and Romance
Languages and Literatures lecture by Bolivian ambassador
Bernardo Alvarez Herrera. 110 Hodson. HW
Music
Shriver Hall Concert Series presents the Salzburg
Marionette Theatre. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW
Sat., Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m. Mozart's The Magic Flute.
Sun., Nov. 18, 2 p.m. Children's Concert —
performance of Hansel and Gretel, for children 4 and
older.
Thurs., Nov. 15, Fri., Nov. 16, and Sat., Nov. 17, 7:30
p.m., and Sun., Nov. 18, 3 p.m. The Peabody Opera
Theatre presents Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw.
$25 admission, $15 for senior citizens
and $10 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody
Fri., Nov. 16, 8 p.m. Music at Evergreen presents La
Catrina Quartet. $20 general admission, $15 for
Evergreen members and $10 for students with ID. Carriage
House, Evergreen Museum & Library.
Wed., Nov. 21, noon. Performance of The Nutcracker
by the Westminster Ballet Theatre. Part of The
Art of Healing concert series sponsored by the Johns
Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Weinberg
Ceremonial Lobby. EB
Open House
Wed., Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m. Open house for Montgomery
County Campus part-time programs, an
opportunity to speak with associate program chairs from the
Advanced Biotechnology Studies program
and admissions professionals. Other Johns Hopkins schools
represented will be the Bloomberg School
of Public Health, Carey Business School, Krieger School of
Arts and Sciences, School of Education and
Whiting School of Engineering. RSVP online to
advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=610.
Montgomery County Campus
Reading
Readings by Scottish poet Douglas Dunn. Sponsored by
the Writing Seminars. (See story, "Scottish
poet Douglas Dunn to read at Homewood, in East Balto.," in
this issue.)
Mon., Nov. 12, 6 p.m. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 5 p.m. Inaugural event of the Johns
Hopkins Mood Disorders Center's Arts and
Psychiatry series. Hurd Hall. EB
Seminars
Mon., Nov. 12, 10 a.m. "New Technology to Detect and
Monitor the Post-Translational Modification
Events That Commit Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Exit the
Pluripotent State," a Biological
Chemistry seminar with Joshua Coon, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. 612 Physiology Bldg. EB
Mon., Nov. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Germ Cell Development and
Regeneration in Planaria," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Phillip Newmark, University of
Illinois. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin
Drive. HW
Mon., Nov. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Allocating Organs:
Ethical and Policy Challenges," a Berman Institute of
Bioethics seminar with Frederick Levy, SoM; Corianne
Iacovelli, SoM; and Rachel Grunberger, SoM.
208 Hampton House. EB
Mon., Nov. 12, 3:30 p.m. The Randolph Bromery
Seminar — "Biogeochemical Signatures for Early Life"
with Roger Summons, MIT. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary
Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., Nov. 12, 4 p.m. "The Stability Problem for
Black Hole Spacetimes in General Relativity," a
Mathematics seminar with Mihalis Dafermos, Cambridge
University. 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., Nov. 12, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Quantitative Relationships Between
the Activities of Color Selective Neurons in Area TE of the
Monkey and Color Discrimination Behavior"
with Takehiro Matsumora, National Institute for
Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan. Sponsored by
Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., Nov. 12, 4:30 p.m. "Calculus of Functors,
Operad Formality and Embedding Spaces," a
Mathematics seminar with Ismar Volic, Wellesley College.
302 Krieger. HW
Tues., Nov. 13, 10 a.m. "Pregnancy, Linear Growth
and Nutritional Status of Adolescent Women in Rural
Bangladesh," an International Health thesis defense seminar
with Jee Rah. W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., Nov. 13, noon. Postdoctoral Benefits seminar
with an opening talk by Levi Watkins, and briefings
by Mary Foy, registrar; Darnell Williams and Wilma Lucas of
University Health Services; Donna Vogel
of PDO; Neil Marshall of Parking/Transportation; John Lorch
of the International Office; Cheryll Glab
of the Alumni Association; and Michelle Carlstrom of the
Faculty and Staff Assistance Program.
Tilghman Auditorium. EB
Tues., Nov. 13, 3 p.m. "Relevance of Nontoxigenic
Strains as Surrogates for E. coli O157:H7 in
Predicting Groundwater Contamination Potential," a
Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar
with Nathalie Tufenkji, McGill University. 234 Ames. HW
Tues., Nov. 13, 4 p.m. "Risk Issues in the Built
Environment," a Civil Engineering seminar with Ross
Corotis, University of Colorado, Boulder. 110 Maryland.
HW
Tues., Nov. 13, 4:30 p.m. "Chow Ring of Complex
Algebraic Groups," a Mathematics seminar with Shizuo
Kaji, Kyoto University. 302 Krieger. HW
Wed., Nov. 14, noon. "Regulating Fibrocyte
Differentiation for Wound Healing and Fibrosing Diseases,"
a seminar with Richard Gomer, Rice University. West Lecture
Hall, WBSB. EB
Wed., Nov. 14, 1:30 p.m. "Structural Study of mRNA
Movement on the Ribosome During Translation," a
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Marat
Yusupov, Institute of Genetic Medicine,
Illkirch Cedex, France. 517 PCTB. EB
Wed., Nov. 14, 3:30 p.m. "Nanofabricated Magnetic
Structures: Reversal Properties and Applications,"
a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Bruce
Terris, San Jose Research Center. 110
Maryland. HW
Wed., Nov. 14, 4 p.m. "Estimation of Concordance
With Censored Data," a Biostatistics seminar with
Mithat Gonen, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. W2030
SPH. EB
Thurs., Nov. 15, 11 a.m. "Biomimetic
Microenvironments to Study Tumor Vascularization," a
Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Claudia
Fischbach, Cornell University. 110 Maryland. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, noon. "Selectively Enhancing Gi/o
Signaling in vivo: RGS Insensitive Mutations in
Galpha-i2 and Galpha-o," a Cell Biology seminar with
Richard Neubig, University of Michigan. Suite 2-
200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Nov. 15, noon. "Characterizing Effector
Cells at the Host Pathogen Interface," an Infectious
Diseases and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology joint
seminar with William Gause, New Jersey
Medical School. W1020 SPH. EB
Thurs., Nov. 15, noon. "Building Strong Families:
Developing and Evaluating Marriage and Relationship
Education Program for Unmarried Parents," a Health,
Behavior and Society seminar with Barbara
Devaney, Mathematica Policy Research Inc. 250 Hampton
House. EB
Thurs., Nov. 15, 1 p.m. "Viral and Cellular
Functions of Cullin 5," a Molecular Microbiology and
Immunology thesis defense seminar with Elana Ehrlich. E2014
SPH. EB
Thurs., Nov. 15, 1 p.m. "Axonal Degeneration:
Mitochondria, Energy and Redox," a Neuroscience
research seminar with Jeffrey Milbrandt, Washington
University School of Medicine. West Lecture
Hall, WBSB. EB
Thurs., Nov. 15, 3 p.m. "Bulk Turbulence in Water
and Dilute Polymer Solutions: A Comparison," a
Mechanical Engineering seminar with Eberhard Bodenschatz,
Georg August University, Goettingen and
Cornell University. 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 3:30 p.m. "Insights Into Yeast
Telomerase From Exploring Its RNA Subunit," a
Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with David Zappulla,
HHMI and University of Colorado. 517
PCTB. EB
Thurs., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. "Noise in Gene Expression: A
Single-Molecule Study of Gene Regulation," a
Biology seminar with Jie Xiao, SoM. 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. "Batch Verification of Short
Signatures," an Applied Mathematics and
Statistics seminar with Susan Hohenberger, WSE. 304
Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. "Two-Photon Absorption in
Optical Microcavity Devices," an Electrical and
Computer Engineering seminar with Scott Hendrickson. 117
Barton. HW
Mon., Nov. 19, 12:15 p.m. "Bioinformatics and Breast
Cancer Risk Assessment," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Rachel Karchin, WSE. Rose
Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Nov. 19, 1 p.m. "Detecting and Contending With
the Influence of 'Unmeasured' Confounders," a
Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Yun Lu. W4019
SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 19, 2:30 p.m. "Familial Determinants of
Overweight and Physical Activity Behavior Change
Among Urban African-American Adolescents," an International
Health thesis defense seminar with
Erin Hager. W3008 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 19, 3:30 p.m. The Randolph Bromery
Seminar — "Ice Mass Fluctuations and Earthquake
Hazard in Southern Alaska" with Jeanne Sauber, NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center. Sponsored by
Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., Nov. 19, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Computational Insights Into Visual
Motion Processing" with Cornelia Fermuller, University of
Maryland, College Park. Sponsored by
Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., Nov. 19, 4 p.m. "Secular Spirits: A Queer
Historiography of Untimely Sexualities," a Women and
Gender Studies seminar with Molly McGarry, University of
California, Riverside. Sponsored by History.
113 Greenhouse. HW
Mon., Nov. 19, 4 p.m. "Myxobacterial Machines," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with
Egbert Hoiczyk, SPH. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 19, 4 p.m. "Soliton Interaction With a
Potential," a Mathematics seminar with Justin
Holmer, University of California, Berkeley. 308 Krieger.
HW
Tues., Nov. 20, noon. "Mitochondrial Matters —
The ATP Synthasome Mega-Complex: Roles in Cell Death
and Cancer, and Visions for the Future as a Drug Target for
Multiple Diseases," a Biological Chemistry
seminar with Peter Pedersen, SoM. 612 Physiology Bldg.
EB
Tues., Nov. 20, 3 p.m. "Energy Trends and
Technologies for the Coming Decades," a Geography and
Environmental Engineering seminar with Steven Koonin, BP.
234 Ames. HW
Mon., Nov. 26, 12:15 p.m. "Right and Left: Mineral
Surfaces and the Origins of Biochemical
Homochirality," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar
with Robert Hazen, George Mason
University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Nov. 26, 12:15 p.m. "The Evolving HIV/AIDS
Epidemic: Past, Present and Future," a Center for
Communication Programs seminar with John Bartlett, SoM.
Suite 310, Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place.
Mon., Nov. 26, 3:30 p.m. The Randolph Bromery
Seminar — "Priming the Microbial Pump: Enhanced Soil
Organic Matter Decomposition at Elevated CO2" with Patrick
Megonigal, Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Olin Auditorium. HW
Special Events
Mon., Nov. 12, 4 p.m. Lecture by human rights
activist Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, who will also
receive the 2007 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for
his work with a leading Sudanese
Darfuri-led human rights organization providing care to
survivors of torture and sexual violence and
documenting ongoing human rights abuses. Sponsored by the
Bloomberg School of Public Health.
W1214 SPH. EB
Tues., Nov. 13, 7 p.m. Martha Joynt Kumar, political
science professor at Towson University, will
discuss and sign her book Managing the President's Message:
The White House Communications
Operation. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Sat., Nov. 17, 10 a.m. Story time for children of
all ages, with a visit by Curious George. Barnes &
Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Symposia
Mon., Nov. 12, 4 p.m. "Remembering the Spirit of the
Sixties," a Center for Africana Studies
symposium with panelists Samuel Hay, Lafayette College;
Melanie Njeri Jackson, Virginia
Commonwealth University; Judson Jeffries, Ohio State
University; and Charles Jones, Georgia State
University. 3 Shaffer. HW
Theater
Fri., Nov. 16, Sat., Nov. 17, 8 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 18,
2 p.m. A Johns Hopkins University Theatre
production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. $15 general
admission, $13 for JHU alumni, faculty, staff
and senior citizens, and $5 for students. For reservations,
e-mail jhut@jhu.edu or
call 410-516-5153.
Merrick Barn. HW
Workshops and Training
Thurs., Nov. 15, 1 p.m. "Mapping Your Neighborhood,"
a "Bits and Bytes" workshop with Jim Gillespie.
Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. To
register or for more information, go to
www.cer.jhu.edu and
click on "Events." Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW
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