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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University February 26, 2007 | Vol. 36 No. 23
 

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Colloquia | Discussion/Talks | Film/Video | Lectures | Music | Reading | Seminars | Special Events | Workshops

 

Colloquia


The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra's free Concert for Children and Families gives little listeners an opportunity to get close to the musicians and their instruments. See Music.
Photo by David Friedlander

Tues., Feb. 27, 4:15 p.m. "Design of New Nitroxyl (HNO) Donors for Treatment of Heart Failure," a Chemistry colloquium with Katrina Miranda, University of Arizona; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, 3:30 p.m. "The Formation History of the Andromeda Galaxy," an STScI colloquium with Tom Brown, STScI; STScI Auditorium. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, 4 p.m. "Competition and Compensation in the Circuitry Mediating Contextual Fear," a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Michael Fanselow, UCLA; 234 Ames. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m. "Silent Music: Medieval Manuscripts and the Construction of History in 18th-Century Spain," a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Susan Boynton, Columbia University; Part of a series. 308 Conservatory. Peabody

Thurs., March 1, 3 p.m. "Pushing and Pushing Back: Central vs. Local Interests in Draining the English Fens," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Eric Ash, Wayne State University; 3505 N. Charles St. HW

Thurs., March 1, 3:30 p.m. "Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Numerical Relativity," a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Joan Centrella, Goddard Space Flight Center; Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Fri., March 2, 2 p.m. "Riding the World's Biggest Wave: Preparedness and Recovery Lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Thailand," an APL colloquium with Dwayne Meadows, NOAA; Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., March 2, 4 p.m. "The Claim of Inclination," a Philosophy colloquium with Tamar Schapiro, Stanford University; 348 Gilman. HW

Mon., March 5, noon. "The Interface Between Race and National Attachment: Social Dominance, Inclusionary Discrimination and Civic Nationalism," a Political Science colloquium with Mark Sawyer, University of California; 366 Mergenthaler. HW

 

Discussion/Talks

Tues., Feb. 27, 4 to 7 p.m. "Reparations in Comparative Perspective," a panel discussion with scholars from Anthropology, Economics, Political Science and International Affairs. Co-sponsored by Africana Studies and the Program in Latin American Studies. 205 Krieger. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, noon. "College Tuition Survival Guide," a WorkLife Programs discussion with Hugh McDonald, DAC Planning Group. Participants will be provided with a notebook of valuable information. To register, go to www.hopkinsworklife.org. Exact location given upon registration. HW

Thurs., March 1, 5 p.m. "Conversations with Photographers I," with Michael Fried, KSAS, and photographers Stephen Shore and Jeff Wall. Sponsored by the Humanities Center. Lecture Hall. BMA

 

Film/Video

Mon., Feb. 26, 7:15 p.m. Screening of Hope in My Heart: Oral Poetry — May Ayim, with an introduction by author Dagmar Schultz. Sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures and Africana Studies. 305 Hodson. HW

Tues., Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. Screening of Hope in My Heart: Oral Poetry — May Ayim. Sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Center for Africana Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality. 223 Gilman. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, 8 p.m. The Horror of Gender Film Festival — screening of Peeping Tom (1960), directed by Michael Powell. Sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality. 113 Greenhouse. HW

Thurs., March 1, 4 p.m. Screening of Who Killed the Electric Car? Sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future. W3008 SPH. EB

 

Lectures

Mon., Feb. 26, 5:15 p.m. "The Dialectic of Aesthetics: On the New Strife Between Philosophy and Art," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Christoph Menke, University of Potsdam; 336 Gilman. HW

Tues., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. "How to Do Things With Cinema: On Projection and History in Godard's Late Work," a Humanities Center lecture by Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago; 111 Gilman. HW

Tues., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. "Multiculturalism and Race: Reparations and the Debate Over Afro-Descendant Collective Rights in Latin America," a Center for Africana Studies lecture by Juliet Hooker, University of Texas, Austin. Co-sponsored by Political Science. 205 Krieger. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, 12:30 p.m. "Keeping Current on Hot Topics in Nursing Specialties," a Welch Medical Library lecture by Stella Seal, SoM; 140 Pinkard Bldg. (Alumni Auditorium). EB

Wed., Feb. 28, 1 p.m. "Homelessness and Mobility as a Blessing and a Curse: The Christian and Jewish Co-production of the European Tradition of the Wandering Jew," a Jewish Studies Program lecture by Galit Hasan-Rokem, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 111 Gilman. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, 3 p.m. "Philosophy and Performance: Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Issues," a Jewish Studies Program lecture by Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University; 111 Gilman. HW

Fri., March 2, 11 a.m. "Numerical Simulation of Fluid Structure Interaction Problems in Biological Fluid Mechanics," a CEAFM lecture by Fotis Sotiropoulos, University of Minnesota; 110 Maryland. HW

Fri., March 2, 5 p.m. "Plato's Undergrounds," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Carol Jacobs, Yale University; 223 Gilman. HW

Mon., March 5, 4 p.m. "Undoing the Past: Revolution as a Theater of Conspiracy," a Humanities Center lecture by Maud Meyzaud, University of Konstanz; 111 Gilman. HW

Mon., March 5, 4 p.m. "Jazz Age Barcelona: Journalism, Cocktails and Dictatorship," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Robert Davidson, University of Toronto; 223 Gilman. HW

 

Music

Mon., Feb. 26, and Tues., Feb. 27, 8 p.m. Performance by Peabody faculty artist and flute virtuoso Marina Piccinini. Part of the Sylvia Adelman Artist Recital Series. $18 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $8 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Fri., March 2, 5:45 p.m. The Peabody at Homewood Concert Series presents guitarist Lukasz Kuropaczewski and flutist Anastasia Petanova. (See story, " 'Peabody at Homewood': Music at the museum".) $20 general admission, $15 for Homewood House Museum members. Reservations required; 410-516-5589. Homewood House. HW

Sat., March 3, 1 p.m. The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra presents its annual concert for children and families. No tickets required. Shriver Hall. HW

Sun., March 4, 3 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra performs music by Beethoven, Ravel and Cole. $10 general admission, $8 for senior citizens, students, JHU affiliates. Shriver Hall. HW

 

Reading

Tues., Feb. 27, 5:15 p.m. "Why German?" a reading from the autobiography Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany by Ike Hugel-Marshal. Co-sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Africana Studies. 223 Gilman. HW

 

Seminars

Mon., Feb. 26, 10 a.m. "Novel Functions of Mitochondrial Proteins in Chromosome Segregation During Meiosis and Mitosis," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Akila Moore; W2017 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 26, noon. "Ice Mass Fluctuations and Earthquake Hazard in Southern Alaska," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Jeanne Sauber, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., Feb. 26, noon. "Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research: Must They Exclude the Poor From Advanced Medicine?" a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Thomas Pogge, Columbia University. Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Health. Part of the Bioethics Interest Group seminar series. W2015 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 26, 12:15 p.m. "Defining Developmental Potency by the Expression Profiling of Mouse Early Embryos and Stem Cells," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Minoru Ko, NIH; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Feb. 26, 1 p.m. "Voltage Sensing in Excitable Membranes: When the Sensor Becomes a Channel," a Neuroscience special seminar with Francesco Tombola, University of California, Berkeley; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Mon., Feb. 26, 2 p.m. "Modeling Count Data to Support Environmental Management and Decision Making," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Seth Guikema, Texas A&M University; 219 Ames. HW

Mon., Feb. 26, 3:30 p.m. "Organic Chemistry in the Atmosphere: From Smog to Climate Change," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Dylan Millet, Harvard University; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., Feb. 26, 4 p.m. "Complex Zeros of 1-D Schroedinger Eigenfunctions," an Analysis seminar with Hamid Hezari, KSAS; 308 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 26, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Insights on Primate Training," a seminar with Gary Wilson, Moorpark College. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 26, 4 p.m. "Hopfing Mad to Feynman: Tools to Tackle the Renormalization Beast," a Mathematics seminar with Susama Agarwala, KSAS; 302 Krieger. HW

Tues., Feb. 27, noon. "Building the Kinetochore-Microtubule Interface," a Cell Biology seminar with Iain Cheeseman, University of California, San Diego; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Tues., Feb. 27, noon. "The Economics of Obesity in Developing Countries: The Case of Cebu, Philippines," an International Health thesis defense seminar with Monica Arantxa Colchero; W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 27, 12:15 p.m. "Update on the Voices for a Malaria-Free Future Project," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with Matt Lynch and Kim Martin, CCP; Suite 310, Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place.

Tues., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. "A Conserved Checkpoint Monitors Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis in C. elegans," a Biology special seminar with Needhi Bhalla, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, University of California, Berkeley; 100 Mudd. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, noon. "Consequences of Telomere Shortening in the Lung," an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Mary Armanios, SoM; W7023 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 28, 12:15 p.m. "GCP Basics," an Institutional Review Board Office seminar with Vivian Rexroad, JHH; W2017 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 28, 12:15 p.m. "NIDA's Economics Research Portfolio: Current Interests," a Mental Health seminar with Sarah Duffy, NIDA; B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., Feb. 28, 1:30 p.m. "How to Break an Actin Filament: Insights From Cofilin," a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Enrique De La Cruz, Yale University; 517 PCTB. EB

Wed., Feb. 28, 2 p.m. "Loss of the Yeast Mitochondrial Fission Protein FIS1 Drives Selection for Specific Mutations That Alter TOR Signaling (Insight Into the Mechanisms of Human Tumorigenesis)," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Wen-Chih-Cheng; 303 WBSB. EB

Wed., Feb. 28, 3 p.m. "Cognitive Mediators of Depression-Functioning Relationships Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults," a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Yung-Chieh Yen; 845 Hampton House. EB

Wed., Feb. 28, 3:30 p.m. "What Atomistic Simulation Reveals About Shear Banding and the Statistical Mechanics of Deformation in Metallic Glass," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Michael Falk, University of Michigan; 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., Feb. 28, 4 p.m. "On the Structure of Colonial Rule During the French Revolution (1789-99)," a History special seminar with Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; 315 Gilman. HW

Thurs., March 1, 9 a.m. "Microbial Etiologies of Urethritis in Men and Cervicitis in Women in Baltimore City STD Clinics," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Nancy Maldeis; W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 1, 10 a.m. "The Impact of Fathers' Clubs on Child Health and Survival in Rural Haiti," a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Elizabeth Sloand; E4130 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 1, noon. "A Conserved Checkpoint Monitors Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis in C. elegans," a Cell Biology seminar with Needhi Bhalla, University of California, Berkeley; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., March 1, 1 p.m. "A Recipe for Constructing a Peri-Stimulus Time Histogram," a Krieger Mind/Brain Institute special seminar with Hideaki Shimazaki, Kyoto University, Japan; 338 Krieger. HW

Thurs., March 1, 4 p.m. "Regulation of Terminal Differentiation in a Stem Cell Lineage," a Biology special seminar with Xin Chen, Stanford University School of Medicine; 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., March 1, 4 p.m. "Dot-Product Representations of Graphs: Exact, Asymptotic, Projective, Algorithmic, Approximate and Applied," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Edward Scheinerman, WSE; 304 Whitehead. HW

Thurs., March 1, 5:15 p.m. "Facing Trauma: DADA's Reinvention of the Mask," a Philological Society seminar with Astrid Oesmann, University of Iowa; 223 Gilman. HW

Fri., March 2, noon. "Willingness-to-Pay and Cost-Benefit Analysis on Introducing HIB Vaccine Into the Thai Expanded Program on Immunization," an International Health thesis defense seminar with Charung Muangchana; W2015 SPH. EB

Mon., March 5, noon. "Reactive Transport Modeling of Diagenesis and Petroleum Reservoir Quality Prediction," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Yitian Xiao, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., March 5, 12:15 p.m. "Heterochromatin: A Versatile Platform of the Genome," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Shiv Grewal, NCI; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., March 5, 1 p.m. "Evaluation of Statistical Methods to Detect Epistasis and Application to the DISC1 Pathway and Risk for Schizophrenia," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Kristin Kay Nicodemus; W2033 SPH. EB

Mon., March 5, 1 p.m. "Pharmacological Interactions Between Natural Health Products and Antiretrovirals: Role of Phase 2 Enzyme Induction," a Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with Lawrence Soon-U Lee; W2029 SPH. EB

Mon., March 5, 3 p.m. "Diagnosing the Dizzy Patient: Insights From the Emergency Department," a Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with David Newman-Toker; W2015 SPH. EB

 

Special Events

SPH Black History Month Events, sponsored by the SPH Black Graduate Student Association and the SPH Student Assembly. EB

Mon., Feb. 26, noon. "AfroFusion," a talent extravaganza of perspectives related to the African Diaspora, with master of ceremonies and BET comedian Larry Lancaster. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall).

Homewood Black History Month Events, sponsored by the Black Student Union. HW

Mon., Feb. 26, 4 to 6 p.m. Lecture by Katrina Bell McDonald, KSAS; Sherwood Room, Levering.

Tues., Feb. 27, 5 to 7 p.m. "Closing Ceremonies: An Evening of the Arts"; Great Hall, Levering.

Tues., Feb. 27, 8 p.m. "An Unlikely Route to Nirvana: My Journey to the Public's Health," a lecture by Thomas Laveist, SPH. Part of the Voyage and Discovery lecture series. Mudd Auditorium. HW

Thurs., March 1, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Annual East Baltimore Community Talent Show, a chance to see kids from local elementary, middle and high schools perform and meet some of the service groups in the Hopkins community. Sponsored by SOURCE and the SoM talent show planning committee. Turner Auditorium. EB

Fri., March 2, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Public Health Career Fair, with 40+ employers from corporate, government and nonprofit sectors. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students, and public health professionals interested in public health careers. E2030 (Feinstone Hall) and W2008 SPH. EB

 

Workshops

Thurs., March 1, 1 p.m. "Bits and Bytes: Ipod, Itunes and Podcasting," a Center for Educational Resources workshop with Mike Reese, CER; Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

 
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