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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University October 20, 2008 | Vol. 38 No. 8
 

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CEO of L'Oreal to Give Carey Business School's Ginder Lecture


Jean-Paul Agon

By Andrew Blumberg
Carey Business School

Jean-Paul Agon, president and chief executive officer of L'Oreal, will be the speaker this year for the Carey Business School's Ginder Lecture, scheduled for 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 24, in Mason Hall on the Homewood campus.

Agon, whose presentation is titled "From Paris to Peshawar: The Beauty of Globalization," has risen steadily through the management ranks in his 30 years with the international beauty care firm, assuming the CEO position in 2006.

In 1981, Agon was named general manager of L'Oreal Greece. Five years later, he assumed the role of general manager of L'Oreal Paris, and in 1994 he was named managing director of L'Oreal Germany. In 1997, he assumed the responsibility for all the company's activities in Asia, including the Professional Products, Consumer Products, Luxury Products and Active Cosmetics lines. In 2001, he was named president of L'Oreal USA, responsible for the firm's largest single market.

The William M. and Katherine B. Ginder Lecture Fund brings prominent speakers to the Carey Business School to discuss timely and stimulating issues relevant to the business community.

To RSVP to the event, go to carey.jhu.edu/ginder/. For more information, e-mail carey.ginder@jhu.edu.

 

Colloquia

Tues., Oct. 21, 4:15 p.m. The Ephraim and Wilma Shaw Roseman Colloquium — "Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes of Self-Assembled Inorganic Nanomaterials" with David Watson, University of Buffalo. 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., Oct. 22, 4:30 p.m. "How to Look in the Mirror and Hear the Source: Excerpts from Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion," a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Judith Tick, Northeastern University. 308 Conservatory. Peabody

Thurs., Oct. 23, 3 p.m. "Surveillance, Sexual Secrets and the Bureaucratic State: The Wolfenden Committee 1954-57," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Frank Mort, University of Manchester. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Fri., Oct. 24, 1 p.m. Hispanic Heritage Month Colloquium with astronaut Ellen Ochoa, NASA Johnson Space Center. Sponsored by APL. Kossiakoff Center Auditorium. APL

 

Discussion/Talks

Tues., Oct. 21, 5 p.m. "Access to Experts: Global Health Careers," a Career Services panel discussion with Jean Anderson, SoM; Carlos Castillo-Salgado, SPH; Alain Damiba, Jhpiego; Cecilia Kwak, Population Services International; Lynne Lackey, SPH and NIH/NICHD; Matthew Lynch, SPH; Altrena Mukuria, Constella Futures; and Marni Sommer, Columbia University. Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Wed., Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m. "Are Failing Schools a 21st Century Civil Rights Issue?" a Center for Africana Studies rap session facilitated by Jacqueline Jones, JHU School of Education. Multipurpose Room, Charles Commons. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 5 p.m. Africana Studies Critical Thought Collective discussion of Paul Mullins' "Excavating America's Metaphor: Race, Diaspora and Vindicationist Archaeologies" in the journal Historical Archaeology 42.2 (2008), pp. 104-122. 113 Greenhouse. HW

 

Film/Video

Thurs., Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Women, Gender and Sexuality Fall Film Festival screening of La mala educacion (Bad Education). Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies. 113 Greenhouse. HW

 

Grand Rounds

Fri., Oct. 24, 12:15 p.m. "Informatics in Uganda," Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Julia Royall, National Library of Medicine. Co-sponsored by Health Policy and Management. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

 

Information Sessions

Mon., Oct. 27, noon. Information session on benefits for postdocs from the School of Medicine, with Levi Watkins, SoM. Sponsored by the JH Postdoctoral Association. Turner Auditorium. EB

Mon., Oct. 27, noon. Information session for the accelerated Master of Arts in Government Program and the Aitchison Fellowship, two opportunities for undergraduates in Washington DC. 217 Maryland. HW

 

Lectures

Mon., Oct. 20, 4 p.m. The Inaugural Kossiakoff Lecture — "Regulating Ammonia and Water Transport Across Membranes: QED!" by Robert Stroud, UCSF. Sponsored by Biophysics. Mudd Auditorium. HW

Mon., Oct. 20, 4:30 p.m. The Eaton E. Lattman Graduate Student Community Lecture — "The Combined Communication and Navigation of Underwater Vehicles" by Sarah Webster (Mechanical Engineering); "Lineages of the Iranian Welfare State and Its Implications for the Global South" by Kevan Harris (Sociology); and "Practical Renewable Energy Technologies: Why Some Ought to Work and Others Most Likely Will Not" by Shane Ardo (Chemistry). First in a series. (See the story, "New lecture series designed to bring graduate students together," in this issue.) Sponsored by Homewood Graduate Affairs and Admissions. B17 CSEB. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 5:15 p.m. "Histories of Human Deficiency: Herder, Gehlen, Nietzsche," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by David Martyn, Macalester University. 101A Dell House. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 5:15 p.m. "Nobili storie per nobilissimi amanti. Da Francesca a Giulietta," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Roberto Fedi, Universita per Stranieri. 255 Mergenthaler. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 6:30 p.m. "Policing in the 21st Century" by William Bratton, LAPD. Fourth in the Rebuilding America's Cities lecture series co-sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies and Evergreen Museum & Library. (See story, "L.A. police chief to discuss urban crime-fighting strategies," in this issue.) Evergreen Museum & Library

Fri., Oct. 24, 5 p.m. The 2008 William M. and Katherine B. Ginder Lecture — "From Paris to Peshawar: The Beauty of Globalization" by Jean-Paul Agon, president and CEO, L'Oreal. (See above.) Mason Hall. HW

Mon., Oct. 27, 5:15 p.m. "The Politics of Light: Geometrical Optics and the Reinvention of Tropical Culture in Las Casas' Apologetica historia sumaria," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Nicolas Wey-Gomez, Brown University. 201C Dell House. HW

 

Music

Mon., Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. "Opera Potpourri — Opera in English," a program of one-act operas, including Williams' Riders to the Sea; Barab's A Game of Chance; and Offenbach's Marriage by Lanternlight. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Tues., Oct. 21, 8 p.m. Peabody Symphony Orchestra performs music by Mendelssohn, Copland, Rimsky- Korsakov, with guest Peabody/BSO conducting fellow Joseph Young. $15 general admission, $10 senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Wed., Oct. 22, 8 p.m. The Peabody Trio performs music by Kagel, Coxe, Janacek and Dvorak. Part of the Sylvia Adalman Artist Recital Series. $15 general admission, $10 senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Fri., Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Jazz Voice Concert, an evening of song with vocalists Integriti Reeves, Amanda Bloom and Lauren Shusterich. $15 general admission, $10 senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. East Hall. Peabody

Sat., Oct. 25, 3 p.m. The Music at Evergreen Concert Series opens its season with the Baltimore debut of 15-year-old Chinese piano prodigy Peng Peng, who performs music by Brahms, Debussy and Kreisler/Rachmaninoff.
2 p.m. Free gallery talk with the BMA's Frances Klapthor on the Garrett Collection of Asian Art. The performance will be followed by a Meet the Artist reception. $20 general admission, $15 for Evergreen Museum & Library members, $10 for students.

Sat., Oct. 25, 8 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra opens its 2008-2009 season with music by Beethoven and Berlioz.
7 p.m. Pre-concert talk. $10 general admission, $8 for senior citizens, JHU faculty, staff and alumni, and non-JHU students; free for JHU students with ID. Shriver Hall. HW

Sun., Oct. 26, 2 p.m. Halloween Concert presented by the Preparatory Young People's String Program. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

 

Seminars

Mon., Oct. 20, noon. "Raw Encounters: Politics of Casualization in Africa's Chinese Enclaves," a Sociology seminar with Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA. 526 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., Oct. 20, 12:15 p.m. "Lsh, a Guardian of Heterochromatin," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Kathrin Muegge, NCI. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Oct. 20, 1 p.m. "Neuroprosthetic Design for Restoring Motor Function After Spinal Cord Injury," a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Justin Sanchez, University of Florida, Gainesville. G007 Ross. EB

Mon., Oct. 20, 3 p.m. "Helicoid-like Minimal Disks," an Analysis seminar with Jacob Bernstein, MIT. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

Mon., Oct. 20, 4 p.m. "Scandalous Events: Metropolitan Culture and Moral Change in Postwar London," a History seminar with Frank Mort, Hinkley Visiting Professor/University of Manchester. l02 Dell House. HW

Mon., Oct. 20, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar — "Risk Prediction and Cognitive Control of Decision Making" with Joshua Brown, Indiana University. 338 Krieger. HW

Tues., Oct. 21, noon. "The Regulation of Proteasome Activity," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Daniel Finley, Harvard Medical School. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Oct. 21, 3 p.m. "Solar Fuel Generation: Engineering Photocatalytic Hot Spots in TIO2-based Nanocomposites," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Kimberly Gray, Northwestern University. 234 Ames. HW

Tues., Oct. 21, 4:30 p.m. "The Circle Method in Function Fields," an Algebraic Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Craig Spencer, University of Michigan. Sponsored by Mathematics. 109 Maryland. HW

Wed., Oct. 22, 3 p.m. "Chow Stability of Ruled Manifolds," a Topics in Complex Geometry seminar with Reza Seyyedali, KSAS. Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger. HW

Wed., Oct. 22, 3:30 p.m. "A Van der Waals Loop in Supercooled Liquid Silicon," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Michael Widom, Carnegie Mellon University. 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., Oct. 22, 4 p.m. "Small Molecule Transcriptional Switches," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Anna Mapp, University of Michigan. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., Oct. 23, 10:30 a.m. "Computer-based Design of Protein-Protein Interactions," a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Brian Kuhlman, University of North Carolina. 110 Maryland. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, noon. "Documenting Cell Biology and Anatomy at Johns Hopkins," a Cell Biology seminar with Nancy McCall, SoM. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., Oct. 23, noon. "How Howard County Provides Health Care for All," a Health Policy and Management Fall Policy seminar with Ken Ulman, Howard County executive. B14B Hampton House. EB

Thurs., Oct. 23, noon. "Para-myxovirus Control of Host Cell Antiviral Responses," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Griffith Parks, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Oct. 23, noon. Randolph Bromery Seminar — "Sea Level Rise and the Warming of the Oceans" with Jim Carton, University of Maryland, College Park. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 12:15 p.m. "Communication and Marketing as Climate Change Intervention Assets: A Public Health Perspective," a Connecting Health and Sustainability seminar with Edward Maibach, George Mason University. Sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future; Health, Behavior and Society; and the Program on Global Sustainability and Health. W3030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Oct. 23, 1 p.m. "Imaging Circuit Assembly in the Vertebrate Retina," a Neuroscience research seminar with Rachel Wong, University of Washington. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., Oct. 23, 3:30 p.m. "The Genes That Were Missed: An Expanding Universe of Small RNAs and Small Proteins," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Gisela Storz, NICHHD. 517 PCTB. EB

Thurs., Oct. 23, 4 p.m. "Orienting Stem Cells: Asymmetric Stem Cell Division During Tissue Homeostasis and Aging," a Biology seminar with Yukiko Yamashita, University of Michigan. 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 4 p.m. "Queer Cosmopolitanisms: From Hip-Hop to Human Rights," a Program in Political and Moral Thought seminar with Kathryn Trevenen, University of Ottawa. Co-sponsored by the Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality. 366 Mergenthaler. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 4 p.m. "Perfect Simulation of Matern Type III Point Processes," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Marc Huber, Duke University. 304 Whitehead. HW

Fri., Oct. 24, 1 p.m. "Lead Neurotoxicity: Behavioral Effects and Therapeutic Strategies," a Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology seminar with Jennifer Dziedzic, SPH. 181 BRB. EB

Mon., Oct. 27, 10 a.m. "Gene Regulatory Networks and Higher-Order Interactions: Algorithms and Statistical Models," a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Yen-Yi Ho. E9519 SPH. EB

Mon., Oct. 27, noon. "Promiscuous Citizenship," a Political Science seminar with Jason Frank, Cornell University. 366 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., Oct. 27, 12:15 p.m. "Allocating Ventilators During an Influenza Pandemic: Public Health Ethics During an Emergency," a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Bernard Lo, UCSF. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Health Preparedness. W4030 SPH. EB

Mon., Oct. 27, 12:15 p.m. "Control of Genomic Plasticity in the Developing Immune System," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Stephen Desiderio, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Oct. 27, 1 p.m. "Multi-spectral Optical Imaging of Skin and Skin Lesions," a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Atam Dhawan, New Jersey Institute of Technology. 110 Clark. HW

Mon., Oct. 27, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar — "See What You Think: Bayesian Reconstruction of Perceptual Experiences From Human Brain Activity" with Jack Gallant, University of California, Berkeley. 338 Krieger. HW

 

Special Events

Mon., Oct. 20, 8:30 a.m. 2008 Torch Relay for the Children's Miracle Network, walkathon from Billings Circle at JHH to Rash Field in the Inner Harbor to benefit the Hopkins Children's Center. Registration is required. To register online, go to www.torch-relay.org.

Tues., Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Johns Hopkins University Block Party. Admission free with United Way online pledge thank you page or completed pledge form, $5 otherwise. (See story, "United Way 2008: What You Need to Know," in this issue.) Levering Place (rain location: Glass Pavilion). HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. JHSPH United Way Thursday, a chance to complete the United Way pledge form, with free coffee from the Daily Grind. Donors will also be included in a drawing for a $200 gift certificate to the Apple Store (drawing on Nov. 21). (See story, "United Way 2008: What You Need to Know," in this issue.) Sponsored by the Office of External Affairs. Courtyard, 1st floor, SPH. EB

Mon., Oct. 27, 5:30 p.m. Slide talk by painter Diana Horowitz. Sponsored by Homewood Art Workshops and Homewood Arts Programs. 101 Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center. HW

 

Sports

Wed., Oct. 22, 7 p.m. Women's Volleyball, Blue Jays vs. Washington (MD). Athletic Center. HW

Fri., Oct. 24, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Men's Water Polo, Division III Eastern Championship. Aquatic Center. HW

Sat., Oct. 25, 1 p.m. Men's Soccer, Blue Jays vs. Franklin & Marshall. Homewood Field. HW

 

Symposia

Fri., Oct. 24, 1 to 8 p.m. Symposium on Religion and Science — "From Weak Thought to the Thought of the Weak" by Gianna Vattimo; and "Being Is Conversation" by Santiago Zabala, Potsdam University Institute of Philosophy. Co-sponsored by the Evolution, Cognition and Culture Project, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, and Philosophy. Mueller Building Auditorium. HW

 

Theater

Fri., Oct. 24, and Sat., Oct. 25, 8 p.m., and Sun., Oct. 26, 2 p.m. The Johns Hopkins University Theatre presents Clifford Odets' The Big Knife. $15 general admission, $13 for senior citizens, JHU faculty, staff and alumni; $5 for students with ID. Merrick Barn. HW

Fri., Oct. 24, 8 p.m. Throat Culture presents a night of sketch comedy. Arellano Theater, Levering. HW

Sat., Oct. 25, 8 p.m. Witness Theatre presents "24-Hour Theater," in which students have only one day to write, cast, direct and perform plays. Arellano Theater, Levering. HW

 

Workshops

Tues., Oct. 21, 10 a.m. "Getting Started with WebCT," a Center for Educational Resources workshop, for instructors new to WebCT. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Wed., Oct. 22, 10 a.m. "WebCT Content and Communication," a Center for Educational Resources workshop. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Thurs., Oct. 23, 1 p.m. "Intermediate Photoshop Tips," a Center for Educational Resources workshop, building on the "Intro to Photoshop" workshop. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

 
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