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Weekly Calendar
Blood Drive
The JHU Montgomery County Campus
and VisArts at Rockville have paired up to present An
Instant Out of Time, a nature photography exhibit featuring
the work of Dottie Campbell, a recent winner in National
Geographic's International Photography Contest, and SPH
alum Richard Weiblinger, a Food & Drug Administration
scientist whose work is regularly featured in Nature's Best
Photography magazine.
Campbell's work (one example, above) has
been shown at MICA, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Arts Place, the Maryland General Assembly and Japanese
museums. Weiblinger's has been displayed online by the
Smithsonian National Zoological Park and in Friends of the
National Zoo newsletters, and was included in the National
Wildlife Refuge Association 2008 image gallery.
The exhibit is on display through June 27
in the Building III Atrium, Montgomery County
Campus.
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Tues., April 22, and Wed., April 23, 7:30 a.m. to 5:45
p.m. Earth Day Blood Drive. Sponsored by
Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs. Glass Pavilion,
Levering. HW
Colloquia
Wed., April 23, 4 p.m. The SIMCA Colloquium —
"A Nonlinear PDE Model for Lakes and Rivers" with
Lawrence Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley.
Sponsored by Applied Mathematics and
Statistics. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Thurs., April 24, 3 p.m. "'A Foreign Element in the
Max Planck Society': Konrad Beyerle's Institute for
Instrumentation and the Dynamics of Post-War German
Science, 1946-57," a History of Science,
Medicine and Technology colloquium with Thomas Berez, KSAS.
Seminar Room, 3505 N. Charles St.
HW
Thurs., April 24, 3 p.m. "A Passion for Discovery,"
a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Peter
Freund, University of Chicago. Schafler Auditoriium,
Bloomberg Center. HW
Thurs., April 24, 4:30 p.m. "The Promotion and
Demotion of Gods in Indian Religions," an Anthropology
student presentation by Bhrigupati Singh. 400 Macaulay.
HW
Information Sessions
Mon., April 21, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Information
sessions for the MA and MA/MBA in Government, MA in
Environmental Sciences and Policy, MA in Communication in
Contemporary Society, MA in Applied
Economics and MA in Writing programs. Sponsored by Advanced
Academic Programs. RSVP to
advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index.cfm?. Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, One
Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,
Washington, D.C.
Tues., April 22, 6:30 p.m. Information session for
the Advanced Biotechnology Studies graduate
degree program. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs.
RSVP to
advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index.cfm?contentID=880. Mason
Hall Auditorium. HW
Wed., April 23, 5:30 to 8 p.m. "Careers Beyond the
Lab," intended for those interested in careers in
the area of regulatory affairs, including a panel
discussion, Q&A and refreshments. Hosted by
Advanced Biotechnology Studies, Advanced Academic Programs,
KSAS. Room 106/110, Academic and
Research Bldg., Montgomery County Campus.
Lectures
Tues., April 22, noon. The 15th Annual Shallenberger
Lecture — "Close Encounters With the Human
Genome" by Reed Pyeritz, University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine. Sponsored by the JHH
Ethics Committee and Consultation Service. Hurd Hall.
EB
Tues., April 22, 3 p.m. The Carolyn and Edward Wenk
Jr. Lecture in Technology and Public Policy — "The
Case of Nuclear Waste in America" by Jared Cohon,
president, Carnegie Mellon University. Sponsored
by Electrical and Computer Engineering. 110 Hodson. HW
Tues., April 22, 4:30 p.m. The Third Patrick Henry
Lecture — "Of Presidents and Their Prerogatives" by
Jack Rakove, Stanford University. 210 Hodson. HW
Tues., April 22, 5:15 p.m. "The Disgrace of Matter
in Ancient Aesthetics," a Philological Society
lecture with James Porter, University of Michigan. 223
Gilman. HW
Wed., April 23, 6:30 p.m. "Mastering Tradition: The
Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope," a
lecture by architect James Garrison. Second in the
three-part series The House Beautiful, sponsored
by Evergreen Museum & Library. After the lecture, Garrison
will sign copies of his book by the same
name. Bakst Theatre.
Thurs., April 24, 10:45 a.m. The 2008 Stanley
Corrsin Memorial Lecture — "Field Driven Assembly in
Nanotechnology" by Juan de Pablo, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Sponsored by Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering. 110 Maryland. HW
Thurs., April 24, 3 p.m. "In Pursuit of Mosaicism
— An Investigator's Reflection," a Graduate Student
Association lecture by Barbara Migeon, SoM. WBSB
Auditorium. EB
Thurs., April 24, 4 p.m. The 2008 Acheson J. Duncan
Lecture — "Statistical Models in Computer Vision"
by Yali Amit, University of Chicago. Sponsored by Applied
Mathematics and Statistics. 213 Hodson.
HW
Mon., April 28, 8:15 a.m. The William M. Shelley
Memorial Lecture — "The Pathologist's Role in Patient
With Diffuse Lung Disease — Diagnosis or Pattern
Recognition?" by Jeffrey Myers, University of
Michigan. Hurd Hall. EB
Mon., April 28, 4 p.m. Dean's Lecture IV —
"Genes, Vaccines and Immune Checkpoints: An All-Out
Attack on Pancreatic Cancer" by Elizabeth Jaffee, SoM. Hurd
Hall. EB
Music
Tues., April 22, 8 p.m. "Mahler and Mozart
Re-Imagined," Peabody Faculty Chamber Music Concert
with guest artists Uri Caine and Dave Ballou, and faculty
and student performers. $15 general
admission, $10 senior citizens and $5 for students with ID.
Friedberg Hall. Peabody
Fri., April 25, 7:30 p.m. "Big Band Uri Caine," a
Peabody Jazz Orchestra concert with pianist Uri Caine.
$15 general admission, $10 senior citizens and $5 for
students with ID. East Hall. Peabody
Sun., April 27, 3 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
closes its season with the world premiere of
Gaetano Panariello's Triple Concerto: Omaggio all'opera
buffa, with the Poulenc Trio as soloists, and a
performance of Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3. (See story,
"HSO wraps season with Copland
Symphony No. 3, concerto premiere," in this issue.) 2 p.m.
Pre-concert talk. $10 general admission, $8
for non-JHU students, senior citizens and JHU faculty,
staff and alumni; free to JHU students.
Shriver Auditorium. HW
Sun., April 27, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Preparatory
Recital, featuring the winners of the Part-Recital
Competition. Goodwin Recital Hall. Peabody
Reading
Fri., April 25, 6:30 p.m. Faculty readings by
Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much
Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, and poet and
fiction writer Madeleine Mysko. Sponsored by
Advanced Academic Program. 305 Olin. HW
Seminars
Mon., April 21, 12:15 p.m. "Maintaining the End:
Regulation of Telomerase in Yeast," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Virginia Zakian,
Princeton University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San
Martin Drive. HW
Mon., April 21, 4 p.m. "Dissecting the Ligand
Recognition and Allosteric Properties of a Multidrug
Binding Switch," a Biophysics seminar with Herschel Wade,
SoM. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Mon., April 21, 4 p.m. "Mammalian Egg Activation:
IP3R1, a CA2+ Channel Protein That Also Acts as the
Egg's ER Organizer," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
seminar with Rafael Fissore, University of
Massachusetts. W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., April 22, 9 a.m. "Cloning and
Characterization of Two Novel Taenia solium Antigenic
Proteins and
Applicability to the Diagnosis and Control of
Taeniasis/Cysticercocsis," an International Health thesis
defense seminar with Holger Mayta. W2009 SPH. EB
Tues., April 22, 10:45 a.m. "Integrating Linguistic
and Statistical Knowledge in Language Modeling," a
Computer Science student seminar with Jia Cui. CSEB
Auditorium (B17). HW
Tues., April 22, noon. "Stress Signaling Through
REDD1," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Gary
Chiang, Burnham Institute for Medical Research. 612
Physiology. EB
Tues., April 22, noon. "New Molecular Targets for
Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: From Academia to
Pharma," a Pharmacology seminar with Frederic Tremblay,
Wyeth Research. Co-sponsored by the
Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research. 303 WBSB.
EB
Tues., April 22, 12:15 p.m. "Finding the Balance
Between Western and Traditional Tibetan Medicine," a
Center for Global Health seminar with Tsetan Sadutshang,
personal physician to the Dalai Lama. Co-
sponsored by CREATE. W1214 SPH. EB
Tues., April 22, 4 p.m. "Studies on Some
Electromechanical Transducers," an Electrical and Computer
Engineering seminar with Wonkyu Moon, Pohang University of
Science and Technology, Korea. CSEB
Auditorium (B17). HW
Tues., April 22, 4 p.m. "The Art of Science Advice
to Policy-Makers: Lessons From the U.S. National
Academies," an External Affairs seminar with Harvey
Fineberg, president, Institute of Medicine.
W1020 SPH. EB
Tues., April 22, 4:30 p.m. "Passive Wireless Sensors
for Structural Health Monitoring," a Civil
Engineering seminar with Sharon Wood, University of Texas,
Austin. 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., April 23, noon. "Identity, Security and the
Rise of China," a Political Science seminar with
William Callahan, University of Manchester, Center for
Chinese Studies. 366 Mergenthaler. HW
Wed., April 23, 4 p.m. "Fort Christanna: A Failed
Experiment in Indian-White Relations on the Virginia
Frontier, 1700-1740," an American History seminar with
Stephanie Crumbaugh, College of William and
Mary. 315 Gilman. HW
Thurs., April 24, noon. "Breast Cancer as a Global
Public Health Problem," an Environmental Health
Sciences seminar with Hee-Soon Juon, SPH. W1214 SPH. EB
Thurs., April 24, noon. "Antibody-based Clues in the
Design of Vaccines and Drugs Against HIV-1
gp120," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious
Disease research seminar with Peter
Kwong, NIAID/NIH. W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., April 24, noon. "Histone Modifications and
Epigenetics," a Cell Biology seminar with Sean
Taverna, SoM. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., April 24, noon. "Regulating Gene Activity
Through Nuclear Organization," a Biological
Chemistry seminar with Karen Reddy, University of Chicago
and HHMI. Co-sponsored by the Center
for Epigenetics. 612 Physiology. EB
Thurs., April 24, 4 p.m. "Some Developments in
Multiphoton Microscopy (Biological Applications of
Ultrafast Lasers)" a Biology seminar with Jay Knutson,
NHLBI/NIH. 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., April 24, 4 p.m. "London's Modern Mercuries
and 'My Lord Gomorrah's' Den of Vice: Late
Victorian Telegraph Boys and the Cleveland Street Affair,"
a European History seminar with Katie
Hindmarch-Watson, KSAS. 315 Gilman. HW
Thurs., April 24, 4:15 p.m. "5',8-Cyclopurine
Lesions: Chemistry and Biology," a special Chemistry
seminar with Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, ISOF-Area della
Ricera di Bologna. 233 Remsen. HW
Fri., April 25, 11 a.m. "Estimation of Deformable
Object Models," an Applied Mathematics and
Statistics seminar with Yali Amit, University of Chicago.
304 Whitehead. HW
Fri., April 25, 3 p.m. "Partitioning, Solubility and
Aqueous Photochemistry of Buckminsterfullerene," a
Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Chad
Jafvert, Purdue University. 234 Ames.
HW
Mon., April 28, 12:15 p.m. "'Do You Believe in
Gender?': Transsexuality, Narrative and the Bioethics of
Cutting Off Your Leg," a Berman Institute of Bioethics
seminar with Dan O'Connor, Georgetown
University and Greenwall Fellow in the Berman Institute of
Bioethics. Co-sponsored by the Institute
of the History of Medicine. W3030 SPH. EB
Mon., April 28, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Learning Reward Timing in Cortex:
A Theoretical Study" with Harel Shouval, University of
Texas Medical School at Houston. Sponsored
by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Special Events
Wed., April 23, 4:30 to 7 p.m. Earth Day, sponsored
by SoM's Leadership Initiative for the
Environment, with speakers from community environmental
groups, sustainability information booths,
games, food and drink. Turner Concourse. EB
Fri., April 25, noon to 7 p.m., Sat., April 26, and
Sun., April 27, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Spring Fair,
featuring
food, music, arts and crafts, and a fireworks show, as well
as vendors representing local and statewide
nonprofit organizations. For more complete information, go
to
www.jhuspringfair.com. Levering Plaza
(rain location: Hop Stop and Great Hall). HW
Sat., April 26, noon to 5 p.m. Fifth Annual Physics
Fair, featuring six competitive events with cash
prizes, over 200 hands-on physics demonstrations with
docents to help explain them, a scavenger hunt
and contests for children and adults. For more information,
go to
www.pha.jhu.edu/~fair. Bloomberg
Center. HW
Sat., April 26, 8:30 p.m. Peabody's 150th
Anniversary Gala, an evening of music, dancing, champagne
toasts and elegant desserts with performances by Peabody
faculty, students and alumni. $100 per
person. Friedberg Hall. Peabody
Mon., April 28, 2 to 9 p.m. JHU Press Annual Book
Sale, all kinds of books available for just $3 per
pound. Intended for the Hopkins community only; college ID
required for admission. Best pick of books
before sale is opened to the public on Tues., April 29.
Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW
Sports
Mon., April 21, 3:30 p.m. Baseball, Blue Jays vs.
TCNJ. HW
Wed., April 23, 7 p.m. Men's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs.
Towson University. $7 general admission, $5 for
children 12 and under and $10 reserved. HW
Mon., April 28, 7 p.m. Men's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs.
Mount St. Mary's. $7 general admission, $5 for
children 12 and under and $10 reserved. HW
Symposia
Thurs., April 24, 6 p.m. The Annual Frederick I.
Scott Symposium, held in honor of the first African-
American to graduate from Johns Hopkins; with keynote
speaker John J. Oliver, chairman of the
board, CEO and publisher, Afro-American Newspapers. Dinner
served. Sponsored by The Black
Student Union. Charles Commons. HW
Theater
Fri., April 25, Sat., April 26, 8 p.m., and Sun., April
27, 2 p.m. Johns Hopkins University Theatre
presents William Inge's comedy-drama Bus Stop. $15 general
admission, $13 for senior citizens, JHU
faculty, staff and alumni and $5 for students. Merrick
Barn. HW
Workshops
Thurs., April 24, 1 p.m. "Introduction to RefWorks,"
an overview of RefWorks, an online database for
citations that is free to the JHU community, with Ellen
Keith and Robin Sinn. Designed for faculty but
open to TAs and staff. Sponsored by the Center for
Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE
Library. HW
Fri., April 25, 9 a.m. "Powerful Listening Skills,"
a Center for Training and Education workshop with
Robin Hurd-Graham. To register, go to
training.jhu.edu/html/ManagementStaffDev/msdlinks/msdregfor
m.pdf. B102 Johns
Hopkins@Eastern.
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