The Johns Hopkins Gazette: April 27, 1998

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Apr. 27-May4

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Monday, April 27

East Baltimore

3 p.m. Otolaryngology Grand Rounds, with rotating roster of speakers; 6150 Outpatient Center.

5 p.m. New Approaches to Cancer Therapy 1998, Section II, Radiation Oncology: "Modulation of Radiation-Induced Apoptosis" by Richard Kolesnick, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 119 Oncology.

Homewood

4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience--"Parallel and Hierarchical Features of Local Circuits in Primary Visual Cortex" by Edward Callaway, Salk Institute; 341 Krieger.

4 p.m. "Global Coloniality: Knowledge and the Epistemological Potential of Border Thinking," an Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History Distinguished Lecture by Walter Mignolo, Duke University; Mudd Hall Auditorium.

Tuesday, April 28

East Baltimore

5 p.m. Pioneers in the Biological Sciences Featured Lecture--"Evolution of Infectious Disease: Past and Future" by Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University; East Lecture Hall, WBSB. Sponsored by the Graduate Student Association and the Jhns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association.

7 p.m. Christian Fellowship Meeting, musical worship and Bible study; Reed Hall Library. All are welcome.

Homewood

3 p.m. Tenth Annual Whiting School Convocation and Awards Ceremony and Harriet Shriver Rogers Lecture--"Real Engineering for Artificial Organs: A New Cell-based Liver-Assist System" by Barry Solomon, Circe Biomedical, Inc.; Mudd Hall Auditorium.

3 p.m. "Can We Detect Climate Change in Streamflow Histories?" a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Chris Milly, Geophysical Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University; 234 Ames.

4 p.m. "Her Property and Her Presence: Planter-Class Women of Brazil's Paraiba Valley: A Case Study of Vassouras, 1850-1930," a Latin American History seminar with Kittiya Lee; 315 Gilman.

4:30 p.m. "Robust HMM Estimation with Gaussian Merging-Splitting and Transform-based Adaptation," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Ananth Sankar, SRI International; 100 Shaffer.

7:30 p.m. Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Discussion and Social Group; 217 Ames.

Peabody

8 p.m. Peabody Symphony Orchestra Concert Preview of the orchestra's New York debut scheduled for May 2; Friedberg Concert Hall. Tickets are $16, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students with I.D. For information, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-659-8124.

Wednesday, April 29

East Baltimore

11 a.m. "Multiple Functions of the Papillomavirus E6 Oncoprotein," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Peter Howley, Harvard Medical School; 303 WBSB.

4 p.m. "Alcohol and the HPA Axis," Endocrine Grand Rounds with Gary Wand; 1 Marburg.

4 p.m. "Phospholipase D as an Effector for ARF in the Control of Membrane Traffic," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Michael Roth, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; 110 WBSB.

4 p.m. "Coagulation Disease" with William Bell; 1024 Blalock.

4:15 p.m. "Topics in HIV Pathogenesis," a Cellular and Molecular Medicine distinguished lecture by David Ho, Rockefeller University"; Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB

5 p.m. New Approaches to Cancer Therapy 1998, Section II, Radiation Oncology: "Life and Death Decisions in Cells: Implications for Cancer Treatment" by Michael Kastan; 119 Oncology.

Homewood

Noon. Former Yale Gordon Concerto Competition Winners, a duo recital by pianist Ivana Svarc Grenda and double bassist Slawomir Grenda; Shriver Hall. Part of the "Wednesday Noon Series" sponsored by Special Events.

4 p.m. "Disseminating Information through Newspapers in Jacksonian America: Reporting the Cholera Epidemic of 1831-32 by Virginia Newspapers" by Richard Stillson, and "Peripheral Vision: Locale, Government and Empire in the Thought of Cadwallader Colden and Archibald Kennedy" by Paul Tonks, an American History seminar; 315 Gilman.

4:15 p.m. "Artificial Receptors: Design, Synthesis and Biomedical Applications," a Chemistry colloquium with Thomas Bell, University of Nevada, Reno; 233 Remsen.

5 p.m. "Being and Power in Heidegger and Foucault," a talk by Hubert Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley; 348 Gilman. Sponsored by Philosophy and the Humanities Center.

Thursday, April 30

East Baltimore

Noon. "Keratins, Wound Repair, Development and Disease," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Pierre Coulombe; 110 WBSB.

1 p.m. "Nerve Growth and Synaptic Plasticity," a Neuroscience research seminar with Mu-Ming Poo, University of California, San Diego; 811 WBSB.

4 p.m. "What Do Locus Control Regions (LCRs) Actually Control?" a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Mark Groudine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle; 517 PCTB.

4 p.m. "Functions of von Hippel Tumor Suppressor Protein," a Reproductive Biology seminar with William Kaelin, Harvard Medical School; 240 Houck.

Homewood

11 a.m. "The Structure of Wormlike Micelles in Elongational Flow Fields," a Chemical Engineering seminar with Lynn Walker, Carnegie Mellon University; 109 Maryland.

3:30 p.m. "Spatial Maps and Spatial Attention: Lessons from Neuropsychol-ogy," a Cognitive Science/Psychology colloquium with Lynn Robertson; Center for Neuroscience, University of alifornia, Davis; 234 Krieger.

4 p.m. "Approximation Algorithms for Facility Location Problems," a Mathematical Sciences seminar with David Shmoys, Cornell University; 304 Whitehead.

4 p.m. "A Parallel Algorithm Synthesis Procedure for High-Performance Computer Architectures," an Electrical and Computer Engineering thesis defense by Ian Dunn; 117 Barton.

4 p.m. "Wir Glauben All an Einem Gott: Music, Spirituality and Community in Early Modernity" by Laura Lisy, and " The Traffic of Man : Slavery and Commerce in Raynal's Deux Indes" by Anoush Terjanian; a European History seminar; 315 Gilman.

Friday, May 1

APL

2 p.m. "Magnetically Directed Chondrogenesis," a colloquium with Alan Halpern, Michigan State University School of Medicine; Parsons Auditorium. The program will be simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus.

East Baltimore

12:30 p.m. "Minnesota vs. Tobacco Industry: Assessing Smoking Attributable Expenditures," a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Scott Zeger; W2008 SHPH.

Evergreen


The Hopkins Garden Day Plant Sale, scheduled for Friday, May 1, will offer a variety of annuals, perennials, herbs, and landscape grasses for sale, as well as a large selection of historic varieties. The event takes place at Evergreen House, 4545 N. Charles St. There will also be noon tours of the Evergreen gardens.

10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Hopkins Garden Day Plant Sale, featuring a variety of annuals, perennials, herbs, landscape grasses and a large selection of historic varieties; 4545 N. Charles St. There will be noon tours of the Evergreen gardens.

Homewood

10 a.m. "The Theory of Option Pricing," a Mathematical Sciences visiting student seminar with Michael Kirch, Humboldt University, Berlin; 304 Whitehead Hall.

Daylong. The Albert Shaw Lectures--The Legacies of the Vietnam War; Shriver Hall. All lectures will be held in the Clipper Room except the 5 p.m. McNamara lecture, which will take place in the auditorium.

10 a.m. "The Vietnam War and the End of American Exceptionalism" by Charles Neu, Brown University.

11 a.m. "Revolutionary Heroism and Politics in Postwar Vietnam" by Robert Brigham, Vassar College.

2 p.m. "Can Metaphors Become Quagmires? The Domestic Legacy of the Vietnam War" by Brian Balogh, University of Virginia.

3 p.m. "The Impact of the Vietnam War on the U.S. Military" by George Herring, University of Kentucky.

5 p.m. "Reflections on War in the 21st Century" by Robert McNamara, former U.S. secretary of defense and current president of the World Bank Group. Sponsored by History. For more information, call 410-516-7575.

4 p.m. "Collective Remorse," a Philosophy colloquium with Margaret Gilbert, University of Connecticut; 348 Gilman.

7:30 p.m. Agape Campus Ministry, weekly meeting; 100 Shaffer. All are welcome.

8 p.m. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a Theatre Hopkins production of Rupert Holmes play; Merrick Barn. Tickets are $10, $9 for senior citizens and $5 for full-time students. For more information, call 410-516-7159 weekdays from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Peabody

8 p.m. "Song of Songs: Jewish Music and Influence," music by Renaissance Jewish composers by the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble; Friedberg Concert Hall.

Saturday, May 2

East Baltimore

11 a.m. "Alternative Medicines," a Clinical Pharmacology conjoint clinic with Simeon Margolis; Turner Auditorium.

Peabody

8 p.m. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a Theatre Hopkins production of Rupert Holmes play; Merrick Barn. Tickets are $12, $9 for senior citizens and $5 for full-time students. For more information, call 410-516-7159 weekdays from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

8 p.m. "The Big Questions"--Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Concert of music by Mozart, Strauss and de Falla; Shriver Hall. Tickets are $7, $6 for senior citizens and students. JHU students can attend free with I.D. 7:30 p.m. Pre-Concert Lecture by music director Jed Gaylin. Final concert of the season.

Sunday, May 3

Homewood

2:15 p.m. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a Theatre Hopkins production of Rupert Holmes play; Merrick Barn. Tickets are $10, $9 for senior citizens and $5 for full-time students. For information, call 410-516-7159 weekdays from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Monday, May 4

East Baltimore

4 p.m. "Glycosylation of Proteins and Lipids in Yeast," a Biochemistry seminar with Neta Dean, State University of New York, Stony Brook; W2030 SHPH.

5 p.m. Dean's Lecture III--"Molecular Aspects of Lymphocyte Development" by Stephen Desiderio; Hurd Hall.

Homewood

4 p.m. "'Thank You, Comrade Stalin : The Moral Economy of the Gift in Soviet Public Culture," an Institute for Global Studies seminar with Jeff Brooks; 404 Macaulay.

4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience--"Is Face Recognition Special ? Evidence from Brain Injury, fMRI and Behavior" by Michael Tarr, Brown University; 341 Krieger.


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