Monday, March 2

Noon. Book Signing by Ron Berk, author of Professors are from Mars, Students are from Snickers: How to Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations; Medical Book Center, 1830 Bldg. For information, call 410-955-7552.

12:15 p.m. "What Can Managed Care Save through Improved Injury Control?" a Center for Injury Research and Policy seminar with David Bishai; 250 Hampton House.

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

Homewood

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Project Face to Face, interactive multimedia exhibit about people with AIDS; Multipurpose Room, AMR. Noon. Opening ceremony.

4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience--"The Role of the Primary Visual Cortex in Higher Level Vision" by Tai Sing Lee, Carnegie Mellon University; 341 Krieger.

7 p.m. Junior Prehealth Information Meeting with Ronald Fishbein and Mary Savage; 1 Remsen. Sponsored by Academic Advising.

Tuesday, March 3

Noon. "Excessive Daytime Sleepiness," a talk by Ann Rogers, University of Michigan; 009-010 Pinkard Building. Sponsored by Nursing.

Noon. "Progress on the Structure and Function of Aquaporin-1," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Bernard Heymann, Maurice E. Muller Institute, Universitat Basel; 612 Physiology.

Noon. Midday Performance, Peabody Conservatory students performing works of Mozart; Hurd Hall. Sponsored by Cultural Affairs.

4:15 p.m. "Harnessing the Cytotoxic Function of aMB2-Integrin for Tumor Immunotherapy," an Immunology Council seminar with Gordon Ross, University of Louisville; 2030 SHPH.

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

Homewood

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Project Face to Face, interactive multimedia exhibit about people with AIDS; Multipurpose Room, AMR.

2 p.m. "Methods for Utilizing Highly Concentrated Solar Energy," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Jacob Karni, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; 120 Latrobe.

3 p.m. "Television's Impact on the National Agenda," an Institute for Policy Studies panel discussion with David Nevins, MPT; Wanda Queen Draper, WBAL-TV; David Zurawik, The Sun; and Joseph Sterne; Main Conference Room, 5th floor, Wyman Bldg. Part of the series "The Press and Public Policy."

3 p.m. "Climate Change Convention and the Rise of Carbon Markets," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Alvaro Umana, Latin American School of Management; 234 Ames.

4 p.m. "Reading Corporate Autobiographies: The Narrative Strategies of Corporate Strategists," an Institute for Global Studies seminar with Erica Schoenberger; 404 Macaulay.

4:15 p.m. "Robust Speech Processing," an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Yariv Ephraim, George Mason University; 100 Shaffer.

4:15 p.m. "2-Methyleneoxetanes: Promising Intermediates in Organic Synthesis," a Chemistry colloquium with Amy Howell, University of Connecticut; 233 Remsen.

7:30 p.m. The William Henry Welch Lecture--"Launching the Stars of 21st-Century Medicine" by Edward Miller Jr.; Mudd Hall Auditorium. Sponsored by Cultural Affairs. For information, call 410-955-3363.

7:30 p.m. Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Discussion and Social Group; 217 Ames. For information, call Bob at 410-889-7081.

8 p.m. "Hubble Observations of Beta Pictoris and the Early Solar System," a Space Telescope Science Institute public lecture; STScI Auditorium. Following the lecture, attendees may visit the Maryland Space Grant Observatory for a night of observing.

Wednesday, March 4

8:15 a.m. "Impact of Population Heterogeneity on Design of Developmental Trials," a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Steven Piantidosi; 6015 SHPH.

Noon. Faculty and Staff Assistance Program Information Session for managers and supervisors; 240 Houck. Refreshments will be served. For information, call 410-516-3800.

12:15 p.m. "North Korea's Silent Famine," an International Health seminar with Andrew Natsios, World Vision Relief Division, and journalist Hilary Mackenzie; W2008 SHPH.

12:15 p.m. "Women, Children and Environmental Health: Children and Guns," a Maternal and Child Health seminar with Steve Teret; Hampton House Lecture Hall.

4 p.m. "Cancer Gene Therapy with Therapeutic RNA Expressed in the Tumor Cells," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Leaf Huang, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; 303 WBSB.

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

5:30 p.m. What About Bob? a film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray; Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. Part of the humanities series "The Manners of Healing: Communication and Civil Exchange," sponsored by Culural Affairs.

Homewood

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Project Face to Face, interactive multimedia exhibit about people with AIDS; Multipurpose Room, AMR.

Noon. Wednesday Noon Series Concert by violinist MinJung Kang; Shriver Hall. Sponsored by Special Events and the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust.

Noon. "Interaction Effects of World System Position and Domestic Institutionalization on Economic Growth in Developing Countries," a Sociology seminar with Tom Burns, University of Utah; 526 Mergenthaler.

4 p.m. "Whose Ends? Teleology and the Scientific Revolution," a Philosophy colloquium with Margaret Osler, University of Calgary; 348 Gilman.

Thursday, March 5

5:30 to 7 p.m. Open House for SCS undergraduate bachelor's degree programs; 6740 Alexander Bell Drive, Gateway Corporate Park. To RSVP, call 1-800-GO-TO-JHU.

East Baltimore

Noon. Welch Internet Lecture--"Advanced Searching Techniques," a session focusing on search engines and search strategies; Hurd Hall. No registration required.

Noon. "Cutaneous Manifestations of Infectious Diseases II," an Infectious Diseases/Molecular Microbiology and Immunology seminar with Theodore Woodward, University of Maryland; East Wing Auditorium, SHPH.

1 p.m. "How Hearing Happens: Mechano-electrical Transduction, Frequency Tuning and Synaptic Transmission by Hair Cells of the Internal Ear," a Neuroscience research seminar with A.J. Hudspeth, Rockefeller University; 811 WBSB.

3 p.m. "A Rodent for Your Thoughts: The Social Construction of Animal Models," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Kenneth Shapiro, editor of Society and Animals; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library.

5 p.m. "TRAMP: A Pre-Clinical Prostate Cancer Model," a Reproductive Biology seminar with Norman Greenberg, Baylor College of Medicine; 240 Houck.

Homewood

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Project Face to Face, interactive multimedia exhibit about people with AIDS; Multipurpose Room, AMR. 5:30 p.m. Candlelight vigil.

11 a.m. "What Lies Beyond Bioinformatics?" a Chemical Engineering seminar with Bernhard Palsson, University of California, San Diego; 109 Maryland.

Noon. Faculty and Staff Assistance Program Information Session for managers and supervisors; Sherwood Room, Levering. Refreshments will be served. For information, call 410-516-3800.

3 p.m. "Core Dynamics in Vortex Pairs and Vortex Rings," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Monika Nitsche, Tufts University; 106 Latrobe.

4 p.m. "Spatial and Space-Time Scan Statistics," a Mathematical Sciences seminar with Martin Kulldorff, National Cancer Institute/NIH; 304 Whitehead.

4 p.m. "Linear Phase Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks and Application in Image Compression," an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Trac Duy Tran, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 117 Barton.

SAIS

12:30 p.m. "Human Rights, Faith-based NGOs and Grassroots America: Exploring Opportunities for Engagement," a Program on Social Change and Development brown bag lecture by Gary Haugen, International Justice Mission; 812 Rome Bldg., 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.

Friday, March 6

2 p.m. "Optoelectronic VLSI Microsystems," a colloquium with Andreas Andreou; Parsons Auditorium. The program will be simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus.

East Baltimore

12:30 p.m. "Seeing is Believing in Epidemiology," a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Sander Greenland, University of California, Los Angeles; 2008 SHPH.

1 p.m. "Novel Non-Viral Vectors for Gene Transfer: Liposomes and More," a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Leaf Huang, University of Pittsburgh; 109 Traylor.

4 p.m. The Vernon B. Mountcastle Lecture--"Wiring Up the Brain: A Genetic Perspective" by Corey Goodman, University of California, Berkeley; WBSB Auditorium. Sponsored by Neuroscience.

Homewood

9 a.m. to noon. Project Face to Face, interactive multimedia exhibit about people with AIDS; Multipurpose Room, AMR.

10:30 a.m. "Xtrieve: Cross-modal Retrieval of Multimedia Content," a Computer Science lecture by Charles Owen, Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory, Dartmouth College; 100 Shaffer.

8 p.m. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a Theatre Hopkins production; 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.

8:30 p.m. Astronomy Open House, public viewing; Bloomberg Center Observatory. For information, call 410-516-6525.

Saturday, March 7

8:30 a.m. The William F. Rienhoff Jr. Lecture--"Evaluation of the Jaundiced Patient" by Rayford Scott Jones, University of Virginia; Hurd Hall.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Spring Open House for the School of Nursing's undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs; Pinkard Building. For more information, call 410-955-7548.

11 a.m. "Vaccine Therapy for Genitourinary Cancers," a Clinical Pharmacology conjoint clinic with William Nelson; Turner Auditorium.

Homewood

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. "Miniatures Fair," vendors displaying and selling hand-crafted miniatures and children's furniture, demonstrations on creating miniature accessories by Connie Atkinson and miniature evaluations by Richard Opfer, Opfer Auctioneering, Inc.; Garrett Room, MSE Library. Cost is $6 for adults, $5 for senior citizens, $3 for students.

7:30 p.m. "A Salute to Gershwin," a 100th birthday salute to composer George Gersh-win with pianist Harvey Jacobson, soprano Elizabeth Lyra Ross and baritone Richard Taylor, performing Gershwin songs; Shriver Hall Auditorium. Tickets are $16, $13 for senior citizens and $10 for full-time students. Presented by Special Events.

8 p.m. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a Theatre Hopkins production; Merrick Barn. Tickets are $12, $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.

Sunday, March 8

2 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Concert, George Gershwin's An American in Paris, and Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor; Shriver Hall. Tickets are $7, $6 for senior citizens and students. 1 p.m. Pre-Concert Lecture by Jonathan Palevsky and Jed Gaylin; Clipper Room, Shriver Hall.

2:15 p.m. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a Theatre Hopkins production; Merrick Barn. Tickets are $10, $9 for senior citizens and $5 for full-time students. Fo information, call 410-516-7159 weekdays from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Monday, March 9

1 p.m. "The Molecular Basis of Familial Alzheimer's Disease," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Sangram Sisodia; 517 PCTB.

4 p.m. "GTP Binding Proteins of the Arf Family in Saccharomyces cerevisiae," a Biochemistry seminar with Anne Rosenwald, Georgetown University; 2030 SHPH.

Homewood

11:30 a.m. "The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family, Work and the Gendered Division of Labor in a Changing Industry," a Sociology seminar with Tamara Hareven, University of Delaware; 526 Mergenthaler.

4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience--"A Neurocomputational Analysis of Face and Object Recognition" by Irving Biederman, University of Southern California; 341 Krieger.

5 p.m. Women's History Month Event--"Organizing the Unorganized: Is It Enough?" by Jane Slaughter; 111 Mergenthaler.