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.

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

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.

4 p.m. "Punishing Fear," a History seminar with William Miller, University of Michigan Law School; 315 Gilman.

4 p.m. "How to Judge Welfare Reform," an Institute for Policy Studies seminar with Douglas Besharov, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Clipper Room, Shriver. Part of the series "New Developments in Social Policy."

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

Tuesday, March 10

4:15 p.m. "Mouse CD1-specific NK1.1+ Lymphocytes," an Immunology Council seminar with Albert Bendelac, Princeton University; 2030 SHPH.

5 p.m. The Sir Henry Hallett Dale Memorial Lecture--"Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development" by Erik De Clercq, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Hurd Hall. Sponsored by Pharmacology.

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

Homewood

Noon. "Nutrition Tips for Homewood," an information session on eating healthy with Patricia Hunter, American Dietetic Association; Garrett Room, MSE Library. For information, call 410-516-8396.

4 p.m. "Many Atlantics--One New World?" a National Cultures and the Construction of the Modern World pro-seminar with Joyce Chaplin, Vanderbilt University; 315 Gilman.

4 p.m. "The Projectability of Mental Predicates: What's at Stake in the Mental Causation Debate," a Philosophy colloquium with Louise Antony, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 348 Gilman.

4:15 p.m. "Quantitative Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy as a Probe of Adsorption, Diffusion and Self-Assembly of Biopolymers and Oligonucleotides," a Chemistry colloquium with Rosina Georgiadis, Boston University; 233 Remsen.

4:30 p.m. "A Simple, Corpus-based Method for Finding Base Noun Phrases," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Claire Cardie, Cornell University; 100 Shaffer.

6 p.m. Women's History Month Event--Nappy, screening of a documentary by Lydia Douglas, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker; 26 Mudd.

7 p.m. "Friendship in the Age of AIDS," a lecture by Joel Goldman and P.J. Sullivan, OTH Consultants; Shriver Hall Auditorium. Part of the "Project Face to Face" multimedia exhibit.

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

Wednesday, March 11

8 to 11 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. School of Nursing Graduate Open House, featuring information on graduate nursing programs; Pinkard Building. Noon. "Sex Steroids and Ethanol Metabolism," a Gastroenterology seminar with Esteban Mezey; 903 Ross.

4 p.m. "Growth Hormone and IGF-1: Effects on Bone, Endocrine Grand Rounds with Anne Klibanski, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; 1 Marburg.

4 p.m. "Profile Likelihood Inference in High-Dimensional Models," a Biostatistics/Mathematical Sciences joint seminar with Susan Murphy, Harvard University; 2030 SHPH.

4 p.m. "The Guillain Barre Syndrome: An Immunologic Model of Molecular Mimicry," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Guy McKhann, Tony Ho and Kazim Sheik; 303 WBSB.

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

4:30 p.m. "Genetics of Human Breast Cancer," an Integrated Metabolism and Physiology seminar with Saraswati Sukumar; 709 Traylor.

Evergreen

6 p.m. "American Art Pottery," an illustrated lecture by Donald Hall; Evergreen Theater, 4545 N. Charles St. Admission is $8 for members, $10 for non-members. Guests may bring their own pottery to be identified. To make reservations, call 410-516-0341.

Homewood

Noon. "America's Flag Makers: Mary Pickersgill and Rebecca Flower Young," a lecture by Sally Johnston, Star-Spangled Banner Flag House and Museum; Shriver Hall. Part of the Wednesday Noon Series sponsored by Special Events.

4 p.m. "Judging Race, Reason and Responsibility: The Murder Trial of William Freeman," an American History seminar with Jeffrey Mullins, University of Oklahoma; 315 Gilman.

4 p.m. "Hormone-Behavior Interactions as Adaptations to Stressful Events," a Psychology colloquium with John Wingfield, University of Washington; 234 Ames.

5:30 to 7 p.m. Open House for SCS undergraduate degree programs; Sherwood Room, Levering. To RSVP or for more information, call 1-800-GO-TO-JHU.

Peabody 7:30 p.m. Massenet's Ch‚rubin, a Peabody Opera Theatre/Peabody Concert Orchestra production; Friedberg Concert Hall. Tickets are $22, $11 for senior citizens and $8 for students with ID. For information, call 410-659-8124.

Thursday, March 12

Noon. "ADAMs: Novel Proteins Containing A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease Domain," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Judith White, University of Virginia; 110 WBSB.

Noon. Welch Internet Lecture--"From User to Publisher," a session describing tools and resources for Web developers; Hurd Hall. No registration required.

5:15 p.m. "Remembering Rosa Ponselle" an illustrated talk and personal reminiscences by mezzo-soprano Bette Hankin, Towson University; Doctors Dining Room. Part of the "Conversation" series sponsored by Cultural Affairs.

Homewood

11 a.m. The Corrsin Lecture--"Rapidly Sheared Particulate and Multiphase Systems" by Donald Koch, Cornell University; 109 Maryland. Sponsored by Chemical Engineering.

1 p.m. The 1998 James Poultney Lecture--"The Tortoise and the Knucklebone: Iconography of the West Greek Marriage" by James Redfield, University of Chicago; Mudd Hall Auditorium.

3:30 p.m. Women's History Month Event--"Identity and African Women's Experiences of the U.S." a panel discussion co-sponsored by the African Students Association; Garrett Room, MSE Library.

Peabody

7:30 p.m. Massenet's Ch‚rubin, a Peabody Opera Theatre/Peabody Concert Orchestra production; Friedberg Concert Hall. Tickets are $22, $11 for senior citizens and $8 for students with ID. For information, call 410-659-8124.

SAIS

12:30 p.m. "NGO Alliances and Project Collaboration," a Program on Social Change and Development brown bag lecture by Chris Allen, Catholic Relief Services; 812 Rome Bldg., 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.

Friday, March 13

2 p.m. "Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Development," a colloquium with Anirvan Ghosh; Parsons Auditorium. The program will be simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus.

East Baltimore

10 a.m. "Perspectives on Analysis of Bacterial, Archaeal and Eukaryotic Genomes," a Biomedical Information Sciences seminar with Anthony Kerlavage, Institute for Genomic Research; 517 PCTB. Part of the "Bioinformatics in Gene Discovery and Analysis" seminar series.

Noon. "Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever," a Vector Biology forum with Michael MacDonald; W2030 SHPH. Sponsored by Molecular Microbiology and Immunology.

1 p.m. Master of Science in Engineering Candidates--"A Computational Model for Human Motor Control" by Nikhil Bhushan; "The Effects of Surfactants and Membrane Proteins on the Electroporation of Lipid Bilayers" by Gregory Troiano; and "Image Variability Analysis: A Technique for Enhancement of Contrast Echo" by Eddy Wong; 709 Traylor. Sponsored by Biomedical Engineering.

Homewood

10:30 a.m. "Conveying the 3-D Shape and Depth of Layered Structures in Computer-generated Images," a Computer Science lecture by Victoria Interrante, NASA Langley Research Center; 100 Shaffer.

11 a.m. "Breaking Waves, Bubble Plumes and Air-Sea Gas Transfer," a Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics seminar with Edward Monahan, University of Connecticut; 304 Olin.

1:30 p.m. "Can U.S. Transportation Meet the Kyoto Targets?" a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with David Greene, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; 234 Ames.

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

7:30 p.m. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, weekly group meeting; Garrett Room, MSE Library.

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.

Peabody

7:30 p.m. Massenet's Ch‚rubin, a Peabody Opera Theatre/Peabody Concert Orchestra production; Friedberg Concert Hall. Tickets are $22, $11 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. For information, call 410-659-8124.

Saturday, March 14

11 a.m. "Update on the Medical Management of Persistent Recurrent Acromegaly," a Clinical Pharmacology conjoint clinic with Marc Blackman; Turner Auditorium.

Homewood

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.

Peabody

7:30 p.m. Massenet's Ch‚rubin, a Peabody Opera Theatre/Peabody Concert Orchestra production; Friedberg Concert Hall. Tickets are $22, $11 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. For information, call 410-659-8124.

Sunday, March 15

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. The play's run has been extended through Saturday, March 21.

Monday, March 16

3 p.m. Otolaryngology Grand Rounds, with various speakers; 6150 Outpatient Center.