The Johns Hopkins Gazette: December 14, 1998
THE GAZETTE CALENDAR
Dec. 14-Jan. 5

Johns Hopkins Gazette Online Edition

  

COLLOQUIA

Wed., Dec. 16, 5 p.m. "The Nudix Hydrolase Family, a Paradigm in Functional Genomics," a Biology colloquium with Maurice Bessman; Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW

  

DANCE

Fri., Dec. 18, 8 p.m. Ballroom Dance Party; Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW Admission is $4, $2 for club members. 7-8 p.m. Workshop for beginners; admission, $2. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Ballroom Dance Club.

  

DISCUSSIONS

Tues., Jan. 5, 8:30 a.m. Women's Forum/JHMI Caucus discussion and networking opportunity; Gallery, SHPH (yellow chair section). Donation of a personal care item for the House of Ruth is appreciated.

Tues., Jan. 5, noon. "Gladly the Cross-eyed Bear," a Journal Club discussion with Ed McBain; 9019 (Tumulty Conference Room), 1830 Bldg. JHMI Sponsored by the Women's Forum/JHMI Caucus.

  

GRAND ROUNDS

Wed., Dec. 16, 4 p.m. "Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy," Endocrine Grand Rounds with Susan Mandel, University of Pennsylvania Hospital; 1 Marburg. JHMI

Mon., Dec. 14, 3 p.m. Otolaryngology Grand Rounds, with rotating roster of speakers; 6150 JHOC.

Wed., Dec. 16, 4 p.m. "Coagulation Disease" with various speakers; 1024 Blalock. JHMI

  

HOLIDAY EVENT

Mon., Dec. 14, 5-7 p.m. Candlelight Tour of Homewood House, with period music, holiday refreshments and gifts for sale; Homewood House Museum. HW Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and $3 for students. Admission is free to members and one accompanying guest, as well as to JHU faculty and staff. For more information, call 410-516-5589.

  

LECTURES

Fri., Dec., 18, 2 p.m. The A.I. Mahan Christmas Lecture--"Future Strategic Issues" by Dennis Bushnell, NASA Langley Research Center; Parsons Auditorium. APL Program will be simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus.

  

MUSIC

Tues., Dec. 15, noon. Midday Performance with Marian Y. Lee, performing works of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky; Hurd Hall. JHMI Sponsored by Cultural Affairs.

  

SEMINARS

Mon., Dec. 14, 12:30 p.m. "Irresponsibility of Good Epidemiologists in Public Health," a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Lewis Kuller, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health; W2008 SHPH.

Mon., Dec. 14, 4 p.m. "Wind Engineering at Hopkins," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Nicholas Jones; 305 Olin. HW

Mon., Dec. 14, 4 p.m. David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience--"Computational Anatomy: An Emerging Discipline" by M.I. Miller; 341 Krieger. HW

Tues., Dec. 15, 4:15 p.m. "Neuropeptides (substance P) and HIV Infection of Monocyte-Macrophages," an Immunology Council seminar with Steven Douglas, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; W2030 SHPH.

Thurs., Dec. 17, 11 a.m. "Quantitative Modeling and Experiment in Cell Signaling Pathway," a Center for Computational Medicine and Biology seminar with Douglas Lauffenberger, MIT; 709 Traylor. JHMI Sponsored by Biomedical Engineering.

Thurs., Dec. 17, 1 p.m. "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Gene Therapy Strategies to Save the Endangered Neuron," a Neuroscience research seminar with Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University; 811 WBSB.

Thurs., Dec. 17, 4 p.m. "Developmental Regulation of V(D)J Recombination at the T-Cell Receptor Alpha/Delta Locus," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Michael Krangel, Duke University Medical Center; 517 PCTB.

Fri., Dec. 18, 12:30 p.m. "Hepatitis C Infection and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma," an Epidemiology doctoral defense by Karen Cowgill; W2008 SHPH.

  

SPORTS

Mon., Jan. 4, 5:30 p.m. Wrestling, Hopkins vs. Oneonta/Ursinus. HW

Fri., Jan., 8, 6 p.m., Women's Basketball, Hopkins vs. Chicago. HW

Fri., Jan. 8, 8 p.m. Men's Basketball, Hopkins vs. Chicago. HW

  

WJHU

Any of the following shows except for Tuesday's live broadcast from the Space Telescope Science Institute may be preempted for an impeachment analysis.

Mon., Dec. 14, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. A look at the Y2K computer situation, followed at 1 p.m. by a discussion on the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill.

Tues., Dec. 15, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. Special two-hour live broadcast with scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute (also broadcast simultaneously on the Internet).

Wed., Dec. 16, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. E-commerce and holiday shopping on the Web, followed at 1 p.m. by the music of Helicon.

Thurs., Dec. 17, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. A look at the Mideast peace process, with Robert Freedman, Ali Zaghab and Aaron Raskus, followed at 1 p.m. by Ira Berlin of the University of Maryland discussing his two books, Many Thousand Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America and Remember Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom (rescheduled from last week).

Fri., Dec. 18, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. Helen Chappel, author of Oysterback Spoken Here.


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