Educational Assistance Plans -- A series of three-hour information sessions about Hopkins' educational assistance plans will be held in May and June. The agenda items are tuition remission, tuition reimbursement, staff development remission and tuition grant (eligibility and current policy).

Employees interested in attending should send name, Social Security number, department, department phone and fax, dates you are available and topic(s) of interest by email to TRAININGEDMAIL@jhuadig.admin.jhu.edu or fax to 410-516-6812. You will receive a confirmation.

East Baltimore sessions will be May 17 and June 9, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., 2024 E. Monument St., room 2-100. Homewood sessions will be May 18 and June 14, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., at the Center for Training and Education, 2715 N. Charles St., terrace level. Light refreshments.

Talk on Old Masters Collection -- The Homewood House Museum on the Homewood campus will offer a glimpse of one family's collection of priceless art in a slide lecture titled "The Collection of Old World Paintings at Riversdale Plantation in the Stier-Petters Family," at 6 p.m. on Wed., May 19. The lecture will be given by art historian Susan G. Pearl.

Admission is free to Hopkins staff and students and Homewood members; $2 for the public. For reservations, call 410-516-5589.