Johns Hopkins Gazette | February 6, 2006
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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University February 6, 2006 | Vol. 35 No. 20
 

Weekly Calendar

Colloquia | Discussion/Talks | Film/Video | Information Sessions | Lectures | Music | Open House | Seminars | Special Events | Sports | Theater | Workshops

 

Colloquia

Tues., Feb. 7, 4:15 p.m. "The Chemistry of RNA Editing by Adenosine Deaminases," a Chemistry colloquium with Peter Beal, University of Utah; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., Feb. 8, 3:30 p.m. "Deep Impact: Results From a 'Simple' Experiment," an STScI colloquium with Mike A'Hearn, University of Maryland; STScI Auditorium. HW

Wed., Feb. 8, 4 p.m. "Roles for Dopamine and Glutamate in Motivation of Drug-Seeking," a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Roy Wise, National Institute on Drug Abuse; 234 Ames. HW

Thurs., Feb. 9, 3 p.m. "Infection and Citizenship: Not Visiting Isolation Hospitals in Victorian Britain," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Graham Mooney, SoM; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Thurs., Feb. 9, 3:30 p.m. "What Gives? Soft Condensed Matter at the Breaking Point," a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State University; Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Thurs., Feb. 9, 4 p.m. "Political Representation as a Democratic Process," a Political and Moral Thought Program colloquium with Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University; 348 Gilman. HW

Mon., Feb. 13, noon. "Backward and Forward: Medical Humanism in Renaissance Europe," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Andrea Carlino, Universite de Geneve; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

 

Discussion/Talks

Pre-Professional Advising events. HW

Tues., Feb. 7, 1 p.m. "The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health," with Don Batisky, associate director of admissions. Co-sponsored by the JHU Post-Bac Program. Great Hall, Levering.

Tues., Feb. 7, 7 p.m. "The Inside Story About Being a Law School Student," a panel discussion with JHU alumni; 162 Mattin Center.

Mon., Feb. 13, 6:30 p.m. "Managed Care: What Am I Getting Myself Into?" with Charles Shubin, SoM and University of Maryland School of Medicine; 162 Mattin Center.

Thurs., Feb. 9, 3 p.m. "Grading: A Cross-Disciplinary Discussion," a Center for Educational Resources discussion with TAs Andrew Rosenthal (Chemistry); Carl Keyes (History); and James Williams (Anthropology); 162 Mattin. 162 Mattin Center. HW

 

Film/Video

Fri., Feb. 10, 12:15 p.m. Preview of Yesterday, the first South African feature film shot in the Zulu language. Sponsored by Center for Communication Programs. Suite 310, 111 Market Place, Candler Bldg.

Fri., Feb. 10, 8 p.m. Friday Night Films presents Sideways. Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies. $5 general public; free with JHU ID. Mudd Auditorium. HW

 

Information Sessions

Wed., Feb. 8, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Information session for the Special Education Teacher Immersion Training Program. Montgomery County Campus. MCC

 

Lectures


Faculty artist Katherine Needleman, principal oboe with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, joins the Peabody Concert Orchestra for an evening of music by Dvorak, Ludwig, Martinu and Bartok. See Music.

Tues., Feb. 7, 4 p.m. "Why Civility? Why Now?" a lecture by Pier Massimo Forni, KSAS. Co-sponsored by STScI, the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins and the Whiting School of Engineering. First in the six-part lecture series "Hard Science/Soft Skills: Fostering Civility in the Scientific Workplace." STScI Auditorium. HW

Summer travel research fellow presentations. 400 Macaulay. HW

Thurs., Feb. 9, 4 p.m. "Strangers at Home: The Paradox of Chez Nous and the Jewish Moroccan Diaspora," by Samantha Gottlieb.

Thurs., Feb. 9, 5 p.m. "The Politics of Poverty Alleviation in China," by Juan Wang.

"Narrative Imagery in the Renaissance," presentations of current graduate student work. Sponsored by History of Art. A reception will take place at 4:30 p.m. 255 Mergenthaler. HW

Thurs., Feb. 9, 5 p.m. "Illustrating the Text: Dante, Boccaccio and the Pico Master," by Laura Blom.

Thurs., Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m. "Art and Authority: Domenico Beccafumi and the Politics of Imitation," by Jenny Sliwka.

Thurs., Feb. 9, 6 p.m. "The Seven Churches of Rome: From Print to Book Illustration," by Hilary Hunt.

 

Music

Tues., Feb. 7, 8 p.m. Faculty Chamber Music Recital with Keng-Yuen Tseng, violin; Noah Chaves, viola; Michael Kannen, violoncello; Paul Johnson, contrabass; Emily Skala, flute; Joseph Turner, oboe; Steven Barta, clarinet; and Phillip Kolker, bassoon. $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Fri., Feb. 10, 8 p.m. Peabody Concert Orchestra performs music by Dvorak, Ludwig, Martinu and Bartok; with faculty artist Katherine Needleman, oboe. $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sat., Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Wind Ensemble performs music by Sung, Toch, Milhaud, Holst and Schoenberg. $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sun., Feb. 12, 4 p.m. "Donald Sutherland and Strings," featuring music by Handel, Piston, Bach, Mozart, Jenkins and Saint-Saens. $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Mon., Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Chamber Opera performs "Pastorale and Masque," with the Baltimore Baroque Band, guest music director Joseph Gascho and baroque dance specialist Paige Whitley-Bauguess. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

 

Open House

Fri., Feb. 10, 8 p.m. Friday Open House at the Maryland Space Grant Observatory; weather permitting. For weekly status, call 410-516-6525 or go to www.mdspacegrant.org/observatory.html. Bloomberg Center. HW

 

Seminars

Mon., Feb. 6, 12:15 p.m. "Deciphering the Prader-Willi Locus Enigma: Implications From Gene Targeting Studies in Mice," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Serguei Kozlov, NCI/NIH; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Feb. 6, 3:30 p.m. "Zeroes of Random Analytic Functions and Determinantal Point Processes in Two Dimensions," a Math/Physics seminar with Manjunath Krishnapur, University of California, Berkeley; 308 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 6, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Neural Basis of Spatial Attention" with Kirk Thompson, NEI/NIH. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 6, 4 p.m. "The Enlightenment and Enchantment," a Humanities Center seminar with Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University; 111 Gilman. HW

Tues., Feb. 7, noon. "Cellular Responses to Force, Geometry and Rigidity: Roles of Src Family Kinases and Substrate Priming," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Michael Sheetz, Columbia University; 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Feb. 7, noon. "Economic Analysis of Homeland Security Policies, an Institute for Policy Studies seminar with Joseph Cordes, George Washington University; 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW

Tues., Feb. 7, noon. "Community Based Participatory Research: Policy and Practice," a Health, Behavior and Society seminar with Kim Dobson Sydnor, Morgan State University School of Public Health; 208 Hampton House. EB

Tues., Feb. 7, 2 p.m. "Congruences Among Automorphic Forms on the Unitary Group U(2,2)," a Number Theory seminar with Krzysztof Klosin, University of Michigan; 211 Krieger. HW

Tues., Feb. 7, 3 p.m. "Toric Vector Bundles and the Resolution Property," a Math/Physics seminar with Sam Payne, University of Michigan; 308 Krieger. HW

Tues., Feb. 7, 4:30 p.m. "Improving Access to Conversational Speech: the MALACH Project," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, College Park; 3 Shaffer. HW

Wed., Feb. 8, 3 p.m. "On Pattern Formation and Cell Aggregation in Biology," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame; 114 Barton. HW

Wed., Feb. 8, 3:30 p.m. "Experimental and Computational Investigation of Structure and Plastic Flow in Bulk Metallic Glasses," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Katharine Flores, Ohio State University; 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., Feb. 8, 4 p.m. "Synthetic/Mechanistic Studies of Bioactive Natural Products: Enduring Leads for Discovery of Cellular Probes and Therapeutics," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Daniel Romo, Texas A&M University; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB

Thurs., Feb. 9, 8:30 a.m. "Trafficking of Women and Health: New Data From a European Study," an International Health seminar with Cathy Zimmerman, research fellow, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Co-sponsored by Infectious Diseases (SoM) and History of Medicine (SoM). E6519 SPH. EB

Thurs., Feb. 9, noon. "Regulation of Microtubules and Cell Polarity by Rho GTPases in Migrating Cells," a Cell Biology seminar with Gregg Gundersen, Columbia University; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., Feb. 9, 12:30 p.m. "Different Roads to Globalization: Neoliberalism, the Competition State and Politics in a More Open World," a Political Science seminar with Philip Cerny, Rutgers University; 366 Mergenthaler. HW

Fri., Feb. 10, 12:15 p.m. "Predictors of Virologic, Immunologic and Clinical Outcomes in HIV-Infected Adults Receiving Art in a Faith-Based Health Facility," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Olumuyiwa Aina; W4030 SPH. EB

Fri., Feb. 10, 4 p.m. "Characterizing the Albumin-Enriched Fraction of Human Serum: Proteins, Associations and Biomarker Discovery," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences thesis defense seminar with Rebekah Gundry; 303 WBSB. EB

Fri., Feb. 10, 5:15 p.m. "Flaubert's Capital: Toward a Labor Theory of Translation from Eleanor Marx to Paul de Man," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with Emily Apter, New York University. Co-sponsored by the Philological Society. 223 Gilman. HW

Mon., Feb. 13, noon. "Chemical Reactions at the Solid-Water Interface: A Predictive Syntheis From Protons to Biomolecules," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Dimitri Sverjensky, KSAS; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., Feb. 13, 12:15 p.m. "Patterning the Vertebrate Gut and Limb," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Cliff Tabin, Harvard Medical School; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Feb. 13, 1 p.m. "Genetic Polymorphisms in DNA Repair Genes and the Risk of Colorectal Neoplasia," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Sonja Berndt; W3008 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m. "Averages of the Fourier Transform of Measures and Applications," an Analysis seminar with M. Burak Erdogan, University of Illinois; 308 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m. "Can Science and Industry Co-Exist? Contraceptive Development and the Drug Development Process," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Gregory Kopf, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Characterization of Neural Response With Stochastic Stimuli" with Eero Simoncelli, HHMI Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 13, 5:15 p.m. " 'Words in the Air': Thaumaste, Nazdecabre and the Question of Perspicuous Signs," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with James Helgeson, Columbia University; 336 Gilman. HW

 

Special Events

"Roots: Discovering Our Universal Heritage," Black History Month events begin. Sponsored by the Black History Month Committee of the Black Student Union, the Center of Africana Studies, the Black Faculty and Staff Association, the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and the Gospel Choir. HW

Tues., Feb. 7, 10 a.m. Discussion with author Bebe Moore Campbell of her book 72-Hour Hold. RSVP to Carla Hopkins at 410-516-2224 or chopkins@jhu.edu. Arellano Theater, Levering.

Fri., Feb. 10, 8 p.m. Poetry Slam, hosted by Komplex the Poet, featuring published poet Michael Burt. $5 admission and $10 entry fee for poetry contest. For more information, e-mail bhm06@jhu.edu. HopStop, Levering.

Sat., Feb. 11, 6 p.m. Gospel Choir Jubilee, featuring choirs from Bucknell, McDaniel, LaSalle, UMBC and Goucher. Shriver Hall.

 

Sports

Thurs., Feb. 9, 7 p.m. Women's Basketball, vs. Villa Julie; Athletic Center. HW

 

Theater

Fri., Feb. 10, Sat., Feb. 11, and Sun., Feb. 12, 8 p.m. Barnstormers production of Proof, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Auburn. $5 general admission, $3 for students. Arellano Theater, Levering. HW

Sat., Feb. 11, 7 p.m., Sun., Feb. 12, 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Vagina Monologues, sponsored by the School of Nursing. $10. All proceeds to benefit Baltimore's House of Ruth. Room 140, Anne M. Pinkard Bldg. EB

 

Workshops

"Financial Planning: Late Career Investor," a WorkLife Programs workshop with experts from Financial Council Inc.

Wed., Feb. 8, 9 a.m. B102 JH@Eastern.

Thurs., Feb. 9, 9 a.m. E2030 SPH. EB

"Managing Stress," A WorkLife Programs workshop with Chae Kwak, FASAP.

Tues., Feb. 7, noon. B103 JH@Eastern.

Thurs., Feb. 9, noon. 2150 JHOC. EB

Fri., Feb. 10, noon. "Bits and Bites: Digital Camera Technologies," a Center for Educational Resources workshop with Brian Cole, JHU. Topics include sharing photos on the web, free editing software and shooting tips. Bring your digital camera. Register by using the "Calendar" link at
www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

 
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