Johns Hopkins Gazette | March 6, 2006
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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University March 6, 2006 | Vol. 35 No. 24
 

Weekly Calendar

Colloquia | Discussion/Talks | Film/Video | Grand Rounds | Information Sessions | Lectures | Music | Open House | Reading | Seminars | Sports | Theater | Workshops

 

Colloquia

Tues., March 7, 4:15 p.m. "Synthesis, Structure and Bypass of Carcinogen-Modified Oligonucleotides," a Chemistry colloquium with Carmelo Rizzo, Vanderbilt University; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., March 8, 3:30 p.m. "The First DIRECT Distance to a Detached Eclipsing Binary in M33," an STScI colloquium with Alceste Bonanos, CIW; STScI Auditorium. HW

Thurs., March 9, 3 p.m. "Cockroaches, Housing and Race: A History of Asthma and Urban Ecology in America," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Thurs., March 9, 3:30 p.m. "The Exploration of the Solar System's Third Zone," a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Hal Weaver, APL; Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Thurs., March 9, 4 p.m. "Knowledge of Meaning, Conscious and Unconscious," a Philosophy colloquium with Steven Gross, Georgetown University; 348 Gilman. HW

Fri., March 10, 2 p.m. "A Sheriff's View of Homeland Security," an APL colloquium with Sheriff Ted Kamatchus, Marshall County, Iowa; Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., March 10, 2 p.m. " 'The Turning of a Cheek' and the Seam of Shame: From Religious to Political Conversion," a Political Science colloquium with Matt Scherer, KSAS; 366 Mergenthaler. HW

 

Discussion/Talks

Pre-Professional Advising events. HW

Wed., March 8, 6 p.m. University of Chicago/Pritzker School of Medicine," with Joni Huff, director of admissions and financial aid. Co-sponsored by the JHU Post-Bac Program. Sherwood Room, Levering.

Thurs., March 9, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. One-to-one interviews with Joni Huff, director of admissions and financial aid, University of Chicago/Pritzker School of Medicine. Sign-up required with Carolyn Krause, Office of Pre-Professional Advising. 309 Garland.

Mon., March 13, 7 p.m. "Conversations in Medicine," second program of the series. 162 Mattin Center.

Wed., March 8, 6:45 p.m. "Pharmaceuticals Targeted Toward African-Americans," a Center for Africana Studies "rap session," with Tiarra Booker; Levering Lobby. HW

 

Film/Video


Documentary filmmaker Ron Mann follows actor/activist Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fueled bus ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Part of the Center for a Livable Future Film Series.

Association for India's Development presents "Incident. Response. Settlement? Two Decades After Bhopal," a film and discussion series. In addition, a photo exhibit on Bhopal is scheduled to run from March 6 through 17 in the lobby of the Offit Bldg., Mattin Center.

Mon., March 6, 7 p.m. The BBC documentary One Night in Bhopal; 26 Mudd. HW

Tues., March 7, 7 p.m. Screening of the documentaries Litigating Disaster in Bhopal and The Seduction of Dr. Loya; 26 Mudd. HW

Wed., March 8, 7 p.m. Meet and greet Ryan Bodan-yi, coordinator of Students for Bhopal; 101 Remsen. HW

Thurs., March 9, 12:15 p.m. "Bhopal — Two Decades Later," with Ryan Bodanyi; W4030 SPH. EB

Tues., March 7, 5 p.m. Showing of the high school student-produced documentary Holler If You Hear Me: What Is Being Done to Improve Baltimore City Schools? followed by a panel discussion with administrators, teachers and students. Sponsored by the Baltimore Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. W1214 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 9, 4 p.m. Showing of Ron Mann's award-winning documentary Go Further, which explores the idea that single individuals are the key to large-scale change. Sponsored by Center for a Livable Future. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Fri., March 10, 8 p.m. Friday Night Films presents Zach Braff's Garden State. $2. Mudd Auditorium. HW

 

Grand Rounds

Patient Safety, sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medicine, in recognition of Patient Safety Awareness Week; Hurd Hall. EB

Tues., March 7, noon. "When Good Doctors Go Bad," with Lucian Leape, Harvard School of Public Health.

Thurs., March 9, 10 a.m. "Hiding in Plain Sight: Patient Safety Design Problems," with John Gosbee, National Center for Patient Safety and U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

 

Information Sessions

Tues., March 7, 5:45 p.m. Information session for the Master's in Communication in Contemporary Society Program, with Erika Falk; an opportunity to meet prospective students, talk to advisers, submit an application and enjoy refreshments. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP by March 1 to advanced@jhu.edu. Washington Center Information sessions for programs in the Graduate Division of Business and Management. Sponsored by SPSBE.

Thurs., March 9
Noon to 1:30 p.m. Washington Center.
6 to 7:30 p.m. Montgomery County Campus.

 

Lectures

Mon., March 6, 12:30 p.m. "Evaluation of Programs to Improve Diet in Minority Populations: Experience of the Healthy Stores Projects," a Center for Collaborative Intervention Research brown bag lecture by Joel Gittelsohn, SPH. No registration required. Room 9, Anne M. Pinkard Bldg. EB

Mon., March 6, 4 p.m. "Monstrous Translating: Benjamin, Poe and the Hunchbacked Dwarf," a German lecture by Joshua Gold; 238 Gilman. HW

"Capturing Imagination: On Belief, Disbelief and Scandal," an Anthropology lecture series with Carlo Severi, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. 400 Macaulay. HW

Wed., March 8, 4 p.m. "Warburg, Wittgenstein and the Anthropology of Memory."

Mon., March 13, 6 p.m. "Complex Identities: A Shamanistic Example."

Summer travel research fellow presentations; 400 Macaulay. HW

Thurs., March 9
4 p.m. "I'm an Orphan, Too: Exploring Orphanhood and Child Vulnerability in Mozambique" by Lauren Heidbrink (Anthropology).
5 p.m. " 'In My Senegalese Quality and as a Compatriot': National Identity Among Senegalese Students in France, 1870s-1907" by Kelly Duke-Bryant (History).

 

Music

Tues., March 7, 1 p.m. Spring concert by the Note-a-Chords, new a cappella group; WBSB Auditorium. EB

Wed., March 8, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Avant-Garde Ensemble performs; program includes a world premiere by Ying-Chen Kao. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Fri., March 10, 8 p.m. New Century Saxophone Quartet performs a repertory ranging from baroque to innovative contemporary works. $15; reservations recommended. A reception follows the concert. Carriage House, Evergreen.

Sun., March 12, 3 p.m. Preparatory Faculty Recital; Cohen-Davison Family Theatre. Peabody

 

Open House

Fri., March 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

Sat., March 11, 10 a.m. to noon. Open house for the Graduate Division of Education; an opportunity to meet with faculty and discuss career goals; Montgomery County Campus.

 

Reading

Tues., March 7, 6 p.m. Reading by Mary Jo Salter, Mt. Holyoke College. Sponsored by the Writing Seminars. Salter is author of five books of poems, and co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Poetry. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

 

Seminars

Mon., March 6, noon. "Integration of Cytoskeletal Systems in Cell Migration," a Cell Biology seminar with Clare Waterman-Storer, Scripps Research Institute; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Mon., March 6, noon. "Where in the Soil Are the Fungi That Orchids Need?" with Melissa McCormick, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Sponsored by the SERC. Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., March 6, 12:15 p.m. "Managing Work and Personal Time," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with Melissa Back Tamburo, JHU; Suite 310, Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place.

Mon., March 6, 12:15 p.m. "Human Disease and Functional Architecture of the Nuclear Envelope," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Kathy Wilson, JHMI; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., March 6, 1:30 p.m. "Statistical Designs and Analyses for Partially Controlled Studies," a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Fan Li; W3008 SPH. EB

Mon., March 6, 4 p.m. "Lagrangian Minimizers, Singularities and Special Lagrangian Submanifolds," an Analysis seminar with Jon Wolfson, Michigan State University; 308 Krieger. HW

Mon., March 6, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Coordinates of Attention" with Patrick Cavanagh, Harvard University. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., March 6, 4 p.m. "Autism: What Goes Wrong With Brain Growth and Function in the First Years of Life," a Neurology seminar with Eric Courchesne, University of California, San Diego. Part of a series of seminars on autism. 1-191 Meyer. EB

Mon., March 6, 5:15 p.m. "'A Liquid Prisoner Pent in Walls of Glass': The Mystery of Perfume," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with Richard Stamelman, Williams College; 336 Gilman. HW

Tues., March 7, 10 a.m. "Maternal Morbidity in Rural Bangladesh: Women's Perceptions and Care-Seeking Behaviors," a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Allisyn Moran; 291 Hampton House. EB

Tues., March 7, noon. "Current and Future Medicare and Medicaid Databases: Implications for Researchers," a Health Services Research and Development Center seminar with Spike Duzor, William Saunders and Frank Eppig, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore. 208 Hampton House. EB

Tues., March 7, noon. "Gene Interactions and Nematode Behavior," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Paul Sternberg, Caltech/HHMI; 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., March 7, noon. "Promoting Maternal and Child Health in Baltimore Through CBPR," a Health, Behavior and Society seminar with Darius Tandon, SoM. Co-sponsored by the JH Urban Health Institute; 250 Hampton House. EB

Tues., March 7, 3 p.m. "Eroding the Earth: Quantifying Surface Processes and Why We Care," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Arjun Heimsath, Dartmouth College; 234 Ames. HW

Tues., March 7, 4:30 p.m. "A Bost-Connes Type Dynamical System for Function Fields," an Algebraic and Complex Geometry seminar with Benoit Jacob, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu; 302 Krieger. HW

Tues., March 7, 5 p.m. "The Hermit at the Circus: Der Nister, Yiddish Literature and German Culture in the Weimar Period," a Jewish Studies Program seminar with Marc Caplan, NYU; 315 Gilman. HW

Wed., March 8, noon. "Insulin Regulated Glucose Transport: Signal Transduction Meets Membrane Trafficking," a Physiology seminar with Tim McGraw, Weill Medical College, Cornell University; Physiology Library 202-D. EB

Wed., March 8, 12:15 p.m. "Alzheimer's Disease: Dissecting the Phenotype to Find the Genotype," a Mental Health seminar with Dimitrios Avramopoulos, SoM; B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., March 8, 1 p.m. "Unraveling the Mechanisms of Noncytolytic Clearance of Alphavirus Infection From Neurons of the Central Nervous System," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Rebeca Burdeinick-Kerr; W3808 SPH. EB

Wed., March 8, 1:30 p.m. "Watching Proteins Function in Real Time with Picosecond Laue Crystallography," a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Philip Anfinrud, NIH/NIDDK; 517 PCTB. EB

Wed., March 8, 2 p.m. "Stem Cell Labeling and Trafficking with MR Imaging and Optical Imaging," an Institute for Cell Engineering seminar with Heike Daldrup-Link, University of California, San Francisco; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), PCTB. EB

Wed., March 8, 3:30 p.m. "Molecular Imaging," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Martin Pomper, SoM; 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., March 8, 4 p.m. "Exploring Protein Glycosylation: Design and Synthesis of Glycopeptide-Based HIV Vaccine," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Lai-Xi Wang, University of Maryland; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Wed., March 8, 4:30 p.m. "Introduction to Drinfel'd Modules and Hayes' Explicit Class Field Theory With a View Toward Quantum Statistical Mechanics," a Number Theory seminar with Benoit Jacob, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu; 304 Krieger. HW

Thurs., March 9, 8:30 a.m. "Migration Health Policies: Shifting the Paradigm From Exclusion to Inclusion," an International Health Migration and Disease seminar with Susan Maloney, CDC. Co-sponsored by Infectious Diseases and History of Medicine. E6519 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 9, 8:30 a.m. "Evaluating HPV Detection in Self-Collected Vaginal Swabs for Screening and Study of HPV Epidemiology in Rakai, Uganda," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Mahboobeh Safaeian; W2029 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 9, noon. "PSA: Love It or Leave It?" an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Steven Freedland, SoM; W3030 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 9, 12:10 p.m. "On Quantifing Smoking Attributable: Disease, Death and Dollars," a Health, Behavior and Society brown bag lunch seminar with Scott Zeger, SPH; 250 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., March 9, 12:15 p.m. "JHSPH in Africa," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with Brian Simpson, SPH, and David Colwell; Suite 310 (International Room), Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place.

Thurs., March 9, 1 p.m. "Analysis of Differentiated Risk Factor Associations with Multiple Outcomes," a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Hongfei Guo; W4019 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 9, 1 p.m. "Toward a Genetic Dissection of Visual Behavior in the Fly," a Neuroscience research seminar with Tom Clandinin, Stanford University; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., March 9, 4 p.m. "Rethinking 19th-Century Modernism: Poetry and the Poetics of Optical Media," a Humanities Center seminar with Isobel Armstrong, Birbeck College; 111 Gilman. HW

Thurs., March 9, 4 p.m. "Understanding Trends in Black-White Achievement Gaps During Elementary School," a Social Policy seminar with Richard Murnane, Harvard University. Sponsored by Institute for Policy Studies, Economics and Health Policy and Management. 210 Hodson. HW

Fri., March 10, 10 a.m. "Who Needs Treatment and Who Gets Treatment: A Social Epidemiological Perspective on Adolescent Behavioral Health," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Erin Winstanley; 688 Hampton House. EB

Fri., March 10, 11:30 a.m. "Koranic Education in Senegal," a Center for Africana Studies brown bag seminar with Butch Ware, Northwestern University; 113 Greenhouse. HW

Fri., March 10, 2 p.m. "How Culture, Peer Norms and Individual Cognitions Affect Kenyan In-School Youths' HIV-Prevention Behaviors," a Health Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Tiffany Lefevre Lillie; 744 Hampton House. EB

Fri., March 10, 2:30 p.m. "Diagnosis and Clinical Prediction of Group A Betahemolytic Streptococcus Pharyngitis in Children in Developing Countries," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Rohit Chitale; W2029 SPH. EB

Mon., March 13, 12:15 p.m. "Regulation of Developmental Timing in Plants by miRNAs and Transacting siRNAs," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Scott Poethig, University of Pennsylvania; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., March 13, 1:30 p.m. "Causal Inference with Sensitivity Analysis: Methods for Investigating Mediation and Accounting for Death in Observational Studies," a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Brian Lee Egleston; W3008 SPH. EB

Mon., March 13, 2 p.m. "Delivering Antibodies Against Host Adhesion Molecules as an Anti-HIV-1 Microbicide," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Caren Chancey; W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Mon., March 13, 3:30 p.m. "Maintaining Respect at the Margins of Agency: Respect for Persons and Research in Emergency Settings," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Neal Dickert; W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Mon., March 13, 4 p.m. "Propagation and Diffraction of Waves on Singular Spaces," an Analysis seminar with Jared Wunsch, Northwestern University; 308 Krieger. HW

Mon., March 13, 4 p.m. "Magma in Earth's Deep Interior," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Lars Stixrude, University of Michigan; Olin Auditorium. HW

 

Sports

Tues., March 7, 6:30 p.m. Men's Lacrosse, vs. UMBC. $10 for reserved tickets, $7 general admission, $5 for groups or children. Homewood Field. HW

Fri., March 10, 4 p.m. Women's Lacrosse, vs. Ohio State; Homewood Field. HW

Sun., March 12, 1 p.m. Women's Lacrosse, vs. Ohio State; Homewood Field. HW

 

Theater

Thurs. through Sat., March 9 to March 11, 8 p.m;, and Sun., March 12, 2 p.m. Johns Hopkins University Theatre presents the world premiere of Yasmine Rana's Returning. $15 general admission, $14 for senior citizens and $5 for students. For tickets, call 410-516-5153 or go to jhut@jhu.edu. Merrick Barn. HW

 

Workshops

Digital Media Center workshops; 226 Mattin Center. HW

Tues., March 7, 4 p.m. "Audio Software," with Andrew Cole.

Wed., March 8, 6 p.m. "Pro Video Editing: Premiere Pro/PC," with Leslye James.

Mon., March 13, 7 p.m. "Beat-Making and Live Mixing," with Andrew Cole.

Financial Planning workshops, sponsored by WorkLife Programs.

Wed., March 8, 9 to 11:30 a.m. "Mid-Career Investor," with representatives from Financial Council Inc.; E2030 SPH. EB

Wed., March 8, noon to 1 p.m. "You Too Can Own a Home," with Sandy Jenkins, JHU; Alicia Lewis, JHHS; and Anthony Parran. 2150 JHOC. EB

Fri., March 10, noon to 1 p.m. "You Too Can Own a Home." B103, JH@Eastern.

Fri., March 10, noon. "Bits and Bites: Home Audio Recording," a Center for Educational Resources workshop with Brian Cole, JHU. Register by using the "Calendar" link at
www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

 
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