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Mon., March 3, 9:30 a.m. "Creating and Navigating
Structure in Real Time," a Cognitive Science
colloquium with Matt Wagers, University of Maryland. 134A
Krieger. HW
Tues., March 4, 4:15 p.m. "Proton Transfer in Rapid
Enzymatic Catalysis: Superoxide Dismutase and
Carbonic Anhydrase," a Chemistry colloquium with David
Silverman, University of Florida. 233 Remsen.
HW
Tues., March 4, 4 p.m. "Reflections on Doing a
Double-Pronged Ethnographic Study: On the TRC and
Young Urban Guerilla Fighters Against Apartheid," an
Anthropology colloquium with Pamela Reynolds,
KSAS. Co-sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality. 400
Macaulay. HW
Wed., March 5, 9:30 a.m. "Processing Scalar
Implicatures: At the Interface of Syntax, Semantics and
Pragmatics," a Cognitive Science colloquium with Ming
Xiang, Harvard University. 134A Krieger. HW
Wed., March 5, 4:30 p.m. "Melanopsin: A
Photo-Sensational Clock Modulator," a Biology colloquium
with
Samer Hattar, KSAS. Mudd Auditorium. HW
Wed., March 5, 4:30 p.m. "Music and Trauma," a
Peabody Musicology colloquium with Fred Maus,
University of Virginia. 308 Conservatory. Peabody
Thurs., March 6, 3 p.m. "Random Self-Organization: A
Nonequilibrium Dynamical Transition in
Periocially Strained Suspensions," a Physics and Astronomy
colloquium with David Pine, NYU. Schafler
Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW
Thurs., March 6, 3 p.m. "Regarding the Pain of
Africans: Making Historical Sense of Scenes in a
Contemporary African Oncology Ward," a History of Science,
Medicine and Technology colloquium with
Julie Livingston, Rutgers University. Seminar Room, 3rd
floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Discussion/Talks
Thurs., March 6, 2 to 6 p.m. "Translation, Recycling
and the Power of Storytelling in Manuel Puig," a
German and Romance Languages and Literatures panel
discussion with Sergio Waisman, George
Washington University. 223 Gilman. HW

Information Sessions
Tues., March 4, 4 to 5 p.m. Doctor of Nursing
Practice information session, providing an opportunity
for prospective nursing students to learn more about the
SoN program. Carpenter Room, SoN. EB

Lectures
Mon., March 3, 4 p.m. Dean's Lecture III —
"Navigating the Labyrinth of the Inner Ear: Achieving
'Balance' as a Clinician Scientist" by Lloyd Minor, SoM.
Hurd Hall. EB
Mon., March 3, 5:15 p.m. "Doudha: The Folded Page,"
a Philological Society lecture by Shane Butler,
UCLA. 336 Gilman. HW
Tues., March 4, 4 p.m. "Possibility and Constraint:
African Independence in Historical Perspective," a
Center for Africana Studies lecture by author Frederick
Cooper. Boardroom, Shriver Hall. HW
Tues., March 4, 5:15 p.m. "Manuel Puig: His Life and
Fictions," a German and Romance Languages and
Literatures lecture by Suzanne Jill Levine, University of
California, Santa Barbara. 336 Gilman. HW
The Holtz Lectures, by Carol Hall, North Carolina
State University. Sponsored by Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering. HW
Wed., March 5, 3 p.m. "Thermodynamic and Kin-etic
Origins of Alzheimer's and Related
Diseases: A Chemical Engineer's Perspective." 111
Mergenthaler.
Thurs., March 6, 10:30 a.m. "Self-Assembly of
Dipolar Particles: Designing Smart Materials
Using Computer Simulation." 110 Maryland.
Wed., March 5, 5:30 p.m. "St. Peter's in Rome,
1623-44: The Pier of St. Andrews (Duquesnoy and
Bernini)," a History of Art lecture by Rudolph
Preimesberger, professor emeritus, Freie Universitat
Berlin. Smokler Center. HW
Thurs., March 6, 4 p.m. "Citizenship and Freedom: an
Ambiguous Encounter During the Afro-Brazilian
Sailor Revolt (Brazil, 1910)," a Center for Africana
Studies lecture by Alvaro Nascimento. 315 Gilman.
HW
Thurs., March 6, 5:15 p.m. "'A Place So Insanely
Enchanting': Kafka and the Poetics of Suspension," a
German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by
Michael Levine, Rutgers University. 336
Gilman. HW
Distinguished Lecture in Art of the Ancient
Americas, with Warrick Bray, University College,
London. Sponsored by History of Art.
Thurs., March 6, 7 p.m. "All That Glistens Is Not
Gold: The Role of Gold-Copper Alloys in
Prehispanic America." Graham Auditorium, Walters Art
Museum.
Fri., March 7, 10:30 a.m. "Powdered Lime in Golden
Flasks: Coca Chewing in Lowland America," a
student forum. 255 Mergenthaler. HW
Sat., March 8, 1 p.m. "Gold of the Ancient Americas:
Artists and Patrons in the Land of El
Dorado." Graham Auditorium, Walters Art Museum.
Fri., March 7, 2 p.m. The Templeton Lectures —
"The Pleasures of Transcendance" by Paul Bloom, Yale
University. Sponsored by Philosophy. 26 Mudd. HW
Mon., March 10, 5:15 p.m. "Baroque Relics: Origins
of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities," a
German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by
David Castillo, SUNY Buffalo. 336 Gilman.
HW

Music
Tues., March 4, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Singers perform,
accompanied by pianist Stefan Petrov. $15 general
admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with
ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody
Wed., March 5, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Chamber Winds
performs music by Gounod, Haufrecht and Kurka.
Griswold Hall. Peabody
Fri., March 7, 5:45 p.m. "Peabody at Homewood"
Concert Series — Performance by the Peabody Consort,
selected early music majors, performing music from the 16th
and early 17th centuries. Sponsored by
Homewood Museum. $15 general admission, $12 for members; $5
student rush tickets, may be
available 15 minutes prior to the performance. Registration
required; 410-516-5589. Homewood
Museum. HW
Sat., March 8, 11 a.m. "Around the World in Music!"
a performance by the Preparatory Sinfonietta and
the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra. Sponsored by
Peabody. Tickets available through the
Meyerhoff box office at 410-783-8000 or www.bsomusic.org.
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
Sat., March 8, 1 p.m. Concert for Children and
Families, 16th annual performance by the Hopkins
Symphony Orchestra. (See "In Brief," in this issue.)
Shriver Hall. HW
Sun., March 9, 3 p.m. The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
performs music by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.
2 p.m. Pre-concert talk by James Kinstle. $24 general
admission, $18 for senior citizens, non-JHU
students and JHU affiliates; free for JHU students with ID.
Shriver Auditorium. HW
Mon., March 10, 7 p.m. Jazz performance by the Alan
Munshower Trio. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins.
HW

Reading
Tues., March 4, 6 p.m. Reading by Nic Pizzolatto,
author of Between Here and the Yellow Sea. 101
Remsen. Sponsored by Writing Seminars. HW

Seminars
Mon., March 3, 9 a.m. "International Medical
Graduates and Patient-Centered Indicators of Primary
Care Quality," a Health, Behavior and Society thesis
defense seminar with Shivonne Laird. W2029
SPH. EB
Mon., March 3, noon. "Motor Behaviors: From Worm to
Mouse to Man," a Physiology faculty search
seminar with Asim Beg, Columbia University. West Lecture
Hall. EB
Mon., March 3, 12:15 p.m. "Modeling Human Disease in
the Mouse: From Cancer to Neuropsychiatric
Disorders," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Mario Capecchi, University of Utah School
of Medicine. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., March 3, 3 p.m. "Nonlinear Schrodinger
Equations on Domains With Boundary," a Mathematics
seminar with visiting professor Ramona Anton, Universite de
Paris-Sud, Orsay. 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., March 3, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Action Monitoring and Outcome
Expectancy in Rodent Orbitofrontal Cortex" with Tomo-yuki
Furuyashiki, KSAS. Sponsored by the
Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., March 3, 4 p.m. "Engineered Antibodies Based
on a Minimalized Genetic Code: Applications in
Structural and Cell Biology," a Biophysics seminar with
Anthony Kossiakoff, University of Chicago. 111
Mergenthaler. HW
Mon., March 3, 4:30 p.m. "Bundle Structures and
Algebraic K-theory," a Mathematics seminar with
John Klein, Wayne State University. 302 Krieger. HW
Tues., March 4, 10 a.m. "Three Novel Approaches to
Analyzing Longitudinal Data: Regression on
Longitudinal Propensity Scores, Enhanced Sensitivity
Analysis Framework and Marked Renewal
Stochastic Processes," a Biostatistics thesis defense
seminar with Aristide Achy-Brou. W2030 SPH.
EB
Tues., March 4, 10 a.m. "Genetic Epidemiology of
Inflammatory Response to a Single High-Fat Meal,"
an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Yu-Ching Cheng.
W2017 SPH. EB
Tues., March 4, 10 a.m. "The Effect of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus on Population Immunity to
Measles Virus Among Children in an Urban Township in
Zambia," an Epidemiology thesis defense
seminar with Sara Ann Lowther. W2015 SPH. EB
Tues., March 4, 10 a.m. "Applications of Orthogonal
Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) to Radar,"
an Electrical and Computer Engineering thesis defense
seminar with John Stralka. 209 CSEB. HW
Tues., March 4, 10:30 a.m. "The +CAL Algorithm
Language," a Computer Science seminar with Leslie
Lamport, Microsoft Corp. B17 CSEB. HW
Tues., March 4, noon. "Effects of the CCS Copper
Chaperone on SOD1 Mutants Linked to Amytrophic
Lateral Sclerosis," an Environmental Health Sciences thesis
defense seminar with Jody Proescher.
W7023 SPH. EB
Tues., March 4, noon. "Impact and Cost-Effectiveness
of Improved Diagnostics for Tuberculosis in
Developing Countries," an Epidemiology thesis defense
seminar with David Dowdy. W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., March 4, 3 p.m. "Desire for HIV Testing and
Counseling in Kenya: The Individual, Couple and
Community Perspectives," a Population, Family and
Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Li
Liu. E4611 SPH. EB
Tues., March 4, 3 p.m. "Prospects for Managed
Underground Storage of Recoverable Water," a
Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Ed
Bouwer, WSE. 234 Ames. HW
Wed., March 5, 8:30 a.m. "War Stories From the
Field: A Case Study of Community Trials in the
Philippines and Nepal," a Center for Clinical Trials
seminar with Joanne Katz, SPH. Sponsored by
Epidemiology. W4030 SPH. EB
Wed., March 5, noon. "Examining the Relationship of
Education and Late-Life Mental Activity With
Cognitive Decline," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar
with Lea Drye. W2015 SPH. EB
Wed., March 5, noon. "Assessing the Demand for a
Childhood Pneumococcal Vaccine in Dhaka,
Bangladesh," an International Health thesis defense seminar
with Rebekah Heinzen. W2008 SPH. EB
Wed., March 5, 12:15 p.m. "Supporting Risk-Based
Decision Making at FDA for Inspections, Sampling
and Imports," a Risk Sciences and Public Policy seminar
with Kara Morgan, USFDA. Co-sponsored by
the Center for Public Health Preparedness and the Center
for a Livable Future. W3008 SPH. EB
Wed., March 5, 2 p.m. "The Influence of Climate on
Dengue Transmission in Puerto Rico," a Molecular
Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with
Michael Johansson. W1214 SPH (Sheldon
Hall). EB
Wed., March 5, 3:30 p.m. "Materials That Control
Biology: From Fundamental Science to Regenerative
Medicine," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with
Kevin Healy, University of California,
Berkeley. 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., March 5, 4 p.m. "Sexual Health, HIV/STI and
Human Rights," an Epidemiology seminar with
Chris Beyrer, SPH. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Wed., March 5, 4 p.m. "Which Powers of a Holomorphic
Function Are Integrable?" a Mathematics
seminar with Janos Kollar, Princeton University. 302
Krieger. HW
Thurs., March 6, 9 a.m. "Selenium and Risk of
Cardiovascular Disease," an Epidemiology thesis defense
seminar with Joachim Bleys. W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., March 6, 10 a.m. "Bio-accumulation,
Retention, Depuration of Enteric Pathogens by Crassostrea
ariakensis and Crassostrea virginica Oysters," an
Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense
seminar with Sharon Nappier. W7023 SPH. EB
Thurs., March 6, noon. The Randolph Bromery Seminar
— "Early Solar System History Recorded in the
Structure and Isotopic Composition of Extraterrestrial
Organic Matter" with George Cody, Carnegie
Institution of Washington. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary
Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW
Thurs., March 6, noon. "Cellular microRNAs and HIV-1
Latency," an Infectious Diseases and Molecular
Microbiology and Immunology joint seminar with Hui Zhang,
Thomas Jefferson University. W2030
SPH. EB
Thurs., March 6, noon. "Determining the Influence of
Hospital Characteristics, Market Conditions and
Financial Performance on Clinical Quality in a Sample of
U.S. Rural Hospitals," a Health Policy and
Management thesis defense seminar with Lilly Engineer. 461
Hampton House. EB
Thurs., March 6, noon. "Integrins,
Mechanotransduction and Atherosclerosis," a Cell Biology
seminar
with Martin Schwartz, University of Virginia. Suite 2-200,
1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., March 6, 12:15 p.m. "Tonofla Women's Group
in Mali," a Center for Communication Programs
seminar with Nafissatou Diop and David Awasum. Suite 310,
Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place.
Thurs., March 6, 12:30 p.m. "An Evaluation of Visual
Triage of HPV-Positive Women," an Epidemiology
thesis defense seminar with Julia Gage. W2015 SPH. EB
Thurs., March 6, 4 p.m. "Training Classifiers for
Non-Euclidean Data," an Applied Mathematics and
Statistics seminar with Robert P.W. Duin, Delft University,
Netherlands. 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., March 6, 4 p.m. "Diophantine Subsets of
Function Fields of Curves," a Mathematics seminar
with Janos Kollar, Prince-ton University. 302 Krieger.
HW
Thurs., March 6, 4 p.m. "The Resilient City," a
Social Policy seminar with Howard Chernick, Hunter
College and CUNY. Sponsored by the Institute for Policy
Studies. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW
Fri., March 7, 10 a.m. "The Development and
Implementation of the Health Disparities Collaborative," a
Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with
Patricia Collins. E6519 SPH. EB
Fri., March 7, 11 a.m. "The Geometry of Primary
Drainage," a CEAFM seminar with W. Brent Lindquist,
SUNY Stony Brook. 110 Maryland. HW
Fri., March 7, noon. Framework Program in Global
Health Project Presentations — "Role of Gender
Concepts and Social Norms in Fueling Sexual HIV
Transmission" with Emily Holman, and "Examining the
Correlation Between Changes in the Level of Malaria
Parasite DNA/RNA in Urine and Saliva With
Patient Parasitemia and Clinical Parameters" with Curtis
Chong. Sponsored by the Center for Global
Health. W3031 SPH. EB
Fri., March 7, 12:15 p.m. "Biomedical Grids: Are
They Worth the Trouble?" a Health Sciences
Informatics seminar with J. Robert Beck, Fox Chase Cancer
Center, Philadelphia. W1214 SPH (Sheldon
Hall). EB
Fri., March 7, 12:15 p.m. "Intrahousehold Dynamics
and Treatment Responses to Severe Febrile Illness
in Children in Kolikoro Region, Mali," an International
Health thesis defense seminar with Amy Ellis.
W2015 SPH. EB
Fri., March 7, 1 p.m. "A Randomized Community-Based
Educational Intervention to Improve Infant
Feeding Practices in Rural China," a Population, Family and
Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar
with Ling Shi. E4130 SPH. EB
Fri., March 7, 4 p.m. "Acute Melancholia: On Loss,
Mourning and Christian Mysticism," a Humanities
Center seminar with Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School.
111 Gilman. HW
Mon., March 10, 9 a.m. "The Effects of Weight Loss
and Macronutrient Intake Independent of Weight
Loss on Serum Adiponectin Levels, a Study Nested in the
Fatty Liver Look-AHEAD Ancillary and
OMNI-Heart Studies," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar
with Edwina Yeung. W2033 SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, 10 a.m. "Mass Spectrometry for
Determining the Role of Aldo-Keto Reductases in
Aflatoxin B1 Metabolism," an Environmental Health Sciences
thesis defense seminar with Denise
Johnson. W1030 SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, 10 a.m. "Childhood Drowning in
Matlab, Bangladesh: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and
Potential Interventions," an International Health thesis
defense seminar with Nagesh Borse. E9519
SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, 10 a.m. "Modeling Composite Outcome
and Jointly Modeling Its Components," a
Population Dynamics thesis defense seminar with Xianbin Li.
W2009 SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, 11 a.m. "Multi-generational Factors
Related to Influenza: A Longitudinal, Area-Level
Analysis of Influenza and Pneumonia Morbidity in the U.S.
Elderly and Its Associations With
Vaccination Coverage in Children and Related
Socio-demographic Characteristics," a Population, Family
and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Steven
Cohen. E2527 SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, noon. Framework Program in Global
Health Project Presentations — "The Indian
Matrimonial Service for HIV+ People" with Caitlin Kennedy.
Sponsored by the Center for Global
Health. W3030 SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, noon. "Antidepressant Binding Site
in a Bacterial Homologue of Neurotransmitter
Transporters," a Physiology faculty search seminar with
Satinder Singh, Oregon Health Sciences
University. West Lecture Hall. EB
Mon., March 10, 12:15 p.m. "Using C. elegans to
Dissect Cell Division Mechanisms," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Karen Oegema,
University of California, San Diego. Rose
Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., March 10, 12:15 p.m. "Providence or Pandora's
Box? The Ethics of Incidental Findings in
Research," a seminar in research ethics with Jeffrey Khan,
University of Minnesota Medical School.
Co-sponsored by the SPH and SoM Institutional Review Board
offices and the Berman Institute of
Bioethics. Lunch provided. W4030 SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, 12:15 p.m. "The Association of
Insulin Resistance and Inflamation With Sporadic
Colorectal Neoplasia: Risk Mediated by Colonic Epithelial
Damage?" an Epidemiology thesis defense
seminar with Konstantinos Tsilidis. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, 1:30 to 4 p.m. "Mouse Breeding," an
Animal Care and Use Committee seminar with
experts from Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Tilghman Auditorium. EB
Mon., March 10, 4 p.m. "Hormones, Homeoboxes and
Transcriptional Control," a Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology seminar with Miles Wilkinson, University
of Texas Cancer Center. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., March 10, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Emotion and Attention in the
Primate Amygdala" with Katalin Gothard, University of
Arizona. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., March 10, 4:30 p.m. "Topological Structure of
Digital Images From a Non-Morse Height
Function," a Mathematics seminar with Lowell Abrams,
GWU/WSE. 302 Krieger. HW

Special Events
Mon., March 3, 3 p.m. "The Future Is Now," an
External Affairs lecture on U.S. health care by Rep.
John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Tues., March 4, 8 p.m. The 2008 Foreign Affairs
Symposium — College Democrats and College
Republicans debate current issues. Glass Pavilion,
Levering. HW
Wed., March 5, 7 p.m. Joel Epstein will discuss and
sign copies of his book The Little Book on Big Egos:
A Guide to Manage and Control the Egomaniacs in Your Life.
Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Fri., March 7, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Public Health
Career Fair for undergraduate and graduate students
looking for full-time positions, internships, consultancy
and fellowship positions in the corporate,
government and nonprofit sectors; over 40 employers are
scheduled to attend. Sponsored by the SPH
Career Services Office. Courtyard 1 and Feinstone Hall
(E2030), SPH. EB

Sports
Tues., March 4, 3 p.m. Baseball, Blue Jays vs.
Messiah. Homewood Field. HW
Tues., March 4, 4 p.m. Men's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs.
UMBC. $7 general admission, $10 reserved seats,
$5 for children 12 and under. Homewood Field. HW
Fri., March 7, 4 p.m. Women's Lacrosse, Blue Jays
vs. Georgetown with televised coverage ESPNU.
Homewood Field. HW
Sun., March 9, 1 p.m. Women's Lacrosse, Blue Jays
vs. Ohio State. Homewood Field. HW
Mon., March 10, 3:30 p.m. Baseball, Blue Jays vs.
York. Homewood Field. HW

Theater
Wed., March 5, 4 p.m. Performance of Mistress of
Riversdale with Cherie Weinert. Presented in
conjunction with the Welcome Little Stranger focus show
sponsored by Homewood Museum. $6; free
for members and students. One show only; reservations
required. 410-516-5589. Homewood Museum.
HW

Workshops
Thurs., March 6, 1 p.m. "Communicate Online With
Elluminate and Skype," a Center for Educational
Resources workshop. To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett
Room, MSE Library. HW
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