The Johns Hopkins Gazette: March 15, 1999

THE GAZETTE CALENDAR
Mar. 15-22

COLLOQUIA

Mon., March 15, 4:15 p.m. "Electronic Structure Effects on the Photo-induced Dynamics of Transition Metal Complexes," a Chemistry colloquium with James McCusker, University of California, Berkeley; 233 Remsen. HW

Fri., March 19, 2 p.m. "Kitchen Chemistry and Physics," a colloquium with Robert Wolke, University of Pittsburgh. Program will be simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus. Parsons Auditorium. APL

GRAND ROUNDS

Mondays, 3 p.m. Otolaryngology Grand Rounds, with rotating roster of speakers; 6150 JHOC. JHMI

Wed., March 17, 4 p.m. "Long-term Follow-up of Individuals with Congenital Malformation of the Sex Organs," Endocrine Grand Rounds with Amy Wisniewski; 1 Marburg. JHMI

Wednesdays, 4 p.m. "Coagulation Disease" with William Bell; 1024 Blalock. JHMI

LECTURES

Tues., March 16, 9 a.m. "A 77-Year-Old Woman Who Planted a Quarter-Acre Garden Last April," an Alzheimer's Disease Research Center lecture by Bruce Leff; Asthma and Allergy Center Auditorium. Bayview

Tues., March 16, 1 p.m. "Science, Creativity and Human Destiny," a lecture by Donald Coffey; Turner Auditorium. JHMI

Tues., March 16, 4 p.m. "The Research Paper: Putting Together Your First Draft," a Scientific Communication lecture by Debbie McClellan; Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. JHMI

MUSIC

Tues., March 16, noon. Midday Performance by pianist Marion Lee performing works of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Sponsored by Cultural Affairs. Hurd Hall. JHMI

Sun., March 21, 3 p.m. Peabody Preparatory Young People's String Program Concert. 410-659-8124. Friedberg Concert Hall. Peabody

OPEN HOUSES

Thurs., March 18, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Open House for Graduate Division of Education graduate degree and certificate programs. Faculty, advisers and financial aid officers will be available to answer questions. 1-800-GO TO JHU. Montgomery County Center, 9601 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Md.

Mon., March 22, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Open House for Graduate Division of Education graduate degree and certificate programs. Faculty, ad-visers and financial aid officers will be available to answer questions. 1-800-GO TO JHU. Columbia Center, 6740 Alexander Bell Drive, Columbia Gateway Park.

Mon., March 22, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Open House for Division of Undergraduate Studies degree program. Faculty, advisers and financial aid officers will be available to answer questions. 1-800-GO TO JHU. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

SEMINARS

Mon., March 15, noon. "Proposal for Minimally Invasive Surgery of Heart," a Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology Engineering Research Center seminar with Natish Thakor; 301 Shaffer. HW

Mon., March 15, 12:15 p.m. "The Role of General and Specialized Coactivators in Gene-specific Transcription," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Robert Roeder, Rockefeller University; 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., March 15, 12:30 p.m. "Changing Policy," a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Trish Perl; W2008 SPH. JHMI

Tues., March 16, noon. "Life Under Stress: Uptake and Synthesis of Osmoprotectants as Microbial Defense Reactions to Stress," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Erhard Bremer, University of Marburg; 612 Physiology. JHMI

Tues., March 16, 4 p.m. "Deployment of Body Patterning Determinants in the Drosophila Oocyte and Embryo," a Biology special seminar with Paul MacDonald, Stanford University; 100 Mudd. HW

Tues., March 16, 4:15 p.m. "The Interface of Signaling and Chromatin Regulation or What's Actin Doing in the Nucleus?" an Immunology Council seminar with Gerald Crabtree, Stanford University; W2030 SPH. JHMI

Wed., March 17, 4 p.m. "Automated MALDI-S: A New Analytical Platform for Biology and Medicine," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Charles Cantor, Sequenom Inc.; 303 WBSB. JHMI

Thurs., March 18, noon. "Dinosaur Legs and Bird's Tails: A Functional Evolutionary Analysis," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Stephen Gatesy, Brown University; 110 WBSB. JHMI

Mon., March 22, 2 p.m. "TOR Signaling: Temporal and Spatial Control of Cell Growth," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Michael Hall, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland; 110 WBSB. JHMI

Mon., March 22, 4 p.m. "Sentimentalism and Its Erasure: The Role of Emotions in the Era of the French Revolution," a History seminar with William Reddy, Duke University; 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., March 22, 4 p.m. "Mechanism of Protein Splicing," a Biochemistry seminar with Francine Perler, New England Biolabs, Inc.; W2030 SPH. JHMI

SPORTS

Sat., March 20, 7 p.m. Men's Lacrosse, Hopkins vs. Syracuse. $5. 410-516-OHOP.

The Hopkins Blue Jays take on the Syracuse Orangemen at a Saturday night lacrosse game at Homewood Field.

THEATER

Fri., March 19, Sat., March 20, 8 p.m. and Sun., March 21, 2:15 p.m. Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, a Theatre Hopkins production. 410-516-7159. Merrick Barn. HW

WJHU

Tues., March 16, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. "Sports Talk," with Milton Kent of The Sun and Keith Mills of NewsChannel 2, followed at 1 p.m. by Bernice Johnson Reagon.

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