BLOOD
DRIVE

COLLOQUIA

Fri., April 28, 2 p.m. Millennial Challenges: Colloquium 2000--"DARPA in the 21st Century" with Frank Fernandez, DARPA; Kossiakoff Auditorium. APL Simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus.

Fri., April 28, 4 p.m. "Scientific Empiricism," a Philosophy colloquium with Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia. Co-sponsored by the Center for History and Philosophy of Science. 348 Gilman. HW

FILM

Fri., April 28 and Sat., April 29, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Weekend Wonderflix presents Spike and Mike's Classic Festival of Animation. $3. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

LECTURES

Wed., April 26, 5 p.m. "Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, Pathos and Universalism," a Women's History Month lecture by Sharon Marcus, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Program for Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality. 323 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 27, 10:30 a.m. "Calmodulin as a Regulator of Ca-dependent Inactivation and Facilitation of L-type Ca2+ Channels," a National Institute on Aging Lecture by Harald Reuter, National Academy of Sciences and the University of Bern, Switzerland; JHAAC Auditorium. Bayview

Fri., April 28, 4 p.m. "Bioinformatics of Microarrays," a lecture by Mark Boguski, NCBI. Part of the series Chips, SNPs and Functional Genomics; WBSB Auditorium. JHMI

Mon., May 1, 4 p.m. First Annual Francis D. Carlson Lectureship in Biophysics--"Single Molecule Probes of Biological Function" by Steven Block, Stanford University. Sponsored by Biophysics. Mudd Lecture Hall. HW

Mon., May 1, 5 p.m. Dean's Lecture IV--"Malignant Lymphomas: Lessons from History, Pathology and Virology" by Risa Berman Mann; Hurd Hall. JHMI

MUSIC

Fri., April 28, 8 p.m. Peabody Concert Orchestra, the Peabody Singers and Peabody Chorus will perform music by Tann, Elgar and Mozart. $16, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students with I.D. Friedberg Concert Hall. Peabody

Sat., April 29, 8 p.m. "Russian Excursions," the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra performs Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 1 in F minor and Tchaikovsky's Concert No. 1 in B flat minor. $7, $6 for senior citizens and students. Clipper Room, Shriver Hall. HW

Sat., April 29, 8 p.m. The Peabody Big Band performs, led by Gary Thomas. 410-659-8124. Friedberg Concert Hall. Peabody

OPEN
HOUSES

SEMINARS

Mon., April 24, 12:15 p.m. "Taking Apart Proteins: A Method to Study Molecular Forces and Signaling," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Doug Barrick; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. "In the Workshop of Equivalences: 17th-Century Globalism and the Comparative Pursuit," a History seminar with Haun Saussy, Stanford University. Co-sponsored by Humanities and East Asian Studies. 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience--"Examining Cerebral Processing Related to Pain Perception Using Functional MRI" with Joel Greenspan, University of Maryland Dental School. Sponsored by Mind/Brain Institute. 341 Krieger. HW

Tues., April 25, noon. "Patterns in the Evolution of Medicare," an Institute for Policy Studies seminar with Tom Oliver; Conference Room, 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW

Tues., April 25, 3 p.m. "The Value of Information in the Routing of Hazardous Materials Shipments," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Linda Nozick, Cornell University; 234 Ames. HW

Tues., April 25, 4 p.m. "The Female Dimension of Migration in the British Caribbean, 1924-52," a Latin American History seminar with Paul Carrington; 315 Gilman. HW

Tues., April 25, 4:15 p.m. "Chemokines: Linking Innate and Acquired Immunity," an Immunology Council seminar with Andrew Luster, Massachusetts General Hospital; W2030 SPH. JHMI

Tues., April 25, 4:30 p.m. "Discriminative Classification with Incomplete Data," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Tommi Jaakkola, MIT; 100 Shaffer. HW

Wed., April 26, noon. "Mitotic Division of the Golgi Apparatus," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Graham Warren, Yale University; 110 WBSB. JHMI

Wed., April 26, 4 p.m. American Seminar--" 'Remember the Alamo' to 'Remember the Maine': A Comparative Study of Visual Propaganda during the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars" by Bonnie Goldenberg; and "Community Institutions and the Development of a Black Leadership Class in Reconstruction Georgia" by David Mulle. Sponsored by History. 315 Gilman. HW

Wed., April 26, 4 p.m. "Protease-activated Thrombin Receptors and Platelet Signaling," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Athan Kuliopulos, Tufts University Medical School; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. JHMI

Thurs., April 27, 10 a.m. "Modeling Viral Diseases," a Center for Computational Medicine and Biology seminar with Alan Perelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory; 709 Traylor. JHMI

Thurs., April 27, 1 p.m. "Genetic Control of Neuromuscular Synapse Formation," a Neuroscience research seminar with Kuo-Fen Lee, Salk Institute; 811 WBSB. JHMI

Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Genetics Issues," a Responsible Conduct of Research seminar with Neil Holtzman; Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. JHMI

Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Chaperoning Good and Bad Antibodies," a Biology seminar with Yair Argon, University of Chicago; 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "The Dynamics of 'Fastidium' and the Ideology of Disgust," a Political and Moral Thought seminar with Robert Kaster, Princeton University. Sponsored by History. 348 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Molecular Biology of Mammalian Spermatogenesis and Contraception" a seminar with Erwin Goldberg, Northwestern University; 240 Phipps (formerly 240 Houck). JHMI

Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Test of Complete Randomness and Extraction of Clusters on a Homogeneous Space," a Mathematical Sciences seminar with Cheng Cheng; 304 Whitehead. HW

Mon., May 1, 1:15 p.m. "Chemical Energy Transduction: Olfaction and Taste," a Neuroscience special seminar with Takashi Kurahashi, University of Osaka, Japan; 811 WBSB. JHMI

SPECIAL
EVENTS

Tues., April 25, noon to 6 p.m., and Wed., April 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hurt and Used Book Sale to benefit the Johns Hopkins University Press staff development fund. $2 per pound. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

SPORTS

Fri., April 28, 3:30 p.m. Baseball, vs. Washington College; baseball field. HW

Sat., April 29, 11 a.m. Women's Lacrosse, vs. Yale (Homecoming). HW

Sat., April 29, 3 p.m. Men's Lacrosse, vs. Towson (Homecoming). Broadcast by WMAR-TV 2.

THEATER

Theatre Hopkins' production of Candide continues at the Merrick Barn through May 21.

Fri., April 28, Sat., April 29, 8 p.m., and Sun., April 30, 2:15 p.m. Leonard Bernstein's Candide, adapted from a work by Voltaire; a Theatre Hopkins production. $10 on Friday evening, $12 on Saturday evening and Sunday matinee. 410-516-7159. Merrick Barn. HW

WJHU
88.1 FM

Mon., April 24, 1 p.m. A look at Congressman Elijah Cummings' Youth Program in Israel.

Tues., April 25, 1 p.m. A talk with author and Sun reporter Rafael Alvarez about his book Orlo and Leini.

Wed., April 26, 1 p.m. Activities at the Maryland Film Festival.