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COLLOQUIA |
Tues., March 14, 4:15 p.m. "Understanding and Exploiting
Nature's Chemical Arsenal: Studies on Calicheamicin Biosynthesis
and Self-Resistance in Micromonospora," a Chemistry colloquium
with Jon Thorson, Rockefeller University; 233 Remsen. HW Thurs., March 16, 4 p.m. "New Directions in High Energy and Astrophysics--My Perspective from NSF," a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Alex Firestone, Iowa State University/National Science Foundation; Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg. HW Fri., March 17, 2 p.m. "Breaking the Sound Barrier," a colloquium with John Anderson Jr., National Air and Space Museum; Parsons Auditorium. APL Simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus.
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FILM |
Wed., March 15, and Thurs., March 16, 8 and 10:30
p.m. Weekend Wonderflix presents City Lights, starring
and written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Shriver Hall.
HW
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LECTURES |
Mon., March 13, 5:15 p.m. "Rabbis, Jewish Christians and
Christian Jews: Reading Jewish Identities in the Talmud," a
Jewish Studies lecture by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert,
University of Judaism, Los Angeles; Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith
Center. Tues., March 14, 7 p.m. "From Speech Pathologist to Neurologist: Converging Paths toward Discovering How Language Breaks Down and Recovers after Stroke," a "Voyage and Discovery" lecture by Argye Hillis; Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW Thurs., March 16, 4 p.m. The 2000 Walter M. Elsasser Memorial Lecture--"Is There Water beneath the Icy Surfaces of the Galilean Moons of Jupiter?" by Margaret Kivelson, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics/University of California, Los Angeles; Olin Hall Auditorium. HW Thurs., March 16, 4 p.m. The 2000 Duncan Lecture--"Limit Theorems for Random Lower Semicontinuous Functions with Applications to Statistics, Stochastic Optimization, Probability and Stochastic Homogenization," by Roger Wets, University of Southern California; 110 Maryland. HW Thurs., March 16, 5:30 p.m. Alexander Graham Christie Lecture--"Structure from Motion in Computer Vision: An Optimization/Estimation Theoretic Viewpoint," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Shankar Sastry, University of California, Berkeley; Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW Fri., March 17, 4:15 p.m. "Genomic Medicine in the 21st Century," a lecture by Victor McKusick; Tilghman Room, Turner Bldg. JHMI Sun., March 19, 3 p.m. Joshua Ringel Memorial Lecture by Grace Paley; Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW
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MUSIC |
Wed., March 15, Tues., March 16, Wed., March 17, and
Thurs., March 18, 7:30 p.m. Mozart's The Magic Flute,
performed by Peabody Opera Theatre and the Peabody Concert
Orchestra. Sung in German with English subtitles. $22, $11 for
senior citizens and $8 for students with I.D. Friedberg Concert
Hall. Peabody
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OPEN |
For SPSBE Business Graduate and Master of Science in Real
Estate programs. 1-800-GO-TO-JHU. Thurs., March 16, noon to 1:30 p.m. Washington Center, 1625 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
For SPSBE Business Graduate programs:
For Graduate Division of Education degree and certificate
programs, with faculty, advisers and financial aid officers
available to answer questions:
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READINGS |
Wed., March 15, noon. "Sharings from Life on Maryland's
Eastern Shore: A Memoir of Growing Up Black during the
Depression," observations and readings by poet/author Adele V.
Holden. Part of the Wednesday Noon Series. Shriver Hall. HW Wed., March 15, 6 p.m. The Writing Seminars' Graduate Student Readings by Maggie Polizos, Elisabeth Cohen, Leslie Noyes and Julie Anderson; 323 Gilman. HW
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SEMINARS |
Mon., March 13, noon. "Conflict Embedded in Structure:
Latino and Korean Immigrants in the Los Angeles Garment Industry"
a Sociology seminar with Ku Sup Chin; 526 Mergenthaler. HW Mon., March 13, 12:15 p.m. "Are Welfare Policies Informed by Scientific Evidence on Women's and Children's Well-Being?" a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Patricia O'Campo; W3030 SPH. JHMI Mon., March 13, 12:15 p.m. "Sumo-1 and Sumo-2: Regulating Protein Localization through Post-Translational Modifications," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Mike Matunis; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW Mon., March 13, 12:30 p.m. "Communication as a Reform Tool for the U.N. System: A Study of Learning Needs for Senior U.N. Staff," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with Moncef Bouhafa, Center for Development Communication; Haryono Room, Suite 310, 111 Market Place. Mon., March 13, 2 p.m. "Checkpoint Responses and Repair of Broken Chromosomes," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with James Haber, Brandeis University; W2030 SPH. JHMI Mon., March 13, 3 p.m. "Ribosome Architecture and Assembly," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Gloria Culver, Iowa State University; 517 PCTB. JHMI Mon., March 13, 4 p.m. "Pattern and Implications of Orbital Forcing of Climate across Triassic-Jurassic Pangaea," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Paul Olsen, Columbia University; Olin Hall Auditorium. HW Mon., March 13, 4 p.m. "Coding of Rewards, Goals and Choices in Primate Basal Gangli and Frontal Cortex," a Krieger Mind/Brain Institute seminar with Wolfram Schultz, University of Fribourg; 341 Krieger. HW Tues., March 14, 12:15 p.m. "DVD and Strategies for Interactive Health Communication," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with John Locke, Michigan State University; Haryono Room, Suite 310, 111 Market Place. Tues., March 14, 3 p.m. "Agricultural Reform in Yemen," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Charles Schmitz, Towson Universty; 234 Ames. HW Wed., March 15, 1:30 p.m. "DNA Topoisomerase II: Unlocking the Mechanism of Unlinking," a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Janet Lindsley, University of Utah; 517 PCTB. JHMI Wed., March 15, 4 p.m. "Protection against Cancer by Phytochemicals That Modulate Xenobiotic Metabolism," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Albena Dinkova-Kostova; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. JHMI Wed., March 15, 4 p.m. "Indians, French and English in the Ohio Valley, 1747-52," an American History seminar with Andrew Miller; 315 Gilman. HW Thurs., March 16, 12:30 p.m. "A Program to End Hunger: Hunger 2000," a Social Change and Development seminar with Elena McCollim and James Riker, Bread for the World Institute; 535 Rome Bldg. SAIS Thurs., March 16, 1 p.m. "cGMP in the Olfactory System of Insects: NO or Not?" a Neuroscience research seminar with Alan Nighorn, University of Arizona; 811 WBSB. JHMI Thurs., March 16, 4 p.m. "New Signal Pathways after Discovery of Androgen Receptor Co-Activators in Prostate Cancer," a Biology seminar with Chawnshang Chang, University of Rochester; 100 Mudd. HW Thurs., March 16, 4 p.m. "Filter Bank Design with Nilpotent Matrices for Audio Coding Applications," an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Gerald Schuller, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies; 117 Barton. HW Fri., March 17, 11 a.m. "Stability Issues for Equilibrium Points," a Mathematical Sciences seminar with Roger Wets, University of Southern California; 110 Maryland. HW Fri., March 17, noon. "Magnetic Fields and Plasma Interactions of the Galilean Moons of Jupiter," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Margaret Kivelson, University of California, Los Angeles; 305 Olin. HW Mon., March 20, 12:15 p.m. "The Role of Fibroblast Growth Factors during Vertebrate Limb Development," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Mark Lewandoski, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Md.; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW
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SPECIAL |
Mon., March 13, 8 p.m. The 2000 Johns Hopkins Symposium on
Foreign Affairs--"U.S. Foreign Policy in a Globalized World" with
Noam Chomsky, MIT. Followed by question-and-answer period.
Shriver Hall. HW Wed., March 15, 8 p.m. The 2000 Johns Hopkins Symposium on Foreign Affairs--"Solutions to Religious and Ethnic Conflict," a talk by George Mitchell (former U.S. senator, D-Maine). Followed by question-and-answer period. Shriver Hall. HW Thurs., March 16, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. "Globalization of Cyberspace: The Intersection of Public and Private Interests and Responsibilities," a conference featuring a keynote address by Vinton Cerf, MCI/Worldcom. 202-663-7787. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg., 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. SAIS
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH EVENTS--Organized by grad students,
undergraduates and postdocs affiliated with the Program for
Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Co-sponsored by History
and other Hopkins departments and groups. Fri., March 17, 9 a.m. Graduate Research Symposium, graduate student presentations and an undergraduate and graduate poster session, with a keynote address by Alan Taub, Ford Motor Co. Sponsored by Materials Science and Engineering. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW
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SPORTS |
Thurs., March 16, 4:30 p.m. Track and Field, vs. Goucher
and Howard Community College. HW Sat., March 18, 2 p.m. Women's Lacrosse, vs. Davidson. HW Sat., March 18, 8 p.m. Men's Fencing, MACFA All-Star Meet. HW Sun., March 19, 11 a.m. Men's Fencing, Blue Jay Invitational. HW
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THEATER |
Fri., March 17, and Sat., March 18, 8 p.m., and
Sun., March 19, 2:15 p.m. (final performance) John Marans'
Old Wicked Songs, a Theatre Hopkins production. $10 on
Friday evening, $12 on Saturday evening and Sunday matinee. For
reservations, call 410-516-7159. Merrick Barn. HW
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WJHU |
The Marc Steiner Show is broadcast weekdays from noon to 2 p.m.
on 88.1 FM, WJHU radio. It is also available live and archived
on-line at
www.sunspot.net. This list of upcoming segments is subject to
change.
Mon., March 13, 1 p.m. Betty Morgan, chief academic officer of Baltimore City schools.
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