Johns Hopkins Gazette | December 12, 2005
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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University December 12, 2005 | Vol. 35 No. 14
 

Weekly Calendar

Colloquia | Information Sessions | Music | Open House | Reading | Seminars | Special Events |

 

Colloquia

Wed., Dec. 14, 4 p.m. "Object-Based Attention: Psychological and Neural Mechanisms," a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon University; 234 Ames. HW

Fri., Dec. 16, 2 p.m. "A Lifetime of BAD Photographs," an APL Colloquium with Bruce Dale, National Geographic Society; Kossiakoff Center. APL

 

Information Sessions

Tues., Dec. 13, 7 p.m. Delta Sigma Pi information session, an opportunity to learn more about the leading business fraternity in the United States. Sponsored by SPSBE. Columbia Center. CC

 

Music

Wed., Dec. 14, 8 p.m. Peabody Concert Orchestra performs music by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Mozart, with the Peabody-Hopkins Chorus and the Peabody Singers. $18, $10 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Thurs., Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m. The Capitol Bones performs. $18, $10 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sat., Dec. 17, 3 p.m. Preparatory Young Artist's Orchestra and the Preparatory String Ensemble perform. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Sat., Dec. 17, 7 p.m. The Preparatory Sinfonietta, performs, Friedberg Hall. Peabody

 

Open House

Fri., Dec. 16, 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

 

Reading

Student thesis and special guest readings, sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs.

Thurs., Dec. 15, 6:30 p.m. Reception followed by readings at 7:30 p.m. 110 Maryland. HW

Fri., Dec. 16, 5:30 p.m. Reception followed by readings at 6:30 p.m. Suite 104, Washington Center.

 

Seminars

Even rain couldn't put a damper on last year's Gathering of the Greens, an annual tradition that puts the Homewood campus's seasonally trimmed boughs to timely holiday use, courtesy of Facilities Management. The festivities, which begin with a ceremonious lowering of dump trucks, will start this year at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 16, Levering Plaza.
PHOTO BY HIPS/WILL KIRK

Mon., Dec. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Dynamic Localization of Fus2p During Cell Fusion," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Joanna Paterson, Princeton University; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Dec. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Innovative Approaches to Health Promotion and Prevention for Children and Families," a Health Policy and Management seminar with Debbie I. Chang, Nemours Health and Prevention Services. Co-sponsored by the Women's and Children's Health Policy Center and Population and Family Health Sciences. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Inflammation and Prostate Cancer: Working Together at the Interface of the Clinical, Basic and Observational Sciences," a Molecular Epidemiology seminar with Elizabeth Platz, SPH, and Angelo deMarzo, SoM; W4030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 12, 4 p.m. "Insights Into the Mechanisms of DNA Replication and Repair from DNA Ligases," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Alan Tomkinson, University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 12, 4:30 p.m. "Iven and Gary: Can We Do More for Baltimore's Unstably Housed Youth?" a Center for Adolescent Health seminar with Liz Bowie, Baltimore Sun; Ross Pologe, Fellowship of Lights; Mathew Stagner, the Urban Institute; and Samuel Chambers Jr., Baltimore City Department of Social Services. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., Dec. 13, noon. "NF-kB in Synaptic Function and Learning," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Mollie Meffert, SoM; 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Dec. 13, 12:15 p.m. "So What's In It for Us? Benefit and Information Sharing with Participants in Human Genetic Research," a Berman Bioethics Institute seminar with Eric Juengst, Case Western Reserve University. Co-sponsored by the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB

Wed., Dec. 14, noon. "Structure, Function and Regulation of the Vacuolar (H+)-ATPases," a Physiology seminar with Michael Forgac, Tufts University School of Medicine. Part of the Wednesday Seminar Series. Physiology Library. EB

Wed., Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m. "Quality Assessment and Improvement in School Mental Health: Background and Preliminary RCT Findings," a Mental Health seminar with Mark Weist, University of Maryland School of Medicine; B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m. "UNICEF State of the World's Children Report, 2006: Excluded and Invisible," an International Health Society seminar with Michael Klag, SPH; Rudolph Knippenberg, UNICEF; Andrea Rossi, UNICEF; Christine Sarbanes, UNICEF; W1020 SPH. EB

Wed., Dec. 14, 4 p.m. "Regulation of Smad Activity by Phosphorylation," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Fang Liu, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy; West Lecture Hall (ground floor) WBSB. EB

Thurs., Dec. 15, noon. "Defining the Role of Id1 in Tumor Angiogenesis," a Cell Biology seminar with Rhoda Alani, SoM; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., Dec. 15, noon. "The Problems in Hazard Identification of Human Carcinogens: Formaldehyde and the Precautionary Principle," an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh. Co-sponsored by the NIEHS Center in Urban Environmental Health and the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., Dec. 15, 12:10 p.m. "Issues and Challenges in Public Health in a State Health Department," a Health, Behavior and Society brown bag lunch seminar with Joan Stine, Maryland Center for Health Promotion. 250 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., Dec. 15, 12:15 p.m. "The Path to Preparedness: CCP's Project for Homeland Security," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with James Williams, Douglas Storey, Sufia Dadabhai and David Windt, CCP; Suite 310, Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place. EB

Thurs., Dec. 15, 1 p.m. "Modular Organization of Neural Circuitry in the Spinal Substantia Gelatinosa," a Neuroscience research seminar with Edward Perl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., Dec. 15, 2:30 p.m. "Actinohivin Blocks HIV Entry by Specific Binding to gp 120," a Biology special seminar with Haruo Tanaka, Kitasato Research Institute, Tokyo; 23 Mudd. HW

Thurs., Dec. 15, 3:30 p.m. "The Means to the Ends: mRNA Localization, Translation and Membrane Trafficking," a Molecular Biology and Genetics faculty search seminar with Jim Wilhelm, Carnegie Institution of Washington; 517 PCTB. EB

Thurs., Dec. 15, 4 p.m. "Visual Signal Constancy in a Variable Environment," a Biology seminar with Thomas Cronin, UMBC; 100 Mudd. HW

Fri., Dec. 16, 10:30 a.m. "Epidemiology of High-Risk HPV Infection and Tolerability of Self-Testing Among Northern Vietnamese Women," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Hanh La, W2030 SPH. EB

Fri., Dec. 16, 10:45 a.m. "Autism, Fever and the Study of Short-Term Behavior Change," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Laura Kresch Curran; W4019 SPH. EB

Fri., Dec. 16, 12:15 p.m. "Disasters and Epidemics: A Common Paradigm," an Epidemiology seminar with Haroutune Armenian and Tom Glass, SPH; W4030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 19, 12:15 p.m. "Characterization of Human TorsinA and Its Dystonia-Associated Mutant Form," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Zhonghua Liu, Kansas State University; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Dec. 19, 12:15 p.m. "Lipoprotein(a): A Hereditable Cardiovascular Risk Factor with Dramatic Racial and Protein Variation," an Epidemiology seminar with Josef Coresh, SPH, and Wen Hong Linda Kao, SPH; W4030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 19, 4 p.m. "The Role of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in the Ovary," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Jodi Flaws, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Co-sponsored by Urology and Gynecology/Obstetrics. W2030 SPH. EB

 

Special Events

Tues., Dec. 13, 10:30 a.m. UNICEF Holiday Card Sale. Sponsored by UNICEF-USA and the J.B. Grant International Health Society. Courtyard, outside W1020 SPH. EB

Fri., Dec. 16, 10 a.m. Gathering of the Greens, for JHU faculty, staff and students. Sponsored by Facilities Management. Levering Plaza. HW

 
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