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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University March 10, 2008 | Vol. 37 No. 25
 

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Celebrating the Influence of the Great Renaissance Architect Palladio
By Pamela Higgins
Sheridan Libraries

Palladio
Palladio's Villa Rotunda and his bridge at Bassano del Grappa are pictured on the cover of Guido Angelotti's architectural treatise Nuova Economia per le Fabbriche. Bologna, 1765.

Andrea Palladio's wide-ranging influence on architecture is the subject of Harmony to the Eyes: Charting Palladio's Architecture From Rome to Baltimore, opening on March 14 at the George Peabody Library. The exhibition traces Palladio's architectural development and illustrates his lasting legacy on building design, particularly in Baltimore.

On display are first editions of rare architectural treatises, hand-colored maps and original prints from the 15th through the 19th centuries. A digital reconstruction of pilgrimage routes recommended by Palladio in his two famous guidebooks to Rome is also featured.

Sponsored by the Sheridan Libraries and the Johns Hopkins University Museums, the exhibition is curated by Judith Proffitt, program coordinator at the Homewood Museum, and Danielle Culpepper, a research fellow at the Peabody Library.

Widely considered the most influential architect in Western history, Palladio was born in 1508 in Padua, Italy, and worked during an age that witnessed a revived interest in antiquity. He gained great fame, both for his impressive building designs and for his numerous publications. Palladio's ideas and style spread throughout the Italian Renaissance, and extended from Italy to England and ultimately to America. In Baltimore, his influence is visible in the design of America's first cathedral — the Baltimore Basilica, built 1806-1821 — and in the residences of Mount Clare and Homewood. Many of the works on display are part of the collection amassed by Baltimore architect Laurence Hall Fowler, which, when received by Johns Hopkins in 1945, was considered one of the finest collections of early architectural treatises in North America. Housed at the John Work Garrett Library in the Evergreen Museum, the collection now numbers more than 600 titles, with an emphasis on the works of Renaissance architects including Alberti, Serlio and Palladio.

An opening reception will be held at the Peabody Library, 17 E. Mount Vernon Place, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, and an illustrated lecture by the curators will begin at 7 p.m. The exhibition, part of the Baltimore Festival of Maps celebration, runs through June 17 and may be viewed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. On Friday, April 11, at Homewood Museum's eighth annual Baltimore's Great Architects lecture series, an international panel of distinguished scholars will explore the current research on Palladio and his lasting influence on building design in America. For details on the symposium, which is sponsored by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, go to www.museums.jhu.edu/symposium.

 

Colloquia

Wed., March 12, 4:30 to 7 p.m. "The Post Horn and Metaphors of Nostalgia," a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Richard Giarusso, Peabody. 308 Conservatory. Peabody

Thurs., March 13, 3 p.m. "Plasma Science from Micro-Size Laboratory to Astrophysical Plasmas," a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Michael Finkenthal, KSAS. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Thurs., March 13, 3 p.m. "The Ephemeral Temple of Solomon: An Astronomical Observatory for El Escorial," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Maria Portuondo, University of Florida. 3505 N. Charles St. HW

Thurs., March 13, 3:45 p.m. "The Development of Spoken Word Recognition," a Cognitive Science colloquium with James Morgan, Brown University. 134a Krieger Hall. HW

Thurs., March 13, 5 p.m. "Who Speaks for the Undocumented? Elvira Arellano and the Politics of Sanctuary," a Program in Latin American Studies colloquium with Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois, Chicago. 113 Greenhouse. HW

Fri., March 14, 2 p.m. "Critical Challenges of Social Security," an APL colloquium with Jo Anne B. Barnhart, former commissioner, Social Security Administration. Parsons Auditorium. APL

 

Exhibition

Fri., March 14, Opening of the exhibition Harmony to the Eyes: Charting Palladio's Architecture From Rome to Baltimore. George Peabody Library. Peabody

 

Lectures

Mon., March 10, 12:15 p.m. "Staying Current in Your Research," a Welch Library lecture by Blair Anton, Welch Library. Topics include setting up publication alerts, services offered by PubMed's NCBI, Science Citation Index and Current Contents Connect. B14B Hampton House. EB

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

Tues., March 11, 5:30 p.m. "The Art of the Fugue," the final lecture in a series by Ray Sprenkle, Peabody. Sponsored by the Shriver Hall Concert Series. Muller Auditorium, STSci. HW

Wed., March 12, 4 p.m. "The New Black? Race After 9/11," a Center for Africana Studies lecture by Cynthia Young, Boston College. 109 Maryland. HW

 

Music

Mon., March 10, 7 to 9 p.m. The Alan Munshower Trio (formerly the Boostimus Quartet) performs jazz in the cafe. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Wed., March 12, to Sat., March 15, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Opera Theatre presents Mozart's The Magic Flute, directed by Roger Brunyate, with the Peabody Concert Orchestra under the direction of Hajime Teri Murai. Two casts perform, in German with English subtitles. Single tickets are $25 general admission, $15 seniors and $10 students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sun., March 16, 5:30 p.m. The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard playing Bach, Schoenberg and Beethoven. $33 general admission, $17 students and free for JHU students. Shriver Auditorium. HW

 

Seminars

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 Yeoung. W2033 SPH. EB

Mon., March 10, 10 a.m. "Mass Spectometry 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. "Multigenerational 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 A. Cohen. E2527 SPH. EB

Mon., March 10, noon. Framework Program in Global Health Research Presentation — "The Indian Matrimonial Service for HIV-positive People," by Caitlin Kennedy, SPH. Sponsored by the Center for Global Health and SBI Seminar Series. 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, WBSB. 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 Inflammation 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, 3 p.m. "Strichartz Estimates for Wave Equations on Schwarzchild Black Hole Backgrounds," a Mathematics seminar with Jason Metcalfe, University of North Carolina. 308 Krieger. HW

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 p.m. "Confirmation and Dynamics of Amyloid Aggregates via Isotope-edited Infrared Spectroscopy," a Biophysics seminar with Sean M. Decatur, Mount Holyoke College. 111 Mergenthaler. 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, George Washington University and WSE. 302 Krieger. HW

Tues., March 11, 9 a.m. "Incident Congestive Heart Failure in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Hossein Bahrami. W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., March 11, noon. "Black and Blue: African-Americans, the Labor Movement and the Decline of the Democratic Party," a Political Science seminar with Paul Frymer, University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of the book by the same name. 366 Mergenthaler. HW

Tues., March 11, noon. "CFTR and ROMK Gating Interactions: How Divergent Channels Interact in Coordinating and Regulating Channel Function," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Steven C. Hebert, Yale University. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., March 11, 12:15 p.m. "Antenatal Micronutrient Supplementation, Maternal Nutritional Status and Newborn Size and Biomarkers of Metabolic Syndrome in 7-Year-Old Children: Exploring the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in Rural Nepal," an International Health thesis defense seminar with Christine Stewart. W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., March 11, 1 p.m. "Health-Related Quality of Life in Adolescents With Congenital Urological Disorders," a Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with Jennifer Dodsen. W4013 SPH. EB

Tues., March 11, 3 p.m. "NSR Enforcement and the Electric Utilities," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Jim Lofton, U.S. Department of Justice. 234 Ames. HW

Tues., March 11, 4 p.m. "Model-Based Optimal Inference Using a Sequential Monte Carlo Expectation- Maximization Algorithm Given Noisy and Intermittent Fluorescence Imaging of Neural Activity," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with Joshua Vogelstein, SoM. 304 Whitehead. HW

Wed., March 12, noon. "Poisons in the Well: Exposure, Consequences and Remediation of Arsenic and Manganese in Bangladesh," an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Joseph Graziano, Columbia University. W3030 SPH. EB

Wed., March 12, 12:15 p.m. "Using Social Network Analysis to Accelerate the Diffusion of Innovations," a Health, Behavior and Society seminar with Thomas W. Valente, University of Southern California. W1030 SPH. EB

Wed., March 12, 2 p.m. "The Requirement of a Ku-inositol Hexakisphosphate Complex for Efficient Repair of DNA Double-Strand Break by Non-Homologous End Joining in Vitro and in Vivo," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar with Joyce C.Y. Cheung. W1214 SPH. EB

Wed., March 12, 3:30 p.m. "Nanobiotechnology to Exam-ine and Control Receptor-Mediated Cell Activation," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Barbara Baird, Cornell University. 110 Maryland Hall. HW

Wed., March 12, 4 p.m. "Systematic Functional Genomic Studies in Malignant Melanoma," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Levi Garraway, Dana Farber Cancer Institute. West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB

Thurs., March 13, 9 a.m. "On the Importance of Designs in Better Addressing Missing Data Due to Death and to Loss-to-Follow-Up," a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Ming-Wen An. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 13, noon. "Hormones and Men's Health: Findings From the Hormone Demonstration Program," an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Elizabeth Platz, SPH. EB

Thurs., March 13, noon. "Nod-like Receptors in Immunity and Disease," a joint Infectious Diseases and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology seminar with Gabriel Nunez, University of Michigan. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 13, noon. "Stem Cells, Insulin and the Control of Oogenesis by Diet in Drosophila," a Cell Biology seminar with Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, Vanderbilt University. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., March 13, noon. The Randolf K. Bromery Seminar — "Assembling the Astronomical Time Scale for Earth History" with Linda Hinnov, KSAS. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW

Thurs., March 13, noon. "Potential Solutions for Healthcare Disparities," an Institute for Policy Studies brown-bag seminar with M. Chris Gibbons, SPH. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW

Thurs., March 13, 1 p.m. "Structure/Function Relationships in the Analysis of Anatomical and Functional Neuroimaging Data," a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Shu-Chih Su. E9519 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 13, 3 p.m. "A Missing Variable in the National Health Care Expenditure Analyses: The Influence of Politics on National Health Care Expenditures From Public and Private Sources of Finance Among the Countries of the OECD," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Sule Calikoglu. W2303 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 13, 3 p.m. "Geotemporal Population Dynamics of Multiple P. falciparum Infections in a Cohort of Children on Pemba Island, Tanzania," an International Health thesis defense seminar with Thomas Jaenisch. E9519 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 13, 4 p.m. "The Global Regulator OmpR Regulates Pathogenesis — Insights From Structural Analysis," a Biology seminar with Linda Kenney, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., March 13, 4 p.m. "Stationary Features and Cat Detection," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Don-ald Geman, WSE. 304 Whitehead. HW

Fri., March 14, 9:30 a.m. "Association of Genetic Determinants of Alpha1-Antitrypsin, Neutrophil Elastese and Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 With the Risk of COPD, Lung Cancer and Lung Cancer Prognosis," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Lindsey Enewold. W2030 SPH. EB

Fri., March 14, 10 a.m. "Mobilizing the Masses: Building a Social Movement for Universal Coverage," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Rachel Singer. W2303 SPH. EB

Fri., March 14, 11 a.m. "The Effect of Surface Roughness on Well-bounded Turbulent Flows," a Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics seminar with Michael Schultz, U.S. Naval Academy. 110 Maryland Hall. HW

Fri., March 14, 12:15 p.m. "Exposure Assessment for Environmental Chemicals Using Biomonitoring," an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Dana Barr, Centers for Disease Control. W4030 SPH. EB

Fri., March 14, 1 p.m. "Long-run Modeling of Health Care Expenditure Growth in Industrialized Countries," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Bianca Frogner. W3031 SPH. EB

Mon., March 17, 12:15 p.m. "Reprogramming of Micro RNA Expression by Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Joshua Mendell, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

 

Special Events

Tues., March 11, noon to 2:30 p.m. Public Service Career Fair, for students seeking jobs or internships with nonprofits, government agencies and employers in the education field. Presented by the Career Center. Glass Pavilion, Levering Hall. HW

Tues., March 11, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Author Laura Lippman signs her newest thriller, Another Thing to Fall, at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Tues., March 11, 8 p.m. Foreign Affairs Symposium — "Energy Conservation and Sustainability: The Impending Climate Crisis," a panel discussion with Thomas Lovejoy, Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; Terry Maple, co-author of A Contract With the Earth; and Scott Brown, CEO of New Energy Capital Corp. Co-sponsored by Students for Environmental Action, Engineers for a Sustainable World and Hopkins Energy Action Team. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Wed., March 12, noon. "Healing and Nursing: Practice, Education and Research," a talk with holistic nursing pioneer Barbara Dossey. Sponsored by SoN. 140 Pinkard Bldg. EB

Wed., March 12, 4 p.m. Foreign Affairs Symposium — Q&A with Mike McConnell, director of National Intelligence, moderated by Steven David, KSAS. Shriver Auditorium. HW

Wed., March 12, 4 p.m. "Three Generations of Carroll Family Women," presented in association with the museum's Welcome Little Stranger focus show, with Sally D. Mason, assistant to the director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Carroll Family Papers editor. A cream tea will be served 3 to 4 p.m. Homewood Museum. HW

Sat., March 15, 10:15 a.m. Clifford the Big Red Dog is this month's guest for children's story time at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

 

Sports

Mon., March 10, 3:30 p.m. Baseball, Blue Jays vs. York. Homewood Field. HW

Wed., March 12, 7 p.m. Women's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs. Towson. Homewood Field. HW

Sat., March 15, noon. Men's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs. Syracuse. Homewood Field. HW

Mon., March 17, 4 p.m. Women's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs. Maryland. Homewood Field. HW

 

Workshops

Wed., March 12, 12:15 p.m. Interviewing workshop sponsored by Career Services. W4030 SPH. EB

Mon., March 17, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. "Managing Workplace Diversity," a Center for Training and Education seminar with Sharon Fries-Britt. Room 2-1002, 2024 E. Monument St. EB

 
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