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Weekly Calendar
Colloquia
The critically acclaimed western
'Tears of the Black Tiger' — a pastiche of
cinematic themes, styles and characters from the heroic
years of Thai genre
cinema — lights up the screen this week, when the
Johns Hopkins Film
Festival brings the Homewood campus four days of
documentaries, features
and shorts by independent filmmakers. See Special Events.
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Tues., April 15, 4:15 p.m. "Synthetic Molecules That
Control Binding to Nucleic Acid ," a Chemistry
colloquium with Daniel Appella, NIDDK/NIH. 233 Remsen.
HW
Wed., April 16, 4:30 p.m. "In Search of the
Castrato's Voice," a Peabody Musicology colloquium with
Martha Feldman, University of Chicago. 308 Conservatory.
Peabody
Thurs., April 17, 3 p.m. "Investigating the Criminal
Chromosome: Narrative of the XYY Controversy," a
History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with
Ami Karlage, SoM. Seminar Room, 3rd
floor, Welch Medical Library. EB
Thurs., April 17, 3 p.m. "Reactor Neutrino
Experiments and the Hunt for the Little Mixing Angle," a
Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Michael Shaevitz,
Columbia University. Schafler Auditorium,
Bloomberg Center. HW
Thurs., April 17, 3:45 p.m. "When Is Infant Language
Learning Special, and When Is It Not?" a
Cognitive Science colloquium with Jenny Saffran, University
of Wisconsin. 134A Krieger. HW
Thurs., April 17, 4 p.m. "The Inter-American
Development Bank and Indigenous Peoples in Latin
America," a Program in Latin American Studies colloquium
with Carlos Eloy Viteri Gualinga, Inter-
American Development Bank. 400 Macaulay. HW
Fri., April 18, 4 p.m. "Actual and Virtual Chances,"
a Center for History and Philosophy of Science
colloquium with Frederick Kronz, University of Texas and
National Science Foundation. Sponsored by
Philosophy. 348 Gilman. HW
Discussion/Talks
Mon., April 14, 3 p.m. "Science, God and
Journalism," a Writing Seminars discussion with George
Johnson, author and New York Times journalist. Co-sponsored
by the Johns Hopkins Evolution,
Cognition and Culture Project. 323 Gilman. HW
Wed., April 16, 12:15 p.m. "What Must Happen to Make
a Difference?" discussion of global warming
and climate change in an open forum format. Second of three
informal lunchtime gatherings intended
for the entire Hopkins community. Sponsored by the Johns
Hopkins Sustainability Initiative. Arellano
Theater, Levering. HW
Thurs., April 17, 5 p.m. The Africana Studies
Critical Thought Collective Meeting and discussion of
Michelle Ann Stephens' Black Empire: The Masculine Global
Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in
the United States, 1914-62. Sponsored by the Center for
Africana Studies. 113 Greenhouse. HW
Film/Video
Tues., April 15, 5:30 p.m. Baltimore remiere of the
PBS Frontline documentary on global health, Sick
Around the World. Screening is followed by a Q&A with
correspondent T.R. Reid, The Washington
Post. Sponsored by International Health. W1214 SPH. EB
Grand Rounds
Thurs., April 17, 4 p.m. "International Intensive
Care: Eradicating Malnutrition with High-Dosage
Human Rights Law," Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds with
John Teton, the International Food
Security Treaty Campaign. Co-sponsored by General
Preventive Medicine Residency and the Center for
a Livable Future. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Information Sessions
Mon., April 21, 6:30 p.m. Information sessions for
the MA and MA/MBA in Government, MA in
Environmental Sciences and Policy, MA in Communication, MA
in Applied Economics and MA in Writing
programs. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP to:
advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index.cfm?.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, One
Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
Lectures
Mon., April 14, 4 p.m. Dean's Lecture IV —
"Genes, Vaccines and Immune Checkpoints: An All-Out
Attack on Pancreatic Cancer" by Elizabeth Jaffee, SoM. Hurd
Hall. EB
Mon., April 14, 6:30 p.m. "Voices From Death Row," a
JHU American Civil Liberties Union lecture by
exonerated Death Row inmate Ron Kleine, Witness to
Innocence. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Tues., April 15, 5:15 p.m. "Turin in the Age of
World's Fairs," a German and Romance Languages and
Literatures lecture by Cristina Della Coletta, University
of Virginia. 223 Gilman. HW
Wed., April 16, 4:30 p.m. The Passano Lecture
— "How Calcium Triggers Neurotransmitter Release" by
Thomas Sudhof, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Sponsored
by Molecular Biology and Genetics. East
Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB
Thurs., April 17, 4 p.m. The Eighth Annual Daniel
Nathans Lecture in Molecular Genetics — "Reciprocal
Regulation of Neuron Formation by the NPAS1 and NPAS3
Transcription Factors" by Steven
McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Sponsored by Molecular Biology and
Genetics. WBSB Auditorium. EB
Thurs., April 17, 4 p.m. The Thomas Hunt Morgan
Lecture — "Structure-based Genome Surveillance
Mechanisms in a 'Simple' Eukaryote" by Nobel laureate Andy
Fire, Stanford University. (See story,
"Nobel laureate Andrew Fire to give 2008 Morgan Lecture,"
in this issue.) Part of the Pioneers in
Biology lecture series. Mudd Auditorium. HW
Thurs., April 17, 4:30 p.m. "It Could Be Raining:
Hurricane Katrina From a Public Servant's
Perspective," an Institute for Policy Studies lecture by
Jullette Saussy, medical director of the city
of New Orleans and the New Orleans Fire Department, chief
medical officer of the Office of
Homeland Security and Public Safety. Part of the
Revitalizing Government Service discussion series.
210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., April 17, 5:15 p.m. "Vico as Topic in Early
Modern Intellectual History," a Philological Society
lecture by Nancy Struever, KSAS. 223 Gilman. HW
Thurs., April 17, 7 p.m. Financial Industry Leader
Lecture — "How Are Technological, Market and Data
Advances Affecting Job Opportunities in the Investment
Industry?" by Alfred Berkeley III, Pipeline
Trading Systems LLC. Inaugural lecture sponsored by the
Carey Business School Finance Club and
Carey Business School. RSVP to financeclub@jhu.edu.
Rome Auditorium. SAIS
Music
Mon., April 14, 7 p.m. The Alan Munshower Trio
(formerly the Boostimus Quartet) performs at Barnes
& Noble Johns Hopkins. Charles Commons. HW
Fri., April 18, 8 p.m. The Peabody Singers and the
Peabody-Hopkins Chorus, with the Peabody Concert
Orchestra, perform works by Schubert and Mussorgsky. $15
general admission, $10 for senior
citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall.
Peabody
Open House
Wed., April 16, 10 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. and 1 to 1:30
p.m. Center for Africana Studies Open House,
hosted by Floyd Hayes III, senior lecturer in Political
Science and coordinator of programs and
undergraduate studies. 110 Greenhouse. HW
Seminars
Mon., April 14, noon. "Activities of
Chromatin-Remodeling Complex DNA Damage Responses," a
Biological Chemistry seminar with Ashby Morrison,
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Epigenetics. 612 Physiology.
EB
Mon., April 14, 12:15 p.m. "Ethics and the Use of
Evidence to Improve 'Value' in Health Care," a Berman
Institute of Bioethics seminar with Steven Pearson,
Institute for Clinical and Economic Review,
Harvard Medical School. Co-sponsored by the Center for
Hospital Finance and Management, Health
Policy and Management and the Interdepartmental Health
Economics Program. W3008 SPH. EB
Mon., April 14, 3 p.m. "Strichartz Estimates for the
Wave Equation on Domains and Applications," a
Mathematics/Analysis seminar with Matt Blair, University of
New Mexico and University of
Rochester. 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., April 14, 4 p.m. "Dynamics of Gene Expression
and Signal Transduction in Single Cells: Noise,
Feedback and Survival," a Biophysics seminar with Alexander
van Oudenaarden, MIT. 111
Mergenthaler. HW
Mon., April 14, 4 p.m. "Design and Study of New
Nitroxyl (HNO) Precursors and Their Potential in the
Treatment of Heart Failure," a Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology seminar with John Toscano, KSAS.
W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., April 15, noon. "TRPC1: A Core Component of
Store-Operated Calcium Entry Channels," a
Biological Chemistry seminar with Indu Ambudkar, NIH/NIDCR.
612 Physiology. EB
Tues., April 15, 3 p.m. "Sexual Harassment
Prevention," a DoGEE seminar with Allison Boyle, equity
compliance specialist, JHU. 234 Ames. HW
Tues., April 15, 4 p.m. "Torus Graph Inference for
Detection of Localized Activity," an Applied
Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with Elizabeth
Beer. 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., April 15, 4 p.m. Anthropology student
presentations by Todd Meyers and David Schrag. 400
Macaulay. HW
Wed., April 16, 1:30 p.m. "Analysis in Design of
Membrane Proteins," a Biophysics and Biophysical
Chemistry seminar with William DeGrado, University of
Pennsylvania. 517 PCTB. EB
Wed., April 16, 3:30 p.m. "Applications of Focused
Ion Beam Systems in Microelectronics Analysis," a
Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Ann
Campbell, Sandia National Laboratories. 110
Maryland. HW
Wed., April 16, 4 p.m. "Active Site and Docking Site
Profiling of Protein Kinases," a Pharmacology and
Molecular Sciences seminar with Ben Turk, Yale University
School of Medicine. West Lecture Hall
(ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., April 17, 10:45 a.m. "Microfluidics as a
Tool to Enable Research and Discovery in the Life
Sciences," a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar
with Laurie Locascio, NIST. 110 Maryland.
HW
Thurs., April 17, noon. "Mechanisms Guiding Organ
Regeneration in Zebrafish," a Cell Biology seminar
with Kenneth Poss, Duke University Medical Center. Suite
2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., April 17, noon. "Ecology of West Nile Virus
in California," a Molecular Microbiology and
Immunology/Infectious Diseases research seminar with
William Reisen, University of California, Davis.
W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., April 17, 12:10 p.m. "Malaria: Why Advocacy
Matters," a Health, Behavior and Society seminar
with Matthew Lynch, SPH. Part of the series Disease
Prevention Communication: Latest Developments
for Safe Water, Hygiene and Malaria. W3031 SPH. EB
Thurs., April 17, 2 p.m. "The Copper Chaperone as a
Dual Regulator of Effects Related to Oxidative
Stress and Chromatin Remodeling," an Environmental Health
Sciences thesis defense seminar with
Janella Ulloa. W7023 SPH. EB
Thurs., April 17, 4 p.m. "A Maximin Location Problem
Heuristic," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics
seminar with Beryl Castello, WSE. 304 Whitehead. HW
Fri., April 18, noon. "Mainstreaming Emergency
Contraception in Ghanaian Post-Abortion Clinics" with
Andreea Creanga and "Rural-to-Urban Migrants As Important
Bridging Populations in the HIV/AIDS
Epidemic" with Cui Yang, Framework Program in Global Health
research presentations sponsored by
the Center for Global Health. W3031 SPH. EB
Fri., April 18, 12:15 p.m. "The 10-Step Program for
Building a Clinical Data Repository for Research," a
Health Sciences Informatics seminar with Mark Weiner,
University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by
Health Policy and Management. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall).
EB
Fri., April 18, 12:15 p.m. "Notch Signaling Balances
Proliferation and Differentiation in Developing
Lens," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Junling Jia, Baylor College of Medicine. Rose
Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., April 21, 12:15 p.m. "Maintaining the End:
Regulation of Telomerase in Yeast," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Virginia Zakian,
Princeton University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San
Martin Drive. HW
Special Events
Mon., April 14, 8 p.m. The 2008 Foreign Affairs
Symposium — "Journalism in a War Zone," a talk by CBS
News correspondent Kimberly Dozier. Glass Pavilion,
Levering. HW
Tues., April 15, 3 to 5 p.m. New Investigators' Day,
award ceremony recognizing young investigators at
SoN who will also give presentations of their work.
Sponsored by the Center for Nursing Research and
Sponsored Projects. 140 SoN. EB
Wed., April 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Fourth Annual
Biomedical Career Fair, sponsored by the
Professional Development Office. Turner Concourse. EB
Thurs., April 17, 3 p.m. "This Is Rocket Science," a
talk by NASA administrator Michael Griffin.
Sponsored by Mechanical Engineering. 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., April 17, through Sun., April 20. The 2008
Johns Hopkins Film Festival. $5 per show, $10 for
day pass and $20 for festival pass. Shriver Auditorium.
HW
Thurs., April 17:
8 p.m. Screening of L.I.E.
Fri., April 18:
8 p.m. Tears of the Black Tiger>
10 p.m. Night Fifty
Sat., April 19:
12:30 p.m. Guitar Holiday
1:30 p.m. Shorts 1
3 p.m. Vivian Pusher
4 p.m. Abel Raises Cain
5:30 p.m. Alan Abel, subject of the documentary Abel Raises
Cain, will be present after the
screening for a Q&A session. A reception follows.
8 p.m. The Delicate Art of the Rifle
Sun., April 20:
noon. African Underground
1:30 p.m. Shorts 2
3 p.m. Ebony Chunky Love: Bitch Can't Get a Date
6 p.m. Waiting for NESARA
8 p.m. Run Granny Run
Fri., April 18, 12:30 p.m. "Carving a Path for
East-West Dialogue: The Works and Mission of the Daniel
Pearl Foundation," a talk by Judea Pearl, father of Daniel
Pearl and president of the Daniel Pearl
Foundation, on the significance of the foundation's
mission. Co-sponsored by External Affairs and
Biostatistics. W2030 SPH. EB
Sat., April 19, 10 a.m. Reading of the classic If
You Give a Mouse a Cookie and a visit by Cookie Mouse.
Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Sports
Tues., April 15, 3:30 p.m. Baseball, Blue Jays v.
Dickinson. HW
Sat., April 19, 12:30 p.m. Baseball, Blue Jays v.
Franklin and Marshall. HW
Mon., April 21, 3:30 p.m. Baseball, Blue Jays v.
TCNJ. HW
Symposia
Tues., April 15, 12:45 p.m. 22nd Annual Mood
Disorders Research/Education Symposium, the latest
research/treatment findings on depression and bipolar
disease in women and adolescents, with faculty
and guests Dorothy Hamill and Mariette Hartley. $175 for
physicians, $135 for non-physicians.
Sponsored by SoM Continuing Medical Education, Psychiatry,
IJHN and JH Mood Disorders Center.
Turner Auditorium. EB
Workshops
Tues., April 15, 8:30 a.m. to noon. "Influence and
Power Case Study: A Workshop for Women in
Leadership — Part Two," co-sponsored by Faculty
Development and the Center for Training and
Education. The PBS Nova documentary The Secret of Photo 51
will also be shown and discussed. To
register go to:
training.jhu.edu/html/managementstaffdev/msdlinks/msdregfor
m.pdf. Suite 1/500, Room 500Q, 2024 East Monument St.
EB
Thurs., April 17, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. "The Mechanics of
Leadership: Influencing Interpersonal and Group
Outcomes," a Center for Training and Education workshop wth
Dick Kilburg. To register go to
training.jhu.edu/html/managementstaffdev/msdlinks/msdregfor
m.pdf. B101 Johns Hopkins@Eastern.
Thurs., April 17, 1 p.m. "Introduction to Second
Life," a demonstration of the immersive 3-D virtual
environment of Second Life, and discussion of its use by
faculty and students in university settings,
with Macie Hall and Reid Sczerba. Designed for faculty but
open to teaching assistants and staff.
Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett
Room, MSE Library. HW
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