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'Simpatico' on Stage

The cast of 'Simpatico'

The Johns Hopkins University Theatre will present Sam Shepard's Simpatico this weekend and next in the Merrick Barn on the Homewood campus. Featuring undergraduates, alumni of the Theatre Arts and Studies Program and professional actors, Simpatico uses a story about horse racing to show how business dealings can poison relationships.

Hidden away in Cucamonga, Calif., a down-and-out slacker poses as a detective and calls his wealthy childhood buddy in Lexington, Ky., to help him deal with a "woman problem," claiming his girlfriend has had him arrested. The events quickly lead to cross-country intrigue, taking the faux detective to Kentucky Derby country with a shoebox containing proof of an old scandal, while a decent young middle-American woman, obsessed with the derby, finds herself traveling with a bag full of cash to find a man who has "reinvented" his life so as to disappear forever.

Director Joe Martin, a Theatre Program instructor, says he selected this play for the way it "captures something terribly wrong and even perverse, in the logic behind the way business has been done in America, and how these market relations infect relations between people."

The Johns Hopkins University Theatre is celebrating its fourth full season in the Merrick Barn under the direction of actor and alumnus John Astin.

The cast includes Astin's son, Mackenzie Astin, a televison and film actor; Scott Morse, a computer engineering major and theater minor; Laura Gordon, a graduate of the Writing Seminars with a theater minor; Mike Wills, a political science major and theater minor; Hannah Carney, an art history major and business minor; and Lisa Rosinsky, a Writing Seminars major and theater minor.

For details, see Theater.

 

Colloquia

Tues., Feb. 24, 4:15 p.m. "The Effects of Resonances on Molecular Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions and Vibrational Branching Ratios," a Chemistry colloquium with Robert Lucchese, Texas A&M University. 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., Feb. 25, 4:15 p.m. "Ethics and the Logic of Life," a Philosophy colloquium with Alice Crary, Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center. 202B Dell House. HW

Wed., Feb. 25, 4:30 p.m. "The Sexual Boundaries of Europe," a Women, Gender and Sexuality colloquium with Eric Fassin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. 113 Greenhouse. HW

Thurs., Feb. 26, 3 p.m. "The 'Struggle for Viability' of the Ruling Elite: Aleksandr Bogdanov and Blood Transfusions in Soviet Russia," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Nikolai Krementsov, University of Toronto. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Fri., Feb. 27, 2 p.m. "The USS Vincennes Incident," an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Reuben Pitts, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren (retired). Parsons Auditorium. APL

 

Discussion/Talks

Mon., Feb. 23, 5 p.m. "The End of Neoliberalism," a European Studies Program panel discussion with Mark Blyth, KSAS; Kathleen McNamara, Georgetown University; Matthias Matthijs, American University; and Mitchell Orenstein, SAIS. To RSVP, call 202-663-5796, or e-mail ntobin@jhu.edu. Co-sponsored by the Washington European Society. Room 500, Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS

Tues., Feb. 24, 1 p.m. "Recent Developments in Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies and Their Policy Implications," a Global Energy and Environment Initiative discussion with Carlos Riva, president and CEO, Verenium Corp. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202-663-5786 or geei@jhu.edu. Room 500, Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS

Wed., Feb. 25, 4:30 p.m. "Big Role for Mobile DNA: Evolution or Disease?" a Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund discussion with Haig Kazazian Jr., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. W1030 SPH (Anna Baetjer Room). EB

 

Film/Video

Thurs., Feb. 26, 7 p.m. Screening of David Cronenberg's Rabid, second of "Six Evenings in the Company of Vampires," the Women, Gender and Sexuality spring film festival. 113 Greenhouse. HW

 

Grand Rounds

Fri., Feb. 27, 12:15 p.m. "Mobile Technologies at the New Johns Hopkins," Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Michael McCarty, Network & Telecommunication Services. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

 

Information Sessions

Wed., Feb. 25, 12:15 p.m. "Professional Image in Public Health," a Career Services information session. W2017 SPH. EB Thurs., Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m. "Speed Networking and Reception," a Career Services information session. W1030 SPH (Anna Baetjer Room). EB

 

Lectures

Monroe H. Martin Lectures by Paula Tretkoff, Texas A&M University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m. "Transcendence of Values of Some Functions."

Tues., Feb. 24, 4:30 p.m. "Transcendence Properties of Hypergeometric Functions."

 

Music

Sat., Feb. 28, 1 p.m. Free Concert for Children and Families. The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra presents its annual program, featuring music by Nkeiru Okoye and Rimsky-Korsakov, with soprano Kishna Davis. Sun., March 1, 3 p.m. Full symphonic concert of the same program, with a pre-concert talk by Okoye at 2 p.m. (See story, "HSO concerts to feature 'Songs of Harriet Tubman'," in this issue.) Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

 

Reading

Wed., Feb. 25, 7 p.m. Psychiatrist Paul McHugh will discuss and sign his latest book, Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash Over Meaning, Memory and Mind. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

 

Seminars

Mon., Feb. 23, noon. "Weathering, Soils and Climate Change," an Earth and Planetary Sciences special seminar with Mark Little, Duke University. 305 Olin. HW

Mon., Feb. 23, 12:15 p.m. "Epigenetic Regulation and Generational Consequences in the Germ Line Cycle of C. elegans," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with William Kelly, Emory University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Feb. 23, 12:15 p.m. "Constructing Race: Understanding Human Variation in the Genomic Era," a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Patricia King, Georgetown University/SPH. Co-sponsored by the JH Center for Health Disparities Solutions and the SPH Black Graduate Students Association. W4030 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 23, 1 p.m. "Olfactory Processing in Drosophila," a Neuroscience faculty search seminar with Vikas Bhandawat, Harvard Medical School. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Mon., Feb. 23, 1 p.m. "How Stochastic Neurons in the Brain Make Decisions: Theory Meets Experiments," a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Xiao-Jing Wang, Yale University School of Medicine. G007 Ross Bldg. EB

Mon., Feb. 23, 3 p.m. "Standing Waves of Discrete Schrödinger Equations with Growing Potentials," an Analysis seminar with Guoping Zhang, Morgan State University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 23, 4 p.m. "Structure and Function of Parkinson's Disease," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Quyen Hoang, Brandeis University. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 23, 4 p.m. "Freedom Despite Mechanism," an Evolution, Cognition and Culture Project seminar with Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College. Co-sponsored by Philosophy and the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 23, 4 p.m. "Toward the Mechanism of Auditory Mechanotransduction: How Pulling on Strings Lets Us Hear," a Biophysics student seminar with Emily Danoff. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Tues., Feb. 24, 9 a.m. "Positive Sexual Health in Emerging Adulthood: The Association of Sexual Pleasure With Psychological Well-Being and Relationship Quality," a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Adena Galinsky. E4611 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 24, noon. "Measurement of Informal Caregiving to Disabled Older Adults in the United States," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Erin Rand-Giovannetti. 461 Hampton House. EB

Tues., Feb. 24, noon. "Marriage Education for Low Income Married Couples: An Overview of the Supporting Healthy Marriage Demonstration," an Institute for Policy Studies brown bag seminar with Daniel Gubits, Abt Associated Inc. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW

Tues., Feb. 24, noon. "The Sweet Nature of the Cellular Stress Response," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Natasha Zachara, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Feb. 24, 12:10 p.m. "A Public Health Approach to Bullying," a Center for Injury Research and Policy seminar with Catherine Bradshaw, SPH. Part of the Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy series. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence. B14B Hampton House. EB

Tues., Feb. 24, 12:15 p.m. "Stage-specific Interactions Direct Mouse Primordial Folliculogenesis," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Lei Lei, Northwestern University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Tues., Feb. 24, 12:15 p.m. "Health Needs and Perceptions of Care Seekers at Jordan Health Aid Society Mobile Medical Units in Amman, Zarqa, and Irbid," a Framework Program in Global Health research presentation with James Cope, SPH. W2015 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 24, 1 p.m. "Exposure to Ambient Concentrations of Air Pollution and Heart Rate Alterations in an Animal Model of Aged Mice," an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Juan Ramos-Bonilla. E6519 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 24, 3 p.m. "Algebraic-Geometric Obstructions to Existence of Extremal Metrics on Blow- ups," a Complex Geometry seminar with Alberto Della Vedova, University of Parma. Sponsored by Mathematics. 110 Maryland. HW

Tues., Feb. 24, 3 p.m. "Epigenetics: The New Genetics of Toxicology," the 17th Annual Scientific Workshop Seminar with Randy Jirtle, Duke University Medical Center. Sponsored by the NIEHS Training Program in Environmental Health Sciences and the NIEHS Center in Urban Environmental Health. W1020 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 24, 4 p.m. "Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?" an Institute for Policy Studies Social Policy seminar with Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by Economics and Health Policy and Management. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW

Tues., Feb. 24, 4:30 p.m. "Homological Mirror Symmetry and Birational Geometry," an Algebraic Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Ludmil Katzarkov, University of California, Irvine. Sponsored by Mathematics. 104 Maryland. HW

Tues., Feb. 24, 4:30 p.m. "Music Fingerprinting Using Finite State Transducers, a Novel Application of FSTs," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Pedro Moreno, Google Research. B17 CSEB. HW

Wed., Feb. 25, 10 a.m. "Sex Differences in Airway Hyperresponsiveness," an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Herng-Yu Sucie Chang. W7023 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 25, 1 p.m. "Characterization of Cellular Immune-Responses to Measles-Virus Infection and Vaccination," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Zaza Ndhlovu. E9519 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 25, 1 p.m. "Risk-Adjusted Differences in Health Care Expeditures and Utilization Among National Health Insurance and Medical Aid Enrollees in South Korea, 2004-2005," an International Health thesis defense seminar with Seung-Ouk Kim. W2008 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 25, 3 p.m. "Magnetic Recording Media Technology," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Gerardo Bertero, Western Digital Corp. 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., Feb. 25, 3:30 p.m. "Injection Drug Use and HIV in Chennai, India," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Sunil Solomon. W2015 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 25, 4 p.m. "DNA Methylation-Polycomb Connections: From ICF Syndrome to Cancer," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Keith Robertson, University of Florida. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., Feb. 26, 10:30 a.m. "The Conflicting Role of Homosexuality in the Lives of Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men: Implications for HIV Risk," a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Errol Fields. 188 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., Feb. 26, 10:45 a.m. "De-signing Superoleophobic Surfaces," a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Anish Tuteja, MIT. 110 Maryland. HW

Thurs., Feb. 26, noon. "Transport and Metabolism of Essential Host Nutrients by Malaria Parasites," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Choukri Ben Mamoun, Yale University School of Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Feb. 26, noon. Randolph Bromery Seminar — "Experimental Investigations of Melting and Phase Relations in Earth's Core" with Andrew Campbell, University of Maryland. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Hall Auditorium. HW

Thurs., Feb. 26, noon. "The Roles of the Nuclear Lamina in Heterochromatin Organization, Aging, Meiosis, Health and Disease," a Cell Biology seminar with Yosef Gruenbaum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., Feb. 26, 12:15 p.m. "Role of Kinin Receptors in African Trypanosome Traversal Across the Human Blood-Brain Barrier" with Joseph Crompton (SoM), and "Evaluation of a Cost-Effective Maternal, Newborn, Child and Reproductive Health Services Delivery System for Urban India," with Savitha Subramanian (SPH), Framework Program in Global Health research presentations, sponsored by the Center for Global Health. W2015 SPH. EB

Thurs., Feb. 26, 3 p.m. "Computational Models of Sensorimotor Biomechanical Systems," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Dinesh Pai, University of British Columbia. 210 Hodson. HW

Thurs., Feb. 26, 4 p.m. "Structural Aspects and Inhibition of HIV-1 Entry," a Biology seminar with Carole Bewley, NIDDK/NIH. 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., Feb. 26, 4 p.m. "Omnibus Sequences," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Anant Godbole, East Tennessee State University and WSE. 304 Whitehead. HW

Fri., Feb. 27, 10 a.m. "Use of End-of-Life Homecare Services in Ontario, Canada," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Hsien-Yeang Seow. W2030 SPH. EB

Fri., Feb. 27, 10:30 a.m. "The Adoption and Implementation of Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment Programs in Mid-Atlantic Level 1 Trauma Centers," a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Jennifer Piver-Renna. 744 Hampton House. EB

Fri., Feb. 27, 1 p.m. "Clinical Manifestations, Pathology, Diagnosis and Immunopathogenesis of Granulocytic Anaplasmosis," a Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology seminar with J. Stephen Dumler, West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Mon., March 2, 9 a.m. "Recreational Water Contact as a Risk Factor for Cryptosporidium Exposure Among Persons With HIV/AIDS in Baltimore, Md.," an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Cynthia McOliver. W7023 SPH. EB

Mon., March 2, 12:15 p.m. "Control of Organ Size and Tumorigenesis by the Hippo Signaling Pathway," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Duojia Pan, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., March 2, 1:30 p.m. "AIDS-defining and Non-AIDS-defining Cancers Among HIV-infected Individuals," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Meredith Shiels. W2008 SPH. EB

Mon., March 2, 2 p.m. "Predictors of Early Saphenous Vein Graft Patency, Platelet Hyper-Reactivity and Aspirin-Insensitive Thromboxane Generation in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery," a Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with Susannna Nazarian. W2017 SPH. EB

Mon., March 2, 4 p.m. "Paternal Exposure to Chemicals: Effects on Sperm Quality and Progeny Outcome," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Bernard Robaire, McGill University Health Centre. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., March 2, 4 p.m. David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "The Orbitofrontal Cortex and Adaptive Behavior" with Geoffrey Schoenbaum, University of Maryland Medical School. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brian Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., March 2, 4:30 p.m. "Geometric Flows With Rough Initial Data," an Analysis seminar with Tobias Lamm, University of British Columbia. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

 

Special Events

Black History Month events, with the theme "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Taking Charge of Change." Sponsored by the JHU Black Student Union. HW

Tues., Feb. 24, 6 to 8 p.m. "Politics, Sex and Drugs: A Cultural Discussion," talk led by Floyd Hayes, KSAS. Sherwood Room, Levering.

Thurs., Feb. 26, 4:30 to 6 p.m. "African-American Physicians on the Edge of Freedom," a discussion led by Gretchen Long, Williams College. Boardroom, Shriver Hall.

Fri., Feb. 27, 4 to 6 p.m. Closing ceremony, featuring storyteller Onawumi Jean Moss and the talents of JHU students. Glass Pavilion, Levering.

Wed., Feb. 25, 1 to 6 p.m. "The Promises and Pitfalls of Pharmacogenetics of Psychiatry," a Mental Health symposium with various speakers. Pre-register at jtoroney@jhsph.edu; registration is free. Co- sponsored by Psychiatry. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Sun., March 1, and Mon., March 2, 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. "The Holocaust: Children of the Perpetrators Confront Their Parents' Nazi Past Through Documentary Film," a Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program film symposium featuring a screening and discussion of three recent Holocaust- related films. Co-sponsored by Political Science, Anthropology, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, History, English and Media Studies. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW

 

Theater

Fri., Feb. 27 and Sat., Feb. 28, 8 p.m.; Sun., March 1, 2 p.m. Theatre Hopkins presents Lisa Kron's autobiographical play Well. $15 general admission (free on Fri., Feb. 27). Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center. HW

Fri., Feb. 27, Sat., Feb. 28, 8 p.m.; Sun., March 1, 2 p.m. Johns Hopkins University Theatre presents Sam Shepard's Simpatico. Tickets $5-$15. Merrick Barn. HW

Sat., Feb. 28, 2 p.m. Theatre Hopkins presents the second of two matinee performances of A.R. Gurney's Ancestral Voices. Tickets are $10. $5 student rush tickets are available at curtain time if space allows. Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center. HW

 

Workshops

Thurs., Feb. 26, 1 p.m. "'Tivo' for the Internet: Subscribing to Alerts for Research and Recreation," a Bits and Bytes workshop, sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

 

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