The Johns Hopkins Gazette: October 19, 1998
THE GAZETTE CALENDAR
Oct. 19-26

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COLLOQUIUMS

Tues., Oct. 20, 4:15 p.m. "Energy and Electron Transfer in Organic Functional Materials and Biological Molecules," a Chemistry colloquium with Paul Barbara, University of Texas; 233 Remsen. HW

Thurs., Oct. 22, 3 p.m. "Health and Nutrition in the Colonial Chesapeake," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Trudy Eden; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. JHMI

Thurs., Oct. 22, 4 p.m. "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence," a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Jill Tarter, SETI Institute; Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg. HW

Fri., Oct. 23, 2 p.m. "Protein/Receptor Matching," a colloquium with Michael Shlesinger, Office of Naval Research; Kossiakoff Center. APL Program will be simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall. HW

GRAND ROUNDS

Wed., Oct. 21, 4 p.m. The 1998 Robert L. Ney Visiting Professor Lecture-- "The Sympathetic Nervous System and Food Intake: The Mona Lisa Hypothesis in the Time of Leptin"; 107 Wilmer. JHMI Part of Endocrine Grand Rounds.

LECTURES

Mon., Oct. 19, 4 p.m. The 1998 Walter M. Elsasser Memorial Lecture--"New Perspectives on Biodiversity: Molecular Microbial Ecology" by Norman Pace, UC Berkeley; Olin Hall Auditorium. HW

Wed., Oct. 21, noon. "Making Sense of the Other: The Interview Method in Historical Perspective," a Sociology lecture by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton; 526 Mergenthaler. HW Part of the series "Navigating Barriers: Qualitative Approaches to Social Relations."

Wed., Oct. 21, 4 p.m. The Eighth Annual Larry L. Ewing Memorial Lecture-- "World Population Growth and the Prospects for New Male Contraceptives" by William Bremner, University of Washington; 2030 SHPH.

Wed., Oct. 21, 4 p.m. "Illustrating Your Lecture with Slides, Part 2," a Scientific Communication lecture by Edie Stern; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. Sponsored by the Welch Medical Library WelchWeb program.

Wed., Oct. 21, 5:30 p.m. "The Meaning of Meaning in Medicine," a humanities lecture by Eric Cassell, Cornell University Medical College; Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. Part of the series "The Languages of Medicine: Communication and Its Complications" sponsored by Cultural Affairs.

Thurs., Oct. 22, noon. "Making Space for Your Journal," a Women's Forum/JHMI Caucus brown bag lunch lecture by Rosalie Evans; 201 Halsted. JHMI A donation of a personal care item for the House of Ruth would be appreciated.

Thurs., Oct. 22, 12:30 p.m. "Public Service Entrepreneurs: Are They Making a Difference?", a Program on Social Change and Development brown bag lunch lecture by Bill Drayton, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public; 812 Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington. SAIS

Thurs., Oct. 22, 3 p.m. Fourth Annual James F. Bell Memorial Lecture--"A Theory of Thermoplastic Continua" by James Casey, UC Berkeley; 205 Krieger. HW

OPEN HOUSES

The School of Continuing Studies will hold open houses this week for the following programs:

Mon., Oct. 19, 5:30-7 p.m. SCS undergraduate programs for adults; Columbia Center.

Tues., Oct. 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. SCS graduate business programs; Downtown Center.

Tues., Oct. 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. SCS master of science in real estate programs; Downtown Center.

Tues., Oct. 20, 6-7:30 p.m. SCS graduate business programs; Columbia Center.

Wed., Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. SCS graduate business programs; Washington Center.

Wed., Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. SCS master of science in real estate programs; Washington Center.

Wed., Oct. 21, 5:30-7 p.m. SCS graduate education programs; Columbia Center.

Wed., Oct. 21, 6-7:30 p.m. M.S. in real estate programs; Montgomery County Center.

Wed., Oct. 21, 6-7:30 p.m. SCS graduate business programs; Montgomery County Center.

Sat., Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-noon. SCS graduate education programs; Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Sat., Oct. 24, 10:30 a.m.-noon. SCS undergraduate programs for adults; 103 Shaffer. HW

PERFORMANCES

Tues., Oct. 20, noon. Midday Performance by the Peabody Jazz Quartet performing works by Coltrane, Parker and original compositions; Hurd Hall. JHMI

Tues., Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Peabody Symphony Orchestra with guitar soloist Byeong Woo Lee; 1 E. Mt. Vernon Pl. Tickets are $16, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students with I.D. A free chamber music recital by Conservatory students will take place in the George Peabody Library at 7 p.m. Enter at 17 E. Mt. Vernon Pl. 410-659-8124.

Wed., Oct. 21, 8 p.m. The Peabody Trio with violist Victoria Chiang performs works by Schumann, Brahms and Robert Sirota; 1 E. Mt. Vernon Pl. Tickets are $16, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students with I.D. 410-659-8124.

Fri., Oct. 23, 8 p.m. Carriage House Concert Series with the Coulter-Phillips Ensemble; Evergreen, 4545 N. Charles St. Tickets, $10, include a reception after the performance to meet the artists.

Sat., Oct. 24, 8 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra concert featuring violinist Xiao-po Fei; Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW Tickets are $7, $6 for senior citizens and students (JHU students can attend free with student I.D.). A preconcert lecture featuring musicologist Max Derrickson is at 7 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 24, 8 p.m. Jazz Concert featuring Dontae Winslow and friends; Great Hall, Levering. HW Tickets are $10, $5 for students with I.D. For details, see story, page 6.

READING

Thurs., Oct. 22, 5 p.m. Reading by poet Karl Kirchwey; Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW Third in The Writing Seminars' 1998 Fall Reading Series.

RELIGION

Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Christian Fellowship Meeting, musical worship and Bible study; 3030 SHPH.

Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Graduate Christian Fellowship meeting; London Room, The Marylander, 3501 St. Paul St. Off campus

Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Agape Campus Ministry; 100 Shaffer. HW

Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship; group meeting; Garrett Room, MSEL. HW

SEMINARS

Mon., Oct. 19, noon. "Steroid Regulation of Programmed Cell Death during Drosophila Development," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Erik Baehrecke, University of Maryland, College Park; 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., Oct. 19, 12:30 p.m. "Evaluating the National Cancer Institute's American Stop Smoking Intervention Study," a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Frances Stillman, National Cancer Institute; W2008 SHPH.

Mon., Oct. 19, 4 p.m. "Getting Up and Giving a Speech Isn't Easy: Orators Meet Hecklers in Modern China," a History seminar with David Strand, Dickinson College; 315 Gilman. HW

Tues., Oct. 20, 4 p.m. "Structure and Catalytic Function in Ribonuclease P, a Ribozyme," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Norman Pace, UC Berkeley; 109 Jenkins. HW

Tues., Oct. 20, 4:15 p.m. "The Specificity of CD1d1-restricted T Cells," an Immunology Council seminar with Sebastian Joyce, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine; W2030 SHPH.

Tues., Oct. 20, 4:30 p.m. "Fast Computation of Maximum Entropy/ Minimum Divergence Feature Gain," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Harry Printz, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM; 100 Shaffer. HW

Wed., Oct. 21, 4 p.m. "The Internet: How to Use It to Influence the Nation's Agenda," an IPS seminar with Leslie Walker, The Washington Post, and Michael Himowitz, The Sun; Conference Room, 5th floor, Wyman Park Bldg. HW Part of the series "The Press and Public Policy."

Thurs., Oct. 22, 1 p.m. "Aceruloplasminemia: A Novel Inherited Neurodegenerative Disease Revealing a Critical Role for CNS Iron Homeostasis in Neuronal Survival," a Neuroscience research seminar with Jonathan Gitlin, Washington University School of Medicine; 811 WBSB.

Thurs., Oct. 22, 2 p.m. "Large GTPases and Mitochondrial Membrane Dynamics," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Janet Shaw, University of Utah; 110 WBSB.

Thurs., Oct. 22, 4 p.m. "Sequencing from Ladders and Fragments on a MALDI Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer," a Biology seminar with Robert Cotter; 100 Mudd. HW

Fri., Oct. 23, 10:30 a.m. "Passive and Active Combustion Control," a Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics seminar with Ephraim Gutmark, Louisiana State University; 304 Olin. HW

Mon., Oct. 26, noon. "Genetic Analysis of the Shh Pathway during Mouse CNS Development," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Alex Joyner, Skirball Institute, New York; 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Deubiquitination and Substrate Selection for Ubiquitin-dependent Proteolysis," a Biochemistry seminar with Robert Cohen, University of Iowa College of Medicine; W2030 SHPH.

Mon., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "From Memory to Written Records in the Schools: Abelard and His Masters," a History seminar with Michael Clanchy, University of London; 315 Gilman. HW

SPORTS

For updated schedule information, call 410-516-0552.

SYMPOSIA

Fri., Oct. 23, 8 p.m. The 1998 MSE Symposium--"Who Are We? A Question of National Identity" with talk show host Jerry Springer; Shriver Hall. HW

TALK/
DISCUSSIONS

Wed., Oct. 21, noon. "Sports In and Around Baltimore," a talk by Scott Garceau, sports director, WMAR-TV 2 News; Shriver Hall. HW Part of the "Wednesday Noon Series" sponsored by Special Events.

Wed., Oct. 21, 8 p.m. "Photos, Paparazzi and Privacy," an Odyssey media forum with Hal Buell, Associated Press; Felice Quinto; and Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School; Bloomberg Auditorium. HW Tickets are $18, available at the door, $8 for students with I.D. Part of the series "Free Speech: Media, Law and Society."

THEATER

Fri., Oct. 23, 8 p.m., Sat., Oct. 24, 8 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 25, 2:15 p.m. She Stoops to Conquer, a Theatre Hopkins production of the 18th-century classic by Oliver Goldsmith; Merrick Barn. HW Tickets are $10 on Friday and Sunday, $12 Saturday. 410-516-7159.

WJHU 88.1 FM

Mon., Oct. 19, 1 p.m. The Marc Steiner Show. David Obst, author of Too Good to Be Forgotten: Changing America in the '60s and '70s, followed at 1 p.m. by "Movies" with Anne Hornaday of The Sun and Sloane Brown of Fox 45.

Tues., Oct. 20, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. Sports talk with Milton Kent of The Sun and Keith Mills of WMAR-TV.

Wed., Oct. 21, 1 p.m. The Marc Steiner Show. Beverly Tatum, author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Thurs., Oct. 22, noon. The Marc Steiner Show. Rob Kasper of The Sun discusses his new book, Raising Kids and Tomatoes: Amusing Tales and Appetizing Recipes.


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