Johns Hopkins Gazette | April 17, 2006
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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University April 17, 2006 | Vol. 35 No. 30
 

Weekly Calendar

Blood Drive | Colloquia | Conferences | Discussion/Talks | Film/Video | Grand Rounds | Information Sessions | Lectures | Music | Open House | Reading | Religion | Seminars | Special Events | Workshops

 

Eugenia Zukerman Solos With Hopkins Symphony


Renowned flutist's visit includes a master class in Shriver Hall.

World-renowned flutist, author and television commentator Eugenia Zukerman will join the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra this week for a master class and concert. Both events are open to the public and take place in Shriver Hall on the Homewood campus.

At noon on Friday, April 21, Zukerman will coach student flutists from Johns Hopkins and Goucher College. Performing during the master class will be Alison Dagger, Gregory Peacock, Whitney Shaffer, Joelle Sohn and John Zuckerman.

On Saturday, April 22, at 8 p.m. (free pre-concert discussion at 7 p.m.), Zukerman joins HSO Music Director Jed Gaylin and the orchestra for two works: Moise Vainberg's Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra in D Minor and Charles Tomlinson Griffes' Poem for Flute and Orchestra. Also on the program are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture and Claude Debussy's masterpiece, La Mer. While Griffes' piece is a standard of the flute repertoire, Zukerman has been championing Vainberg's works, which were little known outside the Soviet Union during his lifetime.

Tickets for the concert are $10; $8 for seniors (60+), students and JHU affiliates; free for students with a JHU ID.

In addition to performing all over the world, Zukerman directs the Vail Valley Music Festival, has recorded for five labels, serves on the faculty of New York University's Department of Music and Performing Arts and has been arts correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning since 1981. Her latest book is the acclaimed In My Mother's Closet, an anthology of essays about accomplished women's thoughts on the mother-daughter relationship.

For more information about HSO events, call 410-516-6542, e-mail hso@jhu.edu or go to www.jhu.edu/jhso.

 

Blood Drive

Wed., April 19, 8 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. JHU/American Red Cross Blood Drive. To schedule an appointment, call 410-516-0138 or go to www.jhu.edu/outreach/blooddrive. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

 

Colloquia

Tues., April 18, 4:15 p.m. "Polysulfane Natural Products As Evolved Chemical Defense Molecules for Marine Tunicates (Lissoclinum sp.)," a Chemistry colloquium with Alec Greer, Boston University; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., April 19, 3:30 p.m. "The Origin of Elliptical Galaxies," an STScI colloquium with Sandy Faber, UCO/Lick Observatory; STScI Auditorium. HW

Thurs., April 20, 3:30 p.m. "Expectancy Generation in Sentence Processing: The Role of Event Knowledge," a Cognitive Science colloquium with Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego; 134A Krieger. HW

Fri., April 21, 2 p.m. "New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble With NASA's Other Space Telescopes," an APL colloquium with Kim Weaver, NASA Goddard; Parsons Auditorium. APL

 

Conference

Fri., April 21, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. "Women, Health and Healing in Early Modern Europe," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology conference with Lynn Botelho, May Cislo, Kathleen Crowther-Heyck, Gail Gibson, Deborah Harkness, Elaine Long, Cathy Mcclive, Katharine Park and Alisha Rankin; Evergreen House.

Fri., April 21, and Sat., April 22, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. "The Everyday," a Humanities Center conference with Stanley Cavell, James Conant, Hent de Vries, Michael Fried, Joseph Koerner, Paola Marrati, Toril Moi, Richard Moran, Robert Pippin and Jeff Wall; 110 Gilman. HW

 

Discussion/Talks

Mon., April 17, noon. "Parenting Teens," a Worklife Programs discussion with Melissa Back Tamburo, Worklife Programs; Suite 403, 550 Bldg. EB

Thurs., April 20, 3:30 p.m. "University of Maryland Law School," with dean of admissions Patricia Scott. Sponsored by Pre-Professional Advising. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

 

Film/Video

Fri., April 21, 8 p.m. Friday Night Films presents The Pianist. $2. Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW

 

Grand Rounds

Wed., April 19, 4 p.m. "Innate Cellular Defenses Against HIV and Viral Counter-Defenses," Preventive Medicine/Public Health grand rounds with Xiaofang Yu. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean; W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

 

Information Sessions

Mon., April 17, through Mon., April 24, 5 to 7 p.m. Information sessions for the Hopkins School of Nursing's graduate programs. Sessions continue through April 27. For details or to RSVP, call 410-955-7548 or go to www.son.jhmi.edu/gradinfosessions. Anne M. Pinkard Bldg. EB

Thurs., April 20, 4 p.m. Pre-Health sophomore class information session with Mary Catherine Savage, Jean Kan and Kristin McJunkins, JHU. Sponsored by Pre-Professional Advising. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

 

Lectures

Mon., April 17, 4 p.m. "Idealism, Realism, Modernism: Rethinking 19th-Century Literary History," a Humanities Center lecture by Toril Moi, Duke University/KSAS; 111 Gilman. HW

Mon., April 17, 5 p.m. "Problems With Cultural Imports: Archaic Greek Adaptations of Foreign Myths and Institutions," a Classics lecture by Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University; 329 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 20, 4 p.m. "Evacuee Property in Pakistan: The State and Social Organization in Sri Gurdwara Dera Sahib," a summer travel research fellow presentation by Waqas Butt; 400 Macaulay. HW

Thurs., April 20, 4 p.m. "Forging Political Criticism: Latin American Science Fiction Leaves the Margins," a postdoctoral research presentation by Silvia Kurlat-Ares; 113 Greenhouse. HW

Thurs., April 20, 4 p.m. "Ibsen's Modernism: Emperor and Galilean," a Humanities Center lecture by Toril Moi, Duke University/KSAS; 111 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 20, 5 p.m. "Nostalgia for Old Shanghai and the Renewed Popularity of Early 20th-Century Commercial Art," a summer travel research fellow presentation by Warner Brown; 400 Macaulay. HW

Mon., April 24, 2:30 p.m. Second Annual Lecture in Minority Health and Health Disparities, by Donna Christensen, U.S. House of Representatives. Sponsored by the Center for Health Disparities Solutions. W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. Dean's Lecture IV — "The Role of Women Leaders in Surgery — Past, Present and Future" by Julie Freischlag, JHMI/JHH. Sponsored by SoM. Hurd Hall. EB

 

Music

Tues., April 18, 8 p.m. The Peabody Trio performs works by Schumann, with guest artists Sonya Chung (violin), Katherine Jacobson (piano), Michael Kannen (violoncello) and Peter Landgren (horn). $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Thurs., April 20, and Fri., April 21, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Jazz Orchestra performs, with guest artist bassist/composer Rufus Reid. Part of the series Peabody Explores ... The Art of Improvisation. (See "In Brief," in this issue.) $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. East Hall. Peabody

Fri., April 21, noon. Master class with flutist Eugenia Zuckerman. Sponsored by Hopkins Symphony Orchestra and Goucher College. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

Fri., April 21, 8 p.m. Vocal Chords a cappella concert; Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Sat., April 22, 8 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra performs, with guest artist Eugenia Zukerman. (See article, above.) Pre-concert discussion at 7 p.m. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

Sat., April 22, 8 p.m. Performance by Grammy-winning guitarist David Russell. Sponsored by the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society and Peabody Conservatory. $30. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sun., April 23, 2 p.m. "The Flutes of Spring," a concert by the Johns Hopkins Flute Choir and the Baltimore Flute Choir; SDS Room, Jones Bldg., Mattin Center. HW

Sun., April 23, 4 p.m. Organist Gerre Hancock performs. $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

 

Open House

Fri., April 21, 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

Thurs., April 20, 6 p.m. Reading by novelist James Salter, sponsored by the Writing Seminars. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

 

Seminars

Mon., April 17, noon. "Key Findings From the Bangladesh Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) Midline Assessment," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with Marc Boulay, SPH; Suite 310 (International Room), Candler Building, 111 Market Place.

Mon., April 17, noon. "Resolving the Orogeny Paradox," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Paul Silver, Carnegie Institute of Washington; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., April 17, 4 p.m. "Creoles in British America: From Denial to Acceptance," a History seminar with Joyce Chaplain, Harvard University; 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., April 17, 4 p.m. "Averages of the Fourier Transform of Measures and Applications," an Analysis seminar with M. Burak Erdogan, University of Illinois; 308 Krieger. HW

Tues., April 18, noon. "ESCRT's for Receptor Down-Regulation and HIV Budding," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Scott Emr, University of California, San Diego; 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., April 18, noon. "Working With the Community Regarding Demolition," a Community-Based Participatory Research seminar with Patricia Tracey, SPH. Co-sponsored by Health, Behavior and Society and the JH Urban Health Institute. B14B Hampton House. EB

Tues., April 18, 3 p.m. "Watershed Perspectives on Wetland Degradation and Restoration," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Joy Zedler, University of Wisconsin; 234 Ames. HW

Tues., April 18, 4 p.m. "Cooperation Against Competition: Daxing and Yuhua Cotton Mills Facing Crisis, 1931-37," an East Asian Studies seminar with Juan Juan Peng. Sponsored by History. 315 Gilman. HW

Tues., April 18, 4 p.m. "Equilibrium Concepts in Two-Player Games," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with Kevin Byrnes; 304 Whitehead. HW

Tues., April 18, 4:30 p.m. "Distance Metric Learning for Large Margin Classification," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Lawrence Saul, University of Pennsylvania; 3 Shaffer. HW

Wed., April 19, noon. "Copper Transporters and Disease," a Physiology seminar with Svetlana Lutsenko, Oregon Health and Science University; 202-D Physiology (Library). EB

Wed., April 19, 12:15 p.m. "Tips for Working With the Media," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with Carol Ann Kell, Kell & Associates; Suite 310 (International Room), Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place.

Wed., April 19, 12:15 p.m. "Depression and Metabolic Risk: Diabetes and Osteoporosis," a Mental Health seminar with Briana Mezuk; B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., April 19, 4 p.m. "Indecent, and Yet" a Women, Gender and Sexuality seminar with Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; 113 Greenhouse. HW

Wed., April 19, 4 p.m. "Noble Grizzly, Savage Tiger: Visions of Race and Nation at the Bronx Zoo, 1896-1913," an American History seminar with Noah Cincinnati; 315 Gilman. HW

Wed., April 19, 4 p.m. "Array-Based Strategies for New Virus Discovery and Their Application to Familial Prostate Cancer," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Don Ganem, University of California, San Francisco/HHMI; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., April 20, noon. "Cargo Trafficking and Coronavirus Assembly at the Golgi Complex," a Cell Biology seminar with Carolyn Machamer, SoM; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., April 20, 1 p.m. "Living Without Serotonin: Transcriptional Control of the Central Serotonergic System," a Neuroscience research seminar with Zhou-Feng Chen, Washington University School of Medicine; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., April 20, 4 p.m. "The Sartorial Self: Neoclassical Fashions and Gender Identity in France, 1797-1804," a European History seminar with Claire Cage; 315 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 20, 4 p.m. "Diophantine Frequency Synthesis: The Invasion of Number Theory to Frequency Synthesis Systems," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Paul Peter Sotiriadis, WSE; 304 Whitehead. HW

Thurs., April 20, 5 p.m. "Pleasure and Consequence: The Dangers of Social Mixing at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens," a European History seminar with Hilary Christian, KSAS; 315 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 20, 6:30 p.m. "The Art and Science of Large-Scale Disasters," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Virginia Commonwealth University. Co-sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Baltimore section. 109 Maryland. HW

Mon., April 24, 10 a.m. "The Role of Calcium and Calcium-Dependent Effector Molecules in the Establishment of the Plasma Membrane Block to Polyspermy in Mammalian Cells," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar with Allison Gardner; W1214 SPH. EB

Mon., April 24, noon. "Global Paleoenvironmental Change: Quantifying Earth's Responses and Feedbacks," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Anthony Cohen, The Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., April 24, noon. "The Development of One of the First Arabic Language Health Web Sites: The Jordan HCP Web Portal," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with Asma Fashho, Jordan Health Communication Partnership; Suite 310 (International Room), Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place.

Mon., April 24, 12:15 p.m. "G-Protein Signaling Networks and Cancer," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with J. Silvio Gutkind, NIH; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., April 24, 2 p.m. "Seminal Biology of Embryonic Cortical Neural Stem Cells," an ICE seminar with Jeffrey Barker, NINDS/NIH; West Lecture Hall (ground level), PCTB. EB

Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. "A Yeast Under Cover: Polysaccharide Capsule Synthesis in the Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Tamara Doering, Washington University Medical School; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. "The Gold Star Mother Pilgrimages: Patriotic Maternalism and American Culture Between the Wars," a History seminar with Rebecca Plant, University of California, San Diego; 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Characterization of Neural Response With Stochastic Stimuli" with Eero Simoncelli, HHMI/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 24, 5:15 p.m. "Double Authorship: Prophetic and Poetic Inspiration in Dante's Paradise," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with Gerhard Regn, University of Munich; 336 Gilman. HW

 

Special Events

Johns Hopkins Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Awareness Days 2006 continues. Sponsored by DSAGA. HW

Tues., April 18, 7:30 p.m. Workshop on homophobia with SEED (Students Educating and Empowering for Diversity); Sherwood Room, Levering.

Thurs., April 20, 8 to 10 p.m. DSAGA's version of The Dating Game; Glass Pavilion, Levering.

Fri., April 21, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Drag show and dance; Glass Pavilion, Levering.

Sat., April 22, 7:30 p.m. Discussion with Wayne Besan about his book Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth; Great Hall, Levering.

* Sun., April 23, 1 p.m. Talk by Faisal Alam, founder of Al-Fatiha; Great Hall, Levering.

Tues., April 18, 8 p.m. 2006 Foreign Affairs Symposium — Ideologies in Flux — "Remaking Europe: Turkey's Role in the EU" a panel discussion with Erik Jones, SAIS Bologna Center; Sabri Sayari, Sabanci University, Turkey; and Sylvie Goulard, Sciences Po, Paris. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Tues., April 18, 8 p.m. "After the World Trade Center and Katrina: The Struggle to Repair the Broken City," a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger. First in the three-part lecture series Rebuilding America's Cities, co-sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies, the Evergreen House Foundation and the Office of the University Provost. Seating is limited; for reservations e-mail urbanlecture@jhu.edu or call 410-516-0341. Evergreen Carriage House.

Wed., April 19, 5 p.m. "Professional BEST (Business Etiquette Style and Tact)," an etiquette dinner and seminar with Cathleen Hanson, International School of Protocol. Sponsored by the Career Services Office. E2030 SPH (Feinstone Hall). EB

Thurs., April 20, 4 to 6 p.m. Young Investigators' Day, presentations by student investigators in the School of Medicine, with a welcome by Edward Miller, dean of the medical faculty. (See article, "SoM honors 17 young researchers," in this issue.) Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB

Fri., April 21, noon to 7 p.m., Sat., April 22, and Sun., April 23, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. JHU Spring Fair 2006. Go to www.jhuspringfair.com for more information. HW

 

Workshops

Tues., April 18, 6 p.m. "Editing With Avid Xpress Pro," a Digital Media Center workshop with Dan Morais; previous experience using other nonlinear software such as Final Cut Pro or Premiere may be helpful but not required. 226 Mattin Center. HW

Wed., April 19, 12:15 p.m. "How to Write a Research Plan," a hands-on workshop with Stephanie Gaudreau. Sponsored by the Office for Research Subjects. W3008 SPH. EB

Thurs., April 20, noon. "Maintain Your Brain," a Worklife Programs workshop with Diane Wit, Alzheimer's Association of Central Maryland; 2150 JHOC. EB

Fri., April 21, 8:30 a.m. "Writing a Biomedical Research Paper," a Professional Development Office workshop with Wendy Sanders. $750. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Fri., April 21, noon. "Bits and Bites: Using Wikis," a Center for Educational Resources workshop with Allyson McCabe, JHU. Register by using the "Calendar" link at www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Fri., April 21, 1:15 p.m. "Presentation Skills," a Welch Medical Library workshop on developing, organizing and delivering a presentation. Co-sponsored by the Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Weinberg Auditorium. EB

Fri., April 21, 3 p.m. "Essentials for Leading Successful Labs," a Center for Educational Resources workshop wiith Tiara Booker; Garrett Room, MSEL. HW

Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. AMCAS essay writing workshop for Pre-Health applicants, with Mary Catherine Savage, Jean Kan and Jason Potts, JHU. Sponsored by Pre-Professional Advising. Great Hall, Levering. HW

 
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