Calendar — Nov. 16, 2009
BLOOD DRIVE
Wed., Nov. 18, and Thurs., Nov. 19, 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Red Cross Homewood campus blood drive. Sponsored by Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs. Register online at http://hrnt.jhu.edu/fsrp/outreach/blooddrive/schedule .cfm. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW
COLLOQUIA
Tues., Nov. 17, 4:15 p.m. The Ephraim and Wilma Shaw Roseman Colloquium—“Molecular Determinants Governing Oxylipin Biosynthesis in Fatty Acid [...]
Classifieds — Nov. 9, 2009
APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT
Bayview (southeast area), 2BR house w/fin’d bsmt, W/D, prkng pad, no pets. $1,000/mo + utils + sec dep. Elaine, 410-633-4750.
Charles Village, corner 2BR, 2BA condo w/balcony, 1,200 sq ft, clean, CAC, 24-hr front desk, steps to Hopkins shuttle, all utils incl’d. 410-466-1698.
Charles Village EOG, commercial/residential lease, charming, lots of light, sec dep, credit [...]
Unraveling historic textiles
On three Wednesdays in November, Homewood Museum will present Textiles Unraveled: Fabrics in Historic Interiors, a speaker series offering an insider’s look at the history and importance of fabrics in early American interiors.
Calendar — Nov. 2, 2009
COLLOQUIA
Tues., Nov. 3, 4 p.m. “Someday This Will All Be Over: Dying, Death and Grief Amongst HIV+ Children in Eastern Zimbabwe,” a graduate student colloquium with Ross Parsons, KSAS. Sponsored by Anthropology. 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., Nov. 3, 4:15 p.m. The Ephraim and Wilma Shaw Roseman Colloquium Series—“Scanning Magnetic Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging with [...]
Calendar — Oct. 26, 2009
COLLOQUIA
Mon., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. “RNA Folding Landscapes From Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy,” a Biophysics/Physics colloquium with Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Tues., Oct. 27, 2 p.m. “The Origins of GPS and the Role of APL in the Technology,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Brad Parkinson, Stanford University. Parsons Auditorium. APL
Tues., [...]
HSO season opens with Liszt and Sibelius, pianist Terrence Wilson
Music director Jed Gaylin and the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra open the 2009–2010 season with a program of “seconds”: Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with pianist Terrence Wilson, and Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. The concert takes place at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, in Shriver Hall Auditorium on the Homewood campus. HSO program note writer and timpanist Max Derrickson will give a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m.
Calendar — Oct. 19, 2009
BLOOD DRIVES
Thurs., Oct. 22, 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. JHU Blood Drive; walk-ins welcome. To schedule an appointment online, go to http://hr.jhu.edu/fsrp/outreach/blooddrive. Fitness Center, Mount Washington Campus.
COLLOQUIA
Tues., Oct. 20, 4:15 p.m. “Synthesis, Photochemistry, Electrochemistry and Computation: First Forays Toward Photochromic Photooxidants,” a Chemistry colloquium with Jason Gillmore, Hope College. 233 Remsen. HW
Tues., Oct. [...]
Calendar — Oct. 12, 2009
COLLOQUIA
Tues., Oct. 13, 4 p.m. “Translating Cultures: Anthropology and Writing in Ruy Duarte de Carvalho,” an Anthropology colloquium with Livia Apa, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples. Co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies and the Program in Latin American Studies. 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., Oct. 13, 4:15 p.m. “Structural Dynamics From NMR Spectroscopy of Weakly Aligned Proteins,” [...]
JHU holds symposium on reducing college-age drinking
Asymposium for college administrators, community leaders, policy-makers, students and faculty will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6, to discuss how to reduce the harmful use of alcohol on college campuses in Baltimore.
Israeli ambassador Michael Oren to speak at Homewood
Michael B. Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, will speak at the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The talk is scheduled for 2 p.m. in Mason Hall Auditorium. The ambassador will be introduced by Lloyd Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.
Registration opens for DLC’s Nov. 5 Diversity Conference
Registration is now open for the Sixth Annual Diversity Conference, sponsored by the Diversity Leadership Council. Leadership: Transforming Diversity Into Inclusion will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, on the Homewood campus and will feature two speakers and two workshops. Deborah Elam, vice president and chief diversity officer at General Electric, will address participants at the morning plenary session, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. in Shriver Hall Auditorium.
Great Scott: Fitzgerald’s Baltimore
Even the great ones get writer’s block. F. Scott Fitzgerald described such a circumstance—and how he nudged himself out of it with a bus trip, a leisurely stroll and a trip to his local barbershop—in an article titled “Afternoon of an Author,” published in Esquire in 1936.
Calendar — Sept. 28, 2009
COLLOQUIA
Tues., Sept. 29, 4 p.m. “Living a Lifetime Sentence as a Wife to a Palestinian Political Prisoner,” an Anthropology colloquium with visiting scholar Lotte Buch. 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., Sept. 29, 4:15 p.m. “Catalysis, Chirality and Rotation Studied at the Single-Molecule Limit,” a Chemistry colloquium with Charles Sykes, Tufts University. 233 Remsen. HW
Wed., Sept. 30, 4 [...]
Shriver Hall Concert Series announces 2009–2010 season
Shriver Hall Concert Series, recognized five times for “Best Classical Music” by Baltimore magazine, opens its 44th subscription season on Sunday, Oct. 18, in Shriver Hall Auditorium on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus. The 2009–2010 season presents eight subscription concerts, all at 5:30 p.m. on Sundays, by solo recitalists and chamber ensembles and four free Discovery Series concerts, on Saturdays at 3 p.m., at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Calendar — Sept. 21, 2009
COLLOQUIA
Tues., Sept. 22, 4 p.m. “‘Naming’ Conversion: Being Muslim in Old Delhi,” an Anthropology colloquium with Deepak Mehta, Delhi School of Economics. Co-sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality. 400 Macaulay. HW
Thurs., Sept. 24, 3 p.m. “A Record of Historical Fact: Transsexuality, Retrospective Diagnosis and the Ethics of History; or Joking in the Archive With [...]
