January 3, 2011

Calendar — January 3, 2011

COLLOQUIA

Fri., Jan. 7, 2 p.m. “Vehicle Mounted Identification Friend or Foe (VMIFF): Leveraging Existing Targeting Systems for Fratricide Mitigation,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Lt. Commander Robert Kerchner and Nancy Haegel, Naval Postgraduate School. Parsons Auditorium.  APL

LECTURES

Mon., Jan. 10, 4 p.m. The Dean’s Lecture II—“Advancing the Science of Health Care Delivery” by Peter Pronovost, SoM. Sponsored by the School of Medicine. Hurd Hall.  EB

MUSIC

Sat., Jan. 8, 3 p.m. The Preparatory Jazz Ensembles perform. Cohen-Davison Family Theatre.  Peabody

READINGS

Mon., Jan. 10, 7 p.m. Author and activist David Swanson will discuss and sign copies of his book, War Is a Lie. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins.  HW

SEMINARS

Mon., Jan. 3, noon. “Biological Basis of Frailty and Late-Life Decline,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Jeremy Walston, SoM. W1020 SPH.  EB

Wed., Jan. 5, 8:30 a.m. “The Placebo Issue: Ethics, Science and Regulation,” a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Susan Ellenberg, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. W2030 SPH.  EB

Thurs., Jan. 6, noon. “Exploring Cellular Origins and Molecular Alterations in Prostate Cancer,” a Cell Biology seminar with Angelo DeMarzo, SoM. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg.  EB

Thurs., Jan. 6, 1 p.m. “Balloons, Bagpipes and Blood: Imaging Hemodynamics in the Awake Mouse Cortex,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Patrick Drew, Pennsylvania State University. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB.  EB

Mon., Jan. 10, 12:15 p.m. “How It’s Made: Building a Male Brain,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Margaret McCarthy, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.  HW

SPECIAL EVENTS

Fri., Jan. 7, noon to 1:30 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration, with guests U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin and former USDA official Shirley Sherrod. (See story, p. 4.) Turner Auditorium.  EB The event can also be viewed on closed-circuit television in Levering Hall’s Arellano Theater on the Homewood campus; Hurd Hall and Tilghman Auditorium, or on JHH Patient Channel 54, on the East Baltimore campus; the Asthma and Allergy Auditorium at Bayview; the auditorium at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda; conference room C113 in Davis Hall at Mount Washington; the Kossiakoff Center Auditorium at the Applied Physics Laboratory; or the third-floor conference room at 901 S. Bond St. in Fells Point.