Lectures
Thursday, Sept. 9
8 a.m. Charles Sawyers of UCLA will be speaking about Molecular Studies of Prostate Cancer Progression in the Weinburg Auditorium in East Baltimore. The Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Urology.
11 a.m. Eric Furst will be speaking on Force Generation by Cytoskeletal Filament End-Tracking Motors in Maryland 110. This is also a free lecture sponsored by the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department.
12 p.m. Robert Jensen will be giving a lecture on the Dynamics of Mitochondria and Mitochondrial DNA in the 1830 bldg. in Suite 2-200. Cell Biology is sponsoring this and it is free.
12:15 p.m. A lecture entitled Focus on Formats will be gtiven at 111 Marketplace in the International Room of the East Baltimore campus. JHU Center for Communication has sponsored this free lecture.
1:30 p.m. Information session on Fellowship and Accelerated Programs will be held in Mattin 160. This is a free event sponsored by JHU Advanced Academic Programs.
4 p.m. Daniel Q. Naiman, Ph.D. will be giving a lecture on Symetry Breaking and Improved Tail Probability Bounds for the Range Statistic in Whitehead 304. This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Applied Mathmatics and Statistics.
6:30 p.m. A free lecture on Global Warming and the Chesapeake Bay will be given in the Mudd Auditorium.
8 p.m. Ret. General Wesley Clark will be speaking at the MSE Symposium about Defense spending in the 21st Century. The event is being held in Shriver Auditorium and is a free thanks to the 2004 MSE Symposium.
Friday, Sept. 10
1:30 p.m. The Johns Hopkins Undergradute Fellowship in the Humanities open house will be held until 3 p.m. in Mattin 150. This event is free and sponsored by the JHU Advanced Academic Programs.
4 p.m. Ron McKay of the Labratory of Molecular Biology NINDS, is speaking on Stem Cell Biology and Nuerogdegenerative Disease in Mudd Hall room 100. Sponsored by Surjeet Mastwal, Biology, this event is free.
5 p.m. There is a free seminar on "Clock and Watching Making In Early Maryland" at the Homewood House Museum. This is a free event sponsored by the Homewood House.
6 p.m. The English Department's Fall Reception will be held at the Highfield House, 4000 Charles from 6-8 p.m. The event is free and will be in the Guilford Room.
Saturday, Sept. 11
9 a.m. -4 p.m. Peter Rosen, the founder of the Creativity Cafe International, is the keynote speaker at this event held in Levering's Great Hall. The event is sponsored by The American Institute for Urban Psychological Studies and the CivicWorks/AmeriCorps.
Sunday, Sept. 12
11 a.m. The Women's National Democratic Club is hosting a tour and brunch at the Kalorama Embassy in Washington D.C. The cost is $45 and comfortable shoes are recommended.
Monday, Sept. 13
4 p.m A seminar on "Access to Health Care: The Presidential Positions" is being held at 615 N. Wolfe St. in the Sommer Hall and is sponsored by Ricky Fine of the Office of External Affairs / Governmental Relations, JHSPH. This is a free lecture.
4 p.m. Speaker Nils Walter, PhD. of the University of Michigan is holding a lecture on biophysics in Mergenthaler room 111. This lecture is free and sponsored by Biophysics at JHU.
4 p.m. Paul Cohen will being a seminar on the "Politics of Historical Philology in Early Modern France" in Gilman Room 315. The History Dept. is sponsoring this free lecture.
Tuesday, Sept. 14
9 a.m. Kinta Diven will be giving a Seminar on Rodent Handling in the Ross Building Room 403. This event is in East Baltimore and is free thanks to the Animal Care and Use Committee at JHU.
1:30 p.m. The Johns Hopkins Undergraduate Fellowship in the Humanities Open House will be held in the A&S Washinginton Center. The event is free and sponsored by JHU Advanced Academic Programs.
3 p.m. Bruce Rittman will be giving a lecture on "The Role of Molecular Methods in Environmental Biology" in Ames Room 234. The event is free thanks to Geography and Enviromental Engineering.
3:30 p.m. Craig Smith of Guilford Pharmaceuticals will be giving a seminar entitled "Journey from MD to CEO." This is a free event at the 1830 Bldg. in East Baltimore and is sponsored by Hopkins Biotech Network.
Wednesday, Sept. 15
12:15 p.m. Pat German, the Director of the Office for Research Subjects will be holding the "ORS Brown Bag Seminar: What Every Investigator Needs to Know but is Afraid to Ask (Overview of the ORS.)" This is a free program at 615 N. Wolfe Street in room W2029 and is sponsored by the Office for Research Subjects and JHSPH.
1 p.m. Dr. William Shek of Charles River Laboratories will be hosting the "Rodent Health Seminar: Health Surveillance" in the Turner Building's Tilghman room. This event is free and sponsored by Research Animal Resources at JHU and the Animal Care and Use Committee at JHU.
1 p.m. Carrie Euler will be speaking on "Religous and Cultural Exchange During the Reformation: Zurich and England, 1531-1558." This event is free thanks to History and will be held in Gilman Room 323.
4 p.m. The Queer October Symposium will be held in Gilman Room 323. This is a free event.
4:30 p.m. Ramin Takloo-Bighash of Princeton University will be giving a speech on a topic to be announced. The event is in Krieger 308, and is sponsored by Number Theory.
Thursday, Sept. 16
11 a.m. Richard Dickinson will be lecturing on "Force Generation by Cytoskeletal Filament End-Tracking Motors" in Maryland Room 110. The lecture is free thanks to Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at JHU.
3 p.m. Paula Viterbo of Bryn Mawr College will be giving a lecture on "The Chief Puzzle in Human Reproduction: Researchers' and Physicians' Knowledge of the Menstrual Cycle in the 1920's" in East Baltimore's Welch Library. History of Science and Medicine and Technology are hosting this free event.
3 p.m. Andrea Prosperetti of Modeling and Computation of Disperse Flows at JHU is giving a lecture in Hodson 210. JHU's Mechanical Engineering is sponsoring this free event.
3:30 p.m. Steve Girvin of Yale is giving a lecture on "Quantum Optics with Electric Circuits: Coupling a Single Photon to a Single Atom" in the Bloomberg Center's Schafler Auditorium. Thanks to Physics and Astronomy this is a free event.
4 p.m. Rozanne M. Sandri-Goldin, Ph.D. Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at UC Irvinie will be lecturing about the "Association of a Herpes Virus Regulatory Protein with the C-Terminal domain of RNA Plymerase II and MRNA export factories and recruitment to viral transcription sites." This is a free event at Mudd Hall Room 100 and is sponsored by JHU Department of Biology Seminar Series.
4 p.m. Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University is giving a lecture on a topic to be announced in Gilman 348. This is a free lecture and is sponsored by Seminar in Politcal and Moral Thought and the History Department.
4 p.m. Damianos Karakos will be giving a lecture on "Weighted Sums of K-L Divergences for Unsupervised Classification via Sensing and Processing Decision Trees" in Whitehead 304. This is a free event sponsored by Applied Mathmatics and Statistics.
5:30 p.m. Scott McDermott will be lecturing on "Charles Carroll of Carrollton: Faithful Revolutionary" at the Homewood House Museum. This is a free event sponsored by the Homewood House.
Spiritual and Religious Services
Thursday, Sept. 9
12 p.m. Lutheran Discussion Group meets every Thursday at Noon in Levering. Rev. Don Burggraf (410) 235-2356
5 p.m. Divine Liturgy and Dinner for Eastern Orthodox students at the Interfaith Center
8 p.m. Baptist bible study at University Baptist Church
9 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Services with Dr. Larry Egbert every Thursday at the Interfaith Center Library.
Friday, Sept. 10
1:15 p.m. Jumah prayers every Friday at the Interfaith center. For more information visit http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumso
7:30p.m. Tee at two 18-hole miniature golf courses of Stepping Stone Ministry. Meet at Shaffer 3
8 p.m. Seventh Day Adventist services with Fredrick Russell every Friday at the Interfaith.
Saturday, Sept. 11
Shabbat Dinner at the Interfaith center; for more information and times visit http://www.jhu.edu/~jsa
Sunday, Sept. 12
11 a.m. Catholic Mass is held at the interfaith center every Sunday. For more information visit http://www.catholic.jhu.edu
11 a.m. Aarthi is held every Sunday at the interfaith center in the lower level. For more information email HSC@jhu.edu
1:30 p.m. Stepping Stones Ministry holds services every Sunday at the interfaith center, followed by a fellowship meeting at 3 p.m.
8 p.m. Baptist services and contemporary worship held at the University Baptist Church every Sunday.
Wednesday, Sept. 15
7 p.m. Buddhist meditation is practiced at the Interfaith Center every Wednesday.
8 p.m. The Graduate Christian Fellowship has its meetings every Wednesday in the Marylander Apartments., London Room. For more information email Bmac@jhu.edu.
Baltimore Sports
Friday, Sept. 10
7 p.m. Don't miss Disney's Swim with the Stars event at University of Maryland Campus Recreation, featuring Michael Phelps. Visit http://www.digitalcity.com/baltimore for more details.
7:05 p.m. Orioles at home against the New York Yankees.
Saturday, Sept. 11
4:35 p.m. Orioles at home against the New York Yankees.
Sunday, Sept. 12
1 p.m. Ravens in Cleveland against the Browns.
1:35 p.m. Orioles at home against the New York Yankees.
Monday, Sept. 13
7:05 p.m. Orioles in Boston against the Red Sox.
Wednesday, Sept.15
7:05 p.m. Orioles in Toronto against the Blue Jays.
Thursday, Sept. 16
7:05 p.m. Orioles in Toronto against the Blue Jays.
Miscellaneous Events
Thursday, Sept. 9
6 p.m. The New Century Poetry night is taking place at High Grounds at 3201 Eastern Ave. The sponsoring organization is New Century Poetry Vanguard.
7:30 p.m. The Bharatha Natyyam Recital will be performed at the Kraushaar Auditorium. This event is being sponsored by Goucher College.
Friday, Sept. 10
5 p.m. Head out to Mt. Vernon Square Park for the Fashion on Charles outdoor fashion show. The Fashion on Charles Group is sponsoring this show, which plans to show off the finest in Baltimore fashion for men and women.
5 p.m. Hispanic Heritage Night, sponsored by and held at the National Aquarium, is a celebration of aspects of Latin American culture. Visit http://www.aqua.com for more information.
5 p.m. The National Aquarium in Baltimore offers a discounted admission of $5 every Friday after 5 p.m. For more information, call (410) 567-3845.
8 p.m. The Maryland Space Grant Observatory, located in Bloomberg Center, offers you a free chance to look at the solar system with its telescopes, weather permitting. Call (410) 516-6525 for weather updates and observing conditions before you hike up to Bloomberg.
10 p.m. Coffee Grounds takes place every Friday night in the Mattin Center Silk Road Cafe. Come out for the free Krispy Kreme doughnuts and coffee, and stay for the fun evening activity.
Saturday, Sept. 11
2 p.m. Think globally, Act locally! Join the National Aquarium in exploring how dirt ends up in th e Chesapeake Bay using the Aquarium's EnvironScape Watershed Model. This is being sponsored by the National Aquarium. For more info visit http://www.aqua.com.
Tuesday, Sept. 14
5:30 p.m. SAC General Assembly Meeting is being held in the Arlano Theater below the Glass Pavilion. This meeting is mandatory for all SAC groups.
7:30 p.m. Mark Blyth, Steven David and Thomas Keaney of SAIS will be giving speeches about the effects of 9/11 today in the Glass Pavilion. This event is part of a fellowship with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and is free. There will also be a benediction from the school chaplain.
Wednesday, Sept. 15
9 p.m. There is a Peace by PEACE meeting in the McCoy Multipurpose Room. Pizza will be served, so this is your chance to get some free food and make peace!
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