Calendar

Calendar from the 11-15-01 Campus News

The deadline for submissions to the November 29 issue of Campus News is November 19. Send items to Maria Wolf, 14 Adelbert Hall, 7017; e-mail them to mew15; or call 368-4440.

SEMINARS, MEETINGS, AND CONFERENCES

Thursday, November 15... International Education Week: "Through the Looking Glass: Living and Learning in a Foreign Land." CWRU international students and American students who have studied abroad will share their experiences. 356 Sears Building, Noon to 1 p.m. Sponsored by the Office of International Student Services. Contact Elise Lindsay (exl14).

Thursday, November 15... "The Status of CWRUnet." Jeff Gumpf. Question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. 13 Crawford Hall, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 15... Frontiers in Chemistry: "Pharmacogenomics: At the interface of Chemistry and Genetics." Wolfgang Sadee. 108 Clapp Hall, 4:30 p.m. Visitors welcome for coffee and cookies at 4 p.m., Clapp Lobby.

Thursday, November 15... Biochemistry Seminar: "Mechanism of paysing by RNA polymerase." Bob Landick. Host: Pieter deHaseth. W439 School of Medicine, noon.

Friday, November 16... International Education Week: Global Marketing. Siisi Adu-Gyamfi will provide a unique perspective from his experience in over 100 countries and six continents. Enterprise Hall Atrium, 2:30-3:20 p.m. Sponsored by the Office of International Student Services. Wine-and-cheese reception sponsored by the Cox International Law Center will follow. Contact Elise Lindsay (exl14).

Friday, November 16... The Friday Morning Seminar: "Issues when contracting with industry," videotape of National Council of University Research Administrators teleconference. Toepfer Room Adelbert Hall, 8:30 a.m. to noon. Sponsored by the Office of Research Administration. Contact Maureen Dore-Arshenovitz, 368-6925 (mxd4).

Saturday, November 17... "Biological and chemical terrorism: What area health care providers need to know." Continuing medical education course designed to provide information to health care providers with the aim of reducing public anxiety and increasing the region's preparedness in the event of an emergency. Ford Auditorium, Allen Medical Library, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $15; no charge for medical and nursing students. The program repeats December 1. Contact the office of Continuing Medical Education, 368-2408, or visit http://cme.cwru.edu.

Monday, November 19... "Prevention of HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission in the Developing World," Laura Guay, Johns Hopkins University. Kulas Auditorium (fifth-floor Lakeside Hospital), noon to 1 p.m. Sponsored by the AIDS International Training and Research Program in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine. Contact Grace Svilar, 368-3727 (gms4).

Monday, November 19... The Louis Stokes Leadership Symposium on Social Issues and the Community: "Political Action to Build 'The Beloved Community'." The Honorable John Lewis will be the inaugural speaker. Sponsored by the Office of the President. Reception and book-signing immediately following. Ford Auditorium, Allen Memorial Medical Library, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 20... Cuyahoga County Community Mental Health Research Institute: "Fall 2001 Research Forum." Stonehill Conference Center, Mandel Jewish Community Center, 2-4 p.m. Sponsored by MSASS and the Cuyahoga County Community Mental Health Board. For details or to register, call 368-2274.

Monday, November 26... Pathology Seminar: "The Consequences of Acquired Immune Responses in the Human Fetus." Christopher King. B22 School of Medicine, noon. Contact Shu Chen, 368-8925 (sxc59).

Tuesday, November 27... University Women's Coalition Meeting. Guilford House Dining Room, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Contact Amanda Booher, 368-1064 (akb).

Tuesday, November 27... Immunology Seminar Series: "The Spatial Organization of the Cell Surface B Cell Antigen Receptor-Location Is Everything," Susan Pierce. Frohring Auditorium, Biological Research Building, noon to 1 p.m. CME-accredited activity sponsored by the School of Medicine and hosted by the Department of Pathology. Contact Jeannie St. Marie, 368-2482 (jxn12).

Tuesday, November 27... "The Basics: Planning for your Retirement." Vanguard representatives will make a presentation on building a nest egg for retirement. Meeting Room 1, Thwing Center, 1-2 p.m. Sponsored by Human Resources. Contact Amy Sheldon, 368-6693 (ais3).

Wednesday, November 28... Wednesday Women's Forum: "Swing into Finals!" Join the University Women's Coalition and the CWRU Ballroom Dance Society in learning all the fancy footwork you need for holiday parties. Guilford House Parlor, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Contact Amanda Booher, 368-1064 (akb).

Wednesday-Thursday, November 28-29... Accounting, Financial and Material Support Workshop: "Sponsored Projects Accounting -- Introduction." 13 and 14 Crawford Hall Registration required. Space is limited to 25 enrollees. Contact Tia Richardson (txr4).

Thursday, November 29... Chemistry Colloquium. "Vitamin C-Induced Decomposition of Lipid Hydroperoxides to Endogenous Genotoxins," Ian Blair. 108 Clapp Hall, 4:05 p.m. Visitors are welcome for coffee and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 29... Pharmacology Journal Club. Speaker: Chi Zhang. W344 School of Medicine, 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 29... Biochemistry Seminar: "Energy and signal transduction in retinal proteins. Insights from crystallographic studies at high resolution," Ehud Landau. Host: Menachem Shoham. W439 School of Medicine, noon.

Friday, November 30... Wealth Builders Club: "Educating Children in Money Matters," Theresa Pizzuto. 301A Kelvin Smith Library, noon to 1 p.m. Sponsored by the Staff Advisory Council. Contact Gail Shipley, 368-4729 (gps3).

LECTURES

Thursday, November 15... Annual Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture: "Hollow Victory: The Great Influenza Vaccine Trial of 1943," John Eyler. Dedication of the Zverina Room will take place following the lecture. Herrick Room, first floor, Allen Memorial Library, 5:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Dittrick Medical History Center. Register at 368-3648 (jks4).

Friday, November 16... City Club Talk: "Prescription for Health," by Surgeon General David Satcher, a double alumnus of CWRU. The City Club, noon. Tickets are $15 for members, $20 for others, and $320 for a table of eight. Call 621-0082 or visit http://www/cityclub.org.

Friday, November 16... Raymond Boyer Lecture Series in Macromolecular Science and Engineering: "New Materials by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization," Kryzysztof Matyjaszewski. Clapp Hall Auditorium, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 20... "SCD5P Is a Targeting Subunit For PP1 In Actin Organization and Endocytosis." Ji-suk Chang. W234 School of Medicine, noon.

Tuesday, November 20... "The Evolution, Origin and Assembly of Birds: New Evidence from Asia." Mark Norell, author of Discovering Dinosaurs. Thwing Center Ballroom, 5 p.m. Call 368-0528 or visit http://www.cwru/artisci/scholars.

Monday, November 26... "Maintaining Exercise Following Cardiac Events." Shirley Moore. First-floor lounge, School of Nursing, moon to 1 p.m. Contact the Center for Research and Scholarship, 368-5983 (cfrs@fpb.cwru.edu).

Tuesday, November 27... Events in Pharmacology: "The Signaling Mechanisms of Bioactive Lysophospholid in Ovarian Cancer Cells." Yan Xu. W344 School of Medicine, noon to 1 p.m. Contact Jackie Martin, 368-4617 (jxw65).

Wednesday, November 28... IGERT Neuromechanics Lecture Series: " Sensorimotor Control: From Spring-Like Actuators to Neural Prediction," Arthur Prochazka. 312 DeGrace Hall (Biology), 3:30 p.m. Sponsored by Biology and Engineering. Contact Al Pollack, 368-3591 (ajp3).

LUNCHTIME MEETINGS

Thursday, November 15... Video on Wheels: "Timing is Everything: How to Have a Productive 25-Hour Day." 209 Crawford Hall, noon to 1 p.m. Contact Tina Jurcisin, 368-2834 (tmj).

Thursday, November 15... Elder Care Support Group: "Preparing for the Holidays," Beth Falkner-Brown. 14 Crawford Hall, noon to 1 p.m. Brown bag lunch. Contact Carolyn Gerich, 368-2458 (cag16).

Friday, November 16... The Public Affairs Discussion Group: "The Future and Significance of NASA Glenn," Marty Kress. 14 Crawford Hall, noon. Brown bag lunch, beverages provided. Contact Jeff Bendix, 368-6070 (jxb34), or Joe White 368-2426 (jxw87).

Tuesday, November 20... Art for Lunch: "Oldenburg/Van Bruggen FREE STAMP: Re: Installation and Iconology." Informal slide talk by Edward Olzewski. 100 Mather House, 11:45 a.m. Brown bag lunch.

Thursday, November 29... Art for Lunch: "Suzanne Valdon: the Model who became an Artist." Informal slide talk by Christine Valadon. 100 Mather House, 11:45 a.m. Brown bag lunch.

Friday, November 30... The Public Affairs Discussion Group: "Humanitarian Intervention in Rwanda," Joe White and Ted Brown. 14 Crawford Hall, noon. Brown bag lunch, beverages provided. Contact Jeff Bendix, 368-6070 (jxb34), or Joe White 368-2426 (jxw87).

DISSERTATION DEFENSES

Thursday, November 15... "Musculoskeletal Modeling of the Shoulder and Elbow in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury." Anamaria Acosta, biomedical engineering. Advisor: Robert Kirsch. 525 Wickenden Building, 3 p.m.

Friday, November 16... "Changes in Team Communication Patterns: Learning During Project Problem/Crisis Resolution Phases (Longitudinal Field Study - Diachronic Analysis)." Alex Citurs, information systems. Advisor: Richard Boland. 684 Sears Library Building, 2 p.m.

Friday, November 16... "Real-Time Microstructural and Functional Imaging and Image Processing in Optical Coherence Tomography." Voker Westphal, biomedical engineering. Advisor: Joseph Izatt. Third- floor conference room, Kent Hale Smith Building, 3 p.m.

Friday, November 16... "Synthesis and Characterization of Sulfonic Acid Containing Polyimides for Polymer Electrolyte Membranes (PEMs) in Fuel Cells." Hyoung-Juhn Kim, macromolecular science. Advisor: Morton Litt. Third-floor conference room, Kent Hale Smith Building, 1 p.m.

Friday, November 16... "Re-examining Information Systems Success Through the Appreciative Inquiry Lens: What Information Technology Professionals Know." Michel Avital, information systems. Advisor: Richard Boland. 683 Sears Library Building, 10 a.m. to noon.

Monday, November 19... "A Role for SAPK/JNK in Cell Cycle." Valerie Goss, pathology. Advisor: Dennis Templeton. Pathology Amphitheater, noon.

Tuesday, November 20... "The Conversation of Relationships: the Content and Quality of Strong and Weak Peer Relationships in Geographically Dispersed Teams." Rama Kaye Bhalla Hart. Advisor: Poppy McLeod. 541 Enterprise Hall, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 20... "Thermal Decomposition Processes in Polybenzoxazine Model Dimers and Oligomers Investigated by TGA and GC-MS." Kasinee Hemvichian, macromolecular. Advisor: Hatsuo Ishida. 146 Kent Hale Smith Building, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, November 27... "Occupational Stress, Dissatisfaction with Family Relationships, Learned Resourcefulness and Women's Health." Piyanee Klanin, nursing. Advisor: Jaclene Zauszniewski. 2280 School of Nursing, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, November 27... "High-Performance Passivity-Based Robotic Force Control." Mark Dohring, electrical engineering. Advisor: Wyatt Newman. 210F Glennan Building, 10 a.m.

Tuesday, November 27... "Structure and Evolution if the Pericentromeric Region of the Human X Chromosome." Mary Schueler, genetics. Advisor: Huntington Willard. 105 Biomedical Research Building, 1:30 p.m.

COMPUTER CLASSES

Register for classes listed below at 368-2992 or via e-mail at kslearn. All classes are at 215 Kelvin Smith Library unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, November 15... Using Databases to Manage Instructional Resources. LL06 KSL, 1-3 p.m.

Thursday, November 15... CWRUnet for New Employees. 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 15... Web of Science Citation Databases. 10-11:30 a.m.

Friday, November 16... Introduction to Windows 98/NT/2000. 10 a.m. to noon.

Monday, November 19... E-mail at CWRU. 3-5 p.m.

Monday, November 19... Microsoft Excel I. 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Monday, November 19... Basic Scanning and Editing Techniques. 1-2 p.m.

Monday, November 19... Creating Graphics with Fireworks. LL06 KSL, 1-3 p.m.

Tuesday, November 20... Government Stats. 1-2 p.m.

Tuesday, November 20... Medline Database. 254 Health Center Library, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday, November 26... Basic PageMaker Pro for Windows. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 27... Cascading Style Sheets: HTML Pages. 9 a.m. to noon.

Tuesday, November 27... Presenting Information with Power Point. 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 28... Digital Images. 1-3 p.m.

Wednesday, November 28... Computer Fundamentals. 4-6 p.m.

Thursday, November 29... Multimedia with Macromedia's Director I: Animation. 1:30-3:30 p.m.

CWRU SPORTS

Friday, November 16... Men's and women's swimming vs. Denison and Kalamazoo, 5 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, November 16-17... Men's and women's basketball at Johns Hopkins Tournament.

Saturday, November 17... Men's and women's swimming vs. Carnegie Mellon, 1 p.m.; Wrestling at Baldwin Wallace Quad, noon.

Tuesday, November 19... Men's basketball at Wittenberg, 7:30 p.m.; Women's basketball vs. Ohio Wesleyan, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 24... Women's basketball at PSU Behrend, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, November 27... Men's basketball at Hiram, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 29... Men's and women's swimming at Eastern Michigan Invitational; Women's basketball at Ursuline, 7 p.m.

EXHIBITS

Through December... Manuscripts on the history of dermatology. Allen Memorial Library, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 to 6 p.m. Sundays.

Through December 21... Holiday Sale. Affordable fine arts and crafts. Mather Gallery, Thwing Center. An artists' reception is from 5-7 p.m. Friday, November 16. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. weekdays. Call 368-2679.

CONCERTS

Saturday, November 17... Student Recital. Kristin Vento, soprano. Harkness Chapel, 6 p.m. Contact Pam Mittelstadt, 368-2400 (pdm3).

Sunday, November 18... University Wind Ensemble. Gary Ciepluch conducting. Cleveland Museum of Art, 2:30 p.m. Contact Pam Mittelstadt, 368-2400 (pdm3).

Sunday, November 18... University Singers. James Kotora conducting. Harkness Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Contact Pam Mittelstadt, 368-2400 (pdm3).

Friday, November 30... "Windi and Jazzi XIII." Gary Ciepluch conducting. Multimedia event. Prizes and refreshments. Thwing Center Ballroom, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $8 each, or $56 for a table of eight. This event sells out quickly. Reserve tickets soon. Contact Pam Mittelstadt, 338-2400 (pdm3).

Friday, November 30... Early Music Singers, directed by Ross Duffin. Cleveland Museum of Art Garden Court, 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Contact Pam Mittelstadt, 338-2400 (pdm3).

THEATER/DANCE

Friday, November 16... "A Tribute to the Greatest." Geoffrey Ewing's one-man show on Muhammad Ali. Ford Auditorium, Allen Memorial Library, 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Baha'I Club, University Program Board, Office of Housing and Resident Life, Muslim Student Association, College Scholars Program, and Office of Multicultural Affairs. Contact Aaron Twaddell (apt3).

Friday, November 16... Social Ballroom Dance. Lessons from 7-8 p.m. Dance from 8-10 p.m. Salsa, merengue, cha-cha, rumba, samba, tango, swing, hustle, foxtrot, waltz, and others. Carlton Commons, 7-10 p.m. For updated dance information, visit http://home.cwru.edu/CWRUBDS/.

FILM

Unless otherwise noted, tickets are $3 for adults, $2 for children 12 and under, or $25 for a 10-film pass. Call the CWRU Film Society, 368-2463.

Friday, November 16... Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Strosacker Auditorium, 7, 9:30 p.m., midnight.

Saturday, November 17... From Russia With Love. Strosacker Auditorium, 7, 9:15 p.m.

Friday, November 30... How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Strosacker Auditorium, 7, 9:15, 11:30 p.m.

DEADLINES

Thursday, November 15... Vouchers for end-of-the-month payroll are due in the payroll office by 10 a.m.

Monday, November 19... Semi-monthly paperwork due to Records Administration.

Wednesday, November 28... Entries for the sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest are due in the Office of the President, 216 Adelbert Hall, by 5 p.m. -- or submit entries via e-mail to Tina Filsinger (bjf).

Thursday-Friday, November 29-30... Members of the families of the faculty and staff who are artists and craftsmen are invited to submit their work to Art in the Circle's Holiday Potpourri Sale. Tomlinson Hall, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Contact Donna Ernst, 283-7462.

OTHER EVENTS

Saturday, November 17... The Institute for the Integration of Management and Engineering (TIIME) hosts an open house. All engineering majors interested in management are welcome to explore the new Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program. 330 Enterprise Hall, 9 a.m. Jody Crawford, 368-4831 (jmc35).

November 19 through December 19... The ninth annual Shower the Shelters drive will collect toiletries that will be donated to the Domestic Violence Center (formerly Templum House) and St. Malachi's Shower Program. Drop off new toiletry articles in marked bins located in Thwing Center and in the Hallinan Catholic Center. For more information or a copy of the "Wish List," call 368-2660.

Thursday-Friday, November 22-23... Thanksgiving Holiday.

Monday, November 26... Benelect open enrollment begins. Contact Gail Shipley, 368-4729 (gps3).

Tuesday-Wednesday, November 27-28... Benefits Fair. Receive insurance information, enrollment assistance, and carrier application forms for Benelect 2002 open enrollment. Flu shots will be available. Thwing Center Ballroom, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. November 27, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. November 28. Sponsored by Human Resources. Contact Gail Shipley, 368-4729 (gps3).

Wednesday, November 28... Mesa Hispanica. An opportunity to practice Spanish language skills. All are invited to share in conversation. Arabica at University Circle, 4-5 p.m. Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages. Contact Adora Campis, 368-4324 (agc4).