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Calendar Items from the November 14, 2002, Campus News


SEMINARS, MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

Thursday, November 14 . . . Musculoskeletal Research Seminar: "Regulation of Growth Plate Chondrocyte Differentiation by Nuclear Hormone Receptors," Tracy Ballock and "Green Tea and Arthritis," Tariq Haqqi. Sponsored by the Department of Orthopaedics and the Cleveland Clinic Orthopaedics Research Center. 105 Biomedical Research Building, 4-5 p.m. Contact: Valerie Schmedlen, 844-3050 (valerie.schmedlen@uhhs.com).

Thursday, November 14 . . . Biochemistry Seminar Series: "Tuberculosis and Toothpaste: Brushing Up on Drug Resistance," Peter Tongue. Host Paul Carey. W439 School of Medicine, noon. http://www.cwru.edu/med/biochemistry/calendar.

Thursday, November 14 . . . Chemistry Colloquium: "Helicase-DNA Unwinding," Timothy Lohman. 108 Clapp Hall, 4 p.m. Contact: Pat Eland, 368-3622.

Friday, November 15 . . . Statistics Seminar: "Estimating Optimal Rules for Individually Tailored Treatments (Dynamic Treatment Regimes)," Susan Murphy. 327 Yost Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. http://sun.cwru.edu/general/colloq.shtml. Contact: Sharon Dingess, 368-6941 (skd4).

Friday, November 15 . . . Research Seminar Series: "Informed Consent Writing Workshop," Natale Polinko, Betty Dunger and Philip Cola. Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall, 9-10:30 a.m. Contact: Maureen Dore-Arshenovitz, 368-6925 (mxd4).

Monday, November 18 . . . Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series: "Role of Cytoplasmic Dynein in the Smooth Brain Neuronal Migration Disease Lissencephaly," Richard Vallee. E531 School of Medicine, 4:30-5:30 p.m. http://physiology.cwru.edu. Contact: Katie Reese, 368-3400 (kar18).

Monday, November 18 . . . Skeletal Research/Biology Symposium: "HMSCs and Adipogenesis," Danielle Mackay. 101N Millis Science Center, 4-5 p.m. http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/biol/skeletal/skeletal.htm. Contact: Debbie Bush, 368-3562 (ddb9).

Monday, November 18 . . . Neurosciences Journal Club: TBA. Speaker: Katherine Alex. E609 School of Medicine, noon to 1:30 p.m. Contact: Sakeenah Bari-Harold, 368-6252 (sxb84).

Tuesday, November 19 . . . Immunology Seminar Series: "Genes and Genomics of Autoimmune Inflammation: From Re1 to TRAIL," Youhai Chen. 105 Biomedical Research Building, noon to 1 p.m. Contact: Jeannie StMarie, 368-2482 (jxn12).

Tuesday, November 19 . . . Pharmacology Seminar Series: "Structure, Function and Inhibition of Beta-lactamase," Brian Shoichet. W344 School of Medicine, noon to 1 p.m. Contact: Jackie Martin, 368-4617 (jxw65).

Wednesday, November 20 . . . Diversity Awareness Workshop. Sponsored by Human Resources and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity. Registration required. 13 Crawford Hall, 1-5 p.m. http://www.cwru.edu/finadmin/humres/eddev/divaware.html. Contact: Tina Filsinger, (bjf).

Thursday, November 21 . . . Biochemistry Seminar Series: "DM Domain Proteins and Regulation of Sexual Dimorphism," David Zarkower. Host: Michael Weiss. W439 School of Medicine, noon. http://www.cwru.edu/med/biochemistry/calendar.

Thursday, November 21 . . . Frontiers in Chemistry: "Paharmacogenomics: At the Interface of Chemistry and Genetics," Wolfgang Sadee. 108 Clapp Hall, 4:30 p.m. Contact: Pat Eland, 368-3620.

Friday, November 22 . . . Statistics Seminar: "Analysis-case Control Data to Detect Candidate Genes," Robert Elston. 327 Yost Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. http://sun.cwru.edu/general/colloq.shtml. Contact: Sharon Dingess, 368-6941 (skd4).

LECTURES

Thursday, November 14 . . . Work in Progress Lecture Series: "Developing a New Play . . . 'Aristotle's Cup'," Ron Wilson. Sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. Baker-Nord Center, 206 Clark Hall, 4:30 p.m. http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/bakernord. Contact: Holly McCoy, 368-0528 (hmm8).

Thursday, November 14 . . . Frontiers of Astronomy: "From Stars to Disks and Disks to Planets," Karen Bjorkman. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 8 p.m. http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/dept/talks.html. Contact: Linda Day, 368-3728 (lmd3).

Thursday, November 14 . . . Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture: "Anatomy of a Discovery: Laennec's 'Invention' of Mediate Auscultation," Jacalyn Duffin. Sponsored by the Dittrick Medical History Center. RSVP required. Herrick Room, Allen Memorial Medical Library. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Contact: James Edmonson, 368-6391 (jme3).

Monday, November 18 . . . Stein Lectureship in International Social Welfare: "The Well Being of Children as Global Public Good," Kul Chandra Gautam. Sponsored by the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Reception will precede the lecture at 4:30 p.m. 202 Dively Executive Education Center, 5 p.m. Contact: Peggy Roberts, 368-2136 (psr2).

Monday, November 18 . . . IGERT Neuromechanics Special Lecture: "Evaluating the in-vivo Dynamics of Muscle Function in Relation to Power Generation Versus Economy and Elastic Savings," Andrew Biewener. 312 DeGrace Hall, 3:30-4:30 p.m. http://neuromechanics.cwru.edu/announce.htm. Contact: Al Pollack, 368-3591 (ajp3).

Tuesday, November 19 . . . "Sovereign Insolvency," Sean Hagan, Sponsors: The Frederick Cox International Law Center and Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group. $6 prepaid lunch fee. The City Club of Cleveland, East Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free transportation provided. Sign-up deadline November 14. Contact: Adria Sankovic, 368-2083 (ajs6).

Friday, November 22 . . . Raymond Boyer Lecture Series in Macromolecular Science and Engineering: "Linear and Non-Linear Rheology of Liquid Mixtures and Polymer Blends," Mosto Bousmina. 108 Clapp Hall, 3 p.m. Contact: Ica Manas-Zloczower, 368-3596 (macro).

LUNCHTIME MEETINGS

Thursday, November 14 . . . Art for Lunch: Informal Slide Talk: "Lala Deen Dayal and Colonialist Photography in India," Gary Sampson. Sponsored by the Department of Art History and Art. 100 Mather House, 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Contact: Debbie Tenenbaum, 368-4118 (dxt6).

Friday November 15 . . . Public Affairs Forum: "Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba as a Response to the U.S. Embargo," Ed Fritz. Bring your lunch. Beverages and cookies provided. 13 Crawford Hall, noon to 1:15 p.m. Contact: Jeff Bendix, 368-6070 (jxb34).

Thursday, November 21 . . . Staff Development Seminar: "Stress Management," Kathleen Duffy. Sponsored by Human Resources. Bring your brown bag lunch. Strosacker Auditorium, noon to 1 p.m. Contact: Tina Jurcisin, 368-2834, (tmj).

Thursday, November 21 . . . Art for Lunch: Informal Slide Talk: "Digital Transition," Jurgen Faust. Sponsored by the Department of Art History and Art. 100 Mather House, 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Contact: Debbie Tenenbaum, 368-4118 (dxt6).

Friday, November 22 . . . Public Affairs Forum: "The Lake Erie Dead Zone." Gerald Matisoff. Bring your lunch. Beverages and cookies provided. 13 Crawford Hall, noon to 1:15 p.m. Contact: Jeff Bendix, 368-6070 (jxb34).

DISSERTATION DEFENSES

Thursday, November 14 . . . "Rough Set-based Approach to Data Mining," Jia-Yuarn Guo, electrical engineering. Adviser: Vira Chankong. 709 Olin Building, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 14 . . . "Noninvasive Monitoring and Evaluation of Local Drug Delivery in Livers Following Radio Frequency Ablation, "Agata Exner, biomedical engineering. Adviser: Jinming Gao. 525 Wickenden Building, 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, November 14 . . . "Out of the Shadow of Titian: Bonifacio De' Pitati and the 16th Century Venetian Painting," Todd Herman, art history. Adviser: Howard Olszewski. 100 Mather House, 9 a.m.

Thursday, November 14 . . . "FT-IR Imaging of Polymer Dissolution," Beth Miller-Chou, macromolecular science, 231 Kent Hale Smith Building, 10 a.m.

Thursday, November 14 . . . "Low Temperature Metallization of SiC," Chris Deeb, materials science and engineering. Adviser: Arthur Heuer. Van Horn Library, 410 White Building, 2 p.m.

Friday, November 15 . . . "Steady State Imaging Methods for Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging," Ken-Pin Hwang, biomedical engineering. Adviser: Jeffrey Duerk. MR Conference Room, B108 Bolwell Health Center, noon.

Monday, November 18 . . . "Damage Modeling of Vertebral Trabecular Bone," Todd Bredbenner, mechanical and aerospace engineering. Adviser: Dwight Davy. 519E Glennan Building, 10 a.m.

Tuesday, November 19 . . . "Surface Control for Liquid Crystal Alignment," Bing Wei, physics. Adviser: Charles Rosenblatt. 219B Rockefeller Building, 10 a.m.

Tuesday, November 19 . . . "Dissecting Mechanisms of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Migration," Hui-Hsin Tsai, neurosciences. Adviser: Robert Miller. E609 School of Medicine, noon.

Wednesday, November 20 . . . "The Interrelationship of Sociodemographics, Quality of Life and Preference-based Measures," Lesly-Ann Miller, epidemiology and biostatistics. Adviser: Mendel Singer. 219 Rammelkamp, MetroHealth Medical Center, 2 p.m.

Thursday, November 21 . . . "Molecular Mechanisms of the Spatial and Temporal Regulation of T Cell Receptor Signal Transduction," Andrew Schade, pathology. Adviser: Alan Levine. B22 Pathology Institute, noon.

Friday, November 22 . . . "Successive Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming for General Nonlinear Programs," Hao-Wen Shih, electrical engineering and computer science. Sponsor: Vira Chankong. 709 Olin Building, 10:30 a.m.

Friday, November 22 . . . "Thin-film Microsensors for High-Temperature Gas Detection Arrays," Benjamin Ward, chemical engineering. Adviser: Chung Chiun Liu. Vose Conference Room, Bingham Building, 8:30 a.m.

Friday, November 22 . . . "Listening to the Nation: Museum Visitors and National Identity in South Africa and the United States," Tasslyn Frame, history. Adviser: Jonathan Sadowsky. 100 Mather House, 1 p.m.

Friday, November 22 . . . "Efficiency of Feeding Methods for Preterm Infants," Warinee Thanattherakul, nursing. Adviser: Donna Dowling. 203J School of Nursing, 10 a.m. to noon.

COMPUTER CLASSES

Register for classes online at http://kslearn.cwru.edu. If you encounter technical problems or error messages with the process, call extension 2991.

Thursday, November 14 . . . Building Course Content with Black Board, 10 a.m. to noon; Searching the Web: Can You Trust? 1-2:30 p.m.

Monday, November 18 . . . Using CWRU Templates in Dreamweaver, 1-2 p.m. Class meets in LL06; Adobe Acrobat, 10 a.m. to noon; Introduction Windows OS, 1-3 p.m.; Computer Fundamentals, 3-5 p.m.

Wednesday, November 20 . . . Industry Info Online, 10-11:30 p.m.; Basic NCBI Entrez System, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Class meets in the Health Center Library; MS Excel I, 1-3 p.m.; Introducing Learning Objects, 1-2 p.m. Class meets in LL06.

Thursday, November 21 . . . Introduction MS Access Database, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SPORTS

For schedule changes and contest results visit: http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/varsity/varsity.html.

Saturday, November 16 . . . Football vs. University of Chicago, 12:30 p.m.; men's and women's fencing @ Northwestern University, TBA; men's and women's swimming @ Denison University, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, November 19 . . . Wrestling @ John Carroll University, 7 p.m.

Friday, November 22 . . . Men's basketball @ College of Wooster Tournament, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; women's basketball, Cleveland Tip-Off Tournament @ Baldwin Wallace College, 6-8 p.m.

Saturday, November 23 . . . Men's basketball @ College of Wooster Tournament, 3:15-7:45 p.m.; women's basketball, Cleveland Tip-Off Tournament @ Baldwin Wallace College, 2-4 p.m.; men's and women's swimming @ Carnegie Mellon University, 1 p.m.; CWRU Wrestling Quad (Thiel, BWC, Waynesburg), noon.

CONCERTS

Friday, November 15 . . . Chapel, Court and Countryside: Chris Norman Ensemble: The Caledonian Flute. Sponsored by the Music Department. Admission $20. Harkness Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Contact: Pam Mittelstadt, 368-2400 (pdm3).

Sunday, November 17 . . . Saxophones on Sunday. Gregory Banaszak conducting. Harkness Chapel, 5 p.m. http://macjeeves.cwru.edu/cwrumusic. Contact: Pam Mittelstadt, 368-2400 (pdm3).

Sunday, November 24 . . . University Circle Wind Ensemble, Gary Ciepluch, conducting. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2:30 p.m. http://macjeeves.cwru.edu/cwrumusic. Contact: Pam Mittelstadt, 368-2400 (pdm3).

THEATER/DANCE

November 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24 . . . "The Secret Rain" by Robert Wray. Award-winning play about hell, a world without television and salvation. General admission $10, 60+ and CWRU faculty/staff $7, students with ID $5. Eldred Hall, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Box Office hours noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Reservations may be placed on voice mail. Contact: 368-6262.

FILM

Adults $3, children 12 and under $2, 10-film pass $25, semester pass $50. For more information visit: http://films.cwru.edu/schedule.html. Contact: CWRU Film Society, 368-2463.

Friday, November 15 . . . "Lilo and Stitch." Strosacker Auditorium, 7, 9 and 11 p.m.

Saturday, November 16 . . . "A Beautiful Mind." Strosacker Auditorium, 7 and 10 p.m.

Friday, November 22 . . . "Austin Powers in Goldmember." Strosacker Auditorium, 9:30 p.m. and midnight.

Saturday, November 23 . . . "Tape." Strosacker Auditorium, 7 and 9 p.m.

EXHIBITS

November 15 through December 20 . . . Annual Holiday Sale. The art of local Northeast Ohio artists is featured. Artist's reception: November 15, 5-7 p.m. Mather Gallery, Thwing Center, noon to 5 p.m. weekdays. Contact: 368-2679.

November 15 through December 18 . . . Arte Pover/American Style: Funk Play Poetry Labor. Works by Diana Cooper, Lucky De Bellevue, Jim Hodges and Lisa Hoke. Reinberger Galleries, 11141 East Boulevard, Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m. http://www.cia.edu. Contact: 421-7407 (bchecefsky@gate.cia.edu).

DEADLINES

Thursday, November 14 . . . Month-end voucher cutoff. 5 p.m.

Monday, November 18 . . . Month-end payroll cutoff. 10 a.m.

OTHER EVENTS

Thursday, November 14 . . . Reception to welcome Derek Bellin, vice president for development and alumni affairs. RSVP to rsvp@po.cwru.edu; please specify event. Hovorka Atrium, Agnar Pytte Center for Science Education and Research. 4:30-5:30 p.m. Contact: 368-2104.

Tuesday and Wednesday, November 19 and 20. . . Employee Benefits Fair: "Benelect Roundup." Information opportunity during open enrollment for employee benefits. Ballroom, Thwing Center, Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. http://www.cwru.edu/finadmin/humres/benefits/fair.html. Contact: Gail Palombia Shipley, 368-4729 (gps3).


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