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October Calendar of Events October 1 Men’s Crew Textile River Regatta, Lowell, Mass., 9 a.m. Community Day Residents, neighbors and friends of Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus are invited to a day of education, art and family entertainment, co-sponsored by the cities of Medford and Somerville. All activities, including lunch, are free of charge. Activities include complimentary lunch and refreshments; information tables from community groups; tips on safety and fire prevention from the police and fire departments; music and dance performances by Tufts student groups; a performance by the Traveling Treasure Trunk theater group and pumpkin painting, crafts, face painting and other activities for children. Academic Quad, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., rain or shine. University Gallery “Günther Selilchar: Media Machines,” an exhibition of photographs and a public art project by this Austrian artist. Selichar’s work invites viewers to scrutinize the structure of media apparatuses and to decode the messages embedded in their surfaces. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Thursday until 8 p.m. Aidekman Arts Center, Tisch Gallery, through November 19. For more information, call 617-627-3518 or go to http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gallery. University Gallery “Baghdad and Beyond: Drawings by Steve Mumford,” during four trips to Iraq in 2003 and 2004, Mumford traveled with Army units to Baghdad and seven other cities in Iraq, producing drawings and written accounts that were posted on the website http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/baghdadjournal.asp. In 2006, Mumford spent three days at Brooke Army Medical Center drawing portraits of disabled Iraqi War veterans. The exhibition features 41 watercolor and sepia drawings from the Baghdad Journal series and eight watercolors from the Brooke Army Medical Center. Mumford, a 1986 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, revives a great tradition of combat art characterized by Winslow Homer’s Civil War paintings. Aidekman Arts Center, Koppelman Gallery, through November 19. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Thursday until 8 p.m. For more information, call 617-627-3518 or go to http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gallery. University Gallery “Nuvolomondo,” the first site-specific installation by Boston painter Cristi Rinklin, commissioned for the Harry Remis Sculpture Court at the Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts. Culling imagery from sources as varied as Rococo art, cellular biology, natural history illustration, cosmological phenomena and decorative patterns, Rinklin’s lush environment depicts a world based on real objects and pictorial traditions, altered by technology, and completed by the imagination of the artist. Inspired by her recent visiting artist and scholar residency at the American Academy in Rome, Rinklin’s “cloud-world” installation is a “techno-ornate” burst of color and form. A contemporary interpretation of Baroque ornament, architectural details and stained glass panels, the installation is a stimulating experience that changes form and mood throughout the day. Aidekman Arts Center, Remis Sculpture Court, through January 14, 2007. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday until 8 p.m. For more information, call the gallery at 617-627-3518 or go to ttp://www.ase.tufts.edu/gallery. October 2 Philosophy Lecture “How Action Governs Intention,” Nishi Shah, Department of Philosophy, Amherst College. Braker Hall, Room 222, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. HNRCA Seminar “New Insights into the Mechanisms Involved in the Pleiotropic Actions of Vitamin D,” Sylvia Christakos, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, mezzanine conference room, 4-5 p.m. Boston campus. October 3 Arts & Sciences Town Meeting “The Intellectual Life on Campus in the Context of the Freshman-year Experience.” Sophia Gordon Hall function room, 4:30 p.m. Chemistry Seminar “Probing Chemistry and Electronic Structure at the Single Molecule Level with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy,” Prof. Mark Hersam, Northwestern University. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106, 4:30 p.m. Fulcrum Colloquium Series “Facilitating Online Discussion: Walking a Pedagogic Tightrope,” Prof. Joan Thormann, Lesley University. TERC, 2067 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. 4:30-6 p.m. October 4 Computer Science Colloquium “Poker for Fund and Profit (and Intellectual Challenge),” Rob Holte, University of Alberta. Halligan Hall, Room 111, 3-4 p.m. Sackler Scientific Seminar Series “Recent Insights into Structure and Function of UGTs,” Moshe Finel, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki. Sackler Center, Room 304D, 3:45-5 p.m. Boston campus. Women’s Soccer Tufts at Brandeis, 4 p.m. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar “Nutrition Systems Biology: Promoter Variants and the Response to Dietary Compounds,” Larry Parnell, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University. Halligan Hall, Room 106, 5-6 p.m. Lyon and Bendheim Alumni Lecture in Entrepreneurship Featuring Mara Aspinall, J83, president of Genzyme Genetics, who is one of the top women in the biotech industry. Ballou Hall, Coolidge Room, 5-7 p.m. October 5 Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology “Interkinetic Nuclear Migration and Neurogenesis in the Developing Retina,” Brian Link, associate professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin. Chitra Biswas Conference Room, M&V 105, 4 p.m. Boston campus. Field Hockey Gordon College at Tufts, 4 p.m. Chaplain’s Table on Religion, War and Peace “Peace,” Ben Tousley, storyteller. MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. 2006 Leontief Prize Tufts’ Global Development and Environment Institute presents the 2006 Leontief Prize for Advancing Frontiers of Economic Thought to Juliet Schor, professor of sociology, Boston College, and Samuel Bowles, research professor and director of the Behavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute. The prize-winners will present lectures on the theme “Economics for an Imperfect World: Building on the Galbraith Legacy.” Ballou Hall, Coolidge Room, 5-7:30 p.m. Concert “Blowers, Bowers, and Keys: Chamber Music of the Applied Music Faculty,” featuring Hans Bohn, Diane Heffner, Anne Howarth, Dana Russian, Scott Woolweaver and Chaden Yafi. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. October 6 Biology Seminar “Endogenous Bioelectrical Controls of Vertebrate Regeneration,” Dr. Michael Levin, Harvard Medical School. Barnum Hall, Room 104, 4-5 p.m. October 7 Men’s Soccer Tufts at Bowdoin, noon. Field Hockey Tufts at Bowdoin, noon. Women’s Cross Country All-New England Championship, Franklin Park, Boston, 12:30 p.m. Football Tufts at Bowdoin, 1 p.m. Men’s Cross Country All-New England Championship, Franklin Park, Boston, 1 p.m. Gallery Tour View the fall exhibitions with a Tufts gallery guide. Aidekman Arts Center, 2:30 p.m. October 9 October 10 Women’s Soccer Wesleyan at Tufts, 4 p.m. Chemistry Seminar “Fast Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy Studies of Dynamics and Reactions in Ice,” Prof. Vlad Sadchenko, George Washington University. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106, 4:30 p.m. October 11 Sterling Visiting Professorship in Pharmacology “Fat Cells and ß-Cells, Co-conspirators in the Obesity Epidemic,” Barbara E. Corkey, director of the Obesity Research Center and professor of medicine and biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, gives this 18th annual lecture in honor of the late Dr. Louis Lasagna, former dean of the Sackler School at Tufts. Jaharis Center, Behrakis Auditorium, 4 p.m. Boston campus. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar “Pathway Analysis via Systematic Combinatorial Perturbation of S. Cerevisiae,” Fritz Roth, Harvard Medical School. Halligan Hall, Room 106, 5-6 p.m. Men’s Soccer Plymouth State at Tufts, 6 p.m. October 12 Noontime Concert Featuring Ann Steeves, soprano. Goddard Chapel, 12:30 p.m. Public Health Seminar “Conservation Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Emergence of Infectious Diseases,” Dr. Jonathan H. Epstein, senior research scientist in epidemiology and zoonotic diseases, the Consortium for Conservation Medicine. Jaharis Center, Behrakis Auditorium, 4-5:30 p.m. Boston campus. Chaplain’s Table on Religion, War and Peace “Ideas of Jihad in Islamic Political Thought,” Malik Mufti, associate professor of international relations, Tufts University. MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. October 13 October 14 Women’s Soccer Tufts at Trinity, 11 a.m. Field Hockey Tufts at Trinity, 11 a.m. Women’s Crew New Hampshire Championships, Pembroke, N.H., 11 a.m. Men’s Crew New Hampshire Championships, Pembroke, N.H., 11 a.m. Men’s Soccer Tufts at Trinity, noon. Women’s Cross Country Plansky Invitational, Williams College, 12:15 p.m. Football Tufts plays the 1,000th football game in the history of the program, Trinity College, 1:30 p.m. October 16 Charles Francis Adams Lecture Featuring Jean-David Levitte, the French ambassador to the United States. Cabot Center, ASEAN Auditorium, 3:30-5 p.m. October 17 Field Hockey Wesleyan at Tufts, 4 p.m. Chemistry Seminar “A Fully Synthetic Three-Component Cancer Vaccine,” Prof. Geert-Jan Boons, University of Georgia. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106, 4:30 p.m. Norbert Wiener Lecture “Chaos,” James A. Yorke, Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland. The annual lecture series honors Norbert Wiener, a Tufts alumnus and world-renowned mathematician who made some of the most important contributions to mathematics in the 20th century and introduced the concept of cybernetics. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room 104, 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, including undergraduates of all majors. At 4:45 p.m., food and drink will be served in the Remis Sculpture Court, Aidekman Arts Center. October 18 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar “Analysis of Large-Scale Alterations in Tumor Genomes,” Ben Raphael, Brown University. Halligan Hall, Room 106, 5-6 p.m. Women’s Soccer Tufts at Keene State, 5 p.m. Norbert Wiener Lecture “The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: When Is HIV Most Infectious?” James A. Yorke, Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland. The annual lecture series honors Norbert Wiener, a Tufts alumnus and world-renowned mathematician who made some of the most important contributions to mathematics in the 20th century and introduced the concept of cybernetics. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room 104, 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, including undergraduates of all majors. At 4:45 p.m., food and drink will be served in the Remis Sculpture Court, Aidekman Arts Center. October 19 Chaplain’s Table on Religion, War and Peace “Religion Does Not Play a Major Role in Causing War: A Skeptic’s Approach,” Paul Joseph, professor of sociology, Tufts University. MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. Norbert Wiener Lecture “Determining the DNA Sequence, a Billion Dollar Logic Puzzle,” James A. Yorke, Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland. The annual lecture series honors Norbert Wiener, a Tufts alumnus and world-renowned mathematician who made some of the most important contributions to mathematics in the 20th century and introduced the concept of cybernetics. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room 104, 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, including undergraduates of all majors. At 4:45 p.m., food and drink will be served in the Remis Sculpture Court, Aidekman Arts Center. Artist’s Talk Boston painter Cristi Rinklin discusses her work, “Nuvolomondo,” the first site-specific installation commissioned for the Harry Remis Sculpture Court. Aidekman Arts Center, 6 p.m. October 20 Gastrointestinal Disease Research Symposium A meeting for researchers in gastrointestinal disease on Tufts’ three campuses to determine what GI research is occurring at Tufts and whether new collaborations are possible. Researchers who would like to attend should contact Dr. Lisa Freeman at lisa.freeman@tufts.edu or 508-887-4523. Administration Building, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Grafton campus. Gallery Tour View the fall exhibitions with Amy Ingrid Schlegel, director of galleries and collections. Aidekman Arts Center, 1-2 p.m. Authors Talk Featuring Frank Ackerman, director of the research and policy program at Tufts’ Global Development and the Environment Institute and the author of Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing. Tisch Library, Hirsh Reading Room, 2-3 p.m. An exhibition on the author is featured in the library lobby through October 31. Conservative and Reform Shabbat Services Reservations required; call 617-627-3242. Granoff Family Hillel Center, 6 p.m. October 21 Men’s Crew Head of the Charles Regatta, Charles River, Cambridge, Mass., through October 22. Women’s Soccer Williams at Tufts, noon. Gallery Tour View the fall exhibitions with a Tufts gallery guide. Aidekman Arts Center, 1-2 p.m. Field Hockey Williams at Tufts, 1 p.m. Football Williams at Tufts, 1:30 p.m. Men’s Soccer Williams at Tufts, 2:30 p.m. Gallery Tour View the fall exhibitions with a Tufts gallery guide. Aidekman Arts Center, 4-5 p.m. Parents Weekend Concert The Tufts Big Band, Chamber Singers, Chorale, Flute Ensemble, Third Day Gospel Choir, Kiniwe, Orchestra and Wind Ensemble come together for a special concert in honor of Parents Weekend. Cohen Auditorium, 8 p.m. October 22 Protestant Worship Service Goddard Chapel, 7:30 p.m. October 23 October 24 Chemistry Seminar “Mechanisms of Fragmentation in Carbohydrate Mass Spectrometry and Other Tales of High Energy Molecules,” Prof. Richard Johnson, University of New Hampshire. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106, 4:30 p.m. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar “Near-perfect Phylogenetics: Algorithms and Applications for Large-scale Genome Variation Data,” Russell Schwartz, CMU. Halligan Hall, Room 106, 5-6 p.m. October 25 Wind Music of Central Europe The Tufts Wind Ensemble, conducted by John McCann, presents Hindemith’s “Symphony for Winds and Percussion;” Janacek’s “Sokol Fanfare” and Weill’s “A Little Threepenny Music.” Cohen Auditorium, 8 p.m. October 26 Medical Seminar “Tec Kinase Signaling Regulates Conventional versus Innate T Cell,” Leslie Berg, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Jaharis Center, Behrakis Auditorium, noon-1 p.m. Boston campus. Noontime Concert Featuring Tom Duprey and All Trumpets. Goddard Chapel, 12:30 p.m. Chaplain’s Table on Religion, War and Peace “JUST War or Just WAR?” Felipe F.R. Fernandez-Armesto, professor of history, Tufts University. MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. Piano Concert Applied music faculty member Chaden Yafi presents works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and a premiere by John McDonald, associate professor of music. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. Theater Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” translated and directed by Laurence Senelick and featuring Darcy Pulliam, J65, in the role of Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina. All tickets for this performance are $5. Balch Arena Theater, 8 p.m. Additional performances are October 27 and October 28, 8 p.m.; November 2-4, 8 p.m.; and November 4, 2 p.m. Tickets for these performances are $10 for the general public; $7 for senior citizens and $7 with a valid Tufts ID. All tickets for the November 2 show are $1. Group rates are available. For more information and to purchase tickets over the phone with a credit card, call the Balch Arena Theater box office at 617-627-3493, weekdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. October 27 October 28 Men’s Crew Fall NESCAC-NERC Novice Championships, Worcester, Mass., 8 a.m. Men’s Soccer Connecticut College at Tufts, 11 a.m. Men’s Cross Country NESCAC Championship, Connecticut College, 11 a.m. Women’s Cross Country NESCAC Championship, Connecticut College, 11:45 a.m. Field Hockey Connecticut College at Tufts, noon. Football Tufts at Amherst, 1 p.m. Women’s Soccer Connecticut College at Tufts, 1:30 p.m. Theater Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” translated and directed by Laurence Senelick and featuring Darcy Pulliam, J65, in the role of Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina. Balch Arena Theater, 8 p.m. Additional performances are November 2-4, 8 p.m.; and November 4, 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for the general public; $7 for senior citizens and $7 with a valid Tufts ID. All tickets for the November 2 show are $1. Group rates are available. For more information and to purchase tickets over the phone with a credit card, call the Balch Arena Theater box office at 617-627-3493, weekdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. October 31 Editor’s note: The deadline for Calendar submissions for the November issue of the Tufts Journal is Monday, October 23. Submissions may be e-mailed to barbara.lewis@tufts.edu or you may send Calendar announcements to Barbara Lewis, Office of Publications, 200 Boston Ave., Medford campus. |
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