11 a.m. Chemistry seminar. The Bayer Distinguished Leadership. "Structure and Dynamics of Brush-like Molecules at Surfaces." Martin Mšller, prof., U. of Ulm, Germany. Room 311 McMillen Lab. 935-6530.
11 a.m. Religious Studies Program lecture. Inaugural Witherspoon Lecture in Religion and Science. "Science and/or Religion." Steven Weinberg, physics and astronomy depts., U. of Texas, Austin. Graham Chapel. 935-7752.
Noon. Cell biology and physiology seminar. "Intercellular Calcium Signalling." Thomas H. Steinberg, assoc. prof. of cell biology and physiology and of medicine. Room 426 McDonnell Medical Science Bldg. 747-4233.
2:30 p.m. Physics seminar. "Form Factors for Fluctuations in the Cosmic Background Radiation." Steven Weinberg, U. of Texas, Austin. Room 204 Crow Hall (refreshments 2:15 p.m.). 935-6276.
4 p.m. Anatomy and neurobiology seminar. Glenn C. Conroy, prof. of anatomy and neurobiology. Room 928 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-7043.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics colloquium. "A Novel Approach to Estimating Hormonal Pulse-times and Structural Parameters." Somesh Chattopadhyay, U. of Virginia, Charlottesville. Room 199 Cupples I Hall (tea 4 p.m., Room 200). 935-6760.
Noon. Lung biology conference. "Exploring New Players in Lung Biology: An Orphan G Protein Coupled Receptor and Many PAS Domain Transcription Factors." Jingson Xy, pediatrics dept. Room 801 Clinical Sciences Research Bldg. 362-8983.
Noon. Molecular biology and pharmacology seminar. "Post-transcriptional Control of Embryonic Patterning in Drosophila." Elizabeth R. Gavis, assoc. prof. of molecular biology, Princeton U. Room 3907 South Bldg. 362-2725.
Noon. Neurology and Neurological surgery research seminar. "Na/K Pump and Neuronal Death." Shan Ping Yu, research assoc. prof. of neurology. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-7379.
Noon. School of Law's Inst. for Global Legal Studies lecture. Achilleas Demetriades, British-educated, Greek Cypriot attorney. Co-sponsored by Hellenic Society of St. Louis. Room 202 Anheuser-Busch Hall. 935-7988.
Noon-1 p.m. Work, Families and Public Policy Brown Bag Seminar Series. "Career Attainments of Women in Science." Donna Ginther, asst. prof. of economics. Room 300 Eliot Hall. 935-4918.
4 p.m. Assembly Series. The Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman and the Thomas C. Hennings Memorial Lectures. Paul Simon, Ilinois' former senior U.S. senator; dir. of Public Policy Inst., Southern Ill. U., Carbondale. Graham Chapel. 935-5285.
4 p.m. Immunology Research Seminar Series. "Innate Immune Recognition and Control of Adaptive Immunity. Ruslan Medzhitov, immunobiology dept., Yale U. School of Medicine. Eric P. Newman Education Center. 362-2763.
4 p.m. St. Louis NMR Discussion Group. "Advances in NMR Studies of Large Proteins - Using NMR and Crystallography to Study Signal Transduction." R. Andrew Byrd, National Cancer Inst., Structural Biophysics Lab., Bethesda, Md. Room 241 Compton Hall (coffee 3:45 p.m.). 935-6418.
4 p.m. The Seigel Seminar in American Culture. "Memorial and Memory: Struggles for a Usable Past." Robert Dallek, author and prof. of history, Boston U. Sponsored by American Culture Studies. Ann W. Olin Women's Bldg. Lounge. 935-5216.
7 p.m. Architecture Monday Night Lecture Series. Warren Schwartz, architect, Schwartz-Silver Architects, Inc., Boston. Steinberg Hall Aud. (reception 6:30 p.m., Givens Hall). 935-6293.
4 p.m. Pain Center seminar. "Nociceptor Sensitization Can Be a Real Pain." Jon Levine, prof. of oral and maxillofacial surgery, U. of Calif., San Francisco. Room 5550 Clinical Sciences Research Bldg. 362-8560.
7 p.m. Cherrick Lecture in Jewish Studies. "American Orthodoxy's Era of Non-observance." Jeffrey S. Gurock, Jewish historian and the Libby M. Klaperman Prof. of Jewish History, Yeshiva U., N.Y. Co-sponsored by Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies and The Adam Cherrick Fund In Jewish Studies. Women's Bldg. Lounge. 935-8567.
7 p.m. School of Architecture Lecture Series. Danelle Guthrie and Tom Buresch, architects, Guthrie and Buresch Architects, Los Angeles. Co-sponsored by School of Architecture and Grand Center, Inc. Steinberg Hall Aud. (reception 6:30 p.m., Givens Hall). 935-6200.
3:45 p.m. Physics colloquium. "The Two Most Elusive Numbers in Nuclear Physics." Willem Hendrik Dickhoff, prof. of physics. Room 204 Crow Hall (coffee 3:30 p.m., Room 241 Compton Hall). 935-6276.
4 p.m. Biochemistry and molecular biophysics seminar. "Insights Into the Physiological Functions of Intracellular Lipid Binding Proteins." Luis B. Agellon, asst. prof. of biochemistry, U. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Erlanger Aud., McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-0261.
4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. "Oxazaborolidinones as Versatile Chiral Lewis Acids in Enantiotopic Face Selective and Group Selective Reactions." Toshiro Harade, chemistry dept., Kyoto Inst. of Technology, Japan. Room 311 McMillen Lab. 935-6530.
4 p.m. The Seigle Seminar in American Culture. "New York's African Burial Ground: Memorial, Memory and Human Rights." Michael Blakey, prof. of anthropology and anatomy, curator of the W. Montague Cobb Human Skeletal Collection and scientific dir., New York African Burial Ground Project, Howard U. Ann W. Olin Women's Bldg. Lounge. 935-5216.
Noon-1 p.m. Genetics seminar. "Mapping and Sequencing a Human Chromosome: How and Why." Eric Green, NIH Intramural Sequencing Center. Room 823 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-7072.
4 p.m. Assembly Series. The John and Penelope Biggs Residency in the Classics. Elizabeth Asmis, prof. of classics, U. of Chicago. Graham Chapel. 935-5285.
4 p.m. African & Afro-American Studies Program lecture. "Historical Moments in African American Art." Sharon Patton, prof. of art history and dir., the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio. Room 200F Eliot Hall. 935-5690.
4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. Gary Drobney, chemistry dept., U. of Washington. Room 311 McMillen Lab. 935-6530.
4 p.m. Medical Mycology Research Club. "Visualizing Capsule Growth in Cryptococcus." Tamara Doering, asst. prof. of molecular microbiology. "Transposon Mutagenesis in Histoplasma." Vince Magrini, Goldman lab. Room 775 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 747-5597.
4:15 p.m. Earth and planetary sciences colloquium. "Why Earthquakes Correlate Poorly With Earth Tides (the Effect of Periodic Stressing on the Rate and Probability of Earthquake Occurrence)." Nicholas Beeler, geophysicist, Western Earthquake Hazards Team, Western Region, U.S. Geological Survey. Room 361 McDonnell Hall. 935-5610.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics colloquium. "Schur-class Functions: Why They Are Interesting and Recent Multivariable Generalizations." Joe Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Inst., Blacksburg. Room 199 Cupples I Hall (tea 4 p.m., Room 200). 935-6760.
5 p.m. Vision Science Seminar Series. "Highs and Lows in the Life of a Retinal Ganglion Cell." Arthur H. Neufeld, research prof. of molecular biology and pharmacology and the Bernard Becker Research Prof. of ophthalmology and visual sciences. East Pavilion Aud., Barnes-Jewish Hosp. Bldg. 362-7043.
7 p.m. Gallery of Art Lecture Series. "History Versus Memory: Narratives of the Exile Experience." Martin Jay, the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Prof. of History, U. of Calif., Berkeley. Steinberg Hall Aud. 935-4523.
Noon. Neuroscience seminar. "Structural Organization and Plasticity of GABAergic Synapses in vitro and in vivo." Jean-Marc Fritschy, Dept. of Inst. of Pharmacology, U. of Zurich, Switzerland. Room 928 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-7043.
4 p.m. Anatomy and neurobiology seminar. "Biophysics of Visual Motion Analysis in Avian Tectum." Ralf Wessel, asst. prof. of physics. Room 928 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-7043.
4 p.m. Foreign Language Pedagogy Colloquium Series. "Enhancing Language Teaching Using the Internet." Tianwei Xie, prof. of Asian and Asian-American Studies (Chinese), Calif. State U., Long Beach. Room 162 McDonnell Hall. 935-5156.
4 p.m. Biology seminar. "Cytonemes and Signals That Make a Wing." Thomas Kornberg, biochemistry dept., U. of Calif. Room 322 Rebstock Hall. 935-6719.
4 p.m. Condensed matter/materials and biological physics seminar. "Does Memory Reside in Neuronal Structure?" Bartlett Mel, biomedical engineering dept., U. of S. Calif., Los Angeles. Room 241 Compton Hall (coffee 3:45 p.m.). 935-6276.
4 p.m. Computational biology seminar. "Becoming Human." Ian Tattersal, anthropology dept., American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. Sponsored by The Center for Computational Biology. Genetics Library, McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-2763.
11 a.m. Public Interest Law Speakers Series. "A Conversation With Justice Ginsburg." Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; founder, Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union; Jurist-in-Residence, WU School of Law. Anheuser-Busch Hall. 935-4958.
Noon. Orthopaedic research seminar. "Designing Bioactive Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering." Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, biomedical engineering dept. Room 11300 West Pavilion, Barnes-Jewish Hosp. Bldg. 454-7800.
3:45 p.m. Physics colloquium. "The Fission of the Electron." Humphrey Maris, prof. of physics, Brown U. Room 204 Crow Hall (coffee 3:30 p.m., Room 241 Compton Hall). 935-6276.
4 p.m. Biochemistry and molecular biophysics seminar. "New NMR Approaches to Studying Protein Structure and Dynamics." Lewis E. Kay, prof. of molecular and medical genetics, U. of Toronto. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-0261.
1:15 p.m. Men's baseball vs. Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa. Kelly Field. 935-5220.
1:15 p.m. Men's baseball vs. Illinois Wesleyan U., Bloomington. Kelly Field. 935-5220.
3 p.m. Women's softball vs. Maryville U. Softball Field. 935-5220.
5 p.m. Women's softball vs. Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Softball Field. 935-5220.
1 p.m. Women's softball vs. William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Softball Field. 935-5220.
3:30 p.m. Women's softball vs. Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa. Softball Field. 935-5220.
4 p.m. Men's tennis vs. Ill. Wesleyan U. Tao Tennis Center. 935-5220.
1:10 p.m. Muslim Friday prayers. Includes sermon and prayer service. Lambert Lounge, Mallinckrodt Student Center. 935-3543.
5:30 p.m. Shallow Water Exercise. Mondays and Thursdays through April 26. Cost: $40, all classes; $25, Monday or Thursday class only. Millstone Pool. To register, call 935-5023.
1 p.m. Center for the Application of Information Technology E-commerce Roundtable kickoff. CAIT Offices, 5 N. Jackson. 935-4792.
1:30 p.m. Human resources seminar/Hilltop campus. "Investment Basics." Representatives from TIAA-CREF and Vanguard. Room 118 Brown Hall (also March 29, 9 a.m., Room 100 Brown Hall). To register, call TIAA-CREF at 1-800-842-2005, or call Vanguard at 1-800-662-0106, Ext. 69000.
1 p.m. Human resources seminar/Hilltop campus. "Investments: Beyond the Basics." Representatives from TIAA-CREF and Vanguard. Room 118 Brown Hall (TIAA-CREF) and Room 204 Eads Hall (Vanguard). To register, call TIAA-CREF at 1-800-842-2005, or call Vanguard at 1-800-662-0106, Ext. 69000.
7 p.m. Dance program class. "Oleg Tambuliligan." Carlos Fittante, dance instructor. Cost: $15. Annelise Mertz Dance Studio. To register, call 935-5858.
4:15 p.m. Dance program lecture/demonstration. Balinese dance. Carlos Fittante. Olin I studio, Women's Bldg. 935-5858.
"University Events" lists a portion of the activities taking place at Washington University over the next 10 days. For a full listing of medical rounds and conferences, see the School of Medicine's website at medschool.wustl.edu/events/. For an expanded Hilltop Campus calendar, go to cf6000.wustl.edu/calendar/events/v1.1.
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