11 10 10 OUR 40TH YEAR Covering Homewood, East Baltimore, Peabody, SAIS, APL and other campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area and abroad, since 1971. November 29, 2010 The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University Volume 40 No. 13 Job Opportunities Notices Classifieds MITCHELL SCHOLAR Senior Mohammad Modarres earns one of the top honors in academia, page 3 HUT, 20 YEARS LATER The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope was launched into space in Dec. 2010, page 7 IN BRIEF Casting call for JHU commercial; Lighting of the Quads; alum tapped by Michelle Obama CALENDAR Forum on health of urban youth; ‘World AIDS Day’ talk; Labyrinth Celebration 2 12 Growing the family Incentive Mentoring Program expands from East Balto. to Hampden B Y G REG R IENZI The Gazette Continued on page 5 OUTREACH APL creates two new senior posts B Y G REG R IENZI The Gazette T he Applied Physics Laboratory, which throughout its history has encouraged and fostered innova- tion, has recently put a new leadership structure in place to ensure that the Lab operates efficiently, effectively and strategically well into the 21st century. Director Ralph Sem- mel has created two senior administration positions to make sure that the Lab is “well- positioned to face future challenges.” Semmel, who as- sumed his post July 1, tapped Jerry Krill to be the assistant director for science and technology, a role created to emphasize innovation and broaden the role of science and technology in APL’s strategic plans. Ron Luman is now the Lab’s assistant direc- tor for strategy. Krill, who has been at the Lab since 1973, will also serve as chief technology officer and oversee the Milton Eisenhower Research Center, Office of Technology Transfer and APL Education Center. “Jerry’s Lab-wide program knowledge and experience, combined with his deep appreciation for innovation, make him a great choice for this position,” Semmel said. Luman said that his new position is a natural extension of his former role at the helm of APL’s National Security Analysis Department. “Many of the challenges we addressed in NSAD—identifying emerging chal- lenges to national security, character- izing operational contexts defining future force requirements, evaluating the impact and implications of new technology—have helped our sponsors identify their strategic direction much in the same way that they help the Lab overall identify what direction we should be heading,” Luman said. Luman will serve as point person for Semmel taps Krill and Luman as assistant directors Continued on page 9 ADMINISTRATION Continued on page 5 ARRA RESEARCH B Y L ISA D E N IKE Homewood T wo years ago, the federal govern- ment launched an ambitious plan to revitalize a sluggish economy by pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into industries and projects that would cre- ate jobs, stimulate spending and finance research that would benefit humankind. The Johns Hopkins University was one of the beneficiaries of this plan, receiving before the program’s Sept. 30 end date $260 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus act. In all, 480 proposals were funded. Johns Hopkins’ creative and entrepre- neurial faculty used this support to under- write the cost of pioneering research in areas as diverse as muscle-wasting diseases, cancer, substance abuse and the origins of the universe, research that promises to reap important and lasting societal benefits for years to come. “The fact that the federal government saw fit to entrust Johns Hopkins with more than $260 million in stimulus funds is a definite vote of confidence in the role of our university as an incubator for creativity and innovation,” said university President Ronald J. Daniels. “Our world-class faculty has put these stimulus funds to work on a wide range of research projects that are the In the ACCE cafeteria, student Malcome Miller, right, meets some of his IMP family, from the left: Tom Artaki, Brian Vaughn and Clea Baumhofer, all Johns Hopkins undergraduates. F or 16 struggling students at Balti- more’s Academy for College and Career Exploration, their family and support system just grew eightfold. The students, all freshmen at the Hampden-area high school, could use the assistance. Most have low grades, have failed several classes and have grave attendance issues. Without intervention, many are in danger of failing out. The Incentive Mentoring Program and 110 volunteers—mostly Johns Hop- kins undergraduates from the Homewood campus—want to ensure that doesn’t happen, even if it means showing up at students’ doorsteps in the morning to take them to class. IMP, founded in 2004 by a Johns WILL KIRK / HOMEWOODPHOTO.JHU.EDU Two-year stimulus act funds 480 JHU projects
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our 40th year
Covering Homewood, East Baltimore, Peabody,
SAIS, APL and other campuses throughout the
Baltimore-Washington area and abroad, since 1971.
November 29, 2010 the newspaper of the Johns hopkins university Volume 40 No. 13
Job Opportunities
Notices
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Senior Mohammad Modarres
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academia, page 3
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The Applied Physics Laboratory, which throughout its history has encouraged and fostered innova-
tion, has recently put a new leadership structure in place to ensure that the Lab operates efficiently, effectively and
strategically well into the 21st century. Director Ralph Sem-mel has created two senior administration positions to make sure that the Lab is “well-positioned to face future challenges.” Semmel, who as -sumed his post July
1, tapped Jerry Krill to be the assistant director for science and technology, a role created to emphasize innovation and broaden the role of science and technology in APL’s strategic plans. Ron Luman is now the Lab’s assistant direc-tor for strategy. Krill, who has been at the Lab since 1973, will also serve as chief technology officer and oversee the Milton Eisenhower Research Center, Office of Technology Transfer and APL Education Center. “Jerry’s Lab-wide program knowledge and experience, combined with his deep appreciation for innovation, make him a great choice for this position,” Semmel said. Luman said that his new position is a natural extension of his former role at the helm of APL’s National Security Analysis Department. “Many of the challenges we addressed in NSAD—identifying emerging chal-lenges to national security, character-izing operational contexts defining future force requirements, evaluating the impact and implications of new technology—have helped our sponsors identify their strategic direction much in the same way that they help the Lab overall identify what direction we should be heading,” Luman said. Luman will serve as point person for
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Two years ago, the federal govern-ment launched an ambitious plan to revitalize a sluggish economy by
pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into industries and projects that would cre-ate jobs, stimulate spending and finance research that would benefit humankind. The Johns Hopkins University was one of the beneficiaries of this plan, receiving
before the program’s Sept. 30 end date $260 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus act. In all, 480 proposals were funded. Johns Hopkins’ creative and entrepre-neurial faculty used this support to under-write the cost of pioneering research in areas as diverse as muscle-wasting diseases, cancer, substance abuse and the origins of the universe, research that promises to reap
important and lasting societal benefits for years to come. “The fact that the federal government saw fit to entrust Johns Hopkins with more than $260 million in stimulus funds is a definite vote of confidence in the role of our university as an incubator for creativity and innovation,” said university President Ronald J. Daniels. “Our world-class faculty has put these stimulus funds to work on a wide range of research projects that are the
In the aCCe cafeteria, student Malcome Miller, right, meets some of his IMP family, from the left: tom artaki, Brian Vaughn and Clea Baumhofer, all Johns hopkins undergraduates.
For 16 struggling students at Balti-more’s Academy for College and Career Exploration, their family and support system just grew eightfold. The students, all freshmen at the
Hampden-area high school, could use the assistance. Most have low grades, have failed several classes and have grave attendance issues. Without intervention, many are in danger of failing out.
The Incentive Mentoring Program and 110 volunteers—mostly Johns Hop-kins undergraduates from the Homewood campus—want to ensure that doesn’t happen, even if it means showing up at students’ doorsteps in the morning to take them to class. IMP, founded in 2004 by a Johns
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Casting call: Actors, extras needed for JHU commercial
Actors and extras are wanted to par-ticipate in the filming of a nation-ally televised commercial being
produced by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations. All ages are needed. Filming will take place during a one-day shoot in early January. To submit head-shots and biographical information, or for more information, contact Renee Fischer at [email protected].
Lighting of the Quads set for Wednesday night
The Homewood campus’s sixth annu-al Lighting of the Quads will be held from 9 to 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday,
Dec. 1. The event, to be held on the Keyser Quadrangle, will feature a cappella groups; free hot chocolate and cider, cookies, dough-nuts; and the countdown to the lighting. Last year more than 500 students came out to watch the pulling of the ceremonial switch signaling Facilities Management to illuminate light-wrapped lampposts around the campus.
Bayview plans first Light the Labyrinth Celebration
On Thursday, Dec. 2, Bayview Medi-cal Center will hold its inaugural Light the Labyrinth Celebration.
Each attendee who makes a gift to the center—to honor or remember someone who has made a difference in their life, or to celebrate a special occasion—will be invited to place a candle in the labyrinth. The celebration, scheduled for 5 to 6:30 p.m., will include free seasonal refreshments, and vendors selling small gifts and other novelties will be on hand. Proceeds will benefit the Johns Hopkins Bayview Fund, which supports the center’s mobile health unit, medical and recreational needs for seniors, burn prevention programs, health education in the community and other programs. Bayview’s labyrinth provides patients, vis-itors, employees and community members with a meditative and healing space. The spiral walking course is unusual in its design in that it leads into the center and back out. There are no dead ends or false turns. For more information, call 410-502-2911 or go to www.hopkinsbayview.org/light.
Writer to join pediatricians, teens in forum on urban youth
Former New York Times Magazine editor Paul Tough will join pediatricians and other health care professionals from
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and else-where on Friday, Dec. 3, for the third annual conference on the health of urban youth.
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Author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and Amer-ica, Tough has written extensively about the politics, poverty, education and plight of urban youth. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, GQ and Slate. The main themes of the forum are health and the urban family and building posi-tive futures for urban youth. The morning keynote address is by John Rich, author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Vio-lence in the Lives of Young Black Men and chair of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University. The afternoon panel discussion will include youth representatives and will focus on issues of urban education, health care, psychology and community initiatives. The event will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Bloomberg School’s Fein-stone Hall. For more information and to register, go to jhuleah.wordpress.com/ 2010conf or call 410-614-1370.
Conductor Fan and violinist Carney headline HSO concert
The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra will present this week an interna-tional concert of German and Span-
ish music, featuring an American soloist who spent much of his career in England and a conductor who is a visiting maestro from Beijing. On Saturday, Dec. 4, Tao Fan will lead the orchestra in Beethoven’s Egmont overture and will welcome Baltimore Symphony Orches-tra concertmaster Jonathan Carney for Max Bruch’s rarely heard Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor. Then the HSO will perform the suites from Manuel de Falla’s flamenco-flavored ballet The Three-Cornered Hat. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Shriver Hall on the Homewood campus. WBJC-FM program director Jonathan Palevsky will give a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m.
Alumna tapped as first lady’s communications director
The White House announced last week that Kristina Schake, a 1992 Johns Hopkins graduate with a degree from
the Writing Seminars, will be joining the Office of the First Lady in December as special assistant to the president and com-munications director to the first lady. “Kristina brings a wealth of expertise that I know will make her a tremendous asset to the East Wing,” said Michelle Obama in a state-ment from the White House. “Kristina has done extensive work throughout her career on child nutrition and community health issues, and that paired with experience as part of a military family will bring invaluable insight to our work on childhood obesity and our efforts to support military families.” Schake is co-founder and principal of Griffin|Schake, a California-based public affairs and strategic communications firm.
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Casey Butler, a first-year undergradu-ate in the Peabody Conservatory studying bassoon and music educa-
tion, lost consciousness during her weekly bassoon lesson on Nov. 15 and was rushed to the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center. She could not be revived. “In a small community such as ours, a loss such as this touches every individual. I know that everyone shares my shock and sadness,” said Pea-body Institute Director Jeffrey Sharkey. “Casey went to high school in Maryland, and our hearts go out to her parents, her other family members and her friends. We are grateful to her primary teacher, Phil Kolker, and to our campus security staff members, all of whom responded immedi-ately.” Butler, 18, was a graduate of Bel Air High School, where she was a member of the Honor Society, Spanish Honor Soci-ety and the band. She also played in the All-County Band and Orchestra, All-State Band, Harford Youth Orchestra, Maryland Youth Chamber Orchestra and Peabody
Youth Orchestra, and was a 2009 Carson Scholar and a 2010 Recognition Scholar. In a joint statement to the Peabody commu-nity, Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Dan-iels and Provost Lloyd Minor said, “Although
Casey was just beginning her undergraduate education, she was already known to many at the conservatory for her kind-ness, joy and bright spirit. Pea-body faculty member Harlan Parker, who first met Casey when she was in high school and guided her through the Peabody Youth Orchestra and the Peabody Wind Ensemble, may have said it best: ‘She was wonderful and everyone who knew her loved her.’” Butler was one of three bas-
soonists in the Peabody Wind Ensemble, which will dedicate its concert on Tuesday, Dec. 14, in her honor. It will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. Butler is survived by her parents, Michael Paul and Susan Moreland Butler; a brother, Clark Thomas Butler; and many other rela-tives. Funeral services were held on Nov. 23 in Abingdon, Md., her hometown.
Krieger School senior Mohammad Modarres will be studying in Ireland next year, having earned one of the
top honors in academia: a George J. Mitch-ell Scholarship. One of 12 scholars selected from a nationwide pool of applicants, Modarres, a Bloomberg Scholar majoring in public health studies, will pursue a master’s degree in development practice, a new program funded by the American-based MacArthur Foundation and offered jointly by University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin in partnership with the National University of Rwanda. Mitchell Scholars earn a year of graduate study at universities in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Scholars are selected based on their academic achievement, service and leader-ship. The program provides tuition, housing and stipends for living expenses and inter-national travel. Administered by the U.S.-Ireland Alliance, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., the scholarship is named in honor of the U.S. senator who played a pivotal leadership role in the Northern Ire-land peace process. Because he is pursuing a two-year program, Modarres will be seeking outside funding for the second year of his studies. Modarres, 22, said he will use his Mitchell Scholarship to deepen his academic under-standing of sports and their role in social and economic development, and that he looks forward to continuing postgraduate study that emphasizes the interconnectedness between politics, governance, civil society, public health, environmental conflict and climate change. “I am most excited,” he said, “about the program’s emphasis on interconnectedness between fields and its ‘development can-not be taught from a book’ attitude that integrates field work in Uganda, Rwanda,
Congo and Liberia within the curriculum. I think it’s a perfect fit for me after exploring a holistic study with the Public Health Studies program at Johns Hopkins.” His mission, as described by John Bader, associate dean for academic programs and advising in the Krieger School, is to use sports and the arts as tools for social devel-opment to help young people around the world contribute to development in their countries. Modarres said he began to see the connec-tion between sports and public health educa-tion when he worked with a nonprofit sports center for disabled youth in Iran, and later when he was involved with a youth surfing club in Gaza. In summer 2008, he biked across the United States with 4K for Cancer, an organization founded at Johns Hopkins to raise money for and awareness of cancer. As a recipient of a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award, in summer 2009 Modarres analyzed the work of social entrepreneurs from around the world at Ashoka Global and
Homewood Krieger School senior named Mitchell Scholartraveled to South Africa to work with Mon-keyBiz South Africa, a Cape Town–based fair trade organization that uses handicrafts to help finance public health initiatives in the township. Modarres applied his experience in managing a fair-trade organization to his own fair-trade projects that fund other social ventures. He currently sits on the organiza-tion’s U.S. board of directors. While working with MonkeyBiz, Modarres met the leaders of FIFA’s Football for Hope initiative, a $10 million campaign providing youth communities access to health and edu-cational services through soccer. Modarres returned to South Africa to become the initiative’s first program assistant and helped with portfolio and capacity development projects that combined sports and the arts to address “taboo” health topics, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS. He took a leave from his studies at Johns Hopkins to spend January through August 2010 in Cape Town, where each day more than 100 people visited the Football for Hope Centre for classes and activities. Modarres said that his experiences with Ashoka and Football for Hope have taught him that rather than being idle pastimes, sports “have the potential to be one the most effective means to giving disadvan-taged communities access to the education they need to prosper.” In his essay for the Mitchell Scholarship, Modarres wrote, “We were able to create bonds that enabled us to break through cultural taboos concerning sexuality, per-sonal hygiene and other issues pertinent to tackling the health challenges of poor com-munities. The arts and sport proved repeat-edly, then, to be a very promising means of advancing development at the grassroots level. They instilled broader habits and abil-ities into disadvantaged populations, such as leadership, discipline, personal responsibil-ity and empathy.” In addition to his sports-related develop-ment work, Modarres has, as one of the uni-versity’s Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellows, studied how to restructure the United States’ sanctions policies to give international citizen sector organiza-tions greater ability to provide public health resources to the Iranian people and ulti-mately create diplomatic dialogue between
the U.S. and Iran. He further researched specific political structures in the Middle East as a scholar assistant to two scholars at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His experiences, he said, have allowed him to combine his interests in public health, community empowerment and social entrepreneurship to work toward becoming a public health practitioner focusing on facilitating access for youth communities to public health and educational services through their interest in sport and the arts. He said he hopes that after providing such services across the Middle East, he can help be part of creating a more structured social profit sector in the region. Modarres is also a published political cartoonist with works in the New York Times book A Nation Challenged, Newsweek online, and The Star-Ledger and other newspapers. He has won more than a dozen national and international art contests, and his artwork has been accepted to the collection of the 9/11 Museum at Ground Zero. Modarres, who is from Portland, Ore., is the university’s fourth Mitchell Scholar since 1998, when the program began. Since April 2001, all candidates for major academic scholarships, including the Mitch-ell, Rhodes, Truman and Marshall, have been coached by Bader, who is leaving his post at the end of December. Bader’s stu-dents have won nearly 100 Fulbright and DAAD scholarships, along with so many Truman scholarships that the university was designated an Honor Institution by the Truman Foundation. The eight Marshall winners under his nine years of advising represent half the Marshalls won by Johns Hopkins in nearly 60 years of the program’s history. “I am so pleased to end my decade of service to Hopkins with Mohammad’s win,” Bader said. “He is an amazing young man: talented, dedicated, humane. My assistant, Vicki Fitzgerald, who has been a key con-tributor to our wins, and I saw such a change in him after his time in South Africa. I know that he, like all the winners before him, will continue to use his ‘knowledge for the world,’ ” he said, referencing the slogan of the university’s most recent capital cam-paign. “We can all be proud of them.”
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The Johns Hopkins University Librar-ies have become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major
academic and research libraries collaborat-ing in what is considered an “extraordinary” digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a grow-ing membership that currently comprises more than two dozen partners. Over the last two years, the partners have contributed more than 7 million volumes to the digi-tal library, digitized from their library col-lections through various means, including Google and Internet Archive digitization and in-house initiatives. More than 1.6 mil-lion of the contributed volumes are in the public domain and freely available on the Web. Johns Hopkins’ initial role as part of HathiTrust will center on the development of infrastructure, such as storage systems, and services that will allow for seamless inte-gration with the university’s library catalog. “We are very pleased to be part of HathiTrust,” said Winston Tabb, the Sheri-dan Dean of University Libraries and Muse-ums. “This membership enhances our ability to deliver content to our users, who will now be able to access full-text PDFs of public domain materials via HathiTrust and through the university online catalog.”
HathiTrust serves a dual role. As a trusted repository, it guarantees the long-term pres-ervation of the materials it holds, providing the expert curation and consistent access long associated with research libraries. As a service for partners and a public good, HathiTrust offers persistent access to the digital collections. This includes viewing, downloading and searching access to pub-lic domain volumes, and searching access to in-copyright volumes. Also, specialized features are available to facilitate access by people with print disabilities and to allow users to gather subsets of the digital library into “collections” that can be searched and browsed. “This announcement is great news for our users,” said Sayeed Choudhury, associ-ate dean of university libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Cura-tion Center at Johns Hopkins. “It also places us in a great position to further our research into digital preservation and to help inform policy on the national and international levels.” HathiTrust was named for the Hindi word for elephant, hathi, symbolic of the qualities of memory, wisdom and strength evoked by elephants, as well as the huge undertaking of congregating the digital collections of libraries in the United States and beyond. HathiTrust is funded by the partner libraries and governed by members of the libraries through an executive committee and a stra-tegic advisory board. For more on HathiTrust, go to www .hathitrust.org.
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staff want to know when their clock radios awaken them early on winter mornings with news of an overnight storm. Johns Hopkins rarely closes for snow-storms, even when local school systems and other colleges do. So more often than not, the official word will be: Find the boots. But there are two easy ways to find out for sure without taking the risk of jumping out of bed prematurely. Option 1: Grab the bedside phone and call the Johns Hopkins weather emergency hotline at 410-516-7781 or, from outside the Baltimore area, 800-548-9004. Option 2: Pick up your smart phone or other mobile device and check out webapps.jhu.edu/emergencynotices. Information on the university’s status after an overnight snow is generally posted on the phone line and website by around 6 a.m., with frequent updates throughout the day during a major storm. The university suggests that you enter the phone numbers into your phone book and bookmark the Web address now, so that you know where to check for announcements during or after a storm. Johns Hopkins’ policy is to remain open on a normal schedule whenever possible, both because minimizing interruptions to teaching and research is a priority and because so many university employees and students are involved in patient care. But there are exceptions. Last winter, when Baltimore was hit with 77 inches of snow—more than four times the normal sea-
sonal total—classes were canceled and most employees told to stay home for an entire week. Though Johns Hopkins notifies local news media when it closes, cancels classes or tells staff to report later than normal, there are several reasons why you should rely instead on the weather emergency hotline or the emergency notices Web page: • The phone line and Web page make information on Johns Hopkins available as soon as a decision is made. Both are updated as soon as there is new informa-tion. • Both the phone line and Web page are available to you at all times. If you rely on TV or radio, you’ll have to wait until the Johns Hopkins announcement comes around. • TV and radio will not broadcast
Sleep in or head out? Here’s the snowdown
an nouncements when Johns Hopkins remains open, only when it is closed or has a delayed opening. The phone line and Web page will provide you with informa-tion whenever the weather is questionable, even if it’s just that the university is open as usual. • The phone line and Web page will provide the most complete and accurate weather emergency information available on Johns Hopkins. TV and radio stations must report on dozens or even hundreds of institutions. They do not have time to broadcast everything you need to know, including information on outpatient clinics, snow day shuttle bus operations, and library and rec center status. The university’s policy on weather-related curtailment of operations is online at hrnt .jhu.edu/pol-man/appendices/sectionJ.cfm.
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hallmark of scientific and technical innova-tion and, in the process, are creating jobs, educating the next generation of researchers and providing solutions to some of human-ity’s most urgent problems and issues.” Through the stimulus act, the NIH and NSF received $12.4 billion to award as research grants between February 2009 and September 2010. (The federal agencies dis-pensing research grants had until Sept. 30 to obligate their funds.) During that time, Johns Hopkins scientists—including those at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medi-cine, School of Nursing and Applied Physics Laboratory—submitted almost 1,500 pro-posals for stimulus-funded projects. Lloyd Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, said, “Our faculty members have responded to the opportunities created by the stimulus pack-age with the energy, commitment and drive that is characteristic of Johns Hopkins.” For example, oceanographer Thomas Haine, professor of Earth and planetary sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is using $736,000 in NSF-admin-istered stimulus funds to develop what prom-ises to be the biggest, most cutting-edge and detailed computer model of ocean currents ever made. “There is an intricate, coupled relationship between the climate and the ocean,” Haine said. “The ocean circulation changes as the climate changes, but the climate changes as the ocean circulation changes, too. If we want to better understand climate change in the past, present and future, we need to bet-ter understand ocean circulation.” Haine’s model, which will be run by an NSF-constructed supercomputer capable of doing a million billion calculations per second, will simulate currents in the Arctic, Antarctic and Atlantic oceans in hopes of
shedding light on how small-scale turbulent eddies affect large currents, such as the pow-erful Gulf Stream. Mounya Elhilali, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering and a researcher at the school’s Center for Speech and Language Processing, is using a $556,000, five-year National Science Foundation grant to untangle how the brain is able to focus on one conversation or sound when confronted
by a mixture of con-versations and noise, such as at a party. (This phenomenon is known as the “cock-tail party effect.”) This research could open new frontiers for hearing technol-
ogies, including voice-automated telephony, robust surveillance of soundscapes, diagnos-tic systems, brain-machine robotics inter-faces and hearing prostheses. “I’m grateful to NSF for providing funds to support my research at the beginning of my career,” Elhilali said. In the medical arena, neuroscientist Jeffrey Rothstein of the School of Medicine is using a two-year $3.7 million stimulus grant from the NIH to expand on his long-standing research into the nerve- and muscle-wasting disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Using stem cells developed in a laboratory from skin cell samples taken from 20 ALS patients and five control subjects, Rothstein and his colleagues are studying the biology and chemistry involved in the development and progression of the disease and will test drugs to intervene in the process. When the two-year program is completed, the cells generated will be available nationwide to other researchers. “We believe that the abil-ity to work with the two types of cells most relevant for ALS, developed directly from ALS patients, will give us a tremendous boost toward understanding more about this disease,” said Rothstein, a professor of neu-rology and neuroscience and director of the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins. “Importantly, this will serve
as a scientifically rich national resource for human ALS cell lines.” Stimulus-funded research at Johns Hop-kins also encompasses studies in the social sciences. Robert Moffitt, a Krieger-Eisen-hower Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Economics, for instance, is using a one-year $48,339 grant from the NIH to continue to study whether the U.S. welfare system’s assistance based on marital status factors into single mothers’ decisions to stay single, cohabit or marry. “NIH is best-known for funding biomedical and life sciences research, but it also funds the behavioral sciences, particularly related to population issues, which is a very impor-tant piece of what the NIH does,” Moffitt said. “It would be difficult for us to go on to
the next phase of our research without this stimulus grant. We’re very fortunate to get this funding.” As of the end of October, Johns Hopkins reported 190 staff jobs created directly from stimulus funding (165 of those are filled, and 25 are still recruiting), not counting posi-tions saved when other grants ran out, and not counting faculty and graduate student positions supported by ARRA grants. One hundred thirty-four of those jobs are in the School of Medicine, and 56 are elsewhere around the university. Johns Hopkins has been the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for 31 years in a row, performing $1.85 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2009.
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Hopkins School of Medicine student, uses a “family-style” mentoring approach to foster the transformation of high school students who are not meeting minimum academic requirements. The students are facing significant psy-chosocial challenges, and the goal is to help them become self-motivated, resourceful and socially aware leaders. Volunteers tutor the students and, in turn, the high-schoolers participate in monthly community service projects in order to build a sense of worth and social responsibility. In addition to tutoring, the IMP families—five to eight mentors per student—tailor activities to meet the needs of each student, whether it’s to take him shopping for school supplies or to take her to the movies. Up until now, the program operated solely at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, located a stone’s throw away from the uni-versity’s East Baltimore campus. The first cohort included 15 students, and each year a new group was added. The mentors at Dunbar have been mostly students from the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. The results at Dunbar have been phenom-enal. Ninety-four percent of the students in the IMP program have graduated on time and matriculated to college; the other 6 percent are still in school and on track to finish, just slightly later than expected. The first cohort is set to graduate from college in spring 2011. Sarah Hemminger, the program’s founder and executive director, felt that the time was right for the program to expand to other schools. “We demonstrated at Dunbar that the IMP family model works, that it’s an effec-
tive model for kids graduating,” Hemminger said. “Expansion was the next critical step. We thought the IMP family model could be replicated in other schools and other places around the country. In looking for a second potential site, partnering with Johns Hop-kins was a natural.” Hemminger reached out to the univer-sity’s Center for Social Concern to look for a new partner school. ACCE was deemed a perfect fit. The Academy for College and Career Exploration opened in September 2004 with 150 students and added an additional 100 students in fall 2005. In 2006, the school relocated to the Robert Poole School Build-ing, located at 1300 W. 36th St., and cur-rently has an enrollment of 453 students. The university’s Center for Social Concern and Institute for Policy Studies have been active partners of the school, with under-graduate and graduate students coaching SAT preparation classes, planning advanced math classes and assisting students with their college applications. The IMP program at ACCE was made possible by assistance from the CSC, the President’s Office and a grant from The Abell Foundation. “Without support from [CSC Director] Bill Tiefenwerth and President [Ron] Dan-iels, this expansion to a second site would not be possible,” Hemminger said. “We’re so grateful for their support.” In less than two months, the program recruited 110 volunteers, a group that includes area residents as well as Johns Hopkins undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students. The volunteers met the ACCE students for the first time on Thurs-day, Nov. 18, for a series of icebreaker activi-ties that included a meal in the school’s cafeteria. At ACCE, volunteers will work with the students twice a week after school, Tues-days and Wednesdays, to tutor them and assist with homework. But the involvement
doesn’t stop there. Sometimes volunteers will renovate a student’s house, help a par-ent find a job, identify medical resources, go camping or otherwise advocate for the student and his family. “We have a very holistic approach, cus-tomized to each student,” Hemminger said. “The students enrolled are failing their fresh-man year and face enormous challenges. We might literally have to go and get them to come to class. But that is what brings about the change. They get our unconditional sup-port.” The students will stay in the seven-year IMP program through their senior year of college. While in college, the IMP family will help obtain financial aid and scholar-ships, assist with homework online and help wherever needed. “We do the kinds of things a parent will do,” Hemminger said. “We want to change the norm. The student who might have dropped out of school and gotten involved with drugs is now in college and doing an internship in Disney. We’re all about success stories.” Ayanna Fews, a Johns Hopkins alumna and a staff member with IMP, is the project site director for ACCE. Fews, who previ-ously worked with the students at Dunbar, said that the new program will begin with building relationships. “The volunteers will meet with the stu-dents and give them academic support, but they’ll also be learning about what barriers are in the way of the student’s success,” Fews said. “They might be coming from single-parent homes or dealing with substance issues.” Fews said that there has to be buy-in from the parents, who are often extremely grateful to be gaining this “extended fam-ily.” “They are not just getting a young person to tutor their child; they are getting all of us,” she said. “We often get hugs and thanks. They are very excited and thankful to have this support.”
IMP has a vertical family structure that at ACCE will build over time. In addition to the volunteers, upperclassmen in the ACCE program will assist new participants. This “home model” will eventually include a volunteer in a “grandparent” role who will oversee the other volunteers and students working with a particular ACCE student. Marion Pines, a distinguished fellow at IPS and co-operator of the ACCE school, said that she was thrilled with the idea of IMP coming to ACCE. “This is a wonderful kind of marriage,” Pines said. “Sarah asked, ‘Do you really need us?’ ‘You bet we need it,’ I told her. We have a group of disadvantaged, at-risk ninth-graders who certainly could use this type and level of support.” Forty-five ACCE students requested a mentoring family. CSC has agreed to spon-sor and support the ACCE/Johns Hopkins volunteers. One concern was that the volunteers from the Homewood campus would be sub-stantially younger than their East Baltimore counterparts, and therefore not able to pro-vide the same level of support that the Dun-bar students are getting. In response, Hem-minger brought over a few mentors from the East Baltimore campus to supplement the relatively small number of graduate student volunteers from Homewood. “We knew it would not be an exact repli-cation of the existing program,” Hemminger said. “As to how this new family structure will operate at ACCE with mostly younger volunteers will be a learning experience, but one we’re excited about.” Hemminger said that her long-term plan for the program is to replicate it in other schools and cities. “Once we prove we can replicate the success at Dunbar at ACCE, we can show this can be done in many places.” For more information on the Incentive Mentoring Program, or to volunteer, go to incentivementoringprogram.org.
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Physicians, nurses and other health care providers can have some of the most up-to-date information on the
growing diabetes epidemic at their finger-tips, thanks to the release of a new Johns Hopkins guide to the disease now available on all smart phone devices. The POC-IT Diabetes Guide is a por-table, easily searchable and quickly navi-gated resource written by Johns Hopkins physicians to help providers—particularly during patient visits—make the best clini-cal decisions, its developers say. The guide provides real-time evidence-based advice on everything from diabetes management to complications to medications. “It offers almost instant, at-a-glance access to the latest consensus guidelines and expert opinions on a broad spectrum of topics in diabetes care,” said Rita Rastogi Kalyani, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at the Johns Hopkins Uni-versity School of Medicine and the guide’s managing editor. “Johns Hopkins’ mission is to share its knowledge with the world, and this is a practical way to do that.” In the United States, nearly 24 million people have diabetes, and 5.7 million of
them don’t even know it, Kalyani said. Long-term complications of the condition can be avoided or managed successfully through proper care. The Johns Hopkins Point-of-Care Infor-mation Technology Center produces elec-tronic clinical decision support resources to help health care professionals raise the stan-dard of care and improve patient safety. The POC-IT Diabetes Guide was developed by Johns Hopkins clinical experts with fund-ing support from the Trinidad and Tobago Health Sciences Initiative, a project under the management of Johns Hopkins Medi-cine International. The Diabetes Guide is available on smart phones and the Web. A print version will be released in spring 2011. The electronic guide will be regularly updated with the lat-est developments in diabetes care. T h i s is the third POC-IT guide developed at Johns Hopkins, with successful guides on antibiotics and HIV already on the market. The Diabetes Guide is being dedicated to Christopher D. Saudek, the guide’s editor in chief and director of the Johns Hopkins Diabetes Center, who died in October.
—Stephanie Desmon
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For those seeking to find a special holiday gift, five dollhouses up for silent auction at the university’s Evergreen Museum
& Library offer a unique twist on the tradi-tional toy. Johns Hopkins’ Gilded Age house museum asked local artisans, designers and talented crafters to take home and decorate an unfinished three-story wooden dollhouse. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the restoration of Evergreen’s historic kitchen. Furniture designer and artist David Wiesand of McLain Wiesand rebuilt his stock dollhouse into a classical structure and filled it floor to ceiling with examples of clas-sical art, sculpture and architecture in a kind of tribute to English neoclassical architect Sir John Soane. “The best part was the arranging of all the reliefs, busts, miniature buildings and fragments in the dollhouse interior, building a still life of objects to delight the eye,” Wiesand wrote on his blog, www .mclainwiesand.blogspot.com.
Wiesand’s colleague Virginia Jarvis fash-ioned her dollhouse into a dilapidated Eng-lish manor house whose interior explores “the idea of domestic voyeurism”: The house is completely closed except for a peephole in each window through which you can see the intricately furnished rooms. The remaining dollhouses were deco-rated by Meg Fairfax Fielding, writer of the popular design blog Pigtown Design; Inez Eicher, a member of the museum’s advisory council and the wife of Johns Hopkins’ senior vice president for external affairs and development, Michael C. Eicher; and James Abbott, Evergreen director and cura-tor. Evergreen is inviting the public to stop by to view and bid on the dollhouses through Sunday, Dec 12. The museum will host its annual holiday open house, An Ever Green Evening, from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9, and a card-making workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11. For more information, call 410-516-0341 or go to www.museums.jhu.edu.
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Twenty years ago this week, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope was launched into space aboard NASA’s space shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., as part of the 12-day Astro-1 astronomy mission.
The telescope was conceived, designed and built by Johns Hopkins University astrono-mers and engineers to perform astronomical observations in the far-ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, which are wavelengths of light that can’t be seen by ground-based telescopes. Nearly 30 scientists and engineers from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whit-ing School of Engineering and Applied Physics Laboratory, led by principal investigator Arthur F. Davidsen (who died in 2001), staffed a control room at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., around the clock during the mission. Aboard the spacecraft was payload specialist Samuel Durrance, who was at the time a research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins and a member of the HUT team (and is now a professor at Florida Institute of Technology). In the end, the research facilitated by HUT’s first mission—it would fly again in March 1995—resulted in more than 80 scientific papers being published. “The HUT project was groundbreaking and paved the way for many other astrophysics projects to come at Johns Hopkins,” says William Blair, a research professor at Johns Hopkins and a member of the two HUT teams. For more on HUT and its findings, go to hut.pha.jhu.edu/hut.html.
Johns hopkins research scientist Samuel t. durrance, a payload specialist, floats by the windows on the aft flight deck of the space shuttle Columbia with a hopkins Lacrosse banner.
Jhu staff in the Payload operations Control Center at NaSa’s Marshall Space flight Center in huntsville, ala., during the astro-1 mission in december 1990. approxi-mately 28 people split time around the clock to support the real time operations of the payload.
the Jhu hut team poses for a team photo outside the Payload operations Control Center building at NaSa’s Marshall Space flight Center in May 1990. among them are professors arthur davidsen (in front of shuttle model, with tie), principal investigator; Paul feldman (to davidson’s right); Warren Moos (second from right); and William Blair (far right).
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Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, University of Hel-sinki and Stanford University have
developed a technique to keep healthy and cancerous prostate tissue removed during surgery alive and functioning normally in the laboratory for up to a week. The new technique could not only enhance research of prostate biology and cancer but could also hasten the creation of individual-ized medicines for prostate cancer patients, the investigators said. Previous attempts to culture live prostate tissues resulted in poor viability and lost “tissue architecture,” the researchers said, making them less than use-ful for research or therapy development. “Our technique could help scientists more accurately predict how living prostate tissues respond to therapy,” said Marikki Laiho, director of the Division of Molecular Radia-tion Sciences at Johns Hopkins. “It holds promise for testing anticancer drugs that work best.” For the study, published in the Nov. 1 issue of Cancer Research, the scientists refined their multistep tissue culture tech-nique and performed experiments to test the tissues’ viability and utility in research. Laiho worked with Stanford University researcher
Donna Peehl to pilot the technique in a research project completed in 2007. Customarily, pathologists store tissue samples in paraffin wax, which kills the tis-sue, resulting in samples that are essentially frozen in time. In many research labora-tories, scientists experiment with prostate cancer cells that have been grown in flasks filled with nutrients and kept under strict temperature conditions. But these cells are not connected together in the tightly knit architecture of tissue that exists in the actual prostate gland. “Tissue architecture may hold clues to why certain therapies work and others fail, and may be a better model of the intact, in vivo prostate gland,” said Laiho, who is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Radiation Oncology at Johns Hopkins. Laiho said that one key to success for the international team was to work with sur-geons and pathologists to speed up delivery of tissue samples to the pathology lab from the operating room. In the pathology lab, scientists cut thin slices of prostate specimens taken from 18 patients who had undergone surgery on the prostate gland at the Helsinki University Central Hospital or The Johns Hopkins
Surgically removed prostate tissue kept alive and ‘working’Hospital during 2007–2009. Specimen slices had to be a precise thickness to allow cells throughout the tissue to maintain a healthy exchange of gases and growth factors. Then, Laiho and her team placed the tissues in a liquid solution composed of a complex mix of 64 ingredients to maintain the proper chemical and nutritional support for the biological functions in the tissue. The scientists validated the presence of bio-markers specific for each type of cell within the prostate tissues to ensure that they were viable. The scientists caution that although their method gives them a more “real-life” model of the prostate with live tissue samples, it comes at a cost: Even with support, the tissues are short-lived, and experiments on fresh specimens must be completed within one week, which may be too short a time for some types of research. The Johns Hopkins–Helsinki team has already used its tissue-culture technique to measure levels of proteins known to repair DNA damage caused by carcinogens and other environmental agents. The research-ers found that one of these proteins, p53, is not activated consistently enough to repair DNA damage. They also found that one
of the first proteins to arrive on the DNA repair scene, H2AX, is activated at expected levels in all but one of the architectural compartments in prostate tissue. Low lev-els of H2AX were found in the so-called “luminal” compartment of prostate tissue, in the part of the prostate gland that produces secretions to protect sperm cells. Laiho said that the tissue-culture tech-nique was a key component of understand-ing which DNA repair proteins may or may not be activated in different parts of prostate tissue and could help scientists develop ther-apies that target these DNA repair proteins. The Johns Hopkins and Helsinki inves-tigators plan to use their new tissue-culture technique to test the response of experimen-tal drugs on prostate cancer tissues. Funding for the study was provided by the Academy of Finland, Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund, K. Albin Johansson Foundation, Biomedicum Hel-sinki Foundation, Finnish-Norwegian Medi-cal Foundation, Finnish Medical Foundation and Helsinki Biomedical Graduate School. Other scientists from Johns Hopkins con-tributing to the research were Zhewei Zhang, Zhiming Yang and Angelo De Marzo.
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Timed will study upper atmosphere during increasing solar activity
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Nine years after beginning its unprece-dented look at the gateway between Earth and space and collecting more
data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, NASA’s Timed (Thermo-sphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) mission has been extended yet again to continue to study the influences of the sun and humans on our upper atmo-sphere. Until Timed, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Phys-ics Laboratory, the mesosphere and lower thermosphere/ionosphere—the region that helps protect Earth from harmful solar radia-tion—had been one of the least explored and understood regions. Timed began an extended mission on Oct. 1—its fourth extension since the original two-year mission began in January 2002—and will continue collecting and analyzing data through 2014. Timed will focus this time on a problem that has long puzzled scientists: differentiating between human-induced and naturally occurring changes in this atmospheric region. Scientists have been conducting studies during what has been the least active part of the sun’s 11-year solar cycle; by the end of this mission phase, when the sun is expected to be at peak activ-ity, Timed will have collected data during a full solar cycle.
During the extended mission, scientists will pay particular attention to temperature changes in the upper atmosphere. “The greenhouse gas loadings in the upper atmo-sphere have been increasing during the past few decades,” said APL’s Sam Yee, Timed project scientist. “The solar energy inputs and their effect on our atmosphere, however, are changing following the rising and declining activities of the solar cycles. Systematic observations taken longer than a full solar cycle would allow us to delineate potential human-induced changes from the naturally occurring solar-driven changes.” Timed scientists will compare their data against existing atmospheric models, as well as against data collected before Timed was launched in 2001, to better analyze phenomena occurring in the mesosphere
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and lower thermosphere/ionosphere region. They believe that cooling temperatures in this region, resulting from increasing green-house gases, are causing the thermosphere to shrink (or become less dense) and its composition to change. One result of fewer particles in the thermosphere is less drag on satellites in space, and that condition affects how long spacecraft and/or space debris stay in orbit. Composition changes in the thermosphere would also alter ionospheric structures that affect radio wave propagation and communications. Since its launch, Timed has made some key findings about how the sun’s energy affects our upper atmosphere. APL’s Elsayed Talaat, Timed deputy project scientist, said, “Timed’s comprehensive studies of our upper atmosphere are unique for our field. We’ve
collected an order of magnitude more data than any other upper atmospheric mission. Timed is already the baseline for future stud-ies of this region.” Timed is collaborating with other sun-Earth missions to investigate the energy chains responsible for disturbances in our upper atmosphere. The APL-built Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft has con-tinually provided interplanetary magnetic field data and solar wind speed and den-sity measurements for Timed investigations. Timed is also collaborating with the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, man-aged by NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen-ter, which is providing Timed scientists with continuing solar radiation measurements and new views of how solar activity is created. Timed scientists continue to work with the APL-built Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager instruments onboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program spacecraft. Nearly identical to Timed’s Global Ultraviolet Imager instrument, SSUSI provides additional particulate mea-surements that help both missions collabo-rate on aurora-related energy inputs and characteristics that occur within the iono-sphere and thermosphere. “We’re looking forward to the twin Radia-tion Belt Storm Probes spacecraft, being built by APL for launch in 2012, to give us our first detailed look at how solar activity affects Earth’s radiation belts,” Talaat said. During Timed’s extended mission, APL will continue to lead the project’s science efforts and manage the mission’s Science Data Center. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center manages the overall mission. For more information, go to www.timed .jhuapl.edu.
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The Johns Hopkins women’s cross-country team totaled 265 points to capture seventh place at the NCAA Championships on Nov. 20 in Waverly, Iowa.
The Blue Jays’ performance ties the pro-gram record for best finish at the national championships. The 2009 squad also took seventh place. The strong showing caps off a stellar year for the Jays, who won conference and Mideast Regional titles this season. In a nod to the team’s success, head coach Bobby Van Allen last week was named the Centennial Conference women’s cross-country Coach of the Year. He previously
won the honor in 2008. Van Allen was also named the Mideast Region Coach of the Year for the third straight season after the Blue Jays won their third regional title in a row and junior Cecilia Furlong was the first individual to win the regional crown in school history. Johns Hopkins’ athletic prowess spilled over to the soccer pitch, too. For the second straight year, the Johns Hopkins women’s soccer team advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight to face top-ranked Messiah with a trip to the Final Four in San Antonio, Texas, on the line. The Blue Jays gave Messiah everything it could handle but fell short by a score of 2-1. In the 2009 quarterfinals, Messiah defeated the Blue Jays 3-1 and went on to win its second straight national championship.
Strong seasons for JHU cross-country, soccer teams The women’s squad finished its 2010 cam-paign with a record of 19-4-1, tying a school record for most single-season victories. The Blue Jays say goodbye to a group of five seniors—Sarah Gieszl, Jenn Paulucci, Erin Stafford, Sara Tankard and Allie Zazzali—who have compiled a combined record of 70-14-7 (.807) in their four seasons at Johns Hopkins. The men’s soccer team also had a strong 2010, which ended with a 1-0 loss to second-ranked Ohio Wesleyan in the NCAA Sweet 16. The Blue Jays finished at 15-4-4. The loss ends the collegiate careers of seniors Ravi Gill, Evan Kleinberg, Kevin Hueber, Chris Wilson and Scott Bukoski. The group led Johns Hopkins to a 62-17-12 record, along with two Centennial Conference titles and four straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
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Bloomberg School of Public Health
In an article published in the Nov. 3 edition of the <Journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association>, Chad Boult,
professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, calls for key improvements to primary care in order to improve the health of the nation’s most costly patients: older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Boult and his co-author, G. Darryl Wie-land, research director of Geriatrics Services at Palmetto Health Richland Hospital in Columbia, S.C., evaluated studies of new primary care models to determine the best way to improve care and outcomes for the more than 10 million older adults living with four or more chronic conditions. “Today’s primary care physicians are often overwhelmed by the complex needs of patients with multiple chronic health chal-
lenges, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis and more,” Boult said. “Current medical training often does not prepare physicians to provide the comprehensive support that these patients require. Through our research, we identified four processes that can improve how we care for these patients, and three models that include these critical processes.” Boult and Wieland examined all peer-reviewed studies published between 1999 and 2010 of comprehensive primary care models for older adults with multiple con-ditions. From this review, they identified four processes that are present in most successful models of primary care for these patients: a comprehensive patient assess-ment that includes a complete review of all medical, psychosocial, lifestyle and values issues; creation and implementation of an evidence-based plan of care that addresses all the patient’s health-related needs; com-munication and coordination with all who provide care for the patient; and promotion
Older adults need better primary care, geriatrician saysof the patients’ (and their family caregivers’) engagement in their own health care. “Most of today’s primary care does not include these four processes, so patients receive fragmented and inefficient care that is further undermined by a lack of family and community support,” Wieland said. “However, new models of primary care that include these processes have improved health outcomes, and patient and physician satisfaction, and have in some cases lowered the cost of care.” Boult and Wieland identified three mod-els of care that have the greatest potential to improve effectiveness and efficiency of complex primary health care. All include a team-based approach to primary care, and they provide many of the same services to complex older patients, beginning with a comprehensive assessment and an evidence-based care plan. All these models include proactive monitoring and coaching, coordi-nation of care across all sites of care, support of a patient’s transitions from acute to post-
acute settings and access to community-based agencies. GRACE (Geriatric Resources for Assess-ment and Care of Elders) is a team-based intervention developed by researchers from Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute. In a large clinical trial, GRACE improved quality of care, decreased emer-gency department visits and lowered hos-pital admission rates and costs in a group at high risk for hospital admission. PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) provides comprehensive, inter-disciplinary team care to low-income frail elders. Based in an adult day health center, PACE professionals provide (or contract for) primary, specialty, emergency, hospital, home and long-term care. PACE has been found to increase health screenings, reduce hospital admissions, increase nursing home stays and reduce mortality among partici-pants at high risk of dying. Guided Care, a multidisciplinary model of comprehensive primary care for people with multiple chronic conditions, was developed by Johns Hopkins researchers. Early results from a multisite randomized controlled trial indicate that Guided Care improves the quality of a patient’s care, improves phy-sician’s satisfaction with some aspects of chronic care and tends to reduce the use and cost of expensive health-related services. Of the three models, only PACE is cur-rently reimbursable through Medicare and state Medicaid programs. “While most of the programs noted here are not yet widely available, we are hopeful that new initiatives launched by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will provide new opportunities for primary care physicians to care for their chronically ill patients more effectively and efficiently,” Boult said. “More research is needed to define the optimal methods for identify-ing the patients who will benefit most, for providing the essential clinical processes, for disseminating and expanding the reach of these models and for paying for excellent chronic care.”
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B y P h i L s n e i D e r m a n
Homewood
A Johns Hopkins undergradu-ate team that assembled fragments of DNA in a way that allows cells to respond to electrical “messages” has
received honors in an international contest in the emerging field of synthetic biology. The students competed this month in the latest International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, also known as iGEM 2010. The contest, held at MIT, began in 2004 with just five teams. This year’s event attracted 130 teams and more than 1,900 participants, reflecting the growing interest in synthetic biology, which uses biological parts to turn a living cell into a “machine” that can perform a useful task. For the second year running, a Johns Hop-kins team received a gold medal, awarded to projects that are judged to have met the competition’s highest standards. This year’s team also was designated runner-up in the Best Experimental Measurement category and received an honorable mention in the New Application category. “This was the ‘World Cup’ of synthetic biology,” said Yizhi Cai, a School of Medicine
postdoctoral research fellow who was one of three advisers to the undergraduates. “This team has been completely student-driven. The students got together and picked their project, and many of them worked on it dur-ing the summer, even though they received no academic credits or stipend money for their efforts. We’re very proud of what they accomplished.” Cai pointed out that this year’s 11 team members volunteered their time, borrowed lab space and materials, and completed their project with minimal funding. He said that the students and their faculty advisers hope to obtain additional financial support and lab resources to enhance their next project. “Our goal next year is to be picked as one of the six finalist teams,” Cai said. At the beginning of the summer, iGEM organizers send each student team a kit of standardized interchangeable biological parts to launch the year’s project. These parts, far too small to be seen with the naked eye, serve as the equivalent of nuts and bolts, or children’s Lego pieces. In this case, however, the pieces are tiny strands of DNA that are capable of carrying out some cellular task, such as triggering the release of a certain protein. The team members in the competition must use biochemical tools to cut and assemble these pieces.
Team honored at international synthetic biology competition
identifying, prioritizing and resolving key strategic issues. His first major initiative will be to spearhead a streamlined and responsive strategic planning process that will flow down to the business areas of the Lab. In February, the APL executive council intends to release a one-page description of the Lab’s vision, strategy and execution priorities. Soon there-after, the Lab will release a position paper for each business area and enterprise department that will be aligned with the organization’s overall strategic priorities. Luman also will chair a new invest-ment strategy team, comprising the assistant directors and chief financial officer, which will make recommendations and decisions regarding investments for the future. “Ron has successfully led the National Security Analysis Department for the past seven years and has been highly effective in leading our recent planning efforts as acting director of Strategic Planning,” Semmel said. Prior to joining the Joint Warfare Analy-sis Department in 2000, Luman, who joined the Lab in 1978, was in the Strategic Systems Department for 21 years. He also spent two years as the APL chief systems engineer. Krill has been the Lab’s assistant director for programs since 2005, overseeing APL’s 600-plus programs and leading its quality management initiatives. He’s also an inventor
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APL with numerous patents and patents pending to his name, including ones for plastic electric motors and 3-D virtual reality displays. Krill said that he’ll keep a wide view of Lab programs but focus specifically on ways to tackle critical challenges with new technology. He will build on the work of the Lab’s Science and Technology Council and of John Sommerer, former chief technology officer, who earlier this year was appointed head of the Lab’s Space Department. “We need to make sure we understand the challenges our sponsors must address, and align our advanced concepts and technologies with those challenges,” Krill said. “Working with the business areas and departments, I believe we’ll see some new opportunities for innovation.” Krill was instrumental in developing the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability system that links air defense systems within a battle group. Before becoming assistant director, he led the Power Projection Sys-tems Department for four years, also heading up the Precision Engagement and Infocen-tric Operations business areas. Located in Laurel, Md., the university’s APL division performs research and develop-ment on behalf of the Department of Defense, NASA and other government sponsors. It was founded in 1942 to mobilize scientific brainpower to provide advanced technology solutions to wartime defense problems. More than 70 percent of APL’s nearly 5,000 staff members are scientists and engineers. Mike Buckley and Paulette Campbell of APL contributed to this story.
“Each DNA sequence has a particular function that you can use to construct some kind of a system,” said Justin Porter, a junior biophysics major, who served as team leader. “What we decided to do was to make yeast cells voltage-sensitive.” To demonstrate that their idea works, the students found a way to make the modified yeast cells produce a protein that glows red when an electrical voltage is applied, indicating that a “message” has arrived. The team members said that with further devel-opment this concept could have significant practical applications, such as allowing a computer to communicate with cells via electrical voltage, instructing the cells to multiply or to stop growing, for example. The students envision a scientist using a cell phone, while dining in a restaurant perhaps, to send a text message to a lab computer many miles away, instructing it to send volt-age to adjust a biology experiment. “We were pretty excited about this proj-ect,” Porter said. “This was our group’s first entry in the iGEM competition, and we were surprised we did so well.” A faculty adviser to the team, Jef Boeke, a professor in the School of Medicine’s High Throughput Biology Center, said that “the ‘molecular tinkering’ aspect of this activity really motivates students to think outside
the box—anything seems possible. That is what makes this activity simultaneously a great educational experience and an oppor-tunity to really think big,” he said. “By leav-ing the undergrads to their own devices dur-ing the project development phase, they will not be inhibited by faculty ‘naysayers.’ One of the amazing aspects of iGEM is how the students won’t be dissuaded by comments that something can’t be done. They just go off and do it instead.” The other members of the team and their majors are Noah Young, biomedi-cal engineering and applied mathematics; Daniel Wolozny, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Ang “Andy” Tu, biomedical engineering; Henry Ma, biomedical engi-neering and public health; Arjun Khakhar, biomedical engineering; Roberto Passaro, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Andrew Snavely, neuroscience and cellular and molecular biology; Jonathan LeMoel, biomedical engineering; Kristin Boulier, cel-lular and molecular biology; and Zheyuan Guo, chemical and biomolecular engineer-ing. In addition to Cai and Boeke, Marc Oster-meier, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering, was an adviser to the team.
$50,000 grants go to two promising and potentially commercial products
B y s t e P h a n i e D e s m o n
Johns Hopkins Medicine
A Johns Hopkins researcher who designed a programmable vibrat-ing wristband to treat neurological
motor disorders has been awarded $50,000 to help in her quest to develop the product for market. Cynthia F. Salorio, an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a pediatric neuropsychologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, was chosen for the grant during the annual meeting of the Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science and Technology Development and the Univer-sity of Maryland, Baltimore, Commercial Advisory Board. Two dozen researchers from Johns Hopkins and UMB presented ideas that they hope can be translated from sci-ence into successful commercial products or businesses. A panel of judges, many of them
business executives, chose the concepts that they found to be most promising. Salorio’s device is intended to aid patients who have had an injury to their brain result-ing in hemiplegia, a condition marked by severe motor deficits on one side of the body, and who also have a lack of full awareness of one side of the body. The device, called ArmAware, helps send signals to the brain and increase awareness of the affected arm. With few treatments for this condition, the simple noninvasive device is designed to help long-term function recovery following neurological damage. UMB’s James Galen also won $50,000 in seed money. He is working on a vaccine against the deadly gastrointestinal disease caused by the Clostridium difficile bacteria. The prize money came from the Maryland Biotech Center and the respective universi-ties. The Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science and Technology Development was formed five years ago as a way to aid Johns Hopkins faculty in commercializing their technologi-cal inventions. High-level business execu-tives now sit on the board and offer assis-tance, from free advice to networking using their own Rolodexes or offering assistance in finding money to move projects forward.
Money awarded to researchers turning science into business
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10 THE GAZETTE • November 29, 2010
This is a partial listing of jobscurrently available. A complete list
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“Sexual Revictimizations: A Model of Psychosocial Risk Factors” with Kate Walsh, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Sponsored by Mental Health. B14B Hampton House. eB
Wed., dec. 1, 1:30 p.m. “Structural Basis for Allosteric Activation of Gly-cogen Synthase,” a Biophysics and Bio-physical Chemistry seminar with Thom-as Hurley, Indiana University School of Medicine. 517 PCTB. eB
Wed., dec. 1, 4 p.m. “Optical Switch-es: High-Contrast Fluorescence Imaging and Manipulation of Biomolecules,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Gerard Marriott, Univer-sity of California, Berkeley. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. eB
Wed., dec. 1, 4:30 p.m. “Adeles and Twin Primes,” an Algebraic Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Tom Wright, Lawrence University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. hW
thurs., dec. 2, noon. “Short Chain Fatty Acids and Blood Pressure,” a Cell Biology seminar with Jennifer Pluznick, SoM. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. eB
thurs., dec. 2, 1 p.m. “Synaptic Speci-ficity During Interneuron Circuit Assem-bly in the Spinal Cord,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Julia Kaltschmidt, Sloan-Kettering Institute. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. eB
thurs., dec. 2, 3 p.m. The Bromery Seminar—“What Banded Iron Forma-tions Tell Us About the Precambrian Earth” with Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta. 305 Olin. hW
thurs., dec. 2, 4 to 6 p.m., and fri., dec. 3, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Futures Seminar—the Department of History, with Mai Ngai, Columbia University; Michele Mitchell, NYU; James Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ussama Makdisi, Rice Univer-sity; and Ron Walters, Judith Walkowitz, Peter Jelavich, Sara Berry and William Rowe, KSAS. Mason Hall Auditorium (Thursday) and Charles Commons Con-ference Center (Friday). hW
fri., dec. 3, 10 a.m. “Proteomic Profil-ing of Epigenetic Signaling and Malig-nant Progression in Breast Cancer,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology the-sis defense seminar with Patrick Shaw. W1214 SPH. eB
fri., dec. 3, 11 a.m. “Spontaneous Sto-chasticity, Flux-Freezing and Magnetic
Dynamo,” a CEAFM seminar with Greg-ory Eyink, WSE. 110 Maryland. hW
Mon., dec. 6, noon. “Mechanisms Underlying the Resolution of Lung Inflammation and Injury Following Mechanical Ventilation in Mice,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Alexis Bierman. W7023 SPH. eB
Mon., dec. 6, 12:15 p.m. “About Mei-otic Silencing…,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Rodolfo Ara-mayo, Texas A&M. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. hW
Mon., dec. 6, 1:30 p.m. “HIV Sta-tus, Fertility Intentions and Sexual Risk Reduction Intentions Among Couples Voluntary Counseling and Testing Partic-ipants in Ethiopia,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Yung-Ting Bonnenfant. E4611 SPH. eB
Mon., dec. 6, 2 p.m. “Rewirable Gene Regulatory Networks in the Pre-Implan-tation Embryonic Development of Three Mammalian Species,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Sheng Zhong, University of Chicago, Urbana-Champaign. G-007 Ross. eB
Mon., dec. 6, 3:30 p.m. “Devel-opmental and Intergenerational Origins of U.S. Health Disparities,” a Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solu-tions seminar with Christopher Kuzawa, Northwestern University. B14B Hamp-ton House. eB
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Wed., dec. 1, 9 p.m. Sixth annual Lighting of the Quads, featuring perfor-mances from JHU a cappella groups; free hot chocolate, hot cider, cookies and doughnuts; a gingerbread house competi-tion; and a countdown to the lights. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Keyser Quad. hW
thurs., dec. 2, 5 p.m. Inaugural Light the Labyrinth Celebration to benefit the Johns Hopkins Bayview Fund. (See In Brief, p. 2.) For information or to make a donation, go to www.hopkinsbayview .org/light or call 410-502-2911. Each per-son who donates will have a chance to place a candle on the labyrinth. Bayview
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fri., dec. 3, 8:30 a.m. “The Micro-biome: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful,” an SoM Dean’s Office sympo-sium with various speakers. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. eB
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ClassifiedsaPartMeNtS/houSeS for reNt
Bayview, gorgeous rental w/garage, fenced yd, 12 mins to medical center. $1,500/mo. 410-979-9908 or https://sites.google.com/site/essexhouseforsale.
Butchers Hill, fully furn’d 1BR + office, dw, W/D, all appls, hdwd flrs, satellite TV, DVD player, WiFi access, sec sys, cute cottage-style RH south of JHMI. $1,100/mo + utils. [email protected].
Canton, 2BR, 2.5BA TH w/roof deck, total rehab, great location convenient to JHH, close to everything, avail Dec 15. Courtney, 410-340-6762 or [email protected] (for pricing).
Canton/Brewers Hill, cozy 2BR, 1BA + office RH, 1,300 sq ft, lg kitchen, open 1st flr, front BR has adjoining study, back BR has balcony, walk to waterfront/shops/res-taurants, nr Patterson Park, pref 1-yr lease (negotiable). $1,300/mo + utils + sec dep. [email protected].
Charles Village, spacious, bright and newly updated 3BR apt, mr Homewood campus. $1,350/mo. 443-253-2113 or [email protected].
Cross Keys/Roland Park, beautiful 1BR condo in gated community, shops and res-taurants, balcony, covered prkng, close to campus. $1,100/mo. 443-224-3020.
Ednor Gardens, 4BR, 2.5BA EOG TH, all appls, W/D, fin’d bsmt, fenced yd, pets welcome, nr Homewood and Eastern cam-puses. $1,900/mo + utils. 410-206-8097 or [email protected].
Evergreen/Roland Park, sunny, furn’d 3BR house, avail January-June, 15-min walk to Homewood/shuttle. $1,800/mo. 410-458-3265 or http://tinyurl.com/2a83whe.
Fells Point, 2BR, 1.5BA TH, great location, close to everything, avail Dec 1. $1,400/mo. 410-440-1604 or [email protected].
Fells Point, lg 3BR, 2BA corner apt, CAC, free wireless Internet, walk 4 blks to JHMI, avail Dec 1, lease w/sec dep. $1,450/mo. 410-303-2195 or franklinsqpartners@gmail .com.
Fells Point, beautiful 3BR, 2BA apt, recent-ly rehabbed, living and study areas, full kitchen, walk 4 blks to JHH, 8 blks to waterfront and Patterson Park, avail Dec 1. $1,450/mo. Karen, 410-303-2195 (for info/viewing) or [email protected].
Hampden/Medfield, 3BR single-family house, avail furn’d/unfurn’d, w/office, laun-dry, priv prkng, walk to campus/shops/pub-lic transit. $1,300/mo + utils. [email protected].
Mt Washington/Greenspring, luxury 2.5BR, 2.5BA + sunrm in Quarry Lake community,
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gorgeous lake and waterfall views, granite counters, hdwd flrs, stainless steel appls, community tennis, gym, swimming pool, easy access to I-83 and 695. $2,100/mo. [email protected].
Park Charles (downtown Baltimore), 2BR, 2BA apt, fully furn’d, avail from January-August. $1,375/mo + elec, Internet/cable. Belinda, 626-215-9297 or [email protected].
Union Square, 1BR boutique apt in Victo-rian TH, furn’d, flexible terms, in historic district, perf for visiting academic or sabbati-cals. 410-988-3137, richardson1886@gmail .com or http://therichardsonhouse.vflyer .com/home/flyer/home/3200019.
39 W Lexington St, 585 sq ft studio in lux-ury condo, utils incl’d, looking for someone to take over my lease (beginning Dec 1), pre-approval from management is needed. $1,099/mo. www.39westlex.com.
TH nr JHMI, 2BRs each w/priv BA, 1st flr living rm, dining rm, kitchen, W/D, half-BA, AC, alarm. $1,300/mo. 516-680-6103.
Lg 1BR apt + office w/view of park, gen-trified area, free prkng, access to light rail/metro, conv to JHH/shuttle service. [email protected].
Garage/storage unit, 1 blk to Homewood campus, dry and secure w/new metal over-head door, electric service, park your car or store your stuff. $140/mo. 410-963-3071 or [email protected].
3BR 2BA RH, all appls, W/D, hdwd flrs, newly painted, walking distance to Homewood campus, on shuttle line to JHMI. $1,450/mo. 410-243-3239 or carol_ [email protected].
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Gardens of Guilford, newly renov’d, lg 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant setting, easy walk to Homewood. 410-366-1066.
Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt, fenced, main-tenance-free yd w/carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443-610-0236 or [email protected].
Hampden, updated 3BR, 2BA duplex, spa-cious eat-in kitchen, dw, mud rm has W/D, CAC, Internet, covered front and back porch, fenced yd, free street prkng (front and back). $215,000. 410-592-2670.
Hampden, updated 2BR, 2BA TH, hdwd flrs, CAC, lg closets, beautiful deck, prkng, easy walk to Homewood campus. $209,000. 410-808-2969.
Roland Park, 6BR, 3.5BA house w/new kitchen, new bsmt w/half-BA, external entrance, landscaped lot, separate 1.5-car garage, enclos’d 1st and 2nd flr porches, lg deck. $690,000. 401-207-5467.
Stoneleigh area, 3BR, 2.5BA house w/new kitchen, great neighborhood and public schools, easy commute to JHH/JHU. $379,900. www.homesdatabase.com/bc7455322.
Lg 1BR condo in luxury high-rise, secure bldg w/doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swim-ming pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $180,000. 757-773-7830 or norva04@gmail .com.
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F wanted to share 1BR w/2 Indian grad students, 2-min walk to Homewood cam-pus/shuttle stop/Eddie’s/bank. $285/mo. [email protected].
Sunny, spacious rm avail in historic Lau-raville, nr JHH/JHU, available Dec 1, short- or long-term lease available. $500/mo + utils. Melissa, 443-844-4094.
Quiet, clean student or young prof’l want-ed to take over lease for beautiful 1BR, 1BA in 2BR, 2BA apt, starting in Janu-ary, downtown/Inner Harbor area, share w/very friendly student w/cat; serious inquiries only. $720/mo. 631-434-5215.
Share all new refurbished TH w/other medi-cal students, 924 N Broadway, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. [email protected].
F wanted for rm w/priv BA in lg 2BR, 2BA condo on N Charles St, 8th flr, amazing view, swimming pool, gym, sauna, doorman, 24-hr security, underground prkng, walk to Homewood campus/shuttle. 443-478-7914.
Authentic old textile coverlets from India, in various materials, suitable for hanging or bedspread. 410-467-3429.
Chickering baby grand piano, in excel cond, all ivory keys in great cond; price nego-tiable. 410-366-4488 or stamusicministry@ gmail.com.
Silk scarves, pillows, lavender sachets sewn from Japanese kimono fabrics, also pashmina wraps, jewelry, 2 blks to JHU. 410-235-5125 or [email protected].
Sand beach chairs (2), three-step ladders (2), dresser w/shelves, reciprocating saw, printer, digital piano. 410-455-5858 or [email protected].
Christmas ornaments (30), 600-light gar-land, stand for 12-ft tree, Santa hat, stock-ing, $50; black metal barstools (2), 29", in excel cond, $20/ea; Ikea “Bekvam” kitchen cart, like new, $30. [email protected].
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Fireplace mantle, antique oak, original from house in Wyman Park area. $100. Judy, 410-889-1213 or [email protected].
Conn alto saxophone, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond. 410-488-1886.
Formal oak dining rm table and 6 fabric-covered chairs, table extends to 44" x 86", in excel condition. [email protected].
Red Cross pins from Europe, 15 different. $28. 443-517-9029 or [email protected].
One-of-a-kind handmade rugs and runners from Afghanistan, lovely colors, unique styles, pillows and other textiles, excel qual-ity, warm up bare flrs, hallways, entryways. $50-$3,000. 571-332-7292.
December 2010 MTA monthly regular pass. $64. 410-235-2777 or eboettinger@hotmail .com.
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Kittens: I am fostering 3 kittens for BARCS that need loving homes for Christmas, altered and all shots; I will cover adoption costs. 443-255-2352.
Database programmer/volunteer needed for ambitious ecology project. Mark, 410-464-9274.
Responsible, energetic, loving FT nanny needed to care for, nurture and teach 2 infants, starting mid-January. Chris, 617-388-1128 or [email protected].
Wanted: cargo van or panel van to be used for landscaping equipment, etc. 410-812-6090 or [email protected].
Christmas bazaar in Hampden (37th and Roland, nr Homewood campus), gifts, toys, food, raffles, decorations, photo w/Santa, more. Dec 3, 3-8pm, Dec 4, 10am-4pm. 410-366-4488.
Responsible, loving pet-, baby- or house-sit-ter available, JHU employee w/experience w/special needs children and cats or dogs, references avail. 202-288-1311 or janyelle [email protected].
Affordable and professional landscaper/cer-tified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410-683-7373 or [email protected].
Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to the general public, great bands, no partners needed. 410-663-0010 or www .fridaynightswing.com.
Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Confidential consul-tation. 410-435-5939 or [email protected].
Mature, responsible JHU book editor seek-ing short- or long-term housesitting jobs, happy to care for pets, too, refs avail. dlbors@ yahoo.com.
M prof’l seeks long-term BR rental nr Bay-view Medical Center, starting January. 443-928-5192 or [email protected].
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tues., Nov. 30, 4:15 p.m. “Bioorganic Chemistry of Tita-nium in Medicine and Environ-ment,” a Chemistry colloquium with Ann Valentine, Yale Univer-sity. 233 Remsen. hW
Wed., dec. 1, 3:30 p.m. “What Can We Learn About the Origin of Life From Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell?” an STSci collo-quium with Jack Szostak, Harvard University. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. hW
Wed., dec. 1, 4:30 p.m. “Form-in’ New Ways to Look at Endocy-tosis,” a Biology colloquium with Beverly Wendland, KSAS. Mudd Auditorium. hW
thurs., dec. 2, 3 p.m. “Molecu-lar Astrophysics With Herschel,” a Physics and Astronomy colloqui-um with David Neufeld, KSAS. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. hW
thurs., dec. 2, 3 p.m. “Science in Three Dimensions: The Anato-my Museum at the Karolinska Insti-tute, Stockholm, 1830–1860,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Eva Ahren, Upp-sala University. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Library. eB
fri., dec. 3, 2 p.m. Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with the winners of the Hart Prizes for Excellence in IR&D: Stergios Papadakis (Research), “Carbon Nanotube Triodes for Harsh Envi-ronment Electronics”); and Brian Funk (Development), “Weaponized Small Unmanned Aircraft System for Engaging Moving Urban Tar-gets.” Parsons Auditorium. aPL
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tues., Nov. 30, noon to 6 p.m. “Fishing for Cooperation, Netting for Development,” a SAIS Korea Studies Program conference with various speakers. Co-sponsored by the Korea Maritime Institute. To RSVP, e-mail [email protected] or call 202-670-1261. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SaIS
fri., dec. 3, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. “The Health of Urban Youth,” a Children’s Center conference with author Paul Tough, who has written extensively on urban youth; morning keynote address by John Rich of Drexel University and author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men; after-noon panel discussion with youth representatives focusing on urban education, health care, psychology and community initiatives. (See In Brief, p. 2.) E2030 SPH. eB
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Mon., Nov. 29, 5 p.m. “Increasing Transparency in Africa Through New Media,” a SAIS African Studies Program panel discussion with Cinnamon
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thurs., dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Brass Ensemble performs after the lighting of the Washing-ton Monument. Griswold Hall. Peabody
fri., dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Jazz Orchestra performs. $15 general admission, $10 senior citizens, $5 for students with ID. East Hall. Peabody
Sat., dec. 4, 8 p.m. The Hop-kins Symphony Orchestra per-forms music by Beethoven, Bruch and de Falla, with guest conductor Tao Fan. (See In Brief, p. 2.) 7 p.m. Pre-concert talk by Jonathan Palevsky. $10 general admission, $8 for senior citizens and non-JHU students; free for JHU students with valid ID. Shriver Audito-rium. hW
Sun., dec. 5, 3 p.m. The Pea-body Children’s Chorus performs. (See photo, this page.) Free but advance tickets required; call 410-234-4800 or go to [email protected]. Friedberg Hall. Peabody
Sun., dec. 5, 5:30 p.m. Shriver Hall Concert Series presents the Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio. $38 general admission, $19 for non-JHU students; free for JHU stu-dents. Shriver Auditorium. hW
Mon., dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Improvisation and Multi-media Ensemble perform. $15 gen-eral admission, $10 senior citizens, $5 for students with ID. East Hall. Peabody
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Mon., Nov. 29, 12:15 p.m. “Micro RNAs in Cancer and Devel-opment,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Andrea Ventura, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. hW
Mon., Nov. 29, 2 p.m. “System-atic RNA Interference to Probe Cancer Cell Vulnerabilities,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Kenneth Chang, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. G-007 Ross. eB
Mon., Nov. 29, 2 p.m. “The Epi-demiology of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the U.S. Popula-tion: Prevalence, Correlates and Mortality,” an Epidemiology the-sis defense seminar with Mariana Laza-Elizondo. Suite 2-600, 2024 Bldg. eB
Mon., Nov. 29, 2:30 p.m. “Con-troversy and Cancer Prevention: Media Messages About the HPV Vaccine,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Dana Casciotti. 250 Hamp-ton House. eB
Mon., Nov. 29, 3:30 p.m. “Aetna’s Commitment to Reduc-ing Disparities in Health Care: Aetna’s Racial and Ethnic Equal-ity Initiatives,” a Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions seminar with Wayne Rawlins and Michelle Toscano, Aetna. B14B Hampton House. eB
Mon., Nov. 29, 4 p.m. “Monoto-nicity for the Chern-Moser Curva-ture Tensor and the CR Embedding
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aPL Applied Physics LaboratoryeB East BaltimorehW HomewoodKSaS Krieger School of Arts and SciencesPCtB Preclinical Teaching BuildingSaIS School of Advanced International StudiesSoM School of MedicineSoN School of NursingSPh School of Public HealthWBSB Wood Basic Science BuildingWSe Whiting School of Engineering
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Dornsife and Peter Lewis, SAIS; Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Band Group and Transparency Interna-tional; and Matthias Chika Mordi, founder and CEO, Accender Africa. To RSVP, go to chris@ accenderafrica.org. Kenney Audi-torium, Nitze Bldg. SaIS
tues., Nov. 30, 12:30 p.m. “Debt, Globalization and the U.S. Foreign Policy Role,” a SAIS Global Theory and History Program panel discussion with Charles Doran, Michael Mandel-baum and Anne Krueger, SAIS; Earl Fry, Brigham Young Univer-sity. To RSVP, e-mail [email protected] or call 202-663-5714. 517 Nitze Bldg. SaIS
tues., Nov. 30, 4:30 p.m. “How to Free the Transatlantic Marketplace: Two Approaches,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations panel discussion with Koen Berden, Ecorys and Erasmus University; Charlie Ries, Clin-ton-Bush Haiti Fund and RAND Corp.; and Daniel Hamilton (moderator), SAIS. For informa-tion, e-mail transatlanticrsvp@jhu .edu or call 202-663-5880. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SaIS
tues., Nov. 30, 5 p.m. “The Rise of Asia: What It Means for Europe,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Hanns Maull, University of Trier, Ger-many; and Giovanni Andornino, University of Turin, Italy. For information, e-mail ntobin@jhu .edu or call 202-663-5796. Rome Auditorium. SaIS
Wed., dec. 1, 12:30 p.m. “The Transformation of Medel-lin: Democracy, Development and Social Policy,” a SAIS Office of the Dean discussion with Frank Fukuyama, SAIS/Stanford Uni-versity. Co-sponsored by the SAIS Student Government Association. To RSVP, e-mail mevans49@jhu .edu or call 202-663-5673. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SaIS
Wed., dec. 1, 5:30 p.m. “The Cyber Challenge: Threats and Opportunities in a Networked World,” a SAIS Review of Inter-national Affairs discussion with Melissa Hathaway, Hathaway Global Strategies LLC, and Dan Chenok (moderator), IBM Center for the Business of Government.
To RSVP, e-mail saisreview@jhu .edu. Rome Auditorium. SaIS
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Mon., dec. 6, 8:30 a.m. “Trans-plant Pathology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” Pathol-ogy grand rounds with Lorraine Racusen, SoM. Hurd Hall. eB
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tues., Nov. 30, 4 p.m. The Kenneth O. Johnson Memorial Lecture—“On the Selection and Control of Behavior” by Jeffrey Schall, Vanderbilt University. Reception follows. Co-sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Insti-tute and Biomedical Engineer-ing. Mason Hall. hW
Wed., dec. 1, 4 p.m. “Looking at the Stars Forever: The Endless Postwar,” a Tudor and Stuart lec-ture by Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine. Sponsored by English. 130D Gilman. hW
thurs., dec. 2, noon. “Pat-terns of Inscription: On the His-torical Transmission of Chinese Pictures,” an East Asian Studies lecture by De-nin Lee, Bowdoin College. 10 Gilman. hW
thurs., dec. 2, 3 p.m. The 16th Annual Bell Lecture—“Experimental-Computational Analysis of the Mechanics of the Lens Capsule of the Eye” by Jay Humphrey, Yale University. Sponsored by Mechanical Engi-neering. 210 Hodson. hW
thurs., dec. 2, 5:15 p.m. “Bones of Contention: Darwin in South America,” a German and Romance Languages and Litera-tures lecture by Leila Gomez, University of Colorado, Boulder. 479 Gilman. hW
thurs., dec. 2, 5:15 p.m. “Sci-ence and Slavery in Buffon’s Natural History,” a German and Romance Languages and Litera-tures lecture by Andrew Curran, Wesleyan University. 208 Gil-man. hW
thurs., dec. 2, 5:30 p.m. “Were There Reforms in Greek and Roman Antiquity?” a Classics lecture by Uwe Walter, Universi-tat Bielefeld. 108 Gilman. hW
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Problem Into Hyperquadrics,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Xiao-jun Huang, Rutgers University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. hW
Mon., Nov. 29, 4:30 p.m. “An Equivalence of Towers,” a Topol-ogy seminar with Rosona Eldred, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored by Math-ematics. 300 Krieger. hW
tues., Nov. 30, noon. “Mass Spectrometry: From Signaling Pathways to Proteogenomics,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Akhilesh Pandey, SoM. 612 Physiology. eB
tues., Nov. 30, 12:15 p.m. “World AIDS Day,” a Health, Behavior and Society seminar with Sandra Thurman, director, Office of National AIDS Policy. W1214 SPH. eB
tues., Nov. 30, 2 p.m. “Innate Immunity in Allergen-Induced Airway Inflammation: Role of Macrophage Migration Inhibi-tory Factor (MIF) and Cholester-ol 25-Hydroxylase (CH25H) in Long Macrophages and Dendritic Cells,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Kiwon Park. W2030 SPH. eB
tues., Nov. 30, 4 p.m. “Tar-geting mTOR for Cancer Pre-vention,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Philip Dennis, NCI. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. eB
tues., Nov. 30, 4:30 p.m. “Height of the Gross-Schoen Cycle,” an Algebraic Complex Geometry/Number Theory semi-nar with Xinyi Yuan, Columbia University. Sponsored by Math-ematics. 308 Krieger. hW
tues., Nov. 30, 4:30 p.m. “Renewal Out of Ruins: Saving Lives and Building Capacity in Fragile and Failed States,” a Cen-ter for Public Health and Human Rights seminar with Eric Schwartz, U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refu-gees and Migration. Reception follows. W1214 SPH. eB
tues., Nov. 30, 4:30 p.m. “Learning Hierarchies of Fea-tures,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Yann LeCun, New York Univer-sity. B17 Hackerman. hW
Wed., dec. 1, 8:30 a.m. “Chal-lenges in Emulating Clinical Tri-als Using Causal Inference Meth-ods,” a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Stephen Gange, SPH. W2030 SPH. eB
Wed., dec. 1, 12:15 p.m. Wednesday Noon Seminar—
the Peabody Children’s Chorus performs works by faure, Men-delssohn and Pergolesi, as well as songs to celebrate the holiday season. See Music.
