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New institute to tackle ‘grand challenges’ By Phil Sneiderman

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new Johns Hopkins institute, opening today, will bring together the university’s experts in engineering, medicine, public health, the social and physical sciences, education and other fields to solve tough nationalscale problems that require a multidisInstitute’s ciplinary approach. Some of the instiprimary tute’s initial targets goal is to be may include patient safety enhancement, development of indioutcomevidualized learning plans for K-12 stuoriented dents and improvement of disaster-preparedness plans. The organization, called the Johns Hopkins Systems Institute, will operate as a “virtual” center with a small administrative staff but a large list of affiliated researchers from the university’s academic divisions in Baltimore and its Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. Institute members will seek funding from government agencies and corporations to solve challenging problems with diverse teams of university experts. In addition to traditional lab scientists and engineers, most of these projects will require help from Johns Hopkins experts in medicine, nursing, political science, economics, business and education. Although other universities have set up systems engineering programs, the new Johns Hopkins institute will operate with an even broader scope. “The Systems Institute is intended to tackle problems that must be solved beyond the traditional boundaries of engineering and technology,” said Mo Dehghani, an APL department head who is the institute’s founding director. “The institute will ultimately try to address grand, national-scale, multidisciplinary challenges in areas such as health care delivery, infrastructure, education, energy strategies and other broad-based challenges. The complex problems in these areas don’t lend themselves to simple

Cheng Ran “Lisa” Huang, seen her with her adviser, Jef Boeke, will receive a Paul Ehrlich Award for her research suggesting that the high prevalence of ‘jumping genes’ may be an unrecognized source of human diversity.

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ith the arrival of spring comes the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s 34th annual Young Investigators’ Day celebration honoring junior researchers’ scientific accomplishments. This year’s event recognizes 13 graduate students and six postdoctoral fellows with awards. The program will be held

at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, in the Mountcastle Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus, followed by a poster session and a reception. The program will honor the award recipients, and highlighted awardees will have the opportunity to present their research findings. Continued on page 8

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Celebration of the arts to begin on three campuses By Greg Rienzi

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iewers of Hopkins, the seven-part ABC network news documentary that aired in the summer of 2008, know the special blend of tension, elation and heartache that embodies life at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Award–winning series portrayed doctors, nurses and many patients who agreed to share remarkably private moments.

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‘Blue Jay Shuttle’ begins; SAIS forum on Japan disasters; book drive for Barclay School

This week, seven faculty and staff members will share their own personal tales of triumph, defeat and humanity at the Stoop Storytelling Series’ “Hopkins Medicine: A World Inside a City.” The event is part of the inaugural universitywide JHU Arts Festival. Students, faculty, staff and alumni will share their talents for everything from dance to digital media during the event, which runs from Wednesday to Sunday. In total, more than 35 performances, workshops and talks are open to the public

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and will take place at various locations on the university’s Homewood, Peabody and East Baltimore campuses. The events, most of which are free, include film screenings, musical and theatrical performances, dance, visual arts displays and readings. The five-day event was organized by Eric Beatty, director of Homewood Arts Programs, and Joan Freedman, director of the Digital Media Center. The pair received support from Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean Continued on page 9

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he Homewood Security Escort Van service has a new name, effective today, April 4. The Blue Jay Shuttle, now operating under the Office of Parking and Transportation, will provide routes and point-to-point services to Johns Hopkins affiliates within a limited service area surrounding the Homewood campus. The operator is Broadway Services Inc. Transportation management and BSI will study ridership data to evaluate changes for the future, with plans to implement additional routes to service higher-volume locations in the coming months. No significant changes are planned for the remainder of this semester. GPS systems will be installed on the vans later this year to help management and customers keep track of vehicle locations and reduce waiting times. Questions, comments or feedback should be sent to shuttles@jhu.edu.

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he Sheridan Libraries kicked off a book drive for Charles Village’s Barclay School on March 24 at Homewood’s Milton S. Eisenhower Library. Sponsored jointly by the libraries’ Diversity Committee and Staff Development and Training Committee, the opening event featured a dessert reception and a presentation by Kelly Oglesbee, the volunteer coordinator for the Barclay School and a familiar face to many Homewood staff who participate in the JHU Takes Time for Schools program. In just a few days, library staff had already filled several boxes with new and gently used books, all of which will go to the school’s Story Pals program and recreational reading shelves. Benefiting both parents and students at Barclay, these programs provide reading assistance and mentoring as well as free books to school families for pleasure reading. The book drive runs through April 8.

SAIS to host forum on Japan earthquake and tsunami

Pediatric immunologist receives prestigious ARTrust Award

he American Academy of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology has bestowed its prestigious ARTrust award on Johns Hopkins Children’s Center immunologist Pamela Guerrerio for her ongoing research in the field of allergy and immunology. The mission of the academy’s Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Education and Research Trust is to find treatments and cures for the millions of people suffering from allergies, asthma and related disorders of the immune system by supporting scientists who conduct innovative research. Given annually, the award provides $300,000 over three years to outstanding scientists who work toward improving treatments and discovering new therapies for allergy, asthma and other immunologic disorders. “This award is a great honor, and it couldn’t have gone to a more deserving scientist,” said Robert Wood, director of Allergy and Immunology at Hopkins Children’s. “Dr. Guerrerio’s promising investigation into the basic mechanisms of food allergy development, as well as into the genetic and environmental causes of the disease, has provided us with fascinating new clues that have already illuminated novel potential treatments for food allergy and other allergic diseases.” Guerrerio received a doctorate in human genetics and a medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed a pediatric residency and a fellowship in pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins. She joined the faculty in 2009.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to speak at SAIS

indsey Graham, Republican senator from South Carolina, will speak at SAIS at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 6. Graham, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, will speak about “American Foreign Policy: A View From the Senate” at this forum hosted by the SAIS Center on Politics and Foreign Relations, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies and the University of California Washington Center. The session will be held in the first-floor auditorium of the school’s Rome Building. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to CPFR at rguttman@jhu.edu or 202-974-6341.

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he Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies will host a forum, “Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami: Dimensions of the Disaster and Future Prospects,” at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5. The forum, hosted by the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS and the student-led SAIS Japan Relief Team, includes Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese ambassador to the United States, who will give the featured remarks; Jessica P. Einhorn, dean of SAIS; Capt. David Barlow, one of the leaders of the unit dispatched to Japan from the Virginia Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department; Hironori Kawauchi,

senior economist of the East Asia and Pacific Region for the World Bank; Ryo Tsuzukihashi, a Japanese student at SAIS; and Kent Calder, director of the Reischauer Center and SAIS Japan Studies Program. The session will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to reischauer@jhu. edu or 202-663-5812.

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MD/PhD student receives prestigious Soros Fellowship

rian Goh, a second-year student in the MD/PhD program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has been named a recipient of a prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. In announcing the 2011 recipients last week, the foundation’s board said that the awards “highlight the extraordinary promise, diversity, drive and determination of recent immigrants—and children of immigrants—to this country.” The Soroses, both immigrants who struggled to support their graduate studies, chose to honor the continuing promise of immigrants by funding these awards. The fellowships may be used at any degree-granting graduate program in any field in the United States. Each twoyear award provides cash grants of up to $50,000 and tuition support of up to $40,000. This year’s 30 Soros Fellows were chosen from 1,009 applicants. Now 24, Brian Goh was born in Baton Rouge, La., to parents of Chinese extraction who had immigrated to this country from

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Malaysia. His father, one of 16 children, had been a manual laborer on a rubber plantation but managed to gain admission to— and eventually a doctorate from—Louisiana State University. His family members, all

naturalized U.S. citizens, reside in Denham Springs, La. Goh graduated in 2009 from Louisiana State University as a biochemistry major, earning a perfect 4.0 GPA and election to Phi Beta Kappa. While there, he received a Goldwater scholarship and a Howard Hughes Institute summer research award, and was named by USA Today to the 2009 All-USA College Academic First Team. Goh began his biomedical research at LSU during the year he took off between high school and college. His work focused on two areas: the evaluation of genes encoding common circadian regulatory proteins, and the use of adipose stem cells for tissue engineering applications. During his time at LSU, he was co-author of 11 publications in important journals. His research will continue to focus on manipulating adult stem cells for cardiac and bone tissue regeneration. He is especially interested in the possibility of engineering solutions to tissue deficits caused by congenital defects or following injury. Committed to the notion of translational medicine—applying the synergy of research

Could HIV-infected organs save lives? JHU researchers say ban on transplanting infected organs should be reversed By Stephanie Desmon

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f Congress reversed its ban on allowing people with HIV to be organ donors after their death, roughly 500 HIV-positive patients with kidney or liver failure each year could get transplants within months rather than the years they currently wait on the list, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. “If this legal ban were lifted, we could potentially provide organ transplants to every single HIV-infected transplant candidate on the waiting list,” said Dorry L. Segev, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study’s senior author. “Instead of discarding the otherwise healthy organs of HIV-infected people when they die, those organs could be available for HIV-positive candidates.” Not only would HIV-positive transplant candidates get organs sooner if such transplants were legalized, Segev says, but by transplanting those patients and moving them off the waiting list, the time to transplant would be shorter for non-HIV-infected patients. The ban on organ donation by HIVpositive patients is a relic of the 1980s, when

it was still unclear what caused AIDS, at the time a devastating new epidemic sweeping the United States. Congress put the ban into the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, and it has never been updated, despite the fact that HIV is no longer an immediate death sentence but a chronic disease managed with medication. The number of HIV-positive patients receiving kidney or liver transplants—with non-HIV-infected organs—is on the rise as doctors become more comfortable with the idea, and patients are having good outcomes, Segev says. In 2009, more than 100 HIV-positive patients got new kidneys and 29 got new livers. HIV-infected patients may encounter accelerated rates of liver and kidney disease due in part to the toxic effects of antiretroviral therapy, the medications that keep HIV at bay. Segev and his colleagues set out in their study, published early online in the American Journal of Transplantation, to estimate the number of people who die each year in the United States who are good potential organ donors except for being HIV-positive. They culled data from two main sources: the Nationwide Inpatient Study, which has information on in-hospital deaths of HIVinfected patients, and the HIV Research Network, a nationally representative registry of people with HIV. The team determined that the number of annual deaths with what are believed to be organs suitable for transplantation was approximately the same as estimated by each data source: an

average of 534 each year between 2005 and 2008 in the Nationwide Inpatient Study and an average of 494 each year between 2000 and 2008 in the HIV Research Network. While no transplants of HIV-infected organs into HIV-infected patients have been done in the United States because of the ban, Segev says that doctors in South Africa have started doing this type of transplant with excellent results. Segev suggests that in transitioning to a system where HIV-infected donor organs can be transplanted into HIV-infected patients, doctors can call on the lessons and experience of transplanting hepatitis C patients with organs from people with the same disease. This practice, which has not always been the standard, has substantially shortened the waiting list for these recipients without significantly compromising patient or graft survival. The decision of whether or not to use these organs is not a legal one but one made by the clinician. Using HIV-infected organs is not without concerns. There are medical and safety issues that need to be addressed. Doctors need to make sure that the harvested organs are healthy enough for transplant and that there is minimal risk of infecting the recipient with a more aggressive strain of the virus. There is also a fear that an HIV-infected organ could accidentally be transplanted into an HIV-negative recipient. Segev says that hepatitis C–infected organs are clearly marked as such and similar protocols can be developed with HIV-infected organs.

and clinical endeavors—Goh was a founding member of, and is the director of health screenings for, Charm City Clinic, a healthaccess partnership started by Johns Hopkins medical students. Goh combined his biomedical interests with his avid commitment to cycling by founding Team Detour, which raised more than $30,000 for a Louisiana cancer center. He led the team by lobbying the Louisiana congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., and then spearheading a 2,000-mile Capitol to Capitol ride from Washington to Baton Rouge. The Soros Fellowship Program is funded by income from a charitable trust of $75 million created by philanthropists Paul and Daisy Soros, of New York City and New Canaan, Conn. Since its inception in 1998, more than $35 million has been spent in support of graduate education of new Americans. “Our selection criteria,” Paul Soros says, “are designed to identify people who will make a success of their lives and who will contribute something to this country, in whatever area of endeavor they choose.”

“The same processes that are in place to protect people from getting an organ with hepatitis C accidentally could be put in place for HIV-infected organs,” Segev said. “When you consider the alternative—a high risk of dying on the waiting list—then these small challenges are overshadowed by the large potential benefit.” Segev says that eliminating the prohibition on HIV-infected organ donation would have immediate results. At first, he predicts, there would be more HIV-infected organs than people on the waiting list. Then, as doctors realize that their HIV-infected patients would no longer have to wait five to seven years for a transplant, Segev says he thinks that more and more HIV-infected patients would sign up for the shortened list for an HIV-infected organ. “The whole equation for seeking a transplant for someone with HIV and kidney or liver failure would change if this source of organs became available,” he said. “We want the decisions taken out of the hands of Congress and put into the hands of clinicians.” This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Other Johns Hopkins researchers contributing to this study are Brian J. Boyarsky, Erin C. Hall, Andrew L. Singer, Robert A. Montgomery and Kelly A. Gebo.

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xpert negotiator Ronald Shapiro recently taught more than 60 nurses “How to Negotiate So Everyone Wins” at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. The famed Baltimore sports agent and attorney shared his knowledge with Doctor of Nursing Practice students, who are nurse practitioners, administrators and leaders in nursing. “Nurses probably negotiate more than any other group of people we work with at the Shapiro Institute,” he said. They not only negotiate in their personal

lives, he noted, but professionally as well—to see programs implemented, budgets approved and patient care adjusted. They go through the process with their peers, patients, pharmacies and other health care professionals. With all this responsibility, Shapiro said, nurses “ought to be well-equipped to negotiate.” Shapiro delivered a four-hour seminar that included tips on preparing for negotiations, probing to discover other people’s needs during the negotiating process and how to make a proposal.

having scored a combined 1470 on the twopart SAT. The accepted students are almost equally divided between men and women. The group is one of the most diverse in the university’s history, with 808 students (23 percent) coming from underrepresented minority groups, defined as African-American, Hispanic and Native American. All 50 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are represented in the admitted class. This year, New York overtook California as home to the largest number of admits. Three hundred and two international students from 67 nations are among the admitted class, with 110 students living in 19 European countries and 109 in 11 East Asian countries. Among the international students are 28 from Canada, 20 from South Asia, 18 from South America and 15 from Central America. Matching last year’s percentage, 37 percent of admits have been offered need-based grant funding—reflecting the university’s ongoing commitment to make a Johns Hopkins education accessible to students from all financial backgrounds—working in collaboration with Vincent Amoroso, director of the Office of Student Financial Services, and his staff. While many admissions staffers were busy assembling thousands of envelopes to take to the post office, the Admissions Office’s social media maven, Daniel Creasy, was also busy, posting updates to his popular blog, the Hopkins Insider, to provide a real-time behind-the-scenes view of the big day for applicants, their families and anyone else interested in the process. Between Monday, March 28, and mid-day Thursday, March 31, the blog had 8,774 unique visitors and 15,306 overall page views. During the same time period, the student blogs at the Hopkins Interactive site attracted 10,183 unique visitors for 18,823 overall page views, and nearly 43 percent of the visitors were there for the first time, Creasy said.

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Heart drug cuts prostate cancer risk, has therapeutic potential

ohns Hopkins scientists and their colleagues paired laboratory and epidemiologic data to find that men using the cardiac drug digoxin had a 24 percent lower risk for prostate cancer. The scientists say that further research about the discovery may lead to use of the drug, or new ones that work the same way, to treat the cancer. Digoxin, made from the foxglove plant, has been used for centuries in folk medicine and for decades to treat congestive heart failure and heart rhythm abnormalities. It also emerged as a leading candidate among 3,000 drugs screened by the Johns Hopkins team for their ability to curb prostate cancer cell growth, according to the investigators, who published their findings in the April 3 issue of Cancer Discovery. Additional research by the team revealed that in a cohort of more than 47,000 men, those who took digoxin for heart disease had a significantly lower risk of prostate cancer.

The scientists caution, however, that their work does not prove that digoxin prevents prostate cancer, nor are they suggesting that the drug be used to prevent the disease. “This is not a drug you’d give to healthy people,” said Elizabeth Platz, professor of epidemiology, oncology and urology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Serious side effects include male breast enlargement and heart rhythm irregularities, and the drug commonly causes nausea, vomiting and headache. In the first stage of research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty members Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, an assistant professor; William G. Nelson, a professor and director of the Kimmel Cancer Center; and Jun Liu, a professor, identified 38 compounds already FDA-approved or with a history of medical use out of a database of more than 3,000. The 38 candidate drugs, which did not include known chemotherapy

James A. Harmon to give Carey Business School Ginder Lecture By Andrew Blumberg

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ames A. Harmon, chairman of Caravel Management and of the board of the World Resources Institute, is the speaker for this year’s Ginder Lecture, presented by the Carey Business School. His talk is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, at the school’s Harbor East campus, 4th floor, and will be preceded by a reception starting at 5:30 p.m. Harmon, whose talk is titled “The Role of Capitalism in the Rise of the Developing World,” serves as the chief investment officer of the Caravel Fund (International) Ltd., an emerging and frontier markets fund launched in 2004. That same year, he was elected chairman of the board of the World Resources Institute, a global policy and research institution. Harmon served as the chairman, president and CEO of the Export-Import Bank of the United States until June 1, 2001, completing a four-year term for which he was nominated by President Bill Clinton. Ex-Im Bank is an independent government agency that finances the sale of U.S. goods and services to developing countries. Prior to entering government service in 1997, Harmon was chairman and CEO of investment bank Schroder Wertheim & Co. Prior to the joint venture with Schroders plc in 1986, he was a partner of Wertheim & Co. and chairman of its Investment Banking Committee. Harmon is a member of the board of directors of QEP Resources, a leading independent natural gas and oil exploration and

drugs, reduced prostate cancer cell growth in the laboratory by at least 50 percent. Nelson and Yegnasubramanian then took the list of 38 drugs to Platz, a prostate cancer research collaborator. “They literally burst into my office and asked, ‘Can you look at this list of drug candidates and see if you can study any of them in an epidemiologic cohort?’” Platz recalled. “We realized that combining our laboratory and epidemiologic approaches could reduce the possibility that results on the candidate drugs might be due to chance,” Platz said. “Adding the epidemiology study to the drug-screen step provided an assessment of the drug’s potential activity in people.” The top hit on the list of anti-prostate cancer drugs, disulfiram, is used to treat chronic alcoholism, but because it is rarely used among the general population, it could not be evaluated effectively in the epidemiologic study. The second candidate, they report, was digoxin, which was prescribed often enough to be studied. To see if they could identify a link between digoxin and prostate cancer in humans, they turned to a cohort of about 47,000 men aged 40 to 75 who participated in Harvard’s Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1986 through 2006 and did not have a cancer diagnosis before 1986. Study participants had completed a questionnaire every two years, reporting on demographic information, medical history, medication use and lifestyle factors. For men who reported a prostate cancer diagnosis, researchers evaluated their medical records and pathology reports. Among the study participants, 5,002 cases of prostate cancer were reported. Two percent of all study participants reported regular use of digoxin at the beginning of the study, and those men had a 24 percent lower relative risk of getting prostate cancer compared with men who did not use the drug. Those who used digoxin for more than 10 years had

about half the risk of developing prostate cancer as those who did not. Even after ruling out such potentially “confounding factors” as PSA screening, family history of prostate cancer and use of other heart drugs, the lower risk of prostate cancer among digoxin users held up, the researchers say. Platz and Yegnasubramanian say that the next steps will be to determine the mechanism of digoxin’s effect on prostate cancer cells, a finding that will support testing digoxin or other drugs that work in the same way in clinical trials as a potential prostate cancer therapy. Digoxin alters enzymatic pathways for sodium and potassium in heart cells and, according to the researchers, may also have an effect on the same or different pathways in prostate cancer. Funding for the research was provided by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund at Johns Hopkins and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Additional scientists who conducted the research were Curtis R. Chong and Joong Sup Shim, both of Johns Hopkins; and Stacey A. Kenfield, Meir J. Stampfer, Walter C. Willett and Edward Giovannucci, all of the Harvard School of Public Health and the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. —Vanessa Wasta

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JHU scientists link length of DNA ‘end caps’ to diabetes risk in the March 10 issue of PLoS One, arose from scientist Mary Armanios’ observation that diabetes seems to occur more often in patients with dyskeratosis congenita, a rare, inherited disease caused by short telomeres. Patients with dyskeratosis congenita often have premature hair graying and are prone to develop early organ failure. “Dyskeratosis congenita is a disease that essentially makes people age prematurely. We knew that the incidence of diabetes increases with age, so we thought there may be a link between telomeres and diabetes,” said Armanios, an assistant professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Armanios studied mice with short telomeres and their insulin-producing beta cells. Human diabetics lack sufficient insulin production and have cells resistant to its efficient use, causing disruption to the regu-

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ew evidence has emerged from studies in mice that short telomeres, “caps” at the ends of chromosomes, may predispose people to age-related diabetes, according to Johns Hopkins scientists. Telomeres are repetitive sequences of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes, and they normally shorten with age, much like the caps that protect the ends of shoelaces. As telomeres shorten, cells lose the ability to divide normally and eventually die. Telomere shortening has been linked to cancer, lung disease and other age-related illnesses. Diabetes, also a disease of aging, affects as many as one in four adults over the age of 60. The Johns Hopkins research, described

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lation of sugar levels in the blood. Armanios found that despite the presence of plentiful, healthy-looking beta cells, the mice with short telomores had higher blood sugar levels and secreted half as much insulin as the controls. “This mimics early stages of diabetes in humans where cells have trouble secreting insulin in response to sugar stimulus,” Armanios said. “Many of the steps of insulin secretion in these mice, from mitochondrial energy production to calcium signaling, functioned at half their normal levels,” she said. In beta cells from mice with short telomeres, researchers found disregulation of p16, a gene linked to aging and diabetes. No such mistakes were found in the controls. In addition, many of the gene pathways essential for insulin secretion in beta cells, including pathways that control calcium signaling, were altered in beta cells from mice with short telomeres. Armanios said that some studies have suggested that diabetic patients may have short telomeres, but it was not clear whether this contributes to diabetes risk or is a conse-

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pening this week: An intimate exhibition of 10 photographs by Johns Hopkins junior Lydia Alcock that is inspired by the human history of Homewood Museum, built in 1801 as the country home of Charles and Harriet Carroll. By connecting her ghostly images to excerpts from Harriet’s poetry, Alcock invites visitors to see themselves as a continuum of individuals who have walked Homewood’s halls. A psychology major with a minor in the Program in Museums and Society in

the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Alcock has worked at Homewood Museum since 2009 and in 2010 held the museum’s Pinkard-Bolton curatorial internship. The opening reception for Phantom Callers: Photographs by Lydia Alcock, offered as part of the inaugural JHU Arts Festival, will be held in the museum from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, with an artist’s talk scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Reservations are requested by calling 410-516-5589 or emailing homewoodmuseum@jhu.edu.

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study of newly installed hands-free faucets at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, all equipped with the latest electronic-eye sensors to automatically detect hands and dispense preset amounts of water, shows that they were more likely to be contaminated with one of the most common and hazardous bacteria in hospitals compared to old-style fixtures with separate handles for hot and cold water. “Newer is not necessarily better when it comes to infection control in hospitals, especially when it comes to warding off potential hazards from waterborne bacteria, such as Legionella species,” said senior study investigator Lisa Maragakis, an infectious disease specialist. “New devices, even faucets, however well-intentioned in their makeup and purpose, have the potential for unintended consequences, which is why constant surveillance is needed,” said Maragakis, director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at JHH and an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Although the high-tech faucets cut daily water consumption by well over half, Johns Hopkins researchers identified Legionella growing in 50 percent of cultured water samples from 20 electronic-eye faucets in or near patient rooms on three different inpatient units, but in only 15 percent of water cultures from 20 traditional manual faucets in the same patient care areas. Weekly water culture results also showed half the amount

of bacterial growth of any kind in the manual faucets than in the electronic models. While the precise reasons for the higher bacterial growth in the electronic faucets still need clarification, the researchers say it appears that standard hospital water disinfection methods, which complement treatments by public utilities, did not work well on the complex valve components of the newer faucets. They suspect that the valves simply offer additional surfaces on which bacteria become trapped and grow. The Johns Hopkins researchers presented their findings April 2 at the annual meeting of the Society for Health Care Epidemiology, held in Dallas. Infection control experts behind the study, believed to be the first detailed analysis to show how and why these new fixtures pose a problem in preventing Legionella infections in hospitals, say that the electronic devices were widely introduced in patient care and public areas of hospitals across the United States, including in The Johns Hopkins Hospital, more than a decade ago. The idea was to prevent bacterial spread from people touching the faucet’s handles with their dirty hands. As a result of the study, conducted over a seven-week period from December 2008 to January 2009, Johns Hopkins facilities engineers removed all 20 newer faucets from patient care areas and replaced them with manual types. A hundred similar electronic faucets also are being replaced throughout the facility, and hospital leadership elected to use traditional fixtures—some 1,080 of them—in all patient care areas in the clinical buildings currently under construction on Johns Hopkins’ East Baltimore campus. The buildings are set to open in 2012. Lead study investigator Emily Sydnor, a fellow in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins, says that Legionella bacteria, commonly found in water supplied by public utilities, rarely

cause illness in people with healthy immune systems but pose a real risk of infection in hospital patients whose immune systems are weakened from cancer chemotherapy, antirejection drugs taken after organ transplant or diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Sydnor says that this is why some hospitals, including Johns Hopkins, treat water supplied by public utilities with chlorine dioxide or other methods to keep Legionella levels low. Indeed, the original goal of the research team, says co-investigator Gregory Bova, a senior engineer at Johns Hopkins, was to test the new faucets to determine how often and for how long treated water needed to be flushed through the hospital’s taps to keep Legionella and any other bacteria at nearly undetectable levels. “We were surprised by the initially high bacterial counts,” Bova said. Study results showed Legionella bacteria levels between 0 and 3,000 bacterial colony–forming units per milliliter of water from electronic faucet samples. High Legionella and overall bacterial counts were detected in tests of the newer faucets after the hospital’s water flow from the city was briefly interrupted for a few hours before and immediately after the study began. The double interruptions produced a fresh influx of Legionella and other bacteria, requiring Bova and his staff to perform additional disinfecting water treatments, prompting the latest study investigation. As part of the study, Bova and his team disassembled four of the electronic faucets and their component parts, two before the water was treated and two afterward, with swab culture tests showing Legionella and other bacteria on all the main component valves and other parts, very few of which, if any, exist in manual faucets. “Our findings show us that standard hospital water treatment practices are not

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Investigators The awards come with a cash prize funded by friends of the school and the Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Society. Each award is named for a former graduate student or faculty member researcher. Early in their careers, many of this year’s awardees watched their more-advanced lab mates honored over the years, and they dreamed that they, too, would one day receive an award. “I aspired for this award since I was a firstyear PhD student,” said Ryota Matsuoka of Alex Kolodkin’s lab in Neuroscience. “Attending the Young Investigators’ Day ceremony and seeing successful Hopkins students and fellows has kept me motivated to make a great discovery.” Matsuoka won one of the four Paul Ehrlich Awards, for research on vertebrate retinal development. His project explores how electrical circuits form between nerve cells in the eye. He is graduating in May and will begin a postdoctoral fellowship this summer at the University of California, San Francisco. “I have always enjoyed watching previous awardees present their work and have been in awe of their accomplishments,” said Rebecca Lamason, this year’s Hans J. Prochaska Award recipient. “I am honored to be considered part of that group now.” Lamason, a PhD candidate in Joel Pomerantz’s lab in Biological Chemistry, studies how T cells in the immune system become activated to mount an immune response. She identified a new protein regulator that finely tunes how T cells respond when they come in contact with an antigen. Youngseok Lee of Biological Chemistry says that a Young Investigators’ Award is a good motivator for him to pursue future studies on his project. “Climbing the mountain is hard, but I am thrilled now that I have reached the top, and I am really enthusiastic to keep going,” he said. Lee, winner of

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Li He, winner of the Mette Strand Award for his work in fruit flies, with his adviser, Denise Montell.

the A. McGehee Harvey Award and a postdoctoral fellow in Craig Montell’s lab, wants to start his own lab expanding on his ideas and the research that he has accomplished while at Johns Hopkins. He studies insect taste receptors and showed that the insect repellent DEET works by suppressing the appetite in fruit flies. For some recipients, their awards have special meaning on a personal level. “I have always felt hugely indebted to the Cell and Molecular Medicine graduate program for accepting me when I did not have any funding or a day of laboratory research experience,” said Jefferson Doyle, an international PhD candidate who received his medical degree before coming to Johns Hopkins. “I hope this award shows in some way that I have lived up to the program’s expectations.” Doyle won a Michael A. Shanoff Award for his work, in Hal Dietz’s lab in

the Institute for Genetic Medicine, showing that calcium channel blockers, a class of drugs used to lower blood pressure and to treat patients with the connective tissue disorder Marfan syndrome, may actually cause more harm than good. His work has also identified a new type of therapeutic agent, ERK inhibitors, that may be used to treat patients with Marfan syndrome. Doyle plans to apply for residency programs in ophthalmology and develop a career as a clinician scientist to study genetically inherited eye diseases. Nadine Samara, of Cynthia Wolberger’s laboratory in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, won the Alicia Showalter Reynolds Award. “Getting this particular award and getting recognized as a female in my field is exciting, especially because structural biology is an area that is still dominated by men,” Samara said. “I hope this recognition

inspires other young scientists to do research in any field that excites them, independent of their background or gender,” she added. Samara has solved the 3-D structure of four interacting proteins that together help turn on genes in yeast. She expects to receive her PhD in May and has a fall postdoc position lined up at the National Institutes of Health. PhD candidate Ting Guo, of David Ginty’s lab, won the David Macht Award. Macht was a pioneer in the brain science field who used medications to treat mental disease. “Macht symbolizes our very long tradition and glorious history of excellence in neuroscience,” Guo said. “As a student within the Hopkins Neuroscience family, I greatly admire Dr. Macht, and therefore it is an incredible honor with special meaning for me to receive this award.” Guo showed that sensory neurons that detect extreme cold form connections with other neurons differently in mice than they do in chicks and lizards. Guo identified and characterized the specific gene that contributes to this unique development of mammalian sensory neurons. Junbiao Dai sees his Albert Lehninger Award as a testament to his hard work and ability to overcome hurdles. “I still remember the day when my supervisor, Jef Boeke, approached me to tell me that our collaborator had turned into our competitor,” Dai said. “We spent four months working around the clock to finish the experiments and write the paper. The good news is that we made it and beat out our competition, which gave me a true sense of accomplishment,” he said. Dai finished his postdoctoral fellowship here in Molecular Biology and Genetics and has moved back to China to accept a tenure-track associate professorship at Tsinghua University. Several awardees attribute their project’s success and their award to excellent mentorship. “Dr. Robert Siliciano taught me to focus on the big picture and ask important quesContinued on page 9

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Youngseok Lee, winner of the A. McGehee Harvey Award for his work on insect taste receptors, with his adviser, Craig Montell.

Nadine Samara, winner of the Alice Showalter Reynolds Award for her work in structural biology, with her adviser, Cynthia Wolberger.

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“My project was a group effort,” said Michael Haffner, “and it was certainly the collaborative atmosphere of Hopkins that allowed us to work together with different individuals, share expertise and as a group explore new and exciting aspects of cancer biology.” Haffner works as a postdoc in Vasan Yegnasubramanian’s lab at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research demonstrated how testosterone can damage the DNA in prostate cancer cells and led to his W. Barry Woods Jr. Award. Although only a small portion of earlycareer scientists receive awards, the purpose of Young Investigators’ Day is to encourage and celebrate the research from all trainees at the School of Medicine. “Besides a celebration, Young Investigators’ Day is a good opportunity for Hopkins students and fellows with diverse backgrounds to get together, communicate, make friends and learn from each other’s experiences,” said PhD candidate Li He, of Denise Montell’s lab in Biological Chemistry and the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences’ Center for Cell Dynamics. He won the Mette Strand Award for his work in fruit flies. Specifically, he discovered how tissues elongate during development to sculpt organ shape. Mingye Feng, winner of the Martin and Carol Macht Award, said, “Young Investigators’ Day is a great opportunity to see what

Continued from page 8 tions,” said Lin Shen, winner of a Michael A. Shanoff Award. “He opened the door and showed me the beauty of science. Not only did I learn how to do great science and think independently, but I learned how to be a great mentor and collaborator, too.” Shen discovered a more-effective way of measuring antiviral activity of different combinations of HIV drugs using a new mathematical calculation. Her method also may be used to analyze the effectiveness of drugs that combat other infections, such as hepatitis C and influenza virus. She completed her PhD studies last fall and will start a medical residency this summer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “My thesis adviser, Dr. Martin Pomper, always showed me enormous trust and patience,” said Hyo-eun “Carrie” Bhang. “He let me take as much time as I needed to look at my data from multiple angles and to develop my own interpretations and directions. My achievement was only possible thanks to his endless support.” Bhang won a Paul Ehrlich Award for her work developing a new imaging system to detect the spread of cancer throughout the body. She completed

her PhD studies in the fall and continues to make improvements to her cancer imaging system as a postdoctoral fellow in the Pomper lab. Michael Kornberg, an MD/PhD candidate in Neuroscience, says that the most important factor contributing to his Nupur Dinesh Thekdi Award was the guidance he received from his mentor. “The environment that Sol Snyder has created in his lab specifically fosters creativity and independence,” Kornberg said, “and he has a great deal of confidence even in junior graduate students.” Kornberg studies the mechanism for how nitric oxide is transferred onto proteins to change their activity. He graduates this spring, and next year he will begin a residency in neurology here at Johns Hopkins. Other trainees said they felt that teamwork was key to their success. “One of the main reasons that brought me to Hopkins in the first place was the collaborative environment here that allows interdisciplinary research to be possible,” said Cheng Ran “Lisa” Huang, of Jef Boeke’s lab in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Huang, a PhD candidate who studies actively moving pieces of DNA in our genomes, won a Paul Ehrlich Award. Her research suggests that the high prevalence of these DNA pieces—sometimes referred to as jumping genes—may be an unrecognized source of human diversity.

kinds of projects our colleagues work on. I really enjoy being there, and I always learn a lot,” he said. Feng, who will receive his degree in May, completed his dissertation in Rajini Rao’s lab in the Department of Physiology. He discovered that a protein pump that brings calcium into cells, normally only in lactating breast cells, is abnormally turned on in breast cancer cells. For his postdoctoral fellowship, Feng is moving to a lab at Stanford, where he will study cancer stem cells. Other winners are Eric Momin, with a Paul Ehrlich Award; Joo-Ho Shin, with the Alfred Blalock Award; Roger Clem, with the Daniel Nathans Award; Qin Liu, with the Helen B. Taussig Award; and Emerson Stewart, with the Bae Gyo Jung Award. Momin is a medical student in Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa’s lab who studies how health insurance status affects mortality and complication rates in people who have undergone surgery for brain cancer. Shin works as a postdoc in Ted Dawson’s lab at the Institute for Cell Engineering studying a protein that provides a mechanism for neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease patients. Both Clem and Liu are postdocs in the Department of Neuroscience; Clem works in Richard Huganir’s lab, and Liu in Zinzhong Dong’s. Stewart is a graduate student in Peter Espenshade’s lab in Cell Biology. G

Arts of University Libraries and Museums and chair of the Homewood Arts Task Force. Beatty said that the organizers wanted to celebrate the artistic endeavors of the Johns Hopkins community and remind people that the university bristles with a wide breadth of creativity of a nonscientific nature. “We want to lift up the arts at Johns Hopkins and celebrate that they are part of our fabric here, on every campus,” Beatty said. “When we began planning the festival, it was important to include participants from throughout Johns Hopkins—students, faculty, staff and alumni—and also to include all of the art forms on all three of our Baltimore campuses.” Tabb agreed that the arts deserve their due. “I am very excited that so many individuals and groups at Johns Hopkins have volunteered to participate in this first annual festival,” Tabb said. “It’s a great way to showcase the astounding variety and extent of artistic activity on our campuses. I really appreciate the support of the Provost’s Office and many others in making this debut event possible.” The festival kicks off at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in Homewood’s Arellano Theater with a lecture and performance from Matmos, an internationally renowned experimental electronic music duo that includes Drew Daniel, an assistant professor of English

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The Homewood sculpture tour includes the George Segal piece in the MSEL, visited here by Lisa Manfuso and Linda McGill, of Development and Alumni Relations.

in the Krieger School. Daniel and Martin Schmidt will present examples of their work and talk about their artistic process, collaborations, inspirations, tools and aesthetics. The duo creates whimsical and peculiar electronic sound assemblages that often feel like musical versions of Alexander Calder sculptures. The one-night-only Stoop show, to be held at 7 p.m. on Friday in the School of Medicine’s Turner Auditorium, will feature live music from 2econd N8ture and stories

from a documentary filmmaker, patient reenactor, pediatrician, anesthesiologist and gynecology-oncology nurse at the hospital and School of Medicine, and also Courtland Robinson, deputy director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. It will be presented in partnership with the JHMI Office of Cultural Affairs. Matthew Porterfield, a lecturer in the Film and Media Studies Program in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, will

present screenings of his two Baltimoreinspired films, Putty Hill and Hamilton, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Homewood’s Hodson Hall Auditorium, Room 110. Porterfield will host a Q&A before the Hamilton screening. On Thursday, Writing Seminars faculty members Tristan Davies, Matthew Klam, Jean McGarry and Mary Jo Salter will lead a panel discussion at noon in Room 101 of the Mattin Center’s F. Ross Jones Building. The faculty will talk about the writing process and field questions from the audience. The Mattin Center will also host hands-on crafts activities such as bookbinding, cake decorating and soft-circuit sculpture, from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and a performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita by the Barnstormers, a student theater group, at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Other events include a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde by Peabody students at 3 p.m. on Sunday in the school’s Leith Symington Griswold Hall. In conjunction with the festival, ongoing arts-related exhibits will be on display in the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, Homewood Museum, Mattin Center, Digital Media Center and Smokler Center for Jewish Life, all on the Homewood campus; and at Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles St. The week also includes a fashion show, dance marathon, Homewood campus sculpture tour, a cappella concert and more. A full list of the events and ticket prices, where applicable, can be found at artsfestival .jhu.edu. For more information, call 410516-8208 or email ebeatty@jhu.edu. G

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The entire Messenger team is thrilled that spacecraft and instrument checkout has been proceeding according to plan,â&#x20AC;? said Messenger principal investigator Sean Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first images from orbit and the first measurements from Messengerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other payload instruments are only the opening trickle of the flood of new information that we can expect over the coming year. The orbital exploration of the solar systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innermost planet has begun.â&#x20AC;? The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the Messenger spacecraft and manages the Discovery-class mission for NASA.

April 4, 2011 â&#x20AC;˘ THE GAZETTE

Most states unclear about storage and use of babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blood samples

Berman Institute of Bioethics

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tate laws and policies governing the storage and use of surplus blood samples taken from newborns as part of the routine health screening process range from explicit to nonexistent, leaving many parents ill-informed about how their babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; leftover blood might be used, according to a team led by a member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Utah. A report on their analysis of the subject was published March 28 in the journal Pediatrics. The study is believed to be one of the first to provide in-depth analysis of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fragmented newborn screening blood-use policies. The authors say that their findings underscore the need for a comprehensive and transparent approach. At a minimum, all states should require that parents be fully informed about how babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blood samples left over after the screening procedure will be stored and how they might be used, according to Michelle H. Lewis, a research scholar at the Berman Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Genetics and Public Policy Center. The residual samples, typically dried blood spots, have been the center of public debate in recent years. In 2009, families in Minnesota and Texas sued their respective state health departments for storing surplus newborn blood samples without their knowledge or consent. News stories about the outrage expressed by parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who claimed that the practice violated their right to genetic privacy and full disclosureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;spawned headlines such as CNNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The government has your babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DNA.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;States have developed a wide range of policies regarding the retention and use of residual dried blood samples,â&#x20AC;? said Lewis, â&#x20AC;&#x153;ranging from prohibiting their use for research under any circumstances, to allowing research with anonymous samples without parental consent, to requiring parental consent for any research using the samples.â&#x20AC;? Newborns in all 50 states and the District of Columbia are routinely screened for a variety of genetic disorders, including phenylketonuria and sickle cell disease. State newborn screening programs began in the 1960s, and today nearly all of the 4 million babies born each year in the United States undergo the procedure. Once the screening has been completed, a small amount of dried blood often remains. This residual blood is often used for qualityassurance purposes to improve the operation of state newborn screening programs. Sometimes, the samples are also used for other types of biomedical research, including research unrelated to newborn screening. Yet state law in only 13 states specifies how residual samples of infant blood might be used. But these purposes often are stated in broad language, according to Lewis and her co-authors. Among the detailed findings the researchers reported: â&#x20AC;˘ Laws in 20 states address the retention and/or use of babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blood samples. â&#x20AC;˘ In 18 states, newborn screening laws fail to address the retention or use of the samples or their related information. â&#x20AC;˘ Information related to newborn screening is deemed confidential in 26 states, although limitations on that protection vary. â&#x20AC;˘ Ten states specify the purposes for which information from the newborn blood samples may be used, such as public health purposes, scientific research, and research

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concerning medical, psychological or sociological issues. â&#x20AC;˘ In four states, the samples become state property; in two of these states, parents can object in writing. â&#x20AC;˘ Only eight states require that parents be provided information regarding the retention of newborn blood samples. Overall, most states lack any requirement that parents be informed that their childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blood samples may be retained for future use, the researchers found. This was the problem in Texas, which settled out of court with the suing families last year. As part of the settlement agreement, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Health agreed to destroy more than 5 million samples that dated back to 2002, and a valuable research resource was lost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The destruction of those residual samples demonstrates the damage that can be done to the research enterprise if there is a public perception that states are using the samples for purposes other than that for which they were collected,â&#x20AC;? Lewis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think some of the parents involved would have consented to the use of their babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dried blood samples for research if they had been asked. These parents felt that their rights had been violated by not having been asked,â&#x20AC;? Lewis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even if the state did not intend to deceive the parents, there was a perception that the state was being deceptive, and this perception was damaging to the research enterprise.â&#x20AC;? The researchers agree that public discussion about the storage and use of newborn blood samples is vital because people are becoming ever more aware that such specimens contain precise, identifying information about their children. People also realize that research is increasingly able to yield valuable information from biological specimens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of the issue is that some parents are concerned that the state or private companies could profit from the use of their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blood sample,â&#x20AC;? Lewis said. Although no state addresses all of these issues in a comprehensive manner, Lewis pointed to South Carolina as one that has more robust policies in place with respect to the information that must be provided to parents. There, state law requires that parents be told that they can ask that their babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blood samples not be used for research purposes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As states move forward in consideration of these issues,â&#x20AC;? Lewis concluded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;it is vital that state policies regarding the retention and use of residual samples not undermine the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trust in state newborn screening programs so that these programs can continue to protect the health of our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children.â&#x20AC;? The paper was co-authored by Lewis; Jeffrey Botkin, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah; Aaron Goldenberg, an assistant professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University; Rebecca Anderson, a medical ethics researcher in the University of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Pediatrics; and Erin Rothwell, an assistant professor in the University of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Nursing and a fellow in the Bioethics Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The study was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Utah.

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April 4, 2011 • THE GAZETTE A P R I L

Calendar Continued from page 16 Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Griswold Hall. Peabody Sun., April 10, 4 p.m. Performance by organist John Walker of music by Bach, Schumann, Schutz and Karg-Elert. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

REA D I N G S / B OO K TA L K S Fri., April 8, 6 p.m. Master of Arts in Writing Alumni Reading—recent work by Eric Vohr, Scot Slaby and Susan McCallumSmith. Reception follows. Event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required; go to http://advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/ index.html?ContentID=3078. 132 Gilman. HW

English biographer and historian Jehanne Wake will discuss her new book, Sisters of Fortune: America’s Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad. Sponsored by JHU Museums. A reception and book signing will follow the talk. The event is free but reservations are required; call 410516-5589. Homewood Museum.

Sat., April 9, 6 p.m.

The Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading—Poets Carolyn Forche and special guests Nikola Madzirov read from their work. (See story, p. 16.) Sponsored by the Center for Talented Youth. Meyerhoff Auditorium, Baltimore Museum of Art.

Sun., April 10, 5 p.m.

S E M I N AR S

“Robust Modeling and Analysis of HighDimensional Data,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with John Wright, Microsoft Research. 304 Shaffer. HW

Mon., April 4, 11 a.m.

“Control of Stem Cells by Diet and Systemic Factors in the Drosophila Ovary,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, SPH. W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., April 4, noon.

Mon., April 4, noon. “Structural Basis of Voltage Sensor Function and Pharmacology,” a Biophysics seminar with Kenton Swartz, NIH. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

“Epigenetic Regulation of T Cell Differentiation,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Keji Zhao, NHLBI/NIH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., April 4, 12:15 p.m.

“Systems Analysis of Cardiac Hypertrophy Networks,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Jeffrey Saucerman, University of Virginia. 110 Clark. HW (Videoconferenced to 709 Traylor. EB )

Mon., April 4, 1:30 p.m.

“The Significance of Wealth in Understanding Associations Between

Mon., April 4, 3 p.m.

Race and the Risk of Low Birth Weight,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Adam Allston. W2017 SPH. EB Mon., April 4, 4 p.m. “The Troublesome Case of the Cross and the Virgin: Indian Interpretations of Christian Iconography in the 16th- and 17th-Century Southwest,” a History seminar with Juliana Barr, University of Florida. 308 Gilman. HW

“A Length Estimate for Curve Shortening Flow and Rough Initial Data,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Joe Lauer, Yale University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 4, 4 p.m.

Tues.,

April

10:45

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“Deep Semantics From Shallow Supervision,” a Computer Science seminar with Percy Liang, University of California, Berkeley. B17 Hackerman. HW “Regulation of SUMO Modification and Control of Chromosome Segregation,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Michael Matunis, SPH and SoM. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., April 5, noon.

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“Infant Safety” with Carolyn Fowler and Jodi Shaefer, both SoN. Wed., April 6, 12:30 p.m.

“Senior Safety in the Home” with Sarah Szanton and Elizabeth Tanner, both SoN.

“ ‘Something Other Than Its Own Mass’: Corporeality, Animality, Materiality,” an Anthropology seminar with Thomas Csordas, University of California, San Diego. 400 Macaulay. HW

Tues., April 5, 4 p.m.

“Death Panels, Microchips and the ‘Government Takeover of Health Care’: Fact Checking the Debate on Health Care Reform,” an Institute for Policy Studies seminar with Bill Adair, Washington bureau chief, St. Petersburg Times. Part of the Press and Public Policy series. Co-sponsored by the departments of Economics and of Health Policy and Management. Boardroom, Shriver Hall. HW

Tues., April 5, 4 p.m.

Tues., April 5, 4:30 p.m. “Statistical Topic Models for Computational Social Science,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Hanna Wallach, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. B17 Hackerman. HW

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seminar with Hans Erik Botker, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. 612 Physiology. EB Single-Molecule Dynamics of Metals Catalysts, Regulators and Transporters,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Peng Chen, Cornell University. 701 WBSB. EB

Wed., April 6, 1:30 p.m.

“Microstructural Weak Links for Spall Damage in Shocked FCC Metals: Statistics and Mechanisms,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Pedro Peralta, Arizona State University. 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., April 6, 3 p.m.

Wed., April 6, 4 p.m. “New Insights Into the Mechanisms of Cell Death and Autophagy,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Junying Yuan, Harvard Medical School. West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB April 7, noon. The Bromery Seminar—“The LongLasting Mystery of the Glacial-Interglacial Cycles: Role of Carbon Cycle–Climate Interaction” with Ning Zeng, University of Maryland. 305 Olin. HW

Thurs.,

“Target Validation,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/ Infectious Diseases seminar with John Adams, University of South Florida College of Public Health. W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., April 7, noon.

Thurs., April 7, noon. “It’s All in the Neck: How the ESCRTs Make Multivesicular Bodies,” a Cell Biology seminar with James Hurley, NIH/NIDDK. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

“Spatial Structure Projects in China,” a Civil Engineering seminar with Jinghai Gong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 311 Hodson. HW

Thurs., April 7, noon.

“Toward a Single-Trial Understanding of Motor Preparation,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., April 7, 1 p.m.

Thurs.,

April

1:30

p.m.

“Spatial Cluster Detection Using the Number of Connected Components of a Graph,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Avner Bar-Hen, Universite Paris Descartes. 304 Whitehead. HW Thurs., April 7, 4 to 6 p.m., and Fri., April 8, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The Futures Seminar—De-

partment of the History of Science and Technology, with Maria Portuondo, KSAS; Buhm Soon Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; and Robert Marc Friedman, University of Oslo. Mason Hall Auditorium (Thursday) and Salon C, Charles Commons (Friday). HW

“Application of Decision Theory to the Design of Clinical Trials,” a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Gary Rosner, SoM. W2030 SPH. EB

Fri., April 8, 10 a.m. “Novel Enzymes and Molecular QuasiSpecies in Glutathione Transferase Evolution,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Bengt Mannervik, Uppsala University, Sweden. 303 WBSB. EB

Wed., April 6, noon. “Cardioprotection by Pre-, Per- and Postconditioning: Clinical Application and Metabolic Mechanisms,” a Biological Chemistry special

Fri., April 8, 4 p.m. “Justice Without Fairness,” a Political and Moral Thought seminar with Paul Woodruff, University of Texas, Austin. 288 Gilman. HW

Wed.,

April

8:30

a.m.

“Structural Studies of Plasmepsin I and Histoaspartic Protease—Potential Targets of Drugs Against Malaria,” a Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute seminar with Alexander Wlodawer, NCI. 100 Mudd. HW

Fri., April 8, 4 p.m.

Mon.,

April

11,

12:10

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“Evaluation Methodologies for Disability Measurement Instruments,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Mitch Loeb, National Center for Health Statistics. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W4013 SPH. EB Mon., April 11, 12:15 p.m. “The Canonical and Unconventional Functions of Mitochondria for Synapse,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Zheng Li, NIH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., April 11, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Parietal Selection Signals Guiding the Acquisition of Reliable Information” with Simon Kelly, CUNY. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/ Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW Mon., April 11, 4 p.m. “On Microlocal Analyticity and Smoothness of Solutions of First Order Nonliner PDEs,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Shiferaw Berhanu, Temple University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW Mon.,

April

11,

5:30

p.m.

“Cavell, Meaning and (In)expressivity: From Must We Mean What We Say to a Pitch of Philosophy and Little Did I Know,” a Women, Gender and Sexuality seminar with distinguished visiting professor Sandra Laugier, Universite de Paris 1. Part of the series Inexpressiveness: Voice, Women and Film. Cafe Conference Room, Muller Bldg. HW SPECIAL EVENTS Mon., April 4, 3 to 5:30 p.m.

Community Action Poverty Simulation, an invitation to students in the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health to experience what it means to live one month in the inner city as a low-income resident, with opening remarks by Katherine Newman, KSAS dean. Part of National Public Health Week. Sponsored by the JHU Alumni Association, the SoN Department of Community Public Health, BGSA and the Anna Baetjer Society. Open to students only. To sign up, email source@ jhsph.edu. E2030 SPH. EB Tues., April 5, 6 p.m. Inauguration of the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, with a keynote speech titled “Is There a Modern German Thought? Reflections on the History of the University and a German Intellectual Tradition” by Jurgen Fohrmann, president, University of Bonn. Sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures. 50 Gilman. HW Tues., April 5, 8 p.m. The 2011 Foreign Affairs Symposium— Global Citizenship: Re-examining the Role of the Individual in an Evolving World, with women’s rights activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali. 26 Mudd. HW Wed., April 6, through Sun., April 10. JHU Arts Festival, with

performances, exhibits, presenta-

tions, workshops and hands-on sessions featuring JHU faculty, staff, students and alumni. (See story, p. 1.) For events listings, go to http://artsfestival.jhu.edu. Various locations. HW Fri., April 8, 1 to 6:30 p.m.

JHMI Student Off-Campus Housing Fair, offering information from representatives from various apartment complexes and organizations around Baltimore, as well as from Johns Hopkins Corporate Security, Parking, the International Society and SOURCE. Faculty and staff are welcome to attend. For more information, email jhmihousingoffice@jhmi.edu. 1st floor, Reed Hall. EB Sun., April 10, noon to 3:30 p.m. Festival of Historic Arts, a

chance to learn an old-fashioned skill or art as it may have been practiced in 1800s Baltimore, including stencil painting, paper making, calligraphy and plaster casting. Free with museum admission. The event is offered in conjunction with the JHU Arts Festival. Homewood Museum. HW SYMPOSIA

Tues., April 5, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The 25th Annual Mood

Disorders Research/Education Symposium—“A Quarter Century of Mood Disorders Education” with J. Raymond DePaulo, Dwight Evans, Kay Jamison, Paramjit Joshi, David Miklowitz, Karen Swartz, Glenn Treisman and special guests former Democratic congressman Patrick Kennedy and Jesse Close and son Calen Pick, advocates of bringchange2mind, a national mental health illness anti-stigma campaign. Turner Auditorium. EB

Wed., April 6, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Personalized Prevention: The When, Why and How of Adaptive Preventive Interventions,” a Center for Mental Health Initiatives symposium. Free, but registration required; email espahr@jhsph .edu or call Erin Spahr at 443287-0132. Sponsored by Mental Health. W1214 SPH. EB W OR K S HO P S

“RSS Alerts for Research,” an MSE Library hands-on workshop on how to receive latest information from databases and websites. To register, go to www.library .jhu.edu/researchhelp/workshops .html. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW

Wed., April 6, 10 a.m.

“Mobile Devices: iPads, iPhones and Androids,” a Bits & Bytes workshop, providing a hands-on demonstration of these tools. To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu/events .html. The training is open to Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs; staff are also welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Thurs., April 7, 1 p.m.

Mon.,

April

11,

p.m.

“Scholarly Metrics,” an MSE Library workshop on using various tools to assess the impact of research and publications. To register, go to www.library.jhu.edu/ researchhelp/workshops.html. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW

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tributions of its staff members who have demonstrated excellent customer service in their positions. Nominations for the Just Honoring U program can be made by anyone outside University Finance. For details and to view the online nomination form, go to http://finance.jhu.edu/pubs/honoring_u_ form.html.

Igusa said he has already talked to about 40 Johns Hopkins faculty members on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses who are interested in participating in institute projects. During the planning phase of the institute, he added, he has been significantly involved in several cross-disciplinary project proposals, including: • A statewide effort to use medical informatics to improve critical care, led by hospital patient safety expert Peter Pronovost of the School of Medicine. • A study of disaster resilience for rural communities, with a focus on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, led by Judith Mitrani-Reiser of the Whiting School, Jonathan Links of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Joshua Epstein of the School of Medicine. • A systems-oriented study of obesity in children, led by Youfa Wang and Thomas Glass of the Bloomberg School. These and other institute projects must

Tak Igusa

obtain funding from outside the university. Igusa pointed out that APL scientists have a strong record of securing financing for mission-oriented Department of Defense and national security contracts for development of complex systems, while Johns Hopkins faculty members are skilled at obtaining grants from government agencies for advancing fundamental knowledge. “We want to combine the best of both cultures,” he said. The institute will also include an educational component. As its projects get under way, faculty members will likely find work that can be assigned to graduate students. Eventually, master’s and doctoral degree programs will be developed to complement the Whiting School’s already established and well-regarded part-time master’s program in systems engineering offered through Engineering for Professionals. Igusa cautioned that unlike some other academic centers, the Systems Institute will not be focused simply on generating basic research results that can be reported in scholarly journals. “Our primary goal is to be more outcome-oriented,” he said. “If our projects are successful, the scholarly journal articles will follow soon afterward.” G To learn more about the Johns Hopkins Systems Institute, go to eng.jhu.edu/wse/systemsinstitute.

Japan support effort spearheaded by Carey School students

o help and support those in the northeastern part of Japan who are suffering from the crisis caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, a group of students from the Carey Business School has begun a fundraising drive.

To date, more than $3,500 has been raised for the Japanese Red Cross. Students Ayano Fujii, Azuma Kato and Ken Uyama said that donations can be made through April 11 by going to careystudents .com. Donations will not be tax-deductible.

April 4, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Bayview, 2BR, 1BA house, CAC, front/ back porches, yd, shed, quiet neighborhood, walking distance to Bayview. $1,100/mo + utils. 410-633-2064. Bayview, efficiency, mins walking to Bayview campus. $450/mo + utils. 443-3868471 or fanauh2o@yahoo.com. Bayview (Elrino St), spacious, bright EOG TH: 1st flr + fin’d bsmt, 2BR, 1.5BAs, living rm, kitchen, W/D, hdwd flrs ($900/mo + utils) or 2nd flr, 1BR, 1BA, living rm, kitchen ($600/mo + utils). 443-386-9146. Butchers Hill, 3BR, 3BA house, avail May 1, walking distance to JHMI, entire awesome house ($2,200/mo) or per rm. 443-851-0887 or schaudry@coastallendinggroup.biz. Canton, lg 2- or 3BR, 2BA house, pets negotiable. $1,700/mo. 410-598-7337 (for more info). Cedarcroft, 3BR, 2.5BA house, eat-in kitchen, stainless steel appls, granite counters, sunrm, fin’d bsmt, W/D, CAC, hdwd flrs, lg front yd, fenced backyd w/deck. $3,000/ mo + utils (negotiable). 443-414-6834, tramandalex@gmail.com or https:// picasaweb.google.com/tramandalex (pics). Charles Village, spacious, bright 3BR apt in secure bldg, nr Homewood campus. $1,350/ mo. 443-253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com. Charles Village, tenants wanted for lovely RH, 1 blk to Hopkins shuttle to JHH, ideal for a couple, but also folks who want to share. www.postlets.com/rts/5309241 (if interested). Churchton, unique 2BR, 1BA house, CAC, W/D, wraparound porch, carport, spacious waterfront lot, avail in April. $1,500/mo. lesliedegnan@gmail.com. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/ full kitchen, call for wkly/wknd rentals, pics avail at jzpics@yahoo.com. 410-638-9417. Fells Point, fully furn’d efficiency, full-size BA, expos’d brick, hdwd flrs, rooftop deck, utils incl’d. 410-802-9918. Mt Vernon, 1BR loft apt, W/D in unit, grocery store next door, 10-min walk to harbor, perf for prof’ls. $995/mo + elec (approx $70/ mo) + prkng. 410-456-7606. Ocean City, 2BR, 2BA condo on 120th St, sleeps 6, immaculate, new appls, flrs, living rm furniture, enclos’d courtyd, 2 blks to beach, indoor/outdoor pools, tennis, racketball. 410-922-7867. Ocean City, Md, 3BR, 2BA condo on 137th St, ocean block, steps from beach, off-street prkng (2 spaces), lg pool, walk to restaurants/entertainment. 410-544-2814. Pikesville, 3- or 4BR house w/full kitchen, bsmt, alarm system, in quiet area nr shopping center/Summit Park Elementary, ideal for family at Hopkins. 410-236-1503. Roland Park, furn’d 2BR, 2BA condo, W/D, walk-in closet, swimming pool, cardio equipment, .5 mi to Homewood, secure area. $1,600/mo. 410-218-3547 or khassani@ gmail.com. Union Square, upscale, modern, fully furn’d apt in historic Victorian RH, overlooks

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park, free WiFi, satellite TV, hdwd flrs, gourmet kitchen, clawfoot tub. $1,100/mo + elec + sec dep. 410-988-3137, richardson1886@ gmail.com or http://therichardsonhouse .vflyer.com/home/flyer/home/3200019. Wyman Park, sunny 2BR apt, AC, laundry in bldg, easy walk to Homewood campus/ JHMI shuttle, avail May 15. $1,150/mo. 443-615-5190. 3BR RH w/2 full BAs, hdwd flrs, lg kitchen, fin’d courtyd, walking distance to JHH/KKI/ Fells Point and Harbor East, avail mid-June. $1,900/mo. 410-718-6134. Storage garage, less than .7 mi from JHH, can fit a car. $120/mo. Jon, 410-294-2793. Beautiful 3BR, 2BA condo w/garage, spacious, great location, walk to Homewood campus. $1,800/mo. 443-848-6392 or sue.rzep2@verizon.net. Newly remodeled TH avail, walk to JHMI. dmiltonb@gmail.com. Fully furn’d 3BR house, avail June 1 to August 15, nr Towson, beautiful backyd/ patio. $1,250/mo. ayvinijkul@gmail.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt w/cedar closet, maintenancefree yd, carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com. Mt Washington, sunny 3BR, 2.5BA house, CAC, sunrm, yd, nr blue-ribbon Mt Washington Elementary, perfect for couple/family. $250,000. 410-979-3833 or aLb457@gmail .com. Springdale, 4BR, 2.5BA house, walk to Loch Raven reservoir and Dulaney High. $370,000. 410-560-3556. Waverly, 3BR, 2BA TH, EOG unit, fin’d bsmt, wooden deck, fenced yd. $125,000. Randy, 410-456-3775 or randy@ homeownershipworks.com. 3402 Mt Pleasant Ave, craftsmanship and location, nr JHU, nicely priced. Pitina, 410900-7436. Luxury 1BR condo in high-rise, secure bldg w/doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swimming pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $179,000. 757-773-7830 or norva04@gmail .com.

ROOMMATES WANTED

F wanted for 2BR, 1BA Charles Village apt nr JHU, fully equipped kitchen, living rm, dw, free laundry, heat/AC. 443-799-7748. Nonsmoker wanted for rm in new TH, walking distance to JHMI, no pets. 410-4561708 or xiaoningzhao1@gmail.com. Furn’d BR in new TH, walking distance to JHMI, pref nonsmoker/no pets. $550/mo. 301-717-4217 or jiez@jayzhang.com. Share fully furn’d Mt Vernon apt. $600/mo incl utils. 425-890-1327 (call or text). 1BR and common areas of furn’d 3BR, 1.5BA house in Original Northwood, renov’d BA, steam rm, 46” TV, back and front yds, patio, ample street prkng, direct bus to JHMI/JHU. $600/mo + utils. cjouny@gmail.com.

HICKORY HEIGHTS WYMAN COURT Just Renovated! A lovely hilltop setting on

Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

Studios - $595 - $630 1 BD Apts. - $710-740 2 BD from $795

Hickory Avenue in Hampden!

2 BD units from $750 w/Balcony - $785!

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CARS FOR SALE

’04 VW Golf, reflex silver w/black interior, 43K mi, good mileage, dependable. $6,900. annenatk@yahoo.com.

’05 Subaru Forester X, silver, excel cond, Md insp’d, orig owner, 100K mi. $10,200. 410-833-5781. ’99 Nissan Sentra, manual 5-spd, good cond, 97K mi. $2,650. reaeg@gmail.com. ’05 Honda Civic LX, loks and runs great, Md insp’d. $6,500. sheraman786@gmail.com ’98 Honda Accord LX coupe, 6-cyl, 2-dr, green, excel shape, 115K mi. $4,500/best offer. 240-755-4954 or 443-942-0857.

e-mail, phone or in person. 443-471-6121 or jchris1@umbc.edu. Johns Hopkins International is seeking Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Korean, Farsi, Burmese and Nepalese interpreters. $35-$45/hr. pdiaz3@jhmi.edu. Drupal 7 instruction needed, willing to pay by the hour. polyphemus421@gmail.com. Free standard size pool table, if you can move it, you can have it; located just off Homewood campus. 410-243-5890. Affordable, professional mobile auto detailing; we come to you. Erik, 443-934-3750.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Antique bedroom dresser, lg 3-drawer, oak, in excel cond. $75. Judy, 410-889-1213. Several pieces of nicely kept, high-quality furniture. www.apt5Efurnituresale.blogspot .com (for pics/details). Four tickets to see Wicked at the Kennedy Center, 7:30pm on July 21, section TR2C (center, second tier), row B, seats 205-208. $330 (firm). 443-231-8143. Sleep sofa and matching loveseat, in good cond, $100/best offer; swivel tube chair, in good cond, $25. 410-964-5783. Beautiful green chandeliers (2), still in boxes. $100/best offer. lynnnona84@gmail .com. Antique wooden cradle, ca early 1900s, in good cond. $75/best offer. 410-207-2217. Conn alto saxophone, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond. 410-488-1886. RCA TV, old, non-HD, gets good picture w/ cable box, $20; Sunbeam mini-chopper, $6; antique, gooseneck rocker, dk green, $75. johannecoll@hotmail.com. Modern-style fabric sofa, upholstered in blue fabric w/green trim; buyer must pick up. $100. http://bit.ly/gn3Fex. Canon GL1 camcorder w/Opteka fisheye lens, battery, bag, cables, lots of extras. $800. 443-520-2639. Dinette set, octagonal table w/4 chairs, blond/black wood, you haul. $120. 443983-2362.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

FT nanny needed over summer for 2 children, ages 3 and 7, both will be in school, must keep kids safe and happy, also run errands, cook, some housecleaning, must drive. 410-241-3953. Nanny available for FT child care, she cared for all my children, is warm, trustworthy, honest, caring; call for reference and contact number. 410-664-6659 or catherinewashburn@yahoo.com. Looking to rent or sublet 1- or 2BR apt in safe neighborhood during my summer teaching position at JHU, July 5 to August 5, pref partly furn’d, walking distance to Homewood campus. bLguLick8@gmail.com. Do you speak Chinese/Arabic/Russian? Get paid for an interview to be used for research purposes, simple questions, can complete by

Masterpiece Landscaping: knowledgeable, experienced individual, on-site consultation, transplanting, bed preparation, installation, sm tree and shrub shaping; licensed. Terry, 410-652-3446. Peabody grad student offering private French horn/trumpet lessons, affordable rates. shonagleopold@gmail.com. Entrepreneurial volunteer wanted for ambitious ecology project involving social networks. Mark, 410-464-9274. Mama, do you want your body back? Eightweek weight loss and fitness program, proven results. beata@strollerstrides.net. Resident assistants needed, July 22-29, to supervise 120 high school students for 1-wk camp at Homewood campus. Shanna, skh9701@gmail.com. Mobile detailing and power-wash service. Jason, 443-421-3659. Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free, confidential consultation. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@ aol.com. Affordable and professional landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com. Tutor avail for all subjects/levels; remedial and gifted; also help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design and programming. 410337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@hotmail.com. Let a seasoned pro take fantastic photos for interviews/auditions, special events or to create lasting family memories. Edward S Davis photography/videography. 443-6959988 or esdavisimaging@gmail.com. Licensed landscaper avail for lawn maintenance, yd cleanup, fall/winter leaf and snow removal, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@ comcast.net. Learn Chinese. 717-623-3512 or yingyuanyy@ gmail.com. Hopkins retiree provides fast and accurate transcription services. 410-323-0899. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, great bands, no partners needed. 410-663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing .com. Depression/bipolar support group, Sundays 11am-12:30pm at Grace Fellowship Church in Lutherville. Dede, 410-486-4471 or dedebennett@comcast.net.

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Calendar COLLOQUIA

“Mapping the Journey of Germ Cells,” a Biology colloquium with Xin Chen, KSAS. 26 Mudd. HW

Wed., April 6, 4:30 p.m.

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Tues., April 5, 6:30 p.m. “Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami: Dimensions of the Disaster and Future Prospects,” a SAIS East Asian Studies forum with remarks by Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese ambassador to the United States; Jessica Einhorn, dean of SAIS; Capt. David Barlow, Virginia Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department; Hironori Kawauchi, World Bank; Ryo Tsuzukihashi, SAIS; and Kent Calder, SAIS. (See In Brief, p. 2.) To RSVP, email reischauer@jhu .edu or call 202-663-5812. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

“Designing Replacements for the Bases in DNA,” a Chemistry colloquium with Eric Kool, Stanford University. 233 Remsen. HW Fri., April 8, 2 p.m. “Evolution of Timekeeping,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Dennis McCarthy, U.S. Naval Observatory. Parsons Auditorium. APL

D I S C U S S I O N / TA L K S

“Scorecard on European Foreign Policy,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Justin Vaisse, Brookings Institution and SAIS. Co-sponsored by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations. For information, email atobin1@jhu .edu or call 202-663-5796. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS

Tues., April 5, 5 p.m.

Wed., April 6, 9:30 a.m. “American Foreign Policy: A View From the Senate,” a SAIS Center on Politics and Foreign Relations discussion with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). (See In Brief, p. 2.) Cosponsored by the JHU Center for Advanced Governmental Studies and University of California Washington Center. To RSVP, email rguttman@jhu.edu or call 202-9746341. Rome Auditorium. SAIS Thurs., April 7, noon. “Food Justice: An Emerging Social Movement Takes Root,” a Center for a Livable Future discussion with Robert Gottlieb, director, Urban and Environmental Policy Institute. Copies of Gottlieb’s latest book, Food Justice, will be available for purchase. W1214 SPH. EB Thurs.,

April

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Screening of the Ugandan documentary War Dance, opening event of Faces of Africa Spring 2011, presented by the African Public Health Network, the Gates Institute, the Center for Global Health, Alumni Relations and the Student Assembly. The event continues through April 15. E2030 SPH. EB

“Star Formation Histories of Galaxies With HST/Wide Field Camera 3,” an STSci colloquium with Robert O’Connell, University of Virginia. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW

April

Stephen Costello, president, ProGlobal Consulting. (Event is open to the SAIS community only.) To RSVP, email jhill50@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5830. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS

Mon., April 11, 4 to 6 p.m.

Wed., April 6, 3:30 p.m.

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Launch of the 2011 issue of SAIS Perspectives, with Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sponsored by the SAIS International Development Program. To RSVP, email kdiefen1@jhu.edu or call 202663-5929. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS “Fighting Poverty Through Community Development: Connecting to National Advocacy and International Campaigns,” a SAIS International Development Program discussion with Peter O’Driscoll, executive director, ActionAid USA. 200 Rome Bldg. SAIS

Fri., April 8, 12:30 p.m.

“The Consulting Life,” a U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS discussion with

Fri., April 8, 12:30 p.m.

Carolyn Forche

Poets Forche, Madzirov set for CTY’s Joshua Ringel Reading B y M a t t B o wd

Center for Talented Youth

he Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading celebrates its 14th season on Sunday, April 10, when poets Carolyn Forche and special guest Nikola Madzirov read from their work at 5 p.m. in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium. The event is sponsored by Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth. Known as a “poet of witness,” Carolyn Forche (for-shay) has managed over her 35-year career to “wed the ‘political’ and the ‘personal’ … like Neruda, Philip Levine [and] Denise Levertov,” writer Joyce Carol Oates has said. Forche “addresses herself unflinchingly to the exterior, historical world.” Forche is the author of four books of poetry. Her first collection, Gathering the Tribes, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. In 1977, she received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, which enabled her to travel to El Salvador, where she worked as a human rights advocate. Her second book, The Country Between Us, received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and was the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets. In 1994, her third book of poetry, The Angel of History, was chosen for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her fourth book of poems, Blue Hour, was published by HarperCollins in spring 2003. Nikola Madzirov was born in 1973 into a family of Balkan Wars refugees in Strumica, Macedonia. His poetry has been translated into 30 languages and published in collections and anthologies in the United States, Europe and Asia. Former Ringel poet Li-Young Lee has said that “Madzirov’s poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind.” BOA Editions has just published in the United States a selection of Madzirov’s poetry titled Remnants of Another Age. The Joshua Ringel Memorial Fund was established in 1998 by the Ringel family in memory of this former CTY student whose life was tragically cut short in a motorcycle accident just before his 28th birthday. The fund supports an annual lecture/reading dedicated to education, poetry and the imagination. Past visiting poets have included Kenneth Koch, Robert Pinsky, Grace Paley, John Ashbery, Sharon Olds and Billy Collins. A question-and-answer session and a book signing with the authors will immediately follow the reading. Books will be available for purchase at the door. Seats are limited, so those wishing to attend should email ctypr@jhu.edu with their name and number of seats requested. More information is available at www.cty.jhu.edu/ringel.

I N FOR M AT I O N SESSIONS Mon., April 4, 6:30 p.m. Information session for the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy degree program, an opportunity to learn about the program, meet some of the faculty, ask questions and submit an application. To RSVP, go to http://advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/ index.html?ContentID=3017. Washington D.C. Center. Wed.,

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Information session for the MA in Global Security Studies degree program, a chance to meet faculty, discuss credentials and program requirements and submit an application. To RSVP, go to http://advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index .html?ContentID=2904. Washington D.C. Center. Information session for the Master of Liberal Arts degree program, an opportunity to talk to the program director, Melissa Hilbish, and to learn about the program’s admission requirements, curriculum design, course structure and degree requirements and submit an application. To RSVP, go to http://mla.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.html?ContentID=2926. Mason Hall. HW

Thurs., April 7, 6:30 p.m.

L E C TURE S

“Seeding Mobilization, Harvesting Support: Polarization and the Structuring of Collective Action in Chavez’s Venezuela,” a Program in Latin American Studies lecture by Michael McCarthy, KSAS. 113 Greenhouse. HW

Wed., April 6, 4 p.m.

Thurs., April 7, 4 p.m. “Magical Life: Thoreau on Fossils and Stones,” a Tudor and Stuart Lecture by Branka Arsic, University

at Albany, SUNY. Sponsored by English. 130D Gilman. HW Thurs., April 7, 4 p.m. The 2011

David Robinson Lecture in Biomedical Engineering—“Calculus, Internal Models and Statistical Inference: Does the Brain Do It All?” by Dora Angelaki, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Sponsored by Biomedical Engineering. West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB

Thurs., April 7, 4:30 p.m. The Christian B. Anfinsen Lecture— “Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity” by Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University. Part of the Pioneers in Biology series, sponsored by Biology. Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW Thurs., April 7, 6:30 p.m. The Rosen Lecture—“Against Meaning” by David Joselit, Yale University. Sponsored by History of Art. 132 Gilman. HW

The Ginder Lecture—“The Role of Capitalism in the Rise of the Developing World” by James Harmon, chairman, Caravel Management and the World Resources Institute. (See story, p. 5.) Sponsored by the Carey Business School. 4th floor, Legg Mason Conference Center.

Thurs., April 7, 6:30 p.m.

Fri., April 8, 4 p.m. “Popular Resistance in Honduras Today,” a Program in Latin American Studies lecture by Gerardo Torres, Frente Resistencia Popular, Honduras. 113 Greenhouse. HW Mon., April 11, 4:30 p.m. The Passano Lecture—“The Fascinating Biology of Skin: From Its Stem Cells to Its Genetic Disorders and Cancers” by Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University. Sponsored by Molecular Biology and Genetics. East Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB

MUSIC Tues., April 5, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Wind Ensemble performs music by Nelson, Kuster, Benson and de Meij. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody Sat., April 9, 3 p.m. Shriver Hall Concert Series presents the Escher String Quartet. Part of the Discovery Series at the BMA. Auditorium, Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Calendar Key APL BRB CRB EB HW JHOC

(Events are free and open to the public except where indicated.)

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences NEB New Engineering Building PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of Engineering