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Spreading our academic wealth

Hopkins buys former Zurich property

Provost’s Lecture Series will bring experts from one campus to another By Greg Rienzi

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ohns Hopkins on March 30 completed the acquisition of the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in North Baltimore, which it will use primarily to consolidate financial operations and information technology currently located at a number Space will of locations. The Zurich propbe used to erty, which will undergo renovations consolidate before it is occupied later this year, confinancial, IT tains approximately 415,000 square feet operations of usable space in two buildings on the site. The spaces are large with open floors and a data center, making them ideal for their intended use. Located at 40th Street and Keswick Road, less than a half-mile from the university’s Homewood campus, the property includes 1,500 parking spaces, a cafeteria, an auditorium, classrooms and meeting space. The property was acquired by a subsidiary jointly owned by the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System. “We’re pleased with both the property and the process we’ve gone through to acquire the space,” said James T. McGill, the university’s senior vice president for finance and administration. “The property’s location, layout, infrastructure and amenities make it a very attractive facility for the Johns Hopkins Institutions.” Ronald Werthman, vice president for finance for the Johns Hopkins Health System, said that the institutions’ purchase of the Zurich property makes sense for the future. “The more we looked at both our future needs and what we’re paying now to operate in leased and owned space throughout the metro area, the clearer it became that buying this property made good economic sense for both entities,” Werthman said.

obel Prize winner Carol Greider will give the inaugural talk in the Provost’s Lecture Series, which is intended to spread the wealth of academic excellence at Johns Hopkins among its campuses. Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and director of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences in East Baltimore, will discuss her groundbreaking work at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 12, in 110 Hodson Hall on the Homewood campus. One of the world’s pioneering researchers on the structure of chromosome ends known as telomeres, Greider was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The academy recognized her for the 1984 discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that maintains the length and integrity of chromosome ends and is critical for the health and survival of all living cells and organisms. She became the 33rd person associated with Johns Hopkins University to win a Nobel Prize and the 20th at the School of Medicine to receive the honor.

Carol Greider, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, will visit the Homewood campus on April 12 to talk about her groundbreaking work.

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Civil engineer assesses damage to Chile’s hospitals By Phil Sneiderman

Homewood

udith Mitrani-Reiser, an assistant research professor of civil engineering in Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering, recently spent a week in Chile looking at how well buildings and infrastructure had withstood the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the nation on Feb. 27. Mitrani-Reiser studies safety and economic issues associated with structures, how structural risks can be

In Brief

Reds Wolman memorial service; Patrick Henry Lecture; energy conference at SAIS

communicated effectively to the public and how policy-makers and emergency-management leaders can make better-informed decisions regarding these risks. In Chile, she was part of a team assembled by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, based in Oakland, Calif. One of her fellow team members was Thomas Kirsch, co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of operations in the School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine.

In an interview with The Gazette, Mitrani-Reiser spoke about her observations. Q. What did you study during your week in Chile?

A. We focused on the health care system of Chile as part of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s reconnaissance effort. Our hospital team was funded by EERI’s Learning from Earthquakes Program,

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2 THE GAZETTE • April 5, 2010 I N B R I E F

Reds Wolman memorial service to be held on Sunday

olleagues, friends and former students will pay tribute to M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman at a memorial service on Sunday, April 11, on the Homewood campus. The event, beginning at 1 p.m., will take place under a tent outside the Homewood Museum. Speakers, including university President Ronald J. Daniels, will help celebrate the life of Wolman, an internationally respected expert in river science, water resources management and environmental education, and a beloved member of the Johns Hopkins faculty for more than half a century. He died Feb. 24 at age 85. Free parking will be available in the South Garage, and shuttles will be provided to and from the service. More details about the event can be obtained at http://eng.jhu.edu/ wse/Reds_wolman/memorial-service or by calling 410-516-8723.

SAIS and Energy Information Administration host conference

n Tuesday and Wednesday, April 6 and 7, SAIS and the U.S. Energy Information Administration will host the “2010 Energy Conference: ShortTerm Stresses and Long-Term Change.” The conference will feature two keynote addresses, both on Tuesday: by Steven Chu, U.S. secretary of energy, at 9 a.m., and by Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, at 12:30 p.m. Experts from academia, government, the energy industry and nonprofit organizations will speak in sessions throughout the conference. For the agenda and to register, go to www .sais-jhu.edu/academics/functional-studies/ ere/eia-sais-conference.

Nancy Rosenblum of Harvard to give Patrick Henry Lecture

ancy Rosenblum, the Sen. Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government and chair of the Department of Government at Harvard University, will give the fifth annual Patrick Henry Lecture at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6, at Homewood Museum. The title of Rosenblum’s lecture is “Partisanship and Independence.” Rosenblum studies the history of modern political thought, contemporary political theory and constitutional law. She is also a faculty associate at Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and on the steering committee of the Center for American Political Studies. Among her many published works is her most recent book, On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship. Rosenblum’s other publications include Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America, for which she won the

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American Political Science Association’s David Easton Prize in 2002. The lecture is funded by the Barksdale Dabney Nuttle Family Fund. Benefactor Margaret Henry Penick Nuttle is a greatgreat-great granddaughter of Patrick Henry and has been a steadfast friend of Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences for decades. Her philanthropy celebrates her famous ancestor’s legacy and supports undergraduate scholarships, a postdoctoral fellowship in colonial studies and the annual Patrick Henry lecture. The widow of Philip E. Nuttle, a 1929 graduate of Johns Hopkins, she also helped establish the Class of 1929 Endowed Scholarship.

‘The Back Book’ author to speak at upcoming luncheon

t 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 13, at the Johns Hopkins Club, JHU Press author and Johns Hopkins surgeon Ziya L. Gokaslan will discuss his new book, The Back Book, which offers expert advice on the causes and complexities of back pain and the various paths to diagnosis and treatment. Stressing the importance of individualized treatment, Gokaslan will comment on reasonable expectations for surgical and nonsurgical treatment; the possibilities, risks and limitations of back surgery; and the process of selecting the right surgeon. Eighty percent of Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives. Admission is $20. Johns Hopkins Club members should contact the club to make reservations; nonmembers can contact Jack Holmes at 410-516-6928 to attend as a Friend of the Press.

JHH is named one of world’s most ethical organizations

he Ethisphere Institute, a New York–based think tank established to advance best practices in business ethics and corporate social responsibility, has named The Johns Hopkins Hospital to its 2010 list of the world’s most ethical companies and institutions. JHH was one of 100 organizations selected from among hundreds of nominees representing 33 industries. Criteria for selection include corporate citizenship and responsibility, corporate governance, innovation that contributes to public well-being, industry leadership, executive leadership, legal and regulatory performance, and solid ethics compliance programs. Others on this year’s list include Google, Xerox, General Electric, Mattel, Texas Instruments, Cleveland Clinic, General Mills, Hospital Corporation of America, Target, Time Warner, IKEA and Starbucks. Ethisphere Magazine, which publishes the World’s Most Ethical Companies ranking, is the quarterly publication of the institute.

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Public Health offers three new graduate degree programs By Tim Parsons

Bloomberg School of Public Health

eginning in fall 2010, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will begin offering three new master’s degree programs: the master of health science in social factors in health, the master of health science in health economics, and the combined bachelor of arts and master of health science in health policy. The programs are currently enrolling students. The MHS in social factors in health is an advanced research degree for students with undergraduate exposure to social and behavioral sciences and/or public health who are interested in further training in theory and methods. The degree prepares students for doctoral training in public health or for work in public health research or policy. Offered

by the Department of Health, Behavior and Society, the MHS in social factors in health focuses on integrating and applying a broad range of knowledge and analytical skills in social aspects of public health, with an emphasis on contemporary health problems. The program consists of one and a half to two years of full-time study that combines classroom-based course work, seminars and independent study; development of a research plan and completion of a mentored research project; and a paper presenting original research. The final requirement is a presentation of the research by the student in a department seminar. The MHS in health economics will provide students with a foundation in general health economics and evaluation methods necessary to promote the efficient and equitable allocation of health care resources in public health and to identify relevant

regulatory policies, strategies and interventions. Graduates will be well-positioned to pursue doctoral training in economics and health policy or careers as analysts in both the public and private sectors. This degree is offered jointly by the departments of International Health, and Health Policy and Management, and prospective participants apply to one of the two departments based on academic and career interests. Students from the two departments participate in a common core of classes spanning health economics, economic evaluation, econometrics, statistics and epidemiology and have an opportunity to specialize, based on interests and experience, by choosing from elective courses that focus on U.S. or non-U.S. settings. The BA/MHS in health policy is offered by the Department of Health Policy and Management and is open to Johns Hop-

kins University undergraduates majoring in public health studies. Students may apply in their junior or senior year but must complete their bachelor’s degree before officially enrolling in the program. The MHS in health policy is a professional program designed for individuals seeking specialized training in health policy in order to establish or expand their careers as health policy analysts. In addition to course work, students are required to complete a nine-month field placement in the health policy arena; the full-time employment will provide an opportunity for students to apply their theoretical academic training in a professional health policy setting and to gain skills essential to functioning as health policy analysts. For more information about the Bloomberg School’s degree programs, go to www.jhsph.edu/ academics.

Study: Some groups with brain tumors less likely to get referrals B y C h r i s t e n B r o wn

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frican-American, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged patients with brain tumors are significantly less likely to be referred to high-volume hospitals that specialize in neurosurgery than other patients of similar age, the same gender and with similar co-morbidities, according to new research by Johns Hopkins doctors. The finding, published in the March Archives of Surgery, suggests a scenario in direct contrast to recommendations from federal health care agencies encouraging better access and quality of health care for people of all races. Researchers have long known that patients who receive treatment for specialized procedures at hospitals that perform more of those procedures usually have better outcomes

than patients who are treated at lower-volume hospitals. Consequently, in recent years, more patients have been shuttled to these high-volume hospitals than ever before. However, the new study’s findings suggest that for brain tumors, referrals are skewed to favor white, high-income patients. “We know that more patients with brain tumors are getting treatment at high-volume centers, but what happens to patients from various backgrounds?” said study leader Debraj Mukherjee, a research fellow and co-director of Johns Hopkins’ Neuro-Oncology Surgical Outcomes Laboratory. “Even though more patients are getting specialty treatments for brain tumors, the same isn’t true for minority populations.” The new study linked two databases that provided different information about patients between 1988 and 2005. One database, called the Nationwide Inpatient Sample,

Three students recognized for contributions to the arts B y H e at h e r E g a n S ta l f o r t

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oanna K. Pearson, a poet and fourthyear student at the School of Medicine, has been awarded Johns Hopkins’ Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts for 2010. Pearson’s $1,500 prize will be presented at a special luncheon in May. Krieger School of Arts and Sciences seniors Eric Levitz, a playwright, and Brandon Lee Stuart, a performance artist who excels in theater, dance, music and writing, will receive the President’s Commendation for Achievement in the Arts. The Sudler Prize is awarded to the graduating senior from the schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering or Nursing, or the Peabody Conservatory, or the fourthyear medical student who, in the opinion of a committee, has demonstrated excellence and the highest standards of proficiency in performance, execution or composition in music, theater, dance, fiction, poetry, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film or video. “This is my second year to be involved in the selection process for the university’s annual arts awards, but those judges who have participated for many years— some more than 20—stressed that this year’s field of applicants was the strongest they could remember,” said Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums, who chairs the

Sudler Prize Committee in his capacity as vice provost for the arts. Pearson, who will begin a residency in psychiatry upon graduation in May, earned an MFA from the Writing Seminars in 2009 and submitted a selection of poems excerpted from a full-length manuscript she is completing. The Sudler Prize Committee said it was immensely impressed by the range, power and polish of her submissions. The President’s Commendation for Achievement in the Arts recognizes graduating seniors at the Homewood campus who, while demonstrating artistic excellence, have also used art in service to the Homewood campus community. This year, the award was given to two outstanding applicants. Levitz impressed the Sudler Prize Committee with the extent of his involvement in the Johns Hopkins theater community through his work as a playwright, including writing for Witness Theater, Throat Culture, the Buttered Niblets Improv Troupe and the Johns Hopkins University Theatre. He is to earn a bachelor’s degree in May from the Writing Seminars. Stuart is being recognized for his work with a wide variety of theater, dance and musical groups at the university, and for his involvement with the Johns Hopkins Tutorial Project, teaching elements of dance, song and acting to Baltimore City elementary school children. Stuart expects to earn a bachelor’s degree in behavioral biology in May.

provides discharge information from approximately 7 million inpatient hospitalizations annually, including patient and hospital demographics, payer information, diagnoses and procedures. The other database, known as the Area Resource File, compiles national statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources, providing data that includes the percentage of residents living in poverty. By linking these two databases by county, the researchers were able to derive new information about the populations in each database. This method allowed Mukherjee and his colleagues to identify 76,436 adult patients who received surgery for a brain tumor over the 18-year span. Over the entire study period, only about 33 percent of patients were seen at centers that did at least 50 brain tumor surgeries per year. When the researchers examined figures by year, the proportion of patients getting their surgery at those high-volume centers increased steadily from 24 percent in 1988 to 46 percent in 2005, reflecting an overall increase in patients receiving specialty care over time. Over the entire study period, Hispanic patients were about 30 percent less likely to be seen at high-volume centers, though there was no significant difference between AfricanAmerican and white patients. However, when the researchers looked at yearly figures, they found a steady decline over time in the odds

that African-American and Hispanic patients would be admitted to high-volume centers. In the last five years of the study, African-Americans were a third less likely to be admitted to these specialty centers, and Hispanics were half as likely as white counterparts. The researchers found similar disparities among low-income patients, with those under the poverty line 43 percent less likely to be admitted than those making $60,000 per year or more. “In the last 10 years, there has been a lot of attention on decreasing disparity and improving access to health care and quality of health care. Unfortunately, it looks like we’re still missing the mark for minority patients. What we’ve found really goes against the inherent desire to treat every patient equally,” said study senior author Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, associate professor of neurosurgery, oncology, neuroscience, and cellular and molecular medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The researchers note that it’s unclear whether physician referral bias, patient preference or another reason might be responsible for the trends they found in their study. They plan to launch soon a study to investigate the reasons for these disparities. “Based on the results we get, physicians can really tailor their policy and the way they do business to make sure patients get the best care they can,” Mukherjee said.

Jhpiego gets $22.9 mill to increase contraceptive use in Kenyan cities

hpiego has been selected for a $22.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead its Kenya Urban Reproductive Health Initiative and continue the organization’s work with the urban poor in reproductive health. In this role, Jhpiego will lead a team of partner organizations to improve the quality and availability of family-planning services for the poor in targeted urban centers in Kenya, with the goal of increasing contraceptive use by more than 20 percent. A key feature of the plan will be offering women family-planning options when they go to a clinic for an HIV test or bring a child to be immunized—a single-visit integrated approach that is not customary in Kenya. Jhpiego and its partners, in collaboration with the Kenya government, will mobilize communities, work with the private sector to implement and scale up programs, and build the capacity of Kenyan organizations to ensure these programs continue beyond the five-year project. Kenya experiences high rates of maternal mortality, as well as HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. This is particularly the

case in urban slums like Nairobi’s Korogocho and Viwandani. Although public health facilities are within walking distance of homes, many residents won’t go to them for treatment because of both lack of trust and the cost of a visit. Additionally, only an estimated 39 percent of poor Kenyans living in urban settings are using contraceptives, largely because they are unaware of family-planning options, don’t have access to services or are concerned about the quality of many of them. However, things have changed in Korogocho and Viwandani, where Jhpiego’s work over the past five years has led to tangible achievements. The use of family-planning methods in clinics where the organization works has increased more than 50 percent, and as much as 300 percent in the case of the contraceptive pill, and residents, with the help of community leaders and other local groups, have organized to identify services that are lacking and demand better health facilities. More than 250 community health workers have been trained to deliver family-planning help along with HIV/AIDS treatment.

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By Tim Parsons

School of Public Health

new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the potential influence that the business connections between broiler-chicken growers may have on the transmission of avian influenza, H5N1. According to the study, the risk of between-farm transmission is significantly greater among farms within the same company group than it is between farms affiliated with different companies. The study, which appears in the March 26 edition of PLoS One, is among the first to analyze the impact of company affiliation on the spread of diseases from farm to farm. In 2007, U.S. growers produced more than 9 billion broiler chickens, according to a Department of Agriculture census. The poultry industry is vertically integrated with companies contracting with growers to produce chickens for slaughter. These chickens are grown in confined housing with defined feed in order to produce uniform and reliable meat. “Our analysis indicates that company affiliation is a major driver of farm-based exposure risk to an infection like avian influenza in regions with high-density foodanimal production. Farms within the same integrator group as an infected farm may face as much as a fivefold increase in exposure risk compared to farms affiliated with a different group,” said Jessica Leibler, a doctoral candidate in the Bloomberg School’s Sommer Scholars program. For the study, the Johns Hopkins researchers conducted a nationwide survey of broilerpoultry growers to gather information on business practices and to determine who visited the farm and how often. Typical con-

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April 5, 2010 • THE GAZETTE

Environmental impacts of nanotech form symposium focus Institute for NanoBioTechnology

he Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology will hold its fourth annual symposium, “Environmental and Health Impacts of Engineered Nanomaterials,” on Thursday, April 29, at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and researchers from across the university are invited to submit posters. The deadline for poster title registration is April 22. This year’s symposium brings together faculty experts engaged in various aspects of nanotechnology risk assessment and management research. Jonathan Links, an INBT-affiliated professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School, assembled the slate of speakers from across four divisions of the university. Links said that this diversity reflects the multidisciplinary approach needed to effectively address questions of how nanomaterials

Chile Continued from page 1 the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response and FEMA. Our aim was to assess the physical and medical performance of public hospitals in Chile after the earthquake, looking for vulnerabilities that can negatively affect patients and reduce the hospitals’ ability to offer regular services. An additional goal was to develop a survey tool to collect data on how the roles of various health care facilities changed as a result of the extent and type of damage that the buildings received. Our team did a physical/medical assessment of 14 hospitals in the affected area between Santiago and Concepcion. We tested our survey tool on an entire system of hospitals in the Bio Bio region. We documented hospital damage and looked at how well the centers managed patients—transfers and discharges—and medical services in the days following the main shock. Also, on our last day in Concepcion we learned that the University of Concepcion needed assistance. We were able to document some of the damage suffered by the university, including the complete loss of its Chemistry Department. Q. Although this was a short visit, what did you conclude about how well Chile’s hospitals and health centers withstood the earthquake?

A. Structurally, we found that one-story hospital buildings and mid-rise hospital buildings built after 1985 performed well, with few exceptions. However, we found widespread nonstructural damage throughout the hospitals we visited. This included the collapse of infill masonry walls and severe cracking of wall partitions, fallen

move through and interact with the environment, and how they may impact biological organisms, including humans. Links added that despite some concerted efforts to assess risk, many questions remain unanswered about how engineered nanomaterials and nanoparticles impact human health and the environment. “Without these data, we are flying blind. But when risk assessment is performed in tandem with research into beneficial applications, it helps researchers make better decisions about how nanotechnology is used in the future,” Links said. As examples, Links pointed to historical cases where research and development have failed to recognize risks to health and the environment until after a beneficial advancement was already in widespread use. The fibrous substance asbestos, he said, made construction materials flame retardant but is now linked to lung diseases; chlorofluorocarbons made effective air conditioning coolants but are now associated with the depletion of the ozone.

“Studying potential risks to human health and the environment hand in hand with benefit-driven research and development gives us the best chance to reduce risk proactively while maintaining the benefits,” Links said. Along with Links, professors from the Bloomberg School presenting talks at the symposium include Ellen Silbergeld, of Environmental Health Sciences, and Patrick Breysse, of Environmental Health Engineering and Environmental Health Sciences. William P. Ball, a professor in the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering; Justin Hanes, a professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology, with joint appointments in the Whiting School’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Bloomberg School’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences; and Howard Fairbrother, a professor in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, will talk about the transport

of nanomaterials through environmental and biological systems, as well as the unusual properties of manufactured nanomaterials. Tomas Guilarte, recently appointed chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and a former professor at the Bloomberg School, will provide a presentation on neurotoxicity of nanoparticles. Ronald White, an associate scientist and deputy director of the Bloomberg School’s Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute, will discuss policy implications based on risk assessment. Symposium talks will be from 8:30 a.m. until noon in Sheldon Hall (W1214), and a poster session, with prizes for top presenters, will be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in Feinstone Hall (E2030). To register for the symposium or to display a poster, go to http://inbt.jhu.edu/ symposium/registration. Specific symposium questions may be addressed to Mary Spiro at mspiro@jhu.edu.

suspended ceilings and fixtures, extensive elevator failures and complete failure of communication systems, as well as widespread damage to mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. As opposed to the common practice in the United States, every hospital we visited in Chile had backup electrical and water systems in place, allowing these buildings to be self-sufficient for two to five days. This enabled the hospitals to continuously provide medical services and properly evacuate and/ or move patients after the earthquake. It was particularly important, given the mass disruption in Chile’s communication networks. Q. Did any types of construction appear to hold up better than others? WILL KIRK / HOMEWOODPHOTO.JHU.EDU

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A. We found that base-isolated hospitals structurally performed well. A base-isolated structure is one whose superstructure is isolated from its foundation using rubber bearings or friction pendulum bearings to dissipate energy from an earthquake. As expected, older masonry buildings did not perform well. Q. Were there any surprising findings?

A. We were surprised that there was no need to transfer patients from hospital to hospital in our study area, the Bio Bio region. Instead, the hospitals prepared for the expected post-earthquake patient surge by discharging 40 [percent] to 50 percent of stable patients to their families. The hospitals we surveyed performed surprisingly well in terms of protecting lives, as there were no deaths of patients or staff as a direct result of the earthquake. Q. What were the benefits of being teamed with medical experts such as Dr. Kirsch?

A. It was a unique opportunity to be

Judith Mitrani-Reiser with pieces of the ‘uniform’ she wore daily in Chile: safety goggles, a fluorescent safety vest and a bright blue Hopkins hard hat.

paired with a talented health care professional like Dr. Kirsch. He was able to advise our team on important questions to ask hospital administrators regarding medical functions and patient care. As a structural engineer who cares deeply about designing for continued building operability, I found it essential that our multidisciplinary team was able to offer many perspectives, leading to a greater understanding of how critical structures—in this case, hospitals—performed in a large seismic event. Q. Could any of the things you saw in Chile help the people of Haiti and

the nations assisting them so that the rebuilt Haiti will be able to better withstand a future earthquake?

A. After the widespread damage suffered in its 1960 earthquake, Chile has systematically improved its building codes and construction practice. As we learned in our study, the Chileans have paid special attention to the functionality of critical structures and have required their hospitals to have on-site reserves of power and water so that they can continue to function and treat patients. I think this is an important lesson for every country to take away from Chile, including in the rebuilding of Haiti.

Milestone anniversary recognition events to begin on June 3 B y J e f f P r a tt

WorkLife and Community Programs

he Office of Work, Life and Engagement has announced this year’s Staff Recognition Program. Johns Hopkins University staff celebrating milestone anniversaries or who are retiring will be recognized at the annual series of recognition events in June. Honorees may select from a variety of custom-designed service awards, and orders must be placed—by phone, mail or online—by Friday, April 9. Eligible to be recognized are full- and part-time staff who have completed five, 10,

15 and 20 or more years of service with the university, in increments of five years, and whose service anniversary falls between July 11, 2009, and July 10, 2010. Additional information about the Staff Recognition Program, including a list of 2010 honorees, information about eligibility guidelines and award ordering, can be found at www.hopkinsworklife .org/community/recognition.html. Staff who believe they are eligible for recognition this year but are not listed, or have not received instructions for ordering their award, should contact Jeff Pratt at jeffpratt@ jhu.edu or 443-997-6060. Staff retiring before July 10, 2010, must notify the Office of Work, Life and Engage-

ment of their retirement by April 16 to be included. Retiring staff with 25 or more years of service will receive instructions on selecting and ordering a service award in late April. The series of events starts with the Staff Recognition and Retirement Dinner at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 3, in the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center at Homewood for staff celebrating milestone anniversaries of 20 or more years in five-year increments and for those retiring after more than 10 years at Johns Hopkins. Individual school receptions for staff marking five, 10 and 15 years of service will be held at the School of Nursing, 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, June 8, Carpenter Room; SAIS,

3:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 9, Herter Room; Bloomberg School of Public Health, 3:30 to 5 p.m., Thursday, June 17, Feinstone Hall; and School of Medicine, 3 to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 22, in the Turner Concourse. The Homewood Recognition Reception will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 16, in the Glass Pavilion to honor staff from Academic and Cultural Centers, Carey Business School, Homewood Student Affairs, Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins Club, Johns Hopkins University Press, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Peabody Institute, School of Education, Sheridan Libraries/JHU Museums, University Administration and Whiting School of Engineering.

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Can an incentive program help drug users with mental issues? B y B a r ry R a s c o va r

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en and women trying to shake their drug habits while also dealing with mental disorders pose difficult challenges for medical providers and health care policy-makers. And while combining psychiatric and addiction treatment services at one location holds great promise, this model has so far proved disappointing. What often happens is that patients show up to receive their medications at addiction treatment centers, but they don’t stay around for the psychiatric programs. This leads to poor outcomes and far greater costs. Now, Michael S. Kidorf of Johns Hopkins is using a $445,000 ARRA Challenge Grant from the National Institutes of Health to evaluate an innovative incentive strategy for improving treatment outcomes. “There are two ideas here,” said Kidorf, an associate professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. “We want to find out if behavioral reinforcement leads to increased adherence to psychiatric care; and second, will adherence to psychiatric care lead to improved outcomes?” A previous NIH-supported study by Kidorf and Robert Brooner, director of Addiction Treatment Services at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, was the first controlled and randomized evaluation of a delivery model combining methadone treatment and psychiatric services. But too many patients dropped out of treatment or didn’t show up for the psychiatric programs, so the results were skewed. “We’ve found that it’s not simply enough to offer patients convenient treatments in

Michael Kidorf is using an ARRA Challenge Grant to evaluate an innovative strategy for incentivizing drug users with mental disorders to use psychiatric programs.

one location to have an impact,” Kidorf noted. So this time, his research team is randomly assigning drug-dependent patients to one of two groups of 42 men and women. The first group will receive the full range of psychiatric and drug treatment services. The second will have access to the identical program with one difference: a $25 voucher each week. To earn that monetary incentive, patients must meet weekly with a psychiatrist, talk with a mental health counselor and attend group-counseling sessions. These vouchers accumulate in an account, and patients can draw on them for needed

goods and services, which are purchased for them by the research team. “We will measure if patients with vouchers go to scheduled sessions and whether there are positive changes in their psychiatric and drug symptoms,” Kidorf said. The ARRA Challenge Grant enabled Kidorf, who is also associate director of Addiction Treatment Services at Bayview, to create three new research jobs and retain two existing positions. Progress within the two study groups will be assessed and compared after three months. The entire study, including a report at a national meeting, will be completed within ARRA’s two-year timetable.

“This could lead to a lot of other good things,” said Kidorf, pointing out such possibilities as more effective and shorter psychiatric treatment, cost savings, improved monitoring of and adherence to drug regimens, and better patient outcomes. Kidorf’s team’s investigations are among the 380 stimulus-funded research grants and supplements totaling $192 million that Johns Hopkins has garnered since Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (informally known by the acronym ARRA), bestowing the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation with $12.4 billion in extra money to underwrite research grants by September 2010. The stimulus package—which provided $550 billion in new spending, including the above grant—is part of the federal government’s attempt to bring back a stumbling economy by distributing dollars for transportation projects, infrastructure building, the development of new energy sources and job creation, and financing research that will benefit humankind. Johns Hopkins scientists have submitted about 1,300 proposals for stimulus-funded investigations, ranging from strategies to help recovering addicts stay sober and the role that certain proteins play in the development of muscular dystrophy to mouse studies seeking to understand how men and women differ in their response to the influenza virus. As of March 15, 120 staff jobs have been created at Johns Hopkins directly from ARRA funding, not counting jobs saved when other grants ran out, and not counting faculty and grad student positions supported by the ARRA grants.

By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

he Office of Alumni Relations wants the 2010 version of the annual reunion/homecoming weekend to be one giant Johns Hopkins party. The guest list just got a lot bigger. The April weekend had traditionally been for reunion classes and all Homewood alumni. Taking a cue from President Ronald J. Daniels’ emphasis on “one Johns Hopkins,” the university is opening up the event this year to alumni from all divisions and also the local community. The retooled event, which runs from April 9 to 11, is now billed as Alumni Weekend/ Reunion 2010 and will feature a much-expanded list of events centered around reunion parties, the homecoming lacrosse game and the ever-popular crab cake luncheon. Some 4,000 people are expected. Patricia Conklin, senior associate director of the Homewood Reunion Program, said that Alumni Relations wanted to offer a little something for everyone and bring together current students and alumni from campuses other than Homewood. “This weekend is for the entire Johns Hopkins community and their families,” Conklin said. “We want everyone to come home to Homewood.” This year’s reunion classes will be the years ending in “0” and “5,” from 1930 to 2005. In addition, alumni of any year currently residing in Maryland and the surrounding states have been invited. The weekend will feature nearly 80 events including the crab cake luncheon, a birdwatching excursion, walking tours of the campus, music recitals, a lacrosse clinic, an

Admissions 101 presentation for alumni with children and a series of “alumni colleges” on such topics as Israel, the future of American business, computational medicine and Spanish food and culture. On Friday, five Homewood professors will open their classrooms to alumni for lectures. They are Richard Macksey, professor emeritus in the Humanities Center; Greg Ball, professor of psychological and brain sciences and director of the popular neuroscience major; Nicholas P. Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School and professor of civil engineering; William Sharpe Jr., professor emeritus of mechanical engineering; and Charles “Roger” Westgate, professor of electrical engineering. President Daniels will give a state-ofthe-university address from 11 to noon on Saturday in Hodson Hall auditorium. A new feature for the weekend will be the Family Tent, whose activities will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday on the Freshman Quad. The list of free entertainment includes a fire-eater/sword swallower, moon bounce, face painting, game-day sign making, temporary Johns Hopkins tattoos, carnival games, craft activities and a speed gun zone where those of all ages can see how fast they can launch a lacrosse ball, kick a soccer ball or throw a baseball. A small army of volunteers will be on hand to assist the masses, including 150 students and 150 people from Development and Alumni Relations. A staple of homecoming and the big draw is the men’s lacrosse game, which this year will pit Johns Hopkins against Albany at 2 p.m. on Homewood Field. The game will be preceded by a student rally at noon and a 50th and 25th reunion classes parade on Homewood Field at 1:30 p.m. Other alumni

COURTESY OF ALUMNI RELATIONS

Calling all alums: Alumni Weekend/Reunion is for you

The Homewood campus will take on a festive air this weekend, when it welcomes alumni of all divisions for events centered around reunion parties, the homecoming lacrosse game, post-game parties, concerts and family-oriented activities.

will meet current students at the AMR buildings and file into the stadium together. Reunion class post-game parties will be held throughout the evening. The Saturday festivities end with concerts by 1980s cover band Buttsteak and a performance by Ocean Rose, who will rock out to tunes from the 1970s. On Saturday evening, alumni children ages 5 to 12 can attend Camp Blue Jay in Levering Hall’s Sherwood Room and teenagers can head to the Teen Scene in the building’s lobby.

Sunday’s slate of events begins with the eighth annual JHU Blue Jay 5K Race & Half-Mile Fun Run for juvenile diabetes and also features an alumni trip to Camden Yards to see the Orioles play the Toronto Blue Jays. The weekend ends with the Senior Class Dinner, when the Class of 2010 is welcomed by the Alumni Association. “We’re going to keep people busy, that’s for sure,” Conklin said. For a full list of events and to register, go to http://alumni.jhu.edu/reunion.

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National Book Award winner Mark Doty to give poetry reading Poet Philip Levine has said of Doty and his work, “If it were mine to invent the poet to complete the century of William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, I would create Mark Doty just as he is—a maker of big, risky, fearless poems in which ordinary human experience becomes music.” In describing poetry as a medium, Doty has said, “Somehow poetry is a vessel for the expression of subjectivity unlike any other; a good poem bears the stamp of individual. I think we’re hungry for singularity, for those aspects of self that aren’t commodifiable, can’t be marketed. Mark Doty “The dominant art forms of our day— film, video, architecture—are collaborative arts,” he said. “Poems are always made alone, B y M a tt B o wd e n somewhere out on the edge of things, and Center for Talented Youth if they succeed, they are saturated with the texture of the uniquely felt life.” Doty teaches at Rutgers University and he Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading is a frequent guest at Columbia University, celebrates its 13th season on Sunday, Hunter College and New York University. April 11, when poet Mark Doty reads He lives in Houston and in New York City. from his work at 5 p.m. in the Baltimore The Joshua Ringel Memorial Fund was Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium. established in 1998 by the Ringel family in The event is sponsored by Johns Hopkins’ memory of this former CTY student whose Center for Talented Youth. life was tragically cut short in a motorcycle “Ferocious, luminous and important” is how accident just before his 28th birthday. The renowned poet Mary Oliver has described fund supports an annual lecture/reading dedDoty, the only American poet to have won icated to education, poetry and the imagiGreat Britain’s T.S. Eliot Prize. His collection nation. Past visiting poets have included Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the Kenneth Koch, Robert Pinsky, Grace Paley, National Book Award for 2008. Among his John Ashbery, Sharon Olds and Billy Colmany other awards are two NEA fellowships, lins. Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation A question-and-answer session with the fellowships, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest author and a book signing will immediately Award and the Witter Byner Prize. follow the reading. Books will be available Doty has written five other volumes of for purchase at the door. Seats are limited, poetry, including Turtle, Swan (1987); My so those wishing to attend should e-mail Alexandria (1993), which received both the ctypr@jhu.edu with their name and number Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the bw_4.5x7_Alloy_2 3/25/10 6:29 PM Page 1 of seats requested. More information is availNational Book Critics Circle Award; and able at www.cty.jhu.edu/ringel. School of the Arts (2005).

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aculty and staff who have been looking for a way to reduce the number of conversational-type e-mail messages flooding their inboxes, improve collaboration and real-time interaction with their work group and peers or stay connected to people in their work area when they’re off site, have a new electronic tool at their disposal: Johns Hopkins Instant Messaging service, also called JHIM. In addition to text-based, real time “chat” capabilities, the JHIM system provides file and desktop sharing, secure transmission, availability information and integration with Microsoft Outlook and JHED. Ben Reynolds, director of Enterprise Messaging and Collaboration for Information Technology@Johns Hopkins, said that JHIM is based on Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 and uses a PC client called Microsoft Office Communicator. The computer software, he said, is currently available only on PCs running Windows XP/Vista/7, but faculty and staff

Businessman Rob Mosbacher Jr. to present Ginder Lecture By Andrew Blumberg

Carey Business School

ob Mosbacher Jr., former president and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corp., is this year’s speaker for the Carey Business School’s Ginder Lecture, to be held at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7, in Mason Hall on the Homewood campus. His talk is titled “Fighting Poverty With Entrepreneurial Capitalism: A New Strategy.” Originally planned for Feb. 10, the event was rescheduled when a snowstorm caused the university to close. An independent agency of the U. S. government that supports private capital investment in emerging markets around the world, Overseas Private Investment Corp. currently operates in 155 countries and has more than $14 billion in commitments. From 1986 to 2005, Mosbacher was president and CEO of Mosbacher Energy Co., an independent oil and gas exploration and production company located in Houston. He was also vice chairman of Mosbacher Power Group, an independent electric power developer. Mosbacher serves on the board of Calpine Corp., the largest independent power company in the United States, and was reap-

Lecture Continued from page 1 Provost Lloyd B. Minor said that his chief aim for establishing the series is to bring outstanding faculty from one campus to another and make a “geographically distributed” university feel that much smaller. “It’s quite remarkable how much excellence there is around the university, but we’re all over the place, ” Minor said. “We have people in Washington, D.C., throughout Baltimore and down in Laurel, [Md.,] at the Applied Physics Laboratory. It’s part of my job to get to all these places, but others don’t get that chance. I saw this as an opportunity to expose our wonderful faculty to the greater Johns Hopkins community.” Minor said that he was thrilled that Greider had agreed to kick off this exciting new series, which is open to faculty, staff and students. “Carol is a very skilled speaker, and I’m

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pointed to the board of Devon Energy Co., a large, independent gas and oil developer. Mosbacher was formerly chairman of the board of the Greater Houston Partnership, a private nonprofit that serves as the city’s chamber of commerce. He also served as chairman of the partnership’s Health Care Advisory Committee and its Education and Workforce Advisory Committee. Long active in Houston-area volunteer and philanthropic affairs, Mosbacher was chairman of the board of the Methodist Hospital, the Salvation Army and the Greater Houston Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is founder and former cochairman of Rebuilding Together Houston, which organizes volunteers to provide free exterior home repairs and has resulted in the renovation of more than 5,000 houses for qualified low-income elderly or disabled Houstonians. He also has served on the board of South Texas College of Law. Mosbacher is a graduate of Georgetown University and received a law degree from Southern Methodist University. The William M. and Katherine B. Ginder Lecture Fund brings prominent speakers to the Carey Business School to discuss timely and stimulating issues relevant to the business community. To RSVP to the event, e-mail carey@jhu .edu/ginder.

pleased to let others hear from such a brilliant Nobel laureate,” he said. “I think Carol and others in this series will not just talk about the work they’ve done but why they did what they did. I hope that people go away impressed with the creative process and the art of discovery, and have a better understanding of what makes these people tick. I know biology students at Homewood would love the opportunity to meet Carol and listen to her talk about the great work she’s done.” Minor said that he anticipates the lectures taking place at least once per semester and rotating among campuses. For example, a physicist from Arts and Sciences could speak at the School of Medicine, and an expert on foreign affairs at SAIS could give a talk at the School of Public Health. Details on the next lecture will be announced at a later date. Greider’s talk, co-sponsored by the Department of Biology in the Krieger School, will be followed by a Q&A and reception. Those who plan to attend are asked to RSVP to ProvostRSVP@jhu.edu. G

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Calendar Continued from page 12 presents the Piatigorsky Memorial Concert featuring cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan. $33 general admission, $17 for non-JHU students; free for JHU students. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

Engineering seminar with Joseph Navarra, Maryland State Highway Administration. B17 CSEB. HW

in Fungi,” a Cell Biology seminar with Peter Espenshade, SoM. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

April 6, noon. “Proteomic Investigations of Cysteine Modifications in Heart Disease,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Jennifer Van Eyk, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB

Thurs., April 8, noon.

Tues.,

“Kinetics of Mineral Growth in Metamorphic Environments,” an Earth and Planetary Sciences special seminar with Lukas Baumgartner, University of Lausanne. 305 Olin. HW

Tues., April 6, noon.

REA D I N G S / B OO K TA L K S

Christopher Chivvis of the RAND Corporation and SAIS, will discuss his book The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and 20thCentury Free Market Thought. Sponsored by the SAIS European Studies Program. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS

Tu e s . , A p r i l 6 , 5 p . m .

Thurs., April 8, 7 p.m. Jack Bowen will discuss and sign copies of his new book, If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

S E M I N AR S Mon.,

April

12:10

p.m.

“Global Case Studies: South Africa and Malaysia,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Hadley Herbert, SPH, and Nahn Tran, SPH. Cosponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2033 SPH. EB Mon.,

April

12:15

p.m.

“Green Jobs Can Be Safe Jobs,” a JHU Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health seminar with Christine Branche, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. W3008 SPH. EB Mon., April 5, 12:15 p.m. “Lipid

Transport: A Moving Target for Disease Intervention,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Stephen Sturley, Columbia University Medical Center. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon.,

April

1:30

p.m.

“Geometry and Mechanics of Spindle Assembly,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Alex Mogilner, UC Davis. 110 Clark. HW (Videoteleconferenced to 709 Traylor. EB) Mon., April 5, 4 p.m. “Boundary Values (of Plurisubharmonic Functions),” a Complex Geometry/Analysis/PDE joint seminar with Eugene Poletsky, Syracuse University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW Mon.,

April

4:30

p.m.

“Topological Modular Forms, Group Cohomology and Duality,” a Topology seminar with Vesna Stojanoska, Northwestern University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW “Accelerated Bridge Construction: The Replacement of Maryland Route 362 Over Monie Creek,” a Civil

Tues., April 6, noon.

Tues.,

April

1:15

p.m.

“Changes in Genome Structure by Homologous Recombination,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology thesis defense seminar with Margaret Hoang. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Algebraic Groups Over the Field With One Element,” an Algebraic Complex Geometry and Number Theory seminar with Oliver Lorscheid, University of Wuppertal. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW

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

“The Trials of Health Informatics Trials,” a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with M. Chris Gibbons, SPH. W2030 SPH. EB

Wed., April 7, 8:30 a.m.

“Fighting for Fairness: Report From the 2010 Session and Next Steps in Maryland’s LGBT Equality Movement,” an Institute for Policy Studies brown bag seminar with Morgan Meneses-Sheets, executive director, Equality Maryland. 526 Wyman Park Building. HW

Wed., April 7, noon.

Wed., April 7, noon. “Planetary Interiors and Tides,” an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with James Roberts, KSAS. 304 Olin. HW

“Llamas, Weavings and Organic Chocolate: A Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia,” a Program in Latin American Studies seminar with Kevin Healy, Inter American Foundation. 234 Ames. HW

Wed., April 7, noon.

Wed., April 7, noon. “Adipocyte-Derived Factors: Impact on Metabolism and Cancer,” a Physiology seminar with Philip Scherer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. 203 Physiology. EB

“Mutation as a Stress Response and the Regulation of Evolvability,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Susan Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine. Tilghman Auditorium. EB Wed., April 7, 2 p.m.

“Crosslinking Perturbations on Lipid Bilayers and Their Implications in Cell Membrane Function,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Susan Gillmor, George Washington University. 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., April 7, 3 p.m.

“SREBP Controls Adaptation to Hypoxia Thurs., April 8, noon.

“Vascular Dysfunction and Acute Hypoxia Impair Double-Strand Break Repair in Tumor Stem Cells,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Richard Kolesnick, Sloan-Kettering Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College. W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., April 8, noon. “The Effect of Microcredit Participation on Household Well-Being in Rural Bangladesh,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Nirali Shah. W2030 SPH. EB Thurs., April 8, 12:15 p.m.

“Shardene’s Dance: Stripping/ Working on the Block,” an Urban Health Institute seminar with Susan Sherman, SPH, and Chris Serio-Chapman, Baltimore City Health Department. Part of the series “The Wire as a Lens Into Public Health in Urban America,” co-sponsored by Health, Behavior and Society and Epidemiology. B14B Hampton House. EB “The Roles of Non-Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Neurons in Top-Down Attention,” a Neuroscience seminar with Shih-Chieh Lin, NIA/ NIH. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., April 8, 1 p.m.

“Making Decisions About Genetic Testing: Understanding the Process in Prenatal and Cancer Genetic Counseling Contexts,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Meredith Weaver. 744 Hampton House. EB

Cell Production at Multiple Levels,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Harvey Lodish, Whitehead Institute. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., April 12, 12:15 p.m. “Food

Companies’ Stepped-Up Responses to Global Nutrition Needs,” a Center for Human Nutrition special seminar with Derek Yach, PepsiCo Global R&D. E2030 SPH (Feinstone Hall). EB

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April

12,

2:30

p.m.

“Learning About the Cell by Breaking It,” a Computational Genomics seminar with Chad Myers, University of Minnesota. 517 PCTB. EB “Determining the Mechanisms of RNA Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions Using Kinetic Isotope Effects,” a Biophysics seminar with Michael Harris, Case Western Reserve University. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., April 12, 4 p.m.

SPECIAL EVENTS Johns Hopkins School of Nursing celebrates National Public Health Week. Anne M. Pinkard Building. EB

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Mon., April 5, 12:30 p.m.

“Public Health Nursing Careers in the U.S. Public Health Service Corps,” with Capt. Lynn Slepski, U.S. Public Health Service. Carpenter Room.

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Wed., April 7, 12:30 p.m., and 5 p.m. “Nursing in a

“Health Communities,” with Brian Gibbs, SoM. Room 9.

Public Health Disaster: The Role of Nurses in Haiti, PostEarthquake,” with nurses who served in the SoN response to the Haiti disaster. Room 10.

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“Healthy Howard: One Community at a Time,” with Glen Schneider, Howard County Health Department. Room 215.

Thurs., April 8, 4 p.m. “Traps, Slowdowns and Bridges of OneDimensional Transient Random Walks in a Random Environment,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Jonathon Peterson, Cornell University. 304 Whitehead. HW

Tu e s . , A p r i l 6 , 4 p . m . The Patrick Henry Lecture— “Partisanship and Independence” by Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Sponsored by Political Science. Homewood Museum. HW

Thurs.,

Thurs., April 8, noon.

April

4:30

p.m.

“The Militarization of U.S. Policy Toward Africa,” a Center for Africana Studies seminar with Daniel Volman, director, African Security Research Project and board member of the U.S. Association of Concerned Africa Scholars. Suite 100, 3003 North Charles St. HW Fri., April 9, 11 a.m. “Experimental Study of Pressure Gradient Turbulent Flows Over Transverse Ribs,” a CEAFM seminar with Mark Tachie, University of Manitoba. 110 Maryland. HW Mon., April 12, 12:10 p.m.

“Road Safety in Latin America,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Eugenia Rodrigues, Pan American Health Organization. Co-sponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2033 SPH. EB Mon., April 12, 12:15 p.m.

“From Hematopoietic Stem Cell to Erythroblast: Regulation of Red

Twelfth Annual Pathology Young Investigators Day, featuring an address by Stephen Ginsberg, Nathan S. Kline Institute and New York University Langone Medical Center, and poster presentations by residents, fellows and students working with Pathology faculty. Turner Concourse and Tilghman Auditorium. EB

Fri., April 9, 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Opening reception for the Homewood Art Workshops Faculty Exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, cartoons, sculpture, digital imagery, prints and mixed media. (See p. 12.) Exhibit continues through May 2. Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center. HW Sun., April 11, 1 p.m. Memorial service to celebrate the life of M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, with tributes from President Ronald M. Daniels, Dean Nicholas Jones, DOGEE Chair Edward Bouwer and other Wolman colleagues, former students and friends. (See

“In Brief,” p. 2.) Tent outside Homewood Museum. HW The Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading— poet Mark Doty reads from his work. (See story, p. 8.) Sponsored by the Center for Talented Youth. Meyerhoff Auditorium, BMA.

Sun., April 11, 5 p.m.

Mon., April 12, 1 to 3 p.m.

“The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project,” a multimedia presentation by University of Washington historian Trevor Griffey on Seattle civil rights and labor history, construction of digital humanities projects and building university/community partnerships. Co-sponsored by History, the Center for Africana Studies and the Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW Mon.,

April

12,

4:30

p.m.

“Haiti: Perspectives on the Response,” a Center for Refugee and Disaster Response panel discussion with Dean Michael Klag, SPH; Robert Ferris, U.S. Agency for International Development; Thomas Kirsch, Catholic Relief Services; William Canny, Catholic Relief Services; David Brown, Washington Post medical writer; and Jean Ford, SPH. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB Mon., April 12, 4:30 p.m. The Provost’s Lecture Series presents Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider. (See story, p. 1.) Hodson Hall. HW

SYMPOSIA Tues., April 6, 3:30 to 5 p.m.

“The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease,” an Urban Health Institute symposium featuring Jonathan Metzl, University of Michigan, author of the book The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, and a panel discussion with Deborah Gross, SoN, and Ralph Moore Jr., St. Francis Academy Community Center. RSVP at www.jhsph.edu/ urbanhealth/our_work/symposia/ metzl.html. Co-sponsored by SoN and the departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Mental Health. West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB The 2010 Foreign Affairs Symposium presents First Sergeant (ret.) Matthew Eversmann, a modern American war hero. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Tues., April 6, 8 p.m.

W OR K S HO P S Wed.,

April

4:30

p.m.

“LexisNexis Statistical Datasets,” a Research Services workshop. M-Level, Electronic Resource Center, Milton S. Eisenhower Library. HW Wed., April 7, 5 to 8 p.m. Etiquette dinner and seminar, sponsored by Career Services. Registration is required; cost is $40 per person. E2030 SPH. EB

“Communicate With Adobe Connect” a Bits & Bytes workshop, designed for faculty and TAs. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. To register, go to www .cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Thurs., April 8, 1 p.m.

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This is a partial listing of jobs currently available. A complete list with descriptions can be found on the Web at jobs.jhu.edu.

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resuscitation and automatic external defibrillator training is being offered to JHU faculty and nonclinical staff from 1 to 4 p.m., on Wednesday, April 14, on the Homewood campus. A nonrefundable, pre-payment fee of $20 includes take-away materials designed for use as reference tools both in the course and outside the classroom. AED training used on a victim of sudden cardiac arrest is also provided.

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For more information or to register, phone 410-516-0450 or e-mail to dmills@jhu.edu. Vote for Favorite Films — JHU Summer

and Intersession Programs is again sponsoring a series of free outdoor movies and entertainment on the Homewood campus. The Johns Hopkins community is invited to help choose the films. Fourteen choices ranging from old favorites (Princess Bride, Beetle Juice) to audience-pleasing recent ones (Up, The Blind Side, Where the Wild Things Are) are posted online at http://jhu .edu/summer/films/index.html. Each person can vote for up to three.

Carey School plans Pre-Clinical Translational Research Workshop B y P at E r c o l a n o

Carey Business School

he Carey Business School is planning a daylong workshop on methods for making translational research projects attractive to potential investors. The Pre-Clinical Translational Research Workshop, scheduled for Thursday, April 29, at the university’s Downtown Center, is designed for professionals involved in public or private research in the academic, pharmaceutical and biotech fields. Carey officials say that the event should also appeal to venture capitalists, “angel” investors, professionals with responsibilities as in-house corporate or patent counsel and representatives of state and federal researchfunding agencies. Phillip Phan, professor and vice dean for faculty and research at the Carey Business School, as well as the lead organizer of the workshop, explains why an exploration of translational possibilities might prove beneficial to pharmaceutical companies. “Many of them are facing the dreaded

‘patent cliff,’ when expirations are not being replaced by promising drugs in the pipeline. These companies are fighting back with legal strategies to extend patents or prevent the intrusion of generics. However, the long-term solution is to improve the translational research pipeline by ensuring robust funding streams,” Phan said. Two keynote presentations will take place during the workshop—by Barbara Slusher, the chief scientific officer in the Brain Science Institute’s NeuroTranslational Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and by Allen D. Roses, director of the Deane Drug Discovery Institute at Duke University. In addition, two panel discussions on research strategies will feature experts from higher education, private industry and the legal profession. Phan will serve as one of the moderators. The event is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration is $50, which includes the costs of breakfast, lunch, a closing reception and parking. To learn more about the Pre-Clinical Translational Research Workshop, go to http:// carey.jhu.edu/landing_pages/trans_research.

Latin American Studies Program presents three-day film festival B y A m y L u n d ay

Homewood

he Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins will present a three-day film series, Weaving Lives: Documenting Inequalities in the Global World, this week on the Homewood campus. A keynote address by Saskia Sassen, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, will open the series at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 8, in 111 Mergenthaler Hall. Sassen’s lecture is titled “A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers.” The films on Friday, April 9, begin at 1 p.m., when The Globalization Tapes by the Independent Plantation Workers’ Union of Sumatra will be screened in 111 Mergenthaler Hall. At 4 p.m., Morristown: In the Air and Sun by Anne Lewis will be shown in the Muller Building auditorium. Sand and Sorrow

by Paul Freedman will be shown at 7 p.m., also in the Muller Building auditorium. On Saturday, April 10, Black Water by Allen Moore will be shown in the Muller Building auditorium at 9:30 a.m., followed at 10:30 a.m. by Violence Next Door: Growing Up in the Favela and the Hood. A roundtable discussion titled “Documentaries and Social Change” will conclude the series at 1 p.m. in the Muller Building’s Azafrán Conference Room. Directors of some of the featured films will join the moderator, Bernadette Wegenstein, an associate research professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins. The series is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program, the Center for Africana Studies and the Program in Film and Media Studies. For more information, contact Latin American Studies at 410-5165488.

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Zurich Continued from page 1 Employees who currently work on the Bayview and Eastern campuses will be the first to move into the spaces. Other Johns Hopkins tenants will move into the buildings as leases expire and other business considerations dictate. The university and health system, though they are separate corporations, have com-

bined several large back-office operations, such as purchasing and accounts payable and receivable, into what they call “shared services centers” that serve both entities. Some of those centers, which work together on a daily basis, are prime candidates for being located at the Zurich property, as are other still-separate university and health system offices that often collaborate. Some Johns Hopkins groups, particularly those supporting business functions, are also candidates for the Zurich property, though Johns Hopkins will continue to operate data centers elsewhere. G

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Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Bayview, 1st flr, 2-3BR apt, $700/mo + sec dep; 2nd flr 1BR, $600/mo + sec dep. 443243-1651. Bayview area, 2BR house, fin’d bsmt, W/D, backyd w/prkng pad, no pets, sec dep + credit check. Elaine, 410-633-4750. Canton, remodeled 2BR, 2.5BA RH. $1,800/mo + utils. tarynzlatin@hotmail .com (for pics/info). Cedarcroft, 2BR, 1.5BA Victorian house, furn’d/unfurn’d, living rm, dining rm, den, office, fp, hdwd flrs, AC units, W/D, yd, prkng. $1,500/mo + utils. szandhb1@ hotmail.com. Cedonia, quiet 1BR apt w/new kitchen and flrs, W/D, landscaped fenced yd, deck, free prkng, pets welcome, nr JHH/Homewood/ public transportation. $710/mo + utils. 410493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com. Charles Village/Guilford, 1BR, 1BA apt w/spacious living rm, full kitchen, patio, private entry, across from JHMI shuttle stop; also commercially zoned. $975/mo. 443-858-9118. East Baltimore, 3BR, 1BA TH, 2 mi to JHH, refs required, no pets. $950/mo + utils + sec dep. Anita, 410-675-5951 or amt2813@gmail.com. Ednor Gardens (Lakeside), 1BR bsmt apt nr Homewood campus, W/D, AC, prkng pad, private entry. $750/mo incl utils. 443310-9036. Fells Point (S Regester St), 2BR TH w/loft, hdwd flrs, W/D, expos’d brick. $950/mo. Matt, 410-375-4268. Gardenville, 1BR bsmt apt, newly remodeled, W/D, AC, close to JHH/Bayview/ JHU. $650/mo + sec dep. 410-426-8045. Gunpowder Falls bike trail, registered historic carriage house w/3BRs, 1.5BAs, faculty/grad students only. $1,200/mo. 410472-4241. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410378-2393. Hampden, historic 3BR, 1BA stone house, fps, hdwd flrs, yd, pets OK, avail June 1. $1,650/mo. 410-913-1328. Hunt Valley, 2BR, 1BA rancher on 1 acre, fp, skylights, W/D, dw, CAC, 2-car garage. $1,600/mo. 443-921-7267. Jefferson Court, 2BR, 2.5BA TH, steps to medical campus, hdwd flrs, W/D, CAC, rear yd, off-street prkng incl’d. $1,100/mo + utils. 443-838-5575. Mt Washington, stunning house avail for short-term rent, mid-May to mid-July, AC, hdwd flrs, baby grand piano, patios, wireless Internet. $2,200/mo. 718-915-3180. Mt Washington, 5BR, 3.5BA house w/2-car garage. $2,200/mo + utils. 443-939-6027 or qzzhao@gmail.com. Mt Washington, 1BR, 1BA furn’d apt in owner-occupied house, short-term OK, lg living rm, dining area, mini-kitchen, powder rm, W/D, free prkng, 10 mins to Homewood, 20 mins to JHMI, refs req’d. $900/mo JHU Gazette—April 5, 12, 2010 incl utils. jill.kearney@gmail.com.

ent a furnished BD (2 available) in charming country house in Greenspring Valley, wooded setting, quiet, private, rent 1 or 2, includes wireless internet, CAC, util. etc., built-in desk & bookcase. Ideal for post-doc. fellow, visiting professor/doctor. 15 min. to JHU/JHMI. Well trained dogs are welcome. Avail. now. Mo-mo. lease & 1 mo. Sec. dep. req. $500 per mo./per room. Call 410-227-9065.

M A R K E T P L A C E

Ocean City, Md, 3BR, 2BA condo on ocean block (137th St), lg pool, short walk to beach/restaurants/entertainment, 2 prkng spaces, prime wks avail. 410-544-2814. Owings Mills, 2BR, 2BA condo, W/D, walkin closets, storage, prkng, pool/tennis court privileges, backs to woods, conv to metro, walk to grocery, sm pets negotiable ($250 nonrefundable deposit), 1-yr lease, pics avail. $1,250/mo. 410-336-7952 or ljohnsto@mail .roanoke.edu. Perry Hall, luxury 3BR, 2.5BA TH, built 2006, upgraded master BA, 2-car garage. 443-653-2689. Pikesville, 3BR TH, 2 full BAs, 2 half-BAs, hdwd flrs, brand new appls, back deck, $1,825/mo; also restored rentals, two 1BR apts on St Paul St, $700-$800/mo. Alex, 410-812-0098. Rodgers Forge, 3BR, 1.5BA TH w/new kitchen and windows, CAC, W/D, great county schools, perfect location. $1,600/mo. mtrblsd@gmail.com.

2BA condo w/24-hr front desk, CAC/heat, prkng spot. $150,000. emmakcontact@ yahoo.com. Fells Point, charming 2BR, 2BA RH, 1 blk from water, 3 mins to JHH/SoM, study area, 2 fps, courtyd, perf for roommates. $269,000. Lee, 410-371-4034. Harborview, 2BR, 1BA all on 1 flr, hdwd flrs throughout, great location, conv to all Hopkins campuses. $164,900. 443-604-2497 or lexisweetheart@yahoo.com. Towson, 3BR house, 2 new BAs, new kitchen and appliances, hdwd flrs, new siding, new windows, fenced yd, flower gardens, great schools, 20 mins to JHU. $289,000. 410-321-9622. Spacious, well-maintained 3BR, 2BA house, hdwd flrs, huge porch, fenced yd, garage, must see. $219,900. www.postlets .com/res/3485453.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Grad student/prof’l wants to share Butchers Hill apt, 2nd BR and own BA, CAC, laundry, dw. $700/mo + utils. Marc, 443452-8088.

Rehoboth Beach, 3BR TH, dog-friendly, 15-min walk to boardwalk, JHU discounts on summer weeks. galeeena@yahoo.com.

Share all new refurbished TH at 924 N Broadway w/other medical students, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com.

South Patterson Park, 3BR, 1.5BA, gorgeous rehab, unfurn’d, nr Hopkins shuttle stops, 1-yr lease minimum, pets welcome. $1,600/mo + utils + sec dep. travelocity11@yahoo.com.

Spacious 1BR in 3BR, 2.5BA Mt Washington apt, W/D, CAC, pool, tennis, avail May-August. $470/mo. 443-220-2138 or hlhuang@gmail.com.

Tuscany/Canterbury, charming 1BR, 1BA condo w/9-ft ceilings, new kitchen, dw, AC, cable/DSL, balcony, nr Homewood campus. $880/mo incl heat, water. 410-338-4815 or condo_103@yahoo.com.

M wanted to share 2BR Charles Village apt for summer, 1 blk to Homewood campus and free JHMI shuttle to hospital, Internet, cable, gym. $570/mo. 917-693-7668 or danarampulla@gmail.com.

Wyman Park, immaculate 3BR TH, W/D, dw, security, cable, deck, prkng, trees, 1 blk to JHU; Craigslist #1640680824. $1,650/mo + utils. fullcirc1@verizon.net.

F student wanted to share 2BR, 2BA apt in the Standard Bldg, can negotiate BR furniture w/current roommate who is leaving. $825/mo incl utils, Internet. samara.kiihL@ gmail.com.

Wyman Park, 2BR apt avail mid-April, short walk to Homewood campus/JHMI shuttle. $1,100/mo. 443-615-5190.

Share new 2BR, 2.5BA Patterson Park house. $750/mo incl all utils. Delia, 908347-7404.

Renov’d 3BR cottage on waterfront w/pier and boat slip, wraparound deck, W/D, dw, conv to JHH/JHU, available mid-April. $1,650/mo + utils + sec dep. 410-790-6597 or sohare@verizon.net.

Housemate needed for 2BR TH in Laurel, huge rm, temp OK, nr APL. $600/mo incl utils. ammagnan@hotmail.com.

Furn’d rm across street from JHMI campus, safe area, W/D, Internet and prkng are free. happyhut4u@yahoo.com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Temporary housing, lg BR, full kitchen, front porch, prkng, month-to-month lease, credit check req’d. $850/mo incl heat, elec and sec dep ($100). adecker001@yahoo.com. Lg, luxury 1BR high-rise condo, nr JHU/ Homewood/Guilford, CAC/heat, W/D, doorman, security, pool, exercise rm, all utils. anthony8066@gmail.com.

3-step ladder, computer, reciprocating saw, chair, microwave, table w/shelves, printer, tripods, digital piano. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. Queen-size bed w/mattress, $120; futon, $50; couch, $10; TV and table, $50; dining table w/2 chairs, $70; various kitchen items, all in good cond. 443-683-5675.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED HOUSES FOR SALE

Bolton Hill, beautiful TH, 2 big BRs converted from 3BRs, 2.5BAs, new roof/windows, French doors, cathedral ceilings, skylight, granite, hdwd flrs, recent appls, immaculate cond. $299,000. 410-383-7055. Butchers Hill (10 S Patterson Park Ave), renov’d 4BR, 4BA house, CAC, hdwd flrs, granite, fin’d bsmt, roof deck, prkng. $425,000. 443-468-9311. Charles Village (Carrollton Condo), lg 2BR, Johns Hopkins / Hampden WYMAN COURT APTS. (BEECH AVE.) Effic from $570, 1 BD Apt. from $675, 2 BD from $775 HICKORY HEIGHTS APTS. (HICKORY AVE.) 2 BD units from $750 Shown by Appointment 410-764-7776

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Seeking mature nanny/sitter for girls 2 and 4 yrs old, PT, after school wkdays, some wknds, Silver Spring area; college student OK, references req’d. 202-498-3209 (after 6pm).

Responsible, prof’l incoming Hopkins grad student looking for house-sitting opportunity; your house will be in good hands. peacenow2@gmail.com. M resident assistants wanted to supervise 100 high school students for 1-wk camp at Homewood campus, July 10-16. 410-7354382. Mature, experienced nanny wanted PT to care for infant in our home, begin in May, Tuesdays. 347-523-3843 or vinotinto23@ gmail.com. Wanted: music teacher to teach adult learner to play the recorder. 443-296-7136 or ariel_ilan@yahoo.com. Looking for volunteer, English tutor/conversation partner for patient in JHH, pref student fluent in Spanish and English. sopojomo@ yahoo.com or shmee@iupui .edu. Prof’l piano tutor now provides lessons, tons of experience to all levels of schoolchildren; requires pick up and drop off. 443-253-6909 (in Chinese). MHIC-licensed carpenter specializing in decks, flrs, trim work, custom stairs, roofs, framing and/or sheetrock; call for any carpentry projects. Rick, 443-621-6537. Loving and trustworthy dog walker avail day and evening, overnight sitting w/complimentary house-sitting services, impeccable references. alwayshomepc@gmail.com. Tennis in the sun or maybe a fun run? Seeking practice partner and/or running buddy. Lagom335@hotmail.com. Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free, confidential consultations. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@ aol.com. Spring is here! Interior/exterior painting, home/deck power washing, leaf removal, bush trimming, general maintenance; licensed, insured, free estimates, affordable. 410-3351284 or randy6506vfw@yahoo.com. Tutor available: All subjects/levels; remedial, gifted and talented; also college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design and programming. 410-337-9877 or i1__@hotmail.com. Licensed landscaper needs PT help for lawn maintenance spring/summer, trash hauling, must have own transportation. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Affordable landscaper/horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens, can also do planting, designing and masonry; affordable, free consultations. 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com. LCSW-C providing psychotherapy, JHUaffiliated, experience w/treating depression, anxiety, sexual orientation and gender identity concerns, couples. 410-235-9200 (voicemail #6) or shane.grant.lcswc@gmail.com. Violin lessons taught by former Peabody Prep faculty, in my home, all levels. 410804-9570. Affordable tennis lessons from top-10 MD player, better rates for 2 or more. frana2010@ yahoo.com (for rates).

PLACING ADS Classified listings are a free service for current, full-time Hopkins faculty, staff and students only. Ads should adhere to these general guidelines: • One ad per person per week. A new request must be submitted for each issue. • Ads are limited to 20 words, including phone, fax and e-mail.

• We cannot use Johns Hopkins business phone numbers or e-mail addresses. • Submissions will be condensed at the editor’s discretion. • Deadline is at noon Monday, one week prior to the edition in which the ad is to be run. • Real estate listings may be offered only by a Hopkins-affiliated seller not by Realtors or Agents.

(Boxed ads in this section are paid advertisements.) Classified ads may be faxed to 443-287-9920; e-mailed in the body of a message (no attachments) to gazads@jhu.edu; or mailed to Gazette Classifieds, Suite 540, 901 S. Bond St., Baltimore, MD 21231. To purchase a boxed display ad, contact the Gazelle Group at 410-343-3362.

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Calendar Clockwise from bottom left: Barbara Gruber, Craig Hankin, Clara Ober (center), Larcia Premo, D.S. Baker, Gricel Salazar, Tom Chalkley and Phyllis Berger.

Berger and instructors D.S. Bakker, Tom Chalkley, Barbara Gruber, Cara Ober, Larcia Premo and Gricel Salazar. “This is a wonderful opportunity for our faculty—who are all working artists—to share their creativity and accomplishments with the community,” Hankin says. “I think it’s also important for our students to see how their instructors apply the concepts and techniques they teach in class. Plus, it’s a great excuse for a party.” In the cartoon above, Tom Chalkley captures his colleagues at work.

he Homewood Art Workshops, the university’s undergraduate visual arts program, will host its triennial Faculty Exhibition from Today, April 5, to Sunday, May 2, in the F. Ross Jones Building of the Mattin Center. The Johns Hopkins community is invited to an opening reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, April 9. The exhibition features drawings, paintings, photographs, cartoons, sculpture, digital imagery, prints and mixed media pieces by Art Workshops director Craig Hankin, photography supervisor Phyllis

“Pharmaceutical Innovation, Patient Experience and the Politics of AIDS,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Jason Szabo, McGill University. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Tues., April 6, 3 p.m.

“Inhabiting the Temporary: The Experience of Squatters in Buenos Aires,” an Anthropology colloquium with graduate student Valeria Procupez. 400 Macaulay. HW

Tues., April 6, 4 p.m.

Tues., April 6, 4:15 p.m. “Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of New Metal-Ligand Bifunctional Hydrogenation Catalysts,” a Chemistry colloquium with Bahram Moasser, Georgetown University. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., April 7, 4:30 p.m. “Thermodynamics-Based Drug Design: A Faster Road to Success,” a Biology colloquium with Ernesto Freire, KSAS. 100 Mudd. HW

“Perceptual Learning of Co-Articulation in Speech,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Cynthia Connine, Binghamton University. 134A Krieger. HW

Thurs., April 8, 3:45 p.m.

C O N FERE N C E Tues., April 6, and Wed., April 7, 9 to 11 a.m. “Short-Term

Stresses, Long-Term Change,”

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Sand and Sorrow, directed by Paul Freedman. Muller Building Auditorium.

Black Water, directed by Allen Moore. Muller Building Auditorium. Violence Next Door: Growing Up in the Favela and the Hood, directed by Mari Gardner. Muller Building Auditorium. April

10,

p.m.

“Documentaries and Social Change,” a panel discussion with the featured film directors. Café Azafran Conference Room, Muller Building.

G RA N D ROU N D S

A celebration of Art Workshops faculty

COLLOQUIA

Union of Sumatra. 111 Mergenthaler.

a SAIS Energy, Resources and Environment Program two-day conference with various speakers. Co-sponsored by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Registration after March 1 costs $300. For more information, e-mail conference@eia.doe .gov. Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. D I S C U S S I O N S / TA L K S

The SAIS Cultural Conversations Series presents “‘Netizens’ in Iran and the Greater Middle East: A Discussion on the Fate of Iranian Reporters,” a panel discussion with Azar Nafisi, SAIS; Nikahang Kowsar, cartoonist and member of the New York Times Syndicate; and Mona Eltahawy, syndicated columnist. Rescheduled from Feb. 9. Co-sponsored by Reporters Without Borders. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS

Mon., April 5, noon.

Mon.,

April

12:15

p.m.

“Childhood Obesity in Baltimore: Problems and Solutions,” a SOURCE discussion with the Hopkins community. Co-sponsored by the JHSPH Student Assembly Community Affairs Committee and the Child Health Society. W2030 SPH. EB Wed.,

April

12:30

p.m.

“Does Democracy Have a Future in the Democratic Republic of the

Congo?” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with visiting scholar Mvemba Dizolele. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS Wed.,

April

12:45

p.m.

“Reviewing the Lula Administration and the Brazilian Workers Party: 2003-Present,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Stanley Gacek, AFL-CIO. 517 Nitze Building.

Fri., April 9, 12:15 p.m. “Meaningful Use: Implications for Johns Hopkins, the Region and the Nation,” Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Steven Mandell, JHH. Room 140, SoN. EB

I N FOR M AT I O N SESSIONS

Online session for the Geographic Information Systems certificate program. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP to http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=2087. Information necessary to participate in the online sessions will be provided after RSVP. Mon., April 12, 7 to 9 p.m.

Online information session for the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy program. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP to http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=2089. Information necessary to participate in the online sessions will be provided after RSVP. L E C TURE S

“Community Engagement and Public Health,” a “Coffee and Conversations” discussion for the Hopkins community. Sponsored by SOURCE. W2017 SPH. EB

Mon., April 5, 4 p.m.

F I L M / V I D EO Program in Latin American Studies presents a film series

Weaving Lives: Documenting Inequalities in the Global World. (See story, p. 10.) Co-sponsored by International Studies, the Center for Africana Studies and the Program in Film and Media Studies. HW •

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Thurs., April 8, 5 p.m.

Keynote address by sociologist Saskia Sassen, Columbia University and London School of Economics. 111 Mergenthaler. The Globalization Tapes, directed and written by the Independent Plantation Workers’ Fri., April 9, 1 p.m.

Tues., April 6, 7 to 9 p.m.

SAIS Wed., April 7, 3 p.m.

The 2010 Ernst Cloos Memorial Lecture— “A 3-D Journey Through the Patagonian Torres del Paine Magmatic Chamber and Its Contact Aureole” by Lukas Baumgartner, University of Lausanne. Olin Hall Auditorium. HW “Filming Art, the Art of Filming,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by filmmaker/director Teri Wehn-Damisch. 101A Dell House. HW

“Ardent Masturbation.” “Illegitimacy.”

Wed., April 7, 4 p.m. The Charles E. Dohme Memorial Lecture—“Exploring the Chemistry of Biotic Interactions” by Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University. Sponsored by Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences. WBSB Auditorium. EB Wed., April 7, 5:30 p.m. The Ginder Lecture—“Fighting Poverty With Entrepreneurial Capitalism: A New Strategy” by Rob Mosbacher Jr., former president and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corp. (See story, p. 8.) Sponsored by the Carey Business School. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW Thurs., April 8, 10:45 a.m.

The Schwartz Lecture by Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 110 Maryland. HW Thurs., April 8, 2 p.m. “Yiddish in Israel: Between Sub-Culture and an Agent of National Hegemony, 1948–1967,” a Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program lecture by Rachel Rojanski, Haifa University. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW Thurs.,

April

Mon.,

WGS Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture by Leo Ber-

sani, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by English and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. 162 Mattin Center. HW

5:15

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April

12,

5:15

p.m.

“Theories of the Human in Buffon’s Histoire naturelle: Degeneration, Dynamism and Racial Reversibility,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Andrew Curran, Wesleyan University. Cosponsored by English. 101A Dell House. HW MUSIC Sat., April 10, 8 p.m. The Peabody Orchestra performs music by Beethoven, Ravel and Brahms, with guest conductor Leon Fleisher. $15 general admission, $10 senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

The Shriver Hall Concert Series

Sun., April 11, 5:30 p.m.

Mon., April 5, 5:15 p.m.

Mon., April 5, 5:30 p.m. “Tradition and Innovation in Imperial and Late Antique Rome,” a History of Art lecture by Pier Luigi Tucci, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. 205 Krieger. HW

“Translation in the Academy,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Catherine Porter, president, Modern Language Association. Co-sponsored by English. 201C Dell House. HW

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Calendar

Key

APL BRB CRB CSEB

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

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building Computational Science and Engineering Building EB East Baltimore HW Homewood KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 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