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Benefits changes presented to senior leadership

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he university’s Benefits Advisory Committee has developed a set of recommendations, which includes changes to health care benefits and costs for Johns Hopkins employees, with the anticipation that they would take effect Jan. 1, 2013.

Series of 31 The proposed changes, and the town hall rationale behind them, will be dismeetings cussed at a series of will begin on 31 town hall meetings to take place at the various uniFeb. 8 versity campuses starting this week and going to March 2.

The meeting presenters will solicit feedback from the university community.

The first town hall will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Shriver Auditorium on the Homewood campus.

The committee, which was formed last year, recently completed a comprehensive review of the university’s benefits programs at the request of Provost Lloyd Minor and Daniel Ennis, senior vice president for finance and administration. The goal of the review was to evaluate ways of reducing benefits program expenses by $10 million to $15 million.

Johns Hopkins’ senior administration said that reductions are necessary in light of increased pressure on the university’s financial position, and the rising costs of health care.

Retirement benefits and the tuition grant program, elements valued strongly by employees, are not proposed to be changed. The committee also sought to protect lower-paid employees from significant health care increases.

The list of recommendations includes increasing over time the total percentage paid by employees for health care, and increasing deductibles and out-of-pocket limits to be more consistent with the market. Other proposed changes include the reduction of vacation carryover days for new hires and the implementation of

Whiting School of Engineering undergraduate Tiras Lin took on the butterfly project because it combines physics, a key academic interest, and photography, one of his favorite hobbies. Three cameras are used to capture the insects’ flight.

Butterfly’s aerial antics could help builders of bug-size flying robots

By Phil Sneiderman

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o improve the next generation of bug-size flying machines, a Johns Hopkins engineering team has been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest insects on the planet. By figuring out how butterflies flutter among flowers with amazing grace and agility, the researchers hope to help small airborne robots mimic these maneuvers.

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U.S. defense agencies, which have funded this research, are supporting the development of bug-size flyers to carry out reconnaissance, search-and-rescue and environmental-monitoring missions without risking human lives. These devices are commonly called micro-aerial vehicles or MAVs. Continued on page 4

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Many strategies to increase physical activity for kids lack injury prevention measures, study finds

By Alicia Samuels

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new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documents a need for increased injury-prevention efforts in many of the most popular activities for kids—walking, bicycling,

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swimming, sports and playground use—in the United States.

Injury is the leading cause of death for young people in this country, yet many public health efforts to promote physical activity in kids do not consider the numerous available strategies to incorporate injury prevention.

The report, published online in the journal Health and Place, outlines how injury prevention and child obesity professionals

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can work together to prevent injury while promoting active lifestyles in kids.

“Many of the activities currently recommended to reduce obesity in kids are also the leading causes of activity-related injury,” said lead study author Keshia Pollack, an assistant professor with the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, part of the Johns Hopkins BloomContinued on page 3

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ndras Simonyi, former ambassador of Hungary to the United States and to NATO, has joined SAIS as managing director of the school’s Center for Transatlantic Relations.

Simonyi will oversee a broad portfolio of activities, including seminars, policy study groups, media commentary, research projects and engagement with students and center fellows.

“We are delighted to welcome Andras Simonyi to the center,” said Dan Hamilton, CTR executive director and Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Research Professor. “He brings a great deal of commitment to the transatlantic relationship, and strong knowledge of European dynamics.

Our activities will be much enhanced by his engagement.”

Simonyi is the latest European leader to join the center. Other distinguished European fellows include Jose Maria Aznar, former president of the government of Spain; Gordon Bajnai, former prime minister of Hungary; and John Bruton, former Irish prime minister.

Treasury Secretary Geithner to address 2012 SAIS grads

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imothy Geithner, secretary of the Treasury and a SAIS graduate, will address the 2012 graduating class at SAIS’s Commencement ceremony on May 24.

Secretary of the Treasury since 2009, Geithner is the principal economic adviser to President Barack Obama and plays a critical role in policymaking by bringing an economic and financial policy perspective to issues facing the government. He has guided U.S. economic and financial systems through the most challenging economic time, both domestically and globally, since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Before being nominated to his current position, Geithner served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He earlier held positions at the Treasury Department, Council on Foreign Relations and International Monetary Fund.

Tuition support now available for 30 health IT scholars

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pplicants who meet a Feb. 15 deadline for the fall 2012 Applied Health Informatics Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing are eligible for $10,000 in tuition support. Patricia Abbott, director of the program, said that additional monies will provide tuition support for up to 30 applicants.

The funding has been made through the U.S. government’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,

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The interdisciplinary online program is open to both nurses and non-nurses who have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and one year of health care experience. The post-baccalaureate 12-credit-hour program begins in August and is completed in nine months. The final two terms of the program (16 weeks) require an eight-hour-a-week practicum experience in a health information technology environment convenient to the student.

“This will be the last year that HITECH funding will enable us to offer $10,000 in tuition support to qualified applicants,” Abbott said, adding that the program provides an “unparalleled opportunity for those who are interested in leading the digital transformation of health care and in improving the quality, safety and efficiency of health care by harnessing the power of health IT.” Applicants not seeking financial assistance have until May 1 to apply. For more information, go to nursing.jhu.edu/academics/ programs/post_degree/online/applied_ informatics.

JHU Press, Pratt Library cohost screening of ‘The Amish’

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he Johns Hopkins University Press and the Enoch Pratt Free Library will co-host a special pre-broadcast screening of The Amish, an upcoming PBS documentary that attempts to answer many questions Americans have about this insular religious community.

The screening will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, in Wheeler Auditorium of the library’s central branch, located at 400 Cathedral St. The documentary, part of the awardwinning PBS series The American Experience, draws on the expertise of numerous JHU Press authors, including Donald B. Kraybill, a leading authority on the Amish and editor of the Press’ highly regarded series in Anabaptist studies.

Filmed over the course of one year, the groundbreaking work features unprecedented access to Amish communities. The film’s producers claim it’s the first documentary to deeply penetrate and explore this attention-averse group. The Amish will premiere on PBS at 8 p.m. on Feb. 28.

A post-screening discussion will feature Kraybill and the film’s producer, Callie T. Wiser. A JHU Press book sale and signing will be held before and after the program.

Admission is free.

Correction In the Jan. 30 Gazette article on Johns Hopkins’ United Way campaign, the group with the highest percentage of participation was misidentified. The Carey Business School was first, with 56 percent of its 143 employees making a pledge. The Office of Government and Community Relations came in second, with 48 percent participation.

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JHU scientist wins NSF international visualization challenge

By Lisa De Nike

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hey say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of an image created by astrophysicist Miguel Angel Aragon of The Johns Hopkins University, the adage holds true.

His vivid computer illustration that won the National Science Foundation’s 2011 Science and Engineering’s Visualization Challenge in the Informational Posters and Graphics category brings to life many dynamic aspects of the universe, spanning 240 million light-years.

“Galaxies associate to form vast, complex

structures, but they are really just the tip of the iceberg,” said Aragon, an associate research scientist in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy. “Underneath the galaxies, there is a complex network of invisible dark matter. Our poster shows the structure and dynamics of the universe in a unifying way. It summarizes in one image most of my research over the past few years.”

Aragon’s winning image graces the cover of the Feb. 3 issue of the journal Science. You can also view it online at zoom.it/Boj2.

The image is based on research and tools developed by Aragon, while the graphic design and artistic concept were worked out by colleagues Julieta Aguilera and Mark Subbarao from Chicago’s Adler Planetarium.

Called “The Cosmic Web,” the arresting and engaging design explores luminous galaxies and traces the invisible dark matter that forms an enormous network of voids, walls, filaments and clusters, according to Aragon, who receives support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

The National Science Foundation and the journal Science, which is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, created the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge nine years ago to encourage scientists and researchers to use images to communicate their work to the general public; the five categories for submission are Photography, Illustrations, Informational

Posters and Graphics, Interactive Games and Videos.

Winning entries appear in a special section in Science and Science Online and on the NSF website, and one of the winning entries—in this case, Aragon’s—appears on the cover of the journal. In addition, each winner receives a one-year print and online subscription to the journal.

The Feb. 3 issue of Science includes all the winning entries in a special news feature, which is also available to the public without registration, at www.sciencemag.org/special/ vis2011 and on the NSF website, nsf.gov .news.scivis. In addition, a slideshow narrated by some of the winners is available at www.aaas.org.

How molecules alter cell’s skeletal shape, drive cell’s movement B y V a n e ss a M c M a i n s

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ell biologists at Johns Hopkins have identified key steps in how certain molecules alter a cell’s skeletal shape and drive the cell’s movement.

Results of their research, published in the Dec. 13 issue of Science Signaling, have implications for figuring out what triggers the metastatic spread of cancer cells and wound healing.

“Essentially we are figuring out how cells crawl,” said Takanari Inoue, an assistant professor of cell biology and a member of the Center for Cell Dynamics in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. “With work like ours, scientists can reveal what happens when cells move when they aren’t supposed to.”

The new discovery highlights the role of the cell’s skeleton, or cytoskeleton, in situations where “shape shifting” can rapidly change a cell’s motion and function in response to differing environmental conditions.

When a cell such as a fibroblast, which gathers with others to heal wounds, moves from one place to another, its cytoskeleton forms ripplelike waves or ruffles across its surface that move toward the front of the cell and down, helping pull the cell across

Injury Continued from page 1 berg School of Public Health. “There are many behavioral, environmental and policy approaches proven to make exercise activities safer for kids, which we outline in our study.”

For example, she said, efforts are under way at the federal, state and local levels to increase the number of kids who walk to and from school. Those who walk each day are more likely to meet their daily recommended level of physical activity, and, over time, walking or biking to school helps children develop an early habit of engaging in physical activity. The researchers note, however, that while pedestrian injury is the secondleading cause of unintentional injury–related death among U.S. children ages 5 to 14, many effective interventions exist to improve pedestrian safety, particularly changes to the built environment, such as traffic-calming measures (i.e., speed humps, traffic circles), and enforcement of traffic laws.

“The key is breaking down the silos so injury prevention is incorporated into strategies to increase physical activity,” Pollack said. “The goal should be to maximize the benefits of physical activity programs and avoid the possible unintended consequences of increased injury.”

As an example of such integration, the researchers cite Sweden, where in 1954

a surface. Researchers have shown that these ruffles form when a small molecule, PIP2, appears on the inside surface of the membrane at the front edge of a cell. Until now, however, they have been unable to re-create cell ruffles simply by directing PIP2 to the cell’s front edge. Manipulations

Related websites Video of cell membrane ruffles:

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have instead led the cytoskeleton to form completely different structures, squiggles that zip across the inside of the cell like shooting stars across the sky, which the researchers call comets.

In their experiments, Inoue and his group looked for factors that determined whether a cell forms ruffles or comets. The researchers tried to create ruffles on the cell by sending to the cell membrane an enzyme that converts another small molecule into PIP2.

Using a microscope and cytoskeleton building blocks marked to glow, the researchers watched the cytoskeleton assembling itself and saw that this approach caused the cytoskeleton to form comets, not the ruffles that they had predicted.

The team suspected that comets formed because of a fall in levels of another small molecule, PI4P, used to make PIP2.

To test this idea, the researchers tried to make ruffles on cells by increasing PIP2 at

the membrane, rather than by changing the quantities of any other molecules. Using molecular tricks that hid existing PIP2 and then revealed it, the researchers effectively increased the amount of available PIP2 at the membrane. This time, the researchers saw ruffles.

“Now that we’ve figured out this part of how cells make ruffles, we hope to continue teasing apart the mechanism of cell movement to someday understand metastasis,” Inoue said. “It will be interesting to manipulate other molecules at the cell surface to see what other types of cytoskeletal conformations we can control.”

Additional authors of the study were Tasuku Ueno and Christopher Pohlmeyer, both of Johns Hopkins; and Bjorn Falkenburger, of the University of Washington.

The study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Department of Cell Biology:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/cellbio/ dept/index.html Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences:

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a national program for child safety was established. The program, which involved representatives from the government and private sectors, used policy to promote environmental and behavioral changes to reduce pedestrian, play, cycling and swimming injuries, and the results were dramatic. Between 1966 and 2001, the child injury death rate in Sweden fell more than 50 percent. Sweden continued its commitment to childhood injury prevention with its Vision Zero initiative, which began in the late 1990s and sought to redesign many roadways in communities throughout the country to encourage pedestrian and bicycle safety.

“Biking and walking provide great exercise and health benefits. We also know that wearing helmets while biking, and building safe pedestrian paths, can help prevent injuries,” said David Sleet, associate director of science in the CDC Injury Center’s Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention. “It’s taking that one extra step to build safety into physical activity that helps reduce injury risks.”

Additional authors of the study are Cassandra Kercher and Shannon Frattaroli, both of Johns Hopkins; Corinne Peek-Asa, of the University of Iowa; and Frederick P. Rivara, of the University of Washington.

This research was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living Research program to the San Diego State University Foundation.

This work was also supported in part by a CDC/NCIPC contract to the Society for the Advancement of Injury and Violence Research. G

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JHU group to convene workshop on noncommunicable diseases B y A m y L u n d ay

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he United Nations recently placed the crisis of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries at the top of its agenda for global health and development. In an effort to develop a program for meeting this challenge, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, or IHEGHSBE, and the Global Health Council will this week convene a workshop bringing together leading experts in a range of disciplines to address

gaps in related policy and research. The event, which is open only to invited guests, will be held Feb. 9 in Washington, D.C. Participants from Johns Hopkins are Sir George Alleyne, a professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, who is also the United Nations secretary-general’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region, and director emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization; Robert Black, the Edgar Berman Professor of International Health and chair of the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School; Louis Galambos, professor in the Department of History in the Krieger

Flight Continued from page 1 “For military missions in particular, these MAVs must be able to fly successfully through complex urban environments, where there can be tight spaces and turbulent gusts of wind,” said Tiras Lin, a Whiting School of Engineering undergraduate who has been conducting much of the high-speed video research. “These flying robots will need to be able to turn quickly. But one area in which MAVs are lacking is maneuverability.”

To address that shortcoming, Lin has been studying butterflies. “Flying insects are capable of performing a dazzling variety of flight maneuvers,” he said. “In designing MAVs, we can learn a lot from flying insects.”

Lin’s research has been supervised by Rajat Mittal, a professor of mechanical engineering. As a freshman in 2009, Lin joined

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Movement of painted lady butterflies is being analyzed in minute detail.

Mittal’s lab team and took on the butterfly project because it combined physics, a key academic interest, and photography, one of his favorite hobbies.

But Lin is doing much more than merely snapping pictures of colorful insects, his professor says.

“This research is important because it attempts to not only address issues related to bio-inspired design of MAVs, but it also explores fundamental questions in biology related to the limits and capabilities of flying insects,” Mittal said.

To conduct this study, Lin has been using high-speed video to look at how changes in mass distribution associated with the wing flapping and body deformation of a flying insect help it engage in rapid aerial twists and turns. Lin, a junior mechanical engineering major from San Rafael, Calif., recently presented some of his findings at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics.

The student also won second prize for his presentation of this research at a regional meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Benefits Continued from page 1 salary-based university contributions to health care costs; those who earn less will pay less.

These changes are recommendations only and will not be final until they are approved

by President Ronald J. Daniels, Minor and Ennis.

With the proposed changes, the committee would be able to achieve a 5 percent cost reduction for the university.

Ennis said that reducing benefits expenses is essential for helping the university better prepare for the future and deal with revenue challenges such as reductions in federal government grants, lower investment returns and tuition pressures.

“The committee members had no small task,” Ennis said. “They were asked to conduct a systematic review so that we are wellpositioned both financially and competitively in future years, while still meeting the needs of the community. These recommendations are the result of a thorough and thoughtful process that, we feel, will allow us to retain our competitiveness and preserve the broad range of benefits that we offer our employees.”

School of Arts and Sciences, and co-director of IHEGHSBE; Thomas Quinn, professor and founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health; and Jeffrey Sturchio, a visiting scholar at IHEGHSBE and a senior partner at Rabin Martin, a leading global health consultancy.

Other speakers include Smita Baruah, interim co-CEO of the Global Health Council; Felicia Marie Knaul, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative; Richard Laing, a medical officer at the World Health Organization; Soeren Mattke, a senior scientist at the RAND Corp.; Sania Nishtar, the first female cardiologist

in Pakistan and founder of Heartfile; Kenji Shibuya, founder of the Japan Institute for Global Health; and Brian White-Guay, professor of pharmacy at the University of Montreal.

The organizers say they hope that the event will begin the process of converting general international goals into specific policies and practical steps to improve health care and extend life in countries faced with the increasing burden of chronic noncommunicable disease.

The workshop is supported by an educational grant from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations.

“Ice skaters who want to spin faster bring their arms in close to their bodies and extend their arms out when they want to slow down,” Lin said. “These positions change the spatial distribution of a skater’s mass and modify their moment of inertia; this in turn affects the rotation of the skater’s body. An insect may be able to do the same thing with its body and wings.”

Butterflies move too quickly for someone to see these wing tactics clearly with the naked eye, so Lin, working with graduate student Lingxiao Zheng, used high-speed, high-resolution videogrammetry to mathematically document the trajectory and body conformation of painted lady butterflies.

They accomplished this with three video cameras capable of recording 3,000 onemegapixel images per second. (By comparison, a standard video camera shoots 24, 30 or 60 frames per second.)

The researchers anchored their cameras in fixed positions and focused them on a small region within a dry glass aquarium. For each analysis, several butterflies were released inside the tank. When a butterfly veered into the focal area, Lin switched on the cameras for about two seconds, collecting approximately 6,000 three-dimensional views of the insect’s flight maneuvers. From these frames, the student typically homed in on roughly one-fifth of a second of flight, captured in 600 frames. “Butterflies flap their wings about 25 times per second,” Lin said. “That’s why we had to take so many pictures.”

The arrangement of three cameras allowed the researchers to capture three-dimensional data and analyze the movement of the insects’ wings and bodies in minute detail.

That led to a key discovery.

Earlier published research pointed out that an insect’s delicate wings possess very little mass compared to the bug’s body. As a result,

those scholars concluded that changes in spatial distribution of mass associated with wing flapping did not need to be considered in analyzing an insect’s flight maneuverability and stability. “We found out that this commonly accepted assumption was not valid, at least for insects such as butterflies,” Lin said. “We learned that changes in moment of inertia, which is a property associated with mass distribution, plays an important role in insect flight, just as arm and leg motion does for ice skaters and divers.”

He said that this discovery should be considered by MAV designers, and may be useful to biologists who study insect flight dynamics.

Lin’s newest project involves even smaller bugs. With support from a Johns Hopkins Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award, he has begun aiming his video cameras at fruit flies, hoping to solve the mystery of how these insects manage to land upside down on perches.

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When considering its options, the committee sought input from staff and faculty in the form of a survey. Johns Hopkins hired Mercer, a human resources consulting firm, to gather data from the survey and conduct the focus groups.

Employees were asked to rank their benefits preferences and rate how much they valued each. The university’s benefits package includes health care coverage, a tuition remission program, retirement plans, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, vacation days and sick leave, a commutingto-work program, adoption assistance and many other offerings.

Nearly 88 percent of participants rated the overall program favorably. The most valued benefits were the university’s contributions to retirement plans, health insurance choice, paid time off for staff, retiree medical coverage and tuition grant program.

The committee took this input into consideration and focused its efforts on health care costs, as they have been rising faster than inflation and salaries.

Charlene Hayes, vice president for human resources, said that the undertaking was prompted by the rising costs of health care and increased pension regulation.

In fiscal year 2010, the university’s actual benefits program costs were more than $342 million, a 25 percent increase from 2006

totals. The projected costs in fiscal year 2015 represent a 70 percent increase from 2006 figures.

The upcoming town hall presentations will include an overview of JHU’s financial profile, the need for cost savings, recommended changes for 2013 and what they mean for employees, and what steps will take place next.

The 14-member Benefits Advisory Committee, which includes at least one representative from each academic division, examined current benefits, looked at peer institutions as benchmarks and considered alternatives to existing practices to bring about more-efficient delivery systems and design a more cost-effective program.

The group is co-chaired by Donald Steinwachs, a professor of health policy and management and director of the Health Services Research and Development Center at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Douglas Hough, an associate professor and chair of the Business of Health program at the Carey Business School.

The committee’s reach did not extend to the benefits offered to Applied Physics Laboratory and Johns Hopkins Health System employees. G For the full schedule of the town hall meetings and more information, go to benefits.jhu.edu.

Related websites Johns Hopkins Study of Insect Flight Maneuvers:

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APL takes steps to consolidate, build on current STEM efforts Lab’s first program manager developing strategic plan to inspire next generation

By Gina Ellrich

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n Dwight Carr’s office, several computer screens stretch out before him to reveal an intricate network diagram.

It is not a diagram of a circuit design, which might be expected from an electrical engineer like Carr, but a detailed accounting of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) outreach currently taking place at the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory.

“Our goal is to make STEM efforts at APL more effective through better coordination between program activities,” says Carr, who in July was appointed the Lab’s first STEM program manager. “We want to be more strategic about developing a vision for the Lab’s STEM programs and set goals that all of them can accomplish together.”

Dwight Carr

STEM outreach is not new to the Lab, with informal efforts dating back decades and programs such as Maryland MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, and Science

University to close internal printing operation this month

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ohns Hopkins will be closing its longtime Printing Services operation, and the work it currently produces will be handled by outside vendors as the university seeks to rationalize operations and costs. The move is effective Feb. 24.

In announcing the change, Glenn Bieler, vice president for communications, whose office oversees Printing Services, praised the operation’s staff and their dedication to their clients.

“We are extremely grateful for the many years of service that these men and women have given to their jobs and their clients, and we are doing all that we can to make this transition as seamless as possible for them,” Bieler said. “This was a difficult decision, and one that we did not make lightly.”

Printing Services, located in the Wyman Park Building on the Homewood campus, was founded in 1954. It provides faculty, students and staff across Johns Hopkins with services ranging from the printing of letterhead and newsletters to the binding of brochures and booklets.

The last day Printing Services will accept jobs is Feb. 15. Thereafter, clients will be asked to use local companies to meet

their printing needs. A list of preferred vendors can be found on the university’s Purchasing/Shared Services website at http://ssc.jhmi.edu/supplychain/secure/ news/news_jhu.html.

University officials said that the decision to shutter its internal printing operation was necessary to offset the rising cost of print materials and equipment.

Officials also pointed to the need to keep pace with the ever-changing technologies in the printing industry, which was difficult for Printing Services to do under its current model.

“Outside vendors can offer us options that we are just not equipped to offer,” Bieler said.

To streamline the production of business cards and stationery, outside vendors have been supplied with the university’s templates. Clients should expect the same high-quality work that they are accustomed to, at cost-effective prices. A plan is in the works for an online ordering system that will accommodate business cards and stationery printing needs.

If additional help is needed in identifying printing resources, contact Glenn Simmons in the Office of Communications at 443-287-9900 or gsimmons@ jhu.edu. For Purchasing-related questions, contact Bruce Schabdach at 443997-5661 or bschabdach@jhu.edu.

Curriculum: Adult nurse practitioner programs will now cover entire adult age spectrum

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tudents enrolled in adult primary and adult acute care nurse practitioner programs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing will soon focus on every aspect of adult care, from postadolescent to older adult.

The Adult Acute Care NP curriculum, renamed Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, is transitioning this semester to a format that integrates the full range of gerontology expertise. In the fall, the Adult Nurse Practitioner program will become the Adult-Geriatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program.

“The changes will prepare NP graduates to provide acute, critical and chronic care services across the entire spectrum of adult health,” said associate professor Julie Stanik-Hutt, director of the master’s

program. “Graduates will continue to focus their practice on the care of individuals who are physiologically unstable, technologically dependent and requiring frequent monitoring and/or interventions, and those who are highly vulnerable for complications.”

These modifications reflect nursing’s need for increased depth of expertise in addressing the expanding population of older adults.

Recent policy changes regarding the role and population focus for certified registered nurse practitioners have been identified in the new NP competencies and were outlined in the 2008 Consensus Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification and Education. The model has been endorsed by more than 45 national nursing organizations and provides the framework for these new population focuses.

Achievement) and the Gifted and Talented Intern/Mentor program for high school students dating back to 1976 and 1988, respectively.

“As APL people recognized a need, they developed programs, and the Lab’s STEM activities grew from there,” Carr said. “The result is that we have many remarkable STEM outreach programs in operation throughout the organization.” Carr will coordinate the high school mentor program, MESA, the college prep program and anything else at the Lab related to K-12 STEM engagement.

APL’s creation of the STEM program manager position represents the first step in establishing a centralized STEM Program Office. The goal is to expand the Lab’s contributions to the nationally recognized need to develop a more science- and technologycapable workforce.

The new office will serve as the umbrella for all K-12 programs at the Lab, except for those coordinated through the Education and Public Outreach Office in the Space Department. That office remains separate as a condition of NASA contracts, and it will work in partnership with the STEM office. In fact, Carr says, APL’s STEM efforts will benefit from Space EPO’s existing international network of educationand public outreach–related programs and activities.

Carr’s first step in his new job is to carefully analyze the Lab’s current programs and determine the impact APL is making through STEM outreach. Already, he says, APL engages more than 4,000 students a year. “We are doing a great job inspiring students,” Carr said, “but could do more to engage and provide hands-on educational opportunities for them.”

Carr is convinced that by explaining to them how STEM is embedded in things they

use and care about, students can be inspired.

One example, he says, would be to use the character Iron Man as a study topic. Teachers could ask kids to think of realistic ways that Iron Man could interface with his suit, determine how much power he would need to run it and consider what composites he would use to build it.

“Our culture and environment are teeming with STEM coolness,” Carr said. “We just have to make sure everyone knows it.”

Carr also says he wants to expose students to APL at an early age and keep them engaged by providing STEM development opportunities throughout their school years. Ultimately, the goal is to develop a broad pool of potential APL employees.

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Carr came to the Lab in 2003, and says that his mentors have been key to his success; that recognition compels him to “pay it forward” by helping young people himself. In addition to serving as a MESA volunteer at the Lab, Carr established a relationship with Big Brothers Big Sisters and began a mentoring program at his church. He also started a Boy Scout troop, and has been a Botball adviser and guest speaker for a number of robotics clubs and camps.

When his own children reached school age, he became involved in the PTA. “I found a lot of fantastic tools online that taught STEM subjects in a fun and exciting way,” Carr said, “and I kept looking for ways to make teachers aware of them so that other children could benefit.”

Today, Carr is a member of the Howard County PTA Council Curriculum Subcommittee and is planning a Classroom of the Future Technology Fair for educators, students and parents later this year.

A version of this article appeared previously in The APL News.

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Peabody students in an earlier production of ‘Postcard From Morocco.’

Peabody students to sing in two chamber operas at Theatre Project

By Richard Selden

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t will be Morocco one week and Egypt the next at Baltimore’s Theatre Project, as Peabody Conservatory students take the stage to sing in two chamber operas: Dominick Argento’s surrealistic one-act of 1971, Postcard From Morocco, and George Frideric Handel’s Italian epic of some 250 years earlier, Giulio Cesare.

Set just before World War I, perhaps, in a train station in Morocco, possibly, Postcard has a cast of seven characters with such vague identities as Lady with the Cake Box and Man with Old Luggage. Two mimes and two mannequins will also appear.

“The opera is incredibly theatrical, with a puppet show, slapstick, even a song in madeup language,” said Roger Brunyate, director of Opera Programs at Peabody. “It is as if the characters are playing theater games to hide their real identities.”

The cast members are Elizabeth Kerstein, Tyler Lee, Michael Maliakel, Jeff Martin, Lisa Perry, Halim Shon and Melissa Wimbish.

Composer Argento received both his bachelor of music and master of music degrees in composition from Peabody in the 1950s. The stage director for this production is Jennifer Blades, and the music director is Eileen Cornett, both Peabody faculty members. Doctor of musical arts candidate Blair Skinner will conduct.

Written by Handel in 1724 for London’s Royal Academy of Music, Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt) is one of the greatest baroque operas. The new pro-

duction—both condensed and contemporary—is presented at Theatre Project by the Peabody Chamber Opera in association with American Opera Theatre and Peabody’s Early Music Department.

“The recurring images for Cesare are the images of Afghanistan, sand, intense religiousness, birds and mountains,” said Timothy Nelson, founder of American Opera Theatre and a Peabody alumnus. “The piece is about terrorism, and how the desire for vengeance can turn us into exactly that which we hate and fight against.”

A specialist in baroque opera, Nelson is artistic director of the Opera Studio Nederland; the Canadian Operatic Arts Academy in London, Ontario; and the Canadian academy’s sister program, Accademia Europea Dell’Opera in Milan and Amsterdam.

The music director is Peabody faculty artist Adam Pearl, who will conduct the Baltimore Baroque Band, a Peabody student ensemble.

Originally written for a castrato, the role of Cesare will be sung by countertenor Daniel Moody. Other members of the cast are Julie Bosworth, Kerry Holahan, Elizabeth Merrill, Janna Critz, Matthew Sullivan and Megan Ihnen.

Postcard From Morocco will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 9 to 11; and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12.

Giulio Cesare will be performed at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 16 to 18, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 19. Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for students with ID. To purchase tickets, go to www.theatreproject.org or call 410-7528558. Theatre Project is located at 45 W. Preston St.

Grants available for students to work on global health projects

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wo types of research travel grants from the Center for Global Health are now available for students.

Center for Global Health Established Field Placements provide students with funding and the means to work with global health mentors to attain international cross-cultural field experience. More than 90 placements are currently available, and the center is accepting applications until Friday, Feb. 17.

For more information and to apply, go to

www.hopkinsglobalhealth.org/travel_grants/ established_placements/apply.html.

Center for Global Health Field Research Awards allow students to work on selfinitiated projects overseas. Applications will be accepted until March 1. For details and information on how to apply, go to www .hopkinsglobalhealth.org/travel_grants/ field_research_award/apply.html.

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Greenway, Manhattan-style efficiency condo in owner-occupied, elegant and secure bldg, steps from Homewood campus. $89,500 (reduced). 443-414-6282.

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3BR, 2BA brick RH, $50 off w/1-yr lease (by Feb 15), background check req’d. 202486-5418.

2BR, 3BA TH, 1 blk to JHMI campus, no pets, prkng provided. work230@hotmail .com.

Stewartstown, PA, rancher on priv lane, 2,170 sq ft, stick built w/bsmt, many updates, exit 4 off I-83. $325,000. 410977-2103.

Renov’d 2BR, 2BA TH w/den, new kitchen, new BAs, windows, HVAC, plumbing, elec, rec rm, blks to JHH, LNYW grant $ to full-time employees. 410-404-7072.

ROOMMATES WANTED

F grad wanted to share peaceful 3BR, 2BA house, 7 mins to JHMI-Eastern shuttle, nr YMCA and Giant, 17' x 20' BR, short- or long-term lease. $550/mo incl utils, wireless + sec dep. skbzok@verizon.net.

Responsible F nonsmoker wanted for amazing 11.5' x 12' rm in 3BR Patterson Park house, roomy closet, own patio. 202-2904252 or ramboethiopia@gmail.com.

F nonsmoker bedspacer wanted to share condo in Washington Hill (98 N Broadway) w/grad student, adjacent to Church Professional Building, walk to JHH/shuttle. $450/mo + utils. retzcare@yahoo.com.

Share 3BR home 10 mins from E Baltimore campus in Belair/Edison community, W/D, 1.5BAs. $600/mo incl utils, wireless Internet. 443-226-6497 or expoblk@yahoo.com.

Nonsmoker wanted for furn’d 700 sq ft BR in 3BR house in Cedonia owned by young F prof’l, bright, modern kitchen w/convection oven, walk-in closet, landscaped yd, lg deck, free prkng, public transportation to JHU, wireless Internet incl’d. $550/mo + utils. 410-493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo .com.

F nonsmoker wanted for 1BR in 2BR apt on W University Pkwy, share w/Hopkins alumna, AC, heat, hot water, nr campus, no pets. $540/mo + 1/2 elec. gwxts5@gmail.com.

Share 2BR, 1BA waterfront apt in E Baltimore County, W/D, 12 mi to E Baltimore campus. $900/mo ($450/ea) + sec dep + heat and AC. rick1432@comcast.net.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Lg third BR avail in Fells Point 3BR apt (918 S Wolfe St), good windows, great neighborhood, historic house next to Red Star restaurant. $800/mo + share of utils, cable, wireless. 917-647-7779 or mari.grotz@ gmail.com.

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.25BA RH, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, club bsmt w/cedar closet, quiet neighborhood.

Lg master suite (off Light St) in safe neighborhood, great walkability, 13' x 18', shared BA, big closet, roofdeck, backyd. $800/mo. sagaetani@loyola.edu.

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CARS FOR SALE

’03 Cadillac Deville, black on black w/half rooftop leather rag, 134K mi. $3,700/best offer. 443-942-0857. ’07 VW Passat, black, leather, DVD, Navi, CD, MP3, clean, current maintenance, 115K mi (highway). $8,500 (reduced from $9,500). 804-504-1202 or louis.alexjr@ gmail.com. ’89 Chevy Silverado pickup, 4x4, rebuilt motor, new tires. $2,400. John, 443-7507750.

ITEMS FOR SALE

File cabinets, beige 4-drawer, $40 and beige 2-drawer, $25, both w/keys and in good cond; Canon Pixma printer for desktop, not wireless, in excel cond, w/2 unused toner cartridges, $60. judybyen@ hotmail.com.

Dell Inspiron 8100 and 8200, w/dock stations, $130 and $150; Toshiba Satellite L25, $100; eMachine 330 w/monitor, $70; HP ScanJet 4570c scanner, $50; 13" and 21" Sony TVs w/HDTV antenna and digital converters, $60 and $120; NuWave cooker, $60; bread maker, $30; rice cooker, $25; Belgian waffle maker, $15. 410-8129267 or azhelon@gmail.com.

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Oil-filled heaters (3), inkjet printer, portable canvas chair, sand beach chairs (2), keyboard case, 100W amplifier. 410-4555858 or iricse.its@verizon.net.

Shirley Temple doll assortment and memorabilia, price depends on doll; ladies’ downhill ski boots, lt silver color, size 8-8.5, $100. 443-465-7011 or junedameron@ gmail.com.

Serta double mattress w/boxspring and frame, like new. $100/best offer. 443-8041927.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Free to good home: vintage Steinway upright piano, ca 1890, mahogany veneer, orig ivories, not in top-notch playing condition but great for a beginner, extremely heavy and must be moved by prof’l movers. 202-251-3972 or rsbclark@comcast .net.

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Tai chi: Beginners classes starting in Charles Village and Towson. 410-2964944 or www.baltimoretaichi.com.

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Affordable and professional landscaper/ certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410-683-7373.

Tutor available: all subjects/levels; remedial, gifted; help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading. 410-337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@hotmail.com.

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Need someone to edit your biomedical journal article or grant application? Jones Biomediting can help. michellejones@ jonesbiomediting.com.

Transmission repairs, rebuilt or used, 20% discount for all JHU faculty, staff, students and employees, free estimate. Bob, 410574-8822.

Ethan Allen sofa, forest green upholstery, dk wood trim, in excel cond. $300 (negotiable).

John, 410-256-0369 or tinydancer133@ verizon.net.

Hauling/junk removal, next-day pick up, free phone estimate, 15% discount all Hopkins. 410-419-3902.

Singer sewing machines (2), in cabinets, both in working order, $100/ea; Fender acoustic guitar, $150; oak entertainment center, $350. Chris, 443-326-7717.

Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, great bands, no partners necessary.

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Live Near Your Work

The Live Near Your Work program provides Johns Hopkins employees with the opportunity to receive combined cash grants from

the university, Baltimore City and the state of Maryland to be used for the purchase of homes within selected local neighborhoods.

Grants are available to full-time, benefits-eligible employees of Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Health Care, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Johns Hopkins Bayview and Johns Hopkins Home Care Group. Other restrictions may apply. To find out more, contact the Office of Work, Life and Engagement at 443-997-7000 or go to web.jhu.edu/lnyw/index.html.

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Calendar CO L L O Q U I A

“Reconstructing the Lute Concerti of Silvius Leopold Weiss,” a Peabody Musicology DMA colloquium with Richard Stone, Peabody.

Cohen-Davison Family Theatre.

Wed., Feb. 8, 5 p.m.

Peabody

“Universals and Variation in Language and Thought,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Terry Regier, University of California, Berkeley. 111 Krieger. HW

Thurs., Feb. 9, 3:45 p.m.

D I S CU S S I O N / TALKS

“The End of the Beginning? Corruption, Citizen Dissent and People Power Prospects in Russia,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Shaazka Beyerle, CTR visiting fellow. To RSVP, go to www .eventbrite.ca/event/2878342199/ mcivte?ebtv=C. 812 Rome Bldg.

Mon., Feb. 6, 12:30 p.m.

SAIS

“Protecting Human Rights Through the Mechanism of UN Special Rapporteurs,” a SAIS International Law and Organizations Program discussion with Surya Subedi, UN special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia. For information and to RSVP, email tbascia1@jhu.edu.

812 Rome Bldg. SAIS

Mon. Feb. 6, 4:30 p.m.

“The Environmental and Public Health Impacts of Industrial Livestock Operations in North Carolina,” an Environmental Health Sciences panel discussion with Naeema Muhammad, North Carolina Environmental Justice Network; Devon Hall and Dothula Baron Hall, Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help.

W2008 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 7, noon.

“Europe’s Eastern Neighborhood Policy,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Daniel Hamilton, SAIS. Reception follows at 6:15 p.m. in 812 Rome Bldg.

Co-sponsored by the Washington Foundation for European Studies, the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and the American Consortium on EU Studies. For information, call 202-663-5796 or email ntobin@jhu.edu. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS

Tues., Feb. 7, 5 p.m.

Wed.,

Feb.

8,

12:30

p.m.

“Un­ natural Selection: Probing the Consequences of a Global Gender Imbalance,” a SAIS International Development Program discussion with Mara Hvistendahl, Science magazine. To RSVP, email developmentroundtable@ jhu.edu. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg.

SAIS Wed., Feb. 8, 12:45 p.m. “Hum-

ala’s First Year: Key Priorities and Challenges,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Harold Forsyth, Peruvian ambassador to the United States.

For more information, phone 202-

663-5734 or email jzurek1@jhu .edu. 517 Nitze Bldg. SAIS F I L M / V I D EO

music by Britten and Beethoven. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. Friedberg Hall.

Peabody

Screening of the documentary Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union, based on the book

by SAIS visiting scholar David Satter. For information and to RSVP, email ckunkel@jhu.edu.

Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Institute at SAIS and the JHU Center for Advanced Governmental Studies. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Tues., Feb. 7, 6 p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 9, 7 p.m. Screening of Eddie Fong’s Kawashima Yoshiko/Chuan dao fang zi, sponsored by East Asian Studies. 113 Greenhouse. HW

L EC T URE S

“Discovering Galaxies: Bursting the Limits of Space and Time,” an STSci public lecture by Jean-Rene Roy, Gemini Observatory. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW

Tues., Feb. 7, 8 p.m.

The Brickwedde Lecture—“Ferdinand Brickwedde and the Discovery and Exploitation of Deuterium”

by Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Sponsored by Physics and Astronomy. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Thurs., Feb. 9, 3 p.m.

Thurs.,

Feb.

9,

4:30

p.m.

“Ancient Greek Pederasty and Its ‘Problematization’: The Visual Evidence,” a Classics lecture by Andrew Lear, New York University. 108 Gilman. HW Dean’s Lecture—“Academia, Industry and the Health of the Public” by Frederick Brancati, SoM. Sponsored by the School of Medicine.

Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB

Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m.

“Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities,” a Humanities lecture

by Joshua Landy, Stanford University. 208 Gilman. HW

Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m.

“Why Theory Failed in Latin America,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture

by Brett Levinson, Binghamton University. 479 Gilman. HW Mon., Feb. 13, 5 p.m.

MU S I C Thurs. to Sat., Feb. 9 to 11, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, 3 p.m.

The Peabody Chamber Opera performs Dominick Argento’s Postcard From Morocco. (See story, p.

6.) $25 general admission, $15 for senior citizens and $10 for students with ID. To purchase tickets call 410-752-8558 or go to www .theatreproject.org. Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St. Fri., Feb. 10, 8 p.m.

Concert

Orchestra

Peabody performs

S EM I N AR S

“The Biochemistry of the MUC2 Mucin and Its Dual Role in Protecting the Intestine and Promoting the Commensal Bacterial Flora,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Gunnar Hansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 612 Physiology. EB

Mon., Feb. 6, noon.

Mon., Feb. 6, 12:10 p.m. “If Workforce Health Is Economic Health, We Have a Problem,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with John Howard, National Institute of Safety and Health. Co-sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy, and the Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health. W2030 SPH. EB Mon., Feb. 6, 12:15 p.m. “The Unusual Mechanism for Regulating Ubiquitination in the DNA Damage Response by OTUB1,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Cynthia Wolberger, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

“Neural Mechanisms for Committing to a Choice About Action,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Paul Cisek, University of Montreal. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW ) Mon., Feb. 6, 1:30 p.m.

Philosophy seminar with Mogens Laerke, University of Aberdeen and the Marie Curie Foundation.

388 Gilman. HW “Extending the Search Space of the Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoder for Machine Translation,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Shankar Kumar, Google.

B17 Hackerman. HW

Tues., Feb. 7, noon.

Tu e s . ,

Feb.

7,

12:15

p.m.

“FDA’s Tobacco Research Program: Science to Inform the Regulation of Tobacco Products,” an Institute for Global Tobacco Control seminar with Cathy Backinger, FDA Center for Tobacco Products.

Lunch provided. W1030 SPH. EB “Good Things Come in Small Packages: The Efficacy of Brief Interventions for Disease Prevention,” an International Health faculty candidate seminar with Lisa Eaton, University of Connecticut. W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 7, 12:15 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 7, 4 p.m. “Gene Regulation, Sex Chromosomes and Duplication: Population Genomic Perspectives on Evolution of New Gene Function,” a Biology special seminar with J.J. Emerson, University of California, Berkeley. 100 Mudd. HW Tues., Feb. 7, 4:30 p.m. “Gluing Algebraic Varieties: Birational Geometric Perspective,” an Algebraic Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Ilya Karzhemanov, Courant Institute, New York University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 206 Dunning. HW

“Somewhere Over the Brainbow: Fluorescent Mapping of Neurons,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with John Belcher, SoM. 701 WBSB. EB Wed., Feb. 8, 9:30 a.m.

Wed.,

Feb.

8,

12:15

p.m.

Mon., Feb. 6, 4 p.m.

Mental Health Noon Seminar— “Integration of Salivary Analytes and Biomarkers Into Behavioral and Health Sciences: Prospects and Future Directions” with Douglas Granger, SoN. B14B Hampton House. EB

“Intelligence and Security in Tanzania, 1956–1965,” a History seminar with James Brennan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

308 Gilman. HW

Wed., Feb. 8, 2 p.m. “Cutting Gordian Knots at the Pool of Bethesda: Adventures in the Genomics of Inflammation,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Daniel Kastner, National Human Genome Research Institute. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB

“Modeling Protein Folding and Beyond,” a Biophysics special seminar with Gregory Bowman, KSAS. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., Feb. 6, 4 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 6, 4 p.m. “The Structure of Epigenetic Changes in Cancer as Revealed by WholeGenome Shotgun Bisulfite Sequencing,” a Biostatistics seminar with Kasper Hansen, SPH. W2030 SPH. EB

“Tower of Coverings and Stability of the Bergman Kernel,” an Analysis/ PDE seminar with Siqi Fu, Rutgers University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 6, 4 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 7, noon. “Providing Human Models of Cardiac Arrhythmia Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Masayuki Yazawa, Stanford University School of Medicine. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB

“Audacity or Moderation? Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant and the Intellectual Attitude of Enlightened Thought,” a

Tues., Feb. 7, noon.

“Recent Developments in Classical Minimal Surface Theory,” a Mathematics seminar with Jacob Bernstein, Stanford University. 302 Krieger. HW

Center and Research Institute.

Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB Thurs., Feb. 9, noon. The Bromery Seminar—“The Early Moon: Cosmochemical and Magnetic Constraints” with Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW Thurs., Feb. 9, noon. “ ‘A Fable for Tomorrow’: Imagining Ecological Crisis 50 Years After Silent Spring,” a Center for a Livable Future seminar with author Jesse Oak Taylor, University of Maryland, College Park. W4030 SPH. EB Thurs.,

“Covalent Probes for Control of Nitric Oxide Through Dimethylarginine Regulation,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Walter Fast, University of Texas, Austin. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs.,

Feb.

9,

10:45

a.m.

“From Scripts to Programs,” a Computer Science seminar with Matthias Felleisen, Northeastern University. B17 Hackerman. HW “Computational Bridging of Epithelial Morphogenesis and Tumor Mutants,” a Cell Biology seminar with Kasia Rejniak, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer

Thurs., Feb. 9, noon.

9,

1:30

p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 9, 2 p.m. “Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy for Barrett’s Esophagus and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease,” a Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with Kerry Dunbar. E2527 SPH. EB Mon.,

Feb.

13,

12:15

p.m.

“Neur­­­­ometabolic Control of Behavior,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Michael Wolfgang, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Melanopsin Signaling in the Eye,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with King-Wai Yau, SoM. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW )

Mon., Feb. 13, 1:30 p.m.

W OR K S H O P S The Center for Educational Resources sponsors a series of

workshops on the Blackboard 9.1 interface. The training is open to all faculty, staff and TAs in full-time KSAS or WSE programs who have administrative responsibilities in a Blackboard course. To register, go to www.bb.cer.jhu.edu.

Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW •

Wed., Feb. 8, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. “Getting Started With

Blackboard.”

•

Thurs., Feb. 9, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. “Blackboard Commu-

nication and Collaboration.”

Wed., Feb. 8, 3 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 8, 4 p.m.

Feb.

“SKART: A Skewness- and Autoregression-Adjusted BatchMeans Procedure for Simulation Analysis,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with James Wilson, North Carolina State University. 304 Whitehead. HW

•

Fri., Feb. 10, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. “Assessing Student

Knowledge and Managing Grades in Blackboard.”

(Events are free and Calendar

open to the public Key

except where indicated.)

APL BRB CRB EB HW KSAS

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood 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