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December 7, 2009

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Volume 39 No. 14

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A homecoming for historic windows

Learning about Baltimore By Greg Rienzi

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his Intersession, Craig Hollander will teach a class titled Movers and Shakers: Baltimore by Biography. Hollander, a fourth-year doctoral student in history and a native Baltimorean, will hitch his lessons to famous city sons and daughters such Freshmen as H.L. Mencken, Babe Ruth, Billie experience Holiday, Thurgood Marshall and Joshcity in an ua Barney. Barney may lack innovative instant name recognition, but Holprogram lander says that the naval officer’s impact on the city and American history is nonetheless significant. Born in Baltimore in 1759, Barney had a long, decorated and eventful naval career. He was captured and imprisoned by enemy forces no fewer than five times, served in both the U.S. and French navies and as a commander helped defend Baltimore and ships on the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. “Ask anyone on the street 150 years ago, and they would have heard of Barney,” Hollander says. “Barney was a very prestigious Marylander, and I think by studying the trajectory of his life we can learn a good deal about the development of the modern navy, the War of 1812 and the city during this period.” Hollander has less than one week to make his point. The Movers and Shakers course is one of 15 academic offerings in the third annual B’More: A Common Freshman Experience, a one-week academic and personal enrichment program with the city as its centerpiece. The innovative and increasingly popular program, which will run from Saturday, Jan. 16, to Friday, Jan. 22, offers freshmen in the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering the opportunity to get to know Baltimore better, make new friends and foster school spirit.

The windows in the Hutzler Undergraduate Reading Room display marks used by European printers from the 15th and 16th centuries.

s the massive renovation of Gilman Hall enters its final nine months, many of its historic glass treasures have returned with a pristine sparkle and luster. The Hutzler Undergraduate Reading Room’s 19 stained glass windows and Memorial Hall’s four steel-sash picture windows that feature stained glass were

23 restored stained-glass treasures are reinstalled in Gilman Hall By Greg Rienzi

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recently reinstalled in their bays after almost a year’s worth of restoration work. Worcester Eisenbrandt, a local restoration firm that oversaw the project, mended wood and metal frames, sealed cracks, reglazed the windows and re-created lost or damaged art. The work was conducted off site at Continued on page 7

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Migraine raises risk of common stroke in women B y D av i d M a r c h

Johns Hopkins Medicine

ooling results from 21 studies involving 622,381 men and women, researchers at Johns Hopkins have affirmed that migraine headaches are associated with more than twofold higher chances of the most common kind of stroke: those occurring when blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off by the buildup of plaque or a blood clot.

In Brief

MSEL changes for exams; Peabody concerts in East Baltimore; ‘Gazette’ holiday schedule

The risk for those with migraines is 2.3 times greater than for those without, according to calculations from the Johns Hopkins team that were presented Nov. 16 at the American Heart Association’s annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla. For those who experience aura—the sighting of flashing lights, zigzag lines and blurred side vision along with migraines—the risk of so-called ischemic stroke is 2.5 times higher, and in women, 2.9 times as high. Study participants, mostly in North America and Europe, were between the ages of 18

and 70, and none had suffered a stroke prior to enrollment. Cardiologist Saman Nazarian, senior study investigator, said that the team’s latest analysis, believed to be the largest study of its kind on the topic, reinforces the relationship between migraine and stroke while correcting some discrepancies in previous analyses. For example, a smaller combination study in 2005 by researchers in Montreal that showed a bare doubling of risk had

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JHU Press holiday book signing; Homewood by Candlelight; ‘A Christmas Carol’ reading

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‘World as a Hologram’ is topic of 2009 Brickwedde Lecture By Lisa De Nike

Homewood

eonard Susskind, the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University, will give the 2009 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lecture in Physics on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Titled “The World as a Hologram,” Susskind’s lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy’s Schafler Auditorium on the university’s Homewood campus. Widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory, Susskind in 1997 won the J.J. Sakurai Prize for his pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics and dynamical symmetry breaking. He is known as an engaging and imaginative speaker with a rare ability to explain complex scientific concepts to lay audiences. In fact, Stanford has put a series of Susskind’s lectures on theoretical physics, including those on “Einstein’s Theory of Relativity” and

“Dark Matter vs. Dark Energy,” on YouTube. The Brickwedde lectures were established in 1981 and are funded by an endowment provided by Johns Hopkins alumnus Ferdinand G. Brickwedde and his wife, Langhorne Howard Brickwedde. Ferdinand Brickwedde, who received his bachelor’s degree in 1922 and doctorate in 1925, had a distinguished research and academic career. A co-discoverer of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, he was long associated with the National Bureau of Standards and from 1956 to 1963 was dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics at Pennsylvania State University, where he was Evan Pugh Research Professor of Physics Emeritus until his death in 1989. As part of the lecture tradition, at least one outstanding scientist is invited to campus for a three-day period each academic year. During that visit, the scientists deliver a public address and the weekly departmental colloquium and, as stipulated by the Brickweddes, are asked to spend generous amounts of time with the students.

Educational home visits can improve asthma in children B y K at e r i n a P e s h e va

Johns Hopkins Medicine

few home visits by a health care specialist to educate children with asthma about basic strategies for earlier symptom recognition and improving medication use can lead to fewer flare-ups and less-frequent trips to the emergency room, according to research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center published in the December issue of Pediatrics. An estimated 6.5 million children in the United States have asthma, which is the leading pediatric chronic illness in this country and disproportionately affects minorities. “We compared several strategies to improve asthma control among children and, much to our delight, we found that taking a few simple steps can go a long way toward doing so,” said senior investigator Kristin Riekert, a pediatric psychologist at Johns Hopkins and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Adherence Research Center. Researchers say the key is providing regular asthma education that includes in-thehome demonstration and training on the proper use of inhalers by an asthma specialist and a discussion with the family about regular access to a pediatrician, and ensuring they have access to one; an asthma action plan specifically tailored to each child, with a list of must-take daily controller medication to keep inflammation at bay; and a checklist of what to do when symptoms start and when to seek emergency care. Researchers compared the effectiveness of three different strategies in 250 AfricanAmerican children with asthma who ended up in an emergency room with an asthma attack. One group received a booklet with basic asthma information, the standard and usual care. The other two had educational home visits by asthma educators, with one group receiving education only and the

other education plus feedback on how well the patient was following his or her medication instructions, which researchers determined by a monitoring device on the child’s inhaler to record each use, as well as coaching on how to improve adherence. Follow-ups at six, 12 and 18 months showed that: • Children in the two groups that received home visits and whose medication use was monitored had 15 percent fewer trips to the emergency room compared to children who got the standard care. They also had a 52 percent faster rate of refill of inhaled corticosteroids, a daily controller medication that helps keep inflammation at bay. • Children who got educational home visits reported, on average, fewer symptoms per month compared to children who received the informational booklet. • Children who got the informational pamphlet—the standard of care—had 12 percent more emergency room visits and 17 percent higher use of oral corticosteroids, a marker of an asthma flare-up, when compared to children from the other two groups. • There was no added value in providing medication monitoring and feedback beyond providing at-home educational visits alone. • There was no significant difference in the number of hospitalizations among the three groups. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute funded the research. Lead author Michiko Otsuki was a Johns Hopkins Behavioral Medicine fellow at the time of the study and is currently at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Other Johns Hopkins investigators in the study were Michelle Eakin, Arlene Butz, Cynthia Rand, Jean Ogrborn and Andrew Bilderback. University of Maryland co-investigators were Van Doren Hsu and Ilene Zuckerman.

MSE Library implements changes during exam period

he Homewood campus’s Eisenhower Library experienced unprecedented demand for seating during the fall 2009 semester. To better accommodate Johns Hopkins students during reading period and exams, the library will be open to visitors only from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Friday, Dec. 4, through Friday, Dec. 18. At all other times, a valid JHU ID will be required for entrance. Quiet study zones will be strictly enforced, and students who need to work in groups will be asked to relocate.

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan will speak today at SAIS

ecep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, will speak at SAIS at 4 p.m. today, Dec. 7. His topic is “Turkey in the 21st Century: Building Peace Through Diplomacy.” SAIS Dean Jessica Einhorn will provide welcoming remarks, and Daniel Hamilton, director of the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, will moderate the session. The event will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to the Center for Transatlantic Relations at http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/ events/2009/erdogan.htm.

A limited number of extra copies of The Gazette are available each week in the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs, Suite 540, 901 South Bond St., in Fells Point. Those who know they will need a large number of newspapers are asked to order them at least a week in advance of publication by calling 443-287-9900.

Peabody Consort collaboration to be broadcast on NPR show

f Music Be the Food of Love, a collaboration between the Peabody Consort, led by faculty artist Mark Cudek, and actors from the Indiana Repertory Theatre, will be broadcast the week of Dec. 7 to 13 on National Public Radio’s nationally syndicated program Harmonia. The program, recorded in July at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, will be available the following week on the Web page http:// indianapublicmedia.org/harmonia. Cudek, who directs Peabody’s Early Music program, is artistic director of the festival.

Guided Care Nursing online course adds sponsor to expand

eginning Jan. 20, a weekly series of chamber music concerts featuring Peabody students, alumni and faculty will be held during the spring semester at noon on Wednesdays in Turner Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus. Bill Nerenberg, a visiting faculty member and director of Peabody Presents, said that the performances will resume a tradition of concerts held at JHH that was begun by George Udvarhelyi, who is now retired and an adviser to the fine arts staff at the hospital. Each concert will be 45 minutes in length with no intermission. The first scheduled performer is pianist Michael Sheppard, a Peabody alumnus, who will be followed on Jan. 27 by the Vinca String Quartet, a young group being mentored by renowned violinist Pamela Frank.

he online Guided Care Nursing Course offered by the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing is now sponsored by SeniorBridge, a professional services provider for individuals requiring care for chronic health conditions. The $10,000 sponsorship will help support the institute’s marketing and outreach of the course, which is focused on chronic disease management, caregiver education and support, transitional care and geriatric evaluation. The six-week course, launched in June, is designed to improve patients’ quality of life and care while improving the efficiency of treating the sickest and most complex patients. The course brings together faculty and clinical experts from the Johns Hopkins schools of Nursing, Medicine and Public Health, as well as The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. It has received several awards, most recently the 2009 Medical Economics Award for Innovation in Practice Improvement from the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and Medical Economics magazine.

Press book signing and Madeira tasting scheduled for Dec. 9

Deadlines are today, Dec. 7, for last ‘Gazette’ issue of semester

ore than a dozen authors will be on hand from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9, when the Johns Hopkins University Press and Homewood Museum host their annual Holiday Book Signing and Madeira Tasting. Among those who will sign their books are Mike Gesker, The Orioles Encyclopedia;

ecause of the midyear vacation, The Gazette will not be published the weeks of Dec. 21 and 28. Next week’s calendar will include events scheduled from Monday, Dec. 14, through Monday, Jan. 4. The deadline for calendar and classifieds submissions for that issue is noon today, Dec. 7.

Weekly Peabody chamber music concerts planned for East Balto.

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Joseph R.L. Sterne, Combat Correspondents; and David W. Harp and Tom Horton, The Nanticoke. In addition, a display will feature JHU Press books published in 2009 that were written or edited by university colleagues, many of whom will be in attendance. The museum will be decorated for the holidays and the shop stocked with gifts and cards.

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Contributing Writers Applied Physics Laboratory Michael Buckley, Paulette Campbell Bloomberg School of Public Health Tim Parsons, Natalie Wood-Wright Carey Business School Andrew Blumberg Homewood Lisa De Nike, Amy Lunday, Dennis O’Shea, Tracey A. Reeves, Phil Sneiderman Johns Hopkins Medicine Christen Brownlee, Stephanie Desmon, Audrey Huang, John Lazarou, David March, Katerina Pesheva, Vanessa Wasta, Maryalice Yakutchik Peabody Institute Richard Selden SAIS Felisa Neuringer Klubes School of Education James Campbell, Theresa Norton School of Nursing Kelly Brooks-Staub University Libraries and Museums Brian Shields, Heather Egan Stalfort

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A cell’s ‘cap’ of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease By Mary Spiro

Engineering in Oncology Center

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t turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center have shown that in healthy cells, a bundled “cap” of filaments holds the cell’s nucleus— its genetic storehouse—in its proper place. Understanding this cap’s influence on cell and nuclear shape, the researchers said, could provide clues to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer, muscular dystrophy and the age-accelerating condition known as progeria. “Under a microscope, the nucleus of a sick cell appears to bulge toward the top, while the nucleus of a healthy cell appears as a flattened disk that clings to the base,” said principal investigator Denis Wirtz, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the Engineering in Oncology Center. “If we can figure out how and why this shape-changing occurs, we may learn how to detect, treat or perhaps even prevent some serious medical disorders.” Scientists have known that misshapen nuclei are an indicator of disease, Wirtz said, but they were not certain how a cell controlled the shape of its nucleus—the structure in mammal cells where genetic material resides. However, in a study published in the Nov. 10 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research team led by Wirtz reported the discovery of a fibrous structure that holds the nucleus in its place. The researchers call this new network structure the perinuclear actin cap. “In healthy cells, the perinuclear actin cap is a domed structure of bundled filaments that sits above the nucleus, sort of like a net that is tethered all around to the perimeter of the cell membrane,” Wirtz said. This configuration pushes the nucleus down

Shyam Khatau and Denis Wirtz played a key role in finding a bundled ‘cap’ of threadlike fibers that holds a cell’s nucleus in its proper place.

toward the base of the cell and also creates the distinctive flattened shape of normal cells. Cells with cancer, muscular dystrophy or progeria lack this distinctive cap, allowing the nucleus to float upward toward the top of the cell’s membrane. These diseased cells may appear more rounded and bulbous. “The cap controls the shape of the nucleus by controlling the shape of the cell itself,” Wirtz said. The perinuclear actin cap was discovered while the team was trying to find out if cell shape controls nucleus shape. By growing cells on a surface with alternating sticky and nonsticky stripes, the researchers noticed that as cells grew along a sticky stripe, their nuclei elongated as well. Using a confocal microscope—a special kind of microscope

that can view an object one “slice” at a time—doctoral student Shyam Khatau was able to reconstruct the cell in three dimensions. By stacking the confocal microscope images together, Khatau, who is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, was able to produce short movies showing the 3-D structure of the cells, the nucleus and the perinuclear actin cap. (The movies are online at http://inbt .jhu.edu/outreach/media-library/video.) “That’s when we saw the cap,” Khatau said, “and Dr. Wirtz realized we were on to something.” The cap’s role in disease became evident when Khatau tested cells without the gene to produce lamin A/C, a protein found in the membrane of the nucleus of normal cells but absent in the nuclear membrane of cells

from people with muscular dystrophy. Cells without lamin A/C failed to produce the perinuclear actin cap. “We next plan to study how the cap’s effect on the shape of the nucleus affects what genes the cells express,” Wirtz said. Khatau, who is pursuing his doctorate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is lead author of the journal article. Additional Johns Hopkins authors on this paper are Wirtz; doctoral student Christopher M. Hale and senior Meet Patel, both from the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Peter C. Searson, a professor in the school’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Other co-authors are P.J. Stewart-Hutchinson and Didier Hodzic, both of the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis; and Colin L. Stewart, of the Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore. This work was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Related Web sites ‘PNAS’ journal article:

www.pnas.org/content/106/45/ 19017.full.pdf+html

Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center:

http://engineering.oncology.jhu .edu

Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology:

http://inbt.jhu.edu

www.jhu.edu/chembe

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering:

First reported cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 treated at JHH B y D av i d M a r c h

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lu experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have received confirmation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that two recently treated patients with 2009 H1N1 flu, both since discharged, had drugresistant forms of the virus. Laboratory tests performed at the CDC and DHMH showed that both cases had type A strains of the latest influenza virus resistant to the drug oseltamivir, better known as Tamiflu, the initially recommended and most widely used drug treatment available. These cases are believed to be the first two cases of drug-resistant H1N1 infection reported in Maryland. The World Health Organization has reported at least 57 cases worldwide of oseltamivir resistance in people infected with novel H1N1, with more than 20 in the United States, including a cluster of four recently reported cases in North Carolina. Trish Perl, senior hospital epidemiologist responsible for infection control at Johns Hopkins, said that the emergence of such mutations is “not surprising” as viruses mutate naturally as they infect more and more people, and even more so when an antiviral is in widespread use. But what she said is “a serious cause for concern” is that a widespread emergence of oseltamivirresistant strains would severely curtail the number of drugs available to treat the disease, especially if the virus mutates into a more contagious or more virulent form.

Current treatment options, she pointed out, are taking higher doses of oseltamivir, switching to zanamivir (Relenza) or using oseltamivir in combination with rimantadine (Flumadine), another antiviral drug. Perl says that vaccination is the best defense against new and potentially more dangerous strains of H1N1. “If you are vaccinated against H1N1, you are protected against catching the virus. Everyone should get vaccinated,” said Perl, a professor of medicine and pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As a precaution, the families of both men treated at the hospital have been vaccinated against H1N1 as well as seasonal flu. According to internist Redonda Miller, vice president for medical affairs and the hospital’s chief patient safety officer, neither of the infected patients, both of whom had weakened immune systems, was at serious risk of transmitting the drug-resistant strain to other people in the hospital as each had a private room and wore a mask when leaving his room. In addition, Miller said, all staff working with such patients were vaccinated against H1N1 and are required to wear masks. Infectious disease expert John Bartlett, a professor in the School of Medicine, said, “The lesson from these drug-resistant cases is that all physicians and health care workers in Maryland really need to be vigilant in their monitoring of H1N1 and in getting people who are prioritized as at high risk for infection vaccinated for both seasonal flu and H1N1.” Oseltamivir resistance is still very rare, he said, noting that it occurs in less than 1

percent of all cases of 2009 H1N1 infection and, in nearly all cases, in people who have previously taken the medication. “In order to minimize widespread resistance, physicians also need to focus their use of oseltamivir, as set out in CDC guidelines,

on those patients with H1N1 who are at highest risk of complications from the infection and seriously ill enough to require hospitalization,” added Bartlett, who was director of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins for more than 25 years.

Snow in the forecast? Are we open? Closed?

he Old Farmer’s Almanac is calling for slightly colder weather with below-normal snowfall this winter. But whenever it does snow, you’ll be able to find out easily whether the university is open. Chances are, it will be. The university’s policy is to remain open on a normal schedule whenever possible, both because minimizing interruptions to teaching and research is a priority and because so many university employees and students are involved in patient care. For instant answers on snow closings and delays, go to the university’s Web page at http://webapps.jhu.edu/emergencynotices or call the weather emergency hotline at 410-516-7781 (800-548-9004 from outside Baltimore). Information about classes and the status of the university on snow days is usually posted to the hotline and Web by 6 a.m., with frequent updates throughout the day in the case of a major storm.

These places are better sources than your local television and radio stations. Although the university notifies Baltimore and Washington media, the stations generally do not post closings or delays as quickly as the university does, often do not have time to get through their notices from hundreds of institutions and do not include details. The university’s hotline and Web page will include information on such specifics as outpatient clinics, APL, Peabody Prep, evening classes, shuttle bus operations, and library and recreation center closings. Required-attendance employees should check with their supervisors to determine whether they should follow snow closing and delay information or report to work. The university’s policy on weather-related curtailment of operations is online at htto://hrnt.jhu.edu/elr/pol-man/section .cfm?id=35.

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Exploring schizophrenia at the molecular level B y A m y L u n d ay

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Russell Margolis with Nadine Yoritomo, a research nurse who performs most of the biopsies and clinical interviews for his schizophrenia studies.

It would be wonderful to study cells from people with schizophrenia to see if those cells are different than the cells of people without schizophrenia, and find ways to intervene and normalize the pathways that are affected.” Living nerve cells from people with the disease have not been readily available for study, and animal models remain problematic—two significant limitations for researchers. Without new research options, patients are left with existing treatments that don’t help everyone and often have severe side effects, Margolis said. “One of the central problems is that it has been difficult to develop good cell or animal models,” Margolis said. “Animals don’t have schizophrenia. We can’t ask if

they have hallucinations or delusions, and other symptoms, like loss of motivation and cognitive problems, are difficult to interpret in animals.” Margolis and Song are studying a small, carefully selected group of people who have been extensively examined clinically and cognitively and who have undergone neuroimaging assessments. The skin biopsy itself is a relatively simple process that is slightly more invasive than drawing blood. Song’s lab has the expertise in the necessary cell conversion, Margolis said. Through Margolis’ ARRA grant, he and Song will be able to hire one or two assistants, and he will continue to work with his longtime Johns Hopkins associates Nadine Yoritomo, a research nurse who performs most of the biopsies and clinical interviews, and psychiatrist Sarah Reading, who uses MRI technology to study brain structure and function of individuals with schizophrenia. Christopher Ross, a psychiatrist and direc-

Worcester Eisenbrandt—which also handled the restoration of Baltimore’s Patterson Park Pagoda and Hippodrome Theatre— preserved as much of the original windows and frames as possible. Future Memorial Hall and Hut visitors will see “a very noticeable difference” in the windows’ appearance, according to the restoration’s project manager, Todd Anderson. Sunlight will now shine clearly through the Hut’s windows thanks to new insulated exterior windows that feature clear laminated glass, which will also allow people to view the stained glass from the outside. Previously, the exterior windows had a Plexiglas layer that had weathered and yellowed to the extent that passersby couldn’t see through it. Gilman Hall is scheduled to reopen for the fall 2010 semester. G

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Worcester Eisenbrandt’s Baltimore workshop. The Hut’s stained glass windows—the room’s defining feature—display the marks (logos) used by European printers from the 15th and 16th centuries, the dawn of the industry. Memorial Hall’s picture windows feature stained glass panels with seals of the institutions at which Daniel Coit Gilman, the university’s first president and the building’s namesake, worked during his lifetime (Johns Hopkins, Yale, the University of California, Berkeley and the Carnegie Institution of Washington).

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bout 1 percent of the population is affected by schizophrenia, a severe form of mental illness that has proven difficult to study and treat, according to Russell Margolis, director of the Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Program. But a recent breakthrough in the ability to transform skin cells into stem cells and then into nerve cells has Margolis and his research partner, Hongjun Song, poised to make progress in exploring schizophrenia at the cellular level, with the help of a two-year $275,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, underwritten by the federal stimulus package. “The field has been stymied in developing new approaches to treatment,” Margolis said. “Fundamentally, treatments haven’t changed much in 50 years or so. New medicines have come along, but both old and new drugs often have nasty side effects. Both work by similar means and were discovered largely by accident. So the field is in great need of new approaches to finding therapeutic targets that might be treatable by medicines.” Margolis, a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Song, an associate professor of neurology at both the Institute of Cellular Engineering and the School of Medicine, plan to use a remarkable new technology in which cells extracted from a pencil eraser– sized skin sample from a patient or a control subject can be converted into induced pluripotent stem cells by using a few biochemical growth factors. The iPS cells can then be differentiated into neurons, Margolis said. “These cells hold great promise in helping to sort out the pathogenic processes at work in schizophrenia and have the potential to lead to new therapeutic advances,” Margolis said. “One of the goals of our field is to find new ways to approach therapy, and that’s where this work comes into the big picture.

A detail of one of the Hut’s 19 stained glass windows, which were restored by Worcester Eisenbrandt in its Baltimore workshop.

mixed together different mathematical measures of risk, while the Johns Hopkins study pooled together only like measures. Another half-dozen recent and smaller studies from Harvard University yielded mixed results, some showing a link between migraines and ischemic stroke, while one did not show a tie-in. Nazarian said that while nearly 1,800 articles have been written about the relationship between migraine and ischemic stroke, the Johns Hopkins review was more selective, combining only studies with similar designs and similar groups of people, and was more comprehensive, including analysis of unpublished data. “Identifying people at highest risk is crucial to preventing disabling strokes,” said Nazarian, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascular Institute. “Based on this data, physicians should consider addressing stroke risk factors in patients with a history or signs of light flashes and blurry vision associated with severe headaches.” Prevention and treatment options for migraine, he said, range from smoking cessation to taking anti–blood pressure or bloodthinning medications, such as aspirin. In women with migraines, stopping use of oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy may be recommended. Such widespread use of hormone-controlling drugs is what Nazarian said may explain why women with migraines have such high risk of ischemic stroke. Contraceptives and other estrogen therapies are known to contribute to long-term risk factors for cardio-

tor of the Division of Neurobiology within the Department of Psychiatry, will also assist with the cell analysis, Margolis said. The stimulus grant made it possible for Margolis and Song to pursue this new line of research. “Without the funds, we do nothing or we do extremely limited, slow work,” Margolis said. “This approach to schizophrenia is done by only a handful of laboratories. It’s expensive and technically challenging to grow, develop and analyze iPS cells. We consider our investigation a pilot project, and we expect that the process will become more streamlined over time. So we are starting small, and once we prove that it works, we can seek other funding to expand the project.” Margolis and Song are also working together on a separate NIH grant with related goals, where Song is the lead researcher and Margolis is co-investigator. Margolis’ schizophrenia project is among the more than 300 stimulus-funded research grants totaling $157.4 million that Johns Hopkins has garnered since Congress passed the American Recovery and Revitalization Act of 2009 (informally known by the acronym ARRA), bestowing on the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation $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 grants, and $275 billion in tax relief—is part of President Barack Obama’s plan to revitalize a stagnant economy by doling out dollars for transportation projects, infrastructure building, the development of new energy sources and job creation, and financing research that will benefit humankind. As of November, Johns Hopkins scientists have submitted nearly 1,300 proposals for stimulus-funded investigations. This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Revitalization Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu.

vascular diseases and stroke, such as high blood pressure and increased reactivity by clot-forming blood platelets. Nazarian said that the researchers’ next steps are to evaluate whether preventive therapies, especially aspirin, offset the risk of ischemic stroke in people with migraines. Funding support for the study, performed entirely at Johns Hopkins, was provided by the National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Scholars Program. Other researchers involved in this study were Susan Kahn, Miranda Jones, Monisha Jayakumar and Deepan Dalal, all of Johns Hopkins. The lead study investigator was June Spector, a former postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins, who is now in Seattle. G SPECTRUM 1-16 GAZETTE 8-08:Layout 2

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Baltimore Continued from page 1 Freshmen select one of 15 one-credit classes that focus on Baltimore. In addition to Movers and Shakers, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program includes Urban Schools; Before Harborplace: Downtown Baltimore Before and After Urban Renewal; City on Display: Exploring Baltimore Through Its Museums; Junk Food vs. Whole Foods: Access to Food in Baltimore; and The Wire, The Corner: The City? Classes meet all day and are divided into a morning classroom lecture session and an afternoon slate of related activities, which this year include field trips to museums, guest speakers, city tours, a concert night, dinners and more. For his Movers and Shakers course, Hollander is looking to take students to such destinations as the Babe Ruth Museum and Birthplace and Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, the final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to use the life stories of about 10 famous Baltimoreans to trace the development of the city and their impact on the country as a whole,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Billie Holiday, for example, had a huge cultural impact with her music, and Babe Ruth was a phenomenon that clearly transcended sports.â&#x20AC;? For Intersession 2010, Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;More has been greatly expanded, according to director Jessica Madrigal. In addition to courses in humanities and the social sciences, the program now includes courses in the fields of public health and medicine. Students in What Ails You? will receive an introduction to the core concepts of public health and be asked to write about a particular health problem that affects Baltimore. The 2010 program will also feature Divide and Explore trips to 15 Baltimore neighborhoods led by city nativesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;upperclassmen who are Baltimore Scholars, students from Baltimore City Public Schools who were admitted to Johns Hopkins on full-tuition scholarships. Madrigal says that the program has grown significantly in just three years. In the first year, 48 students registered for four courses. Enrollment last year exceeded 100 students

for nine courses. Based on the number of calls and e-mails from students she has received, Madrigal anticipates that 250 or more students will enroll in the 15 being offered this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve actually been getting calls from juniors and seniors who wanted to enroll. They feel they have missed out,â&#x20AC;? Madrigal says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hate to turn them away, but this is really for freshmen and building class spirit. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about getting new students familiar with the real Baltimore, not just the popular tourist destinations.â&#x20AC;? William Smedick, a co-chair of Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Moreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steering committee and director of leadership programs and assessment initiatives for the Office of the Dean of Student Life, says that the mission of the program has remained the same: introduce freshmen to their new home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some time ago, we conducted in-depth exit interviews with about 200 graduating seniors, and one thing that came up again and again was that they wished they had become more familiar with Baltimore during their time here,â&#x20AC;? Smedick says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We asked ourselves, what we can do about that. We thought, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offer a short but intensive program while the students were still settling into Baltimore.â&#x20AC;? Many Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;More classes include an afternoon of course-related community work. Students will also participate in the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Day on Jan. 18, which includes such activities as staffing the St. Francis Academy Community Center Job Fair, building a woodworking shop in the Remington neighborhood and hosting a youth sports camp with JHU athletes in the Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Recreation Center.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought these activities would enhance class spirit and get [the students] involved with the community in a meaningful way,â&#x20AC;? Smedick says. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list of Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;More guest speakers includes Catherine Rogers Arthur, director and curator of the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Homewood Museum, who will talk about the history of Baltimore and Johns Hopkins; Matt Crenson, a professor emeritus of political science at Johns Hopkins, who will discuss the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political history; and Bishop Douglas Miles, a prominent community and civil rights leader and the pastor of Koinonia Baptist Church. Bill Tiefenwerth, director of the Center for Social Concern and a Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;More steering committee co-chair, says that Miles has become a fixture of the annual program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is a very dynamic speaker and someone who has clearly made an impact on

students the past two years,â&#x20AC;? Tiefenwerth says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a group of students come up to me last year and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We listened to Bishop Miles and participated in the community service activity. We really want to commit to something long term, is there something we can do?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Some students have been very moved by their Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;More experience, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see that happen a bit more.â&#x20AC;? Madrigal says that the entire program is now more integrated into the classroom experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything we are doing out in the community reinforces what they are learning in the classroom,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And with the diversity of classes we are offering this year, there is something in there for everyone.â&#x20AC;? G Enrollment for Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;More runs from Dec. 7 to Jan. 11. For a full list of courses and activities, go to www.jhu.edu/intersession/bmore.

Share Our Strength founder to give Carey School lecture B y A n d r e w B l u mb e r g

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hilanthropist and social change pioneer Bill Shore is the featured speaker for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual H. Melvin Brown Lecture, to be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9, in Mason Hall on the Homewood campus. Shore is founder and executive director of Share Our Strength, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading organization working to end childhood hunger in America. His remarks are titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creating Community Wealth to Capitalize Social Change.â&#x20AC;? Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984 in response to the Ethiopian famine and subsequent renewed concern about hunger in the United States. He is also the chairman of Community Wealth Ventures, a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength that provides strategic counsel to foundations and nonprofit organizations interested in creating community wealth. From 1988 to 1991, Shore served as chief of

staff for Sen. Robert Kerrey of Nebraska. Previously, from 1978 through 1987, he served on the senatorial and presidential campaign staffs of Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado. Shoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three books, Revolution of the Heart, The Cathedral Within and The Light of Conscience, describe his transition from the political world to one of innovative community service that encompasses social change, acts of conscience and resourceful leadership. In 2008, Shore received the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award from the Center for Public Leadership at Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The biennial award recognizes exceptional citizen-leaders and their work to correct social injustice. In 2005, U.S. News & World Report named Shore one of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Leaders.â&#x20AC;? The H. Melvin Brown Lecture series was founded in 1977 by Henry â&#x20AC;&#x153;Melâ&#x20AC;? Brown, an alumnus and supporter of business education at Johns Hopkins, to give students the opportunity to learn from and interact with the great leaders and thinkers of the day. To register for the lecture, go to carey.jhu .edu/h_melvin_brown.

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H1N1 flu vaccine now available to employees in tier 2 of plan

ith H1N1 influenza vaccine now more plentiful, Lloyd B. Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, announced last week that Johns Hopkins has taken another step along the priority tiers described in its vaccination priority plan. Vaccine against H1N1 flu is now available to anyone in tier 2 of the plan, specifically anyone employed by Johns Hopkins as a health-care provider, even in a general-risk setting, and anyone age 24 and younger who is either a full-time employee of the university or a part-time employee for whom the university is the primary employer. Also, Minor said that H1N1 vaccine is still being administered to faculty and staff ages 25 to 64 who meet other criteria in the vaccination priority plan. This includes fulltime and eligible part-time employees who are pregnant, who are caregivers for children younger than 6 months or who have asthma, D E C .

diabetes, an abnormal or suppressed immune system, chronic cardiovascular disease (not high blood pressure) or a neurologic disease (such as a seizure disorder or neuromuscular problems). Locations and times for receiving the vaccine are posted online at www .hopkinsmedicine.org/hse/occupational_ health/flu_campaign.html. An announcement will be made when Johns Hopkins goes to tier 3, Minor said. At that point, vaccination will be open to all full-time and eligible part-time employees of any age, even those who meet none of the conditions listed above. The Johns Hopkins vaccination plan is posted online at http://tinyurl.com/ jhuvaxplan and a summary of the tiers at http://tinyurl.com/jhuvaxtiers. (Both documents are accessible only from within the Johns Hopkins network.) Other flu information is available at http://flu.jhu.edu. 7

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T Cell Responses and Protective Antimalarial Immunity After Immunization With Radiation Attenuated Plasmodium Parasites,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with John Harty, University of Iowa. W1020 SPH. EB The Randolph Bromery Seminar—“Variability in North Atlantic Bottom Water Nutrients and Carbonate Ion During the Last 467,000 Years BP” with Harunur Rashid, Ohio State University. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium.

Thurs., Dec. 10, noon.

HW Thurs., Dec. 10, noon. “Phosphoinositide 4-Kinases at the Crossroad of Cellular Trafficking and Signaling,” a Cell Biology seminar with Tamas Balla, NICHD/ NIH. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

“Neuroimaging Approaches to Social Exchange and Its Applications to Psychopathology,” a Neuroscience research seminar with P. Read Montague, Baylor College. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., Dec. 10, 1 p.m.

“Optimization of Retinal Signaling Near Absolute Visual Threshold,” a Biology seminar with Alapakkam Sampath, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., Dec. 10, 4 p.m.

“Identifying the Neural Substratus of a Developmentally Critical Behavior in Drosophila,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Benjamin White, NIMH. 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m.

“A Longitudinal Study to Assess the Presence of Manganese in Blood and Exhaled Breath Condensate Following Acute Inhalation Exposure to Welding Fumes,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Julie Richman. W2015 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 14, 2 p.m.

open house, with rooms lit by candlelight, the sounds of early music, decorations of garlands and boxwood, and eggnog and cookies served in the wine cellar. $6 general admission, free for Homewood Museum members. HW JHU Press Holiday Book Signing and Madeira Tasting, an opportunity to meet JHU Press authors and purchase books for signing, as well as holiday gifts from the Homewood Museum Shop. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Homewood Museum. HW

Wed., Dec. 9, 5 to 7 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 10, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Student Assembly auction to support the JHSPH Student Conference Fund, featuring both a silent auction from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and a live auction from noon to 1:30 p.m. E2030 SPH (Feinstone Hall). EB “Silhouettes for the Holidays,” with master cut-paper artist Anne Leslie. Sittings take approximately 15 minutes. $40 for two copies of each portrait silhouette; framing available at additional cost. Advance, prepaid reservations are required; call 410516-5589. Homewood Museum. HW

Sat., Dec. 12, noon to 4 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 12, 1 to 3 p.m. Holiday card-making workshop with Evergreen curator James Abbott, using colorful papers, ribbons, fabrics and printed illustrations to create holiday and gift cards. $5 general admission (includes materials and museum admission), free for Evergreen members. Advance registration required; call 410-516-0341 or e-mail evergreenmuseum@jhu.edu. Evergreen Museum & Library. Sat., Dec. 12, 3 p.m. Reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, by actors of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. Free admission but reservations required; call 410-516-0341 or e-mail evergreenmuseum@jhu.edu. Evergreen Museum & Library.

W OR K S HOP S

“Career Crash Course,” a Career Services workshop covering relevant career topics including resume/CV, job searching, interviewing and networking. W2015 SPH. EB

Fri., Dec. 11, 12:15 p.m.

S PE C I A L E V E N T S

“Homewood by Candlelight,” the museum’s annual

Mon., Dec. 7, 5 to 7 p.m.

Notices Winter Accessories Drive — SOURCE, the JHSPH Anna Baetjer Society, SoM Interaction and the SoN Student Government Association are sponsoring a winter accessories drive, continuing through Dec. 11. Clean, gently used or new accessories— hats, gloves, scarves, mittens and earmuffs— will be distributed to local community-based organizations. Drop boxes are located in the SoN lobby; at SoM in the rooms of the Nathans, Sabin, Taussig and Thomas colleges; at SPH in E1002 and the Student Lounge; and at SOURCE, 2017 E. Monument St. Intersession Courses — Registration has begun for the Intersession 2010 Personal

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Enrichment courses, which are open to faculty and staff and their families as well as students. Register online or in the Student Life Office, 102 Levering Hall, through Dec. 18. For specific registration information and course descriptions, go to www.jhu .edu/intersession or call 410-516-8209. Peabody Spring Semester Classes —

Peabody Preparatory Adult and Continuing Education is offering several classes for the spring semester, Jan. 25 through May 22. Courses, which vary in length from eight to 16 weeks, include Ballroom Dancing (levels 1 and 2), Computer Music: ProTools 101, Tai-Chi Chuan, World Music Survey and Beginner Cello and Cello Ensemble for Adults. For more information, e-mail prep@ peabody.jhu.edu or go to www.peabody.jhu .edu/3430.

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Canton, 3BR, 2.5BA waterfront TH, 3 flrs, CAC, granite counters, stainless steel appls, marble BAs, garage. Sonny, 443-955-2040.

Patterson Park, 2BR, 1.5BA house, hdwd flrs, crpt upstairs, stainless steel appls, skylight, expos’d brick, 1.25 mi to JHMI. $1,100/mo. 443-286-4883.

Catonsville, spacious, furn’d 2BR, 1.5BA TH, fin’d bsmt, great neighborhood/location (nr 695/Rt 40/Rolling Rd). $1,350/mo. Ally, 443797-7877. Charles Village, 3BR, 2.5BA house, jacuzzi tub, W/D, CAC/heat, fin’d bsmt, nr Homewood campus. blakearrington@yahoo.com. Charles Village, furn’d studio avail to sublet, January through March. $375/mo incl utils. 410-689-5777 or m_sidhartha@yahoo.com. Charles Village, corner 2BR, 2BA condo w/ balcony, clean, 1,200 sq ft, CAC, 24-hr front desk, steps to Hopkins shuttle, all utils incl’d. 410-466-1698. Charles Village (2807 Calvert St), lg 3BR, 2BA apt w/sunrm, W/D, hdwd flrs, eat-in kitchen; other units available. 410-383-2876. Cross Keys Village, 1BR w/hdwd flrs, CAC/ heat, free prkng, 24-hr security, swimming pool. $900/mo + utils (water incl’d). 646-2842279 or tamrirev@yahoo.com. East Baltimore, rms in single-family house, cable, WiFi, crpt, walk-in closet, view. $550/ mo incl utils. 240-547-0437 or miranda_ ijiyemi@yahoo.com. Ellicott City, 3BR, 3BA garage TH, W/D, fenced yd, nr routes 40/29/100 and I-70. $1,800/mo + utils + sec dep. 410-465-9595 or nnos@yahoo.com. Fells Point (Aliceanna and Broadway), 2BR, 2BA apt w/top-of-the-line appliances, granite countertops, 2 blks to water, bike to Hopkins. $1,595/mo. 805-338-2277 or hLkan888@ hotmail.com. Fells Point (Fleet and Wolfe), 3BR, 2.5BA restored RH, W/D, some furniture, 1 mi to medical campus. 443-629-2264 or aynur .unalp@gmail.com. Gunpowder Falls Bike Trail, apts in registered historic carriage house, pref faculty/grad students. $1,100/mo (3BR, 2BA) or $1,000/mo (2BR, 1.5BA). 410-472-4241. Hampden, 2BR, 1.5BA RH, renov’d, hdwd flrs, stainless steel appls, W/D, prkng, walk to Rotunda, Superfresh, JHU campus. $1,350/ mo. 843-991-4014. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410-378-2393. Hampden (41st St), 3BR apt w/new BA, new paint, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, pantry, dw, W/D, garage. $1,275/mo incl utils. 410338-4455. Jefferson Court, 2BR, 2.5BA TH, hdwd flrs, W/D, CAC, rear yd, steps to JHMI/SoM/SoN, quiet w/active community association. $1,000/ mo + utils. eyenstein22@hotmail.com. Mt Vernon, 1BR apt nr Peabody Institute, avail Dec 15 to Jan 17, fully furn’d, nr JHU shuttle,

Roland Park, bright 1BR apt w/hdwd flrs, shared laundry, porch and patio. $925/mo + utils. 410-591-8740. Roland Park, 2BR + den condo, all new inside, gorgeous view, 4 mi to Homewood campus. 410-747-5037, nhh@comcast.net or http:// sites.google.com/site/devonhillrental. 1BR high-rise condo nr JHU/Homewood/Guilford, rent incl doorman/security, pool and prkng. anthony8066@gmail.com. Sublet/rent charming 1BR in beautiful 2BR apt nr Homewood campus, fully furn’d, 1BA, full kitchen, living rm, W/D, avail Jan 1, pref students, refs req’d. $525/mo + utils. 617-5126665. Great office space, 800 sq ft, 2 offices, lg central space, storage, bath, kitchenette; extra storage, security, prkng and wireless avail for fee; nr Hunt Valley, Glyndon, Owings Mills, Cockeysville and 795. $700/mo. 443-471-6121.

HOUSES FOR SALE Bayview (Bonsal St), 2BR, 1.5BA house, hdwd flrs, new kitchen, great location opposite shuttle, off-street prkng. $155,000. 410-982-3476 or fishieman@hotmail.com. Charles Village/Guilford, sunny 1BR condo w/ den, 24-hr front desk, 1/2 blk to JHU shuttle, MLS#BA7177675. $139,900. 443-534-8664. Guilford/Charles Village (3601 Greenway #207), very spacious, sunny 1BR condo w/sep dining rm and office, 24-hr front desk, CAC/ heat, easy walk to campus/shuttle. $104,000. swejmm@yahoo.com. Hampden (3544 Buena Vista), 2BR, 1.5BA renov’d RH, updated kitchen, hdwd flrs, CAC, deck, deep backyd, blks to the Avenue and Roosevelt Park. $199,900. 410-456-5658. Loch Raven Village, 3BR, 2BA house, updates incl new kitchen, BA, rec rm, flrs, roof, patio, paint. $249,000/best offer. 443-307-3814 or http://baltimore.craigslist.org/reo/1478040854 .html. Mt Vernon, huge 3BR beaux arts apt, very elegant, light, quiet, opposite shuttle stop, overlooks square. $549,000. 410-234-2641. 3BR, 2.5BA RH, totally renov’d, w/screened porch, fenced yd, prkng, walk to Homewood/ shops/grocer. $278,000. 919-607-5860 or 410962-5417. 249 S Castle St, excellent, renov’d RH w/gourmet kitchen, walk to JHMI/Fells Point/Canton, open house Sundays, noon-2pm. $279,000 ($5,000 closing help). 301-730-0159. Updated 3BR house in beautiful historic neighborhood, new W/D, AC, big yd, garage, easy commute to all Hopkins campuses. $274,900 (or rent $2,000/mo). 410-908-6531.

blks to JHH, pref nonsmoker. $500/mo incl utils, high-speed Internet. 703-944-8782. Share 3BR, 2.5BA Bel Air house, hdwd flrs, W/D, CAC, fridge, microwave, stove, off-street prkng, great neighborhood, 30-min commute to Balto. $550/mo incl utils, cable, Internet. 410-458-1517 or mcgraffjk@yahoo.com. Rm avail in lg, furn’d 5BR Oakenshawe TH, W/D, lg backyd, 5 mins to JHU. $475/mo + share of utils. 475room@gmail.com. F wanted for furn’d, spacious (700 sq ft) BR in 3BR Gardenville house, built-in shelves, modern kitchen w/convection oven, granite counters, deck, landscaped yd, sign 1-yr contract, get 1 month free. $550/mo + utils. aprede1@yahoo.com. 1BR avail in beautiful 2BR apt in Homewood, renov’d kitchen, bsmt storage, laundry, nr JHMI shuttle. $500/mo (approx) incl utils. 848-459-5043 or eirias@gmail.com. Share Bonnie Ridge apt w/JHU grad students, own BR/BA, furn’d common areas, CAC, W/D, w/w crpt. $458/mo + 1/3 utils. 443-8542303. F wanted to share 3BR, 2BA house w/F JHMI student and staff, short-term lease OK, 10-min drive to JHH. $500/mo incl wireless, utils, prkng. skbzok@verizon.net. Quiet prof’l looking for same to share sunny, renov’d house, nr train/shops, 2nd flr apt has 2 lg rms, office, full BA; shared kitchen on 1st flr. $600/mo incl utils, off-street prkng, cleaning service. Margaret, 617-335-7632. Roommate wanted for 1BR, 1BA Charles Village apt, priv entrance, spacious living rm, full kitchen, dining area, patio. $975/mo + elec (negotiable). 443-858-9118. Share 2BR, 2BA apt at 222 E Saratoga St w/F grad student and dog, W/D, prkng, garage, 4 blks to JHH shuttle. $750/mo + 1/2 utils. kamcdowe@gmail.com. Roommate needed for huge 2BR, 3-level house, walk to Federal Hill/UMAB/shuttle to JHU, nice, fenced yd w/patio. $650/mo. 410499-9179 (after 5pm).

CARS FOR SALE ’99 Honda Civic CX, 2-dr hatchback, silver, 1 owner, 117K mi. $4,000. cnmuhoro@hotmail .com.

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Chicco high-chair, “sahara style,” folds and reclines, adjustable height, removable tray, safety harness, excel cond. $80/best offer. rthomas74@hotmail.com. Dressing table w/shelves, printer, computer, chair, microwave, 3-step ladder, reciprocating saw, tripods, digital piano. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. Conn alto saxophone, mint condition. $650/ best offer. 410-488-1886. Moving sale: queen size mattress, boxspring, frame and pillows, dining table w/4 chairs, folding chairs (2), Russell Hobbs tea kettle, 4 flower vases, all in very good cond. 443-939-1254. Christian Dior Norwegian blue fox fur coat, medium size, full-length, great holiday gift. $1,200. 443-824-2198. Pair of exterior French doors, new, white, 8 ft x 3 ft, made of Auralast wood, 15 double E-glass panels, double locks. $750/both. 443768-4751. McClaren infant rocker w/canopy, navy blue, barely used. $20. 410-377-7354.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED Studio or 1BR apt wanted for January 2010, furn’d or unfurn’d, must be safe area, nr CareyJHU DC campus, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, Columbia Hts. 561-627-0550. Child care needed for easy-tempered, imaginative 5-yr-old, pick up from kindergarten, 3-6pm, must own car, have license, auto insurance, flawless driving rec, must demonstrate highest level of responsibility and integrity, experience req’d. nriess@hotmail.com. Tutor avail: All subjects/levels; remedial, gifted and talented; also college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design, programming. 410-337-9877 or i1__@hotmail.com. Horse boarding, 20 mins from JHU, beautiful trails from farm. $500/mo (stall board) or $250/mo (field board). 410-812-6716 or argye .hillis@gmail.com. Affordable landscaper/certified horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens, also planting, designing, masonry; free consultations. 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com.

’00 Alero GLS coupe w/sunroof, rear spoiler, in good cond, 93.5K mi; contact for pics. $4,490. xxniz8xx@hotmail.com.

LCSW-C providing psychotherapy, JHU-affiliated, experience w/treating depression, anxiety, sexual orientation and gender identity concerns, couples. 410-235-9200 (voicemail #6) or shane .grant.lcswc@gmail.com.

’97 Olds Cutlass Supreme, V6, new tint job, CD player, power seats/windows, new brakes and tires, excel cond, 100K mi. $2,250. Pat, 410-598-0308.

Guitar lessons w/experienced teacher, beginner through advanced, many styles taught; learn songs, technique, theory, improv skills, reading. Joe, 410-215-0693.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Rosie’s green cleaning service, affordable and reliable. 410-960-8578 or poohbearprince@ yahoo.com (for free estimate).

Red wok w/plug and rack, $5; toddler skateboard, $5; Cybex lat pulldown, commercial, 250lb weight stack, you haul, $500. 410-8773270 or beansavonmom@hotmail.com. Ikea “Ektorp” sofabed, 3 yrs old, $400; table 51" x 29" w/4 chairs, $140; also kitchen stuff (plates, pots, etc), complete list on demand. hopkinshouse@yahoo.com. Vintage chair, made in Sweden, 1960s. $260/ best offer. Elizabeth, 443-631-0881 or http:// bit.ly/5fg6lE (for images). Danby dishwasher, apartment-sized, $100; baby items—swing, $20; chair, $5; play yd, $10. foxaoki@verizon.net.

Interior/exterior painting, home/deck power washing, leaf removal, bush trimming, Xmas lights installed, general maintenance, licensed, insured, free estimates, affordable. 410-3351284 or randy6506vfw@yahoo.com. I can help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio! Free, confidential consultations. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@aol.com. Power washing, no job too small, free estimate. Donnie, 443-683-7049. Licensed landscaper available for leaf and snow removal, trash hauling, Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast .net.

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Calendar ‘Health and Medical Care in America’ The JHU Press and Bloomberg School of Public Health this week co-host a talk by the school’s former dean, Alfred Sommer, about his timely and provocative assessment of the state of public health in America as put forth in his new book, ‘Getting What We Deserve: Health and Medical Care in America.’ Humorous, sometimes acerbic and always well informed, Sommer’s thought-provoking book aims to change the way we look at health care. See Readings/Book Talks. Alfred Sommer

Fri., Dec. 11, 1 p.m. “The Development of Modal Reasoning,” an Evolution, Cognition and Culture colloquium with Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona; and Justin Halberda, KSAS. Sponsored by Philosophy. 233 Ames. HW

“International Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Space Policy,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Scott Pace, George Washington University. Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., Dec. 11, 2 p.m.

“A (New and Improved) Framework for the Psychology of Norms,” an Evolution, Cognition and Culture colloquium with Stephen Stich, Rutgers University. Sponsored by Philosophy. 102A Dell House. HW Fri., Dec. 11, 4 p.m.

DANCE

land Public Health Association and the Maryland Association of County Health Officers. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB “Turkey in the 21st Century: Building Peace Through Diplomacy,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, with introductory remarks by SAIS Dean Jessica Einhorn. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS

Mon., Dec. 7, 4 p.m.

Mon., Dec. 7, 5 p.m. “Assessing the Public Health Risks from Chemicals: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities,” an Environmental Health Sciences panel discussion with Brenda Berry, American Chemistry Council; Lynn Flowers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and Jennifer Sass, Natural Resources Defense Council. W3008 SPH. EB

JHU Classical Ballet Company winter showcase. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW Dec.

The Peabody Youth Orchestra performs works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Massenet, Lortz and Mendelssohn. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Mon., Dec. 7, 4:30 p.m.

OPE N HOU S E S

Tues., Dec. 8, noon. “A New Look at Notch Signaling in Embryonic Neural Stem Cells and Neurons,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Nicholas Gaiano, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Dec. 8, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Open house for the Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals master’s degree programs. Kossiakoff Center. APL

p.m.

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

“Tough Times, Tough Decisions: Strategies for Putting Public Health First,” a panel discussion with Stephanie Coursey Bailey, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Frances Phillips, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and Aaron Wernham, Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Live webcast available at www.jhsph.edu/maphtc/ training_events/events_calendar .html. Co-sponsored by the Pfizer Corp., the SPH Office of Public Health Practice and Training, the SPH Department of Health Policy and Management, the MidAtlantic Public Health Training Center, the Mid-Atlantic Health Leadership Institute, the Mary-

Mon., Dec. 7, 3:30 p.m.

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“Energy Information Agency’s (EIA) Updated Energy Forecast to 2035,” a SAIS Global Energy and Environment Initiative discussion with Richard Newell, EIA administrator, U.S. Department of Energy. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS I N FOR M AT I O N SESSIONS

Information session for PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health), with representatives of the international nonprofit organization. Sponsored by Career Services. W2030 SPH. EB Wed., Dec. 9, 12:15 p.m.

L E C TURE S

The 2009 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lecture in Physics—“The World as a Hologram” by Leonard Susskind, Stanford University. (See story, p. 2.) Sponsored by Physics and

Tues., Dec. 8, 4 p.m.

Astronomy. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW Wed., Dec. 9, 4 p.m. Dean’s Lecture—“The Keratin Multigene Family: Roles in Acute and Chronic Disease” by Pierre Coulombe, SPH. Sponsored by the SPH Dean’s Office. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

MUSIC

A cappella group Adoremus presents its fall concert. Mudd Hall Auditorium.

Tues., Dec. 8, 8 p.m.

HW Tues., Dec. 8, 8 p.m. The Peabody Concert Orchestra, the Peabody-Hopkins Chorus and the Peabody Singers perform works by J.S. Bach and Tchaikovsky. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody Wed., Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Wind Ensemble performs music by de Meij (featuring excerpts from his Symphony No. 1, The Lord of the Rings), Theofanidis, Meechan, Camphouse and Graham. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody Thurs., Dec. 10, and Fri., Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody

Renaissance Ensemble performs Cristo e Nato: An Italian Christmas. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Pea-

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Peabody Jazz Orchestra performs a program dedicated to the styles and repertoire of Count Basie. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. East Hall. Peabody

Fri., Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 12, 3 p.m. Preparatory Young Artists Orchestra and the Peabody String Ensemble perform. Griswold Hall. Peabody

“Twisted Spin Bordism and Twisted K-Theory,” a Topology seminar with Mehdi Khorami, Wesleyan University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW

“An Employer’s Approach to Resolving Domestic Violence Impacting the Workplace,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy. Co-sponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health. 250 Hampton House.

Tues., Dec. 8, 12:10 p.m.

REA D I N G S / B OO K TA L K S Tues., Dec. 8, 4 p.m. Alfred Sommer, dean emeritus of SPH, discusses the subject of his new book, Getting What We Deserve: Health and Medical Care in America. (See photo, this page.) E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). Reception to follow in E2030 SPH (Feinstone), where the book will be available for purchase and signing. EB Wed., Dec. 9, 7 p.m. Local author and BSO musician Michael Lisicky will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Hutzler’s—Where Baltimore Shops. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Author Nawar Shora will discuss and sign copies of The Arab-American Handbook. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Thurs., Dec. 10, 7 p.m.

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“Consumer Involvement in Care and Its Relationship to Utilization and Cost in Medicare,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Joanna Famadas. 688 Hampton House. EB

Mon., Dec. 7, 9 a.m.

“Screening for Genes: Image-Based Live Cell Screening Reveals New Insights Into Membrane Biogenesis,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with David Andrews, McMaster University. W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 7, noon.

Mon., Dec. 7, 1:30 p.m. “Microfluidic Single-Molecule Detection and Quantum Dot Technologies for Genomic Analysis of Diseases,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Jeff Wang, WSE. 110 Clark. HW

“The Weak Null Condition, Global Existence and the Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to Einstein’s Equations,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Hans Lindblad, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

Mon., Dec. 7, 3 p.m.

“Recovery From Hip Fracture: The Baltimore Hip Studies Experience,” a Center on Aging and Health seminar with Jay Magaziner, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Suite 2-700, 2024 E. Monument St. EB

“The Impact of Vitamin A Supplementation in utero and in Infancy on the Psychomotor Development of School-Aged Children in Rural Nepal,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Gillian Joan Buckley. W8504 SPH.

Tues., Dec. 8, 12:30 p.m.

“Implementing Mental Health Insurance Parity,” a Mental Health seminar with Howard Goldman, University of Maryland. B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., Dec. 9, noon.

“Structure of the Vacuolar ATPase—Anatomy of a Versatile Proton Pump,” a Physiology seminar with Stephen Wilkens, SUNY Upstate Medical Center. 203 Physiology.

Wed., Dec. 9, noon.

“Critical Components of Proximal and Distant Regulatory Elements in the Human Genome,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Ivan Ovcharenko, NIH. G007 Ross. EB

Wed., Dec. 9, 2 p.m.

Wed., Dec. 9, 4 p.m. “Targeted Maximum Likelihood-Based Causal Inference,” a Biostatistics seminar with Mark van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley and founder/CEO of Target Analytics Inc. W2030 SPH. EB Wed., Dec. 9, 5 p.m. “Managing Prion Disease Risks: An International Perspective,” a Center for a Livable Future seminar with Daniel Krewski, University of Ottawa. Co-sponsored by Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology. W3008 SPH. EB Thurs., Dec. 10, noon.

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Mon., Dec. 7, 3:30 p.m.

“Eternal Solutions to Lagrangian Brakke Flow,” an Analysis seminar with Yng-Ing Lee, National Taiwan University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

Mon., Dec. 7, 4 p.m.

“Dynamics of Peptide-Membrane Interactions,” a Biophysics seminar with Feng Gai, University of Pennsylvania. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., Dec. 7, 4 p.m.

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