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February 7, 2011

The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University

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A course freshmen can dig into

A spirited adventure

By Lisa De Nike

Homewood

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wo dozen Johns Hopkins freshmen will get their hands dirty next fall, scratching in the soil of the Homewood campus in search of undiscovered organisms as part of an innovative one-year course offered through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Phages in Science Education soil are focus Alliance.

Johns Hopkins of innovative recently became one of only 12 colleges and universiyearlong ties nationwide in the newest cohort program selected by the Chevy Chase, Md.–based HHMI to offer this National Genomics Research Initiative course, which lasts one academic year and gives students the opportunity to perform hands on research that includes extracting phages—viruses that infect bacteria—from soil samples and using sophisticated bioinformatics tools to analyze them. The program will be offered for three years.

“We’re very excited about being chosen to offer this course, which introduces students to laboratory research,” said Joel Schildbach, professor and director of undergraduate studies for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology. Schildbach and Emily Fisher, an instructor in the Biology Department, will direct the SEA program. “Students in this course will experience the excitement that comes with discovering things for themselves,” Schildbach said.

Other institutions recently selected include Brown University, The Ohio State University and the University of Florida.

Since 2008, almost 1,700 students have spent a year gathering these dirtdwelling organisms from the soil of 40 different colleges and universities nationwide. In the process, these young scientists have collectively isolated 1,400

In Fells Point, Cliff Long shows his ‘ghost meter’ to students in the Writing Seminars’ How to Be Scary course, one of 13 academic offerings in the B’More: A Common Freshman Experience program developed four years ago for Intersession.

Intersession program exposes freshmen to their new hometown

By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

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ecked out in black with a Victorian top hat, Cliff Long waved his handy-dandy “ghost meter” at the iron fence in front of the Fell family grave marker on Shakespeare Street in Fells Point.

First the device registered nothing, then it emitted a series of lights and clicks.

Long, a guide with Baltimore Ghost Tours,

told the nine gathered Johns Hopkins freshmen that a Fell spirit could be nearby.

The small graveyard is a memorial to William Fell—an Englishman who purchased the Baltimore waterfront land in 1726 that would later be named after Continued on page 6

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Spring Provost’s Lecture Series announced

By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

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mbryologist and science enthusiast Steve Farber will kick off the spring schedule of the Provost’s Lecture Series, launched last spring to spread the wealth of academic excellence at Johns Hopkins among its campuses.

Farber, a principal investigator with the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Embryology and an adjunct associate professor in the Krieger School of Arts and

In Brief

Driver sentenced in Frankl death; Summer Camp Discoveries Fair; LGBTQIA summit

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Sciences’ Department of Biology, will discuss how science outreach can impact education in urban school systems and inspire the next generation of scientists and teachers.

In addition to Farber’s talk, which will take place at the School of Education, the spring lineup includes noted cancer researcher Andrew Feinberg speaking at the Homewood campus and health care finance expert Gerard Anderson at the School of Medicine.

Farber said he believes that scientific outreach can positively impact education and help bridge the achievement gap in the

nation’s schools, and serve disadvantaged populations and schools that are typically underresourced in science education.

His talk will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on April 7 in The Hall at the School of Education.

In 2002, Farber started BioEYES, an international outreach program that utilizes zebrafish to promote science literacy and teach genetics and the experimental process. The program’s mission is to foster an enthusiasm for science, promote inter-

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Driver sentenced in hit-and-run death of student Miriam Frankl

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Barbara Crews of the Provost’s Office talks with Alison King and Lara Skibbie of Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Md. Behind King and Skibbie is their piece, ‘The Truth,’ which took third-place honors.

Their ‘Secrets’ are out at MCC

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n Feb. 3, the Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus held the opening of Secrets, an exhibition of art and photography by Montgomery County high school students. More than 175 students submitted work for the show, which will remain on display through April 17. This was the first year the campus included a photography component to the show, now in its fifth year.

Eric Beatty, director of the Homewood Arts Program, served as a judge for the second year. His co-judge was Potomac, Md.based artist Bobbi Shulman.

“It was again a pleasure to be a part of this show and to witness such amazing talent,” Beatty said. “Similar to last year, we had a difficult time narrowing the entries down to those that would be displayed. I’m so pleased to see the university sponsoring this great

opportunity that I’m sure means a lot to the high school artists.”

Rockville photographer David Chisham acted as the photography judge.

Seungeun Lee of the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School took first-place honors in the mixed media category, which had 50 accepted submissions. Nathalie Garcia of Gaithersburg High School was the winner in the photography category, which had 20 accepted submissions.

High schools represented in this year’s exhibit are Albert Einstein, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Montgomery Blair, Northwood, Paint Branch, Sherwood, Springbrook, Walt Whitman, Wheaton, Winston Churchill and Thomas S. Wootton.

This is the fifth year that Plaza Artist Materials and Framing in Rockville, Md., donated 100 canvases to make the show possible.

—Robin Ferrier

First Lecture - Dr. Ben Bussey (APL) - Principal Investigator

efendant Thomas Meighan pleaded guilty last week to multiple felony charges in the fatal hit-and-run case involving Johns Hopkins student Miriam Frankl.

Frankl, a 20-year-old junior in the School of Arts and Sciences, was struck by a truck driven by Meighan in the service drive of the 3300 block of St. Paul Street on Oct. 16, 2009. She died the following day.

On Wednesday, Meighan was sentenced to 13 years in prison for Frankl’s death. In an unrelated hit-and-run traffic accident in July 2009, to which he had also pleaded guilty, Meighan was sentenced to a nine-year suspended sentence and five years of probation.

JHU among top producers of Peace Corps volunteers

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ohns Hopkins has risen on the Peace Corps’ Top 25 list of small schools (less than 5,000 undergraduates) producing Peace Corps volunteers. With 22 alumni currently serving in the Peace Corps, Johns Hopkins is No. 6 in the rankings.

Since the program’s inception, 640 Johns Hopkins alumni have served in the Peace Corps, which was launched in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to spearhead progress in developing countries and promote friendship between the American people and others throughout the world.

Johns Hopkins named top breastfeeding-friendly workplace

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he Maryland Breastfeeding Coalition and its sister group, the D.C. Breastfeeding Coalition, have recognized Johns Hopkins’ East Baltimore medical campus as the region’s top workplace for supporting breastfeeding mothers.

One of 10 winners of the inaugural D.C./ Maryland Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace Awards, Johns Hopkins scored the highest of all honorees. The award recognizes workplaces for doing what they can to remove barriers for breastfeeding mothers on the job, including providing clean rooms devoted to pumping milk and allotting the time to do it.

“We know that breast milk is the best nutrition for baby and provides many health benefits for both baby and mother,” said Julie Murphy, coordinator of the employee lactation support program on the East Baltimore campus and the lead pediatric lactation consultant at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. “Going back to work is one of the main barriers to continuing breastfeeding.

We recognize that and want to support the mom in any way we can.”

The East Baltimore campus has three rooms devoted to pumping, with access to hospital-grade pumps; breastfeeding support

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groups; and a lactation consultant available to mothers needing assistance. Some new mothers are also allowed flexible schedules and have access to on-site child care.

JHU to host B’More Proud LGBTQIA Leadership Summit

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ohns Hopkins will host the 2011 B’More Proud LGBTQIA Leadership Summit beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12, in Homewood’s Levering Hall. The daylong event, planned by and for Baltimore area lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and ally college students, will feature two speakers and will include workshops, entertainers, an internship/volunteer fair and an intercollegiate dance.

Organizers from the B’More Proud Queer College Coalition say that the mission of this event is to encourage students to become more involved on their campuses, develop useful leadership skills and knowledge, meet students from other area institutions and network with area businesses and nonprofits who offer internships and volunteer opportunities.

The summit will open with a talk at noon

by Staceyann Chin, poet and author of The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir, who has performed with Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and HBO. At 8 p.m., the public is welcome to attend the keynote address by Eric Alva, a retired U.S. Marine who worked tirelessly for the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

The event is free but participants are asked to register in advance at www.bmoreproud .org/summit/register_summit.php.

Summer Camp Discoveries Fair this week in East Baltimore

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he Office of Work, Life and Engagement will hold its annual Summer Camp Discoveries Fair from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 10, in Turner Concourse on the East Baltimore campus.

The fair is designed as an opportunity for prospective campers and their families to meet with local and regional camp organizations and groups offering summer activities for children ages 2 to 18. Both day and overnight programs will be represented, as will camps for individuals with special needs.

Attendees will receive a Summer Camp Fair Guide and can enter to win camp discounts and other prizes. For more information, call 443-997-7000.

Correction A story about the new Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences, which appeared in the Jan. 31 issue, incorrectly refers to one of the affiliated centers as the Pittsburgh National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Its correct name is the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

Contributing Writers Applied Physics Laboratory Michael Buckley, Paulette Campbell Bloomberg School of Public Health Tim Parsons, Natalie Wood-Wright Carey Business School Andrew Blumberg, Patrick Ercolano Homewood Lisa De Nike, Amy Lunday, Dennis O’Shea, Tracey A. Reeves, Phil Sneiderman Johns Hopkins Medicine Christen Brownlee, Stephanie Desmon, Neil A. Grauer, Audrey Huang, John Lazarou, David March, Vanessa McMains, Ekaterina 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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Henry Tom, 64, longtime executive editor at JHU Press

By Jack Holmes

Johns Hopkins University Press

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enry Y.K. Tom, longtime executive editor at the Johns Hopkins University Press, died unexpectedly on Jan. 10. He was 64.

“Henry had retired just this summer,” said Press director Kathleen Keane, “and by all accounts was enjoying himself tremendously. His contributions to publishing and scholarship were many and well-known, and we are all deeply saddened by his death.”

A native of Hawaii, Tom held a doctorate in early modern European history from the University of Chicago. He joined the Johns Hopkins University Press as social sciences editor in 1974, after four years as history and political science editor at the University of Chicago Press. At JHU Press, he acquired in all subfields of history, including U.S. history, European history, history of technology and history of medicine. He diversified the political science list beyond its international relations core and published books in economics, sociology and religious studies. In his 36 years at Johns Hopkins, he was the editor for more than 1,000 books published by the Press.

Tom enjoyed close ties to the Johns Hopkins faculty and looked to them for advice as well as manuscripts. “I don’t think the

Henry Y.K. Tom

Press could have built its reputable list in early modern European history,” he once commented, “without the support and help of distinguished History faculty members like Orest Ranum, Robert Forster, Richard Goldthwaite and Richard Kagan. Professors Ranum and Forster helped lay the groundwork for our list in early modern and modern French history. Professor Goldthwaite has advised expertly on excellent work in Italian Renaissance history. And Professor Kagan

has been instrumental in identifying important books relating to the rise of Spain and its extensive global influence. All of them have also published with Johns Hopkins.”

Word of Tom’s death brought an outpouring of comments and remembrances from the scholarly and university press communities.

William Sisler, director of Harvard University Press and a former editor at JHU Press, said, “I joined the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1973, and Henry joined the next year, as I recall, so we worked together there for nine years or so. Henry came from the University of Chicago, a no-nonsense place, and Henry was a no-nonsense guy— except when he wasn’t. Yes, he was serious, driven, organized, persnickety, but he was also funny, generous, quick to smile and a man with a life outside the office.”

Edward Muir, the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University and the author of several JHU Press books, commented, “For a generation, Henry Tom was at the center of Italian Renaissance studies, not just for Americans but for Europeans as well. His commitment derived from a long and distinguished tradition of Renaissance publishing, a tradition that went back, one might say, to Aldus Manutius and the great Venetian publishers of the 16th century, a tradition Henry understood so well. Henry had judgment. Henry

had, as Castiglione might have put it, grace.

As a scholar and a man, he will be missed by the many authors who knew and worked with him and by the innumerable readers who did not know him but who benefited from his labors. We salute you, Henry.”

At the Press, in addition to his remarkable list of books acquired, Henry Tom may best be remembered as a generous mentor to younger staff, many of whom became acquiring editors at other presses. “Over the years the Press has had the good fortune of hiring some very bright young people with a lot of potential,” he once remarked. “I’ve had the opportunity of working with a number of them, and it’s to the Press’ benefit to develop their talent. I like seeing them grow.

I like talking with them about the details of publishing, what makes a book work, how to find the best and brightest authors. I think if scholarly publishing is going to stay fresh, if the Johns Hopkins Press is going to continue publishing important and original books, then we need to develop young men and women who can carry on the Johns Hopkins tradition of innovative publishing.”

Tom is survived by a brother, three sisters and several nieces, all residents of Hawaii and Nevada. Many of them traveled to Baltimore last month for a memorial service at the Corpus Christi Church in Bolton Hill, where donations in Tom’s memory are being accepted.

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JHM appoints VP for health care Zenilman named JHM vice chair transformation, strategic planning and regional director of surgery

By Gary Stephenson

unique set of skills and beliefs to Johns Hopkins Medicine. His vast expertise in health Johns Hopkins Medicine care policy issues and strategic planning is coupled with a strong humanistic belief in ohn Michael Colmers, former secretary helping all Marylanders and others receive of the Maryland Department of Health the best possible health care. This has been and Mental Hygiene, has been named the guiding principle of Johns Hopkins for Johns Hopkins Medicine vice president for more than a century, so we believe that health care transformation and strategic John is a perfect fit in terms of our strategic planning. needs as well as our mission and In this role, Colmers will supvision.” port the executive leadership of Prior to joining Health and Johns Hopkins Medicine in straMental Hygiene, Colmers was tegically positioning the expandsenior program officer for the ing Johns Hopkins system to Milbank Memorial Fund, an respond to health care reform and endowed New York–based other near- and long-term market national foundation that proforces. vides nonpartisan analysis, As secretary of health and study, research and commumental hygiene, Colmers led a nication on significant health $9 billion agency that’s respon- John Colmers policy issues. Prior to joining sible for protecting, promoting the fund, he spent 19 years in and improving the health and well-being Maryland State government, where he held of Marylanders through a broad spectrum of various positions, including executive direcprograms including Medicaid, public health, tor of the Maryland Health Care Commisbehavioral health, state health facilities and sion and the Health Services Cost Review regulatory oversight. Under his leadership, Commission, the agency overseeing MaryMedicaid coverage was expanded to more land’s all-payer hospital rate-setting system. than 200,000 parents and children, sub “I am thrilled to join Johns Hopkins Medstance abuse services expanded to 33,000 icine, where I can apply what I have learned low-income adults, dental services to lowover the years in public service and in the income children improved, and the Clean private sector,” Colmers said. “I’m looking Indoor Air Act was enacted, among other forward to being a part of an enterprise that achievements. is embracing the challenges of reform and “As we prepare for the inevitable changes strives to lead the nation in fulfilling the resulting from new health care reform laws promise of the Affordable Care Act as it was and other market forces, it is imperative enacted or may evolve.” that we do so in a thoughtful, effective and Colmers has a bachelor’s degree from The strategic manner,” said Edward D. Miller, Johns Hopkins University and a master’s in the Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. public health from the University of North Baker Jr., M.D., Dean of the Medical Faculty Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the immediate at The Johns Hopkins University and chief past chairman of Academy Health and a executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medimember of its board of directors. He is also cine. “There are few individuals who are a member of the Commonwealth Fund’s as qualified as John Colmers to help guide Commission on a High Performance Health and shape our response to these sweeping System and the past chairman of the steering changes.” committee of the Reforming States Group, a Ronald R. Peterson, president of The bipartisan group of executive and legislative Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health Sysleaders. From 2004 to 2007, Colmers served tem and executive vice president of Johns on the board of directors of CareFirst BlueHopkins Medicine, said, “John brings a Cross BlueShield.

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By Stephanie Desmon

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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ichael E. Zenilman, who was until recently the chairman of the Department of Surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., has been appointed vice chair and regional director of surgery for Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Zenilman, a gastrointestinal surgeon and a specialist in geriatric surgery, will also operate a clinical practice out of Suburban Hospital, a Johns Hopkins hospital in Bethesda, Md. He joined Johns Hopkins on Jan. 1.

In this newly created position, Zenilman will be responsible for oversight of surgery Michael services delivered at Johns Hopkins Medicine’s community hospitals and ambulatory locations. Along with Suburban, Johns Hopkins Medicine includes Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Md., and Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. Zenilman’s role will be to work with leaders at those hospitals to develop a truly regional health care delivery system by ensuring that safety, quality and service standards in surgical care at each location are in line with best practices in the field.

“He is well-suited to oversee our surgical growth at Suburban, where he will primarily be based, as well as Howard County,” said Julie A. Freischlag, chair of the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and surgeon in chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. “He is an enthusiastic and can-do leader, a positive force to lead change. He and his wife have nine children, so he can manage just about anything with flexibility and a smile.”

Zenilman will work with officials at each of the hospitals in the region and will be involved in recruiting and retaining physicians and staff who support the mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine. He’ll also help to establish new clinical and research programs at the individual hospitals, boost

education efforts and work on programmatic growth.

Zenilman received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate and completed his residency training in surgery and a fellowship in gastrointestinal surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Hospital. His first academic appointment was in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as an assistant professor of surgery from July 1991 through 1994. He also has held appointments at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.

He has been on the faculty at Downstate since 2001.

Zenilman is an established clin­ ician, teacher and researcher. In 1993, he was awarded an American College of Surgeons Faculty Zenilman Fellowship and was the principal investigator of an NIH-funded project that focused on pancreatic regeneration.

An author on more than 80 articles, he has published papers on techniques in pancreatic and laparoscopic surgery and recently completed the second edition of a textbook titled Principles and Practices of Geriatric Surgery. He serves on the editorial board of two major journals and is a member of the Geriatric Surgery Task Force of the American College of Surgeons. His clinical interests are in gastrointestinal, pancreatic and geriatric surgery.

“I am very excited to return to Johns Hopkins Medicine to help implement a novel approach to health care, coordinating high-quality surgical care while maintaining each hospital’s identity and critical role in the community,” Zenilman said. “Since I left in 1994, JHM has matured into an international health care network. I remember very well being in the front lines of this local expansion, since I was based at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and was the first to see patients in the Odenton campus.

Now there are 26 outpatient sites, three new affiliated hospitals in Washington, Bethesda and Howard County, and expansion outside our local region. Health care systems are the future of medicine.”

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Richard Oles, JHU fencing coach for 44 years, dies at 77

By Phil Sneiderman

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ichard Francis “Dick” Oles, who coached Johns Hopkins fencing athletes to more than 600 team victories over 44 years, died Jan. 27 after being struck by a vehicle while walking during a snowstorm along Mountain Road in Anne Arundel County, near his home. He was 77.

Oles was head coach of the university’s men’s fencing team from 1959 through 2003, compiling a record of 643 team wins and 214 losses. During this period, he led the Blue Jays to 21 Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association championships and 12 finishes in the top 25 at the NCAA Fencing Championships. He was named the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 1992 and was chosen as MACFA Coach of the Year 10 times.

According to the Johns Hopkins Athletics staff, Oles’ 643 wins are the second-most

by any coach in any sport in Johns Hopkins known for developing homegrown fencers,” history, and his 44-year tenure is the lonsaid Ernie Larossa, the university’s Sports gest for a coach in school history. He was Information director. inducted into the Johns Hopkins Athletic Larossa added that while many national Hall of Fame in 1995. collegiate sports such as football “Dick gave 44 years to Johns and basketball are divided into Hopkins University, and during three divisions to allow smaller that time he amassed an excepprograms to play against like tional record,” said Tom Calder, opponents, collegiate fencing is director of Athletics. “Perhaps not. As a result, he said, Oles’ more impressively, he helped Blue Jays competed against some grow the sport by developof the nation’s most prominent ing numerous student athletes college fencing teams. who had never fenced prior to In addition to his coaching enrolling at Johns Hopkins. In duties, Oles held academic ties to addition, he was well-known Richard Oles the university. He entered Johns nationally and internationally Hopkins as a student in 1951, in the fencing community, and he will be left to serve in the Army, then returned to sorely missed.”

Baltimore and studied piano for three years Oles commonly assembled his teams by at the Peabody Conservatory. In 1968, he posting fliers around the Homewood camcompleted his Johns Hopkins studies for a pus and then training the students who degree in psychology. responded, many of whom had never before Oles told The Catholic Review in 2009 that held a fencing sword. “He was very wellhe became interested in fencing after hearing

metallic clinking sounds coming from a sports practice room at Johns Hopkins. As a fan of Errol Flynn and other movie swashbucklers, he chose to join the team. Eventually, he moved on to a coaching role.

In addition to his 44 years as head coach of the men’s fencing team, he served as head coach of the women’s team from 1973 to 1976. Outside of the university, he established and directed fencing clubs for teens and adult fencers.

According to The Baltimore Sun, Oles’ survivors include nine nieces and nephews.

In honor of Oles, a memorial gathering for the fencing community was held Feb. 4 at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Homeland Avenue, where he had a fencing room.

The traffic incident in which Oles was fatally injured was described by Anne Arundel County police as a hit-and-run and remains under investigation.

To read a profile of Oles in the February 2001 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine, go to www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0201web/fence.html.

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Harry Marks, historian of medicine, dies at 64

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arry M. Marks, an associate professor scholarly excellence and generous sharing in the History of Medicine Departof his expansive bibliographic knowledge. ment at the School of Medicine More than 100 colleagues, friends, stuand the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee dents and admirers from across the United Harvey Professor of Medical History since States, Canada and Europe attended a 1989, died at his home in Balticelebration in his honor in more on Jan. 25 of prostate cancer.

October. Colleagues say that He was 64.

Marks, though ill at the time, Author of The Progress of engaged energetically in the Experiment: Science and Therapeupanel discussions, providing tic Reform in the United States, a wonderful memory for all 1900–1990 and numerous articles, who attended.

Marks was an internationally recBorn in Brooklyn, N.Y., ognized authority on the history Marks graduated from Hofstra of 20th-century medicine, clinical University in 1968 and spent trials and public health. his formative years as a scholar In addition, his wide-ranging Harry Marks at the University of Wisconsin, scholarly interests and breadth of Madison, where he received knowledge made him an active participant a master’s degree in 1972 and conducted in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ research toward a doctorate in French hisdepartments of History, Anthropology and tory. For the rest of his life, he identified History of Science and Technology, and with the strong intellectual counterculture the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s of early-’70s Madison.

Department of Epidemiology, where he held His medical interest developed in and joint appointments. around greater Boston, where from 1969 to Colleagues and students remember him 1971 he had worked as a medical orderly for his critical questioning, insistence on as an alternative to military service. From

1974 until 1987, he taught and conducted research in medical education and health policy at several schools in the Cambridge, Mass., area, including Tufts and Harvard. At Harvard, he was an instructor in the School of Public Health from 1981 to 1987 and in the School of Medicine from 1982 to 1987.

He was a Rockefeller Fellow at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Francis Wood Institute in 1986–1987 and in 1987 received a doctorate in political science from MIT. Marks came to Johns Hopkins in 1987 as a research fellow at the Institute of the History of Medicine and joined the faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor and the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Professor in the History of Medicine. He was promoted to associate professor in 1996.

He is survived by a daughter, Irina Spector-Marks; his companion, Christine Ruggere; a family friend, Eszter Sapi; and two brothers, Jason Marks and Tim Ames.

Contributions in his memory may be sent to American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102.

A memorial lunch was held Feb. 5 at the Institute of the History of Medicine.

Researchers test inhalable measles vaccine

By Tim Parsons

School of Public Health

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ustained high vaccination coverage is key to preventing deaths from measles. Despite the availability of a vaccine, measles remains an important killer of children worldwide, particularly in less-developed regions, where vaccination coverage is limited. A team of researchers led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Colorado has developed and successfully tested a dry-powder, live-attenuated measles vaccine that can be inhaled.

The novel vaccine was studied in rhesus macaques. Results of the study are published in the Jan. 31 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The current measles vaccine requires two injections to provide full immunity, one given at 9 to 12 months of age and another later in childhood. Special training for needle and syringe injec-

tions is needed to administer the vaccine, which requires refrigeration and is shipped as a powder that must be reconstituted and kept on ice in the field clinic. Such injections increase the risk of exposure to bloodborne diseases.

According to the study, a single dose of the new dry-powder measles vaccine provided the macaques with complete protection from measles. The vaccine was delivered by aerosol using one of two dry-powder inhalers, the PuffHaler and the BD Solovent. No adverse effects were observed.

“An effective dry-powder vaccine would be tremendously helpful in less-developed regions, where resources are limited,” said Diane E. Griffin, senior author of the study and chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Bloomberg School. “This vaccine can be shipped as powder and does not require reconstitution or special training to administer, which could greatly increase the ease and safety of measles vaccination worldwide.”

Before a vaccine was developed in 1963, 130 million cases of measles each year

resulted in more than 7 million deaths annually. Measles deaths were estimated to be 164,000 in 2008.

Human trials for the dry-powder measles vaccine are in development in India.

“The tests of inhalable dry-powder vaccine at Johns Hopkins provide confidence that it can safely be tested in human volunteers after regulatory permission is given by Indian authorities,” said Robert Sievers, a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute of Research in Environmental Sciences.

Sievers is also CEO of Aktiv-Dry LLC and co-inventor of the PuffHaler and the new vaccine microparticles.

Authors of the study from Johns Hopkins, in addition to Griffin, are WenHsuan Lin and Robert J. Adams.

The research was supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Foundation for National Institutes of Health. Additional support was provided by the Marjorie Gilbert Scholarship Fund.

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CEO of IBM kicks off yearlong lecture series at his alma mater

series centers on the culture of business and managing for the long term, and how those two themes have shaped IBM’s impact on business and society.

In introducing Palmisano, university President Ronald J. Daniels likened the chief executive’s success and rise through IBM’s ranks to his days as a student and football

player at Johns Hopkins. He played center, by the way.

“I was reminded that even from Sam’s early days on campus, he managed the multitasking demanded of a successful leader,” Daniels said.

Daniels cited Palmisano’s vision, leadership and respect for his company’s centuryold tradition of thinking broadly, creatively and critically.

“As we all know, many of the once-mighty titans of American business history have not been able to innovate to survive,” Daniels said. “IBM is, of course, a notable exception to the laws of the ruthless corporate jungle.”

Palmisano, a gregarious man who arrived in Gilman’s Marjorie M. Fisher Hall sporting a yellow Johns Hopkins tie, spoke about his company’s long history of innovation. Even when technologies shift and when the global economy moves to a fundamentally different basis through multiple generations of products, markets and people, IBM, he said, has remained faithful to itself.

“It’s about how you bottle up what makes an organization distinctive—what makes Walmart, Walmart; what makes Apple, Apple; for that matter, what makes Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins,” Palmisano said.

Research Division with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine. Anderson will give a lecture titled “Cost Containment: Past, Health Reform and Future” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on May 10 in the School of Medicine’s Tilghman Auditorium.

Anderson’s lecture will provide an overview of cost containment efforts over the last 30 years, summarize the provisions of the Accountable Care Act and discuss various options for controlling health care spending in the future.

In addition to his faculty appointment, Anderson serves as director of the Center for Hospital Finance and Management at the Bloomberg School.

Each lecture will be followed by a Q&A segment and reception.

The 2010–2011 academic year is the first full year for the series, which has already featured five speakers representing five divisions. The inaugural lecture, held in April 2010, was given at Homewood by Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and director of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.

The most recent lecture was delivered Jan. 14 by Charles Bennett, a professor in the Krieger School’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, who spoke at the Applied Physics Laboratory about the “Big Bang:

Cosmology from WMAP (the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe).”

“When we launched the Provost’s Lecture Series last year, our goal was to share the riches of our intellectual and professional talent across Johns Hopkins,” said Provost Lloyd B. Minor. “The outstanding faculty we have featured to date have helped us to realize this goal. I’m very excited about our upcoming speakers, and I know my colleagues will enjoy the wonderful lectures we have planned.” G For more information, go to http://web.jhu .edu/administration/provost/lecture_series .html. Those planning to attend a lecture are asked to e-mail provostrsvp@jhu.edu.

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Provost Continued from page 1 est for future science careers and provide opportunities to learn through a hands-on, student-centered approach. Lecture attendees will get a chance to see live zebrafish to appreciate firsthand the impact of this model system.

Andrew Feinberg, the King Fahd Professor of Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine, will give a talk on April 25 titled “The Epigenetic Basis of Common Human Disease.” Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that occur without a change in the DNA sequence, such as DNA methylation.

Feinberg, director of the Center for Epigenetics at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, said that DNAm is an attractive target for epidemiological study because it is easily measured in archived samples from pre-existing patient cohorts. He said that gene-specific studies have shown that epigenetic alterations are important in cancer and linked to oncogene activation, tumor suppressor gene silencing and chromosomal instability.

The event, hosted by the School of Arts and Sciences, will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Homewood’s Hodson Hall, room 110.

The final lecture in the spring series will be given by Gerard Anderson, a professor in the Bloomberg School’s Health Services

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am Palmisano, the chairman and chief executive officer of IBM, and a 1973 graduate and former trustee of Johns Hopkins, returned to his alma mater last week to launch a yearlong lecture series celebrating his company’s 100th anniversary.

In a speech in Homewood’s Gilman Hall, Palmisano, who grew up in Baltimore and attended Calvert Hall before graduating from JHU and beginning his IBM career in the city, spoke of the company’s longevity and its ability to continually change its products.

“We started off making clocks, scales and cheese slicers,” Palmisano told an audience that included university leaders, students and faculty. “After that it’s a blur: typewriters, magnetic tape, the first disk drive, the memory chip, ATMs, mainframes, minicomputers, personal computers, supercomputers.”

Palmisano’s speech was the inaugural event in IBM’s Centennial Lecture Series, which the company plans to take to leading universities around the world. The lecture

Sam Palmisano, chair and CEO of IBM, has been with the company since graduating from Johns Hopkins in 1973. He credits its success to remaining faithful to itself.

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A field trip to the Baltimore Police Mounted Unit was part of the one-week Intersession program focusing on the city.

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Legend tells of a well-dressed apparition, perhaps William Fell himself, who walks down Shakespeare Street and fades away as he approaches the grave.

The students—not quite Scooby Doo and Mystery Inc. sleuths—appeared eager to face the paranormal, if only for inspiration’s sake.

The ghost tour of Fells Point came on day three of the Intersession course How to Be Scary: Ghost Stories and the Art of Giving Chills. The course instructor, Lauren Reding, wanted to explore the connection between Baltimore’s history and its haunted tales.

The How to Be Scary course was one of 13 academic offerings in the fourth annual B’More: A Common Freshman Experience,

a one-week academic and personal enrichment program with the city as its centerpiece. The popular program, which ran from Sunday, Jan. 23, to Friday, Jan. 28, offered 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.

Despite a snowstorm that slashed a full day of activities, more than 160 students took part in this year’s lineup.

Freshmen selected one of 13 one-credit classes that focused on Baltimore. In addition to How to Be Scary, this year’s courses included Junk Food vs. Whole Foods: Access to Food in Baltimore; From Tobacco Wharf to the Star-Spangled Banner; Cleaner, Greener and Sustainable Baltimore: An Inside Look; Spare Change/Make Change: Examining Homelessness in Baltimore; and The Water Taxi Diaries: Travel Writing.

Classes met all day and were divided into a morning classroom lecture session and an afternoon slate of related activities,

which included guest speakers, city tours, a concert night, a comedy night and field trips to the Baltimore Police Mounted Unit and the Tulkoff horseradish plant. The 2011 program also featured a panel on the arts led

by Craig Hankin, director of the Homewood Art Workshops.

For the How to Be Scary course, students sought to understand how ghost stories contribute to the understanding of our own lives and the past. Through the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Shirley Jackson, students uncovered what makes a good ghost story and put that knowledge to work as they created some supernatural legends about the Homewood campus.

Reding, a graduate student in the Writing Seminars, said that she was surprised to learn that Johns Hopkins had little to no ghost folklore.

“I had expected to hear about Gilman Hall hauntings and the like. I assumed that college campuses, especially Southern ones, would have many ghost stories,” she said.

“I thought it was time to create some legends.”

Reding said that the students got creative.

They wrote about a murdered roommate turned avenging cyber-hacker, a science professor who experimented on human subjects, and the ethereal doings of Carroll children who lived in Homewood House in the 19th century.

“One of the main ideas, I hope, that they took away was that ghost stories are a thrilling and fantastical medium in which to explore some more concrete, real-world issues that affect our lives: love, war, changing times and, of course, death,” she said.

A new aspect to the B’More program this year was a community service element to all the academic courses.

In the Spare Change/Make Change course, students sorted food at the Maryland Food Bank. Scott Gottbreht, the course’s instructor, wanted to expose his students to a side of Baltimore outside the “safe Johns Hopkins umbrella.”

Students in his course learned about the

needs of the homeless as well as national, state and local policy initiatives aimed at alleviating the harsh conditions faced by these individuals.

Gottbreht, a graduate student in the Humanities Center, said that his goals were to inform students about the city and its homeless issue, and expose them to volunteer opportunities. The course’s guest speakers included two former homeless individuals and also Kate Briddell, director of the city’s Homeless Services Program.

“I wanted [the students] to learn about homeless issues from the ground up, and right from the horse’s mouth,” Gottbreht said. “We also went on the Toxic Tour of Baltimore, where students got to see examples of urban decay, like abandoned manufacturing plants and a steel mill yard. I made sure the students got a hands-on experience so they had a much better understanding of inner-city life.”

Another group went to the Waverly Elementary School for an after-school tutorial program. The students in How to Be Scary planned to conduct a story workshop at a Roland Park retirement community but were unable to because of the snowstorm.

Intersession director Jessica Madrigal said that the B’More program steering committee wanted the students to connect with the course subjects in a meaningful way.

“I think the students made a real impact in this one week,” Madrigal said. “Our hope would be that they continue with this or other volunteer work in the years ahead.”

Kate Orgera, a freshman from West Hempstead, N.Y., registered for the B’More program to learn more about her new home.

“I had not seen a lot of Baltimore before this, and I’m still getting used to everything,” said Orgera, who was one of the students in the How to Be Scary course.

Orgera said she enjoyed the ghost tour, even the campy bits, and learning of Baltimore harbor’s pirate-filled past. She looks forward to exploring more of Baltimore, she said, in the months and years to come. G

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Nine SoM postdoctoral fellows win prestigious awards

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ine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine postdoctoral fellows recently were awarded fellowships. Rita Strack received one of 12 total Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation fellowships, and Bagrat Abazyan, Robert H. Cudmore, Mi-Hyeon Jang, Shinichi Kano, Sun-Hong Kim, Minae Niwa, Frederick Charles Nucifora Jr. and Emily G. Severance were among the 214 recipients of the NARSAD: The Brain and Behavior Research Fund Young Investigator fellowship.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, encourages the nation’s most promising young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by providing

them with independent funding—$156,000 over three years—to work on innovative projects. Rita L. Strack, a postdoc in Molecular Biology and Genetics, is studying how cells ensure quality control during protein synthesis. The quality control process, called nonsense-mediated decay, is essential for cells to function properly; synthesizing defective proteins can lead to many types of cancer. This process may be a novel target for cancer diagnosis or therapeutics.

Since 1987, NARSAD: The Brain and Behavior Research Fund has awarded more than $274 million in 4,046 grants to 3,319 scientists around the world. Receiving up to $60,000 over two years, the fellowship recipients pursue brain and behavior research related to schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, autism, ADHD and anxiety disor-

ders, such as OCD and PTSD. Robert H. Cudmore, a postdoctoral fellow in Neuroscience, is studying on the cellular level the effects of exercise as an alternative and complementary treatment for mood disorders. Minae Niwa, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is studying how the immune system affects functioning of the dopamine neurotransmitter system to induce psychiatric disorders. Frederick Charles Nucifora Jr., an assistant professor of psychiatry, is exploring the role of a gene called neuronal PAS3 (NPAS3) in schizophrenia. Bagrat Abazyan, a fellow in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is generating a mouse model of a gene that when functioning abnormally in brain cells may contribute to symptoms of schizophrenia.

Mi-Hyeon Jang, a postdoctoral fellow in

Neurology, is exploring how new cells are born in the hippocampal region of the brain and how this is affected by the so-called disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) gene. Shinichi Kano, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is investigating a mechanism through which altered glial cells and infection may work synergistically to contribute to schizophrenia. Sun-Hong Kim, a postdoctoral fellow in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is studying a new mediator of nitric oxide–regulated behaviors in relation to brain development disturbances implicated in schizophrenia. Emily G. Severance, a research associate in Pediatrics, is testing whether a breached gastrointestinal barrier contributes to symptoms of psychiatric disorders.

‘Sesame Street’ improves development for Indonesian children

By Tim Parsons

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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hildren exposed to Jalan Sesama, an Indonesian version of the American children’s television show Sesame Street, had improved educational skills and healthy development, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Over a 14-week period, the children who had the greatest exposure to Jalan Sesama improved significantly in literacy, mathematics, early cognitive skills, safety knowledge and social awareness, compared to those with no or low exposure to the program. The study was published online Dec. 5 in the

International Journal of Behavioral Development.

“I was amazed with how much television young children in Indonesia watch,” said Dina L.G. Borzekowski, the study’s lead author and an associate professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health, Behavior and Society. “Mostly the shows children were seeing were of adult nature or dubbed episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants and Scooby-Doo,” she said. “In contrast, Jalan Sesama was created in Indonesia for Indonesian children. With this study, we present evidence that when a culturally and age-appropriate show is offered, it can change the lives of preschoolers. Our data show that 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds learned important and healthy messages.”

Using a randomized experimental research

study design, Borzekowski and co-author Holly K. Henry, a doctoral student at the Bloomberg School, examined the effect of a 14-week intervention on 160 children in Pandeglang District of Indonesia’s Banten Province. The children, ranging in age from 3 to 6 years, were questioned on their knowledge and skills at the beginning and conclusion of the 14 weeks. In addition to showing improvement in literacy, mathematics and early cognitive skills, the study found that children with the greatest exposure to Jalan Sesama performed best of any of the study groups, even after adjusting for baseline scores, age, gender, parents’ education and exposure to other media.

Jalan Sesama is produced by the Sesame Workshop with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The program uses live action, puppetry (traditional and new) and animation to deliver

lessons on literacy, mathematics, safety, culture, the environment and other subjects.

Among the Muppets made for this specific show are Jabrik, a problem-solving and creative white rhino, and Tantan, an environmentally conscious orangutan.

A similar study was done by Borzekowski of Kilimani Sesame, a Tanzanian version of the TV show. In that study, published in July, Borzekowski found that children with greater exposure showed more gains in cognitive, social and health outcomes than those with less exposure. Specifically, children who were more receptive to the Kilimani Sesame content had higher scores on tests of literacy and primary math skills and greater ability to describe appropriate social behaviors and emotions, and knew more about malaria and HIV/AIDS. Funding for Jalan Sesama and the research were provided by the USAID.

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previously unknown phage. If they do, the students will be allowed to name them.

In the spring semester, participants will use modern bioinformatics tools to analyze and annotate the phage’s genome before comparing it against the larger phage database.

“Our goal with this course is to get students into a lab setting so that they can learn basic lab skills, learn how to manage their time and complete a long-term project and learn to read and analyze primary literature,” Schildbach said. “They will also have to regularly present their findings to their peers. In short, we want to introduce them to one way that science is done.”

In addition, the course allows Johns Hopkins students to join a community that includes students at the other colleges offering the SEA program. These students will interact electronically, and each year one student from each college will be selected to travel to an annual symposium held in June to present the results of his or her group.

“Though there is a possibility that all students who are in this course will become enthralled by biological research and end up in graduate biology programs, that certainly isn’t our goal,” Schildbach said. “The hope is that the students will be intellectually engaged, gain some skills and take control of their education, whatever their chosen fields.” G

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University photographer Jay VanRensselaer, who was in Egypt to document work being done by JHU archaeologists, captured this image of Luxor Temple at night.

Egyptian demonstrations change plans of traveling JHU affiliates

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wenty-four Johns Hopkins affiliates working or studying in Egypt fled the country last week—many of them having to abandon their plans—when demonstrations marred by violence broke out in protest against the government.

In all, five undergraduates, eight graduate students, one alumnus, one faculty member, four staff members, four family members and one other affiliate left Egypt between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1. Some were able to leave as previously scheduled, but the rest were evacuated by the university through

International SOS, the university’s travel services adviser. All were unharmed.

Among the last Johns Hopkins affiliates leaving Egypt were two groups from the Krieger School—two undergraduates studying at the American University in Cairo, and a faculty member and three graduate students who were working at an archaeological dig in Luxor.

In addition, the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs has 10 full-time Egyptian staff and six Egyptian contract staff, all of whom are reported to be safe.

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different strains of phages and analyzed dozens of their DNA sequences. These phage genomes have been submitted to the National GenBank database, produced and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The genomes then become available to anyone who wishes to study them.

At Johns Hopkins, the new course will count toward students’ general biology laboratory, research or distribution requirements and will be open to freshmen regardless of intended major, according to Schildbach.

“Naturally, I would expect students interested in the biological sciences to be attracted to this course, but I am hoping it will also bring in students who are planning to major in Writing Seminars or art history or sociology or international relations,” he said. “Students in this lab course will be spending a lot of time together and learning as much from each other as they will from their instructors and teaching assistants. A diverse group will make it that much more interesting.”

During the fall semester, the students will collect soil samples from wooded and leafy areas around campus and then, in the laboratory, isolate “significant amounts” of the phages and purify their DNA. The class will then select one of the phages to have its genome sequenced, Schildbach said.

During winter break, scientists at one of several research centers across the country will do the sequencing work. According to Schildbach, the fact that there are innumerable strains of phages greatly increases the odds that the students will each discover a

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new Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study challenges the widespread practice of treating premature babies with nitric oxide gas to prevent lung problems, neurological damage and death. The research, based on analysis of 22 major studies of the effect of nitric oxide in babies born before 34 weeks of age, found no evidence of benefit in most infants.

Overall, the Johns Hopkins review found that babies who received nitric oxide in the neonatal intensive care unit didn’t fare any better than those who didn’t. The babies who received the treatment were no less likely to die, develop chronic lung disease of prematurity, suffer cerebral palsy or have neurological or cognitive impairments, the researchers found.

The findings, appearing in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics, point against the routine use of inhaled nitric oxide in all premature babies and call for careful caseby-case evaluation of each baby’s degree of brain and lung maturation to determine if nitric oxide would help, hurt or do nothing for a patient, the researchers say.

“What we call for is careful evaluation by a team of clinicians of each patient’s risk-benefit profile, factoring in birth weight, degree

born after 34 weeks), but the new findings show that nitric oxide gas has no therapeutic value in most premature babies born at 34 weeks or earlier.

None of the 14 trials that analyzed the risk of death found differences in death rates between preemies who received nitric oxide and those who didn’t. Nine studies compared long-term death rates among children after one year and up to five years after birth. Again, none found a difference in death rates. The dose of nitric oxide had no bearing on how well a baby fared, and neither did the baby’s weight at the time of birth, the researchers found. One study found a higher death rate among babies born weighing 1,000 grams or more and treated with inhaled nitric oxide.

None of the 12 trials that analyzed the risk for developing chronic lung disease found differences among babies regardless of whether they received nitric oxide after birth or not. Four studies, however, revealed a 25 percent lower risk for lung disease among babies treated with a dose of 10 parts per million (gas-to-air ratio), a difference that vanished with lower and higher doses.

The analysis showed no differences in the risk of brain damage, neurological deficits, cerebral palsy or developmental impairment between babies who received nitric oxide and those who did not. One of four studies using head ultrasounds to detect brain injury

of prematurity and degree of lung and brain maturation,” said lead investigator Pamela Donohue, an assistant professor of pediatrics and neonatology in the School of Medicine.

Because the investigators noticed a small yet sufficiently intriguing difference in risk in some babies, the researchers stopped short of advocating complete abandonment of the treatment.

Babies who did not receive nitric oxide had no greater risk of dying than those who got the treatment. Untreated babies also were no more likely to develop chronic lung disease of prematurity than those treated with nitric oxide. However, when the researchers analyzed the data differently and looked at whether a baby had a greater risk of either dying or developing lung disease, a small difference emerged. The combined risk of death and lung disease was 7 percent higher among babies who didn’t get the treatment.

“We can’t say whether this small difference signals a true clinical benefit, but we have to at least allow for the possibility that it might portend better outcomes for at least some babies,” said senior investigator Marilee Allen, a neonatologist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and a professor of pediatrics, neonatal-perinatal medicine and neurodevelopmental disabilities at the School of Medicine.

The efficacy of nitric oxide has been well-documented in near-term babies (those

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The M. Gordon Wolman Seminar— “Water and Energy—Inexorably Entwined Dance Partners, But Without Perfect Choreography” with John Veil, Argonne National Laboratory. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering. 234 Ames. HW

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Tues., Feb. 8, 3 p.m. “The Changing Paradigm of Allergic Contact Dermatitis,” an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Anthony Gaspari, University of Maryland School of Medicine. W7023 SPH. EB

“Thiazolides, a New Class of Tolllike Receptor Agonists: Phase II Clinical Data in Viral Gastroenteritis and Chronic Hepatitis C in 700 Patients; Future Perspectives in Oncology,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Jean-Francois Armand Rossignol, Romark Laboratories, L.C. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

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Materials Science and Engineering seminar with John Rogers, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. 110 Maryland. HW Wed., Feb. 9, 3:45 p.m. “Meta Analysis of Functioning Neuro­ imaging Data via Bayesian Spatial Point Processes,” a Biostatistics seminar with Jian Kang, University of Michigan. W2030 SPH. EB

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found 4 percent lower risk in babies treated with nitric oxide. The other three studies did not. None of six trials evaluating cognitive development found differences between treated and untreated babies. Seven studies of cerebral palsy risk found no differences, nor did six studies of neurological and developmental impairment of children who received nitric oxide as babies and those who did not.

The research was conducted in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Evidencebased Practice Center, one of 13 federal centers designed to generate, assemble and synthesize knowledge and evidence necessary for the effective and efficient application of medical and public health practices.

The study was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Co-investigators on the study were Maureen Gilmore, Elizabeth Cristofalo, Renee Wilson, Jonathan Weiner, Brandyn Lau and Karen Robinson, all of Johns Hopkins.

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“Patriot Royalism: The Stuart Monarchy in American Political Thought, 1769–1775,” the Seminar in Political and Moral Thought with Eric Nelson, Harvard University. Cosponsored by Philosophy. 288 Gilman. HW

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“Regulation of the Biosynthesis of Glycosylphosphatidyl Inositol Anchors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by the Small G-Protein Ras2,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar with Ronald Stamper. W1214 SPH. EB

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“Molecular Basis of Transcription Preinitiation and Initiation by RNA Polymerase II,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Xin Liu, Stanford University.

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Mon., Feb. 14, noon. “Prokaryotes Fight Back With a CRISPR Response to Infection,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Scott Bailey, SPH. W1020 SPH. EB

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Feb.

14,

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p.m.

“How the Cell Smells: Deficiencies in Primary Cilia Cause Sensory, Neural and Renal Defects and Obesity,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Peter Jackson, Genentech. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW S P E C I AL E V E N T S Thurs., Feb. 10, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Summer Camp Dis-

coveries Fair, an opportunity to talk to representatives of local and regional camps. Attendees will be able to enter to win discounts toward camp tuition and other prizes. Sponsored by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement.

Turner Concourse. EB

W OR K S HO P S Thurs., Feb. 10, 1 p.m. “Using Flickr for Research and Instruction,” a Bits & Bytes workshop, providing an introduction and an overview of Flickr, an image sharing and hosting site. The training is open to Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs; staff are also welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources.

Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW Sat., Feb. 12, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. “Theorem Painting,” a

workshop on creating a handmade Valentine’s Day gift using pre-cut stencils and oil paints, with Sandra Coldren of the Pennsylvania League of Craftsmen. Offered in conjunction with Homewood Museum’s current exhibition, Privileged Pursuits: Cultural Refinement in Early Maryland. $50 general admission, $45 for members (includes materials and museum admission). Class size is 6 minimum, 15 maximum. Pre-paid registration is required; call 410516-5589. (Snow date is Feb. 13.)

Sponsored by the JHU Museums.

Homewood Museum. HW

10 THE GAZETTE • February 7, 2011 P O S T I N G S

B U L L E T I N

The Johns Hopkins University does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristic in any student program or activity administered by the university or with regard to admission or employment.

Homewood

Office of Human Resources: Suite W600, Wyman Bldg., 410-516-8048 JOB#

POSITION

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Sourcing Specialist Employer Outreach Specialist Associate Dean Librarian III DE Instructor, CTY Research Specialist Sr. Financial Analyst Budget Analyst Admissions Aide Research Program Assistant II Research Technologist DE Instructor, CTY Assistant Program Manager, CTY Volunteer and Community Services Specialist

Schools of Public H e a l t h a n d N u r s i n g Office of Human Resources: 2021 East Monument St., 410-955-3006 JOB#

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Academic Program Coordinator Grant Writer Maintenance Worker Food Service Worker LAN Administrator III Administrative Secretary Program Officer Research Program Assistant II Sr. Administrative Coordinator Student Affairs Officer Instructional Technologist Sr. Financial Analyst Assay Technician Research Technologist Research Nurse Research Scientist Administrative Specialist

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Student Career Counselor Laboratory Coordinator Annual Giving Officer Campus Police Officer Curriculum Specialist LAN Administrator III Outreach Coordinator Executive Assistant Center Administrator Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser Employee Assistance Clinician HR Manager Sr. Software Engineer Proposal Officer Sr. Staff Engineer Research Program Assistant Custodian Mail Clerk Software Engineer Training Facilitator Academic Program Coordinator

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Biostatistician Clinical Outcomes Coordinator Sr. Programmer Analyst Employment Assistant/Receptionist Payroll and HR Services Coordinator Research Data Coordinator Malaria Adviser Data Assistant Budget Specialist Academic Program Administrator Sr. Research Program Coordinator Research Observer Manuscript Editor, American Journal of Epidemiology Research Service Analyst Health Educator Multimedia Production Supervisor Research Program Coordinator Research Data Manager Sr. Laboratory Coordinator Sr. Research Assistant Sr. Administrative Coordinator Research Assistant Budget Analyst

Notices CER Fellowship Grants — Applications

are invited for the 2011–2012 Technology Fellowship Program, a mini-grant initiative administered by the Center for Educational Resources of the Sheridan Libraries.

The program is intended to encourage faculty to develop creative uses of digital technologies to enhance teaching and learning by partnering with student fellows.

Teams must include at least one faculty member who teaches full-time undergraduates and one or more full-time graduate or undergraduate students.

Details are available in the “Program Guidelines” document through the CER website, www.cer.jhu.edu. Applications are

School of Medicine

Office of Human Resources: 98 N. Broadway, 3rd floor, 410-955-2990 JOB#

38035 35677 30501 22150 38064

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Sr. Administrative Coordinator Sr. Administrative Coordinator Sponsored Project Specialist Program Administrator Sr. Research Program Coordinator

POSITION

Assistant Administrator Sr. Financial Analyst Nurse Midwife Physician Assistant Administrative Specialist

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

Woodcliffe Manor Apartments

S PA C I O U S

G A R D E N A PA RT M E N T L I V I N G I N

R O L A N D PA R K

• Large airy rooms • Hardwood Floors • Private balcony or terrace • Beautiful garden setting • Private parking available

Clothing Drive — The Office of Work, Life and Engagement is collecting new and gently used professional men and women’s clothing for individuals just entering or reentering the workforce. Donations will be collected Feb. 7 to Feb. 21 in support of the employment programs and services of Suited to Succeed, Housing the Homeless Initiative and Paul’s Place.

To locate a university donation dropoff site, go to www.hopkinsworklife.org/ community/clothing_drive.html.

For general questions, contact Brandi Monroe-Payton at bmonroe6@jhu.edu or 443-997-6060.

Technology for a solar-powered recharging device developed by APL researchers for satellites is moving to the consumer world. The solar panel can power cell phones, mobile computers and other equipment used by the military and civilians.

Innovative new solar charger provides energy on the go

By Michael Buckley

Applied Physics Laboratory

accepted through March 31; awards will be announced in mid-April. Funding for these awards is available from May 2011 to April 2012.

COURTESY OF APL

Job Opportunities

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n the mid-1990s, APL researchers Joe Suter, Binh Le and Ark Lew had a clever idea for a small, thin, flexible device that can convert light to electricity. They also had foresight and—fortunately—a bit of patience.

More than a decade later, their patented invention is close to reaching consumers.

In late 2009, APL licensed the technology to Florida-based Genesis Electronics, which incorporated APL’s ideas into a sleek solar recharger called SunBlazer. When attached to a cell phone or related electronic device, SunBlazer’s 2-by-4-inch solar panel will continually draw energy from the sun—or any sufficient light source—and keep the device charged.

“With its power and portability, the SunBlazer is a true breakthrough in the recharging concept and an effective application of renewable energy,” said Edward Dillon, CEO of Genesis Electronics Group.

Conceived primarily for use in satellites, APL’s self-contained power circuit can fit a variety of applications and match the shape of the device it powers. Suter says that’s why the inventors thought it also would

have use in laptops or cell phones—yet they could only imagine the world of today, when practically everyone carries a cell phone, mobile computer or digital music player, which all demand more and more power. “It was an invention before its time, before there was a market,” Suter said. “So many people use these devices today, and they’re looking for every bit of power they can find. The demand has caught up to our technology.”

But Suter said he sees benefits beyond extra juice to run the latest apps and downloads. A quick jolt to a comatose phone battery might allow emergency calls from almost anywhere. Military readiness would get a boost from smaller, more efficient devices for powering GPS units, radios and countless other items soldiers carry that need a constant charge.

“APL researchers have the unique opportunity to deliver timely solutions to their sponsors and focus on the future applications of their technologies,” said Kristin Gray, director of APL’s Office of Technology Transfer. “In this case, they invented a solution to a problem that didn’t even exist— yet. That a technology devised in the 1990s could be relevant today tells you a lot about the insight and creativity that go into APL’s cutting-edge work.”

• University Parkway at West 39th St. 2 & 3 bedroom apartments located in a private park setting. Adjacent to Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus and minutes from downtown Baltimore.

410-243-1216

105 West 39th St. • Baltimore, MD 21210 Managed by The Broadview at Roland Park BroadviewApartments.com

Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor to speak at SAIS

B

orut Pahor, prime minister of Slovenia, will speak at SAIS at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8.

As 2011 marks two decades of Slovenian independence, Pahor will discuss “From 20 Years Ago to 2020: EU-U.S. Relations Through the Eyes of 20-Year-Old

Slovenia.” The event, hosted by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium.

Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to CTR on its website, transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/ events/2011/pahor.htm.

February 7, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Belvedere area, beautifully renov’d 3BR, 2BA TH, available June. $1,600/mo (furn’d) or $1,450/mo (unfurn’d). 410-929-6008 or belvedererental@gmail.com.

Bolton Hill, 2 big BRs and 2.5BAs in immaculate TH, hdwd flrs, recent apps, AC, new roof/windows, porch, bsmt, 2 prkng spaces, 4-min walk to metro, avail July. $1,850/mo. 410-383-7055 or viLca11@ gmail.com.

Bolton Hill, beautiful 1BR, 1BA apt on Park Ave, 1,300 sq ft, 8 rms, separate guest rm, office and dining rm. $1,595/mo. gbaranoski@ covad.net.

Canton, stunning 2BR, 2BA RH w/prkng pad, spa BAs, gourmet kitchen, fin’d bsmt, hdwd flrs, must see. $1,800/mo.

725slakewoodave@gmail.com.

Charles Village, spacious, bright 3BR apt, 3rd flr, newly updated, nr Homewood campus. $1,350/mo. 443-253-2113 or pulimood@ aol.com.

Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/ full kitchen, call for wkly/wknd rentals, pics avail at jzpics@yahoo.com. 410-638-9417.

M A R K E T P L A C E

access w/security gates. $100/mo. 410-2942793.

HOUSES FOR SALE

’05 RV, 27 ft, sleeps 8, used 5 times, awesome fun for the family; call for pics. 443690-4442 or susanb1985@gmail.com.

Broadway Overlook, 3BR condo unit, 2 full BAs, contemporary layout, 10-min walk to JHH. $140,000. Retzer, 443-739-6269 or retzcare@yahoo.com.

Canton, 2BR, 2.5BA RH w/3 fin’d levels, brick front, hdwd flrs, rooftop deck, Hopkins resident relocating. $298,000. 410-3277424.

Federal Hill, TH w/numerous updates, bamboo hdwd flrs in living and dining rm, updated kitchen and BA. $179,900. 410808-4869 or jodiemack@gmail.com.

Gardens of Guilford, newly renov’d, lg 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant setting, easy walk to Homewood campus. 410-366-1066.

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt w/cedar closet, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com.

Folcroft St apts: 2nd flr, 1BR and BA, kitchen, living rm, $650/mo + utils; 1st flr + bsmt, 3BRs, full BA, kitchen, new W/D. $1,000/mo + utils. 443-386-8471, 443-3869146 or fanauh2o@yahoo.com.

Harborview (23 Pier Side Drive), 1BR unit, great views of water and swimming pool, 2 health clubs, garage prkng, 24-hr security incl’d, safe area; applicant must have good credit. $1,600/mo. 443-471-2000.

Lg 1BR condo in luxury high-rise, secure bldg w/doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swimming pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $179,000. 757-773-7830 or norva04@gmail .com.

Mayfield, charming 3BR, 2BA house in historic neighborhood, hdwd flrs, fp, garage, yd and patio, nr Homewood/JHH/Bayview. $1,800/mo. 410-852-1865 or miriam .mintzer@gmail.com.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Reisterstown, 3BR, 2.5BA TH, lg, spacious rms, new appls, deck, backyd, 10 mins to Owings Mills metro. $1,500/mo. www.21136rent.com (for pics and details).

Roland Park, beautiful 4BR, 2BA family home, off-street prkng, easy walk to Homewood campus. Dorsey, 410-967-3661.

Rosedale, 1BR divided rancher, lg living rm and dining rm, complete kitchen, new refrigerator/windows/crpt, washer, garage, lg backyd, quiet. $925/mo. 410-598-2819 or carlostaylorart@verizon.net.

Furn’d rm in new TH, walking distance to JHMI, pref nonsmoker/no pets. $550/mo + 1/3 utils. 301-717-4217 or jiez@jayzhang .com.

Go apt hunting w/respectful 35-yr-old researcher, location/date flexible, no drugs/ no smoking, up to $850/mo incl utils. ys4cL@yahoo.com.

Young F prof’l wanted to share new 2BR, 2.5BA house in Patterson Park, master BR w/armoire, easy prkng in front or nr house, 2 blks to park, great neighbors; utils and Internet incl’d in rent. 908-347-7404 or slvdels@ yahoo.com.

F roommate wanted nr Homewood campus, 5-min walk to JHU shuttle stop. 734-2773168 or shammku@yahoo.com.

2BR + study penthouse condo, opposite the Homewood tennis courts, avail April 1, no pets. $1,650/mo. healthxdesign@gmail .com.

1BR avail in 2BR Mt Vernon apt, safe, 5 mins to Hopkins shuttle, share w/friendly F and sm cat. 951-603-9743 or sarah.kalia@ gmail.com.

Beautiful 3BR, 2BA condo w/garage, spacious, great location, walk to Homewood campus. $1,800/mo. 443-848-6392 or sue .rzep2@verizon.net.

Furn’d BR and own BA in 3BR, 2BA apt in Fells Point, W/D, free Internet access, quiet street, best neighborhood, close to everything, 15-min walk to SoM. $350/mo to $400/mo + utils. xzhan45@gmail.com.

Sublet 2BR apt nr Homewood campus and JHMI shuttle stop, W/D, closed prkng at extra charge, on-site swimming pool, current lease ends Aug 30; option to renew.

410-336-3620.

Storage garage avail, .7 mi to JHH, 24-hr

Sublet partly furn’d BR in shared TH 1 blk from Patterson Park, Feb 15-May 31, shared BA, W/D, dw, high-speed Internet, hdwd flrs, no smoking, prkng, dogs considered, no cats. $650/mo + utils ($50/mo), 1st month rent and sec dep ($325) due at signing. 202375-4609 or carmodymce@yahoo.com.

WYMAN COURT HICKORY HEIGHTS Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

Studio from $570 1 BD Apt. from $675 2 BD from $785

Hickory Ave. in Hampden, lovely Hilltop setting!

2 BD units from $750, or, with Balcony - $785!

Shown by appointment - 410-764-7776

www.BrooksManagementCompany.com

wiper, AC, 20-26 MPG, 153K mi. $2,950.

443-604-5807. ’06 Kia Sedona minivan, automatic, power windows/locks, entertainment system, pads and rotors replaced, tires 1 yr old, 1 owner (nonsmoker), well-maintained, 87K mi. $8,500. 410-459-9803 or maherclan@ comcast.net.

Mt Washington (5905 Pimlico Rd, enter through gate of Falls Village), 1865 farmhouse on private rd, acre of open and wooded land, 3BRs, orig wide fir plank flrs, lg updated kitchen, stunning 1,600 sq ft deck; call for appointment. 443-562-1634.

Pikesville, sublet a lovely, lg 1BR, 1BA apt, available from March 1 to May 31. $750/ mo. 443-934-3750.

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CARS FOR SALE

’99 Mercury Cougar, automatic, power everything, premium wheels, leather interior, sunroof, rear spoiler, rear windshield

’04 VW Golf, silver w/black interior, good mileage, 45K mi. $8,100. annenatk@yahoo .com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Moving sale: new queen-size bed, sofa, dining table, computer table and chairs, new mountain bike; Lenovo Thinkpad laptop, 4GB RAM, 360GB HDD, new, $350. 410585-4073 or phrvimta@yahoo.com.

Heavy-duty motorized electric scooter, weight capacity up to 500 lbs, brand new, serious calls only. $2,000/best offer. 410562-5740.

German Shepherd puppies (born 11/19/10), up-to-date on shots, crate-trained, very friendly, parents on premises. $800/ea. 410245-0504 or braloubi@gmail.com.

GE built-in dishwasher, white, model# GSD2300RWW, $90; GE countertop microwave, $15; Simplehuman trash can, lg, semi-round, dk red, $15; porcelain farmhouse sink, white, $25; brass chandelier, $15. 410-889-0250 or aweil@baitman.org.

Lululemon hoodies (2), blue remix hoodie, size 8, and black and white reversible scuba hoodie, size 8; in excel cond. 410-215-6575.

Single mattresses (3) and boxsprings w/rails, in very good cond. $55/ea. 410-558-1797 (after 8pm).

Dining rm set, table w/leaf, 4 chairs, china cabinet and sideboard, in excel cond. $225.

410-633-2064.

TV, lamps, bedroom mirror and side table, more. midge105@yahoo.com (for pics).

Yamaha outdoor 2-way spkrs, black, model# NS-AW1, $50; Thule Set-to-Go kayak saddles (2 pairs, 4 total), can sell separately, $125/both pairs; Thule rooftop ski carrier, holds 2 pairs of skis, great cond, $75; best offers accepted, e-mail for photos. grogan .family@hotmail.com.

Conn alto saxophone, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond.

410-488-1886.

Pack’n Play w/mobile, music box, 2 quilted covers for bottom, in excel cond. $75.

Chris, 443-326-7717.

Printer, dresser w/shelves, three-step ladders (2), sand beach chairs (2), reciprocating saw, digital piano. 410-455-5858 or iricse .its@verizon.net.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Upper Fells Point family needs child care for boy (8) and girl (5), after school, Mon-

Fri, 2:40-5:30pm (or comparable schedule), housing available, 2 child care references req’d. doylecommunications@verizon.net.

Visiting professor looking for apt/house to sublet, approx May 25-June 25, pref familyfriendly neighborhood safe for walking w/ access to JHU shuttle (Roland Park, Homewood, etc.). info@tobiasfreund.de.

Flea market, Saturday, Feb 19, 9am-1pm, 37th and Roland Ave (in Hampden nr Homewood campus). 410-366-4488 (to reserve tables).

Free: LazyBoy recliner, blue, comfy, in good cond; you haul. wreisig4@comcast.net.

Responsible, loving pet-, baby- or housesitter, avail, JHU employee has experience w/special needs children and cats/dogs, refs available. 202-288-1311 or janyelle.marie@ hotmail.com.

LCSW-C providing psychotherapy for adults and couples w/sexual health or sexuality concerns, EHP accepted. 410-235-9200 #6, or shane.grant.lcswc@gmail.com.

Database programmer/volunteer needed for ambitious ecology project. Mark, 410-4649274.

Licensed landscaper avail for lawn maintenance, yd cleanup, fall/winter leaf and snow removal, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@ comcast.net.

Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Confidential consultation. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@aol.com.

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

Need a photographer or videographer for weddings or other events? Edward S Davis photography/videography. 443-695-9988 or esdavisimaging@gmail.com.

Friday Night Swing Dance Club, great bands, no partners necessary. 410-663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing.com.

Depression/bipolar support group, Sundays 11 am-12:30pm at Grace Fellowship Church, Lutherville. Dede, 410-486-4471 or dedebennett@comcast.net.

Clarinet and piano lessons available from current Peabody clarinet master’s student, competitive rates. 240-994-6489 or hughsonjennifer@gmail.com.

Piano lessons w/Peabody alum w/doctorate, patient instruction, all levels/ages welcome.

410-662-7951.

Private piano lessons by graduate student at Peabody Institute, affordable rates. 425890-1327.

Learn Arabic w/experienced native teacher, MSA and colloquial, all levels, lessons tailored to your needs, individual or group. thaerra@hotmail.com.

Piano/harpsichord lessons offered by Peabody Institute grad student, reasonable rates; call to schedule an appointment.

425-890-1327.

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

• Ads are limited to 20 words, including phone, fax and e-mail.

• We cannot use Johns Hopkins business phone numbers or

e-mail addresses.

• Submissions will be condensed at the editor’s discretion.

• Deadline is at noon Monday, one week prior to the edition in which the ad is to be run.

• Real estate listings may be offered only by a Hopkins-affiliated seller not by Realtors or Agents.

(Boxed ads in this section are paid advertisements.)

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

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anostic Applications,” Pathology grand rounds with George Netto, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB I N F OR M AT I O N SESSIONS Milton S. Eisenhower Library

offers a series of information sessions on how to do research in the library. To register, go to www.library. jhu.edu/researchhelp/workshops .html. Electronic Resource Center, M- Level, MSE Library. HW

PAUL ELLEDGE

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Shriver Hall Concert Series presents the main stage debut of 2010 Grammy–nominated Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman with longtime collaborator pianist Justus Zeyen on Sunday, Feb. 13. Brueggergosman and Zeyen will perform songs from their recent ‘Night and Dreams’ CD, including works by Ravel, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Duparc, Berg, Turina and Richard Strauss.

See Music.

C OLLO Q U I A

“Vibrational Analysis of Peptides and Catalytic Reaction Intermediates: New Developments in Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy,” a Chemistry colloquium with Mark Johnson, Yale University. 233 Remsen. HW Tues., Feb. 8, 4:15 p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 10, 3 p.m. “Asepsis: A Realignment of Surgery and Laboratory Science,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Thomas Schlich, McGill University. Seminar Room, 3rd flr, Welch Library. EB

“Bioterrorism: How Should We Assess the Risk, How Should We Prepare for It?” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Richard Danzig, former secretary of the Navy. Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., Feb. 11, 2 p.m.

D I S C U S S I O N / TAL K S

“Skating on Stilts: Thinking Seriously About Cyberwar,” a SAIS International Law and Organizations Program discussion with Stewart Baker, Steptoe & Johnson LLP. (Speaker’s comments will be off the record.) To RSVP, e-mail tbascia1@jhu.edu or call 202-6635982. Rome Auditorium. SAIS Mon., Feb. 7, 4:30 p.m.

“The African Diaspora’s Role in Development,” a SAIS African Diaspora Association discussion with Richard Cambridge, World Bank.

To RSVP, e-mail ada.hopkins@ gmail.com. Co-sponsored by the SAIS International Development Program and the SAIS African Studies Program. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Mon., Feb. 7, 5 p.m.

“Building Peace Across Borders: Conflict Does Not Stop at Borders, Why Should Peace?” a SAIS Conflict Management Program panel discussion with William Zartman, SAIS; Sophie Haspeslagh, Con-

Tues., Feb. 8, 9:30 a.m.

ciliation Resources; Gary Milante, World Bank; and Nyeko Caesar Poblicks, Conciliation Resources.

Co-sponsored by Search for Common Ground. To RSVP, go to https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/ o/6060/p/salsa/event/common/ public/?event_key=20955. Rome Bldg. Auditorium. SAIS “From 20 Years Ago to 2020: EU-U.S. Relations Through the Eyes of 20-YearOld Slovenia,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Borut Pahor, prime minister of Slovenia. To RSVP go to http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/ events/2011/pahor.htm. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Tues., Feb. 8, 10 a.m.

“Recent International Developments in Human Trafficking,” a Protection Project at SAIS discussion with Anne Gallagher, former adviser on human trafficking at the U.N. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Tues., Feb. 8, noon.

Tues., Feb. 8, 5:30 p.m. “Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Why Transport Policy Must Lead the Effort to Restrain CO2 Emissions in Transport,” a SAIS Energy, Resources and Environment Program discussion with Lee Schipper, Stanford University. To RSVP, e-mail eregloballeadersforum@ jhu.edu or call 202-663-5786. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS

“Teaching, Learning and What Works,” a JHSPH Student Assembly and JHSPH Faculty Senate roundtable discussion, inviting thoughts and comments on ways to improve teaching and learning. E2030 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 9, noon.

Wed., Feb. 9, 12:30 p.m. “Hungary: A Second Change of the System?” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations panel discussion with Pamela Quanrud, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe; Gyorgy Sapary, Hungarian ambassador to the United States; and Charles Gati, SAIS. Co-spon-

sored by the SAIS Russian and Eurasian Studies Program. To RSVP, e-mail egerasimov@jhu .edu or call 202-663-5795. Rome Bldg. Auditorium. SAIS Wed.,

Feb.

9,

12:45

p.m.

“Mexico’s Political and Economic Challenges in a Context of High Uncertainty,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Roberta Lajous, Mexican ambassador to Austria, Cuba and Bolivia. To RSVP, e-mail jzurek1@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5734. 517 Nitze Bldg.

SAIS Wed., Feb. 9, 5 p.m. “Prospects for U.S.-China Relations After the Hu-Obama Summit: Can the Partnership Be Restored?” a SAIS China Studies Program discussion with David Shambaugh, George Washington University. To RSVP, e-mail zji1@jhu.edu or call 202-6635816. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Thurs., Feb. 10, 9:30 a.m.

“Stuck: Youth in Rwanda,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Marc Sommers, Tufts University, and Saji Prelis (moderator), Search for Common Ground. (Speaker’s comments not for attribution.) Cosponsored by Search for Common Ground. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Grzegorz Kolodko, Kozminski University, Poland, will discuss his book, Truth, Errors and Lies: The Political Economy of 21st Century Globalization. To RSVP, e-mail transatlanticrsvp@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5883. Rome Bldg. Auditorium. SAIS Mon., Feb. 14, 3 p.m.

G RA N D ROU N D S Mon., Feb. 7, 8:30 a.m. “The Molecular Diagnostic/Anatomic Pathology Interface: Crucial Diagnostic, Prognostic and Ther-

ents soprano Measha Brueggergosman and pianist Justus Zeyen.

(See photo, this page.) $38 general admission, $19 for non-JHU students; free for JHU students.

Shriver Hall. HW READ I N G S / B OO K TAL K S

Baltimorebased author Angela Balcita will read and sign copies of her memoir, Moonface. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Wed., Feb. 9, 7 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 8, 4:30 p.m.

“Introduction to Research in the Humanities.”

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Wed., Feb. 9, 4:30 p.m.

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Thurs., Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m.

“No Question Is Stupid.”

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“Introduction to Research in the Social Sciences.”

LE C TURE S

Jewish Studies Noon Lecture—“How Rabbis and Priests Created the Frankist Movement: The Conversion of Jacob Frank and His Followers” by Pawel Maciejko, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW

Mon., Feb. 7, noon.

“Global Applications of Social Cognitive Theory,” a J.B. Grant International Health Society special lecture by Albert Bandura, Stanford University. Co-sponsored by the departments of Mental Health and Health, Behavior and Society.

E2030 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 8, noon.

Thurs., Feb. 10, noon. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture— “Embryonic Legal Midrash in Qumran,” by Vered Noam, Tel Aviv University. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW

The David Barap Brin Lecture in Medical Ethics—“Sharing Benefits, Avoiding Risks: Is There a Duty to Participate in Research?” by Jeffrey Kahn, University of Minnesota. Sponsored by Oncology.

Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB

Thurs., Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m.

Thurs.,

Feb.

10,

5:15

p.m.

“Egologies: Goethe and the Instruments of Writing Life,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Andrew Piper, McGill University. 479 Gilman.

HW

MUSIC

“Roman Nights,” cantatas and concertos by Scarletti and Handel, performed

by Tempesta di Mare, chamber players from the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens, $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

S E M I N AR S Mon., Feb. 7, noon. “Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Restriction: Insights Into Development and Disease,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Seth Margolis, Harvard Medical School. 612 Physiology. EB Mon.,

Feb.

The Shriver Hall Concert Series pres-

Sun., Feb. 13, 5:30 p.m.

12:15

p.m.

Mon., Feb. 7, 4 p.m. “The Evolution of Critical Wave-Maps,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Jacob Sterbenz, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

The David Bodian Seminar—“The Role of Hilar Neurons of the Dentate Gyrus in Normal Hippocampal Function and Disease” with Helen Scharfman, New York University Langone Medical Center. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 7, 4 p.m.

“Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South,” a History seminar with Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania. 308 Gilman. HW

Mon., Feb. 7, 4 p.m.

“Coordinated Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Skin Stem Cells,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Xiao­ yang Wu, Rockefeller University.

612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Feb. 8, noon.

“Epidural Prefrontal Cortical Stimulation for Depression,” a Psychiatry seminar with Ziad Nahas, Medical University of South Carolina.

1-191 Meyer. EB

Tues., Feb. 8, noon.

Tues., Feb. 8, 12:10 p.m. “Sex Work, Violence and HIV Risk,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury

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

Fri., Feb. 11, 8 p.m. The Peabody Concert Orchestra, with contralto Kristina Lewis (Sylvia L. Green Voice Competition winner), performs music by Lees, Mahler and Berlioz. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens, $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

7,

“Social Regulation of the Brain: Cellular Consequences of Social Status,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Russell Fernald, Stanford University.

Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

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Calendar

Key

APL BRB CRB EB HW KSAS

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

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Krieger School of Arts

and Sciences PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced

International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of

Engineering