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he Johns Hopkins Carey Business School has reorganized to focus its degree programs on the study of business issues related to health care and the life sciences, interim Dean Phillip Phan has announced.

“We’re making this move not just because Move we are Johns Hopkins, with the best highlights medical institutions health care in the world, but also because health care is an increasingly and life important part of the economic discussion sciences in the United States,” Phan said. “Health care is approaching 20 percent of the national gross domestic product, and it’s a key factor in the costs of any economic model, whether in manufacturing or services.

Understanding the complexities of the modern health care industry is a crucial skill for any business manager. For those who manage in the health care sector, Johns Hopkins is the place to learn.”

To guide the reorganization, Phan has appointed Carey Business School Associate Professor Toby Gordon as faculty director of Health Care and Life Sciences Programs. Gordon, who holds a doctor of science degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has taught in the schools of Public Health, Medicine and Business at Johns Hopkins since 1983. Her decades of experience in the university’s health system include positions as administrator of surgical sciences and vice president of strategy and market research.

“A number of business programs related to health care and life sciences have been in place at Carey over the past several years,” Gordon said. “But more recently we’ve decided, with the support of schools across Johns Hopkins University, to make the business of health care a much more prominent focus at Carey.

It just makes sense organically, given the groundwork we’ve already laid in this area of study and our ties to a university

A preliminary sketch of ‘Entropy’ shows two of a series of red orbs that lead visitors from the front of Evergreen to a disused Olmsted Brothers–designed staircase descending into the woods. The concept was conceived by Melissa Lodge.

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n the 19th century and early in the next, the lush grounds of Evergreen House featured seven elaborate glass conservatories with names such as Mushroom House, Melon House and Orchid House. The mistress of the mansion, Alice Whitridge Garrett, likely would have strolled into one of these houses on a spring day to care for ferns and

exotic plants imported from England and Japan.

The houses were removed in the mid1920s after Ambassador John Work Garrett and his wife, Alice Warder Garrett, established residency. The structures, they concluded, would be too costly to Continued on page 4

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JHU awarded $15 million for AIDS research center

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he Johns Hopkins University has been awarded $15 million over the next five years from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Center for AIDS Research. CFAR will support more than 180 HIV investigators from the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and other schools. A major priority for CFAR will be to address Baltimore’s HIV epidemic,

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in addition to training new investigators and conducting international research.

“HIV/AIDS is a major threat to global health and urban America, particularly here in Baltimore,” said Richard Chaisson, lead investigator of CFAR and a professor in the Johns Hopkins schools of Medicine and Public Health. “While we’ve made great improvements in HIV treatment and prevention, much more needs to be done to control the pandemic. CFAR will mobilize the substantial scientific, clinical and public health resources at Johns Hopkins to generate the knowledge necessary to tackle the HIV pandemic.”

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CFAR will comprise six core initiatives and three scientific working groups to promote collaboration and synergy across the Johns Hopkins HIV research community.

These areas will include an administrative core, to manage overall activities; a developmental core, to support pilot research grants, mentoring and recruitment; a clinical core, to focus on co-infections, among them tuberculosis, and co-morbidities, such as cardiovascular disease; a prevention core, focusing on comprehensive approaches to Continued on page 2

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ASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes safely arrived on May 1 at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., where they are scheduled for an August launch to begin their mission to study the extremes of space weather.

Just after 10:30 p.m. on April 30, the spacecraft had departed Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, where they were built, packed in custom-made shipping containers. When they arrived at Andrews Air Force Base, an Air Force C-17 cargo plane was waiting to transport them to Kennedy.

Over the next several weeks, engineers and scientists from APL will prepare the spacecraft for launch. Other team members will continue to test their key operating systems remotely from the RBSP Mission Operations Center at APL. RBSP will begin its exploration of Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts with a predawn launch scheduled for Aug. 23 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket.

Each spacecraft weighs about 1,455 pounds and carries an identical set of five instrument suites that will allow scientists to unlock the mysteries of the radiation belts that surround our planet. The two spacecraft will fly in nearly identical, eccentric orbits that cover the entire radiation belt region, lapping each other several times over the course of the twoyear mission. This will give researchers an unparalleled view into the mechanics and processes that change the size and intensity of the radiation belts over time. RBSP will explore space weather—changes in Earth’s space environment caused by changes in the sun’s energy flow—and especially its extreme conditions, which can disable satellites, cause power grid failures and disrupt GPS services.

The mission is part of NASA’s Living With a Star program, which is managed by

AIDS Continued from page 1 prevention research; a biostatistics and epidemiology methods core; and a laboratory core, to facilitate access to laboratory services and to provide methods training.

The three scientific working groups will promote new collaborations to address issues related to substance abuse, bioethics and human rights, and eradication of HIV. The Baltimore HIV group and international group will support research and collaboration.

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Goddard Space Flight Center. APL built the spacecraft and will manage the mission for NASA.

Homewood Art Workshops celebrates students and Leake

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omewood Art Workshops’ annual Studio Show—which showcases the best student work of the academic year—will have a special twist this week.

Along with the exhibition and the presentation of the 2012 Eugene Leake Award for Outstanding Achievement, the event will celebrate the restoration and re-installation of a “lost” Leake painting.

“May Rocks and Trees” (1984) was given to the university by Leake, the Art Workshops’ founder and first director, upon his retirement in 1986. (Leake [1911–2005] is considered by many the finest landscape painter to have worked in Maryland and was president of MICA before founding the Art Workshops in 1974.) The painting hung for many years in the Alumni Memorial Residences and then disappeared.

During a building survey last year, Michael Sullivan, director of Finance and Administration for Homewood Student Affairs, discovered the painting in a custodial storage area. The canvas was torn in several places, and spilled cleaning products had badly stained its surface. Sullivan rescued the painting and consulted with Craig Hankin, director of Homewood Art Workshops, on the steps necessary to have it repaired. The two called upon Mary Sebera, chief conservator at the Baltimore Museum of Art, who, Hankin says, “did a magnificent job of cleaning and restoring the painting.”

The exhibition and reception will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. on Friday, May 11, in the Mattin Center’s F. Ross Jones Building.

When the Eugene Leake Award is presented at 5 p.m. to Karen Chan, Emily Feinberg and Siqi Ngan, the three graduating seniors will be standing beneath the restored Leake landscape.

Johns Hopkins Provost Lloyd B. Minor and the deans of the schools of Public Health, Medicine and Nursing have all pledged additional support to fund pilot research grants and the Baltimore HIV control efforts. The fund will support new investigators, particularly in recruiting and retaining minority investigators in HIV research.

CFAR co-director Chris Beyrer, a professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and associate director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, said, “CFAR represents a major commitment toward promoting excellence, productivity and growth of HIV research and control efforts at Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore and globally.” G

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Honoring the role of blacks at Johns Hopkins B y G r eg R i e n z i

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elly Miller was born in South Carolina in 1863, the year the tide of the Civil War turned with the Battle of Gettysburg.

Miller, the son of a free man and a slave woman, would head north when he turned 17 to chase his dreams of being a math scholar and honor his “band of heroes,” the northern teachers who came south after the war. Little did Miller know, as he sat on a northbound train, that he would make Johns Hopkins history.

Miller had earned a scholarship to attend Howard University, in Washington, D.C., and while there, met the prominent Canadian-born astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb, who would later join the Johns Hopkins faculty. In 1887, Miller sought Newcomb’s assistance in pursuing graduate studies at Johns Hopkins—and became the first African-American to enroll at the university.

Newcomb, by many accounts, approached university President Daniel Coit Gilman directly to consider Miller’s application.

Gilman and the university’s trustees, after much debate, felt that Miller was deserving of acceptance and that they should honor the founder’s desire to create a university and hospital that were open to all. Miller’s admission would open the door for all future students of color at Johns Hopkins.

Miller’s role in the university’s history is highlighted in The Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins, an exhibit and website intended to recognize black students, faculty and staff who have contributed to the institution’s rich history through their personal and professional achievements.

The exhibit, launched this month, consists of a free-standing traveling display and also window decals featuring photos of men and women whose stories offer glimpses of the intertwined history of blacks and Johns Hopkins. The display and window images are supported by a website, bfsa.jhu.edu/ exhibit, which includes brief narratives of

A traveling display highlights the personal and professional achievements of 50 black faculty, staff and students who have contributed to Johns Hopkins’ rich history.

50 individuals, past and present, who contributed to the institution.

Along with Miller, the exhibit includes such people as Vivien Thomas, the surgical technician who in the 1940s developed the procedures used to treat “blue baby” syndrome; Joseph Hall, the first black dean on the Homewood campus (1973); university alumnus and current trustee Paula Boggs, an attorney and former vice president of Starbucks; Ben Carson, the pioneering neurosurgeon and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Percy Pierre, the first black student to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins (1967), and a diversity and science education champion; Minnie Hargrow, an employee at Johns Hopkins for more than 60 years who started

work in the campus cafeteria in 1947 and was an assistant to the president when she retired in 2007; and others from various fields and backgrounds.

The exhibit is co-sponsored by the President’s Office, Johns Hopkins External Affairs and Development, and the Black Faculty and Staff Association.

At the May 2011 BFSA general meeting with President Ronald J. Daniels and members of his cabinet, BFSA members raised the issue of the relative absence of black faces on the walls of the university and on university Web pages. BFSA members said they felt that this absence sent a negative message to visitors and prospective students and employees.

The president expressed his support for

a solution, and BFSA members would later offer a proposal to university administration to augment the existing The History of African Americans@JHU website, created by students, with a new website and an accompanying exhibit.

In fall 2011, President Daniels appointed an advisory committee to plan, develop and implement the traveling exhibit on blacks at Johns Hopkins.

It debuted on May 1 at Mason Hall, with the website going live the same day. During the rest of the month, it will travel to buildings across the Homewood campus. On June 15, the exhibit will be on display in the Glass Pavilion as part of the BFSA’s annual Juneteenth celebration.

This summer, The Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins will travel to the Anne and Mike Armstrong Medical Education Building in East Baltimore, the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., and the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. The School of Nursing, Carey Business School and the Bloomberg School of Public Health will host the display in the fall.

“This exhibit represents just one way to emphasize the wonderful, vibrant diversity of this community, now and throughout our history, ” Daniels says.

Debbie Savage, IT manager in the Office of Student Technology Services at Homewood and a BFSA member, says that the exhibit and the website will significantly raise awareness of these pioneering people.

“My hope is that this exhibit will show the indispensable roles blacks have [had at] Johns Hopkins in every way and every form, from custodial staff to trustees, physicians and attorneys,” Savage says. “All kinds of people make up Johns Hopkins, but sometimes looking in, people don’t see others who look like them in roles they can aspire to.”

Savage says that additions to the website will be considered each spring and that the exhibit will grow over time.

A full list of the traveling-exhibit dates is available at bfsa.jhu.edu/exhibit.

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he Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering, consistently ranked as the nation’s leading program in this discipline, celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 4 with a daylong symposium that included the installation of Natalia Trayanova as the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professor.

“This occasion not only recognizes Murray and Natalia, two accomplished members of our faculty, but also the legacy of our entire Biomedical Engineering Department and the collaboration between the engineering and medical schools,” said Nicholas P. Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering, founded in its earliest incarnation as a division in 1962, was established as an outgrowth of promising cross-collaborative research that began in the 1930s. That early work led to the invention of the first cardiac defibrillator by electrical engineer and School of Engineering Dean William B. Kouwenhoven.

Murray B. Sachs was one of the formal department’s first hires, in 1970, and he went on to serve as director from 1991 to 2007. In those early years, Sachs and colleagues set out to understand how the brain processes sounds, including speech and other complex stimuli. Their integration of basic research and clinical problems led to

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the establishment of the Center for Hearing Sciences in 1986 and the Research and Training Center for Hearing and Balance in 1991.

Under Sachs, Biomedical Engineering expanded its operations greatly, including the establishment in 2001 of the Whitaker Biomedical Institute, a joint venture between the schools of Medicine and Engineering. In 2007, Elliot McVeigh took over as Massey Professor and director of Biomedical Engineering. Sachs maintains an active

role in the department as a University Distinguished Service Professor.

In announcing Trayanova’s appointment as the Murray B. Sachs Professor last month, Jones said, “Unlike most professorships, this endowment was not created by a single donor but through gifts from over 70 individuals— including alumni, faculty and staff from the Johns Hopkins schools of Engineering and Medicine—who wished to honor Murray’s legacy. I am thrilled,” he said, “to say that everyone involved in selecting Natalia for

this honor, including Murray, believes she is a terrifically appropriate recipient, as she embodies the spirit of excellence that has always been the hallmark of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.”

Trayanova, who joined Johns Hopkins in 2006, is the school’s first female endowed professor. She oversees a research program focused on understanding the normal and pathological electrophysiological and electromechanical behavior of the human heart.

Her emphasis is on the mechanism for cardiac arrhythmogenesis, cardiac electromechanical interactions and the improvement of the clinical therapies of defibrillation, infarct-related ventricular ablation and cardiac resynchronization therapy using a personalized approach.

McVeigh said, “The establishment of the Sachs Chair on our 50th anniversary is a fitting honor for Murray’s profound contributions to BME and Johns Hopkins. The appointment of Natalia as the inaugural Sachs Professor is truly wonderful because she uses innovative engineering to make discoveries about the heart, and focuses those discoveries on clinical applications that affect literally millions of people.”

The 50th anniversary celebration also included a keynote lecture in Hodson Hall

by Elias Zerhouni, former executive vice dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and, from 2002 to 2008, director of the National Institutes of Health. Zerhouni spoke about challenges in biomedical innovation and rising health care costs associated with chronic disease worldwide.

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College Park students Melissa Lodge, Erin Battas and Christiane Machada work with the red orbs that will be part of ‘Entropy,’ shown in the sketch on page 1.

Sculpture Continued from page 1 maintain. Today, only traces of the houses remain, such as the back brick wall of Mushroom House.

In the next five months, however, the spirit of these conservatories will be reborn with Ghost Greenhouse, one of 10 new site-specific, temporary outdoor installations that are both inspired by and created specifically for Evergreen Museum & Library and its 26-acre grounds.

Sculpture at Evergreen 7: Landscape as Laboratory will open with a public reception from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 13, and will run until Sept. 30. It is guest curated by Jack Sullivan, a landscape architect and associ-

ate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The exhibition features work developed by students in Sullivan’s fall 2011 course Design Fundamentals Studio, and refined and executed this spring by a smaller team of College Park graduate and undergraduate students through an independent study course with Sullivan.

For Ghost Greenhouse, the student artists erected a steel frame with the outline of a pitched roof, all painted white. In the sculpture’s center, colorful seasonal flowers will be planted to highlight the structure’s former purpose.

Sullivan says that Ghost Greenhouse and the nine other installations will beckon visitors to wander Evergreen’s grounds to learn more about the property’s landscape, architecture, history and collections.

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for fabrication, installation and de-installation. They were given the freedom to design whatever they wished, using whatever material they wanted. The only stipulation was that they come to Evergreen first and be inspired by the landscape or history of the 155-year-old estate.

Sullivan says that the student designers became “landscape sculptors,” drawing from the many resources at Evergreen and transforming the site through new objects and spaces.

“You could argue that in using student artists you are missing the depth a seasoned, professional artist might bring, but in exchange for that you have enthusiastic artists with less of a personal agenda who did their best to honor the landscape and the Garretts’ legacy,” Sullivan says.

For example, one student drew inspiration from Alice Warder Garrett’s art deco mirrored private bath when creating Illusion Garden, a twisting eight-foot-high, 45-foot-long chain-link fence arch with a center area featuring 20 mirrors that face each other. This particular installation will evolve over time, as a variety of tropical and native flowering vines will eventually cover the structure.

Other installations include a stream made of blue glass chips, canvas cubes, red orbs that lead down to a disused Olmsted Brothers–designed staircase into the woods, wind chimes hidden in a grove of trees and large metal disks suspended on poles made to represent umbrellas.

Evergreen House, an Italianate building with classical revival additions, was built in 1857 by the Broadbent family. It was purchased in 1878 by John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, for his son, T. Harrison Garrett. T. Harrison and his wife, Alice Whitridge Garrett, over-

saw an ambitious program of renovation and construction on the estate during the 1880s.

The couple’s eldest son, John Work Garrett, inherited the house in 1920, and he and his wife, Alice Warder Garrett, continued the tradition of expanding the house and adding to its collections. John Work Garrett died in 1942, bequeathing the estate to The Johns Hopkins University.

Alice Warder Garrett, who lived at Evergreen until her death in 1952, welcomed artists, performers and scholars there to draw inspiration from the property’s rich collections and impressive setting.

James Archer Abbott, director and curator of Evergreen, says that the Sculpture at Evergreen exhibition continues this legacy, allowing the museum’s historic collections to become a vibrant, creative source for new works and artistic innovations. Abbott says that Alice Garrett particularly wanted students involved in Evergreen’s use.

“She wanted the property to serve as a sort of open book, not just for professional artists but for students so they could come here and explore and create. She understood the temperament of artists and wanted to nurture them,” he says. “And with this experience with Jack Sullivan and his students at the University of Maryland, maybe we can get more students invested in this property.”

Hours of the exhibition, which is free and open to the public, are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday and noon to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday (gates locked promptly at 5 p.m.) Walking maps and a free illustrated visitor’s guide are available in the Evergreen Museum & Library shop. G For more information on this and other Evergreen events, go to museums.jhu.edu/evergreen .php.

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Human Language Tech Center of Excellence names director

By Phil Sneiderman

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ichard Cox, a world-renowned spoken language researcher, has been appointed director of the Johns Hopkins University–based Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.

The HLTCOE was founded in January 2007 to research all aspects of speech and language technologies. It focuses on advanced technology for automatically analyzing a wide range of speech, text and document data in multiple languages. Researchers at the center collaborate with colleagues at other institutions, including Carnegie Mellon University; Columbia University; Loyola University Maryland; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Massachusetts; University of Pennsylvania; MIT Lincoln Lab; and Raytheon BBN Technologies.

Cox has been a principal research scientist at the HLTCOE since 2009 and acting director since December 2011. Previously, he was vice president of the Speech and Image Processing Services Research Lab at AT&T Labs, with responsibility for all research in speech, audio, image, video and multimedia processing, including areas such as speech and audio coding, speaker recognition, very large vocabulary speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, spoken language translation and human hearing.

This lab was responsible for the creation of the first AT&T Labs business, Natural Voices text-to-speech synthesis, and the introduction of the first automatic call-routing system using natural language speech input. Earlier at AT&T, Cox managed the Speech Processing Software and Technology Research Department.

Cox received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Princeton University. He

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is a fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), has been active in the leadership of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and was a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000, as well as the AT&T Science & Technology Medal in 1999. He has taught at Rutgers and Princeton universities.

The HLTCOE is one of several groups at The Johns Hopkins University that jointly work on speech and language research.

Whiting School of Engineering departments that take part in this work include Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, as well as the school’s Center for Language and Speech Processing. The Applied Physics Laboratory also conducts such research.

Related website Human Language Technology Center of Excellence:

hltcoe.jhu.edu

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Facebookers to share organ donor status with friends, family JHU transplant surgeon develops concept with COO, a longtime friend B y S t ep h a n i e D e s m o n

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hen Harvard University friends Sheryl Sandberg and Andrew M. Cameron met up at their 20th college reunion last spring, they got to talking. Sandberg knew that Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, was passionate about solving the perennial problem of transplantation: the critical shortage of donated organs in the United States. And Cameron knew that Sandberg, as chief operating officer of Facebook, had a way of easily reaching hundreds of millions of people.

Talking turned to brainstorming. The result: As of May 1, Facebook users can share their organ donor status with friends and family in the same way they share basic information about where they went to college or who they married. The hope is that by starting a conversation with friends and family through social media, the discussion

will go viral, with a critical mass of people educating themselves about the benefits of organ donation and choosing to register as organ donors.

“Doctors save lives one person at a time.

Sheryl is able to reach people millions at a time,” says Cameron, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and surgical director of Liver Transplantation. “We have a public health problem that really just needs education, communication and discussion. It’s a great match.”

More than 114,000 people are waiting for hearts, livers and kidneys and other organs in the United States. Someone dies every four hours waiting for a transplant. The need for organ donation keeps increasing, while the rate of donation over the past 20 years is almost flat, despite widespread public health campaigns. In surveys, upward of 90 percent of Americans say that they favor organ transplantation, but only 30 percent of the 200 million in the U.S. with driver’s licenses are official organ donors. (Drivers can indicate on their licenses that they would like to be donors.) That leaves a large number of people in the middle who are conceptually in agreement with the idea but haven’t officially checked the box to make their wishes known.

“It’s an awkward and difficult conversation to have about what will happen to you after you die, and the Department of Motor Vehicles is a particularly difficult environment in which to ask people to make important decisions about their lives,” Cameron says. “But Facebook, where you are already sharing your wishes and thoughts and likes with your friends and loved ones, may be a natural place to share your feelings about organ donation. This application will make having that conversation even easier.”

In a May 1 blog post, Sandberg and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that adding a tool to share organ donor status is another step in the evolution of the social network into a powerful vehicle for communication and problem solving.

“As this happens, we hope to build tools that help people transform the way we all solve worldwide social problems,” they write. “Medical experts believe that broader awareness about organ donation could go a long way toward solving this crisis. And we believe that by simply telling people that you’re an organ donor, the power of sharing and connection can play an important role.”

The organ donor status is part of Facebook’s new Timeline feature, which asks

users to share stories and photographs from their earliest days. Facebook is now making it easier for users to get more information about donation—including the myths and misperceptions associated with organ donation—and is offering links to state databases where users can make official their desire to donate, just as if they had checked the box at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

“I can’t tell you how many times a family faced with the death of a loved one says they wished they had asked about organ donation before that person died,” Cameron says. He and a team at Johns Hopkins intend to carefully study the effect that the Facebook effort has on organ donation rates. Cameron says he believes that if it is successful, it could be used as a prototype for tackling other challenging public health problems.

“Getting people to donate their organs has been an intractable public health problem. It stands in contrast to other public health campaigns such as [ones for] seat belts or [against] drunk driving, which have had major impacts,” he says. “If we succeed on Facebook with organ donation, it could be a model for how to use of-the-moment social media to solve important medical issues.”

Thanks for the memory: Old material yields room for more data

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This illustration by Johns Hopkins doctoral student Ming Xu depicts the shape of diamond tips used to apply pressure that uncovered important new properties in the memory medium GST. The inset represents the atomic structure of amorphous GST. MING XU

team led by Johns Hopkins engineers has discovered some previously unknown properties of a common memory material, paving the way for development of new forms of memory drives, movie discs and computer systems that retain data more quickly, last longer and allow far more capacity than current data storage media.

The work was reported April 16 in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The research focused on an inexpensive phase-change memory alloy composed of germanium, antimony and tellurium, called GST for short. The material is already used in rewritable optical media, including CD-RW and DVD-RW discs. But by using diamond-tipped tools to apply pressure to the materials, the Johns Hopkins–led team uncovered new electrical resistance characteristics that could make GST even more useful to the computer and electronics industries.

“This phase-change memory is more stable than the material used in the current flash drives. It works 100 times faster and is rewritable millions of times,” said the study’s lead author, Ming Xu, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and

Engineering in Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering. “Within about five years, it could also be used to replace hard drives in computers and give them more memory.”

GST is called a phase-change material because, when exposed to heat, areas of GST can change from an amorphous state, in which the atoms lack an ordered arrangement, to a crystalline state, in which the atoms are neatly lined up in a long-range order. In its amorphous state, GST is more

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resistant to electric current; in its crystalline state, it is less resistant. The two phases also reflect light differently, allowing the surface of a DVD to be read by a tiny laser. The two states represent ones and zeros, the language of computers.

Although this phase-change material has been used for at least two decades, the precise mechanics of this switch from one state to another have remained something of a mystery because it happens so quickly—in nanoseconds—when the material is heated.

To solve this mystery, Xu and his team used another method to trigger the change more gradually: two diamond tips to compress the material. They employed a process called X-ray diffraction and a computer simulation to document what was happening to the material at the atomic level. The researchers found that they could “tune” the electrical resistivity of the material during the time between its change from amorphous to crystalline form.

“Instead of going from black to white, it’s like finding shades or a shade of gray in between,” said Xu’s doctoral adviser, En Ma, a professor of materials science and engineering, and a co-author of the PNAS paper. “By having a wide range of resistance, you can have a lot more control. If you have multiple states, you can store a lot more data.”

Other co-authors of the paper were Y.Q. Cheng, of Johns Hopkins and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee; L. Wang, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Argonne, Ill., and Jilin University in China; H.W. Sheng, of George Mason University; Y. Meng and W.G. Wang, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; and X.D. Han, of Beijing University of Technology.

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Black hole caught red-handed in stellar homicide

By Lisa De Nike

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stronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.

Supermassive black holes, weighing millions to billions times more than the sun, lurk in the centers of most galaxies. These hefty monsters lie quietly until an unsuspecting victim, such as a star, wanders close enough to get ripped apart by their powerful gravitational clutches.

Astronomers have spotted these stellar homicides before, but this is the first time they can identify the victim. Using a slew of ground- and space-based telescopes, a team of astronomers led by Suvi Gezari of The Johns Hopkins University has identified the victim as a star rich in helium gas. The star resided in a galaxy 2.7 billion light-years away.

Her team’s results appear in the May 3 online edition of the journal Nature.

“When the star is ripped apart by the gravitational forces of the black hole, some part of the star’s remains falls into the black hole, while the rest is ejected at high speeds.

We are seeing the glow from the stellar gas falling into the black hole over time,” said Gezari, an associate research scientist in the Krieger School’s Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy. “We’re also witnessing the spectral signature of the ejected gas, which we find to be mostly helium. It is like we are gathering evidence from a crime scene. Because there is very little hydrogen, and mostly helium, in the gas we detect from the carnage, we know that the slaughtered star had to have been the helium-rich core of a stripped star.”

This observation yields insights about the harsh environment around black holes and the types of stars swirling around them.

This is not the first time the unlucky star had a brush with the behemoth black hole.

Gezari and her team think that the hydrogenfilled envelope surrounding the star’s core was lifted off a long time ago by the same black hole. The star may have been near the end of its life. After consuming most of its hydro-

This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speeds into space.

Astronomers observed a flare in ultraviolet and optical light from the gas falling into the black hole and glowing helium from the star’s helium-rich gas expelled from the system.

gen fuel, it had probably ballooned in size, becoming a red giant. The astronomers think that the bloated star was looping around the black hole in a highly elliptical orbit, similar to a comet’s elongated orbit around the sun.

On one of its close approaches, the star was stripped of its puffed-up atmosphere by the black hole’s powerful gravity. The stellar remains continued its journey around the center, until it ventured even closer to the black hole to face its ultimate demise and was completely disrupted.

Astronomers have predicted that stripped stars circle the central black hole of our Milky Way galaxy, Gezari pointed out.

These close encounters, however, are rare, occurring roughly every 100,000 years. To find this one event, Gezari’s team monitored hundreds of thousands of galaxies in ultraviolet light with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space-based observatory, and in visible light with the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Mount Haleakala, Hawaii. PanSTARRS, short for Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, scans the entire night sky for all kinds of transient

phenomena, including supernovae. The team was looking for a bright flare in ultraviolet light from the nucleus of a galaxy with a previously dormant black hole.

In June 2010, the astronomers spotted one with both telescopes, which continued to monitor the flare as it reached peak brightness a month later and then slowly began to fade over the next 12 months. The brightening event was similar to that of a supernova, but the rise to the peak was much slower, taking nearly one and a half months.

Team member Armin Rest, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said, “The longer the event lasted, the more excited we got, since we realized that this is either a very unusual supernova or an entirely different type of event, such as a star being ripped apart by a black hole.”

By measuring the increase in brightness, the astronomers calculated the black hole’s mass at roughly 3 million suns, which equals the weight of our Milky Way’s black hole.

Spectroscopic observations with the MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins in Arizona showed that the black hole was

swallowing lots of helium. Spectroscopy divides light into its rainbow colors, which yield an object’s characteristics, such as its temperature and gaseous makeup.

“The glowing helium was a tracer for an extraordinarily hot accretion event, so that set off an alarm for us,” Gezari said. “And the fact that no hydrogen was found set off a big alarm that this was not typical gas. You can’t find gas like that lying around near the center of a galaxy. It’s processed gas that has to have come from a stellar core. There’s nothing about this event that could be easily explained by any other phenomenon.”

The observed speed of the gas also linked the material to a black hole’s gravitational pull. MMT measurements revealed that the gas was moving at more than 20 million miles an hour. Measurements of the speed of gas in the interstellar medium reveal velocities of only about 224,000 miles an hour.

“The place we also see these kinds of velocities [is] in supernova explosions,” Rest said. “But the fact that it is still shining in ultraviolet light is incompatible with any supernova we know.”

To completely rule out the possibility of an active nucleus flaring up in the galaxy, the team used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the hot gas. Chandra showed that the characteristics of the gas didn’t match those from an active galactic nucleus.

“This is the first time where we have so many pieces of evidence, and now we can put them all together to weigh the perpetrator [the black hole] and determine the identity of the unlucky star that fell victim to it,” Gezari said. “These observations also give us clues on what evidence to look for in the future to find this type of event.”

Related websites Suvi Gezari:

pha.jhu.edu/~suvi/gezari_suvi .html

Space Telescope Science Institute:

www.stsci.edu/portal

Jhpiego-CBID partnership unveils global health innovations

By Ann LoLordo

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hpiego and Johns Hopkins student engineers will today unveil BabyBeats and FeverPoint, two extremely affordable, innovative devices designed to help frontline health workers prevent maternal and newborn deaths in communities throughout the developing world.

The projects, designed by Jhpiego-mentored students at the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, or CBID, are among four global health proposals that will be showcased today, May 7, as part of the university’s Biomedical Engineering Design Day 2012, to be held in the School of Medicine’s Armstrong Education Building on the East Baltimore campus.

FeverPoint is a simple self-test that uses a single cotton thread and a drop of blood to pinpoint the underlying cause of fevers related to malaria, bacterial pneumonia and other infections that kill millions of children each year around the world. Using science similar to that in a pregnancy selftest, FeverPoint’s sample preparation works without water or electricity, often scarce in health facilities in developing countries.

By differentiating between bacterial, viral and malarial infection, the test facilitates accurate diagnosis, which can reduce overprescription of drugs and save millions of lives.

Smaller than a flashlight and powered by

a rechargeable cellphone battery, BabyBeats is a fetal heart-rate monitor designed to help prevent the estimated 2 million stillbirths and newborn deaths that occur yearly in the developing world. In low-resource settings, health facilities lack up-to-date equipment and trained staff to routinely monitor fetal heart rate while a woman is in labor.

The hand-held BabyBeats monitor relies on inexpensive microphone technology to amplify the beating of an unborn baby’s heart and digitally displays the heart rate. At an estimated $10, the device is a fraction of the cost of Doppler technology used in most modern hospitals.

“These brilliant student engineers are designing ultra-affordable, effective transformational tools that can be used easily at the community level to save the lives of women and children,” said Harshad Sanghvi, vice president and medical director of Jhpiego.

These devices, which are in prototype phase, are the result of a unique partnership between Jhpiego’s maternal and newborn health experts and CBID professors and engineers who work in the lab and in the field to address today’s global health challenges.

Two other global health design projects on display will be ADAPT and CryoPop. ADAPT, the Automatically Deflating Air Postpartum Tamponade, can help stop a woman from bleeding to death after birth, the cause of 125,000 maternal deaths worldwide each year. A custom-designed balloon inflates in the uterus, providing uniform pressure to help stop post-birth bleeding,

and then automatically deflates, allowing the uterus to contract to its normal size. Its creators say that it would be safe, reliable and cost less than $10.

CryoPop is a device that creates dry ice from CO2 to kill precancerous lesions in the cervix and prevent cervical cancer, a leading killer of women in the developing world.

This method of cryoablation doesn’t require a skilled physician or electricity, which are unavailable in many remote parts of the

world. Made of injection-molded components, CryoPop would be more durable, and 30 times more efficient and far cheaper than the $2,000 equipment costs of the current method of cryoablation.

“For each of these projects, millions of lives are at stake,” said Youseph Yazdi, executive director of CBID. “The Johns Hopkins students provide the creativity, passion and very long hours that it takes to make the breakthroughs you see here.”

SAIS gift, one of school’s largest ever, will support Foreign Policy Institute

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AIS has received one of the largest gifts in the school’s history: a residential property valued at $5.9 million from an anonymous donor. This property will be sold by the Johns Hopkins University Real Estate Office to create a permanent base of support for the Foreign Policy Institute. The FPI is the research arm of the school and seeks to develop knowledge and promote public awareness of issues in foreign affairs through practically oriented research and discussion.

In making the announcement last week to the SAIS community, Dean Jessica Einhorn said that the gift will establish the Betty Lou Hummel Endowed Fund.

Betty Lou Firstenberger Hummel (1925– 2011) was a member of SAIS’s first graduating class, in 1946, and was the widow of

U.S. Ambassador Arthur W. Hummel Jr. She served alongside her husband during his multiple ambassadorial appointments, to Burma, Ethiopia, Pakistan and China, among other posts, and was active in international issues throughout her lifetime.

“The Betty Lou Hummel Endowed Fund will help underwrite operating costs, and support creative programming and innovative research and discussion, at FPI, enhancing the institute’s role as an incubator of new thinking and approaches to foreign policy challenges,” Einhorn said. “With Professor Carla Freeman, FPI’s executive director, I am particularly pleased that the new endowment also will support opportunities by FPI to engage students and faculty more actively in its work.”

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JHU researchers elected to National Academy of Sciences

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aul Englund, a professor emeritus of biological chemistry, and Rachel Green and Se-Jin Lee, both professors of molecular biology and genetics, were among 82 scientists inducted April 28 into the National Academy of Sciences for their distinguished research achievements. The induction ceremony took place at the group’s 149th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. An election into the academy is one of the highest honors bestowed on a researcher.

“Paul, Rachel and Se-Jin all have contributed so much to their fields. I am thrilled that the National Academies has recognized them for their work,” says Landon King, vice dean for research at Johns Hopkins Medicine. “This is great news for them and an honor for Johns Hopkins Medicine.”

Englund earned his bachelor’s degree in

Related websites Rachel Green:

jhu.edu/greenlab/members/green .html Paul Englund:

biolchem.bs.jhmi.edu/pages/ facultydetail.aspx?AspXPage=g_ A13E315C00C04DFD949FD3E57 BA45181:ID%3D76 Se-Jin Lee:

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chemistry at Hamilton College in 1960 and his doctorate in biochemistry at Rockefeller University in 1966. He then took a postdoctoral position with Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg at Stanford University.

He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1968 and semiretired in 2010 from the Department of Biological Chemistry, where he was a professor. His research career has dealt with the biology of the sleeping sickness parasite, the trypanosome. One focus of his research was GPI anchors. Composed mainly of sugars and fats, GPIs hold proteins to cell surfaces in all animals and are especially abundant in trypanosomes.

In searching for the source of GPIs, he discovered a unique way that fatty acids are made in trypanosomes that is not found in other organisms. During his research career, Englund authored nearly 190 journal articles.

Green received her bachelor of science

degree in chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1986. Her thesis work was done at Harvard University in the laboratory of Jack Szostak and her postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the laboratory of Harry Noller. She began as an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2007. Her laboratory broadly focuses on the mechanism and regulation of protein production.

She has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1958, Lee came to the United States when he was 5 years old. He received his bachelor of arts degree in biochemical sciences summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1981. He then entered the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he pursued his graduate studies with Daniel Nathans in

the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. After earning his MD/PhD in 1989, Lee joined the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Embryology, where, as a staff associate, he began investigating the role of secreted proteins in regulating embryonic development and adult tissue homeostasis. He returned to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins as a faculty member in 1991.

The National Academy of Sciences, one of the four groups that make up the National Academies, is a private nonprofit honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furthering of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Established in 1863, the academy serves to “investigate, examine, experiment and report upon any subject of science or art” whenever called upon to do so by any department of the government.

New clues to how brain cancer cells migrate and invade Johns Hopkins findings hint at why certain brain cancers are so deadly B y S t ep h a n i e D e s m o n

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ohns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a protein that transports sodium, potassium and chloride may hold clues to how glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest type of brain cancer, moves and invades nearby healthy brain tissue.

The findings, reported in May in the journal PLoS Biology, also suggest that an inexpensive FDA-approved drug already on the market could slow movement of glioblastoma cells and contain their spread.

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The new focus includes an increase in cooperative research and teaching efforts with other divisions of Johns Hopkins, particularly its renowned schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Engineering.

To date, about 10 professors from those schools have been jointly appointed to the Carey faculty. In addition, Carey faculty members have begun working with professors from the other Johns Hopkins divisions to explore joint research efforts, which could include the involvement of Carey students. Also, Carey and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine plan to

“The biggest challenge in brain cancer is the migration of cancer cells. We can’t control it,” said study leader Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, an associate professor of neurosurgery and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “If we could catch these cells before they take off into other parts of the brain, we could make malignant tumors more manageable, and improve life expectancy and quality of life. This discovery gives us hope and brings us closer to a cure.”

Glioblastoma, which is diagnosed in roughly 10,000 Americans each year, is so aggressive that the average life expectancy after diagnosis is just 15 months, QuinonesHinojosa says. The cancer spreads to healthy brain tissue so quickly and completely that surgical cures are virtually impossible, and advances in radiation and chemotherapy have been slow in coming.

In a search for ways to prevent or limit the spread, and stop lethal recurrence, of the tumor, the Johns Hopkins researchers focused on a protein called NKCC1 in human tumor cells in the laboratory and in tumor cells injected into mice.

NKCC1 transports sodium, potassium and chloride ions and regulates cell volume.

Quinones-Hinojosa and his team found that cells with more NKCC1 appeared to move farther because the protein made it easier for tumor cells to grab onto other cells and tissues in the brain and propel themselves through tissue. The more of this protein in the tumor cell, they discovered, the faster the glioblastoma cells were able to travel. When NKCC1 was absent, they noted, the cells had larger focal adhesions, which allow for Velcro-like attachment to surrounding cells. Larger adhesions, they found, appear to keep the cells more

launch a dual MBA/MD degree program in the fall.

Gordon concurs with Phan that the Carey School’s focus on health care and the life sciences would appeal to any student of the modern business landscape, adding that it’s also a natural for current health care and life sciences professionals seeking a deeper understanding of their industry.

“Students coming to Carey will not only receive an excellent business education, but they’ll also be able to tap into the many resources available throughout the great research enterprise of Johns Hopkins University,” Gordon said. “On top of that, Baltimore is an amazing place to study health care, from the unmet needs in public health at one extreme to the very vibrant high-tech community at the other.”

Both Phan and Gordon point out that students will still be able to pursue traditional paths toward MBAs and other busi-

ness degrees at Carey, including the full-time Global MBA launched in 2010.

“Students can use electives to focus their concentrations as they determine,” Gordon said. “We feel strongly that the best business schools have a mix of people representing various industries, sharing their views and experiences. The intention is not to have a school full of people from just one industry.”

“This new focus doesn’t mean we’re altering other, traditional areas where we’re strong,” said Phan. “For example, two years ago we revised our MS in Finance program to place more emphasis on investing and asset pricing, and the program is now so popular—enrollment in it has tripled— that we’ve had to launch a full-time version of it at our Washington, D.C., campus. Certainly health care is not a core focus of that program, nor of our real estate program.

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anchored in place, while smaller ones make cells more mobile and allow for more migration.

In their experiments, the researchers blocked the protein and were able to slow the migration of the tumor cells. Less mobility, Quinones-Hinojosa says, means less invasion of surrounding tissue.

To block the channel, the team used the diuretic bumetanide, a simple water pill routinely used to reduce swelling and fluid retention caused by various medical problems. Added to tumor cells in the laboratory, or to human tumor cells in mice, the drug blocked the NKCC channel and slowed the pace of cell movement.

If the cells were made less invasive, Quinones-Hinojosa notes, tumors also would be easier to remove surgically.

The researchers were also able to correlate human tumor grade with levels of NKCC1.

Less-aggressive tumors, they discovered, had smaller amounts of the protein, while moreaggressive tumors had more. This suggests that NKCC1 may not only contribute to the increased invasiveness of higher-grade tumors but also serve as a potential marker for diagnosis.

Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study are Tomas Garzon-Muvdi, Paula Schiapperelli, Collette ap Rhys, Hugo Guerrero-Cazares, Christopher Smith, Deok-Ho Kim, Lyonel Kone, Harrison Farber, Daneille Y. Lee, Steven S. An and Andre Levchenko.

Related website Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ neurology_neurosurgery/experts/ profiles/team_member_profile/36 A35BDE9B71CB08318C8F419F D7ACB4/Alfredo_Quinones- Hinojosa

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Evergreen Museum & Library hosts a garden party B y H e at h e r E g a n S ta l f o r t

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he second Alice’s Wonderland Garden Party, sponsored by the Evergreen Museum & Library Advisory Council, will welcome spring from the formal gardens of Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 10.

Approximately 200 guests are expected to attend this festive fundraiser for the former Gilded Age estate of legendary Baltimore collectors and philanthropists John Work Garrett and his wife, Alice Warder Garrett. Funds raised through

the event will support the museum’s ongoing historic preservation efforts.

The evening includes an open bar, cocktails and wine, Wonderland-themed hors d’oeuvres and raw bar, live music by the Cold Spring Jazz Quartet, museum and special exhibitions viewing, and a silent auction.

Guests also will have an exclusive first look at the museum’s outdoor exhibition Sculpture at Evergreen 7: Landscape as Laboratory, which opens to the public on May 13 and features 10 site-specific installations created by students in the University of Maryland’s Landscape Architecture program (see story, page 1).

Inside the mansion, from 6 to 7 p.m., guests will be able visit the first-floor period rooms and exhibitions, including the land-

mark retrospective Alix Ayme: Western Perception and Asian Poeticism and the temporary paper-sculpture installation Lullaby in Evergreen by the museum’s artist in residence, Tai Hwa Goh. Garden-party attire with a fabulous hat for the Mad Hatter’s Hat Contest is encouraged.

Prizes will be awarded for the best lady’s and gentleman’s hats in five categories: Vintage or Traditional, Spring Bounty (live flowers), Most Creative, Show Stopper and Best Ensemble.

Tickets are available by phone at 410-5160341 or online at museums.jhu.edu. Individual tickets are $100 per person ($125 at the door); contributor, $250 per person; patron, $600 (includes two tickets); and benefactor, $1,000 (includes two tickets). All but $45

of each ticket is tax-deductible. Tickets for Johns Hopkins students are $45 and available only by phone. A selection of silent auction items is available online for preview and pre-bidding through the museum’s website, museums.jhu.edu. The online portion of the auction will close at 5 p.m. on May 9, and bidding will continue at the event on May 10.

Alice’s Wonderland Garden Party is made possible, in part, through the generosity of DLA Piper. Additional support is provided by B. Creative Group, The Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Cliff Dwellers Garden Club, Courtesy Parking, Loane Brothers, Watson Caterers, The Wine Source, Woodberry Graphics and WYPR 88.1 FM.

Tablet computers: A new tool to stop domestic violence?

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re pregnant women more likely to admit they’re victims of domestic violence to a computer than to a querying human? And if they are, could a tablet computer be a better route to encouraging abused women to get help in a safer, more expeditious manner?

Those are among the questions being asked in a new $4 million governmentfunded research venture that partners the nursing schools at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia. The fiveyear study, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, will be overseen by two top domestic violence experts, nursing professors Linda Bullock and Phyllis W. Sharps.

The study’s biggest aim, Bullock and Sharps said, is to identify pregnant abused women and help them move toward a better, sounder, safer future—for themselves and their children. Research has long shown that women who suffer abuse before pregnancy are likelier to be abused during pregnancy, and those abused during pregnancy have a higher risk of abuse in the early weeks after the baby is born.

“If you don’t address the violence, you’re not going to have positive pregnancy outcomes for babies and their moms,” said Bullock, the Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professor in the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing. “You’re leaving the elephant in the room.”

Part of the issue, she said, is that those doing the asking—who are doing so as part of state and federal programs that offer women at high risk for poor pregnancy

outcomes access to at-home health care visits—have widely varied skills. Abused women may not feel comfortable enough to confess their situation.

The discomfort goes the other way, too.

A previous study led by Bullock and Sharps, a nursing professor, associate dean for community and global programs, and director of the Center for Global Nursing at Johns Hopkins, found that often “the nurses themselves feel uncomfortable about asking about the abuse, and that fact may be the barrier between a woman getting help and considering leaving her abuser—or not.”

“What we find is that when we’re using real, live home visitors, they’re very uncomfortable asking about abuse,” Bullock said.

“There is a huge variety of educational levels among these folks. And many have been abused themselves.”

The abuser is often present during these home visits, and monitoring what is said.

Of the 4,000 women to be assessed in the study in Baltimore and rural areas of Virginia and Missouri, half will be screened for abuse by the current method: being asked orally, by a visiting nurse. The other half will be handed a mobile tablet (akin to an iPad or an Android hand-held computer) and ear buds by the visiting nurse, and then guided through a series of on-screen questions and prompts about intimate partner violence.

Should the abuser enter the room, a “safety button” prompts a cloaking video.

Sharps and Bullock hypothesize that using mobile tablets will increase by as much as a third the number of women who identify themselves as victims of domestic abuse.

And once women who are victims are identified, they can be given appropriate interventions that range from the straightforward (having extra sets of house and car keys, a packed bag with several days’ supplies of clothes and toiletries, and a “safety plan” to exit the residence quickly) to the more complex (information about protective orders, shelter locations and creating a repository for important paperwork, such as Social Security cards and marriage and birth certificates).

The study will enable researchers like Bullock and Sharps to determine whether the millions of dollars being pumped into the states for visiting nurse programs are being put to the best use possible. With the passage of the Affordable Health Care Act, nearly $1.5 billion has been set aside for home visits and prenatal care to address

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the needs of the nation’s most vulnerable, impoverished women.

Sharps and Bullock began their partnership in 2006 with a National Institute of Nursing Research grant that tested specific public health nurse home-visit protocol.

That research ultimately created the DOVE (Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation) procedure, which identifies, and offers interventions for, abused pregnant women.

The researchers said that mobile health— using technology for assessment and intervention—will add another dimension to their work.

“What makes this new grant exciting is introducing mobile health technology into traditional prenatal home visits,” Sharps said. “Our ultimate aim is to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.”

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The Whiting School of Engineering has two IT openings. The Linux Administrator will perform Linux/UNIX systems and security administration, design computer system solutions, and develop and troubleshoot software within the Department of Computer Science.

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munities in Research,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Jessica Holzer. 250 Hampton House. EB Mon., May 14, 11 a.m. “Determinants of Hepatitis B Screening Behavior Among Asian Americans: From the Theory of Planned Behavior Perspective and the Evaluation of the Intervention,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Mihio Tanaka. 744 Hampton House. EB

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This Senior Research Nurse is responsible for the development, execution, management and oversight of the overall quality management plan for clinical research activities conducted in the Division of Infectious Diseases. The primary function of this position is to establish quality assurance processes inherent within each study to assure the accuracy and consistency of study data and compliance with the protocol and relevant guidelines. For a more detailed job description and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu.

Senior Research Nurse

Schools of Public Health and Nursing Office of Human Resources 2021 E. Monument St. 410-955-3006

Mon., May 14, 1 p.m. “Severe Maternal Complications, Near Miss and Quality of Care,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Ozge Tuncalp. W4517 SPH. EB

“The Household Effect: An Independent Longitudinal Evaluation of Water-Vending Kiosks in Rural Ghana,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Melissa Opryszko. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., May 14, 1:30 p.m.

The Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking skilled applicants for a number of partand full-time positions. For detailed job descriptions and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu.

49102 Programmer Analyst 50518 Senior Programmer Analyst 50994 Senior Research Program Coordinator 51222 Senior Research Assistant 51307 Biostatistician 51437 Research Data Analyst 51690 Research Technologist 52128 Research Program Manager 52305 Senior Research Program Supervisor

“Making a University City: Cycles of Disinvestment, Urban Renewal and Displacement in East Baltimore,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Stephanie Farquhar. 744 Hampton House. EB

Mon., May 14, 2 p.m.

“The Effects of Computerized Prescriber Order Entry on Prescribing Errors,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Heon-Jae Jeong. 461 Hampton House. EB

Mon., May 14, 3 p.m.

Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity employer and 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, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.

The David Bodian Seminar—“Experience and Sleep: Partners in Synaptic Plasticity” with Marcos Frank, University of Pennsylvania. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., May 14, 4 p.m.

Woodcliffe Manor Apartments

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

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Mon., May 7, 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Design Day 2012, presentations and posters of latest medical innovations by student design teams, followed by awards and recognition. (See story, p. 7.) Sponsored by the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design. Auditorium, Armstrong Medical Education Bldg. EB The 2012 Technology Fellowship Showcase sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Winners of the 2011–12 Technology Fellowship will demonstrate new instructional technology resourc-

Tues., May 8, 1 to 3 p.m.

es, including projects created by Public Health Studies, Computer Music, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Biomedical Engineering and the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Language and Speech Processing.

Q-Level, MSE Library. HW Goodermote Humanitarian Award Ceremony, sponsored by External Affairs and the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response. In conjunction with the award, an exceptional student pursuing an advanced degree in international public health will receive the Goodermote Humanitarian Award Scholarship. E2014 SPH. EB

Wed., May 9, 4 to 6 p.m.

Thurs., May 10, 6 to 8:30 p.m. “Alice’s

Wonderland Garden Party,” second annual fundraiser for Evergreen Museum & Library’s ongoing restoration projects.

(See story, p. 9.) The event includes hors d’oeuvres and drinks in the Upper Garden, a silent auction and a Mad Hatter hat contest. For tickets and information, go to brownpapertickets.com/event/220595 or call 410-516-0341. Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Museums. Evergreen Museum & Library.

SYMPOSIA Mon., May 7, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Scientific and Animal Welfare Innovations in Drug Development and Safety Assessment—CAAT Pharmaceutical Information Day with Brian Berridge, GlaxoSmithKline; Marilyn Brown, Charles River Laboratories; Wayne Buck, Abbott Laboratories; Myrtle Davis, National Cancer Institute; Oliver Flint, BristolMyers Squibb; Douglas Keller, Sanofi; Ray Kemper, Roche; William Pennie, Pfizer; Manisha Sonee, Johnson & Johnson; and Okey Ukairo, Hepregen; with a special lecture, “Advancing Regulatory Science to Protect and Promote Health: Opportunities and Collaborations” by Jesse Goodman, USFDA (W1214 SPH).

For a complete agenda and to register, go to caat.jhsph.edu/programs/workshops/ pharmainfotoday.html. E2030 SPH. EB Fri., May 11, 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. From Theory to Practice, a PHASE

(Public Health Applications for Student Experience) symposium. Public Health graduate students present the results of yearlong internship projects conducted at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and with Baltimore City government. Sponsored by the MidAtlantic Public Health Training Center.

Conference Room L-3, 201 W. Preston St. WOR K S H O P S

“NSF Data Management Plan,” an MSE Library workshop on preparing data management plans. Participants will have an opportunity to address questions specific to their research. M-Level, Electronic Resource Center, MSE Library. HW

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

May 7, 2012 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Catonsville, medical office in multi-physician bldg, approx 1,000 sq ft, 2nd flr view of forest, opposite Charlestown Retirement Center. $1,675/mo + utils. 410-321-8889.

Charles Village, updated 3BR, 1.5BA RH, W/D, storage in bsmt, hdwd flrs, lots of light, ample prkng on- and off-street, lg garden, pets considered, 2 blks to JHU campus/shuttle, avail Aug, refs req’d. $1,700/mo. tailin.smith@ gmail.com.

Charles Village, 4BR, 2BA RH, 3 flrs, 2 mins to 27th St JHMI shuttle, dw, W/D, sec sys, avail June. $2,000/mo. 410-206-7167.

Charles Village, newly renov’d 2- or 3BR apt, 2BAs, 1,500 sq ft, laundry and prkng. 410383-2876 or atoll4u@gmail.com.

Charles Village, furn’d 1BR, 1BA apt, avail May 2-12, flexible, great for visitors. $270/wk or $50/day. kralowsky@gmail.com.

Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/full kitchen; call for wkly/wknd rentals. 410-6389417 or jzpics@yahoo.com (for pics).

Elkridge, 2BR TH, W/D, fp, loft in master BR, pets OK. $1,800/mo. christian.feuerstein@ gmail.com.

Fells Point, 1BR, 1BA apt, AC, ceramic tile in BA, hdwd flrs, appls, outdoor roof deck, pref nonsmoker. $1,000/mo + utils. 410-375-4862.

Fells Point (822B S Bond St), lovely 2BR condo, 1,100 sq ft, modern kitchen, dw, CAC, gas heat, plenty of closet space, reserved prkng space. $1,800/mo incl condo fees, water, prkng. 410-381-4370 (for appt to view).

Hampden (613 W 36th St), lovely 2BR TH on the Avenue, steps from the park, club rm, laundry rm, patio w/awning, avail late May. 410-868-3423.

Hampden, lovely 3BR duplex, 2,000 sq ft, 2 full BAs, spacious eat-in kitchen, dw, W/D, lots of free street prkng, 1-yr lease, sec dep req’d. Mina, 410-592-2670.

HICKORY HEIGHTS Hampden/Remington, apt,Avenue CAC, A lovely hilltop2BR, setting 1BA on Hickory W/D in unit,in hdwd flrs, free Internet, 10-min Hampden!

2 BD units from $760 walk to JHMI shuttle. $850/mo. yliu39@gmail with Balcony - $790 .com.

Shown by appointment 410.764.7776 Lutherville/Timonium, 3BR, 2.5BA TH, new www.brooksmanagementcompany.com paint/crpt/laminate flrs/dw/refrigerator, deck, yd, conv access to 695/I-83, no pets. 410-8284583 or moqiu@comcast.net.

Monument St, sublet 2BR brownstone for June and July. $1,250/mo. kekker413@gmail.com.

Luxury Elevator Building in Charles Village! Spacious 2BD, 2BA, full size W/D. Free off street pkg. All new appliances! $1300 - $1425.00!

M A R K E T P L A C E

10-min walk), very good view. $650/mo + utils. myhome.2011@yahoo.com.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Share 3BR, 2BA waterfront, 10 mins to Bayview, quiet neighborhood, have cat, smoking OK. $800/mo. Richard, 410-868-0003.

Need to re-home my 9-mo-old hound mix puppy, neutered, housebroken, crate-trained. jessica.swadow@gmail.com (for info/pics).

Mt Washington, quiet, spacious 4BR, 2.5BA house, avail June 11-Aug 5, W/D, hdwd flrs, WiFi, grand piano, no smoking/no pets. $1,975/mo incl utils. 410-913-9687 or violaine62@comcast.net.

Share quiet Federal Hill RH w/2 JHU TFA teachers, beginning summer 2012, 1-yr lease, spacious furn’d living rm, stainless steel appls in kitchen, hdwd flrs, garage. $750/mo. kan.leslie@gmail.com (details, pics).

Resident assistants wanted July 13-20 to supervise 60 high school students for oneweek camp at Homewood campus. Shanna, skh9701@gmail.com.

Ocean City, MD (137th St), 3BR, 2BA condo, lg in-ground pool, steps from beach, off-street prkng (2 spaces), short walk to restaurants/ entertainment. 410-544-2814.

Sublet rm in Mt Vernon apt during internship, share w/young F grad student, shared BA, W/D in apt, no pets/no smokers, must be clean and friendly, avail June 1 (negotiable), secure apt complex w/gym and outdoor pool.

443-691-3986 or jansminejo@gmail.com.

Rehoboth Beach, 3BR TH, 15-min walk to beach, dog-friendly, weekly rentals, JHU discounts for summer 2012. galeeena@yahoo .com.

Towson/Parkville, well-kept 3-story TH in Loch Raven Village, 3BRs, 1BA, plenty of free prkng, avail end of May/June. 443-791-1513 or cms1107@gmail.com.

Wyman Park, 3BR, 2BA house behind JHU, dw, W/D, garage. $1,500/mo + utils. Gary, 443-695-3110.

Very spacious 3- and 4BR apts nr Homewood campus, avail for summer/fall occupancy. $1,350/mo or $1,485/mo. 443-253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com.

Lg 1BR condo in gated community, W/D in unit, 3 swimming pools, tennis, discounts at the shops of Cross Keys. $1,400/mo (furn’d) or $1,200/mo (unfurn’d). 410-458-8416 or atorrie1@gmail.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE Bayview, 2BR, 2BA EOG, 1,400 sq ft, lg bright rms, newly renov’d, granite, upstairs laundry, office/den or 3rd BR, fin’d lower level. $165,000. 410-935-8060.

Fells Point, great 2BR, 2BA condo w/prkng, newly refinished hdwd flrs, fp, deck, freshly painted, more. $200,000. bethdmarshall@ gmail.com.

Fells Point, 3-story RH in historic district, lg priv yd, many recent renovations. Dorothy, 443-750-7750.

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.25BA RH in a quiet neighborhood, 15 mins to JHH, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, club bsmt w/cedar closet. $120,000. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com.

Hunt Valley, 4BR house in safe, family-oriented neighborhood, homes rarely available, beautiful court and backyd. $499,000/best offer. 443-622-2495.

A lovely hilltop setting on Hickory Avenue in Hampden!

2 BD units from $760

with Balcony - $790 Shown by appointment

410.764.7776

www.brooksmanagementcompany.com

M prof’ls wanted to share furn’d 3BR, 2BA TH, walking distance to Bayview and JHU shuttle line, new kitchen, hdwd flrs. $550/mo + 1/3 utils. jtian0627@hotmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE ’04 Landrover Discovery SE7, silver, black leather interior, transferable extended warranty, in great cond, 109K mi, $8,500. 410446-1252. ’96 Toyota Tercel, manual, 4-cyl, 2-dr, great on gas mileage (37mpg highway), Md insp’d, new timing belt, tires, front struts, more; very reliable first/commuter car, 161K mi. $2,400.

410-260-8899. ’01 Subaru Forester L, AWD, new front brakes, tires at 85% tread remaining, clean Carfax, owned by nonsmoker, insp’d, 125K mi. 410948-0789.

ITEMS FOR SALE Sm dining rm set, vintage water skis, exterior French doors, full-length Dior silver fox coat, fitness chair, office supplies, masonry/ wood sprayer, garden mesh, kitchen supplies, dishware, decorative items, man’s travel bag, champagne buckets, Fossil watch boxes, Playboy mags. 443-824-2198 or saleschick2011@ hotmail.com.

Local prof’l couple hoping to start a family via surrogacy. adameden13@gmail.com.

Free: 90 Vogue patterns, size 10 or 12, 19752000, mostly used, free; also for artists, 1,000 to 2,000 corks, uncounted. 410-383-2128 or janicehbaker@verizon.net.

First-year Peabody master’s student, extremely clean and early to bed, looking for F roommate. 617-549-6249 or cellogiron@gmail.com.

Help needed with a booth at an event in Washington DC, June 4-6, total compensation $600. 646-717-4789.

Russian-speaking table tennis player invites for tournament May 20, JCC Park Heights Ave. 443-517-9023 or rgpinman@aol.com.

Free concert at 3pm on Sunday, May 13, featuring voice, harp, cello, piano, 37th and Roland Ave, nr Homewood campus. 410-366-4488.

Certified personal or career coach committed to supporting young professionals in achieving their true potential personally and professionally. 410-375-4042 or successful-thinking.net.

Editing of biomedical documents offered by a PhD biomedical scientist and certified editor in the life sciences. 443-600-2264 or michellejones@jonesbiomediting.com.

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

1974 Hatteras, 43-ft, new twin diesels, generator, bow thruster, AC, radar, nice boat. $67,000. stephenbowman2000@yahoo.com.

Tutor for all subjects/levels; remedial, gifted; also help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading and more. 410337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@hotmail.com.

Fine quality furniture for sale by professor: leather club chair/recliner, glass coffee table, lg pine desk, many rugs. Best offers. 212-9608003 or shapi28@gmail.com.

Experienced, warm, energetic FT nanny avail, fine w/light housekeeping, laundry or pets, fab references. 410-736-0253 or 443-902-1687.

Kimball upright piano w/matching padded bench, in excel cond, buyer responsible for moving. $500/best offer. jiangniaid@yahoo.com.

Licensed landscaper avail for spring/summer lawn maintenance, mulching, yard cleanup, other services incl’d trash hauling. 410-8126090 or romilacapers@comcast.net.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Portable canvas patio chair, Epson Stylus 760 color printer, sand beach chairs (2), digital piano, 100W amplifier, keyboard case, oilfilled heaters (3), ergonomic kneeling posture chair. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net.

Quiet, serious Hopkins affiliate wanted for rm in 2BR, 1.5BA Butchers Hill RH, CAC, W/D, balcony, 10-min walk to Hopkins, nonsmoker only. $475/mo + utils. chiphawk@ gmail.com.

Host families needed, June 27-July 24, 15 students from Spain need host families for cultural exchange program; host families come in all shapes/sizes. Jeff Brotman, 410-299-8308 or jabrotman@msn.com.

Looking for responsible house sitter for July and August, references required. 443-413-2821.

Lateral file cabinets (10), 5-drawer, 36" and 42", in excel cond. $200/ea. Frank, 410-7804944.

410.764.7776

HICKORY HEIGHTS

Rm in furn’d Halethorpe house, W/D, backyd, nr state park, nr MARC train/695/95. $600/ mo + utils, high-speed Internet, cable TV. 410-409-0692 or lizo99@hotmail.com.

3402 Mt Pleasant Ave, quality craftsmanship, nr all JH, ideal location, won’t last. $159,900.

302-981-6947 or jvgiiird@hotmail.com.

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Leather sleep sofa/futon, in good cond, lg size. $120. 410-889-1213 or judybyen@hotmail .com.

Hauling/junk removal, next-day pickup possible, free phone estimate ($40 and up), 15% discount all Hopkins. John, 410-419-3902.

Grass cutting, weed whacking, edging, leaf removal and exterior painting. George, 443762-3183.

Masterpiece Landscaping provides knowledgable on-site consultation, transplanting, bed prep, installation, sm tree/shrub shaping, licensed. Terry, 410-652-3446.

F wanted for furn’d BR w/priv BA and highspeed Internet nr JHH/SoN/SPH (maximum

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“Remote Sensing and Climate Change,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Robert Cahalan, NASA Goddard. Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., May 11, 2 p.m.

“Using Systems Approaches to Dissect Central Bacterial Cellular Processes,” a Biology seminar with Carol Gross, University of California, San Francisco. 100 Mudd. HW The David Bodian Seminar—“Populations of ON and OFF Thalamic Inputs Underlying the Functional Architecture of Primary Visual Cortex” with Jose-Manuel Alonso, State University of New York College of Optometry. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., May 7, 4 p.m.

Wed., May 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Europe After the Euro

Crisis, a SAIS European Studies Program conference with various speakers. (All of the speakers’ comments will be off the record.)

Co-sponsored by East European Politics and Societies. For information or to RSVP, go to epop@ acls.org. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS

Mon., May 7, 4:30 p.m. “The Missing Global Theory of Smooth Manifolds,” a Topology seminar with Frank Quinn, Virginia Tech.

Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger. HW

DISCUSSIONS/ TALKS

“The Transformation of Johns Hopkins Medicine (a 15-Year Journey),” a special talk by Edward Miller on his years as dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Hurd Hall. EB Thurs., May 10, noon.

L E C T URE S

The William M. Shelley Memorial Lecture—“Viral and Molecular Insights in ENT Pathology” by Stacey Mills, University of Virginia. Sponsored by Pathology.

Hurd Hall. EB

Mon., May 7, 8:30 a.m.

“Global Governance of the Multinational Tobacco Industry in the 21st Century: Can We Achieve Coherence Between Development and World Health?” an Institute for Global Tobacco Control lecture by Gregory Connolly, Harvard School of Public Health. B14B Hampton House. EB

Mon., May 7, 12:15 p.m.

“Advancing Regulatory Science to Protect and Promote Health: Opportunities and Collaborations,” an Environmental Health Sciences/ Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing lecture by Jesse Goodman, USFDA. W1214 SPH. EB

Mon., May 7, 5 p.m.

Tues., May 8, 1 p.m. Association for Computing Machinery Lecture in Memory of Nathan Krasnopoler—“Automotive Technology, Driver Distraction and Demographics: Rethinking Interface Design to Match Driver Capabilities” by Bryan Reimer, MIT. Sponsored by the Nathan Krasnopoler Memorial Fund to benefit the Johns Hopkins chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. Hackerman Auditorium. HW

Mon., May 7, 12:15 p.m. “Lessons From Rebuilding the Liberia National Malaria Program in a Post-Conflict Setting Into One of Africa’s Finest,” an International Health seminar with Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant minister of health/deputy chief medical officer of preventive services, Republic of Liberia. W2017 SPH. EB Mon., May 7, 4 p.m.

C O N FERE N C E S

Wed., May 9, 8:30 a.m. “Bath House to Bloomberg to Beyond,” a Pediatric Grand Rounds talk

by George Dover, director, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Chevy Chase Auditorium, Sheikh Zayed Tower. EB

SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Augusten Burroughs, author of the best-selling memoir ‘Running With Scissors,’ will discuss his new work, ‘This Is How’—a no-holds-barred book of advice on everything from how to ride an elevator to how to finish your drink. See Readings/Book Talks.

The Francis D. Carlson Lecture in Biophysics—“Mass Spectrometry: From Peripheral Proteins to Membrane Motors” by Carol Robinson, University of Oxford, U.K. Sponsored by Biophysics. 50 Gilman. HW Mon., May 14, 11 a.m.

Mon., May 14, 4 p.m. The Dean’s Lecture IV—“Immune Modulation for Hand Transplantation: Changing the Risk-Benefit Balance” by W.P. Andrew Lee, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB

MUSIC

Peabody Opera Etudes, new operas composed for and with their casts. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

music by Mozart, Bruch and Sibelius. Friedberg Hall. Peabody Preparatory Fran G. Zarubick Honors Recital, featuring the winners of the Preparatory Spring Honors Competition. Griswold Hall.

Sun., May 13, 3 p.m.

Peabody

REA D I N G S / B OO K T A L K S

Augusten Burroughs will read from and sign copies of his latest book, This Is How. Charles Commons Conference Center. HW

Wed., May 9, 7 p.m.

Mon., May 7, 7:30 p.m.

Peabody at Homewood presents the Kubrick Quartet performing music by Bartok and Mozart. $10 suggested donation, $5 for full-time students with ID. Limited space; advance tickets are recommended. Make reservations online at homewoodmuseum@jhu.edu or by calling 410-516-5589. Sponsored by University Museums.

Homewood Museum. HW

Tues., May 8, 5 p.m.

The Peabody Computer Music Consort performs. Griswold Hall.

Tues., May 8, 7:30 p.m.

Peabody

The Peabody Preparatory Young Artists Orchestra and the Preparatory String Ensemble performs music by Bach, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Gazda and Meyer. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Sat., May 12, 3:30 p.m.

Sat., May 12, 7 p.m. The Peabody Youth Orchestra performs

S E M I N AR S

“WorkRelated Fall Prevention: Results of a Systematic Review,” an Occupational and Environmental Health seminar with Michelle Chervak, U.S. Army Public Health Command/Army Institute of Public Health, Aberdeen Proving Ground. W2030 SPH. EB

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“Microfinance Intervention to Improve Health, Economic Stability and Reintegration of Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Nancy Glass, SoN. Co-sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy, the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence and the Center for Gun Policy and Research. 250 Hampton House.

EB

“Telomeres and Virulence in the Yeast Pathogen Candida glabrata,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Brendan Cormack,

Mon., May 7, 12:15 p.m.

Tues., May 8, noon. “Bittersweet Roles of O-GlcNAc in Signaling and Transcription,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Gerald Hart, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB Tues., May 8, 1 p.m. “Uncertainty in Natural Image Segmentation,” a JHU Center for Imaging Science seminar with Erik Sudderth, Brown University. 314 Clark. HW

“Models of Recombination, Interference, Infertility and Non-Disjunction,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine/ Human Genetics Graduate Program thesis defense seminar with Henry Johnston. G-007 Ross. EB

Wed., May 9, 10 a.m.

Wed., May 9, noon. “A MixedMethods Study of Providers’ Perspectives on Clinical Work Involved in Managing Emotional, Behavioral and Mental Health Problems in Pediatric Primary Care,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Waleed Zafar. 892 Hampton House. EB Wed.,

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Mental Health Noon Seminar— “Psychiatry 2.0: Improving Treatment, Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Engineering Through e-Mental Health” with Michelle Carras and “Metabolic Problems and Neurocognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia” with Yoichiro Takayanagi. B14B Hampton House. EB “Twists and Turns in Ubiquitin Conjugation Cascades,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Brenda Schulman, St. Jude Children’s Hospital. 701 WBSB.

Wed., May 9, 1:30 p.m.

EB Wed., May 9, 4 p.m. “Cells in Stress: Protein Misfolding in Aging and Disease,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Richard Morimoto, Northwestern University. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Thurs., May 10, 10 a.m. “Development of Water Quality Diagnos-

tic ‘Toolkit’ for the TechnologyBased Evaluation of Waterborne Chemical Microbial Contaminants in International Settings,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Yayi Guo. W7023 SPH. EB “Dynamics of Endocytosis,” a Cell Biology seminar with Tom Kirchhausen, Harvard University Medical School. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg.

Thurs., May 10, noon.

EB Thurs., May 10, noon. “Toward a Genetic Theory of Infectious Diseases,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Jean-Laurent Casanova, Rockefeller University. W1020 SPH. EB Thurs.,

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“Addressing Brain Complexity: Toward a 21st-Century CNS Pharmacology,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Nathaniel Heintz, HHMI/Rockefeller University. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Thurs.,

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“Making Health the Default: An Exploration of Mothers’ Perceptions About the Options for Children’s Meals at Fast-Food Restaurants,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Holly Henry. 744 Hampton House. EB Thurs., May 10, 4 p.m. “Twists and Turns in Ubiquitin Conjugation Cascades,” a Biology seminar with Brenda Schulman, St. Jude Children’s Hospital. 100 Mudd.

HW Fri., May 11, noon. “Open Door Policy and Leprosy Control in China,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases special seminar with Huan-Ying Li, Beijing Tropical Medicine Research Institute/ Beijing Friendship Hospital. W1020 SPH. EB Fri., May 11, 1 p.m. “Characterization of Murine Carotid Body Function: Strain Differences and Pharmacological Manipulations,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Luis Pichard. W7023 SPH. EB Mon., May 14, 9 a.m. “Community Engagement in Research: Lessons From the Clinical and Translational Science Award Program and Development of a Framework to Determine the Ethical Duty to Engage Com-

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