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eather Thompson opened her talk on the food pyramid with a healthy heaping of knowledge on grains. The part-time MPH student at the School of Public Health then veered off into the meat and beans territory, with stops at all the other groups, from vegetables to the “know your limits” fats and sugars.

Thompson’s audience was a small group of 6th- and 7th-grade students from the Baltimore Civitas School who are enrolled in Baltimore SquashWise, a fitness and education enrichment program that serves public middle school students in the city. The 13 students eagerly answered Thompson’s questions about nutrition and had a few questions, and often amusing declarations, of their own.

“Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?” one student asked.

“What food group would a Pop Tart be in?” asked another.

“I like candy sandwiches.”

“I drank two raw eggs once, but they kind of came back up on me.” After a round of laughs from that line, ThompContinued on page 5

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pple’s new iPad tablet computer might be the gadget of the moment, but Johns Hopkins has its own new piece of technology with the signature lowercase vowel— and those who serve the thousands of JHU internationals JHU now has eagerly welcomed its arrival.

The university has 7,000-plus implemented a new Web-based system visiting to manage the immischolars and gration applications and processes related to international stustudents dents and scholars at all university divisions.

Branded iHopkins, it is a modified version of iOffice, a comprehensive immigration case management system developed by Indiana University and in use by universities nationwide. It replaced the six-year-old i1440 system that was somewhat cumbersome, was never fully implemented at all divisions and would not meet the complete demands of the next generation of SEVIS (Student and Exchange Visitor Information System), the government’s Web-based system for maintaining information on international students and exchange visitors in the United States.

The university currently has more than 7,000 visiting students, faculty and other scholars in its academic divisions.

SEVIS is administered by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. SEVIS II was scheduled to be implemented in March 2010 but has since been postponed.

“We are now positioned, whenever SEVIS II is launched, to be fully compliant,” said Jennifer Kerilla, director of the Office of International Student, Faculty and Staff Services for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Kerilla said that iHopkins will be continuously upgraded to ensure it meets any new data requirements of SEVIS II. In addition to i1440, some divisions

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Heather Thompson, a part-time MPH student in the School of Public Health, works on a nutrition program with middle-schoolers enrolled in SquashWise.

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Assessing cardio care for HIV/AIDS patients

By Hillel Kutler

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n a three-year study of 700 Baltimore patients with HIV/AIDS, Jason Farley, an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, will explore the effectiveness of health care clinicians in preventing cardiovascular disease in HIV/ AIDS patients.

“In an HIV/AIDS clinic population, we’re very focused on treating HIV, but we’re also

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involved in providing primary care,” Farley said. “The question of the study is: How good are we at preventing cardiovascular conditions when we have another life-threatening condition we’re paying attention to?”

Farley said he believes that early intervention would help greatly. Untreated HIV/ AIDS has been known to increase cardiovascular problems; on the other hand, antiretroviral therapy on HIV/AIDS patients carries risks, including heart attacks.

Through the study, Farley will examine the degree to which the clinicians screen

their HIV/AIDS patients’ cardiovascular health by advising them on such matters as proper diet and weight, regular exercise and smoking cessation. He also will evaluate how well they control such conditions as hypertension and diabetes that affect cardiovascular disease and that may be affected

by HIV/AIDS or its treatment.

Health care professionals’ being “strapped for time” during appointments means less opportunity to address HIV/AIDS patients’

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BY THE TIME pediatric residents had finished their weeklong drive to collect crutches for earthquake victims in Haiti, more than 3,000 pairs were crammed into their holding spots in the David M. Rubenstein Child Health Building at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and a volunteer’s garage. The organizers—who had hoped to pull in a few hundred pairs—worked with FedEx, which donated two trucks and handled shrink-wrapping on pallets for the drive to Miami and flight to Port-au-Prince.

HIV/AIDS Continued from page 1 overall condition, including cardiovascular health, Farley said. Meanwhile, cardiovascular disease, or CVD—the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States—is an increasing, non-AIDS–related cause of morbidity and mortality in people with HIV/AIDS. The pilot project also will develop an automated system for tracking the screening procedures and assessing providers’ adherence to the American Heart Association’s guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. The tracking method—known as

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“I want to see how good we are at putting patients on lipid therapy, keeping their blood pressure under control, using prophylactic aspirin—at preventing heart disease among patients with HIV/AIDS,” Farley said.

The study is being funded through a National Institute of Nursing Research grant to the School of Nursing’s Center for Excellence for Cardiovascular Health in Vulnerable Populations. G

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uring President Obama’s meeting in Baltimore with Republican congressional leaders on Jan. 29, a delegation of Republican spouses took an “architectural highlights” tour of the city. Led by author and photographer Bill McAllen, whose book Spirit of Place: Baltimore’s Favorite Spaces was published a year ago, the group toured the George Peabody Library and visited the Peabody Conservatory.

Library assistant Paul Espinosa spoke about George Peabody’s importance as one of Baltimore’s early benefactors and gave a brief overview of the holdings of the Peabody Library, the building’s history and the day-to-day operations of the library in its support of the educational mission of Johns Hopkins’ Sheridan Libraries.

The group also visited the Peabody Conservatory, where they were treated to an impromptu performance on the double bass

by Duc Minh Tran, a graduate professional diploma candidate.

108 jobs created by ARRA funding; all will be filled soon

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ne year ago this month, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a legislative initiative designed to stimulate domestic spending and create jobs by pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy. Millions of those dollars have landed at Johns Hopkins and are being put to use on groundbreaking research projects.

Since ARRA was enacted, the university has received more than 340 stimulus-funded research grants and supplements totaling more than $160.3 million from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The grants were selected from among about 1,300 Johns Hopkins proposals for investigations ranging from efforts to find more cost-effective ways to treat heart failure patients to looking into ways to better treat patients with such debilitating conditions as Alzheimer’s disease, progeria and schizophrenia.

To date, the stimulus-related investigations by university scientists have resulted in the creation of 108 staff jobs, 81 of which have been filled and 27 of which are in the process of being filled. These positions do not include jobs that were saved when other grants ran out, and do not include faculty and graduate student positions supported by ARRA grants.

Four from JHU tapped for new mayor’s transition committees

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n undergraduate student coalition has designated Feb. 20 as Saturday for Haiti on the Homewood campus. A number of events throughout the day and evening will raise money for earthquake relief. Organizers of the Johns Hopkins Haiti Aid effort say it will be the kickoff to a semester-long series of Haiti-focused fundraising efforts.

Homewood campus set to test emergency alert systems

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omewood Campus Safety and Security will conduct a test of the campus siren/public address system and the Johns Hopkins Emergency Alerts text messaging system at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9. The tests will be a full-scale simultaneous activation of both systems.

The siren/PA system, which is activated by radio signal from the Homewood Communications Center, is composed of speakers on Garland Hall, Whitehead Hall and the O’Connor Recreation Center. The sirens will sound the alert tone and then broadcast the voice message, announcing, “This is a test of the Homewood campus emergency warning system.”

Those who have subscribed to the text message alert system will receive a brief message that reads, “This is a test of the Johns Hopkins Homewood Emergency Alert text message system. There is NO emergency at this time.”

Shortly after the public address broadcast, an all-clear alert tone will sound, followed by the message saying, in part, “This has been a test of the Homewood campus emergency warning system. Had there been an actual emergency, you would have been given specific instructions on what to do.”

Because the public address system incorporates a silent self-test feature that will exercise each module on a weekly basis, Campus Safety and Security will schedule “live” tests only three times a year. The main purpose of the exercise is to familiarize the Homewood community with the sound of the system.

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C. Lockard Conley, 94, pioneering hematologist

By Neil A. Grauer

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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. Lockard Conley, a pioneering Johns Hopkins hematologist and acclaimed teacher who conducted landmark inquiries into blood coagulation, blood platelets, hemorrhagic diseases, hemoglobins and sickle cell anemia while simultaneously inspiring generations of students and young researchers, died of Parkinson’s disease on Jan. 30 at his home in Catonsville, Md. He was 94.

Conley, who also made crucial contributions to developing a therapy for vitamin B-12 deficiency, was as famed for his softspoken manner and modesty as for his brilliance in the laboratory, the classroom and at his patients’ bedsides. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1946 and was appointed head of its newly formed Division of Hematology in 1947. In 1956, he became the first physician at Johns Hopkins who was not head of a School of Medicine department to be made a full professor. He was named a University Distinguished Professor of Medicine in 1976.

For many medical students, residents and fellows spanning five decades, Conley was the most important teacher and mentor they ever had. They said their achievements could be traced directly to Conley’s impact on their lives.

In a 2006 Hopkins Medicine profile of Conley, who was known to his friends as Lock, former School of Medicine Dean Richard S. Ross, said, “He represents the best of Hopkins.”

For many medical students, residents and fellows spanning five decades, C. Lockard ‘Lock’ Conley was the most important teacher and mentor they ever had.

Sir David Weatherall, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, founder of Oxford’s Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine and now chancellor of Keele University in Staffordshire, was just plain David, a freshly minted physician from the University of Liverpool, when Conley supervised his 1963–65 fellowship at Johns Hopkins. In the foreword to a 2002 book co-edited by three other former Conley fellows and dedicated to Conley, Weatherall wrote: “Of all the remarkable physicians

Applicants sought for JHU’s second Annenberg Fellowship B y A m y L u n d ay

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he prestigious Annenberg Fellowship will allow one young Johns Hopkins scholar to spend the 2010–2011 academic year as a teacher, mentor and coach at Eton College, one of England’s best-known private schools for boys. Applicants for the fellowship may be male or female.

Typically a student taking a year off before, during or after graduate school, the Annenberg Fellow acts as an American ambassador to Eton while also taking on “the academic and pastoral care of a small tutorial group of pupils,” according to a job description by A.R.M. Little, Eton’s headmaster. In addition to a stipend of $20,000, room and travel are covered. The fellowship was established by Walter H. Annenberg, U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James’s from 1969 to 1974.

Last year marked the first that Johns Hopkins had been chosen to field an Annenberg Fellow, and 2009 graduate Tripp Weber was awarded the honor. Weber is currently living, teaching and coaching at Eton and chronicling his experiences in a blog on hopkinssports.com. Past participants have hailed from MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, where John Latting, dean of undergraduate admissions at Homewood, earned his undergraduate degree in 1987.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for our students,” said Latting, who was working in Stanford’s Admissions Office when he was named an Annenberg Fellow in 1989. “And since they want to deal with top institutions, this is also a vote of confidence in Johns Hopkins.”

Fellows have teaching duties that are based on their own studies, as well as in American literature, history or current affairs. They also coach, preferably crew, but

other options include rugby, soccer, track and tennis; they are welcome to become involved in other activities. And while they have no specific duties in the residence halls, Annenberg Fellows have the chance to meet with students informally, acting as a mentor and adviser.

“Because you live on the grounds, students come to see you after dinner to talk about their work, about the world and oneon-one to expand their horizons,” Latting said.

While Latting describes the experience as one that occasionally made him feel as if he was working from dawn to dusk, he nevertheless paints a romantic picture of his time at Eton. The school is situated across the River Thames from Windsor Castle, and as a rowing coach, Latting was given access to castle grounds.

Besides being impressed by the stature of the school, its social prominence and strong traditions, Latting was struck, he said, by the great education Eton provides its students.

“Students at Eton find their niche so that when they go on to a university somewhere, they know what they are good at,” he said.

Besides benefiting the Johns Hopkins student who becomes next year’s fellow, Latting said that the university will benefit by having an advocate on the ground among Eton’s students, perhaps leading to an increase in applications to Johns Hopkins from Eton graduates.

Candidates for the Annenberg Fellowship should submit a resume and cover letter outlining their interest in the position, why they are applying and how they might fulfill the expectations of the position in terms of teaching, coaching a sport or offering guidance in another extracurricular activity.

Materials must be sent to missy.kirby@jhu .edu by Friday, Feb. 26. A shortlist of candidates will be interviewed in April.

with whom I have had the privilege of associating over the years, I can think of no one who had more influence on the way I came to think about patient care and medical research.”

In a 2006 tribute, Weatherall said, “Lock remains for me one of the very best clinicians with whom I have ever worked. [He] above all instilled into his students the highest level As head of of integrity both in their clinical and research Hematology, activities. He is, by any standards, a clinician’s Conley clinician and a medical scientist’s medical scien- supervised tist.”

Julius Krevans, former 70 fellows chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco and a Conley fellow from 1950 to 1951, also acknowledged the impact Conley had on his career. “It’s fair to say nobody influenced me more as an individual and professional in academic medicine than Dr. Conley.”

Rheumatologist David Hellmann, a 1977 graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who now is its vice dean on the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center campus and head of the Department of Medicine there, was a medical student when he was first awed by Conley’s vast knowledge in all medical fields, not just his specialty. “I have a framed picture of Dr. Conley in my office to remind me every day of what an impact a great doctor and teacher can have on the lives of patients and students,” Hellmann said.

“When I was a medical student,” he continued, “one of the senior residents I most admired told me, ‘Dr. Conley is the smartest doctor at Hopkins.’ That sentiment was shared by many residents who would use their ‘elective time’ to work with Dr. Conley in the hematology clinic.

“Time and again,” Hellmann said, “I saw Dr. Conley rapidly make a correct diagnosis in a patient whose medical problems had stumped many other experts.”

Once, Hellmann recalled, a man “who had been seen in multiple hospitals by multiple doctors” came to him with painful, blue fingers. The previous diagnosis: vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels; the ineffective remedy: massive doses of morphine. Hellmann said he consulted Conley, who examined the patient’s peripheral blood smear and swiftly diagnosed a rare condition: polycythemia, a blood disorder in which the bone marrow

makes too many red blood cells. The effective remedy: a daily aspirin.

Conley also was “legendary for maintaining long follow-up of his patients—in part because he was always curious about his patients and in part because his patients knew that he had saved their lives and that he could and would help them,” Hellmann added.

A prodigious researcher, Conley wrote more than 120 articles and book chapters and was on the editorial boards of many medical journals. One of his most influential articles was a 1953 paper in Technical Advances in Clinical Medicine in which he and a young research fellow, Ernest W. Smith, described how they had used inexpensive homemade equipment to separate the components of hemoglobin on filter paper by using an electrical current charging method known as electrophoresis.

Four years earlier, Conley recalled in a 2006 interview, future Nobel laureate Linus Pauling had used “a great big piece of apparatus” to accomplish the same hemoglobin analysis, but “in all the world only five or six patients had had their hemoglobin analyzed because the machinery that it took to do it was not available. Ernie Smith worked out this little technique on filter paper, and in a day he’d done hundreds of these analyses,” Conley remembered. “People came from all over to our laboratory to see how to do this.”

As a teacher, Conley “had this amazing ability to give a brief sermonette on almost anything—and make it both clear and memorable to the listener,” recalled Richard Johns in the 2006 Hopkins Medicine article. Johns is a 1948 graduate of the Johns Hopkins medical school who became the first head of its Department of Biomedical Engineering and now is University Distinguished Service Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine.

The American College of Physicians recognized Conley’s teaching skill by naming an award—the C. Lockard Conley, M.D. Award for Excellence in Medical Resident Education—in his honor.

Of the 70 fellows Conley supervised during 33 years as head of the Hematology Division, 10 were elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and a dozen became heads of hematology divisions or chairmen of departments of medicine.

Upon his retirement from Johns Hopkins in 1980, Conley was appointed distinguished senior clinician to the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Baltimore, located at what was then the Wyman Park Hospital, and established a successful program for teaching medical students there before retiring again in 1987.

Born in Baltimore, Conley received his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins in 1935 and his medical degree from Columbia University in 1940. During World War II, he was stationed in Alabama at the Air Corps’ Maxwell Field general hospital, where he treated airmen and instructed them on how to use oxygen during flight. “We would take them up in simulated high altitudes and let them faint to convince them that they really needed oxygen,” he later recalled.

Conley once said that his fellows at Johns Hopkins became a surrogate family—“a very delightful one”—to him and his wife of 61 years, Edith, who died in 2004.

Conley’s two daughters, Anne Weaver, a pediatrician in Amherst, Mass., and Jean Alexander, a horticulturist in Silver Spring, Md., survive him, as do two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 20, at Our Lady of the Angels chapel at the Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville.

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Lighter sedation for elderly in surgery may reduce disorientation

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common complication following surgery in elderly patients is postoperative delirium, a state of confusion that can lead to long-term health problems and cause some elderly patients to complain that they “never felt the same” again after an operation. But a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that simply limiting the depth of sedation during procedures could safely cut the risk of postoperative delirium by 50 percent.

“Merely by adjusting how a person is sedated can have a profound effect on their postoperative cognitive state,” said study leader Frederick E. Sieber, an associate professor of anesthesia at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and director of Anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Sieber says that propofol, a short-acting anesthetic commonly used to induce anesthesia and keep patients asleep, and similar anesthetics may not behave as the clear “on/ off phenomena” they were long thought to be, with effects disappearing as soon as the drugs are withdrawn.

“What our study indicates,” he said, “is that there may be lingering effects of anesthesia that heretofore may not have been appreciated, especially in the elderly.”

In a double-blind randomized study of 114 patients undergoing hip fracture repair at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, patients first received spinal block anesthesia and were then either lightly sedated with propofol or more deeply sedated with the same medication. The prevalence of postoperative delirium was significantly lower in the group that was lightly sedated. The findings, which appear in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, suggest that one incident of delirium could be prevented for every 4.7 patients treated with light sedation. The average age of the patients in the study was 81.

In addition to decreasing the prevalence of postoperative delirium in the study’s

patients, lighter sedation was associated with a one-day reduction in the duration of delirium in those patients who still emerged from surgery confused and disoriented.

Deeply sedated patients were unresponsive during surgery, while the lightly sedated patients were able to respond to questions.

Researchers judged how deeply sedated the patient became by placing an EEG monitor on the patient’s forehead.

The prevalence of delirium in elderly patients after hip fracture repair surgery has been estimated, in various studies, at between 16 percent and 62 percent. While it usually resolves after 48 hours, delirium can persist and is associated with poor functional recovery, increased length of hospital stay, higher costs and a greater likelihood of placement in an assisted living facility after surgery. It may

even increase the risk of death in the first year after surgery, according to Sieber.

Surgeons and anesthesiologists for years have struggled with the question of whether the postoperative delirium they see in their elderly patients is caused by the anesthesia they are using during surgery. Sieber and his colleagues hypothesize that some drug-induced alteration of brain activity is increasing the cognitive dysfunction in those who are more deeply sedated, though the exact mechanism remains uncertain.

Sieber says it is unclear whether the results would be the same with different sedative drugs or with patients who have more serious cognitive impairment prior to surgery. The patients in this study were either cognitively intact or had mild to moderate cognitive problems before having hip surgery.

Sieber says that reducing the depth of sedation is a simple and cost-effective way to attack this problem, which is seen more often as the population continues to age. He hopes this study will change the practices of fellow anesthesiologists and help reduce the number of patients who suffer from postoperative delirium.

“Elderly patients, when they come to surgery, often are not afraid of dying; they want to know if they’ll return to the same functional level—mental as well as physical—as before surgery,” Sieber said. “That’s what their real worries are.”

In addition to Sieber, Johns Hopkins researchers on the study were Khwaja J. Zakriya, Allan Gottschalk, Mary-Rita Blute, Hochang B. Lee, Paul B. Rosenberg and Simon C. Mears.

—Stephanie Desmon

Mosbacher to give Carey School’s Ginder Lecture

By Andrew Blumberg

Carey Business School

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ob Mosbacher Jr., former president and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corp., is this year’s speaker at the Carey Business School’s Ginder Lecture, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10, in Homewood’s Mason Hall. His talk is titled “Fighting Poverty With Entrepreneurial Capitalism—A New Strategy.”

An independent agency of the U.S. government that supports private capital investment in emerging markets around the world, OPIC currently operates in 155 countries and has more than $14 billion in commitments.

From 1986 to 2005, Mosbacher was president and CEO of Mosbacher Energy Co.,

an independent oil and gas exploration and production business in Houston. He was also vice chairman of Mosbacher Power Group, an independent electric power developer.

Mosbacher serves on the boards of Calpine Corp., the largest independent power company in the United States, and Devon Energy Co., a large independent gas and oil developer.

In 2004, Mosbacher chaired the board of the Greater Houston Partnership, a private nonprofit that serves as the city’s chamber of commerce. He also was chairman of the Partnership’s Health Care Advisory Committee and of its Education and Workforce Advisory Committee.

Long active in Houston-area volunteer and philanthropic affairs, Mosbacher has chaired the boards of the Methodist Hospital, the Salvation Army and the Greater

Houston Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is founder and former cochairman of Rebuilding Together Houston, which organizes volunteers to deliver free exterior home repairs and has resulted in the renovation of more than 5,000 houses for qualified low-income elderly or disabled Houstonians. He also served on the board of South Texas College of Law. A 1973 graduate of Georgetown University, Mosbacher received a law degree in 1977 from Southern Methodist University.

The William M. and Katherine B. Ginder Lecture Fund brings prominent speakers to the Carey Business School to discuss timely and stimulating issues relevant to the business community.

To RSVP and for more information, go to carey.jhu.edu/ginder.

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Ability to navigate may be linked to genes, JHU researcher says

By Lisa De Nike

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magine that you are emerging from the subway and heading for your destination when you realize that you are going in the wrong direction. For a moment, you feel disoriented, but a scan of landmarks and the layout of the surrounding streets quickly helps you pinpoint your location, and you make it to your appointment with time to spare.

Research tells us that human adults and toddlers, rats, chicks and even fish routinely and automatically accomplish this kind of “reorientation” by mentally visualizing the geometry of their surroundings and figuring out where they are in space. Until now, however, we haven’t understood that genes may play a part in that ability.

Writing last week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Barbara Landau, the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor in the Krieger School’s Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins, for the first time links genes to our ability to navigate the world.

“We found that people with a rare genetic disorder cannot use one of the very basic systems of navigation that is present in humans as early as 18 months and shared across a wide range of species. To

Connecting Continued from page 1 son smiled and composed herself. “Well, don’t want to make a habit of that,” she said.

Thompson and two colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are volunteering their time at SquashWise for the next seven weeks as part of the Connection Community Consultants Group, a now five-year-old program hosted by SOURCE, Johns Hopkins’ Student Outreach Resource Center that provides academic, professional and personal development opportunities for members of the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health through community outreach and service-learning partnerships with community-based organizations.

The Connection, as it’s commonly called, won Program of the Year in 2008 from the American College Personnel Association, and last year won a Student Leadership Award from the Jenzabar Foundation, which recognizes and supports the humanitarian efforts of student leaders.

Aitalohi Amaize, a program assistant with SOURCE and an MPH student at the School of Public Health, said that the Connection program is what SOURCE is all about.

“We wanted this program to make a significant contribution to the community,” Amaize said. “In a relatively small amount of time, students can use their skills and contribute to very worthwhile organizations.”

To become a Connection “consultant,” students submit a resume and a profile that identifies his or her skill set. SOURCE staff then match up the students with projects requested by a network of more than 100 community organizations with which it partners.

The Connection program annually hosts up to a dozen projects that last no longer than eight weeks. The students work in small teams in the self-directed endeavors.

More than 30 projects have been completed to date.

In the 2008–2009 academic year, Johns Hopkins students participated in seven projects, including one to help recognize Jewel House—a nonprofit that offers programs and services to teen parents—as a health clinic with the Maryland Department of

our knowledge, this is the first evidence from human studies of a link between the missing genes and the system that we use to reorient ourselves in space,” said Landau, who worked on the project with lead author Laura Lakusta of Montclair (N.J.) State University and co-author Banchiamlack Dessalegn, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, both of whom recently received their doctorates from Johns Hopkins under Landau’s direction, and carried out the research here.

Landau’s study involved people with a rare genetic disorder known as Williams syndrome. Named for its discoverer, New Barbara Landau Zealander J.C.P. Williams, the syndrome occurs when a small amount of genetic material is missing from one chromosome. People with Williams syndrome are extremely social and verbally adept but have difficulty with tasks such as assembling simple puzzles, copying basic patterns and navigating their bodies through the physical world. Williams syndrome occurs in one in 7,500 live births.

In the study, Landau’s team challenged people with Williams syndrome to watch

while someone hid an object beneath a small cloth flap in one corner of a small rectangular room with four solid black walls that had no landmarks. Subjects were then blindfolded and spun around for about 10 seconds to disorient them (think Pin the Tail on the Donkey). Once the blindfold was taken off, the subjects were asked to find the hidden object.

According to Landau, the people with Williams syndrome searched the four corners randomly, indicating that their ability to mentally visualize the layout of the room and quickly find which corner held the hidden object was severely impaired.

“They searched the room for the hidden object randomly, as if they had never before seen the overall geometry of the room or the lengths of the walls and their geometric— left and right—relation to each other,” Landau said. “If they could imagine the overall shape of the room’s layout—that there are four walls, two of them long and two of them short—and that the toy was hidden in a corner that has a short wall on the right and the long wall on the left, then they should have guessed that one of the two ‘geometrically equivalent corners’ was the right place. This is what typically developing humans do, as early as 18 months of age.”

Control subjects (healthy college-age students) responded more typically, searching for the object in one of the two geometrically equivalent corners, as has been

found in studies by many other investigators.

According to Landau, the results of this study provide another clue to the link between how genes work, how brains develop and become specialized and what can go wrong to result in very basic cognitive system malfunctioning.

“Although we are quite far from understanding the links between the specific genes that are missing in Williams syndrome and the behavior they show, such as failure to reorient, it is clear that the missing genes ultimately have some effect on the brain,” she said. “Our evidence is the first to directly show a substantial deficit in this reorientation system that is caused by missing genes in humans.”

The study was underwritten by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Health and Mental Hygiene. The fivemember Connection team gathered information, spoke with DHMH representatives and learned about the process for becoming a medical assistance provider.

In another project, a Connection team researched grant opportunities and donors to provide support for the Community Hospices of Maryland, particularly initiatives aimed at inner city and pediatric patients. Students also volunteered at Moveable Feast, the Center for Graceful Living Wellness Center, Project HEALTH and Adelanta Familia, a bilingual program of St. Vincent de Paul dedicated to the eradication of domestic violence in the Latino community.

During the current academic year, the Connection has worked on six projects, including SquashWise, and eight new projects have just been announced for the spring term.

Founded in 2007, Baltimore SquashWise combines squash instruction, academic tutoring and community service to empower underserved youth to excel academically, athletically and in life.

Students from Civitas and Booker T. Washington Middle School in West Baltimore meet three days a week for the program, typically at the SquashWise headquarters in the Meadow Mill Athletic Club, a fitness center and the largest commercial squash facility in the United States. The participants also play squash and receive tutoring at Johns Hopkins’ Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on the Homewood campus.

Thompson’s team, which began planning in October, will be involved strictly with the enrichment curriculum from now until March. The lessons will involve basic nutrition tips, how to keep a food diary, a cooking demonstration, a dental health unit and discussions about nutritional diseases, such as diabetes and obesity. For the final project, the Civitas and Booker T. Washington students will present a nutrition fair at their schools that combines all that they have learned.

Thompson, the project leader, said that the program fills a glaring need.

“These kids aren’t getting taught about nutrition enough in school, and the reality is that most of them are not getting enough structured, home-cooked meals, as parents might be busy, stressed out or otherwise not able,” she said.

Abby Markoe, executive director of SquashWise and a graduate student in the history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins

School of Medicine, said that the enrichment units are meant to spice up the program’s learning component.

“It would get boring for the students to just do their homework during our tutoring time,” said Markoe, an avid squash enthusiast. “To have outsiders like the students from the School of Public Health come in is nice. That is why we became a partner with SOURCE. The student volunteers help make learning fun. We’ll also do a food tasting and visit a restaurant later this winter.

We’re still teaching, but it’s different from what they’re doing on a daily basis.”

Thompson said that the Connection program allows her, too, to step outside the classroom.

“Volunteer experiences like this are a way

to really connect with what this MPH degree is supposed to be about,” she said of the program she’s in. “I’m very interested in nutrition and the food production process. With this project I get to apply all of the things I learn about in class in a real-world setting and then get to see results. It’s going to be really exciting to see the fruition of these lessons.”

During the discussion on the food pyramid, Thompson highlighted the need to add exercise and asked the students to identify some ways to burn calories.

“Playing soccer,” one student said. Others mentioned bike riding, jogging, walking the dog and, of course, squash. G To learn more about the Connection and to get involved, go to www.jhsph.edu/source/audiences/ Students/Connection.

Related Web sites Landau and her work:

http://web.jhu.edu/cogsci/people/ faculty/Landau

http://neuroscience.jhu.edu/ BarbaraLandau.php

http://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/ f09/f3.html

T. Rowe Price chairman, CIO, to give Leaders & Legends talk

By Andrew Blumberg

Carey Business School

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rian C. Rogers, chairman and chief investment officer of T. Rowe Price Group, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders & Legends lecture series from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, at the Legg Mason Tower, in Harbor East.

Rogers, whose remarks are titled “Leading Through a Financial Crisis,” is also a member of the institution’s board of directors, and has 27 years of investment experience, 24 of which have been with the Baltimorebased investment firm.

T. Rowe Price Group and its affiliates serve as investment adviser to more than 450 separate and commingled institutional accounts and more than 80 stock, bond and money market funds. The company’s international investment arm, T. Rowe Price International, is headquartered in London and has offices in Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Paris and Singapore. As of Sept. 30, 2009, T. Rowe Price had $366.2 billion under management.

Chairman of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Independent Review Board, Rogers

also is past chairman of the Archdiocese’s Investment Committee, past board member of Business Volunteers Unlimited and past member of the Board of Financial Administration for the Archdiocese. He is also a board member of the Greater Baltimore Committee and serves on the investment committees of Vanderbilt University and Gilman School.

In addition, Rogers is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees and investment committee.

Rogers earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and an MBA in finance from the Harvard Business School. He is also accredited as a Chartered Financial Analyst and as a Chartered Investment Counselor.

The Leaders & Legends monthly breakfast series, which features today’s most influential business and public policy leaders addressing topics of global interest and importance, is designed to engage business and community professionals in an examination of the most compelling issues and challenges facing society today.

Admission to the lecture, which includes breakfast, is $35. To register and for more information, go to carey.jhu.edu/ leadersandlegends.

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February 8, 2010 • THE GAZETTE

Applied Physics Lab staff find a Cooler way to collaborate

By Michael Buckley

Applied Physics Laboratory

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nowing how people share personal information on Web sites like Twitter and Facebook, Cash Costello wondered how—or if—Applied Physics Laboratory staff would use similar social networking applications for everyday work. “On Twitter, people post notes about Web sites they like, and I could see the same utility here,� says Costello, a machine-learning specialist in APL’s Milton Eisenhower Research Center. “Let’s say I find this great paper on a subject and think a lot of people will be interested, how could I share it?�

His solution was Cooler, an intranet social networking application of blogs, discussion groups, personal pages and files that has quietly gained hundreds of users since its November 2008 debut. Based on the Elgg open-source software platform, the site includes blogs, bookmarks, files, personal pages, discussion groups and “the Wire�—a Twitter-like section of quick one-sentence information hits.

Its eclectic set of nearly 120 work-related and social discussion topics—which range from Mac computer and MATLAB support, to bike commuting, to finding the best area restaurants—draws comments and contributions from staff across APL. “Some of the conversations resemble what you’d discuss at the lunch table, except the whole Lab can jump in,� Costello says. “Sometimes it can be distracting, but on the flip side, we can do things that we couldn’t have done without

these tools. I could post a question and someone in a different department, who I never would have found out about or worked with, posts an answer.�

Cooler is part of APL’s larger knowledge-sharing and collaboration program launched in fall 2008 under the name “connexus.� It’s a flexible, grassroots tool alongside My Site pages and blogs, expertise finders and other connexus applications designed to get staff talking and, most importantly, working together. “When people know people across the Lab, they are more likely to work with each other,� says Judith French, connexus program manager in APL’s Information Technology Services Department. “That’ll help us meet our objective of leveraging all APL has to offer to meet our sponsors’ requirements.�

And staff are using these new tools; French says that 2,500 have set up custom My Site pages, and those sites get more than 1,000 unique visitors a week.

Cooler has more than 1,000 registered users, though Costello estimates another 200 unregistered users visit the site each month. Users have the option to “follow� other users (think Twitter followers and Facebook friends) and choose both how and when to be notified when new information is posted.

Costello describes Cooler as “organic�—people can suggest and even make changes, and he and a few colleagues gather monthly to discuss ideas for the site.

Adds French, “We are experimenting with Cooler and My Sites now and will add additional tools to support social interaction in the future.�

Discussion: Reasoning through the rationing of end-of-life care Leaders asked to question ‘futile and expensive’ care in terminal adults, infants

By Michael Pena

Berman Institute of Bioethics

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cknowledging that the idea of rationing health care, particularly at the end of life, may incite too much vitriol to get much rational consideration, a Johns Hopkins emeritus professor of neurology called for the start of a discussion anyway, with an opinion piece featured in January’s issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics.

In the article, John Freeman, Lederer Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Neurology in the School of Medicine and a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, asks the Obama administration to consider rationing end-of-life care as an initial step toward health care reform.

The piece, “Rights, Respect for Dignity and End-of-Life Care: Time for a Change in the Concept of Informed Consent,� starts with the premise that futile and expensive care at the end of life is widespread, that it has been a major contributor to the increasingly unaffordable cost of health care and that the nation is unable to provide it equitably to all.

He goes on to say that while administering such care—as ordered through a living will, next of kin or parent—should be respected, he advocates that the ethical imperatives of “patient autonomy� and “surrogate autonomy� (passing responsibility for decision making to next of kin when a

patient no longer is competent to make his own decisions) should be weighed against the societal impact and costs of such care in futile circumstances. “Perhaps when surrogate autonomy and the ethical principles of beneficence�—the duty to do more good than harm—“compete with the utilitarian principle of doing the greatest good for society, the family be given a ‘nudge’ towards comfort care only,� Freeman suggests in the piece. “There must be few situations more undignified, more dehumanizing or more humiliating than lying in bed, incontinent, tube fed, with or without a respirator, unable to speak or to relate to individuals or the environment,� Freeman says, factors to which more surrogates may want to give more weight.

Rationing and providing only comfort care should be considered not just at the end of life for adults, Freeman maintains, but also in instances of extremely premature births.

He cites studies showing that intensive care for infants born at 22 to 23 weeks resulted in more than 1,700 extra days in intensive care, with fewer than 20 percent surviving.

Of those 20 percent, fewer than 3 percent survived without profound impairment that required expensive interventions.

Freeman’s paper reflects his opinions and not necessarily those of the institution.

Related Web sites Article in ‘Journal of Medical Ethics’:

http://jme.bmj.com/content/ 36/1/61.full mshome/?id=72

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Renowned poet Paul Muldoon to give Turnbull Memorial Lecture

Paul Muldoon

B y A m y L u n d ay

Homewood

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enowned poet Paul Muldoon will give the Percy Graeme Turnbull Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9, in Mudd Hall Auditorium on the Homewood campus.

Muldoon, a native of Ireland, was described by the United Kingdom’s Times Literary Supplement as “the most signifi-

cant English-language poet born since the second World War.� He is the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor and chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, as well as the poetry editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004, he was a professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary fellow of Hertford College. His collections of poetry include New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting the British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968–1998 (2001) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His 10th collection, Horse Latitudes, appeared in fall 2006 and was widely praised. His Oxford Lectures were also published in 2006, under the title The End of the Poem. His most recent book is Plan B (2009).

Muldoon’s recent awards include the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry.

The Turnbull Lecture, given through the generosity of a gift made in 1889 in memory of Percy Graeme Turnbull (1878–87), has brought to Homewood some of the most distinguished voices in American poetry and criticism, including Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Charles Eliot Norton, R.P. Blackmur, Northrop Frye, W.S. Merwin and Harold Bloom. The first lecture took place in March 1891.

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English Department launches poetry series B y A m y L u n d ay

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he English Department at Johns Hopkins will launch a new series of poetry readings on the Homewood campus with a reading by Lisa Robertson at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, in Shriver Hall’s Clipper Room.

The Poetry at Hopkins English series was created by Christopher Nealon, an associate professor and director of Graduate Studies, who joined the

Internationals Continued from page 1 previously used SEVIS RTI (for real-time interface), which left Johns Hopkins with no universitywide database for immigrant and nonimmigrant information.

Launched Jan. 14, iHopkins interfaces directly with SEVIS and helps the institution fulfill required nightly reporting to the Department of Homeland Security. The new system is also fully integrated with ISIS, the university’s Integrated Student Information System that provides access to all student records in one location.

The new system will ultimately replace dozens of paper-based processes with electronic ones, and will allow users to upload as PDFs essential documents such as passport pages and I-94 cards.

Nicholas Arrindell, director of International Student and Scholar Services for the Homewood campus, said that the most sig-

department in 2008 after 12 years at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he said, the excitement around poetry had to do with both the prominent writers that the university brought to town and the way the series connected the university to the wider community: Attendance at readings was strong, and went beyond the university community. “Coming from a very active poetry scene at UC Berkeley, I was hoping to reproduce the terrific energy I felt there around contemporary poetry,� Nealon said. “Right now I’m focused on developing the series as a place for poets to come from far and

wide, but I’m also hoping it will serve to link up poetry at Hopkins with the thriving poetry and arts scene here in Baltimore.�

Two readings are planned at this time.

Robertson, who opens the series, is the author of five books of poetry, including The Weather, Debbie: An Epic and, most recently, The Men, along with numerous reviews of poetry, art and architecture that have been published widely. Rousseau’s Boat, one of her 21 chapbooks (pocket-sized booklets), was recently awarded the BP Nichol Chapbook Award. Originally from Canada, Robertson was a member of the Kootenay School of

Writing and Artspeak Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The second reading of the series will be given by David Larsen at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 15, in Levering’s Arellano Theater. Newly relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area, Larsen is pursuing his postgraduate studies at Yale. He is author of The Thorn and translator of Names of the Lion by Abu Abd Allah ibn Khalawayh. During the 1999–2000 run of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project’s newsletter, he provided cover art and graphics.

From 2005 to 2007, he was co-curator of the New Yipes reading/video series at 21 Grand gallery in Oakland, Calif.

For more information about the Poetry at Hopkins English series, contact Nealon at nealon@jhu.edu.

nificant aspect of iHopkins is its capability to interact with registration systems. “We never had that capability before,�

Arrindell said. “Now we can see all the data that is inputted on our international population in one location, and know that it’s accurate and accessible.�

Arrindell said that iHopkins also allows administrative users to “batch� large chunks of data on populations. “Before, we had to do this piece by piece, and it took a long time. It was a sluggish process,� he said.

Users can, for example, notify SEVIS of the arrival of new students and scholars at one time through mass-registration functions rather than single actions. The new system also has a feature that will allow Johns Hopkins to generate reports by country, gender, academic department, year, dependents and other classifications.

Kerilla agrees that iHopkins will be a time saver. “iHopkins will significantly reduce the amount of time spent performing data entry, increasing efficiency and minimizing data discrepancies,� Kerilla said. “Some schools

use SEVIS RTI itself as its management system, but for an institution as large and complex as Johns Hopkins, the university needed a separate system to deal with all the visa classifications we handle.�

In late summer 2009, a team of staff from Student Systems and Educational Technologies, part of IT@Johns Hopkins, and international offices across the institution began the implementation of the new system, which allows international office staff to proactively assist international students and scholars in maintaining their lawful stay without interruption. iHopkins will provide a variety of online services to international students, scholars and departments. Information technology staff will eventually link iHopkins with the JHU payroll system to facilitate the processing of immigration applications for faculty and staff. A visiting faculty member, for example, will be able to use iHopkins to request a visa application, fill it out online and forward it to the appropriate international office. Arrindell said that this function will eliminate the need to double enter

any information.

There are more than 4,000 international students, junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows and visiting faculty on the East Baltimore campus, and Kerilla’s office has the responsibility for reporting on their employment, academic and living status. The iHopkins system has built-in alerts so that administrative staff can immediately know if someone drops below full-time status or changes his or her address. “We have to know where they are working, that they’re being properly compensated, that they are complying with their visa status and, yes, even where they are sleeping,� she said. “This new system will make our jobs easier, and we’ll be able to better assist students and be more proactive.�

Every campus is working to develop training initiatives and communication strategies for iHopkins. The School of Medicine will host its first targeted training session on Monday, Feb. 15, with a dozen more sessions in development. Other campuses will likely begin them next month. G

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Human growth hormone: Not a life extender after all?

P eople profoundly deficient in human growth hormone due to a genetic mutation appear to live just as long as people who make normal amounts of the hormone, a new study shows. The findings suggest that HGH may not be the “fountain of youth” that some researchers have suggested.

“Without HGH, these people still live long, healthy lives, and our results don’t seem to support the notion that lack of HGH slows or accelerates the aging process,” said Roberto Salvatori, associate professor in the Department of Endocrinology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The researchers, working with an unusual population of dwarves residing in Itabaianinha County, a rural area in the northeastern Brazilian state of Sergipe, and led by Salvatori, sought to sort out conflicting results of previous studies on the effects of HGH on human aging.

Some studies have suggested that mice whose bodies don’t efficiently produce or process the mouse equivalent to HGH have an extended lifespan. Other research has shown that people with low levels of HGH due to surgical or radiation damage to the pituitary gland that makes HGH have increased risk of cardiovascular disease, a factor that can shorten life span. These patients also have decreased levels of other important hormones that the pituitary produces, possibly confounding results.

Complicating the picture is the fact that

Related Web sites Roberto Salvatori:

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in recent years HGH has been widely touted—especially on Internet sites—as an antiaging marvel. Advertising pitches often base the claim on observations that among those with an HGH deficiency, HGH supplements can reduce some physical signs of aging such as thinning skin and reduced muscle mass.

In an attempt to resolve the research discrepancies about HGH’s anti-aging value, Salvatori and his colleagues studied 65 of the Brazilian dwarves. Each member of this group has two mutant copies of a gene responsible for releasing HGH, leading to a severe congenital HGH deficiency. All the study subjects have unmistakable characteristics of the deficiency: very short stature, childlike facial appearance and high-pitched voices.

After genetic tests confirmed the presence of the mutation, the researchers collected birth dates and, for those deceased, death dates for the dwarves and their 128 unaffected siblings among 34 families. They compared these life spans with each other, as well as with the death rate in the general local population.

Salvatori, who has turned to this population for numerous studies of pituitary function and HGH, and his colleagues found that those deficient in HGH lived just as long as their unaffected siblings. Compared to the general population, those deficient in HGH had a slightly shorter lifespan, based solely on higher death rates in five females under age 20. When this subgroup was excluded from the analysis, average lifespan among the dwarves and the general population was identical.

The researchers aren’t sure why this subgroup had a shorter lifespan but speculate that lower growth hormone levels may affect the immune system’s ability to fight off sometimes-deadly infections. Four of the five were known to have died from diarrheal disease, Salvatori said. Why this factor affected only females is unknown.

To learn whether having a single copy of the mutant gene might affect lifespan, the researchers recruited volunteers from the Itabaianinha polling place on election day (voting in Brazil is mandatory). Since those with a single copy of the affected gene are of normal stature, the researchers determined which volunteers had this quality by genetically testing volunteers’ saliva samples. When the researchers compared numbers of young people (ages 20 to 40)

and older people (ages 60 to 80) bearing a single copy of the abnormal gene, the figures were nearly identical, suggesting that being “heterozygous” for this gene does not affect life span, either.

Overall, the findings, published in the January issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, suggest that levels of HGH don’t affect lifespan positively or negatively, Salvatori said.

—Christen Brownlee

Former SBA executive to give Washington, D.C., lecture night-shift clerk in Los Angeles, advancing through the company’s ranks.

Carey Business School Named 2004 Woman of the Year for outstanding accomplishments throughout ormer deputy administrator of the U.S. her career by Hispanic Business magazine, Small Business Administration Jovita Carranza was also honored in 2008 for her Carranza will speak on “The Innocontributions to the Hispanic community vator’s Challenge in an Age of and for her public service by Accountability” at 6:30 p.m. on the Latino Coalition LeadThursday, Feb. 11, at Johns Hopership in Washington, D.C. kins’ Bernstein-Offit Building in She has also been recognized Washington, D.C. The lecture as a Woman of Distinction is jointly sponsored by the Johns by the American AssociaHopkins Carey Business School tion of University Women and the Society of Minority Busiand Student Affairs Adminness Leaders. istration in Higher Educa Carranza served as the deputy tion. administrator for the SBA from

Carranza received her December 2006 to January 2009. Jovita Carranza MBA from the University of Prior to her appointment, she Miami and extensive addiwas vice president for air operations for tional management and financial training at UPS, the world’s largest package delivery the INSEAD Business School in Paris, the company, at its Louisville, Ky., facility, University of Michigan and the University making her the highest-ranking Latina in of Chicago. the company’s history. Carranza started To RSVP for the lecture, e-mail SMBL@ her career at UPS in 1976 as a part-time jhu.edu.

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

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School of Medicine

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

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

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 • 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

Pain Research, which is funded through an NIH Roadmap for Medical Research grant.

The program aims to prepare fellows to work within an interdisciplinary research team to address the complex challenge of pain.

Through course work, mentored research experiences, a research project and preparation of grant applications and of papers, fellows will receive training in two or more areas of expertise—behavioral/social science, neuroscience or clinical research.

The application deadline is Feb. 28. To apply, go to www.hopkinspainfellowship.org.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply; the NIH salary structure is followed.

2010 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards — All Johns Hopkins

freshmen, sophomores and juniors are invited to apply for the 2010 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards. The PURA program, now entering its 18th year, affords undergraduates opportunities to conduct original research under the guidance of faculty sponsors at Johns Hopkins. PURA recipients can receive academic credit or awards of up to $2,500, which can be used to defray costs associated with research projects. Research is conducted in either the summer or fall.

Please note: Seniors are not eligible.

Students from all disciplines are encouraged to submit research proposals. Sponsors must be full-time faculty but can be from any division of the university.

Summer proposals are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 5. Fall proposals are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 26, and should be submitted online. For applications and more information, go to www.jhu.edu/pura or e-mail pura@jhu.edu.

Announcing New Travel Award — The

Hon. Ruth D. Vogel Fund for Professional Development will give up to four awards per year, of $500 each, to JHMI students, residents or postdoctoral fellows, for travel or related expenses to attend a scientific workshop, conference or similar scholarly meeting. The candidate must be the presenting author of a talk or poster. Applications will be reviewed by a committee of faculty and senior staff. The application deadline is March 15.

Awards will be announced on April 1.

To obtain the application form, e-mail jhmipdo@jhmi.edu.

The fund was established in memory of Ruth D. Vogel, an attorney and judge, whose career demonstrated her belief in social justice and the potential of young people.

The Johns Hopkins Interdisciplinary Training Program in Biobehavioral Pain Research — Applications are being

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Calendar Continued from page 12 Thurs., Feb. 11, noon. “Heaping: What Every Researcher Should Know About Self-Reported Cigarette Use,” an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Hao Wang, SoM. Co-sponsored by the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund.

W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

“Epidemiology of North American Swine Influenza Viruses,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Juergen Richt, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 15, 1:30 p.m. “Targeting and Drug Delivery by Biodegradable Polymer Nanoparticles,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with W. Mark Saltzman, Yale University. (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark at HW ) 709 Traylor. EB

SPECIAL EVENTS

Thurs., Feb. 11, noon.

Tues., Feb. 9, 11 a.m.

“Oxidative Stress and Susceptibility of Developing Lungs,” a FAMRI Center of Excellence seminar with Sharon McGrath-Morrow, SoM. W4030 SPH. EB

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Thurs., Feb. 11, 4 p.m. “Photon Mayhem: Imaging Biological Tissues With Optical Coherence Tomography,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Alex Vitkin, University of Toronto. 100 Shaffer. HW

“God as Causa Sui and Created Truth in Descartes,” an Evolution, Cognition & Culture seminar with Tad Schmaltz, Duke University. Sponsored by Philosophy. 102A Dell House. HW

Thurs., Feb. 11, 4 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 15, noon. “Oxidative Stress and Testosterone Decline in Aging Males: Mechanisms and Consequences,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Barry Zirkin, SPH. W1020 SPH. EB

“Requirement for Histone-modifying Cofactor Complexes in the Regulation of Developmental Rate and Timing by Thyroid Hormone Receptor,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Yun-Bo Shi, NIH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Feb. 15, 12:15 p.m.

Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association poster session and presentation; SoM postdoctoral students show their work. Turner Concourse and Tilghman Auditorium. EB

Tues., Feb. 9, 8 p.m. The 2010 Foreign Affairs Symposium on “Re-Engaging the World: The New Global Community” with former U.S. Army chaplain of Islam James J. Yee who will speak about his time as chaplain at Guantanamo Bay and his imprisonment based on false charges of espionage. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

THEATER Fri., Feb. 12, and Sat., Feb. 13, 8 p.m. ; Sun., Feb. 14, 2 p.m. Theatre

Hopkins presents the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies: The Concert Version. (See photo, p. 12.) $20 general admission, $5 student rush tickets. Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center. HW

W OR K S HO P S Tues., Feb. 9, 1 p.m. “Introduction to Facebook,” a Bits & Bytes workshop, designed for faculty and TAs (staff are also welcome to attend). Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources.

To register or for more information, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

February 8, 2010 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Bayview area, 2BR house w/fin’d bsmt, W/D, backyd prkng pad, no pets, sec dep and credit check req’d. Elaine, 410-633-4750.

Bayview, 3BR, 2BA house, W/D, CAC, fin’d bsmt, sec dep and references req’d; must see. 410-905-5511.

Belvedere Square, 2BR, 1.5BA upstairs apt, living rm, dining area, kitchen, balcony, powder rm, W/D in bsmt, fp, hdwd flrs, walk to Belvedere Square Market, 15 mins to JHMI/ Homewood campus. $900/mo. ankumar1120 @yahoo.com.

Bolton Hill, lg fully furn’d 1BR apt, avail January-August, quiet house, access to transportation. $1,075/mo + utils. maryhartney@ gmail.com.

Butchers Hill, 1BR, 1BA condo in historic mansion, W/D, in quiet, safe neighborhood nr JHMI shuttle/Hopkins. $800/mo + utils.

443-370-6869 or ianosaur@hotmail.com.

Charles Village, lg 2BR, 2BA corner condo w/balcony, 24-hr front desk, steps to JHMI shuttle, CAC/heat, all utils incl’d. 410-4661698.

Charles Village (University One), bright, spacious 1BR, 1BA condo, CAC/heat. $1,145/mo incl all utils. marionmalcolm@ comcast.net.

Charles Village (University Pkwy), fully furn’d studio w/1BA, lg eat-in kitchen, CAC/heat. $710/mo incl water. bmoremoving2010@ gmail.com.

Cockeysville (Briarcliff Apts), 2BR + den, 2BA apt in TH, W/D, CAC/heat, walk to Dulaney High, lg living and dining areas, kitchen. $1,050/mo ($500 cash back). 410336-0762 or johnjxw@yahoo.com.

Columbia, 3BR, 2.5BA TH, hdwd flrs in living rm/dining rm, updated eat-in kitchen, comfortable family rm in walkout lower level, fresh paint throughout, backs to Columbia trail, open space, nr Columbia Mall. $1,700/mo. 301-332-9829.

East Baltimore, 3BR, 1BA TH, partly furn’d. $950/mo + utils + sec dep. Nancy, 410-6790347 or Anita, 410-675-5951 or amt2813@ gmail.com.

Federal Hill, 2BR, 1BA TH, AC, dw, W/D, roof deck, harbor view, priv backyd, prkng, avail 3/1. $1,700/mo (negotiable).

99gilbertrd@gmail.com.

Federal Hill, charming 2BR, 1.5BA house renov’d, hdwd flrs, stainless steel appls, eatin kitchen, dw, AC, yd, nr 95 and Southside Marketplace (off Fort Ave), short-term lease, avail March 5. $1,295/mo + utils. 410-4562565 or janetmargaret@comcast.net.

PUBLIC AUCTION SALE

Two Multi-Family Dwellings in Charles Village Approx. $60,000 Gross Annual Rent Sale to be held on the premises

3217 & 3219 Guilford Ave • Balto. 21218

Thurs., February 18th at 1:00 pm

For more info call Nick Luciani at 443-465-4761.

Deposit $40,000 total. Terms & conditions on our website.

410.828.4838 www.AlexCooper.com

M A R K E T P L A C E

Fells Point (Fleet and Wolfe), restored 3BR, 2.5BA RH, W/D. $1,600/mo + utils + sec dep.

443-629-2264 or aynur.unalp@gmail.com.

Fells Point (Wolfe at Gough), newly renov’d 3BR RH w/master suite, 1,800 sq ft, back patio, garden. $1,900/mo. 410-245-1343 or jmwinicki@gmail.com.

Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410-3782393.

Hampden, 3BR, 1BA TH, dw, W/D, AC, hdwd flrs, fenced yd, nr shuttle to JHH, walking distance to JHU, pets OK. $1,395/mo.

443-604-4207.

Hampden (41st St), 3BR apt w/new BA, new paint, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, pantry, dw, W/D, garage, nr I-83/JHH, mins to downtown. $1,350/mo incl utils. 443-474-1492.

Homewood (295 W 31st St), 2BR TH, W/D, gas heat, deck, fenced yd, no smokers/no dogs. $1,000/mo. Val Alexander, 888-3863233 (toll free) or yankybrit@hotmail.com.

Mt Washington, 5BR, 3.5BA house and 2-car garage. $2,200/mo + utils. 443-9396027 or qzzhao@gmail.com.

Ocean City, 3BR, 2BA condo on ocean block, 137th St, lg pool, 2 prkng spaces, close to beach/restaurants, prime times available.

410-544-2814.

Patterson Park, 2BR, 1.5BA house, hdwd flrs, crpt upstairs, stainless steel appliances, skylight, expos’d brick, 1.25 mi to JHMI. $1,000/mo. 443-286-4883.

Pikesville, 3BR, 3.5BA end unit TH, fp, updated appliances, new replacement windows. $1,500/mo + utils. 443-629-6795 or 212-991-8173.

Rodgers Forge, 3BR, 2BA TH, perfect location w/great county schools, CAC, W/D, fin’d bsmt, new windows, ceiling fans, green and grassy park behind house, free prkng. $1,600/mo. dickgeorge@comcast.net.

The Atrium (118 N Howard St), studio apt, quiet, clean, secure, 24-hr front desk, resident prkng bldg next dr (connected by bridge) great location nr Inner Harbor, nr 95/395/83, utils and AC incl’d in rent. 410703-6026, blueskyballoon@gmail.com or www.atriumapts.net/features/studio.cfm.

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www.brooksmanagementcompany.com

street prkng. $164,900. 443-604-2797 or lexisweetheart@yahoo.com.

Oakenshawe, 5BR, 2.5BA RH, new BAs, hdwd flrs, semi-fin’d bsmt, garage, walk to JHU and Farmer’s Market. $330,000. 443857-2217.

Roland Park, 2BR co-op apt next to Homewood campus, overlooks Wyman Park, short walk to JHMI shuttle. $134,900.

443-615-5190.

Vistana Resorts in Orlando, timeshares avail, two 2BR villas and one 1BR villa, 25% of listing price. silviaarana1701@hotmail.com.

Charming 3BR, 2BA condo w/separate garage, walking distance to university, great buy, low 200s. Sue, 443-848-6392.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Two wanted to share beautiful 3BR, 2.5BA EOG TH, furn’d living rm, lots of natural light, huge kitchen w/granite counters, dw, disposal, microwave, CAC, laundry rm w/new appls (2nd flr), unfin’d bsmt w/lots of storage, patio w/grill. $675/mo. 717-476-1062.

Share peaceful 3BR, 2BA house (w/2 cats) nr the 33rd St Giant supermarket, avail midFebruary, short-term lease OK. $500/mo incl utils. skbzok@verizon.net.

Share Charles Village house, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, hot tub, elliptical, Internet, deck and porch, fully furn’d rm, lg, bright windows, Eastern exposure. $450/mo + utils.

410-963-8741.

Share 2BR, 2BA apt in the Carlyle w/F JHU grad, air conditioners in BRs and living rm, hdwd flrs, W/D in unit, dw, gym, pool, restaurant, cafe, lounge/study rm in bldg, nr Homewood/JHMI shuttle. $725/mo + elec.

469-951-7479 or shambryk@yahoo.com.

Sunny upstairs apt in historic Lauraville, priv entrance, shared kitchen, nr JHH/JHU. $600/mo incl utils. 443-844-4094.

Share luxurious, renov’d University One condo w/2 roommate, 2BRs, 2BAs, spacious, w/w crpt, 24-hr security. $1,550/mo incl utils. 443-500-5074 or dani.amzel@ gmail.com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Bowflex PowerPro and leg extension, 5 yrs old, in excel cond. $500. Bev, bstiver@ comcast.net.

dining table w/4 chairs, coffee table, $200; Conair foot spa, new in box, $30; HP printer cartridges, $5/ea; baby bathtub, $3; Graco carseat, $30; Safety First carseat w/ base, $35; seashells, $5; coffee table, $5.

Anitha, 612-239-3672.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Mature, experienced nanny looking to babysit, FT/PT, great references available. rasoaflo@yahoo.com.

Seeking someone to teach me Word 2007, must know program well and have good communication skills. $25/hr (for up to 10 hrs). Barbara, 718-915-3180.

Need a dynamic headshot photo for job interview/audition? Edward S Davis photography/ videography. 443-695-9988, eddaviswrite@ comcast.net or www.edwardsdavis.com.

Landscaper/horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens, can also do planting, designing and masonry; free consultations. 410-6837373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com.

Horse boarding, 20 mins from JHU, beautiful trails from farm. $500/mo (stall board) or $250/mo (field board). 410-812-6716 or argye.hillis@gmail.com.

Horse boarding/lessons in Bel Air, bring your horse or ride one of our show-quality school horses. $325 (full care) or $250 (partial care).

410-458-1517 or www.baymeadowfarm.net.

Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, no partners necessary. 410-583-7337 or www.fridaynightswing.com.

Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free, confidential consultations. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@ aol.com.

Ideal gift for Valentine’s Day/birthdays: collection of beautiful sea shells, large and small, rare finds, prices negotiable. kangxiaoxu1@ gmail.com (for pics/further discussion).

Piano lessons taught by master’s student at Peabody. 425-890-1327 (for free placement interview).

Interior/exterior painting, home/deck power washing, general maintenance; licensed, insured, free estimates, affordable. 410-3351284 or randy6506vfw@yahoo.com.

Licensed landscaper available for leaf and snow removal, trash hauling, lawn maintenance spring/summer, Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@ comcast.net.

Lg 2BR, 2BA condo w/balcony, 10th flr, new bamboo flrs, new appliances, pool, sauna, gym, indoor prkng, half-mile to campus/shuttle, start date negotiable, option to buy. $1,850/ mo incl all utils. janstrat@verizon.net.

Bedroom furniture: 3 chests, 2 of them w/mirrors, double bed headboard, $400; chifforobe w/mirrored doors, $50; recliner, $50. 410-665-7030.

Piano lessons w/experienced teacher, Peabody doctorate, all levels/ages welcome.

410-662-7951.

Furn’d rm and studio across the street from the JHU medical campus. happyhut4u@ yahoo.com.

Great Valentine’s Day gift! Christian Dior Norwegian blue fox fur coat w/silver shades, woman’s size 8-10, in mint cond. $1,000.

443-824-2198.

Tutor avail: All subjects/levels; remedial, gifted and talented; also college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design, programming. 410337-9877 or i1__@hotmail.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Table w/shelves, computer, chair, printer, microwave, 3-step ladder, reciprocating saw, tripods, digital piano. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net.

Bolton Hill, immaculate and beautiful TH, 2 big BRs, 2.5BAs, cathedral ceilings, hdwd flrs, new roof and windows, all appliances recent, French doors, granite, ideal location. $313,000. 410-383-7055.

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt w/cedar closet, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, quiet neighborhood, 15 mins to JHH. $139,999. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@ juno.com.

Harborview, 2BR, 1BA bungalow, lg private yd with view of the city, lots of off-

Johns Hopkins / Hampden WYMAN COURT APTS. (BEECH AVE.) Effic from $570, 1 BD Apt. from $675, 2 BD from $775 HICKORY HEIGHTS APTS. (HICKORY AVE.) 2 BD units from $750 Shown by Appointment 410-764-7776

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Canton-Fells Pt.-Patterson Pk.-Mt. Vernon Great 1, 2, & 3 bedroom rehabbed townhomes and apartments available! Competitive prices. Call Brooke,

410-342-2205 or visit our website:

www.cantonmangement.com

Leather couch and overstuffed chair and ottoman, light brown, 7 yrs old. $450. 410975-0696.

Mats for 2009 Honda Accord, $40; glass

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

MHIC licensed contractor specializing in carpentry work, hdwd flrs, trim, custom stairs, decks, roofs. Rick, 443-621-6537.

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

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

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

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

(Boxed ads in this section are paid advertisements.)

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

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Calendar COLLOQUIA Tues., Feb. 9, 4:15 p.m. “Methods for the Chemical Synthesis of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes,” a Chemistry colloquium with Lawrence Scott, Boston College. 233 Remsen. HW

“ ‘Power on all, even on God himself’: Divine Intention and Magical Potential in Agrippa von Nettesheim’s De occulta philosophia libri tres,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Allison Kavey, John Jay College, CUNY. Room 102, 3505 N. Charles St. HW Feb.

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“The Role of Beliefs in Linguistic Alignment: Evidence From Dialogues With Humans and Computers,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Holly Branigan, University of Edinburgh. 134A Krieger. HW Thurs., Feb. 11, 4 p.m. “Traps, Slowdowns and Bridges of OneDimensional Transient Random Walks in a Random Environment,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Jonathon Peterson, Cornell University. 304 Whitehead. HW Fri., Feb. 12, 2 p.m. “Korea and Future Relations,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Joel Wit, SAIS. Parsons Auditorium. APL

D I S C U S S I O N / TA L K S Wed., Feb. 10, 12:30 p.m. “Is It Safe Yet? Refugees’ Lessons for Evaluating Transitional Justice,” a SAIS International Law and Organizations Program discussion with Susan Benesch, senior fellow, World Policy Institute.

736 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS Thurs., Feb. 11, 4:30 p.m. The Program in Latin American Studies presents a talk by historian Martin Gonzalez de la Vara. 102B Dell House. HW

G RA N D ROU N D S

“Methodology for Modeling Dynamic Aspects of Risk in Complex Health Care Settings,” Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Reza Kazemi, University of Maryland. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Fri., Feb. 12, 12:15 p.m.

L E C TURE S

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

The Poetry at Hopkins English Series presents a reading by Lisa Robertson. (See story, p. 8.) Clipper Room, Shriver Hall. HW

Thurs., Feb. 11, 4:30 p.m.

Patty Coleman takes on the role of Phyllis.

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n celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday this year, Theatre Hopkins will open its 88th season with a concert version of the legendary musical Follies. With book by James Goldman and featuring Sondheim’s celebrated score and lyrics, the production will open Friday, Feb. 12, running weekends through Sunday, Feb. 28, at the Mattin Center’s Swirnow Theater on the Homewood campus.

Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Score for Sondheim, and the Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, Follies opened at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre on April 4, 1971, and ran for 522 performances.

The 21-member Theatre Hopkins cast features local theater veterans Nancy Asendorf as Sally, Jeff Burch as Ben, Patty Coleman as Phyllis, Ken Ewing as Buddy and Eileen Aubele as Carlotta. Todd Pearthree will direct and choreograph, and Douglas Lawler will be musical director.

Curtain time for Friday and Saturday performances is 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m. Ticket prices are $20. If space permits, student rush tickets will be available an hour before show time for $5.

Theatre Hopkins’ second production will be the area première in June of The Glorious Ones, a new high-spirited musical created by the team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, whose book and music for the Broadway musical Ragtime were honored with a Tony Award.

For reservations or further information, go to www.jhu.edu/~theatre or contact Theatre Hopkins at 410-516-7159 or thehop@jhu.edu.

Capitalism—A New Strategy” by Rob Mosbacher Jr., former president and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corp. Sponsored by the Carey Business School. (See story, p. 4.) Mason Hall. HW

Paper,” a Welch Medical Library lecture by Debbie McClellan, SoM. Weinberg Auditorium. EB

Thurs., Feb. 11, 7:30 a.m. Lead-

Peabody Spotlight presents Anastasia Petanova, flute; Netanel Draiblate, violin; and Timothy Hoft, piano. Part of a series of midday concerts sponsored by the JHMI Office of Cultural Affairs. Concerts will be broadcast on channel 54 within the hospital. Turner Auditorium. EB

ers & Legends Lecture—“Leading Through a Financial Crisis” by Brian Rogers, chairman and CIO, T. Rowe Price. (See story, p. 5.)

4th floor, Legg Mason Tower, Harbor East.

Thurs., Feb. 11, 10:45 a.m.

The Don P. Giddens Professorial Lecture—“Overlay Networks: An Old-New Communication Paradigm for the Coming Decade” by Yair Amir, WSE. Sponsored by Computer Science. B17 CSEB. HW Thurs., Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m.

“The Innovator’s Challenge in an Age of Accountability” by Jovita Carranza, former deputy administator, Small Business Administration. (See story, p. 9.)

Co-sponsored by the Carey Business School and the Society of Minority Business Leaders. Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS

The 2010 Ginder Lecture—“Fighting Poverty With Entrepreneurial

Fri., Feb. 12, 1:15 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 10, 5:30 p.m.

READ I N G S / B OO K TA L K S

Pediatrician Tania Heller will discuss and sign her new book, On Becoming a Doctor. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

The 2010 Percy Graeme Turnbull Memorial Lecture by Paul Muldoon, Princeton University, poetry editor of The New Yorker and chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. (See story, p. 7.)

Sponsored by the Writing Seminars. 26 Mudd. HW

Tues., Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m.

Risk Assessment Be Used to Prevent the Recurrence of Intimate Partner Violence?” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Daniel Webster, SPH. Sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence. 250 Hampton House. EB

Wed., Feb. 10, 7 p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 11, 3 p.m.

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The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra performs Domenick Argento’s Royal Invitation (Homage to the Queen of Tonga). $8 general admission, $6 for senior citizens, JHU affiliates and non-JHU students; free for JHU students. SDS Room, Mattin Center. HW

Sun., Feb. 14, 3 p.m.

“Ten Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Writing a Research

MUSIC Wed., Feb. 10, noon.

The Peabody Wind Ensemble performs works by Nixon, Torke, Meij, Cuong and Persichetti. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Thurs., Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 12, 8 p.m. The Peabody Concert Orchestra performs works by Berlioz, Tower and Shostakovich. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall.

Peabody

Peabody Camerata performs works

by Dallapiccola, Nono and Berio.

Griswold Hall. Peabody

Sat., Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m.

S E M I N AR S

“Prognostic Significance of Depression After Myocardial Infarction,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Kapil Parakh. W2017 SPH. EB

“Heat-Gated TRPV Ion Channels: ‘V’ is for Versatile,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Michael Caterina, SoM. W1020 SPH. EB Mon., Feb. 8, noon.

Mon., Feb. 8, noon. “A Mobile Health Application for a Chronically Ill, Low-Literacy Population,” a Health Policy and Management seminar with Kay Connelly, Indiana University. 688 Hampton House. EB Feb.

8,

“Not Every Abelian Variety Is Isogenous to a Jacobian,” an Algebraic Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Ching-Li Chai, University of Pennsylvania.

Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW

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

“Cellular Lipid Homeostasis: Managing Fat Stockpiling and Release,” a Physiology seminar with Carole Sztalryd-Woodle, UMAB. 203 Physiology (Research Conference Room). EB

Wed., Feb. 10, noon.

Mon., Feb. 8, 11 a.m.

Mon.,

“Voice Applications for Low Literate Users,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University. B17 CSEB. HW

12:15

p.m.

“About Meiotic Silencing ...,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Rodolfo Aramayo, Texas A&M. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “From Raw Microarray Data to Meaningful Gene Lists,” a Computational Genomics seminar with Rafael Irizarry, SPH. 517 PCTB. EB

Mon., Feb. 8, 2:30 p.m.

“Finite Point Configurations in Euclidean Space,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri, Columbia. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 8, 4 p.m.

“Tate Spectra, Bimodules and Calculus of Functors,” a Topology seminar with Michael Ching, University of Georgia. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW

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

“A Mobile Health Application for a Chronically Ill, Low-literacy Population,” a Computer Science seminar with Kay Connelly, Indiana University. B17 CSEB. HW

Wed.,

Feb.

“Bilevel Multiobjective Highway Alignment Optimization,” a Civil Engineering seminar with Manoj Jha, Morgan State University. B17 CSEB. HW

“Androgens, Androgen Action and the Pathogenesis of Prostate Cancer,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with William Nelson, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Feb. 9, noon.

Tues., Feb. 9, 12:10 p.m.

“Can

12:15

p.m.

Wed., Feb. 10, 2 p.m. “IP3 Ligand Gated Ca2+ Channel: Structure and Its Variety of Physiological and Pathological Functions,” a Biological Chemistry special seminar with Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, RIKEN Brain Science Institute. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Wed., Feb. 10, 3 p.m. “From Soft Hydrogel Particles to Hybrid Matrices: Advanced Biomaterials

by Design,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Xinqiao Jia, University of Delaware. 110 Maryland. HW

“Regulation of Receptor Localization and Cell Polarity by Wnt5a,” a Biology special seminar with Eric Witze, University of Colorado, Boulder. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Wed., Feb. 10, 4 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 10, 4 p.m. “Sequenc-

es of Nested Space-Filling Designs, Multi-Scale Methods for Improving Interpolators and Perturbable Models for Temperature Control Systems,” a Biostatistics seminar with Ben Haaland, University of Wisconsin-Madison. W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 9, 10:45 a.m.

Tues., Feb. 9, noon.

10,

“Treating Mental Disorders in Older Veterans,” a Mental Health seminar with Bradley Karlin, Department of Veterans Affairs.

B14B Hampton House. EB

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Calendar

Key

APL BRB CRB CSEB

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

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building Computational Science and

Engineering Building EB East Baltimore HW Homewood KSAS Krieger School of Arts and

Sciences PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced

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