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New global health opps for students By Greg Rienzi

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ohns Hopkins defines its mission as sharing knowledge with the world. A new initiative will let more university students do that firsthand during their time here. President Ronald J. Daniels on Thursday announced the creation of Johns President Hopkins global health awards, 85 announces grants for students in all divisions to grants will pursue international be available public health experiences. Thirty of them are designated next year for undergraduates. The awards, which will begin in the next academic year and will be overseen largely by the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, constitute a roughly 200 percent increase in the number of global health opportunities currently provided by the university. They will come in the form of $3,500 grants for projects around the globe, including those building upon existing Johns Hopkins partnerships with universities abroad. Daniels made the announcement during Global Health Day at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The event celebrated the work that Johns Hopkins students have completed during the past year and included a poster session and presentations by some of the students who spent time overseas in such places as Haiti, Kenya and the Republic of the Congo. Daniels applauded the work of those in attendance, and said that their endeavors serve as an inspiration. “With this new initiative, we look to you and others at Johns Hopkins to take advantage of these awards and go abroad, and then bring your experience, your energies, your new perspectives back to Baltimore and rekindle our commitments to the various challenges we face in global health,” Daniels said. Just before he made the announce-

A portrait of Johns Hopkins looks on as freshmen take their seats for the university’s first High Table dinner.

Freshmen, faculty, deans gather together for JHU’s first High Table By Greg Rienzi

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elcome, year ones. In true Hogwarts fashion—with a modern touch and some Johns Hopkins flare—the university hosted its inaugural High Table dinner for the freshman class on Tuesday evening. Students, faculty and university administrators gathered in Homewood’s AMR

Multipurpose Room for what was billed as the pre-prandial hour, then moved on to Fresh Food Cafe for a formally served elegant meal with an academic flavor. Nearly 400 students dined with more than 40 faculty and deans, who were interspersed throughout the dressed Continued on page 5

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JHU and city schools launch service partnership B y A m y L u n d ay

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ohns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels and Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés A. Alonso announced on March 2 a new program offering full-time benefits-eligible university staff up to two days per year of paid leave to pursue service opportunities in the Baltimore City public schools.

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Master’s degree in energy policy, climate; grad students and Nobelists; an Airstream arrival

Unveiled at Barclay Elementary/Middle School, the Johns Hopkins Takes Time for Schools program will share the time, talent and dedication of Johns Hopkins University employees with Baltimore’s students, teachers, principals and administrators through a variety of projects, including working directly with students, offering management and leadership support to administrators and providing facilities and infrastructure improvements. The opportunities already posted range from volunteers

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to help out at a weekly equestrian club where Baltimore City public school students ride as part of a Special Olympics program to the need for a graphic designer to help create material for a special inschool reading program. The initiative partners a world leader in health, education and science with a public school system undergoing a period of growth and achievement. Over the past Continued on page 8

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ohns Hopkins will launch today a master of science degree in energy policy and climate. Based at the university’s Washington, D.C. Center, the part-time program addresses the challenges of climate change and sustainable energy systems. “In a carbon-constrained environment, there is a need for people knowledgeable about energy systems, climate change science, carbon management and climate change policies,” said Eileen McGurty, associate program chair of Environmental Studies Programs. “We’re looking to help prepare the next generation of interdisciplinary professionals to address this need.” The degree consists of one capstone project and nine courses, four of which are required. They are Science of Climate Change and Its Impact, Climate Change Policy Analysis, Energy Production Technology and Carbon Management and Finance. This program is rooted in the Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

‘Design Revolution’ comes to Homewood via Airstream

huge trailer rolls onto the Homewood campus this week, and it won’t be carrying construction materials. The 45-foot Airstream, which will be parked from 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 11, in front of the MSE Library, is a showcase for new engineering technologies for sustainability. “Driving” the exhibition and the visit is Emily Pilloton, author of the new book Design Revolution, which profiles a range of 40 inexpensive technologies for water supply, energy, food, health and the environment. Pilloton and her book have been featured on The Colbert Report.

Six JHU grad students chosen to attend Nobel Laureate meeting

ix Johns Hopkins graduate students— from the schools of Engineering, Public Health, Arts and Sciences, and Medicine—have been selected to attend the 60th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, to be held June 27 to July 2 in Lindau, Germany. Aimed at facilitating a transfer of knowledge between generations of scientists, the meeting brings together Nobel laureates in chemistry, physics and physiology/medicine with graduate students and researchers who have been nominated by mentors. In the mornings, the Nobelists lecture on a topic of their choice, and in the afternoons, they come together with students in small, informal group sessions designed to encourage the exchange of ideas. The meeting also offers the Johns Hopkins students an opportunity to meet and connect with other

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graduate students who are likely to become leaders in their fields. Participating from Johns Hopkins will be Noy Bassik and Christopher Hale, chemical and biomolecular engineering majors in the Whiting School; Chandra Jackson, who is studying the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease at the School of Public Health; James Murray, a physics student in the Krieger School; Jose Ramirez, studying molecular microbiology and immunology at the School of Public Health’s Malaria Research Institute; and Grace Wang, studying physiology/ medicine at the School of Medicine.

EPA head Lisa Jackson to speak at Foreign Affairs Symposium

isa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is the next speaker in the 2010 Foreign Affairs Symposium. Jackson, whose nomination by President Barack Obama was confirmed by the Senate in January 2009, will talk at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10, in the Clipper Room in Shriver Hall. Trained as a chemical engineer at Tulane and Princeton, Jackson served as director of the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection and then as chief of staff for N.J. Gov. John Corzine before joining the EPA. She is the first African-American to hold her current post.

Summer Camp Discoveries Fair planned on E. Baltimore campus

he Summer Camp Discoveries Fair, scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, March 15, on the Turner Concourse, East Baltimore campus, will provide an opportunity for prospective campers and their families to talk with representatives of organizations offering summer activities. Attendees will be able to enter to win discounts toward camp tuition and other prizes. For more information, call the Office of Work, Life and Engagement at 443-997-7000.

‘On Becoming a Doctor’ author to talk at Barnes & Noble

arnes & Noble Johns Hopkins this week hosts pediatrician Tania Heller, author of On Becoming a Doctor, a guide to the academic, physical and emotional steps a future physician can expect to encounter. Heller, the medical director of the Washington Center for Eating Disorders and Adolescent Obesity, will talk at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10.

Correction In a March 1 story titled “Going green in the hospital will save money, reduce waste,” lead author Martin Makary was incorrectly identified. He is an associate professor of surgery in the School of Medicine. We regret the error.

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SPH student/JHH resident named Cambridge Gates Scholar By Greg Rienzi

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n the eve of his interview for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Trevor Ellison crammed as if for a Jeopardy match. The 34-year-old read anything and everything he could, even memorizing national capitals and names of heads of state. “I was thinking of anything that they could possibly ask me, just crazy things,” Ellison says. “I was really, really nervous.” Ellison, a graduate of the School of Medicine and currently a third-year general surgery resident at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, applied for a Gates scholarship the year before and had not earned an interview. He was determined to make the most of this opportunity. At stake was a scholarship, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that covers the full cost of studying for up to three years at the University of Cambridge, one of world’s premier research universities. He had been accepted to Cambridge in 2008 but needed financial assistance. During the interview, held early last month, the four-person panel did not ask Ellison if he knew the name of the prime minister of Bulgaria. Rather, they wanted him to tell his personal story and why he deserved the scholarship. He obviously made a compelling pitch. Ellison has been named a 2010 Gates Cambridge Scholar, a prestigious honor awarded to just 29 Americans this year and 40 graduate students worldwide. More than 800 applied, and only 104 were granted interviews. In addition to full tuition, the scholarship covers living expenses and travel fare to and from the United States. Once in residence, Gates Scholars may apply for financial help with costs related to conferences, fieldwork and other activities. The scholarship began in 2000, when the Gates Foundation announced a donation to the University of Cambridge of $210 million to establish the Gates Cambridge Trust. The gift created an international scholarship program to enable outstanding graduate students from outside the United Kingdom to study at the English university. The trust awards scholarships on the basis of a person’s intellectual ability, leadership capacity and desire to use his or her knowledge to contribute to the international society. Since the inaugural class in 2001, the trust has awarded 827 scholarships to students from 85 different countries. Ellison will use his to attend Cambridge

Trevor Ellison, a surgery resident and Public Health PhD candidate, says his Cambridge MBA will give him the skills he needs for international service work.

University’s Judge Business School from Sept. 20, 2010, to July 1, 2011, to earn an MBA. He will be joined by his wife, Sarah, and their infant son, Gardner. He plans to target his MBA study toward establishing an international medical relief rotation, somewhat akin to Doctors Without Borders, for Johns Hopkins’ Surgical Residency Training Program. This new rotation,

“I hope Trevor’s experience inspires nontraditional candidates—nurses, parttime students, education and business students, residents and others—to apply for the Gates, as well as the Fulbright, Mitchell, Madison and Luce awards.” —John Bader, national scholarships adviser he says, will tap into “a primed and eager group of talented surgeons” who want to perform enriching international service. Ellison’s hope is that the program becomes so well established and loved that it serves as a template for other surgical training programs, and that doors to international service are opened more fully to doctors in training. “A lot of surgical residents want to do this type of work but few can. It often comes down to time and money,” he says. “You might have two weeks off an entire year, and

you ask yourself, Do I go home and spend time with my family or go to South America and work in a hospital there? ” Ellison wants to establish a program for fourth- and fifth-year residents who will spend a one- or two-month rotation at an international location, a program modeled loosely after the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center’s partnership with the nation of South Africa. “I think people who go overseas will fall in love with that kind of work, and want to do it for the rest of their life,” Ellison says. “They’ll keep returning. At the UCSF program, more than 50 percent return. Even if we get half to go back, that is a success. You are mobilizing a huge force that is waiting and can energize them for the rest of their lives.” Born in Pittsburgh, Ellison knew early on he wanted to become a surgeon. When he was 12, he asked for a fetal pig dissection kit for Christmas. (Months prior, he had requested an anatomy diagram of the heart, which would come from Johns Hopkins.) Ellison says he was called to the medical profession indirectly through his older brother, who was born with severe cerebral palsy. Ellison vividly recalls his brother’s numerous doctor visits. “These doctors were doing everything they could to help him. They performed all these operations on someone who needed help and couldn’t do things for himself. That was the relationship I was turned on to,” he says. “I think becoming a doctor, specifically a surgeon, has always been in the cards for me.” Ellison’s parents would later adopt two girls from South Korea, one with cerebral palsy and the other with multiple medical conditions.

“I feel that my first and continuing lessons in service were those provided by my parents,” he says. “The lessons of compassion that I learned from them are subtle but constant. It is easy to serve others when my siblings and I have been so well-served by my parents.” Ellison earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology from Brigham Young University in 2001. While there, he worked in the genetics lab of Laura Bridgewater where, among other work, he set out to define the molecular mechanism of gene activation in a specific collagen gene. He earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins in 2005 and then began his residency. In 2009, he began his work toward a PhD in economic evaluation and policy. Ellison has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Central America. After his freshman year at Brigham Young, he took two years off to perform missionary and volunteer work in Spain for his church, and later he participated in a study-abroad program in Israel, Egypt and Jordan. In the summer of 1999, he lived in Honduras to work for a micro-credit lending organization as part of his service for HELP International. In 2005, Ellison and two friends traveled to Sri Lanka to build houses for victims of the 2004 tsunami. At Johns Hopkins, Ellison has served as a member of the School of Medicine’s curriculum reform and resident review committees, was co-director of the Emergency Medicine Interest Group and established a weekly dinner for surgical residents and faculty. Since 2008, he has helped compile a database of 20 years of Johns Hopkins experience with treating pancreatic neuroendrocrine tumors. Ellison says that a Cambridge MBA will provide the skills necessary to organize, finance, manage and sustain an international service program. After returning from England, he plans to complete his doctoral degree and residency, with the ultimate goals of becoming a surgical oncologist and spending time in overseas volunteer efforts. To apply and prepare for the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Ellison worked with John Bader, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs in the Krieger School and national scholarships adviser. “I am thrilled for Trevor,” Bader says. “Spending a year in Britain will be a great experience for him and his family. Just as important, this is a milestone for Hopkins. We have never had a hospital resident win such a prestigious award—but that’s because none of them have tried. I hope Trevor’s experience inspires nontraditional candidates—nurses, part-time students, education and business students, residents and others—to apply for the Gates, as well as the Fulbright, Mitchell, Madison and Luce awards.”

Hemoglobin A1c outperforms fasting glucose for risk prediction B y C h r i s t i n e G r i ll o

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easurements of hemoglobin A1c more accurately identify persons at risk for clinical outcomes than the commonly used measurement of fasting glucose, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Levels of hemoglobin A1c, or HbA1c, accurately predict future diabetes, and they better predict stroke, heart disease and allcause mortality as well. The study appears in the March 4 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. As a diagnostic, “HbA1c has significant advantages over fasting glucose,” said Elizabeth Selvin, the study’s lead author. The A1c test has low variability from day to day,

levels are not as affected by stress and illness, it has greater stability, and the patient is not required to fast before the test is performed. This study is published on the heels of a major change in the way doctors diagnose diabetes. In January, the American Diabetes Association published revised recommendations for the screening and diagnosis of diabetes. The revised recommendations include, for the first time, recommendations to use HbA1c to diagnose diabetes and also to identify people at risk of developing diabetes in the future. The new findings can help doctors and patients interpret HbA1c test results. In the study, people with HbA1c levels between 5.0 percent to 5.5 percent were identified as being within normal range. The majority of the U.S. adult population is within this range. With each incremental HbA1c increase, the incidence of diabetes increases

as well, the study found; those at a level of 6.5 percent or greater are considered diabetic, and those between 6.0 and 6.5 percent are considered at a very high risk (nine times greater than those at the normal range) for developing diabetes. The revised ADA guidelines classify people with HbA1c levels in the range of 5.7 to 6.4 percent as at very high risk for developing diabetes over five years. The range of 5.5 percent to 6 percent, according to the ADA guidelines, is the appropriate level to initiate preventive measures. The study measured HbA1c in blood samples from more than 11,000 people, black and white adults, who had no history of diabetes. The samples were obtained between 1990 and 1992 as part of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study at four ARIC field centers in Hagerstown, Md.; Minneapolis; Jackson, Miss.; and Forsyth County, N.C. The samples have been in cold stor-

age since their collection, and researchers were able to look at participants’ measurements and compare them to outcomes that occurred during 15 years of follow-up. “It is amazing to be able to use blood samples collected over a decade ago,” Selvin said. Currently there are 9 million Americans who are diabetic but undiagnosed. “These data,” Selvin said, “can help us interpret A1c values in clinical practice and help identify people who need treatment the most.” This research was supported by NIH/ NIDDK grants and the Johns Hopkins Diabetes Research and Training Center. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study is carried out as a collaborative study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. In addition to Selvin, study authors from Johns Hopkins are Hong Zhu, Kunihiro Matsushita, Josef Coresh and Frederick L. Brancati.

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Protecting patients: JH flu-shot rates 2x national average B y D av i d M a r c h

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campaign that makes seasonal flu vaccinations for hospital staff free, convenient, ubiquitous and hard to ignore succeeds fairly well in moving care providers closer to a state of â&#x20AC;&#x153;herdâ&#x20AC;? immunity and protecting patients from possible infection transmitted by health care workers, according to results of a survey at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In a report published in the Feb. 1 edition of the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, researchers say that the rate of seasonal flu vaccination for the 2008â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2009 season among health care workers at the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus, which includes The Johns Hopkins Hospital, was double the national average. They attribute the results to a persistent campaign that made it easy to get vaccinated and also to the wider availability of free communitybased vaccination opportunities. The 2008 survey, conducted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Division of Occupational Medicine, showed that 71.3 percent of the 10,763 hospital staff, including medical school faculty, nurses, researchers and students, received the so-called flu shot. Staff got the vaccine either as a nasal mist or by injection between September 2008 and January 2009, when people were most likely to come into contact with the highly contagious virus. For workers who came into direct contact with patients on a daily basis, the number was even higher, at 82.8 percent. Experts say that achieving a 100 percent population vaccination rate is the only way to prevent even sporadic transmission but that herd immunity can, at least, prevent outbreaks from sweeping across whole sections of a hospital.

Preliminary numbers for the 2009â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2010 season show even further progress for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, with an estimated 25 percent jump in vaccinations (or 1,500 more inoculated staff), an increase the experts attribute to the emergence of H1N1 last year and heightened public awareness about the dangers posed by all kinds of influenza. The 2008 survey also showed that more than a quarter of staff who provide direct patient care at Johns Hopkins got last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seasonal flu vaccination somewhere other

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than at the hospital, boosting the actual seasonal flu vaccination rate at the start of the 2008â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2009 season from an original estimate of 72 percent. Senior study investigator Edward Bernacki, who monitors the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vaccination program as director of Occupational Health, Safety and Environment at Johns Hopkins, said that his group was surprised to find that so many staff chose to get vaccinated elsewhere, including neighborhood drugstores and supermarkets, which offered the annual vaccination at no charge to customers, or for free at other hospitals where they hold second jobs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was promising to learn that so many staff were getting vaccinated elsewhere, as opposed to what we had been thinking, which was that they were not getting vac-

cinated at all,â&#x20AC;? said Bernacki, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins. Another factor in the higher vaccination rate, he said, may have been the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policy requiring employees working in patient clinics who chose not to get vaccinated to wear a face mask at work. Seasonal flu vaccination is not mandatory at the vast majority of academic medical centers in the United States, including Johns Hopkins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We implemented this policy to protect our patients, but it also had an added benefit of encouraging staff to do what was right and to get vaccinated,â&#x20AC;? said Bernacki, who pointed out that making progress in upping vaccination rates is not just good policy, it is also the law. In 2009, both Baltimore City and the state of Maryland began requiring all hospitals to report their yearly progress in vaccinating staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is why it is critical to track the numbers,â&#x20AC;? Bernacki said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If all medical centers took similar steps to promote vaccination, and also monitored their progress, the risk of transmitting the influenza virus to patients would prove to be far less.â&#x20AC;? Bernacki and his team said that getting as many health care workers as possible vaccinated at Johns Hopkins, which is the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest health care employer, is critical to shielding patients from possible infection during hospital stays. Hospital patients are often elderly or already have weakened immune systems, making them vulnerable to flu and its complications, including death. Some 36,000 Americans die annually from seasonal influenza, leading to more than 3.1 million patient days spent in hospital and more than 34 million outpatient visits. Since 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended vaccination for all health care workers, but most nationwide do not comply. Previous hospital surveys have shown that barely a quarter of all hospital workers get vaccinated, with

somewhat better results, 42 percent, for those providing direct patient care. To track vaccination rates at Johns Hopkins, Bernackiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team combined information from employee health records kept at the hospital and cross-checked them with results obtained from questionnaires and telephone interviews from a random sampling of hospital and university employees who work at the medical campus. A random sampling, some 10 percent of all employees, yielded 1,084 employee names, 650 of which were already recorded in hospital databases as either having been vaccinated on site or elsewhere, or having declined the flu vaccination. The remaining 434 were contacted by mail or phone to find who had been vaccinated and where, and who had not. Results showed that 132 had undergone vaccination elsewhere. Only 18 people on the call list could not be reached, a number so low that it did not skew the researcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results. According to the studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead investigator, biostatistician and epidemiologist Xuguang â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grantâ&#x20AC;? Tao, the one-in-10 sampling method combined with the follow-up survey offered a practical and effective means of accurately tracking who was and was not vaccinated on the medical campus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hospitals have struggled with how to monitor compliance with the CDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recommendation, and now we think we have a reliable tracking tool that any medical center can readily use,â&#x20AC;? Tao said. Bernacki said that patients should be comfortable going to any hospital knowing that they are at the lowest possible risk of catching the flu from an infected health care worker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, we have the means of telling them exactly what level of protection is being offered. Having this information publicly available can only lead to higher compliance rates and a win-win for both patients and staff.â&#x20AC;?

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High Table Continued from page 1 tables arranged in long rows. President Ronald J. Daniels, Provost Lloyd Minor and other key university administrators sat at the “high table,” along with freshman class leaders. Faculty and administrators wore academic regalia, minus the hats. The event, which the university plans to make an annual occurrence for the freshman class, was based on the British tradition of Formal Hall, a style of dining that has taken place at Oxford and Cambridge for centuries and recently been popularized in the Harry Potter books.

The concept behind JHU’s version of the High Table was to create a collegial venue where faculty, students and administrators could interact. Paula Burger, dean of undergraduate education, said that the university wanted to encourage students to seek out faculty and engage with them going forward in their academic careers. By all accounts, the event was a major success. Alexandra Larsen, a member of the Freshman Class Council, said that her classmates have been buzzing about it ever since. “Everyone I talked to was just overwhelmed by the experience, and how exciting it was to meet the president and the deans in such a way,” Larsen said. “The setting was so beautiful, too. Everyone wanted to stay and enjoy themselves.” G

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At the high table, Arts and Sciences Dean Adam Falk and Engineering Vice Dean Andrew Douglas

President Ronald J. Daniels Provost Lloyd Minor

William Conley, dean of enrollment and academic services John Bader, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs in Arts and Sciences

Katrina Bell McDonald, associate professor of sociology

Stuart ‘Bill’ Leslie, professor of history of science

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Pediatric palliative care initiative launched by JHU researchers B y H i ll e l K u t t l e r

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n initiative to build empathy and understanding among medical professionals who treat children with chronic health conditions has been awarded a $1 million two-year grant from the National Institute for Nursing Research, an agency of the National Institutes of Health. Co-directed by Cynda H. Rushton, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the study was one of only 4 percent that NIH funded among 20,000 Challenge Grant applications filed nationally. Seventeen other NIH Challenge Grants were extended to Johns Hopkins. With the grant, Rushton, who holds a joint faculty position with the School of Medicine and serves as director of Johns Hopkins Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harriet Lane Compassionate Care program, will develop and test innovative training methods that will include video documentaries of patients and families that are geared toward integrating palliative care into chronic pediatric diseases. The project team includes co-director Gail Geller, a professor of medicine in the School of Medicine with joint appointments in Pediatrics and the Bloomberg Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departments of Health Policy and Management, and Health, Behavior and Society; Carlton Haywood Jr., an assistant professor in the School of Medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Hematology; and Mary Catherine Beach, an associate professor in the School of Medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Medicine and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research. The effort, to be jointly run with the

Gail Geller and Cynda Rushton lead a team testing innovative training methods geared toward integrating palliative care into chronic pediatric diseases.

universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Berman Institute of Bioethics, where all four researchers are core faculty members, is meant to sensitize the entire health care team that treats pediatric patients with either Duchenne muscular dystrophy or sickle cell disease. DMD and SCD are among the most common chronic, inherited, life-threatening diseases. But palliative careâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;defined as alleviating a patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s symptoms and improving quality of life, regardless of whether the condition is curableâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ultimately can improve the overall care DMD and SCD patients receive, Rushton and Geller said. The researchers said they believe that the project will make caregiversâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including

Evergreenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ARTBus spotlights Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emerging art scene B y H e a t h e r E ga n S t al f o r t

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vergreen Museum & Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ARTBus tour from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 13 (rescheduled from its original Feb. 14 date), offers art aficionados and novices an easy navigation of some of Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most exciting up-and-coming galleries, artist studios and experimental exhibition spaces. ARTBus, a special project of the Evergreen Museum & Library Advisory Council, is inspired by Evergreenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garrett family, avid supporters of contemporary artists in the early 20th century. Led by artist, writer and independent curator Jason Hughes, ARTBus riders will get a rare insiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look at Load of Fun Studios and AREA 405 in Station North, the H&H Arts Building downtown and Jordan Faye Contemporary in Federal Hill, with opportunities not only to view current exhibitions and purchase artwork but also to meet some of the artists, gallery owners and curators who are shaping Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vibrant contemporary art scene. Throughout the six-hour excursion, Hughes, former exhibitions coordinator at Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School 33 Art Center and a 2006 Sondheim Prize Finalist, will generate dynamic discussion about the present and future state of contemporary artistic activity in Charm City. The day will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a welcome reception of coffee and doughnuts at Evergreen Museum & Library. The ARTBus will depart promptly from the museum at 10 a.m. and return by 4 p.m. Seating is limited to 40 riders, and early registration is highly suggested. The cost is $80/$65 for Evergreen members and includes deluxe bus

transportation, guided studio and gallery visits, catered box lunch, snacks, and welcome and closing receptions. To learn more about the ARTBus or to register, call 410-5160341, e-mail evergreenmuseum@jhu.edu or go to http://museums.jhu.edu. Over the past five years, Baltimore has experienced a cultural renaissance that has elevated its art community to national prominence. Area artists and recent transplants have taken advantage of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial past and affordable real estate by creating large-scale mixed-use spaces boasting cavernous galleries, communal live/work studios and cabarets with an emphasis on experimentation and site-specific installations. Likewise, smaller boutique galleries are being recognized for their efforts in supporting emerging and midcareer artists while featuring artwork that is both affordable and accessible to area collectors. This do-it-yourself approachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;along with Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close proximity to Washington and New York, sizable individual artist awards such as the Sondheim Prize and Baker Artist Awards, and some of the top undergraduate and graduate fine arts programs in the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has allowed Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art community to grow into one of the best underground art scenes in the United States.

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neurologists, hematologists and other physicians; nurses; respiratory, occupational and physical therapists; genetic counselors; and social workersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;more compassionate and respectful, with a better understanding of what their [patientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;] lives are like,â&#x20AC;? Rushton said. And it will address caregiversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; emotions in treating such patientsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the â&#x20AC;&#x153;tremendous feeling of inadequacy because of not being able to fix [what] is not fixable,â&#x20AC;? Geller added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palliative care generally has been associated with end-of-life care,â&#x20AC;? Geller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one of the first studies to remove palliative care from [that] limited context and to say, What can we learn from the

principles of pediatric palliative care in the context of chronic diseases?â&#x20AC;? The investigation is among the 364 stimulus-funded research grants and supplements totaling almost $180 million that Johns Hopkins has now garnered since Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (informally known by the acronym ARRA), bestowing the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation with $12.4 billion in extra money to underwrite research grants by September 2010. The stimulus packageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which provided $550 billion in new spending, including the above grantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is part of the federal governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to bring back a stumbling economy by distributing dollars for transportation projects, infrastructure building, the development of new energy sources and job creation, and financing research that will benefit humankind. Johns Hopkins scientists have submitted more than 1,300 proposals for stimulusfunded investigations, ranging from strategies to help recovering addicts stay sober and the role that certain proteins play in the development of muscular dystrophy to mouse studies seeking to understand how men and women differ in their response to the influenza virus. To date, 117 staff jobs have been created at Johns Hopkins directly from ARRA funding, not counting jobs saved when other grants ran out, and not counting faculty and grad student positions supported by the ARRA grants.

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Schools two and a half years, the Baltimore City school system has seen increases in test scores, student enrollment and the diversity of academic settings it offers students, thanks in no small part to support from thousands of parents, residents, businesses and nonprofit organizations. Now the city school system is making it easier for everyone from individual volunteers to large employers to find meaningful ways to support the work of city schools with a new, automated volunteer and partnership matching system. Johns Hopkins University is the first employer to use this system. Johns Hopkins Takes Time for Schools was created with Alonso’s endorsement under the leadership of Daniels, who, since his installation as the university’s 14th president in September 2009, has made strengthening ties between the university and the communities it touches one of his main goals. This initiative is one of the first examples of his commitment to working with the city to the mutual benefit of both Baltimore and Johns Hopkins. “We are excited to be part of the transformation that is taking place in the city’s public schools under Dr. Alonso’s leadership,” Daniels said. “This new initiative will allow us to better channel the talent, expertise and good will of our faculty and staff to support

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President Ronald J. Daniels and City Schools CEO Andrés A. Alonso read to students at Barclay Elementary/Middle School.

the success of Baltimore’s future generations.” Alonso said he is equally pleased with the partnership. “To become the entire system of great schools our 83,000 great kids deserve, we need all of Baltimore City to be involved in the progress under way in our schools,” Alonso said. “President Daniels and Hopkins understand this and are showing remarkable leadership by acting on their commitment to Baltimore City’s students. Through the Johns Hopkins Takes Time

for Schools initiative, extraordinary people from the university will be connecting daily with our own extraordinary teachers, staff, parents and—most importantly—kids. We in City Schools are extremely grateful and look forward to the great things that will come of this partnership.” Daniels and Alonso were joined at Barclay Elementary/Middle School by several city leaders, including Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke and Neil Duke, chair of the board of school commissioners. The

announcement was part of a public service event at the school in which Daniels and Alonso read to students in conjunction with Read Across America Day. As part of Johns Hopkins Takes Time for Schools, participants will have the opportunity to serve in many capacities, including direct student engagement and support; offering assistance in areas of management, administration, facilities and infrastructure improvements, and operations (food services, health and wellness, information technology, public and media relations, capital development and so on); and otherwise improving the schools. Using an online system, each Baltimore City public school will post announcements describing specific service opportunities available. Daniels, who became president in March prior to being officially installed in September, began ramping up Johns Hopkins’ commitment to city youth this past summer, when he led the charge to employ 250 young people, a substantial increase over previous years, through Baltimore’s YouthWorks summer jobs campaign. Johns Hopkins has been participating in the YouthWorks program for many years, exposing 14- through 21-yearolds to a variety of public- and private-sector work settings and helping them prepare for future careers. G For information about the Johns Hopkins Takes Time for Schools program, or to sign up, go to http://hopkinsworklife.org/communityprograms/ jhttfs/index.cfm. Questions can be directed to the Office of Work, Life and Engagement at 443-9977000 or WorkLife@jhu.edu.

‘The House Beautiful’ lecture series returns to Evergreen Museum B y H e a t h e r E ga n S t al f o r t

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trio of illustrated talks by notable experts and authors in the fields of architecture, artistic design and decorative arts comes to Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library over a series of Wednesdays beginning March 24. The House Beautiful returns for a third season to the intimate, whimsical setting of the museum’s Bakst Theatre, with lectures exploring historic homes that demonstrate a love of the theatrical, through the inclusion of private theaters, the idea of performance or grand theatrics in design. All talks will begin at 6:30 p.m., with doors opening at 6 p.m. Following each lecture, a reception will be held in the Far East Room gallery, where audience members will have the opportunity to meet with the speakers. Tickets are $20; $15 Evergreen members and full-time students with valid ID. Series tickets are $48; $32 Evergreen members and full-time students with valid ID. Seats are limited, and early registration is strongly recommended. Tickets are available online through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com, by phone at 410-516-0341 or in person at the museum. The scheduled talks are as follows:

Keith D. MacKay: ‘Ten Chimneys: A Design for Living’

Wednesday, March 24 Ten Chimneys, the Wisconsin estate created by Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is unique among the country’s National Historic Landmarks. In pursuit of the perfect retreat, the married couple designed Ten Chimneys the same way they crafted their stage performances—with layer upon layer of meticulous detail. The best of the best in American theater and literature journeyed repeatedly here to rest, rejuvenate and collaborate. Keith D. MacKay, the estate’s director of historic preservation, will lead an exploration of Ten Chimneys’ whimsical interiors and discuss how Ten Chimneys Foundation uses the estate and its collections to inspire today’s visitors to embrace their own “design for living,” a play on the name of the comedy that Noel Coward wrote for Lunt and Fontanne. Previously assistant director of Historic Savannah Foundation’s Davenport House Museum and a research assistant for the White House Historical Association, MacKay received his master’s degree from the Smithsonian-Corcoran History of the Decorative Arts program. He has two articles, “A House of Feasting: The Corcoran House” and “Caroline Harrison’s Music Room,” forthcoming in the journal White House History.

Susan G. Tripp: ‘Discovering Evergreen: One Degree of Separation’

Wednesday, April 28 Evergreen, the always-theatrical residence of Baltimore’s philanthropic Garrett family, was staffed by a number of former employees of John and Alice Garrett when Susan G. Tripp became curator of art in 1974 for Johns Hopkins, which now operates the house as a museum. In this talk commemorating the 20th anniversary of the mansion’s three-year $4.3 million restoration and opening as a public space, Tripp will address discovering Evergreen’s remarkable array of collections and how their presentation has evolved and changed. She also will reflect on how learning about the Garretts from those who knew them added an invaluable dimension to the restoration. Tripp is vice president of the Columbia County Historical Society board of trustees and the restoration director of two of its historic sites, the Luykas Van Alen House and the James Vanderpoel House. During her 17-year tenure at Johns Hopkins, Tripp spearheaded the restorations of the university’s historic houses, Homewood and Evergreen, and co-authored The Garrett Collection of Japanese Art: Lacquer, Inro and Netsuke. Victoria Kastner: ‘The Silver Screen:

Hearst Castle and Hollywood’

Wednesday, May 26 William Randolph Hearst is best-known as the press lord who built his vast San Simeon estate (known informally as Hearst Castle and formally as La Cuesta Encantada, or The Enchanted Hill), from 1919 through 1947. He is less well-known as an early film pioneer and the producer of 120 movies. Victoria Kastner, historian at what is now known as Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument, will detail the rich social and architectural history of San Simeon’s theater, designed in the 1930s in the spirit of an early movie palace by Hearst and architect Julia Morgan. Kastner has written and lectured about San Simeon’s land and buildings for nearly 30 years. She is the author of Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House and Hearst’s San Simeon: The Gardens and the Land and also has written about Hearst for London’s Daily Telegraph, the American Institute of Architects and The Magazine Antiques. She has master’s degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara and George Washington University. The 2010 The House Beautiful lecture series is made possible by sponsorship from the Evergreen Museum & Library Advisory Council.

Mosquitoes—not birds—may have carried West Nile virus By Tim Parsons

School of Public Health

osquitoes—not birds, as suspected—may have a played a primary role in spreading West Nile virus westward across the United States, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is among the first to examine the role of mosquitoes in the dispersion of West Nile virus across the country and is published in the March 2 edition of Molecular Ecology. West Nile virus was first detected in the United States in 1999 in New York. Between 2001 and 2004, the virus spread

rapidly, making a large jump across the Mississippi River and into the Great Plains between 2001 and 2002. Birds are known hosts of the disease and have long been suspected of transporting the virus across the continent. They can transmit the virus to certain mosquitoes, such as Culex tarsalis, which then can pass on the disease to humans through their bites. “In the past, people assumed that birds played the primary role in the spread of West Nile. However, the rapid spread of West Nile did not follow a leap-frog pattern or move north to south along migratory bird routes like we would expect,” said senior author Jason L. Rasgon, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School’s Malaria Research Institute and W. Harry Feinstone

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. “When you see such rapid movement, one of the main questions we ask is, What are the factors that mediated this jump? Our study shows mosquitoes are a likely candidate.” For the study, Rasgon and his co-author, Meera Venkatesan, a former graduate student at the Bloomberg School and now a postdoctoral researcher with the Center for Vaccine Development and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, analyzed DNA from mosquitoes collected from 20 sites across the western United States. Genetic analysis detected three distinct clusters of C. tarsalis populations. They found extensive gene flow between the populations, indicating widespread movement by the mosquitoes.

Gene flow, however, was limited in certain regions, such as Arizona’s Sonoran desert, the eastern Rocky Mountains and the High Plains plateau, all three of which appear to have blocked mosquito movement. The researchers also found that the pattern of genetic clustering was congruent with the pattern of West Nile virus infection across the country. “People have this idea that mosquitoes don’t move very far. For certain mosquitoes, that is true. But the range of this particular mosquito is as great as the range of the birds that were originally thought to move the virus,” Rasgon said. Research funding was provided by the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

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Where are you? Census Bureau needs all students to weigh in By Tracey A. Reeves

Homewood

ohns Hopkins University students are being urged to be on the lookout. This month, the U.S. Census Bureau began mailing forms to college students around the country who live off campus, asking them to complete a set of questions. Students living in university residences will receive individual questionnaires in April and May. Students are expected to fill out the forms and either mail them to the Census Bureau or turn them into a designated census return site. In other words, don’t ignore the forms, and don’t toss them in the trash. This is the message that the federal government and university officials, including those at Johns Hopkins, are putting out to college campuses as the nation undergoes the 2010 Census—a process whose data will ultimately form the basis of many of the country’s political, economic and social decisions. The data also helps determine

how much money colleges and universities receive from the government. “We take the census count very seriously,” said Susan Boswell, dean of student life on the Homewood campus. “So we ask that when students receive these forms, they fill them out and get them returned promptly.” As in past years, census and university officials are pushing for a more complete count of college students. Historically, this group has been difficult to track because the students tend not to fill out the questionnaire, according to census officials. Often, they think that it is their parents’ responsibility to fill out the form, or the students, particularly those from foreign countries, think they are not supposed to participate in the count. Yet, a college student who lives in a dormitory, apartment, fraternity or sorority house away from home is considered a resident of the city or town in which he or she lives during the school year. This is true regardless of citizenship or immigration status. “The 2010 Census wants college kids to get counted where they usually live, and M A R C H

this means for them to be counted in college dormitories and off-campus housing,” U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves wrote on his census blog. At Johns Hopkins, the push is on to make that message clear. Since early fall, university leaders have been working with census officials to ensure that students receive the forms and turn them in. To help spread the word about the importance of the census, posters are going up on campus buildings, and contests are being planned to encourage students to participate in the count. Census guidelines state that students living at one off-campus address are considered one household, so only one form should be completed. That form, which will arrive by mail, should include information on all the people living at that address. To reach students living in university residences, census takers will distribute the forms, and on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses, census takers will be posted at several locations to collect the forms. Drop-off locations have not yet been determined. 8

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Continued from page 12 Models for Parsing and Machine Translation,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Michael Collins, MIT. B17 CSEB. HW Wed.,

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“Health and Cost Impact of Emergency Department Overcrowding,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Michael Wilson. 461 Hampton House. EB “Evidence-Based Reform in Federal Education Policies Making What Works What Matters,” an Institute for Policy Studies brown bag seminar with Robert Slavin, School of Education. 526 Wyman Bldg. HW

Wed., March 10, noon.

“Geology of the Outer Planet Satellites,” an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Wes Patterson, APL. 304 Olin. HW Wed., March 10, noon.

March 10, 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

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Wed., March 10, noon. “Genom-

ics of Uveal Melanoma: Insights Into the Metastatic Process,” a Molecular Pathology seminar with J. William Harbour, Washington University School of Medicine. Darner Site Visit Room. EB

“Cellular Lipid Homeostasis: Managing Fat Stockpiling and Release,” a Physiology seminar with Carole Sztalryd-Woodle, University of Maryland, Baltimore. 203 Physiology. EB Wed., March 10, noon.

Wed., March 10, 12:15 p.m.

Southern Zambia,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Christen Fornadel. W2030 SPH. EB

“ReWIRED for Change,” a seminar with actress Sonja Sohn (Sohn played Det. Kima Gregg on the television series The Wire.) Part of the series “The Wire as a Lens Into Public Health in Urban America,” sponsored by Health, Behavior and Society and Epidemiology. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Thurs., March 11, 2 p.m. “The Synergy Between Intimate Partner Violence and HIV: Baseline Findings From the SASA! Study, a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Kampala, Uganda,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Leilani Francisco. E9519 SPH. EB

Wed., March 10, 1:30 p.m.

Thurs., March 11, 2 p.m.

“The Travels of an mRNA Molecule in Living Cells,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Robert Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 517 PCTB. EB “Wolbachia: Transition From a Reproductive Parasite to a Mosquito Cell Commensal,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/ Infectious Diseases seminar with Ann Fallon, University of Minnesota. W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 11, noon.

Thurs., March 11, 12:15 p.m.

“Iron Intake Through Groundwater Is Associated With Improved Iron Status of Women in Rural Bangladesh” with Rebecca Day; “Antenatal Micronutrient Supplementation and Biological Pathways That Affect Intrauterine Growth in Rural Bangladesh” with Alison Gernand, SPH; and “Nutrition and Infection: Can Early Life Nutrition Shape Immune Defenses?” with Amanda Palmer, SPH; a Human Nutrition seminar. W2008 SPH. EB “The Quality of Primary Care Perceived by Patients in China,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Hui Yang. W2300 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 11, 1 p.m.

Wed., March 10, 12:15 p.m.

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“Developing a Research Agenda for Late-Stage Dementia,” a Mental Health seminar wth Peter

“Anopheline Foraging Behavior in an Area With Recent InsecticideTreated Bed Net Introduction in

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Mandated by the U.S. Constitution, the census provides the government with an accurate count of the U.S. population. Everyone who is 18 or older must fill out a form. Data collected through the census also helps decide, for example, how many seats a state gets in Congress, and how the federal government distributes to local communities more than $400 billion for hospitals, job training, education, emergency services and more. This year’s form consists of 10 questions asking for a person’s name, sex, age, date of birth, race and origin, if the signer is of Hispanic descent. The form should take no more than 10 minutes to complete, according to census officials. Students who are studying abroad are not required to fill out a census form. Students should not be concerned about their privacy when filling out the form because by law the Census Bureau cannot share respondents’ answers with anyone, including other federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service or Immigration office. For more information about the 2010 Census, go to www.census.gov.

“Integration of DNA-Sequence Dependent and Epigenetic Transcription Regulation During Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation,” a Center for Epigenetics seminar with Tom Kerppola, University of Michigan Medical School. 490 Rangos. EB

Thurs., March 11, 2:15 p.m.

“The Prospective Relationship Between Adiposity, Diabetes, Inflammation and Cognitive Function: The Women’s Health and Aging Study II,” a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Jean Ko. 845 Hampton House. EB “Cancer Gene Discovery Through Transposon-Mediated Mutagenesis: New Insights From Ancient Elements,” a Biology special seminar with Kathryn O’Donnell, SoM. 100 Mudd. HW Thurs., March 11, 4 p.m.

Thurs., March 11, 4 p.m. “Appli-

cations of Assignment Algorithms to Nonparametric Tests for Homogeneity,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with David Ruth, U.S. Naval Academy. 304 Whitehead. HW

“Diagnosing Lateral Mixing in the Upper Ocean With Satellite Altimetry,” a CEAFM seminar with Shane Keating, New York University. 110 Maryland. HW

Fri., March 12, 11 a.m.

Fri., March 12, 12:15 p.m. “How to Maintain Complete Genome

Replication When Under Replicative Stress,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Xinquan Ge, University of Dundee. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Case Studies in Professional Misconduct: Gray Areas,” a Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology seminar with Sheila Garrity, SoM. The seminar will involve audience participation; come prepared with questions. 181 BRB. EB

Fri., March 12, 1 p.m.

Fri., March 12, 1:30 p.m. “Socio-

economic Disparities in Smoking Among Adults in China,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Jiemin Ma. W3030 SPH. EB Fri., March 12, 2 p.m. “Tangential Flow Ultrafiltration and Molecular Detection of Surrogates and Pathogens in Large-Volume Environmental Water Samples,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Kristen Gibson. E9519 SPH. EB

“Impact of in utero Exposure to Maternal Schistosomiasis on Offspring Immune Responses to Vaccines,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Allison Brown. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Mon., March 15, 9 a.m.

Mon., March 15, 10:30 a.m.

“Unraveling the Pathogenic Mechanisms Underlying Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Geral Baldeviano. W2014 SPH. EB “Trust Matters: Villagers’ Trust in Providers and Insurers in the Context of a Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme in Cambodia,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Sachiko Ozawa. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., March 15, noon.

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

“Neuronal Lineages in Drosophila: Their Relevance to CNS Development and Function,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with James Truman, Janelia Farm Research Campus. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., March 15, 1 p.m. “Abortion Stigma in the United States: Quantitative Perspectives From Women Seeking an Abortion,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Kristen Shellenberg. E4611 SPH. EB

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The 2010 Foreign Affairs Symposium presents EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Clipper Room, Shriver Hall. HW

Wed., March 10, 4 p.m.

The 2010 Foreign Affairs Symposium presents a panel discussion, “The Way Forward: U.S. Military Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan.” 110 Hodson. HW Wed., March 10, 8 p.m.

Thurs., March 11, 1 to 3 p.m.

The Design Revolution road show, an exhibition of 40 humanitarian design solutions in water supply, food, energy, health and the environment. From the book Design Revolution by Emily Pilloton, featured on The Colbert Report. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Trailer in front of the MSE Library. HW Mon., March 15, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Type for Life,” a chance to

register to be a marrow or PBSC (peripheral blood stem cell) donor; requires 10 minutes to fill out a form and have a cheek swab done. W1030 SPH. EB W OR K S HO P S Bits

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designed for faculty and TAs (staff are also welcome to attend). Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW •

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“Introduction to Photoshop.” “Intermediate Photoshop.”

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“Medical School Application From A-Z,” a Career Services workshop with David Verrier and Kirsten Kirby, Preprofessional Programs and Advising. W2015 SPH. EB

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Continued from page 1 ment, Daniels spoke about a personal overseas public health experience. A few years ago, he traveled to Botswana with colleagues working with HIV-infected patients. Like any academic, Daniels said, he studied rigorously for the trip, right down to learning the local handshake. “But from the time my plane landed, I knew nothing could prepare me for the visceral and really profound experience this trip would have,” Daniels said. “Nothing could substitute the opportunity to work with doctors working with a pandemic. Nothing could prepare me for the heroism and courage of the patients. And nothing, certainly, could prepare me for meeting with orphans whose parents were lost to AIDS. Nothing could prepare me for that.” Daniels said that he hopes these grants could provide such transformational experiences. The initiative will be supported financially by the President’s Office and commitments from the deans of the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. It comes in response to the increasing interest in global health among students and medical trainees. One survey, conducted by Johns Hopkins and three other universities, found that of respondents who were interested in a career in global health, more than 60 percent cited an “overseas experience” as a primary source of interest. Daniels said that such experiences, particularly in the developing world, provide students with a global perspective that serves them well in their life and career. Studies suggest that these experiences are associated with greater public health awareness, an increased likelihood of working with underserved populations, and enhanced clinical and communication skills. The initiative involves a multifaceted approach. The 85 awards include an additional 20 Global Health Field Research Awards. Johns Hopkins currently offers 34. Ten of the new ones will be targeted to undergraduates, and the remaining will be added to the pool of awards available to all students. The initiative will develop “placement” sites where students can form relationships with faculty mentors who work overseas. The Center for Global Health will work with its JHU partners to identify 11 sites in developing countries that are willing to accept one or more students—up to a total of 18—for a six- to eight-week experience. The program will involve research with faculty and opportunities to participate in programmatic fieldwork, such as health program evaluation. The sites will be responsible for finding adequate and safe housing for the students, developing an academically

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appropriate set of tasks and experiences, and providing supervision of the work. The announcement of the sites will come later this year and be posted on the Center for Global Health’s Web site (www .hopkinsglobalhealth.org). Student placements will begin in summer 2011. As part of the initiative, Johns Hopkins also will develop undergraduate public health rotations in Uganda and South Africa, building upon Medicine’s and Public Health’s 20-year relationship with the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Ten undergraduate public health students will be able to study at the Makerere University’s School of Public Health and 10 at the University of Cape Town, all for six- to eight-week periods. The programs will include lectures, visits to research and health care sites, and opportunities for Johns Hopkins students to interact and develop relationships with local students. Homewood’s Undergraduate Program in Public Health Studies, working closely with the campus’s Study Abroad Office and the Center for Global Health, will coordinate this program. In addition, 12 medical-resident travel awards will be created, as will up to 14 awards for undergraduate nurses who wish to seek overseas experiences. The medical-resident awards will involve a rotation site with one of the university’s partner institutions and could begin as early as September 2010. The site selections for Nursing undergraduates will be made jointly by the School of Nursing and the Center for Global Health. Thomas Quinn, founding director of the Center for Global Health, said that he is delighted to play a role in offering these “life-changing” opportunities. “I am so thankful to the president for leading this effort to get more of our students to experience global health overseas,” said Quinn, a professor of international health, epidemiology and molecular microbiology and immunology in the Bloomberg School and professor of medicine in the School of Medicine. “It’s clear that President Daniels has made it one of his top priorities to support the students. With this initiative, we want them to get engaged with people of different cultures and backgrounds, and to experience what they learn in the classroom. That is the key, I believe. You go to this university and you learn all the basic ingredients of an education, but to put that knowledge into action while you’re a student means so much more.” The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health was launched in 2006 to coordinate and focus the university’s efforts against HIV/ AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis, flu and other worldwide health threats, especially in developing countries. The center bridges the international work of the schools of Public Health, Medicine and Nursing. G For more information on the center, go to www.hopkinsglobalhealth.org.

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Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Bayview, $700/mo + sec dep (2-3BR, 1st flr) and $600/mo + sec dep (1BR, 2nd flr). 443-243-1651. Butchers Hill, 2BR, 2.5BA TH, hdwd flrs, W/D, CAC, rear yd, steps to medical campus, off-street prkng incl’d. $1,000/mo + utils. 443-838-5575. Charles Village, 1BR unit in immaculate prof’l bldg across from Homewood campus and BMA, no pets/no smoking, 1-yr lease minimum, application/tenant history/ income refs req’d. 410-366-5232. Charles Village, spacious, beautiful house, 5BRs, 3BAs, hdwd flrs, front and back porch, garage, 8-min walk to Homewood, nr BMA/shuttle/shops on St Paul. 410-3667383. Charles Village/Guilford, 1BR, 1BA apt w/ spacious living rm, full kitchen, patio, private entry, across from JHMI shuttle stop. $975/mo + elec. 443-858-9118. Charles Village (University One), bright, spacious 1BR, 1BA condo, CAC/heat. $1,145/mo incl all utils. 410-466-1698 or marionmalcolm@comcast.net. 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. Cross Keys Village, 1BR condo, hdwd flrs, CAC/heat, free prkng, 24-hr security, swimming pool. $900/mo + utils (water incl’d). 646-284-2279 or tamrirev@yahoo.com. East Baltimore, 3BR, 1BA TH, partly furn’d, 2 mi to Johns Hopkins, refs required. $950/ mo + utils + sec dep. Anita, 410-675-5951 or amt2813@gmail.com. Fells Point, 2BR, 2BA house, hdwd flrs, expos’d brick, walking distance to Hopkins/ Canton/Fells Point waterfront. $1,600/mo. eric09f@hotmail.com. Hampden (41st St), 3BR apt w/new BA, new paint, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, pantry, dw, W/D, garage, $1,350/mo incl utils (also a bsmt efficiency avail for $700/mo incl utils). 443-474-1492 or www.steverutz.com/ pictures/w41st/frame41.html. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410378-2393. Hampden, two recently renov’d 3BR, 1.5BA houses w/new kitchens, new BAs. Alan, 410-227-8879. Homewood (295 W 31st St), 2BR TH, W/D, gas heat, deck, fenced yd, no smokers/ no dogs. $1,000/mo. Val Alexander, 888386-3233 (toll free) or yankybrit@hotmail .com. Homewood/Guilford, luxury 1BR high-rise condo nr JHU, CAC/heat, W/D, doorman, security, pool, exercise rm. anthony8066@ gmail.com. Mt Washington, 1BR, 1BA apt in gated complex, W/D in unit, dw, free prkng, pool, tennis court, fitness center, nr Whole

M A R K E T P L A C E

Foods/light rail/MTA, driving time is 10 mins to Homewood, 20 mins to JHMI. $804/ mo + $150 sign-up bonus. 443-839-4472. Owings Mills, 2BR, 2BA condo, W/D, walkin closets, storage, prkng, pool/tennis court privileges, backs to woods, conv to metro, walk to grocery/Starbucks, sm pets negotiable ($250 nonrefundable deposit), 1-yr lease. 410-336-7952 or ljohnsto@mail.roanoke.edu. Patterson Park, 2BR, 1.5BA house, hdwd flrs/crpt upstairs, stainless steel appliances, nr JHMI, rent-to-own option available. $1,000/ mo. 443-286-4883. Roland Park, spacious, sunny 1BR in safe, cooperatively owned/managed bldg, furn’d, hdwd flrs, 2 blks to Homewood campus. $1,000/mo incl heat. neena.mahadev@gmail .com. West Towson, 4BR house 15 mins to JHU, CAC, renov’d kitchen, garage; option to buy also. $1,850/mo. 410-812-6716 or argye .hillis@gmail.com. Big 2BR, 2BA condo w/balcony, 10th flr, nr campus/shuttle, new bamboo flrs and appls, pool, sauna, gym, reserved garage prkng, excel view, start date negotiable. $1,850/mo incl utils. janstrat@verizon.net.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Charles Village (Carrollton Condos), lg, renov’d 2BR, 2BA, CAC/heat, 24-hr front desk, prkng spot. $150,000. emmakcontact@ yahoo.com. Charles Village, completely renov’d (2008), 2BR, 2BA house, hdwd flrs, CAC/heat, W/D, fin’d bsmt. Jackie, 410-258-3932 or jstonewr@comcast.net. Cross Keys Village, totally renov’d 2BR, 1.5BA condo, faces south, sleek kitchen w/ ceramic flr, granite counters, stainless steel appls, nr I-83, 15 mins to JHH/JHU, nr shops/restaurants. 443-742-3520. 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. Homeland, updated 3BR detached colonial on lg corner lot, garage. $250,000. 443-2866337. Pikesville, 3BR brick rancher, hdwd flrs, CAC, asphalt driveway, all appliances recent, great location, good schools, 5 mins to Milford Mill metro. $255,000. 410-227-1358. Roland Park, 2BR co-op apt, overlooks Wyman Park, next to Homewood campus, easy walk to JHMI shuttle. $134,900. 443615-5190.

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dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval @aol.com. 1 or 2 nonsmokers wanted to share 3BR TH w/M grad student, Homewood area (Cresmont Ave), 1 blk to campus, 2BRs available, all common areas furn’d. $1,200/ mo + utls. Brian, 410-493-2993 or brian@ bcoi.net.

2 rms available in historic Lauraville house, lg, sunny Victorian nr JHH/JHU. $525/ mo (larger rm) and $450/mo (smaller rm). Melissa, 443-844-4094. Share all new refurbished TH w/other medical students, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D,

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Need snow repairs on your roof or steps? MHIC-licensed for any carpentry projects. Rick, 443-621-6537. JH student seeks 1 garage space nr 501 St Paul St and N Calvert, N Charles, W Madison or E Monument, short- or long-term. 415-931-1338.

1BR avail in 3BR apt at 29th and St Paul, share w/2 other JHU grad students. $310/ mo + 1/3 utils. batechunky@yahoo.com.

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

F wanted for cozy, fully furn’d rm, avail 3/21, share full house (kitchen, living rm, dining rm, garden, porch, W/D), respectful housemates, 4 cats. $400/mo + utils. 410963-8741.

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

F grad student wanted for peaceful, furn’d 3BR, 2BA house, short-term lease OK. $550/mo incl utils and wireless. Skbzok@ verizon.net.

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.

CARS FOR SALE

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

’06 Mazda 3i, 4-dr sedan, 5-spd, clean, nonsmoking, excel cond, 29K mi; photos avail. $10,000. lisamwolf@comcast.net.

Free ballroom dancing and lessons (waltz, rumba, tango, more), every Friday, 8pm in ROTC Bldg. Piano lessons taught by master’s student at Peabody. 425-890-1327 (for free placement interview).

ITEMS FOR SALE

Couch/futon. $120. 425-890-1327. Microwave, table w/shelves, computer, chair, printer, 3-step ladder, reciprocating saw, tripods, digital piano. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. Fisher-Price baby swing 3-in-1, in excel cond. $30. ictsai@comcast.net.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Going on sabbatical? PhD returning for MPH at JHSPH seeking sm house or condo to rent or house-sit at any time this summer (2010). 401-941-5434. Looking for child care for my 2 girls, 3 yrs old and 7 mos old. 443-248-2179. Loving and trustworthy dog walker avail day and evening, overnight sitting w/complimentary house-sitting services, impeccable references. alwayshomepc@gmail.com. Car wash and detailing, best deal in town. Demetrius, 410-945-1514. Cleaning service, we’ll shine up your house, reasonable rates, pet-friendly. 443-5283637. Needs loving home: sweet, small stray cat found 2 mos ago, approx 1-3 yrs old, has all shots, spayed. mafffam@comcast.net. Stay-at-home mom looking to babysit one or two children, FT or PT. Saadia, 410-8810572. Mature, experienced nanny looking to babysit, FT/PT, great references available. rasoaflo@yahoo.com.

ROOMMATES WANTED

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

Horse boarding/lessons in Bel Air, bring your own horse or ride one of our showquality school horses. $325 (full care) or $250 (partial care). 410-458-1517 or www .baymeadowfarm.net. Affordable landscaper/horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens, can also do planting, designing and masonry; affordable, free consultations. 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com. Tutor available: All subjects/levels; remedial, gifted and talented; also college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design and programming. 410-337-9877 or i1__@hotmail.com. Licensed landscaper available for leaf and snow removal, trash hauling, lawn maintenance spring/summer; help also wanted, Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Piano lessons w/experienced teacher, Peabody doctorate, all levels/ages welcome. 410-662-7951. Spring is right around the corner! Interior/ exterior painting, home/deck power washing, general maintenance; licensed, insured, free estimates, affordable. 410-335-1284 or randy6506vfw@yahoo.com. Piano tuning and repair by PTG craftsman serving Peabody, Center Stage, College of Notre Dame, homes in Baltimore and surrounding counties. 410-382-8363 or steve@ conradpiano.com. Johns Hopkins Medicine International needs interpreters for Arabic, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese and Burmese, flexible schedule. $35-$45/hr. Send resume to pdiaz3@jhmi .edu.

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Calendar B LOO D D R I V E S Tues., March 9, and Wed., March 10, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

JHU Blood Drive. For more information, call 410-614-0913 or e-mail johnshopkinsblooddrive@ jhmi.edu. Turner Concourse. EB

an Studies Program. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS Wed.,

March

10,

6:30

p.m.

Reading by Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. 111 Mergenthaler. HW Wed., March 10, 7 p.m. Tania Heller will discuss and sign copies of her new book, On Becoming a Doctor: Everything You Need to Know About Medical School, Residency, Specialization and Practice. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

S E M I N AR S C OLLO Q U I A

Mon.,

“Creativity and the Continuity of Tradition Among Theravada Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia,” an Anthropology colloquium with Charles Hallisey, Harvard Divinity School. 400 Macaulay. HW

Tues., March 9, 4 p.m.

Tues.,

March

4:15

p.m.

“Cluster Science: Insights Into Catalysis,” a Chemistry colloquium with A. Welford Castleman Jr., Pennsylvania State University. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., March 10, 4 p.m. “The Capacity and Fidelity of Visual Long-Term Memory,” a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Aude Oliva, MIT. 234 Ames. HW

“Hippocrates, Presocratics and the Question of Naturalism,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium wth Daryn Lehoux, Queen’s University. Room 102, 3505 N. Charles St. HW Thurs., March 11, 3 p.m.

“The Future of Medicine—Megatrends in Medical Science and in Health Care Delivery,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Stephen Schimpff, University of Maryland Medical Center. Parsons Auditorium. APL Fri., March 12, 2 p.m.

DISCUSSIONS/ TAL K S

Wed., March 10, 4:30 p.m.

“Which Rights? Whose Rights? Why Rights? Rethinking the Feminist Potential of Rights Claiming,” a WGS talk by Karen Zivi Jepson, University of Richmond. Co-sponsored by Political Science. 113 Greenhouse. HW Thurs.,

March

11,

p.m.

“Reframing Emancipation? Feminist Rights Talk in the Latin American Neoliberal Age,” a WGS talk by Veronica Schild, University of Western Ontario. Co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies. 113 Greenhouse. HW Thurs., March 11, 4:15 p.m.

“The Hip Figure: Metaphor and the Making of Postwar Liberalism,” an English talk by Michael Szalay, University of California, Irvine. 201C Dell House. HW I N FOR M AT I O N SESSIONS

Mon.,

p.m.

March

6:30

Information session for the Master of Arts in Writing Program. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP to http://

The success of their 2006 CD ‘Arpeggione’ has led to invitations to cellist Jean-Guihen Queryas, above, and pianist Alexandre Tharaud to perform in the most prestigious European halls. This week, they perform a free concert at the BMA. See Music.

advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index .cfm?ContentID=2066. LL7 Washington DC Center. Information session for the Online Certificate in Geographic Information Systems, sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP to http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=2086. Log-in information will be provided a few days before the session.

Tues., March 9, 7 p.m.

Wed., March 10, 6:30 p.m.

Information session for the Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Policy. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP to http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=2091. LL7 Washington DC Center.

omy of the Eanna Temple of Uruk in the Mid-First Millennium B.C.E.” by Michael Kozuh, Auburn University. Thurs., March 11, 5:15 p.m.

“Incongruous Bodies: Animal Contagion in Medieval Italian Culture,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Eleonora Stoppino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 101A Dell House. HW Fri., March 12, 1:15 p.m. “Find-

ing Funding for Your Research,” a Welch Medical Library lecture by Stella Seal, SoM. Weinberg Auditorium. EB

MUSIC Tu e s . , M a rc h 9 , 5 : 3 0 p . m .

LE C TURE S Mon., March 8, 4 p.m; Wed., March 10, and Thurs., March 11, 5 p.m. The James S. Schoul-

er Lecture Series—“Tongues of Fire: Some Slave Creole Languages in the Early Modern World” by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by History. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW

“Yiddish as a Double Agent in Israeli Literature,” a Jewish Studies Program lecture by Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel).

Mon., March 8, 5 p.m.

HW Mon.,

March

5:15

p.m.

“When Old Stories Are Given New Life: Cinematic Adaptation and the Renewal of Culture,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Millicent Marcus, Yale University. 101A Dell House. HW The 2010 Lecture Series in Archaeology and Assyriology,

sponsored by Near Eastern Studies. 202A Dell House. HW •

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Mon., March 8, 5:30 p.m.

“The Craftsmen of the NeoBabylonian Period: Putting Craft Production Into Context” by Elizabeth Payne, Yale University. Wed., March 10, 5:30 p.m. “On Storage and Con-

sumption, Contractors and Thieves: The Animal Econ-

The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents a talk by Peabody’s Ray Sprenkle, noted composer, historian and lecturer. Free, but reservations are required; call 410-516-7164, e-mail info@ shriverconcerts.org or go to www .shriverconcerts.org. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW Wed., March 10 through Sat., March 13, 7:30 p.m. The Pea-

body Opera Theatre presents Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus. $25 general admission, $15 for senior citizens and $10 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents cellist Jean-Guihen Queryas and pianist Alexandre Tharaud. (See photo, this page.) Part of the Discovery Series. Auditorium, Baltimore Museum of Art.

Sat., March 13, 3 p.m.

REA D I N G S / B OO K TAL K S

David Kirby will discuss his new book, Animal Factory, an expose of the fallout from powerful business and political interests behind largescale factory farms. Sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB Mon., March 8, 5 p.m.

Dieter Dettke, author and Georgetown University adjunct professor, will discuss his book, Germany Says ‘No’: The Iraq War and the Future of German Foreign and Security Policy. Sponsored by the Europe-

Tues., March 9, 5 p.m.

March

9:30

a.m.

“Neighborhood Environment, Residential Mobility and Health: A Longitudinal Examination of Individual and Neighborhood Factors,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Sophia Lo. 744 Hampton House. EB Mon., March 8, 10 a.m. “Disentangling the Influences of Acculturation, Housing and Health Care on Asthma Management and Morbidity Outcomes Among Children in an Urban, Low-Income Community,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Maura Dwyer. W2030 SPH. EB

“Perceptions, Preferences and Partnerships: A Patient-Centered Approach to Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Care,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Anika Hines. 688 Hampton House. EB

Mon., March 8, 11 a.m.

“Does Science Have a Place in Environmental Policy? Tales From the Interface of Science and Decisions,” an Institute for Policy Studies brown bag seminar with Thomas Burke, SPH. 526 Wyman Bldg. HW

Mon., March 8, noon.

“SUMO Wrestling With Premature Aging,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Bryce Paschal, University of Virginia School of Medicine. W1020 SPH. EB Mon., March 8, noon.

Mon.,

March

12:15

p.m.

Geographical Factors Matter?” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Alex Ergo. W2030 SPH. EB “Tuberculosis-Remodeling Schemes by an Unwelcome Houseguest,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with William Bishai, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., March 9, noon.

“The Role of the Specialty Engineer (Truss Engineer) and Introduction to the Structural Building Components Industry,” a Civil Engineering seminar with Jordan Manos, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. B17 CSEB. HW

Tues., March 9, noon.

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

“Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Beth Moracco, University of North Carolina School of Global Health. Co-sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence. 250 Hampton House. EB Tues., March 9, 12:30 p.m.

“Understanding Unintended Pregnancy Among Hispanic Immigrants in Washington D.C.: The Cultural Context, Correlates and Mental Health Consequences,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Anna Christensen. E4611 SPH. EB Tues., March 9, 2 p.m. “Preprocessing and Barcoding of Data From a Single Microarray,” a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Matthew McCall. W3607 SPH. EB Tues.,

March

2:30

p.m.

“Exploring Food Acquisition Practices of Food Insecure Populations in New Jersey,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Andrea Smith. 744 Hampton House. EB The Wolman Seminar—“Governing Climate Adaptation After Copenhagen” with Diana Liverman, University of Arizona. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar 234 Ames. HW

Tues., March 9, 3 p.m.

“Rethinking IRBs With Some Empirical Evidence,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Charles Lidz, University of Massachusetts Medical School. W3008 SPH. EB

Tues., March 9, 4 p.m. “Measuring the Impact of a Random Variable,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with Francisco Sanchez Vega. 303 Whitehead. HW

Mon., March 8, 2:30 p.m. “From Raw Microarray Data to Meaningful Gene Lists” a Center for Computational Genomics seminar with Rafael Irizarry, SPH. 517 PCTB. EB

Tues.,

“What Is the Origin of Chiral Specificity in Bacterial Type IIA Topoisomerases?” a Biophysics student seminar with Andrew Buller. 107 Jenkins. HW

Mon., March 8, 4 p.m.

“Restriction of Eigenfunctions and Representation Theory,” an Analysis/ PDE seminar with Andre Reznikov, Bar-Ilan University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW

Mon., March 8, 4 p.m.

Tues., March 9, 9 a.m. “Measuring Socio-Economic Position Using an Asset Index—Do

March

4:30

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Calendar

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(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