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Cementing a home for bioethics

APL sets its sights on Titan’s seas By Michael Buckley

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he Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of three proposals selected by NASA last week as candidates for the agency’s next Discovery Program NASA selects mission. The Titan Mare Explorer, or TiME, mission for would perform the first direct inspecDiscovery tion of an ocean environment Program beyond Earth by development landing in, and floating on, a large methane-ethane sea on the cloudy, complex moon. The mission would be led by principal investigator Ellen Stofan of Proxemy Research in Gaithersburg, Md. Lockheed Martin in Denver would build the TiME capsule, with scientific instruments provided by APL, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. Also selected were a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory lander that would study the Martian interior and a NASA Goddard project to land on a comet multiple times and observe its interaction with the sun. Chosen from 28 fullmission proposals submitted to NASA last summer, each investigation team now receives $3 million to develop a detailed concept study. After another review of those studies in 2012, NASA will select one to develop for launch. The selected mission will be cost-capped at $425 million, not including launch vehicle funding. APL also has a role on the NASA Goddard mission team, to provide a high-resolution telescopic camera for the Comet Hopper spacecraft. “NASA’s comment on the Discovery selections was, ‘If ever there was a time to demonstrate being able to think differently, this is it,’” said John Sommerer, head of APL’s Space Department. “It’s

Built in 1876 as a police station, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics’ first home of its own is located on Ashland Avenue in East Baltimore. The building will be officially dedicated this week as Deering Hall.

Berman Institute brings its faculty under one roof in new Deering Hall By Michael Pena

Berman Institute of Bioethics

hree months after moving into its new home, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is already seeing the benefits of bringing its faculty and staff under one roof. Institute Director Ruth Faden and Director of Administration Julia Chill beam with pride as they show off the wholly renovated interior

of the former police station—originally built in 1876—as if giving housewarming tours to family and friends. Meanwhile, staff who had previously turned to one another mainly by email and telephone now pop into each other’s work areas for IT support, help findContinued on page 6

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Artificial grammar learning reveals inborn language sense By Lisa De Nike

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arents know the unparalleled joy and wonder of hearing a beloved child’s first words turn quickly into whole sentences and then babbling paragraphs. But how human children acquire language— which is so complex and has so many variations—remains largely a mystery. Fifty years ago, linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky proposed an answer: Humans are able

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to learn language so quickly because some knowledge of grammar is hardwired into our brains. In other words, we know some of the most fundamental things about human language unconsciously at birth, without ever being taught. Now, in a groundbreaking study, cognitive scientists at The Johns Hopkins University have confirmed a striking prediction of the controversial hypothesis that human beings are born with knowledge of certain syntactical rules that make learning human languages easier.

“This research shows clearly that learners are not blank slates; rather, their inherent biases, or preferences, influence what they will learn. Understanding how language is acquired is really the holy grail in linguistics,” said lead author Jennifer Culbertson, who worked as a doctoral student in Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences under the guidance of Geraldine Legendre, a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, and Paul Smolensky, a

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NATO Secretary General Fogh Rasmussen to speak at SAIS

ehavioral neuroscientist Joseph V. Brady was responsible for training some of the first U.S. spacefarers: monkeys Able and Miss Baker and Ham the Chimp. For this work, which helped set the stage for early U.S. human spaceflights, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute has honored the founder of the Institutes for Behavior Resources with its Pioneer Award. Brady, whose career spans more than six decades, is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The presentation took place at IBR’s 50th Anniversary Gala, held May 2 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. “Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Brady has been a pioneer,” said Jeffrey P. Sutton, director of NSBRI. “It is only fitting that we honor [him] during the 50th year of human spaceflight, an era which he played a role in launching, as well as the 50th anniversary of IBR, an organization that was established under his leadership.” Brady is still active in space research as an investigator for NSBRI and NASA.

nders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of NATO, will be at SAIS at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, to give a talk titled “NATO: A Challenging Alliance in a Changing World.” Admittance to the event is by invitation only, but a live webcast will be accessible at www.sais-jhu.edu. During the month of May, Fogh Rasmussen is visiting four U.S. cities—Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago and Austin, Texas—to speak with the American public about NATO’s critically important role in the transatlantic relationship. This event is hosted by the SAIS Center on Politics and Foreign Relations, the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies and the University of Washington California Center.

Career exploration day set for Baltimore public school students

MCC partners with BSO for chamber music series

lmost 500 city public school students are set to arrive on Johns Hopkins’ East Baltimore campus on Monday, May 9, for a daylong series of workshops designed to provide inspiration and practical information for a successful career, healthy relationships and healthy lifestyles. Pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson, the featured speaker, and other individuals from diverse backgrounds will talk about how they overcame challenges to excel in college and their professional lives. The program, planned for 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Turner Auditorium, is sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Cultural Competence and includes about 60 volunteers from throughout the university.

he Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus has partnered with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to present a series of chamber music concerts featuring acclaimed BSO musicians performing at the Rockville campus. The next concerts will take place at 7:30 p.m. on two Mondays, May 16 and June 20. The May concert will feature Trio La Milpa, an oboe trio that includes Peabody Conservatory faculty member Katherine Needleman, and the Atlantic String Quartet. The June concert will feature Duos with Harp, with Jonathan Carney on the violin. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door. For more information, go to web.jhu .edu/mcc/BSO.html.

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ecause workplace violence is such an important safety and health issue, Homewood Campus Safety and Security is sponsoring a Workplace Violence Seminar open to all Johns Hopkins entities. The seminar, to be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, in 26 Mudd Hall on the Homewood campus, will address recognizing and preventing workplace violence, domestic violence and its impact on the workplace, and police response to a workplace violence incident. Presenters include officers from the Baltimore and Washington police departments and representatives of AlliedBarton Security Services.

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Online pre-registration by May 10, 2011 is required to guarantee event participation. A per person fee of $10 applies; children under 10 are free. No refunds will be given. Live Baltimore reserves the right to limit on-site registration and/or increase on-site registration participation fees.

Senior at Johns Hopkins to address Model UN Conference am Lichtenstein, a senior international studies major, will speak at the May 12 opening ceremony of the Global Classrooms International Model UN Conference. Sharing the stage with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Ambassador Susan Rice, Lichtenstein will address more than 2,700 student and teacher participants from 24 countries and 18 U.S. states. The three-day event, created by the United Nations Association of the United States of America, is a progressive Model UN that targets participants from both revered academic institutions and traditionally underserved public schools. “This will be an incredible opportunity to interact with students who are widely considered leaders in Model UN and global activism,” said Lichtenstein, who is the conference’s secretary-general.

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Turning ‘bad’ fat into ‘good’: Edward D. Miller, dean of SoM A future treatment for obesity? and head of JHM, to retire

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y knocking down the expression of a protein in rat brains known to stimulate eating, Johns Hopkins researchers say they not only reduced the animals’ calorie intake and weight but also transformed their fat into a type that burns off more energy. The finding could lead to better obesity treatments for humans, the scientists report. “If we could get the human body to turn ‘bad’ fat into ‘good’ fat that burns calories instead of storing them, we could add a serious new tool to tackle the obesity epidemic in the United States,” said study leader Sheng Bi, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. More than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight, and more than one-third are obese, according to government estimates. The Johns Hopkins study, published May 3 in the journal Cell Metabolism, looks at two types of fat made by the body: white and brown adipose tissue. White fat is the typical fat that ends up around your middle and other places, and is the storehouse for the extra calories you eat. White fat cells have a single large droplet of lipid, one of fat’s building blocks, like cholesterol and triglycerides. Cells in brown fat, considered a “good” fat for its energy-burning qualities, contain many little droplets of lipid, each with its own power source, which enables heat generation. Babies have ample stores of brown fat at birth as a defense against the cold, but it mostly disappears, as adults have very little of this calorieburning tissue. Bi and his colleagues designed an experiment to see if suppressing the appetite-stimulating neuropeptide Y protein, known as NPY, in the dorsomedial hypothalamus of the brain would decrease body fat in rats. Located just above the brain stem, the hypothalamus helps regulate thirst, hunger, body temperature, water balance and blood pressure. For five weeks, two groups of rats were fed a regular diet, with one group also treated with a virus to inhibit NPY expression and the other left as a control group. At the end of five weeks, the treated group weighed less than the control group, demonstrating that suppression of NPY reduced eating. Then, researchers split each of the groups into two, creating four sets of rats. One of the treated groups and one of the

control groups were fed a regular diet, while the other treated and control groups got a high-fat diet. Of the rats on the regular diet, the control group weighed more at the end of 11 weeks than those rats in which hypothalamic NPY expression was knocked down. In the high-fat group, the control group rats became obese; those rats in which NPY expression was silenced gained less weight. Bi said that the results “made sense,” given that NPY has been shown to stimulate eating. The less NPY, the less the rats would eat, his team hypothesized. What was a surprise, however, was what the researchers found after they checked the fat content of rats after death. In the groin area of the NPY rats, they discovered not the expected white fat found in adult rats but the telltale signs of brown fat in its place. They confirmed this change by looking at levels of mitochondrial uncoupling protein-1, through which brown fat burns to produce heat. They used this protein as a marker to determine that the fat that should have been white was instead brown. Bi said he believes that the transformation from white to brown fat resulting from NPY suppression may be due to activation of brown fat stem cells contained in white fat tissue. While brown fat seems to vanish in humans as they emerge from infancy, the brown fat stem cells may never disappear and may just become inactive as people age. Bi said that it may be possible to transplant or inject brown fat stem cells under the skin to burn white fat and stimulate weight loss. “Only future research will tell us if that is possible,” he said. This study also shows that low levels of hypothalamic NPY increase spontaneous physical activity, improve blood sugar levels and enhance insulin sensitivity in rats, but it remains undetermined whether this brown fat transformation also contributes to these effects. The study was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. In addition to Bi, Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study are Pei-Ting Chao, Timothy H. Moran and Susan Aja. Liang Yang, formerly of Johns Hopkins and now at MIT, also contributed.

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dward D. Miller, the Frances Watt Baker and Lenox D. Baker Jr. Dean of the School of Medicine and the first chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has informed President Ronald J. Daniels that he intends to retire, effective June 30, 2012. “We are about to witness the end of an era,” said Daniels in a broadcast email announcing Miller’s decision to the Johns Hopkins community. Dean Miller’s tenure, he said, “has been nothing short of extraordinary.” Miller was appointed dean, CEO and university vice president in 1997 after serving for a year on an interim basis and, in the years since, he has shepherded a wide array of projects that range from a new curriculum for the School of Medicine to the two hospital towers now under construction on the East Baltimore campus.

Under his leadership, four new hospitals have become part of the Johns Hopkins family, and partnerships have been forged with medical entities throughout the world. In addition, “Ed has represented Johns Hopkins and academic medicine brilliantly in the national debate over the future of health care,” Daniels said. “He has been a forthright and ardent advocate for a system that makes sense for patients, [and] he has expanded our engagement with the Baltimore community.” Daniels has asked Francis B. Burch Jr., incoming chair of the board of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Lloyd B. Minor, university provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, to co-chair a search for “a leader who will be every bit as forwardthinking and effective as Ed has been.” The members of the search committee will be announced soon.

Mental health professorship and scholarship endowed at SPH B y N ata l i e W o o d - W r i g h t

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he Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Mental Health has received gifts from members of the Kawi family to permanently endow the Dr. Ali and Rose Kawi Professorship in Mental Health and the Dr. Ali Kawi Doctor of Public Health Scholarship in Mental Health. The gifts are named in honor of Ali A. Kawi, a Bloomberg School graduate and professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York. The funds will be used to support individuals whose work and studies will advance public mental health research and practice in keeping with Kawi’s lifelong work in treatment, research and education. Kawi is an expert in neuropsychiatric disorders, psychosomatic research and medical education. He obtained his doctor of medical science degree from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center. He is also a graduate of New York University College of Medicine’s Psychoanalytic Institute’s adult and child divisions. He earned his DrPH in 1956 and his MPH in 1954 from Johns Hopkins. Kawi has a special interest in child development and pathology, and the prevention of mental health disorders. In addition to his role at the State University of New York, he has held positions as a consultant at the University Hospital of Brooklyn, North Shore University Hospital and St. Francis

Hospital. He maintains a private practice in Manhasset, N.Y. The Dr. Ali and Rose Kawi Professorship in Mental Health will be used to support the research of a faculty member in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Mental Health. Faculty members named to the position will hold the professorship for a three-year term. The Dr. Ali Kawi Doctor of Public Health Scholarship in Mental Health will support outstanding students pursuing a doctor of public health degree in the department. “Dr. Kawi conducted one of the earliest evaluations of the hypothesis of the continuum of reproductive casualty in an elegant case-control study of the effects of prenatal complications on impairments in learning and reading,” said William Eaton, chair of the Bloomberg School’s Department of Mental Health. “The endowments in honor of Dr. Kawi are critical to facilitate the support of young faculty who lack sufficient grant awards at the beginning of their careers, ultimately allowing the department to expand its programs as well as facilitate the new DrPH program.” The Department of Mental Health at the Bloomberg School is the first and the only department-level unit in a school of public health dedicated to mental health. The mission of the department is to advance understanding of mental and behavioral disorders; develop, implement and evaluate methods to prevent and control these disorders; and promote mental health in the general population.

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Gadi Kaufmann of RCLCO to give Berman real estate lecture and market analysis advisory work, due diligence and underwriting services, workouts Carey Business School and restructuring work, turnkey development management services and transaction services. hrough its generosity and Long active in a wide range of real estate, visionary thinking, the fambusiness and education organizations, Kaufily of Baltimore businessman mann has served as a trustee of the Urban Allan L. Berman became the Land Institute since 2001 and as governor of driving force behind real estate the ULI Foundation, among other positions. business education at The Johns Hopkins He chaired the organization’s 2010 annual University with the creation in 1989 of the meeting and is currently chair of its memAllan L. Berman Institute for Real Estate bership committee. Headquartered Development and an annual in Washington, D.C., ULI is an lecture. This year’s lecture will international organization whose be given by Gadi Kaufmann, mission is to provide leadership in managing director and CEO of the responsible and sustainable use RCLCO (Robert Charles Lesser and development of land. & Co.), and will take place at Kaufmann is also a founding mem6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, ber of the board and chair of the at the Carey Business School’s Professional and Community OutHarbor East campus. reach Committee of the Richard Kaufmann, whose remarks S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at are titled “From Risk to Oppor- Gadi Kaufmann the University of California, Los Angeles, tunity: Making Strategic Real Estate Decia joint center of the Anderson School of sions in an Uncertain World,” joined Management and the School of Law, which RCLCO in 1979. He specializes in ecocreates and administers UCLA’s activities in nomic consulting for real estate projects the real estate field. and portfolios, corporate strategy planning In addition, he served on the board and and management consulting at the enterin various leadership positions for the Young prise level, transactional and negotiation Presidents’ Organization, an international services, and financing and capital formabusiness initiative for education and idea tion strategy formulation and implementaexchange, from 1988 to 2010, and on the tion. executive committee of the international RCLCO functions as a premier end-toboard of the Chief Executives Organization end solutions provider in the global real from 2006 to 2009. estate sector serving developers, lenders, Kaufmann holds a bachelor’s degree in private and institutional investors, and economics from UCLA. non–real estate entities (such as corpora A 5:30 p.m. reception precedes the lections, trusts and foundations, not-for-profit ture. To register for the reception and lecentities and the government/public secture, and for more information, go to www tors) worldwide. The firm offers entity- and .carey.jhu.edu/berman. portfolio-level strategy planning, economic B y A n d r e w B l u mb e r g

T A screen shot from one of Jennifer Culbertson’s language learning experiments shows a ‘slergena’ and teacher Glermi.

Language Continued from page 1 Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the same department. (Culbertson is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester.) The study not only provides evidence remarkably consistent with Chomsky’s hypothesis but also introduces an interesting new approach to generating and testing other hypotheses aimed at answering some of the biggest questions concerning the language learning process. In the study, a small, green, cartoonish “alien informant” named Glermi taught participants, all of whom were English-speaking adults, an artificial nanolanguage named Verblog via a video game interface. In one experiment, for instance, Glermi displayed an unusual-looking blue alien object called a “slergena” on the screen and instructed the participants to say “geej slergena,” which in Verblog means “blue slergena.” Then participants saw three of those objects on the screen and were instructed to say “slergena glawb,” which means “slergenas three.” Although the participants may not have consciously known this, many of the world’s languages use both of those word orders— that is, in many languages adjectives precede nouns, and in many nouns are followed by numerals. However, very rarely are both of these rules used together in the same human language, as they are in Verblog. As a control, other groups were taught different made-up languages that matched Verblog in every way but used word order combinations that are commonly found in human languages. Culbertson reasoned that if knowledge of certain properties of human grammars— such as where adjectives, nouns and numerals should occur—is hardwired into the human brain from birth, the participants tasked with learning alien Verblog would have a particularly difficult time, which is exactly what happened. The adult learners who had had little to no exposure to languages with word orders different from those in English quite easily learned the artificial languages that had

word orders commonly found in the world’s languages but failed to learn Verblog. It was clear that the learners’ brains “knew” in some sense that the Verblog word order was extremely unlikely, just as predicted by Chomsky a half-century ago. The results are important for several reasons, according to Culbertson. “Language is something that sets us apart from other species, and if we understand how children are able to quickly and efficiently learn language, despite its daunting complexity, then we will have gained fundamental knowledge about this unique faculty,” she said. “What this study suggests is that the problem of acquisition is made simpler by the fact that learners already know some important things about human languages—in this case, that certain words orders are likely to occur and others are not.” This study was done with the support of a $3.2 million National Science Foundation grant called the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship grant, or IGERT, a unique initiative aimed at training doctoral students to tackle investigations from a multidisciplinary perspective. According to Smolensky, the goal of the IGERT program in Johns Hopkins’ Cognitive Science Department is to overcome barriers that have long separated the way that different disciplines have tackled language research. “Using this grant, we are training a generation of interdisciplinary language researchers who can bring together the now widely separated and often divergent bodies of research on language conducted from the perspectives of engineering, psychology and various types of linguistics,” said Smolensky, principal investigator for the department’s IGERT program. Culbertson used tools from experimental psychology, cognitive science, linguistics and mathematics in designing and carrying out her study. “The graduate training I received through the IGERT program at Johns Hopkins allowed me to synthesize ideas and approaches from a broad range of fields in order to develop a novel approach to a really classic question in the language sciences,” she said. G

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half-day forum called “Nigeria’s 2011 Elections: Achievements, Problems and Prospects” will be held at SAIS from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10. Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria and former vice chancellor of Bayero University, will give the forum’s keynote address on “Challenges of Conducting Free, Fair and Credible Elections in Nigeria” at 12:30 p.m. Christopher Fomunyoh, director of Africa Programs at the National Demo-

cratic Institute, and Peter Lewis, director of the SAIS African Studies Program, will provide commentary after Jega’s remarks. From 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., a panel of experts will discuss a range of topics. The forum is co-hosted by the SAIS African Studies Program, the National Democratic Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The event will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to itolber1@jhu.edu or 202663-5676.

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Bioethics ing office supplies or even just someone to eat lunch with. Once a week, co-workers stroll out en masse to the green-and-purple Gypsy Queen lunch truck that parks near the building on Thursdays and bond over crabmeat tacos, truffle sliders and macaroni served in waffle cones. “The most important aspect of this building is that, for the first time in [the Berman Institute’s] 16-year history, it gives the institute a distinct identity and place to call its own,” said Greg Bowden, the institute’s director of development. “Our faculty, most of whom hold joint appointments in other schools, go back and forth from this building to their other professional homes. That creates a rich mix of ideas and shared expertise.” On Tuesday, May 10, the Berman Institute will debut its new building to the Johns Hopkins community with an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. The next day, the building will be officially dedicated as Deering Hall. The naming honors the longtime support of Lynn Deering, one of the leaders of the institute’s national advisory board, and her husband, university trustee Tony Deering. The university has designated May 9 to 13 as Bioethics Week to emphasize the essential role of the multidisciplinary field in biomedical research, clinical care, public health and public discourse. Special events this week will include: • A public lecture on May 12 by Maryland’s secretary of health and mental hygiene, Joshua Sharfstein, who will talk about the ethics of political leadership of scientific agencies. • On May 10, a screening of the documentary Doctors of the Dark Side, which focuses on psychologists and physicians who devised and supervised the torture of terrorist detainees.

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Cutaways of the 1876 building’s original radiators now hang as wall art just inside the main entrance.

• On May 9, a community conversation with Tuskegee historian Susan Reverby, a Wellesley College professor who recently uncovered unethical experiments conducted by U.S. health officials in the late 1940s, when Guatemalan prisoners were infected with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases. “Bioethicists have studied and responded to egregious and chilling chapters in medicine and research, such as Tuskegee,” said Faden, the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics at Johns Hopkins. “But much of what we do is forwardlooking and positive. We focus primarily on working with colleagues in science, health

care and public health toward ever more thoughtful, fair and socially just ways of doing their difficult work.” The Berman Institute consists of more than 30 core and affiliated faculty members, many with appointments in the schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, and Arts and Sciences. Since the institute’s founding in 1995, faculty have published well over 1,000 articles and more than a dozen books on subjects ranging from informed consent and neuroethics to umbilical cord blood banking and tube feeding the advanced elderly. The institute also employs a staff of 27, who are vital to its goal of contributing sophisticated scholarship on the ethics of clinical practice, biomedical science and public health, both globally and locally. Prior to the Berman Institute’s move into its first permanent home, its faculty and staff were scattered throughout the city and Johns Hopkins institutions. The lack of a brick-and-mortar home sometimes presented challenges for monthly staff meetings and collaboration among faculty and, more broadly, hindered communication and camaraderie. “One obvious change is that we no longer lose hours of travel time attending meetings in East Baltimore or Homewood campus space,” said Alan Regenberg, the institute’s research manager. “Beyond the hassles of being so dispersed, my staff and I were missing out on those informal opportunities to collaborate with other members of the institute.” The 11,000-square-foot building, reenvisioned by the Baltimore-based Design Collective, is recognized by the Maryland Historical Trust and sits at 1809 Ashland Avenue, between Wolfe Street and Broadway, where the East Baltimore campus meets the East Baltimore Development Inc.’s New East Side redevelopment project. Glimpses of the building’s former life remain: Heavy cutaways of the original radiator that once warmed handlebar-mustachioed cops now hang as wall art just inside the main entrance. And at the building’s southeast

corner, an attached garage-size structure that serves as flex space for PhD students, interns and bioethics trainees is nicknamed after its original charge: “the carriage house.” Throughout the year, the Berman Institute offers internships to students—many from the Hopkins Undergraduate Bioethics Society—who assist with the wide variety of research efforts and other projects the entity takes on. Students have participated in work related to challenges in stem cell science, bioethics-related news on the Web and a survey of medical professionalism—or lack thereof—in the television medical dramas Grey’s Anatomy and House, M.D. In addition, the institute annually hosts visitors from sub-Saharan Africa who have been accepted into the Johns Hopkins– Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program. Based in the Berman Institute, the program brings trainees to Johns Hopkins for six months to complete graduate work in research ethics so that they can apply their enhanced understanding of bioethics at their home institutions. “Deering Hall will be a great home for bioethics at Hopkins,” said Margaret Moon, the Freeman Family Scholar in Clinical Medical Ethics at the Berman Institute. “The dedicated space will deepen the connections within our own ethics community while establishing a stronger sense of identity for bioethics as an important part of the larger Johns Hopkins universe.” And just as Deering Hall will be a place that nurtures collaboration and collegiality among faculty and other researchers, so will the rest of the institute’s members be emboldened by a sense of belonging—while also being fueled by a fancy, new espresso maker. “Sometimes a casual conversation while waiting to make espresso can lead to really helpful and productive results—with either great input or even new formal collaborations being launched,” Regenberg said. “What we have now is a community. We have been able to get to know each other better, and share.” G

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A fresh look for JHU Press’ historic building

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he Johns Hopkins University Press recently completed an extensive twoyear renovation of its historic main building, an 1897 former church in Charles Village where the Press has been located since 1993. The project, by Read & Company Architects of Baltimore, reconfigured offices, redesigned the front and back entrance lobbies, and created new meeting space on the building’s terrace level. The lobby and other public areas now feature artwork drawn from Press publications, along with new displays about the publishing work and history of the country’s oldest university press. To celebrate the completion of the renovation, Press staff, authors, JHU colleagues and friends will gather for an open house from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11. Refreshments will be served, and tours will be available. A shuttle will run from Homewood’s Mason Hall to the Press during the hours of the open house. —Jack Holmes

A large portrait of Daniel Coit Gilman features the famous quote in which he ties the work of the Press to the university’s educational mission, declaring that it is a ‘noble duty’ to disseminate knowledge ‘far and wide.’ The image is a 70-by-92-inch digital photograph of James Carroll Beckwith’s official portrait of the university’s first president, which resides in Gilman Hall. At left is one of the display panels, designed by Doug Behr of JHU’s Office of Marketing and Creative Services, that profile the history of the Press and tell the story of the ‘life of a book.’

Artwork drawn from Press publications hangs throughout the building.

Animal studies reveal new route to treating heart disease B y D av i d M a r c h

Johns Hopkins Medicine

cientists at Johns Hopkins have shown in laboratory experiments in mice that blocking the action of a signaling protein deep inside the heart’s muscle cells blunts the most serious ill effects of high blood pressure on the heart. These include heart muscle enlargement, scar tissue formation and loss of blood vessel growth. Specifically, the Johns Hopkins team found that its intervention halted transforming growth factor beta, or TGF-beta, secretion at a precise location called cell receptor type 2 in cardiac muscle cells. Blocking its action in this cell type fore-

stalled pathways for hypertrophy, fibrosis and angiogenesis by stopping the unbridled TGF-beta signaling, which is typically observed in heart failure, in all other nonmuscle types of cells in blood vessels and in fibrous tissue. However, blocking TGF-beta signaling in nonmuscle cells did not stop disease progression. In several dozen different experiments, using genetically altered mice or chemicals to selectively block different TGF-beta pathways, researchers were able to pinpoint where the signaling protein had its greatest impact on heart function and determine how its unimpeded activity promoted heart disease. “Now that we know about the pivotal and specific bad roles played by TGF-beta

Titan ‘common knowledge’ that outer-planets missions are billion-dollar operations, but our team proposed a lander on Titan in the lowcost Discovery mission series. Coming off the success of both the Messenger mission to Mercury and the New Horizons mission now on its way to Pluto, it’s clear that APL has met the challenge to think differently.” The TiME capsule would launch in 2016 and reach Titan in 2023, parachuting onto the moon’s second-largest northern sea, the Ligeia Mare. For 96 days the capsule would study the composition and behavior of the sea and its interaction with Titan’s weather and climate. TiME would also seek evidence of the complex organic chemistry that may be active on Titan today, and that may be similar to processes that led to the development of life on the early Earth. NASA’s Discovery Program sponsors frequent cost-capped solar system exploration missions with highly focused scientific goals. The Applied Physics Laboratory led the first Discovery-class mission, NEAR, which in 2000–2001 became the first spacecraft to orbit and land on an asteroid. APL also leads one of the program’s latest successes,

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Sunlight reflects off a Titan lake in this image captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The Titan Mare Explorer (TiME), a candidate for NASA’s next Discoveryclass mission, would perform the first direct inspection of an ocean environment beyond Earth by landing in, and floating on, a large methane-ethane sea on the cloudy, complex moon of Saturn.

Messenger, which began a yearlong orbit of the planet Mercury in March. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Discovery Program for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. G For more on NASA’s Discovery Program, go to discovery.nasa.gov.

in a common form of heart disease, we can try to mimic our lab experiments to develop cell-specific drug therapies that stop the chain reactions in the heart muscle at the TGF-beta type 2 cell receptor location,” said senior study investigator David Kass, the Abraham and Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascular Institute. The Kass team study, to be published in the June edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, is believed to show the first evidence of how TGF-beta is stimulated differently by various cell types in the heart and which resulting pathways promote heart failure, the most common kind of heart disease. Nearly 6 million Americans are estimated to have the condition. Kass said that previous research showed that TGF-beta played a mixed role in various heart diseases, reducing arterial inflammation in some while harming valve and blood vessel function in others, such as people with Marfan syndrome. Until now, however, no explanation existed as to why any of these differences occurred, which cells controlled the TGF-beta signal or which enzymes are stimulated as a result. In the new study, researchers also found that in mice with hypertension-induced disease, blocking TGF-beta type 2 cell receptor stopped activities of another kind of regulating protein, called TGF-beta activated kinase, or TAK-1. Its activation appears to play a key role in heart enlargement and in secreting proteins tied to scarring, as well as others tied to blood vessel formation. Researchers began the study with injections of TGF-beta neutralizing antibodies to see if they could rein in heart-failing TGF-

beta signaling. But the disease got worse in mice whose hearts had induced high blood pressure, and TGF-beta signaling persisted inside the muscle cells even though it was suppressed in other cells in the heart. The action of two other kinds of proteins closely tied to TGF-beta was similarly split, with the activity of Smad proteins suppressed only outside muscle cells, while TAK-1 production continued. This led Kass and his team to investigate what was happening differently inside muscle cells. Subsequent testing in mice selectively bred to lack either one of the two TGFbeta receptors in the muscle cells revealed that blocking only the TGF-beta type 2 cell receptor shut down both Smad and TAK-1 activity, stalling enlargement and scarring. Blocking only the TGF-beta type 1 receptor, however, failed to block TAK-1 activity, and disease-accelerating TGFbeta signaling persisted in nonmuscle heart cells. Researchers plan further tests in animals of chemicals that block TAK-1 as potential treatments for heart failure or other kinds of heart disease. Funding for the study, which took three years to complete, was provided by the National Institutes of Health, with additional support from the American Heart Association, Japan Heart Foundation, Peter Belfer Laboratory Foundation and Fondation Leducq. In addition to Kass, Johns Hopkins researchers involved in this study were study lead investigator Norimichi Koitabashi, Thomas Danner, Ari Zaiman, Janelle Rowell, Joseph Mankowski, Dou Zang and Eiki Takimoto. Additional research assistance was provided by Yigal Pinto, of the University of Amsterdam.

Date announced for annual Johns Hopkins Picnic

he big Johns Hopkins family gettogether—the annual picnic held on the grounds of Johns Hopkins at Eastern—will be held this year from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, June 10. Faculty, staff, students, retirees and their family and friends are all invited to the

event, which includes games, entertainment and all-you-can-eat picnic fare. Admission is $5 (free for children 3 and under). Tickets are available only through advance purchase. For ticket seller information, call 443-997-6060 or go to hopkinsworklife.org and click on News & Events.

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he Maryland Shakespeare Festival will bring its 2011 Good Will Summer Tour to Baltimore in June, performing over nine days, June 29–July 2 and July 6–10, in the Meadow at Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library. The company continues the tradition previously established by the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, which in April announced its closing after 17 years, of staging Shakespeare under the stars at the museum. The innovative Frederick-based company will perform one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, As You Like It, complete with boasting wrestlers, women disguised as men, a lion attack, four weddings, a couple of banishments and some

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of the most famous lines the Bard ever wrote, including “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” For more than a decade, the Maryland Shakespeare Festival has been playing Shakespeare the way the playwright and his company played it: bold, passionate and sometimes rowdy. Its annual Good Will Summer Tour offers joyous, casual performances in outdoor venues across Maryland with live music and a festival atmosphere for the entire family. As You Like It is directed by John Bellomo. Gates open at 5 p.m. for picnicking, with shows at 7 p.m. Ticket prices are $20 for adults, $15 for military and seniors, $10 for students, and $55 for a family package of four tickets. Tickets can be purchased through the Maryland Shakespeare Festival website at www .mdshakes.org/summer-tour or by calling 301-668-4090.

Climate change analysis predicts increased heat wave fatalities By Tim Parsons

Bloomberg School of Public Health

lobal climate change is anticipated to bring more extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves that could impact human health in the coming decades. An analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, using three different climate change scenarios for the final decades of the 21st century, calculated that the city of Chicago could experience between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year attributable to heat waves. The study was published in the May 1 edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. “Our study looks to quantify the impact of increased heat waves on human mortality. For a major U.S. city like Chicago, the impact will likely be profound and potentially devastating,” said Roger Peng, lead author of the study and an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Bloomberg School. “We would expect the impact to be less severe with mitigation efforts, including lowering CO2 emissions.” For the analysis, Peng and his colleagues developed three climate change scenarios for the years 2081 to 2100. The scenarios were based on estimates from seven global climate change models and from mortality and air pollution data for the city of Chicago

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The Homewood Technology and Innovation Showcase, an opportunity to meet faculty members and students who have produced inventions and research advances that may lead to investment and commercialization. Remarks by Edward D. Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine; and Joseph Smith, chief medical and science officer, Gary and Mary West Wireless Health Institute. Sponsored by the Whiting School of Engineering. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

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tion Advisory Board. Reception follows. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

ore than 200 student works from drawing, painting, photography, cartooning and printmaking classes will be on display at Homewood Art Workshops’ Studio Show, which opens with a reception from 3 to 6 p.m. on Friday, May 13, in the Mattin Center’s F. Ross Jones Building. This year’s Eugene Leake Awards for outstanding achievement in the Homewood Art Workshops will be presented at 4 p.m. to seniors Jin Eom, Maria Granato and Aliyah Sanders. Shown here is senior Louis Okafor’s digital caricature of Conan O’Brien, done in Tom Chalkley’s Cartooning class. The show will remain on display through the summer, although graduating seniors are expected to remove their work.

from 1987 to 2005. The data were limited to the warm season, May to October, of each year. From 1987 to 2005, Chicago experienced 14 heat waves lasting an average of 9.2 days, which resulted in an estimated 53 excess deaths per year. In the future, the researchers calculated, excess mortality attributable to heat waves could range from 166 to 2,217 per year. The projections of excess deaths, they said, could not be explained by estimated increases in city population alone. The exact change due to global warming in annual mortality projections, however, is sensitive to the choice of climate model used in analysis. “It’s very difficult to make predictions, but given what we know now—absent any form of adaptation or mitigation—our study shows that climate change will exacerbate the health impact of heat waves across a range of plausible future scenarios,” Peng said. Authors of the study are Jennifer F. Bobb, of the Bloomberg School; Claudia Tebaldi, of the University of British Columbia; Larry McDaniel, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Michelle L. Bell, of Yale University; and Francesca Dominici, of the Harvard School of Public Health. The research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Bioengineering Innovation and Design. Free admission, but guests must register at http://cbid.bme.jhu.edu. Armstrong Medical Education Bldg. EB a series of lectures, seminars, discussions, documentaries and talks marking the dedication of the Berman Institute of Bioethics’ new home. (See story, p. 1.) The following are highlights of the week’s events:

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Mon., May 9. Talks by medical historian Susan Reverby, Wellesley College.

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Mon., May 9, 1:30 p.m. Screening of The Wisdom of Wit, Megan Cole’s dramatized lecture of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play Wit. Armstrong Medical Education Bldg. EB

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“U.S. Public Health Service STD Inoculation Studies in Guatemala, 1946–48: Why Do They Matter Now?” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar. W3008 SPH. EB p.m. “Escaping Melodramas: Reflecting on Medical Research in Tuskegee and Guatemala,” a public lecture. Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Humanim, American Brewery Bldg., 1701 N. Gay St.

The 18th Annual Shallenberger Lecture in Ethics—“A Sickle Cell Crisis: Relationships Between Clinicians and Patients With Sickle Cell Disease” by Carlton Haywood Jr., SoM. Sponsored by the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Hurd Hall. EB

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Screening of the documentary Doctors of the Dark Side, about health professionals who participated in torture. Sponsored by the Berman Institute of Bioethics. W1214 SPH. EB

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Tues., May 10, 5 to 7 p.m. Open House for Deering Hall, new home of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Light finger foods and beverages will be served, and guests will be invited to tour the building. 1809 Ashland Ave. EB

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“Striking the Right Balance: The Ethics of Political Leadership of Scientific Agencies,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Joshua Sharfstein, Maryland secretary of health and mental hygiene. Strauch Auditorium, Armstrong Medical Education Bldg. EB

Dedication of Deering Hall, new home of the Berman Institute of Bioethics. By invitation only. 1809 Ashland Ave. EB Thurs., May 12, 5 p.m.

Mon., May 9, 3 p.m. The Whiting School of Engineering’s Convocation Awards Ceremony and Harriet Shriver Rogers Lecture by Krishnan Rajagopalan, global managing partner of the Technology and Services Practice for Heidrick & Struggles, and a member of WSE’s National Advisory Council and the Homewood Technology Commercializa-

Tues., May 10, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Day, spotlighting longtime projects by students through oral presentations and demonstrations. For more information, go to www.me.jhu.edu/design.html. Those planning to attend are asked to contact Mike Bernard at 410-516-7154 or by email to mike.bernard@jhu.edu. 210 Hodson. HW Tues., May 10, 1 to 3 p.m. Technology Fellowship Showcase, winners of the fellowship will demonstrate new classroom technology resources. There will be giveaways for all attendees and flash drives for JHU faculty. For information, go to www .cer.jhu.edu. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Q-Level, MSE Library. HW

The Master of Liberal Arts Program’s First Capstone Colloquium, featuring poster sessions and individual presentations of MLA student work produced during the 2010-2011 academic year. Light refreshments will be served. To RSVP (required), go to http:// mla.jhu.edu. Hodson Hall. HW

Sun., May 15, 2 to 5 p.m.

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and networking reception. Light refreshments served. To RSVP online, go to http://biotechnology.jhu.edu/rsvp/aap .html?ContentID=3030. Montgomery County Campus. •

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Student research poster presentations. Room 121, Bldg. 3.

“Molecular Target Identification for Translational Medicine: The Anticancer Topoisomerase I Inhibitors,” keynote address by Yves Pommier, NCI. Gilchrist Hall Auditorium.

Fifth Annual Institute for NanoBioTechnology Symposium, focusing on

the use of small-scale technology to combat cancer. (See story, p. 4.) HW •

Thurs., May 12, 1 to 5:30 p.m. “Cancer Nanotechnology,”

hands-on laboratory workshops. To sign up for a workshop, email tracyinbt@jhu.edu or call 410-5165634. Suite 100, NEB. •

Fri., May 13

8:30 a.m. to noon. Talks by keynote speaker Stephen Baylin, SoM—“Why Develop Sensitive Detection Systems for Abnormal DNA Methylation in Cancer?”— and six other faculty experts. Shriver Hall Auditorium.

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Poster session. Clipper Room, Shriver Hall.

Fri., May 13, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Research Symposium on Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics, featuring graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland, College Park, presenting ongoing research in fluid mechanics. Sponsored by CEAFM. 50 Gilman. HW

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ediatricians from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and elsewhere have discovered a link between low levels of vitamin D and anemia in children. The findings, presented May 1 at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Denver, show that vitamin D deficiency may play an important role in anemia. Anemia, which occurs when the body has too few oxygen-carrying red blood cells, is diagnosed and tracked by measuring hemoglobin levels. Symptoms of mild anemia include fatigue, lightheadedness and low energy. Severe and prolonged anemia can damage vital organs by depriving them of oxygen. To examine the relationship between hemoglobin and vitamin D, the researchers looked at data from the blood samples of more than 9,400 children, 2 to 18 years of age. The lower the vitamin D levels, the lower the hemoglobin and the higher the risk for anemia, the researchers found. Children with levels below 20 nanograms per milliliter of blood had a 50 percent higher risk for anemia than children with levels 20

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ng/ml and above. For each 1 ng/ml increase in vitamin D, anemia risk dropped by 3 percent. Only 1 percent of white children had anemia, compared with 9 percent of black children. Black children also had, on average, much lower vitamin D levels than white children. Researchers have long known that anemia is more common in black children, but the reasons for this remain unclear, although some suspect that biologic and genetic factors may be at play. The new findings, however, suggest that low vitamin D levels in black children may be an important contributor to anemia. “The striking difference between black and white children in vitamin D levels and hemoglobin gives us an interesting clue that definitely calls for a further study,” said lead investigator Meredith Atkinson, a pediatric nephrologist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. While the findings show a clear link between low vitamin D levels and anemia, they do not prove that vitamin D deficiency causes anemia, the investigators caution. Other institutions involved in the research were Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of New York.

Higher HIV risk in black gay men is linked to partner choice B y E k at e r i n a P e s h e va

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oung black men who have sex with men get infected with HIV nearly five times more often than MSM from other races, even though they don’t have more unprotected sex. The discrepancy has long mystified public health experts, but a new study by investigators at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere now offers a possible explanation for it. The study found that young black MSM—a group that includes openly gay and bisexual men, as well as those who have sex with men but do not identify themselves as gay or bisexual—select partners and judge these partners’ HIV status in a specific way. These men show a clear preference for masculine men, while also equating masculinity with lower HIV risk. This dynamic, the researchers say, can help explain why young black MSM contract HIV more often than their counterparts from other races. The results are based on interviews with 35 black men ages 18 to 24 who have sex with men. The most notable findings include an overwhelming preference for masculine partners, accepting masculine

partners as dominant in the sex act and leaving to them decisions about condom use, perceiving masculine men as low risk for HIV and feminine men as high risk. “There may be no difference in HIV prevalence between masculine- and feminine-looking men, but because black MSM perceive masculine men as lower risk, their sexual encounters with such men may make HIV infection more likely,” said investigator Jonathan Ellen, a pediatrician and teen health expert at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. In other words, even though young black MSM have unprotected sex just as often as others, they may be having unprotected sex in riskier ways with partners whose HIV status they often miscalculate, the researchers said. The findings, presented May 2 at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Denver, offer new insight into how black MSM judge risk based on perceptions of masculinity, and can help inform public health campaigns to reduce new HIV infections in this disproportionately affected group. The findings, the researchers said, can also guide safe-sex conversations between primary care physicians and patients. Errol Fields, currently a resident at Boston Children’s Hospital, was lead author on the research, which he conducted as a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston and Emory University also participated in the study.

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Bayview, efficiency apt mins to JHU Bayview campus. $450/mo + utils (or best offer). 443-386-9146 or lcmbfan@yahoo.com. Bolton Hill, 3BR Victorian brownstone, 3 full BAs, 1 half-BA, 2 kitchens, upgraded appls, W/D, top flr deck off master BR, hdwd flrs, backyd, prkng in rear, on quiet, cobbled street, email to request pics and arrange viewing. $1,910/mo. tymbuk2@gmail.com. Butchers Hill, 2BR, 2.5BA unit in renov’d carriage house. $1,750/mo. 410-916-5858 or ecolib@verizon.net. Canton, lg, beautiful 2BR, 2.5BA RH, W/D, dw, CAC, possible additional BR in fin’d bsmt, patio, mins to JHH, dogs OK. $1,645/ mo + utils. 410-218-8061. Charles Village, 3BR, 2BA RH w/sec sys, W/D, fenced yd, garden, garage, 5-min walk to Homewood campus/shuttle, no smokers/ no pets. $1,650/mo + utils. 301-699-7583 or housecv@gmail.com. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/ full kitchen, call for wkly/wknd rentals, pics avail at jzpics@yahoo.com. 410-638-9417. Federal Hill, 1BR, 1BA in brownstone, dw, W/D, CAC/heat, hdwd flrs, pets OK, 1-car garage. $1,550/mo. cb_nd03@yahoo.com. Hampden, beautifully renov’d 3BR, 2BA duplex, eat-in kitchen, dw, master suite has own kitchen, W/D, clawfoot tub, storage bsmt, covered front/back porches, fenced backyd, ample street prkng, nr light rail, 1-yr lease. $1,500/mo + sec dep. Mina, 410592-2670. Hampden, 2BR, 1BA TH, CAC, modern kitchen, W/D, 5 mins to JHU, avail June 1. $1,200/mo + utils. 410-366-4635. Homeland, 2BR, 2BA unit w/balcony in gated community, quiet bldg, view of stream, CAC, new kitchen, dw, gas stove, storage and W/D in bsmt, pool, exercise rm, nr Belvedere shops. $1,275/mo incl heat. 410-2430007 or http://bit.ly/mIKe6o (for pics). Homeland, 2BR, 2BA condo, CAC, W/D in unit, new kitchen appls, storage rm, community pool, fitness rm, security guard, 5 mins to JHU, 6-mo lease avail. $1,250/mo incl most utils. drew@mcproperty.com. Homewood, lg 1BR condo w/office, dw, W/D, prkng, avail July 1. $1,100/mo. 410235-2190 or csokolom1989@yahoo.com. Howard Co (Woodbine area), 4BR, 3BA ranch, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, family rm w/fp, AC, W/D, stone terrace, 2-car garage, big yd, great schools, avail June 1. $1,800/mo. 410-929-4479 or hchome111@ gmail.com. Locust Point (1325 Cooksie St), 2BR, 2BA house, W/D. $1,350/mo + utils. 410-4095136, 410-409-5137 or tmsroka@verizon .net. Mayfield, beautifully renov’d 3BR, 2BA RH, hdwd flrs, fin’d bsmt, front porch, backyd, garden area, detached garage, across from Herring Run Park, mins to Lake Montebello, 10 mins to JHMI/JHU Homewood, avail June 1. $1,800/mo. mayfieldroom@ gmail.com. Mt Washington, 2BR, 2BA condo, approx 1,500 sq ft, avail July, unfurn’d. $1,400/mo incl utils ($1,500/mo furn’d). Maria, 310386-4879.

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Ocean City (120th St), 2BR, 2BA condo, sleeps 6, immaculate, new appls/living rm furniture, enclos’d courtyd, 2 blks to beach, indoor/outdoor pools, tennis, racketball. 410992-7867 or joel.alan.weiner@gmail.com. Ocean City, Md, 3BR, 2BA condo on 137th St, ocean block, steps from the beach, offstreet prkng (2 spaces), lg pool, short walk to restaurants/entertainment. 410-544-2814. Tuscany/Canterbury, spacious, safe 2BR, 1BA apt close to JHU/Union Memorial Hospital/Loyola, full kitchen, living rm, dining rm, sunrm, hdwd flrs, no smoking/no pets, W/D on premises, prkng avail. $1,800/ mo. 213-550-6689. 2BR, 2BA apt w/fp, TV, patio, swimming pool, more, avail May 16 to July 27, price/ times negotiable. $1,290/mo. 315-767-9517. 108 W University Pkwy, fully furn’d 1BR summer sublet (June-August), at Homewood campus across from lacrosse field, walk to restaurants/grocery stores, call to arrange a time to visit. $850/mo. 202-725-0233. Beautiful, spacious 3BR, 2BA condo w/garage, great location, walk to Homewood campus. $1,800/mo. 443-848-6392 or sue.rzep2@ verizon.net. Upscale, fully furn’d apt in Victorian bldg overlooking historic park, flexible terms. 410-988-3137, richardson1886@gmail.com or http://therichardsonhouse or vflyer.com/ home/flyer/home/3200019. Sublet 2BR apt nr 30th and Guilford, fully furn’d kitchen, living rm and bedrooms, avail June 1-August 31. $1,200/mo incl utils, cable. 443-452-8575 or snovotney@gmail .com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Canton, beautifully renov’d 2BR, 2.5BA RH, huge master suite, open floor plan, rooftop deck, nr JHH/Bayview. 443-527-1643. Canton, magnificent 2BR, 2BA waterfront condo in the Anchorage, 2 prkng spaces. $464,000. 410-437-9188 or farfoodell@ gmail.com. Ellicott City, 5BR, 3.5BA single-family house, 42" kitchen cabinets w/Corian countertops, full backsplash, fin’d bsmt, nr #1 Centennial Schools. 443-257-5136 or pakshree@hotmail.com. Federal Hill, TH w/numerous updates already completed, bamboo hdwd flrs in living rm and dining rm, updated kitchen and BA. $179,900. J.M. Anthony, 410-808-4869 or jodiemack@gmail.com. Gardens of Guilford, lg, newly renov’d 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant setting, easy walk to Homewood campus. 410-366-1066. Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt w/cedar closet, maintenancefree yd, carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com. Guilford, charming, renov’d 4BR house, over 1,900 sq ft, inlaid hdwds, CAC, garage, entertainer’s dream house. $175,000. 410812-9070. Mt Vernon, efficiency co-op w/gourmet kitchen in elegant setting, on shuttle route. $79,000. 410-818-8117.

Mt Washington, sunny 2BR, 2.5BA house, CAC, sunrm, fin’d bsmt, yd, nr blue-ribbon Mt Washington Elementary, perf for young HICKORY HEIGHTS WYMAN COURT couple. $250,000. 410-979-3833 or aLb457@ Just Renovated! A lovely hilltop setting on gmail.com. Hickory Avenue

Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

Studios - $595 - $630 1 BD Apts. - $710-740 2 BD from $795

in Hampden!

2 BD units from $750 w/Balcony - $785!

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Waverly, 4BR, 2BA TH, EOG unit, fin’d bsmt, wood deck, fenced yd, great neighbors. $125,000. Randy, 410-456-3775 or randy@ homeownershipworks.com.

3402 Mt Pleasant Ave, beautiful 2BR, 1BA house, complete rehab, great for professional, nr JH. $165,900. Pitina, 410-900-7436.

Electric lawnmower, Balens 19"-cut, 12-amp corded mower, great for sm yd. $25. 443895-4730 or judithproffitt@gmail.com.

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

Gorgeous, like-new furniture and furnishings, futon, dining rm set, bed, recliner, stereo, art work. 410-235-2190 or csokoLom1989@ yahoo.com.

ROOMMATES WANTED

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Sublet avail in University One for summer, lg BR, lg closet, priv BA. $600/mo. rborah12@ gmail.com.

Babysitter needed in Ellicott City for two kids, 5 and 10 yrs old, once a week, evening, excel compensation. 443-253-3971.

1BR and common areas of furn’d 3BR, 2BA house in Original Northwood, renov’d BA, steam rm, backyd, patio, ample street prkng, direct bus to JHMI/JHU. $500/mo + shared utils. cjouny@gmail.com.

Renting out a graduation gown, cap and hood for doctor of philosophy, all in excel cond, standard gold/black w/blue trim on hood, first-come, first-served. $125 (for up to 2 days). 443-248-2179.

Furn’d 1BR in 3BR, 2BA apt in Fells Point, W/D, free Internet access, quiet street, best neighborhood, close to everything, free shuttle to SoM. $350/mo to $400/mo + utils. xzhan45@gmail.com.

Freelance programmer for Microsoft Access database needed for local nonprofit organization, later stipend possible. 410-908-2546.

Rms in furn’d Halethorpe house, W/D, backyd, park, nr MARC train/695/I-95, highspeed Internet, cable TV, short-term leases OK. $550/mo + utils. lizo99@hotmail.com. F nonsmoker wanted for BR w/priv BA nr medical campus. myhome.2011@yahoo.com.

Donate unwanted guitars for the summer guitar workshop for youth in Hampden community. 410-366-4488. Wanted: Adult ASTA 1 strings for trio, any ASTA 1 for klezmer learning and practice, goal is enjoyment, growth. Judy, loquitur300@ymail.com.

924 N Broadway, new, refurbished 4BR TH, share w/medical students, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com.

Would you like to play indoor tennis this summer on a Johns Hopkins team? Tuesday evenings, June through August, men’s, women’s, mixed doubles, approx 3.0-4.0 level. Peter Barker, pbbark@gmail.com.

F wanted to share 2BR, 2BA apt in Baltimore County, nr I-83, 15 mins to downtown, great neighborhood. $610/mo + utils. yanjia1217@yahoo.com.

Classically trained musicians/ensemble avail for your special events (weddings, receptions, etc), affordable rate. stamusicministry@ gmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE

’98 Honda Accord LX coupe, 6-cyl, automatic, dk green, 2-dr, power everything, 119K mi. $4,500/best offer. 240-755-4954 or 443-423-3410. ’99 Nissan Sentra, manual, in good cond, 97K mi. $2,500. 443-653-1876 or reaeg@ yahoo.com.

JHU International Folk Dance, Saturday nights, teaching 7:30-8:30pm, requests 8:3010:30pm, 1st time free, $2 after that, Friends Meeting House, 3107 N Charles St. Horse boarding 25 mins from JHU in Glyndon/Worthington Valley, beautiful trails from farm. $500/mo (stall board). 410-8126716 or argye.hillis@gmail.com. Volunteer needed for ambitious ecology project. Mark, 410-464-9274.

’03 Acura TL, leather, ABS, power everything, dual/side airbags, moonroof, Bose sound system, multidisc CD, in good cond, 76K mi. $9,500. 410-484-4843.

Resident assistants needed, July 22-29, to supervise 100 high school students for 1-wk camp at Homewood campus. Shanna, skh9701@gmail.com.

’00 Toyota Camry LE, automatic, new timing belt and water pump, Md insp’d, excel cond, 110K mi. $5,500/best offer. 443-6360663.

We design custom T-shirts, pillowcases, towels, sheet sets, teddy bears, logos, package deal for Class of 2011; visit us at Northpoint flea market in Dundalk on Sat and Sun. Linda, 443-467-2833. Mobile detailing and power wash service. Jason, 443-421-3659.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Queen-size and king-size mattresses, clean, in very good cond, $50-$200; TVs (2), $50-$75; will deliver if buyer has no car. John, 410-419-3902. $10 Virgin Mobile prepaid phone card (pin number). Best offer. barterland@yahoo.com. Four tickets to Wicked at Kennedy Center, 7:30pm, July 21, tier 2, row B, 205-208, no scalp. $330 (firm). wreisig4@comcast.net. Moving sale: single mattresses, $60; dining table, $45; sofa, $85; many more items, best offers accepted. 571-345-5059 or irajk100@ yahoo.com.

Affordable and professional landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com. Need a photographer or videographer for headshots, weddings or other events. Edward S Davis photography and videography. 443695-9988 or esdavisimaging@gmail.com. Masterpiece Landscaping: knowledgeable, experienced individual, on-site consultation, transplanting, bed preparation, installation, sm tree and shrub shaping; licensed. Terry, 410-652-3446.

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Thurs., May 12, 12:30 p.m.

COLLOQUIA

Wed., May 11, 3:30 p.m. “Properties of Type 1a Supernovae, and Why I Hate Photometry,” an STSci colloquium with Nick Suntzeff, Texas A&M University. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Fri., May 13, 2 p.m. “Do Scientists Need Philosophy?” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with author David Harriman. Parsons Auditorium. APL

C O N FERE N C E S

Tues., May 10, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Permanence Matters,”

a conference on the history of permanent paper, the science of paper and its degradation, trends in paper manufacturing, printing and publishing; and the continuing need for permanent paper for users and heritage collections. Sponsored by Conservation and Preservation, the Heritage Science for Conservation project at the Sheridan Libraries, Glatfelter Paper and the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts. For more information, go to www.permanencematters.com. B17 CSEB. HW D I S C U S S I O N S / TA L K S

“From Revolution to Democracy: Lessons for Political Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa,” a SAIS Conflict Management Program panel discussion with Endy Bayuni, SAIS; Michele Dunne, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Peter Gastrow, International Peace Institute; and Leena El-Ali, Search for Common Ground. Co-sponsored by Search for Common Ground. For information or to RSVP, go to https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/ o/6060/p/salsa/event/common/ public/?event_key=32328. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS May

10,

12:45

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“Energy and Climate Policy in Austria,” a SAIS Energy, Resources and Environment Program discussion with Guenter Liebel, deputy minister, Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. For information or to RSVP, email eregloballeadersforum@jhu .edu. Rome Auditorium. SAIS Wed., May 11, 2 to 4 p.m.

“Disaster Health: Expert Perspectives on Japan’s Ongoing Crisis,” a School of Public Health panel discussion with Dean Michael Klag, SPH; Tomohiko Makino, SoM; Thomas Kirsch, SPH; Jonathan Links, SPH; Luke MacDonald, SPH; and George Everly Jr., SoM. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean, Public Health Preparedness Programs and the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. W1214 SPH. EB

E X H I B I T I O N S

feller University. Sponsored by Molecular Biology and Genetics. WBSB Auditorium. EB

MUSIC

The Peabody Computer Music Consort performs. Cohen-Davison Family Theatre. Peabody

Tues., May 10, 7:30 p.m.

The Preparatory String Ensemble and Young Artists Orchestra perform. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Sat., May 14, 3:30 p.m.

The Peabody Youth Orchestra performs music by Wagner and Borodin, featuring the winner of the Preparatory Concerto Competition. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sat., May 14, 7 p.m.

The 2011 Medical and Biological Illustration Graduate Student Exhibition will be on view through May 26. (A reception will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Mon., May 23.) For more information, go to www.hopkinsmedicine .org/medart or call 410-955-3409. Turner Concourse. EB

Sun., May 15, 3 p.m. The Preparatory Fran G. Zarubick Honors Recital presents the winners of the Preparatory Spring Honors Competition. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Fri., May 13, 3 to 6 p.m. Opening reception for the Homewood Art Workshops Studio Show, an exhibition of student work. Ross Jones Bldg., Mattin Center. HW

Mon., May 9, 9 a.m.

Mon., May 9.

Tues., May 10, 9:30 a.m.

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“NATO: A Changing Alliance in a Changing World,” a SAIS Center for Politics and Foreign Relations discussion with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of NATO. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Co-sponsored by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, the JHU Center for Advanced Governmental Studies and the University of California Washington Center. (Event is open to the SAIS community, invited guests and media only. A live webcast will be accessible at www.sais-jhu .edu.) To RSVP, email rguttman@ jhu.edu or call 202-974-6341. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

L E C TURE S

The Francis D. Carlson Lectureship in Biophysics—“Propagating and Engineering Whole Bacterial Genomes in Yeast” by Hamilton Smith, J. Craig Venter Institute. Sponsored by Biophysics. Mudd Auditorium. HW Mon., May 9, 4 p.m.

Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. The Dean’s Lecture V—“From Genes to Society” by David Nichols, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB Tues., May 10, 11 a.m. “Tomographic Fracture Imaging: Geology, Geophysics, Case Studies and Applications,” an Earth and Planetary Sciences special lecture by Pete Geiser, Global Geophysical Services. 304 Olin. HW Tues., May 10, 5 p.m. The Provost’s Lecture Series—“Cost Containment: Past, Health Reform and Future” by Gerard Anderson, SPH. Q&A session and reception to follow. RSVP to provostrsvp@jhu .edu. Tilghman Auditorium, Turner Bldg. EB Tues., May 10, 5:30 p.m. The Allan L. Berman Lecture—“From Risk to Opportunity: Making Strategic Real Estate Decisions in an Uncertain World” by Gadi Kaufmann, CEO, RCLCO. (See story, p. 5.) Sponsored by the Carey Business School. 4th floor, Legg Mason Conference Center, Harbor East. Thurs., May 12, 4 p.m. The 11th Annual Daniel Nathans, M.D. Lecture in Molecular Genetics— “Maps of the RNA World” by Robert Darnell, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rocke-

S E M I N AR S

“Evaluation of ‘Delivery Hut’ Program to Promote Institutional Deliveries in Haryana, India,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Rakesh Gupta. W2030 SPH. EB “Episomal DNA Tumor Virus-Host Interaction and Cancer,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Jianxin You, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. W1020 SPH. EB

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“Large-Scale Chromatin Structure and Dynamics,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Andrew Belmont, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Motor Learning: Is It One Thing or Many Different Things?” with John Krakauer, SoM. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

“Khat Chewing: Its Association With HIV and DC4 T Cell Counts,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Della Berhanu. W2030 SPH. EB Tues., May 10, 9 a.m.

Tues., May 10, noon. “Genetic and Pharmacological Studies With Engineered Receptors and Patient-Specific Stem Cells,” a Biological Chemistry special seminar with Bruce Conklin, University of California, San Francisco. 612 Physiology. EB

“Competitive, Co-opted or Collaborative? The Role of Health in Baltimore’s Comprehensive Zoning Rewrite,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Amelia Greiner. W1214 SPH. EB

Tues., May 10, 1 p.m.

Tues., May 10, 1 to 4 p.m.

“Workplace Violence,” a Homewood Campus Safety and Security seminar featuring videos and discussions, with introductory remarks by Edmund Skrodzki, executive director, JHU Campus Safety and Security. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Mudd Auditorium. HW Tues., May 10, 2 p.m. “The Role of the Intimate Partner Violence, HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Syndemic on Women’s Mental Health,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Samantha Illangasekare. 744 Hampton House. EB Wed.,

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12:15

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Wednesday Noon Seminar— “Longitudinal Outcome Monitoring in Psychiatry: The Promise of Technology” with Michelle Carras; “Evaluation of Reasoning Outcomes in the ACTIVE Study: How Baseline Depressive Symptoms Modify Responsiveness to Reasoning Training” with Mary Franchetti; and “Risk Factors for PTSD, Depression, Anxiety and Suicide After a Major Disaster” with Neesha Hussain. Sponsored by Mental Health; speakers are MHS candidates in the department. B14B Hampton House. EB

“Global Burden of Neonatal Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Monisha Jayakumar. W2030 SPH. EB

Fri., May 13, 10 a.m.

“Bladder Cancer and TP53 Gene Alterations: Associations With Cigarette Smoking and Arsenic Exposure and With NAT2 and GSTM1 Genotypes,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Claudine Samanic. W2009 SPH. EB

Fri., May 13, 1:15 p.m.

Fri., May 13, 1:30 p.m. “A New Beginning: The Search for Compounds That Alter Selection of the Start Site in Translation Initiation,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry thesis defense seminar with Julie Takacs. 701 WBSB. EB Sun., May 15, 2 to 4 p.m.

Writing seminar designed to provide resources for writers trying to publish short stories, find an agent or place a novel with a publisher, with author Justin Kramon (Finny). Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW Mon.,

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16,

12:15

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Wed., May 11, 3 p.m.

“Genetic and Environmental Influences on Children’s Dietary Intake, Growth and Health During Puberty: A Twin Study in China,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Ji Li. W2017 SPH. EB

“Epigenetic Regulation of Telomere Capping in Drosophila = The Stories of the Hip Hop Brothers,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Yikang Rong, NCI. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Wed., May 11, 4 p.m.

“Genetic Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids for Biological Studies,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Lei Wang, Salk Institute. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Mon., May 16, 2 p.m. “Moderators of the Relationship Between Life Events and Depression: Recurrence Social Support and Age,” a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Cynthia Jones. 845 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., May 12, noon. “Influenza: A ‘Continuously Emerging’ Infectious Disease,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/ Infectious Diseases seminar with Jeffery Taubenberger, NIAID/NIH. W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., May 16, 4 p.m. The David

“Control of Developmental and Regenerative Growth by Hippo Signaling,” a Cell Biology seminar with Ken Irvine, University of New Jersey. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., May 12, noon.

Thurs., May 12, 1 p.m. “Cellular Mechanisms of Pruritus,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Martin Steinhoff, University of California, San Francisco. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Thurs., May 12, 2 to 5 p.m., and Fri., May 13, 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The Futures Sem-

inar—Department of Chemistry, with panelists Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology; Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado; Jeffery Moore, University of Illinois; Matthew Platz, Ohio State University; JoAnne Stubbe, MIT; and John Tully, Yale University. 101 Remsen. HW

“Green Buildings, Health and Safety: An Investigation of the Effects of the Physical Work Environment on Occupant Health and Safety and Health Care Settings, a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Whitney Austin Gray. 461 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., May 12, 2 p.m.

Bodian Seminar—“Statistics of Natural Sounds, Invariance, Perception and Neural Representations” with Frederic Theunissen, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/ Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

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

Mon., May 9, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

BME Design Day 2011, a showcase of medical device innovations by student teams, featuring a keynote address by Tore Laerdal, executive chairman, Laerdal Medical. Co-sponsored by Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Continued on page 9

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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 JHOC Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences NEB New Engineering Building 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