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JHU family celebrates student’s life By Greg Rienzi
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amily, friends and hundreds of members of the Johns Hopkins University community filled the gymnasium of Homewood’s Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on Tuesday afternoon to memorialize and celebrate the life of Miriam Frankl, a vivacious, confident and bright young woman who clearly captivated many. Frankl, a 20-year-old junior in the Miriam Frankl School of Arts and Sciences, died on Oct. 17 from injuries sustained in a hit-and-run accident the previous afternoon. Her tragic passing stunned a campus community, which is still in mourning. Those gathered at the quiet and deeply somber service came to remember, or learn of, Frankl’s quick mind, energetic spirit, kind heart and her love of scarves, science, the Spanish language and Funfetti cupcakes. Frankl, from Wilmette, Ill., was a molecular and cellular biology and Spanish major who was helping conduct ALS research in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology. She was the third generation of women in her family to be part of the university’s East Baltimore campus community. Her aunt Rebecca Z. German is a professor in the School of Medicine, and her grandmother Pearl S. German is a professor emerita in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to her studies, Frankl was deeply involved with her sorority, Alpha Phi, and her work at the university’s Career Center. Rev. Albert Mosley, university chaplain, began the program with a short prayer and asked the assembly to “reflect on a life filled with life.” Continued on page 6
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‘The Social Network’ actors Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg, director of photography Jeff Cronenweth and director David Fincher answer questions from students at an informal get-together in Hodson Hall.
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ilm and Media Studies students and theater minors delighted in the opportunity last week to pick the brain of director David Fincher and other principal members of the upcoming major motion picture The Social Network. For two days, Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus served as a shooting location for the Columbia Pictures film, which chronicles the founding of Facebook.
‘The Social Network’ brings filmmaking and opportunities to campus By Greg Rienzi
The Gazette
Fincher, director of photography Jeff Cronenweth and two of the film’s stars, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, made themselves available for a Q&A with the students on Tuesday afternoon at Hodson Hall. Veteran film director Fincher was recently nominated for an Academy Award as best director for The Continued on page 10
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NASA spacecraft’s third and final flyby of the planet Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet’s surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown planet. The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging spacecraft, known as MESSENGER, flew by
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Mercury on Sept. 29. The probe completed a critical gravity assist to remain on course to enter into orbit around Mercury in 2011. Despite shutting down temporarily because of a power system switchover during a solar eclipse, the spacecraft’s cameras and instruments collected high-resolution and color images unveiling another 6 percent of the planet’s surface never before seen at close range. Approximately 98 percent of Mercury’s surface now has been imaged by NASA spacecraft. After MESSENGER goes into
orbit around Mercury, it will see the polar regions, which are the only unobserved areas of the planet. “Although the area viewed for the first time by spacecraft was less than 350 miles across at the equator, the new images reminded us that Mercury continues to hold surprises,” said Sean Solomon, principal investigator for the mission and director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Continued on page 4
10 Job Opportunities John McCain at SAIS; ‘A Woman’s Journey’; 10 Notices 11 Classifieds JHU Core Store exhibit; JHU Theatre C A L E N D AR
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en. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will speak at SAIS on “Why Freedom Still Matters” at 1 p.m. today, Nov. 9. McCain will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and speak about the continuing need for the United States to support human rights in its foreign policy. The event, hosted by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to transatlanticrsvp@jhu.edu or call 202-6635880 with questions. Seating is limited.
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his flu season, anxiety about the H1N1 virus will likely increase the number of state residents seeking vaccinations. To assist nurses desirous of participating as H1N1 vaccinators, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene requested that an intramuscular refresher training program be developed. The Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing was chosen as the entity to design and implement the program, funded by a grant. The program, put together by the School of Nursing and the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, consists of a self-paced online continuing education activity that illustrates the skills of vaccine administration and child restraint, and a skill competency program provided in four-hour “train the trainer” sessions. Online training went live on Sept. 29 and will be available on the IJHN Web site for two years. The “train-thetrainer” sessions were held Oct. 1 and 2.
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he recent creation of live mice from induced pluripotent stem cells not only represents a remarkable scientific achievement but also raises important issues, according to bioethicists at Johns Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics. In a letter published Oct. 28 in Regenerative Medicine, the authors advocate for clear ethical oversight of this research and pose key questions that warrant careful consideration.
The promise of iPSCs is that they will behave like embryonic stem cells and that their derivation will be both efficient and free of much of the moral controversy that has hampered embryonic stem cell research. However, the considerable time and resources currently needed to create iPSCs impede their potential use in medicine, state the authors, who caution that there is no guarantee that this more efficient approach demonstrated in mice will work in humans. In addition, “these experiments involved the creation of embryos, from which the live mice were successfully born,” write Jeremy Sugarman and Debra J.H. Mathews. “Paradoxically, this brings us full circle to the knotty questions related to the moral status of the embryo.” This project was supported in part by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Bioethics Rapid Response Initiative.
Ambassador Edelman to talk at SAIS on U.S.-U.K. relations
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mbassador Eric S. Edelman will give the sixth annual Alvin H. Bernstein Lecture at SAIS at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10. His talk is titled “The U.S.-U.K. Special Relationship: The End of the Affair?” Edelman, recently retired from the U.S. Foreign Service, is a visiting fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at SAIS and a distinguished fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis. This semester, he and Eliot A. Cohen, director of Strategic Studies, are teaching Diplomatic Disasters: Statecraft in War, Peace and Revolution, a course they created together. Edelman most recently served as the undersecretary of defense for policy. He was ambassador to Finland and Turkey in the Clinton and Bush administrations. Edelman’s lecture will take place in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. NonSAIS affiliates should RSVP to the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at SAIS at 202-663-5772 or ckunkel@jhu.edu.
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Insulating film could lead to less-power-hungry screen displays By Phil Sneiderman
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ohns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting the compound in a different way, the researchers have turned it into a thin film insulator, which instead blocks the flow of electricity but can induce large electric currents elsewhere. The material, called solution-deposited beta-alumina, could have important applications in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books. The discovery is described in the November issue of the journal Nature Materials and appears in an early online edition. “This form of sodium beta-alumina has some very useful characteristics,” said Howard E. Katz, professor and chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Whiting School, who supervised the research team. “The material is produced in a liquid state, which means it can easily be deposited onto a surface in a precise pattern for the formation of printed circuits. But when it’s heated, it forms a solid, thin, transparent film. In addition, it allows us to operate at low voltages, meaning it requires less power to induce useful current. That means its applications could operate with smaller batteries or be connected to a battery instead of a wall outlet.” The transparency and thinness of the material—on the order of only 100 atoms thick when hardened—make it ideal for use in the increasingly popular e-book readers, which rely on see-through screens and portable power sources, Katz said. He added that possible transportation applications include instrument readouts that can be
Howard Katz adjusting probes used for testing electronic devices.
displayed in the windshield of an aircraft or a ground vehicle. The emergence of sodium beta-alumina as an insulator was a surprising development, Katz said. The compound, known for decades, has traditionally been used to conduct electricity and for this reason has been considered as a possible battery component. The material allows charged particles to easily flow parallel to a twodimensional plane formed within its dis-
tinct atomic crystalline arrangement. “But we found that current does not flow nearly as easily perpendicular to the planes, or in unoriented material,” Katz said. “The material acts as an insulator instead of a conductor. Our team was the first to exploit this discovery.” The Johns Hopkins researchers developed a method of processing sodium beta-alumina
in a way that makes use of this insulation behavior occurring in the form of a thin film. Working with the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer staff, Katz’s team has filed for international patent protection for their discovery. The lead author of the Nature Materials paper is Bhola N. Pal, who was a postdoctoral fellow in Katz’s laboratory. In addition to Katz, the co-authors were Bal Mukund Dhar, a current doctoral student in the lab, and Kevin C. See, who recently completed his doctoral studies under Katz. Funding for the research was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation.
CCP awarded USAID grant for worldwide malaria project By Tim Parsons
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he Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs has been awarded a five-year grant from the United States Agency for International Development to ensure the distribution and proper use of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, known as LLINs, in malaria endemic countries. The new project, called NetWorks, will partner with the Malaria Consortium, Catholic Relief Services and hundreds of local agencies across Africa and parts of Asia. The project will have an estimated cost of up to $100 million. Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets are considered an essential tool for achieving and sustaining malaria control. The ability to efficiently and effectively distribute them and increase their use is critical to reducing the burden of malaria and maintaining control of the disease in endemic countries. NetWorks will rely on a flexible approach to rapidly analyze the current state of malaria prevention; build coordination between local, regional and national malaria control agencies; strengthen distribution networks within countries; and increase demand for net ownership using state-of-the-art behav-
ior-change techniques to close the ownership and usage gap. The project intends to promote a mixed distribution model to flexibly respond to the situation in each country, blending distribution via the private sector, public health facilities, nongovernmental organizations and mass campaigns. Researchers aim to leave countries with sustainable LLIN systems that ensure a continuous and coordinated supply of nets for those who need them. “The ability to get LLINs to those most vulnerable to deadly malaria—young children and pregnant women—is critical to achieving control of the disease,” said Matthew Lynch, project director and director of CCP’s Global Program on Malaria. “In the global fight against malaria, we desperately need new ways to better protect children, and we must make sure every vulnerable child sleeps under a net every night.” Added Michael J. Klag, dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, “Malaria is a devastating disease that kills over 1 million people each year, most of whom are children living in Africa. The Bloomberg School of Public Health is working on many fronts to eliminate the global burden of this disease, from encouraging healthy behaviors to advancing our basic understanding of the mosquito and its immune system. The work of CCP brings us another step closer to achieving our goals.”
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Nov. 13 Chili Cook-Off just one of many fun campaign events By John Black
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ooking contests, tours of the BMA, bingo and hot dog lunches are among the events taking place during the 2009 Johns Hopkins campaign for United Way of Central Maryland and the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund. “The seventh annual Chili Cook-Off and Dessert Bake-Off on Friday, Nov. 13, in [Homewood’s] Glass Pavilion is one of many events designed to put the fun in this year’s fund raising,� says campaign administrator Jeff Pratt. The 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. cook-off, featuring both individual and departmental entries, provides a $5 lunch of chili, dessert, cornbread and beverage. Tasters get to vote on the “people’s choice� award for best chili and baked item. All proceeds benefit United Way of Central Maryland and the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund. The campaign has already raised more than 50 percent of this year’s $2,060,000
Mercury Continued from page 1 Many new features were revealed during the third flyby, including a region with a bright area surrounding an irregular depression, suspected to be volcanic in origin. Other images revealed a double-ring impact basin approximately 180 miles across. The basin is similar to a feature scientists call the Raditladi basin, which was viewed during the probe’s first flyby of Mercury, in January 2008. “This double-ring basin, seen in detail for the first time, is remarkably well-preserved,� said Brett Denevi, a member of the probe’s imaging team and a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University in Tempe. “One similarity to Raditladi is its age, which has
goal, thanks to a series of high-profile kickoff events hosted by university leadership and organized by the more than two dozen faculty and staff who serve as divisional coordinators and campaign ambassadors. Events held to jump-start the campaign included leadership breakfasts; the Homewood Campaign Celebration, a fair with food, games and prizes provided by Homewood Student Affairs and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; tours of the BMA; a free breakfast at the School of
Public Health; and, at the School of Medicine, two hot dog lunches that featured memorable karaoke performances—a duet by JHM campaign chair Stephanie Reel and her husband, Howard Reel; and the trio of Dean/CEO Ed Miller, Mike Weisfeldt and university campaign chair Mike Klag singing “We Are Family.� For anyone who missed out on the fun, there is still a wide range of entertaining events scheduled to promote the campaign through the end date of Dec. 18, although
pledges can be made up until Dec. 31. “The coordinators and ambassadors have really stepped up this year, in a time of desperate need for our community, to plan a wide array of events to help promote the campaign and reach our monetary goal,� Pratt said. For more campaign information or to get involved with United Way’s “Live United� movement, go to www.jhu.edu/unitedway, e-mail unitedway@jhu.edu or call 410-5166060.
Other upcoming events • Maui Wowi Tropical Smoothie Sale, Nov. 10 to 12, 3 to 7 p.m., Education Building, sponsored by the School of Education. • Hopkins Hold ’em Tournament, Nov. 13, 9 p.m. to midnight, Nolan’s in Charles Commons, sponsored by RAB of Residential Life, Homewood Student Affairs.
• Holiday volunteer event to assist Our Daily Bread assemble gift baskets for families in need, Nov. 15, 2 to 4:30 p.m., 725 The Fallsway. • Take a Break Coffee House, Nov. 16, 3 to 5 p.m., Levering’s Great Hall, co-sponsored by KSAS and WSE. • Karaoke Happy Hour, Nov. 19, and Hot Dish Cook-Off event, date TBA, sponsored by Government, Community and Public Affairs.
• Brown Bag Bingo, Dec. 4, noon to 2 p.m., Levering’s Glass Pavilion, sponsored by Homewood Student Affairs. • Bake Sale, Dec. 9, all day at the Columbia Center, sponsored by the School of Education. • A bake sale, dress-down Friday for a donation and a silent auction to raise $500 so that two staffers will shave their heads, sponsored by Homewood’s Mason Hall.
been estimated to be approximately 1 billion years old. Such an age is quite young for an impact basin, because most basins are about four times older. The inner floor of this basin is even younger than the basin itself and differs in color from its surroundings. We may have found the youngest volcanic material on Mercury.� One of the spacecraft’s instruments conducted its most extensive observations to date of Mercury’s exosphere, or thin atmosphere, during this encounter. The flyby allowed for the first detailed scans over Mercury’s north and south poles. The probe also has begun to reveal how Mercury’s atmosphere varies with its distance from the sun. “A striking illustration of what we call ‘seasonal’ effects in Mercury’s exosphere is that the neutral sodium tail, so prominent in the first two flybys, is 10 to 20 times less intense in emission and significantly
reduced in extent,� said participating scientist Ron Vervack, of Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory. “This difference is related to expected variations in solar radiation pressure as Mercury moves in its orbit and demonstrates why Mercury’s exosphere is one of the most dynamic in the solar system.� The observations also show that calcium and magnesium exhibit different seasonal changes than sodium. Studying the seasonal changes in all exospheric constituents during the mission’s orbital phase will provide key information on the relative importance of the processes that generate, sustain and modify Mercury’s atmosphere. The third flyby also revealed new information on the abundances of iron and titanium in Mercury’s surface materials. Earlier Earth- and spacecraft-based observations showed that Mercury’s surface has a very low concentration of iron in silicate minerals, a
result that led to the view that the planet’s crust is generally low in iron. “Now we know Mercury’s surface has an average iron and titanium abundance that is higher than most of us expected, similar to some lunar mare basalts,� said David Lawrence, an APL participating mission scientist. The spacecraft has completed nearly three-quarters of its 4.9 billion–mile journey to enter orbit around Mercury. The full excursion will include more than 15 trips around the sun. In addition to flying by Mercury, the spacecraft flew past Earth in August 2005 and Venus in October 2006 and June 2007. The spacecraft was designed and built by APL. The mission is managed and operated by APL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. G For more about the mission, go to www .nasa.gov/messenger.
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Escalating pension costs hurting nonprofits, survey finds By Mimi Bilzor
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ost nonprofit organizations offering retirement benefits to their workers report that these plans are under stress, according to survey results released Nov. 5 by the Johns Hopkins Listening Post Project. Nonprofits offering “defined benefit plans” (plans with a guaranteed benefit) have been particularly hard hit, with 76 percent reporting that their plans are currently under stress, and 43 percent reporting severe or very severe stress. Even those offering “defined contribution plans” (plans with investments controlled by the employee and no guaranteed benefit) have been affected, however, with 58 percent reporting that their plans are under stress. As a result, organizations have been forced to reduce retirement benefits, scale back employer matches, end future benefit accruals and deny pension coverage to new employees or, as a last resort, divert
resources from program operations. Many smaller organizations have been prevented from offering pension benefits at all. “Retirement benefits are especially important for nonprofit organizations because they offer a way to help offset the generally lower wages paid to nonprofit workers,” said Lester M. Salamon, report author and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. “But given the Pension Protection Act of 2006’s requirement that defined benefit plans have assets in place to cover the full cost of their outstanding benefit obligations, the recent economic crisis, by decimating the value of pension assets, has provoked a crisis for the thousands of nonprofits that offer such plans.” Other findings from the Johns Hopkins survey include: • More than two-thirds (67 percent) of all survey respondents reported offering some type of retirement benefit plan to their employees. This appears to be higher than the proportion of comparably sized for-profit firms that offer such benefits. • More than half (58 percent) of respond-
ing organizations offer a defined contribution plan for workers, and about 15 percent offer a defined benefit plan. Because defined benefit plans are more common among larger organizations, the actual share of employees in organizations providing such plans may be greater than these figures suggest. • Coverage of nonprofit workers is extensive: 69 percent of organizations offering defined benefit plans and 54 percent of those offering defined contribution plans indicated that at least half their employees (including both full- and part-time workers) participate in the plans. To deal with the stress their retirement plans are under, responding organizations have had to make some painful choices. • Among organizations providing defined benefit plans, 28 percent reported prohibiting new employees from participating, 22 percent reported ending future benefit accruals for all participating employees, and another 9 percent have blocked future benefit accruals for a portion of their workers. • Among organizations providing defined contribution plans, 14 percent of those offer-
ing an employer match reduced that match, and another 3 percent eliminated their match altogether. • Among smaller organizations, those with one to nine employees, the majority (58 percent) are not able to provide any retirement benefits at all. “Nonprofit organizations employ the fourth-largest workforce of any industry in our country,” noted Peter Goldberg, president and CEO of the Alliance for Children and Families and chair of the Listening Post Project Steering Committee. “We have to make sure that these workers have the protections they need to continue to make the enormous contributions they provide to our communities.” The 412 nonprofit organizations responding to the Listening Post survey included children and family service agencies, elderly housing and service organizations, community and economic development organizations, museums, theaters and orchestras. The full report “Escalating Pension Benefit Costs—Another Threat to Nonprofit Survival?” is available online at http://ccss.jhu.edu.
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also will provide scholars with intensive advising and academic support, leadership opportunities and a mentorship program. The initiatives include scholarships for six students and stipends for 15 others. The program is designed to increase the number of potential future nurses by developing partnerships with two Baltimore City schools, Dunbar Senior High and Dunbar Middle; add to the number of students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds enrolling at the school; and reduce the number of matriculated students from disadvantaged backgrounds who do not graduate or experience a delayed graduation/ entry into the workforce due to failure of the National Council Licensure Examination. Linda Rose, the project director, said, “[The grant] will introduce potential students to nursing through our outreach activities in the community, and it will allow us to provide additional support and scholarships to our selected LEADS Scholars to ensure their success in the JHU SoN nursing program.”
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one-third of the students attended schools with first-time ninth-grade estimates below the state average; in South Carolina, more than two-thirds of the students did. • As concentrations of poor and minority students increase in a school, the percentage of students repeating ninth grade also rises. The value of this new measure is in identifying struggling students early enough to get them help, West said. If states and districts were asked to report the enrollments for both first-time and repeating ninth-graders as of Oct. 1 of each school year, administrators would know if they had a population
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first-time ninth-graders from the graduation rate by the total number of ninth-grade students reported for the same school year. The study focuses on the Class of 2008, whose members were ninth-graders in 2004–2005. The six states were chosen because they used the same method to calculate graduation rates for the Class of 2008 and because they represented not only the areas producing the most dropouts but also those with average dropout rates, showing that the new measure is reliable in different conditions. Ninth grade is found to be a critical year because students who are not successful often drop out. Most schools and districts depend on graduation rates to measure student success, but the rates are reported too late to get help to students who need it. Other findings include: • In South Carolina, more than 40 percent of high schools had ninth-grade retention rates above 30 percent; in Massachusetts, New York, Indiana and Virginia, 5 percent to 8 percent of the schools had retention rates above 30 percent. • Nearly three in 10 students repeated ninth grade in South Carolina, two in 10 in North Carolina, one in 10 in Massachusetts and slightly more than 10 percent in New York, Indiana and Virginia. • In Massachusetts, New York, Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina, more than
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Frankl’s sorority sisters arrive for Tuesday’s memorial service at the O’Connor Recreation Center. Their Alpha Phi bags’ bows are purple, Frankl’s favorite color.
“Miriam was so focused on success and still so dedicated to everyone and everything she cared about,” Griffioen said. “I couldn’t wait to live with this girl who was going places. Just being in her presence— among her easy confidence in herself and her goals—made me feel like I could go places, too.” Frankl began her work in the Department of Neurology this past January, focusing on the pathogenic mechanisms of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in the lab of Jeffrey Rothstein. She came to the lab two to three times a week, primarily preparing brain tissue samples for slides. Her supervisors said that Frankl was the kind of student every faculty member would love to recruit. They called her a natural who brought a fresh enthusiasm to her work. “She was very intelligent and openminded, and she loved science very much,” said Yongjie Yang, a research fellow and one of Frankl’s lab supervisors. “She wanted to know why we did things and how they
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would help us achieve our goals. But she was more than just a lab partner; she was a friend to all of us.” Frankl loved to travel and was greatly impacted by a 2006 trip to Israel and a recent trip to Spain. Rebecca German, who spoke at the podium, said that her niece was fearless, bold
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Rabbi Debbie Pine, executive director of Hopkins Hillel, gave an introductory reading and later led the Kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning. In the front rows sat members of Frankl’s family; her boyfriend, Michael Fellows, a junior majoring in East Asian studies; and her sorority sisters, many of whom wore matching white sweaters and purple ribbons. The AllNighters, an a cappella group of which Fellows is a member, provided musical interludes at the service, including a haunting rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Provost Lloyd B. Minor—who spoke on behalf of President Ronald J. Daniels, still recovering from major surgery—said that today Johns Hopkins shared a bond and collectively grieved a promising life that ended much too soon. “This afternoon, as a community, we are here to remember Miriam. But we’re also here to be reminded of one another,” Minor said. “The shock, the disbelief, the anger we feel can at times seem too much to bear. This is when family counts the most. Today, all of Johns Hopkins is a family.” Frankl was described as a “connector,” someone who brought ideas and people together. She used that ability as a recruiter for her sorority and the work she did at the Career Center. Friends described her as fun, dynamic, spunky, confident, charismatic and genuine. Her personality and confidence, they said, were addicting. She could put on her favorite midnight blue nail polish and let her hair down one moment, but just as easily organize a study trip to the library the next. Anne Griffioen, a junior public health studies major and close friend of Frankl’s, said that when Frankl agreed to live with her this year, it felt as if she had won the jackpot.
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and knew what she wanted from an early age. German recalled how her niece took charge of her college application process and, after much deliberation, made Johns Hopkins her first choice. “Knowing where she was going, and how she was going to get there, was always a part of her life,” German said. “Miriam knew what she wanted.” Fighting back tears, German told those gathered that today was a day to mourn two people: the Miriam who was, and the accomplished woman she would have grown up to be. “Miriam was a remarkable human being, and we will never know all of what she could become,” she said. Following the ceremony, most of the crowd headed to tables in the back of the gymnasium that were covered with Funfetti cupcakes and napkins. Several used the napkins to dry their eyes as they slowly walked out into the early evening. One student, her eyes red and still streaming tears, bit into her cupcake, smiled and let out a tiny laugh. “Miriam would have loved these,” she said. Her friend hugged her and nodded in agreement. Memorial contributions in Frankl’s name may be made to the Beth Emet Congregation Soup Kitchen at 1224 W. Dempster St., Evanston, IL 60202 or to the Greater Chicago Food Depository at 4100 W. Ann Lurie Place, Chicago, IL 60632. G
Dean of Student Life Susan Boswell arranges Frankl’s favorite Funfetti cupcakes.
School of Nursing expands, adds to teaching facilities B y J o n at h a n E i c h b e r g e r
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he Johns Hopkins School of Nursing continues its commitment to excellence in education with the addition of a new 90-seat classroom, an expanded simulation laboratory and expansion into two school properties on the East Baltimore campus. The classroom, completed for use this semester, features a self-service MediaSite class-capture system with four cameras; audience, presenter and round-table microphones; audio conference capability; computer, projector and screen; DVD and VHS player; and an assisted-hearing system. An expanded simulation laboratory, scheduled to be fully operational by the spring 2010 semester, will offer students a more realistic medical setting. Two new SIM spaces resembling hospital rooms have been added, along with a central control room and two debriefing rooms. The control room has the capability to record simulations while students are observed through a two-way mirror. Overhead microphones allow instructors
and students to communicate during the simulation. In May, the school expanded to an adjacent building formerly known as the Hackerman-Patz House, now known simply as “The House,” where the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, the Office of Marketing and Communications and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations are located. By January, another adjacent building, formerly known as the Rockwell House and now as the Student House, will serve as a new student center housing all Student Affairs offices (Admissions, Student Services, Financial Aid, Registration and Career Services) and offering student lounges, a doctoralstudent room, a large student kitchen with microwaves and study and testing space, and added garden space. “The School of Nursing continues to explore the most effective and efficient use of our space while we continue to seek funding for an addition to the Pinkard Building,” said Dean Martha N. Hill. “It is our hope that this growth will help students, faculty and staff maintain the values and excellence that are synonymous with Hopkins.”
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Puritan Maidens to Pop Culture Tweens: The History of Youth in America B y A m y L u n d ay
Homewood Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series in which reporters drop in on interesting classes throughout the university’s nine academic divisions. Suggestions are welcome at gazette@jhu.edu. The course: Puritan Maidens to Pop Culture Tweens: The History of Youth in America is offered by the Department of History in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. It’s one of the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship courses, sponsored annually by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences. The fellowship program is designed to foster innovation in the undergraduate curriculum, give advanced graduate students experience teaching their own undergraduate courses and provide funding for graduate research. The semester’s work for the 19 undergraduates is worth 3 credits. Meeting time: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m., fall 2009. The instructor: Katherine Jorgensen
Gray, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, is currently completing a dissertation titled “Mixed Company: Youth in Philadelphia, 1750–1815” and expects to complete her degree requirements in fall 2010. She has held fellowships at the American Philosophical Society and the Library Company
The Dean’s Teaching Fellowship course taught by PhD candidate Katherine Jorgensen Gray traces the evolution of American adolescence over the past 300 years.
of Philadelphia, among other institutions. Gray, who earned her master’s degree in history from Johns Hopkins in 2006, did her undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in history and English. Syllabus and course work: Gray’s
course traces the evolution of American adolescence over the past 300 years, using both academic texts and primary source materials. From farmers to flappers, factory laborers to hippies, all the way to the 21st century, the class examines how young people’s lives have changed, as has the cultural importance of youth. In addition to many articles on e-reserve in the library, readings for the course include Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi and Jon Savage’s Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture. Moving through the course’s timeline, the source materials include films and music, such as the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and songs by Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Public Enemy and Nirvana. Students are expected to be both lively seminar participants and bloggers, with at least two postings each week to the group’s blog to share personal analyses of the readings and thoughts about classmates’ comments. The students are also writing an eight- to 10-page paper due during finals week and two shorter
papers, one of which can be rewritten for the possibility of improving the grade. Katherine Gray says: “My own disserta-
tion research has uncovered a vibrant youth culture in early America. Over 200 years ago, young people were constructing peer culture, and adults were worrying over ‘kids today.’ In the dissertation, I situate this youth culture in the specific cultural context of the Late Colonial and Early National periods, but I was also struck by parallels to contemporary discourses about youth. I thought teaching this class would be a fascinating way to take a wide-angle lens to the question of youth culture. By looking at more than 300 years of American history, my hope is that we will be able to find broad, trans-historical trends about how young people fit into their communities. But I also hope we will identify important changes: evolution in the concept of youth, shifts in the status of youth and different anxieties about the role of youth in American culture.
S t u d e n t s s a y : “I enrolled in Puritan Maidens to Pop Culture Tweens because I was looking for a history seminar that would challenge me to re-examine an issue I had taken for granted—adolescence. The course does not disappoint. Beginning with differentiating between childhood and youth in the Puritan colonies, we have engaged in some serious discussion about what it means
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to be a ‘young adult.’ This proves to be especially provocative, considering the diversity of our class. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the readings thus far. Katie does an excellent job of assigning a good balance between primary and secondary sources. She clearly puts a lot of time and effort into preparing her lectures. Whenever there is a lull in the discussion, she always prods us along with a question that forces us to re-address the issue from another angle. Katie values each and every opinion presented in class and encourages us to think beyond the scope of our readings and the classroom itself. She is so clearly invested in our progress and our appreciation of the material, as evidenced by her willingness to meet with us and discuss the week’s readings outside of the classroom on her own time. While we are only halfway through the semester, I must say that I believe I have achieved precisely what I set out to do by taking this course: to gain a fresh perspective on youth culture in America.” —Sarah Sabshon, 22, senior majoring in Public Health, from New Rochelle, N.Y. “I enrolled in the class because it seemed a bit different than a mainstream history course. Also, I’ve taken other Dean’s Fellowship courses in the past and have really enjoyed them. I like the fact that the course covers 300 years of American history. History textbooks tend to depict one-dimensional representations of Colonial Americans, but this class has made me realize that youth 300 years ago aren’t all that different from youth today. The workload is pretty comparable to most other history courses at Hopkins. We have 100 or so pages of reading a week. Professor Gray tends to mix both secondary and primary sources, which makes the reading a lot more interesting. Scholarly articles are important for the context, but it is the primary sources—the diaries, letters, etc., of the time—that are more fun to discuss. The primary sources are also the ones I tend to hold with me once the course ends. You can tell that Professor Gray spends an enormous time prepping for class. In general, grad students are so connected with their work, and it really reflects in the way they structure and teach their courses. This is especially true for Professor Gray. I would definitely recommend this class to my friends. Who doesn’t want to learn the history of their own age cohort?” —Katelyn Saner, 21, senior majoring in history, from Brookline, Mass.
Low cholesterol may shrink risk for high-grade prostate cancer B y V a n e s s a W a s ta
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en with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high-grade prostate cancer, an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study. In a prospective study of more than 5,000 men in the United States, epidemiologists say that they now have evidence that having lower levels of heart-clogging fat may cut a man’s risk of this form of cancer by nearly 60 percent. “For many reasons, we know that it’s good to have a cholesterol level within the normal range,” said Elizabeth Platz, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-director of the cancer prevention and control program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. “Now, we have more evidence that among the benefits of low cholesterol may be a lower risk for potentially deadly prostate cancers.” Normal range is defined as less than 200
mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter of blood) of total cholesterol. Platz and her colleagues found similar results in a study first published in 2008, and in 2006 she linked use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to lower risk of advanced prostate cancer. For the current study, Platz, members of the Southwest Oncology Group and other collaborators analyzed data from 5,586 men 55 and older enrolled in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial from 1993 to 1996; some 1,251 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer during the study period. Men with cholesterol levels lower than 200 mg/dL had a 59 percent lower risk of developing high-grade prostate cancers, which tend to grow and spread rapidly. High-grade cancers are identified by a pathological ranking called the Gleason score. Scores at the highest end of the scale, between eight and 10, indicate cancers considered the most worrisome to pathologists, who examine samples of the diseased prostate under the microscope. In Platz’s study, cholesterol levels had no significant effect on the entire spectrum of prostate cancer incidence, only on those that were high-grade, she said.
Platz cautioned that while the group took into account factors that could bias the results, such as smoking history, weight, family history of prostate cancer and dietary cholesterol, other things could have affected the results. One example is whether men in the study were taking cholesterol-lowering drugs at the time of the blood collections, a data point the researchers expect to analyze soon. Results of the current study were published online Nov. 3 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Also in the journal is an accompanying paper from the National Cancer Institute showing that lower cholesterol in men conferred a 15 percent decrease in overall cancer cases. “Cholesterol may affect cancer cells at a level where it influences key signaling pathways controlling cell survival,” Platz said. “Cancer cells use these survival pathways to evade the normal cycle of cell life and death.” Platz said that targeting cholesterol metabolism may be one route to treating and preventing the disease but that this remains to be tested. Funding for the study was provided by the National Cancer Institute.
Other authors of the study are Cathee Till, Phyllis J. Goodman, Marian L. Neuhouser and Alan R. Kristal, all of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Howard L. Parnes, William D. Figg and Demetrius Albanes, of the National Cancer Institute; Eric A. Klein, of the Cleveland Clinic; and Ian M. Thompson Jr., of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center.
Related Web sites Statins and prostate cancer:
www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter .org/index.cfm/cID/1684/mpage/ item.cfm/itemID/461
Elizabeth Platz:
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/default .cfm?faculty_id=554&grouped= false&searchText=&department_ id=0&departmentName= Epidemiology
‘Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention’:
http://cebp.aacrjournals.org
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N.Y. photographer/multimedia talent arrives as artist in residence B y A m y L u n d ay
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his month, the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins is hosting its second artist in residence, photographer and multimedia artist Hank Willis Thomas, who is collaborating with students and staff in the Digital Media Center on the Homewood campus. “The Digital Media Center’s staff is pretty versatile, and we’re working on some different ideas,” Thomas said. “We’re interested in working with digital video cameras and technology to challenge the perception and the notion of truth, and that’s pretty exciting.” Thomas, who is based in New York, will speak about his work during an artist’s conversation at the Baltimore Museum of Art at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12. The free event takes place in conjunction with an exhibition through Nov. 29 at the BMA—Thomas’ first major solo show at a museum—showcasing 10 of his recent works exploring racial stereotypes and black identity in America. The BMA’s Web site describes Thomas as “a rising star in the art world.” He holds master’s degrees in photography and visual criticism from the California College of the Arts and earned his bachelor’s degree in photography and Africana Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Thomas was the winner of the first Aperture West Book Prize for his monograph Pitch Blackness (November 2008), and his work was featured in the exhibition and accompanying catalog 25 under 25: Up-andComing American Photographers. Thomas uses the language of advertising and pop culture to talk about issues
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related to race and sometimes gender. In addition to shooting his own photos or videos, Thomas appropriates others’ images and digitally manipulates them for results that a camera alone couldn’t achieve. An example is his Unbranded series, in which he used images taken from magazine advertisements targeting a black audience or featuring black subjects and digitally removed all the logos and text in order to emphasize the advertising industry’s reinforcement of generalizations about race and ethnicity. (Much of Thomas’ portfolio can be seen online at http://hankwillisthomas.com.)
This fall, Thomas and several students are shooting 360-degree landscape videos as well as conducting woman-or-man-on-thestreet-style on-camera interviews, focusing on questions about identity and notions of truth. “The question we’ve all been asking is, Tell me the one thing you know is true,” Thomas said. “Or, fill in the blank: The truth is, I blank you. The idea is just to collaborate and do something we haven’t done before, and getting strangers to open up to thinking about something they normally wouldn’t in front of a camera.”
Joan Freedman, director of the Digital Media Center, said the DMC is a natural creative home base for Thomas’ monthlong residency. “This is a great opportunity for the students who use the center to observe and to work with a digital artist,” Freedman said. “We started to talk about possible projects that the students might be interested in back in the summer and looked for areas of overlap between Hank’s current work and the expertise the students had to share.” Freedman said that they found themselves drawn to the truth is … video project, which hadn’t really taken shape until Thomas came to Johns Hopkins. “Milt Reder and Jimmy Joe Roche are two DMC professional staff working with Hank and the students to test methods of videotaping short interviews with multiple cameras mounted in a circle on a stand,” Freedman said. “The students are exploring techniques of editing and overlapping the videos to create an immersive installation.” Thomas plans to be in Baltimore three to four days a week for the month of November. “I’ve spoken to about five different classes here, and I will probably have a chance to interact with another five or six classes this month. So far, it has been a really great experience.” The Center for Africana Studies this past spring welcomed visual artist Renee Stout as its first artist in residence. The residencies are the result of an idea hatched in fall 2006 by a group of Africana Studies faculty drawn from throughout the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The idea was to bring to campus nationally known artists who could address the representation of race through imagery, according to Ben Vinson, director of the center. A donation by alumna Christina Mattin made the two-semester program possible.
How induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic ones By Maryalice Yakutchik
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he same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research from Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities. Although genetically identical to the mature body cells from which they are derived, induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs, are notably special in their ability to self-renew and differentiate into all kinds of cells. And now scientists have detected a remarkable if subtle molecular disparity between the two: They have distinct “epigenetic” signatures; that is, they differ in what gets copied when the cell divides, even though these differences aren’t part of the DNA sequence. “Relatively little study has been done on the epigenetic nature of stem cells,” said Andrew Feinberg, a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
“To date, the bulk of what is known about stem cells is focused on how you create them and grow them and so forth but not on the essence of them, and what is fundamentally different about these cells.” To compare and contrast mature connective tissue cells called fibroblasts with the pluripotent stem cells into which they were reprogrammed, the investigators focused on a chemical change known as methylation. This chemical change, associated with silencing genes, is classified as epigenetic because, although not part of the DNA sequence, it is copied when a cell divides. The researchers identified and then measured so-called differentially methylated regions, or DMRs, of genes whose expression was changed in the process of being reprogrammed from a parent cell to a stem cell. Building on previous research that looked at where differently methylated sites were located in cancer cells, as well as on research that had shown these same sites matching up with many of the methylated areas that had been implicated in the differentiation of normal brain, liver and spleen tissues, the team discovered that the reprogramming
JHU Theatre presents new work by prize-winning student playwright
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ohns Hopkins University Theatre this week opens Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a new full-length play by prize-winning student playwright Eric Levitz. Levitz, a senior in the Writing Seminars, won first prize in the 2008 American College Theatre Festival for the best 10-minute student-written play. The faculty-produced play, directed by John Astin and featuring guest artist Mackenzie Astin, is about the romantic troubles
of an existential playwright and bends space and time on a journey through the creative process. Performances take place in Homewood’s Merrick Barn at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays Nov. 13, 14, 20 and 21; and at 2 p.m. on Sundays Nov. 15 and 22. Tickets are $5 for students with ID; $13 for faculty, staff and seniors; $15 for the general public. For more information and/or reservations, e-mail JHUT@jhu.edu or call 410-516-5153.
of a cell to become a stem cell apparently involves many of the very same DMRs and genes. “The surprise,” Feinberg said, “is that there is such a degree of overlap between the differently methylated regions and genes that are involved in turning a fibroblast into a stem cell and turning a normal cell into a cancer cell.” The study, done jointly with George Q. Daley and colleagues at Harvard University, was published Nov. 1 in the advanced online edition of Nature Genetics. The researchers suggest in the study that certain sites throughout the genome appear to be generally involved in distinguishing DNA methylation among different cell types and cancers, and these same sites are involved in reprogramming fibroblasts back into stem cells. The scientists used the CHARM method (for comprehensive high-throughput arrays for relative methylation) to survey where, across the genomes of nine human iPS cell lines, genes had been silenced, or turned off, and then compared these DNA methylation sites with those of the fibroblasts from which the iPS cells were derived. “This type of research gets to the fabric of the fundamental differences between stem cells and their parental cells,” said Akiko Doi, a doctoral candidate in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Johns Hopkins. “Clearly, that fabric involves these DMRs, which are essential to our understanding the nature of these potentially therapeutic iPS cells.” As scientists learn more about the epigenetics of reprogrammed cells, they may find new ways of creating or using them. “If we discover that certain genes or regions are altered in iPS cells, then we might be able to target these and come up with new ways of approaching stem cell therapy,” Feinberg said.” We can try to correlate these differences with the ways these iPS cells behave,
and answer questions such as which ones are more stable and which ones form tumors. If we can use the epigenetic information to characterize these cells, this could inform how we might use them therapeutically.” Added Daley, director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at HHMI/Children’s Hospital in Boston, “Our data also point to differences between iPS cells and embryonic stem cells, which everyone has felt were similar if not identical. Such differences may prove important in the behavior of iPS cells in studies on tissue formation and may complicate therapies based on iPS cells. We need to develop ways of generating iPS cells that are a closer match to ES cells in their methylation patterns. Only then will we be confident that iPS cells are a safe replacement for ES cells in research and therapy.” This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to Feinberg, Daley and Doi, authors on the study are Bo Wen, Peter Murakami, Brian Herb, Christine LaddAcosta, Rafael Irizarry and Martin J. Aryee, all of Johns Hopkins; and In-Hyun Park, Junsung Rho, Sabine Loewer, Justine Miller and Thorsten Schlaeger, all of Harvard.
Related Web sites Epigenetics Center at Johns Hopkins:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ibbs/ research/epigenetics
Andrew Feinberg:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ geneticmedicine/People/Faculty/ Feinberg.html
‘Nature Genetics’:
www.nature.com/ng/index.html
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he Johns Hopkins University has awarded approximately $25,000 in grants to students and faculty to stimulate new courses in the arts and other arts-related efforts on the Homewood campus, said Winston Tabb, vice provost for the arts. Initiated in 2006, the Arts Innovation Program offers funding to faculty to create new courses in the arts for undergraduates, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and cross-divisional courses. The program also supports the artistic efforts of students, both those currently engaged in arts activities and those wishing to create a new venture, with an emphasis on making connections between Johns Hopkins students and the Baltimore community. Six new undergraduate courses will receive support. In the spring 2010 semester, Tristan Davies, senior lecturer in the Writing Seminars, and Jane Delury, lecturer in the University of Baltimore’s English Department, will offer a collaborative creative writing course—focusing on the Central Baltimore district—for students at Johns Hopkins, the University of Baltimore, Goucher College and Maryland Institute College of Art. The
creative work generated by the students will be published electronically, and each of the participating institutions will host a public event related to the course and the physical, historical and cultural resources of the Central Baltimore communities. In fall 2010, Joan Freedman, director of the Digital Media Center, and Annet Couwenberg, a Fiber Arts faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art, will offer Smart Textiles Research Lab, a course in which students will investigate innovative smart textile design, such as wearable forms of interactive electronics, and create artwork integrating new textiles. Four courses have been developed for the Program in Museums and Society by its associate director, Elizabeth Rodini. In Art in America: A History, co-taught by Rodini and Katherine Gerry, Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Walters Art Museum, students will research the history of America’s great art museums through the lives of the collectors who founded them. The course will culminate in the development of an online exhibition of photographs, recently discovered in the Walters archives, that document the earliest installations of the museum’s collections. The course will be cross-listed with History of Art. Deb Weiner, research historian at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, will teach Museum Voices: History Making at the Jew-
ish Museum, in which students will study the ways that history museums choose to tell their stories and will produce oral histories by graduates of the Sinai Hospital School of Nursing and individuals involved in Baltimore’s scrap metal industry. The oral histories will be featured on the Jewish Museum’s Web site and in related exhibitions. The course will be cross-listed with History and Jewish Studies. In Behind the Scenes at the Walters Art Museum: Relics and Reliquaries, led by Martina Bagnoli, associate curator of medieval art at the Walters, students will study medieval religious objects and the role of materiality in devotional practices through close, independent research on objects from the museum collection. The results will be incorporated into a forthcoming major exhibition on reliquaries and added to the Walters archives. The course will be offered during the fall 2010 semester and cross-listed with History of Art. In the spring 2011 semester, Michelle Wilkinson, director of collections and exhibitions at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, will teach a course titled At the Lewis Museum: The African-American Experience in WWII. Students will investigate the African-American experience during World War II, and their research will contribute to a forthcoming exhibition at the Lewis and
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Calendar Continued from page 12 Language and Speech Processing seminar with Oren Etzioni, University of Washington. B17 CSEB. HW “From the Battlefront to the Homefront and Back Again: Psychological Challenges for Soldiers and Veterans Today,” a Mental Health seminar with Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, Office of the Army Surgeon General, U.S. Armed Forces. B14B Hampton House. EB
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“The Chromodomains of the Chd1 Remodeler Dictate Substrate Specificity Through an Autoinhibitory Mechanism,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Gregory Bowman, KSAS. 517 PCTB. EB
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Thurs., Nov. 12, noon. “Estrogen Receptor Signaling Promotes Dendritic Cell Differentiation During Inflammation,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Susan Kovats, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). EB
“The Lobbyist Panel,” a Health Policy and Management Fall Policy seminar with lobbyists Barbara Brocato, Frank Boston, Don Murphy, Robin Shaivitz and Pegeen Townsend. B14B Hampton House. EB Thurs., Nov. 12, noon.
“ER Shape and Intracellular Lipid Trafficking,” a Cell Biology seminar with Will Prinz, NIDDK/ NIH. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. Thurs., Nov. 12, noon.
Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW “Mechanism of miRNA Action,” a Biology seminar with Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University. 100 Mudd. HW Thurs., Nov. 12, 4 p.m.
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“Improving Wireless Device Mobility and Lifetime,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Jeffrey Walling, University of Washington, Seattle. 320 CSEB.
“BioInspired Structural Materials,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Robert Ritchie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/University of California, Berkeley. 110 Maryland. HW
Randolph Bromery Seminar—“The Start of Subduction and Plate Tectonics on Earth: Evidence From Isotopes and Trace Elements” with Steven Shirey, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Olin Hall Auditorium. HW
Fri., Nov. 13, 4 p.m.
“What Drug Discovery Can Teach Us About Protein Biochemistry,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Dustin Maly, University of Washington. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
“Radial Progenitor Polarity and the Formation of Cerebral Cortex,” a Neuroscience research seminar with E.S. Anton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Wed., Nov. 11, 4 p.m. “Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of Monotone Functions,” a Biostatistics seminar with Katja Ickstadt, Technische Universitat Dortmund. W2030 SPH. EB
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Special Bodian Seminar—“Optical Inhibition of Human Eye Growth and Myopia Progression” with John Phillips, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Sponsored by the
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“Searching for Earth-like Exoplanets With an Optical Vortex Coronagraph,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Grover Swartzlander, Rochester Institute of Technology. 110 Maryland. HW
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“Evolution of Signaling Systems With Multiple Senders and Receivers,” an Evolution, Cognition and Culture seminar with Brian Skyms, University of California, Irvine. 102A Dell House. HW
“At the Brink of a Great Transformation? Karl Polanyi, Political-Economic Pendulums and the Crisis Today,” a Sociology seminar with Gareth Dale, Brunel University, London. 526 Mergenthaler. HW
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the development of an online component. The course will be cross-listed with History and Africana Studies. Additionally, three student-proposed arts initiatives will benefit from the funding. The student dance group JHU Jaywalk, headed by junior public health major Kara Mirski, will present a universitywide dance showcase on April 2, 2010, in partnership with other student dance and vocal ensembles. The Johns Hopkins chapter of Habitat for Humanity, led by senior history major Kevin Park, will organize a student art exhibition highlighting the organization’s work in Baltimore and around the world, including photographs documenting its post-Katrina rebuilding efforts in New Orleans. Also, student arts groups on campus will be invited to create art inspired by the communitybuilding goals of Habitat for Humanity. The exhibition is scheduled to run April 19 to May 2, 2010. The Indian classical dance team JHU Shakti, headed by junior Swarnali Sengupta, a biomedical engineering major, and senior Sujal Singh, a molecular and cellular biology major, will receive funding for Nritya Mala, an exhibition of Indian classical dance and music. The event will be held in November 2010, and proceeds will be donated to the Indian nonprofit charity organization Child Rights and You.
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“Adventures in Mammalian Genetics: Genetic Mining of the Cancer Genome,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Stephen Elledge, Harvard Medical School. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Nov. 16, 4 p.m. “Superrigidity of Hyperbolic DM-Complexes,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with George Daskalopoulos, Brown University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW
“NIAID Intramural Research Program and Human Interferons: Structure and Function,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Kathryn Zoon, NIAID. W2030 SPH. EB
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Mon., Nov. 16, 4 p.m. David Bodian Seminar—“Implementing Models of the Primate Visual Cortex in Silicon” with Ralph Etienne-Cummings, WSE. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
SPECIAL EVENTS Tues., Nov. 10, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. JHU Core Store exhibit
of the latest in promotions and products by life science suppliers. Turner Concourse. EB
Thurs., Nov. 12, 7 p.m. Reading of Jeffrey Hatcher’s play A Picasso. Part of Portraits of the Artists, a series of readings by professional actors of plays about artists represented in the Evergreen Museum collection. Co-sponsored by the Evergreen Museum & Library and the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. $12 general admission, $10 Evergreen members and $5 for JHU students with valid ID. Prepaid reservations are required; to reserve tickets, call 410-516-0341. Bakst Theatre, Evergreen. Sat., Nov. 14, 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. “A Woman’s Journey,”
annual one-day women’s health conference with Hopkins faculty physicians and faculty on 32 topics. For information and to register, go to www.hopkinsmedicine. org/awomansjourney or call 410955-8660. Registration is $95 for general public, $85.50 for Hopkins employees, $75 for students with ID. Hilton Baltimore Hotel.
SYMPOSIA Fri., Nov. 13, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Molecules, Mice, Man and
Mycobacteria: A Tribute to the Ongoing Contributions of Jacques Grosset, 80th birthday recognition of Professor Grosset, with multiple speakers. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB THEATER
Comedy improv by the Buttered Niblets. Arellano Theater, Levering. HW
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Fri., Nov. 13, and Sat., Nov. 14, 8 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 15, 2 p.m. Johns Hopkins University
Theatre presents Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by prizewinning student playwright Eric Levitz. (See story, p. 8.) Merrick Barn. HW W OR K S HO P S Tues., Nov. 10, 9:30 to 11 a.m., and Wed., Nov. 11, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
“RefWorks,” a Milton S. Eisenhower Library workshop open only to the Hopkins community. To register, go to http://bit .ly/RefWorksSchedule. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW Thurs., Nov. 12, 1 p.m. “Introduction to Google Sketchup,” a Bits & Bytes workshop intended for faculty, lecturers and TAs; staff are also welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW Mon., Nov. 16, 9 a.m. “Grantcraft,” a daylong workshop designed to assist faculty and advanced postdocs prepare an NIH or other peerreviewed grant application. Sponsored by the JHMI Professional Development Office. Cost for faculty is $650; cost for postdoctoral and clinical fellows is $325. Registration required; to register, e-mail jhmipdo@jhmi.edu. Mountcastle Auditorium. EB
10 THE GAZETTE • November 9, 2009 P O S T I N G S
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Job Opportunities The Johns Hopkins University does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristic in any student program or activity administered by the university or with regard to admission or employment.
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Notices Toys for Tots — The Department of Elec-
trical and Computer Engineering is once again setting up a drop-off location for the Marine campaign for Toys for Tots. New toys, in their original store wrappings, may be dropped off in 105 Barton Hall on the Homewood campus through Friday, Dec. 11. No holiday wrapping or used toys please.For more information, go to www.toysfortotsbaltimore.org or e-mail Candace Abel at cabel@jhu.edu.
FSRP Holiday Programs — Through the Vernon Rice Memorial Butterball Turkey and Adopt-a-Family programs, Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs provides opportunities for members of the Johns Hopkins community to help local families in need during the holidays. The Vernon Rice Memorial Butterball Turkey Program, named in honor of the late Johns Hopkins staff member who started the effort, provides Butterball Turkey gift certificates to pre-identified families through St. Anthony of Padua Church in West Baltimore. In 2008, thanks to the generosity of Johns Hopkins faculty and staff, 113 families received certificates for holiday meals. To participate, send a check or money order in $15 increments, payable to JHU Butterball, to Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs, Johns Hopkins at Eastern, 1101 33rd St., Suite C100, Baltimore, MD 21218. Funds received by Nov. 13 will be given to families for Thanksgiving, and those received after Nov. 14 but before Dec. 15 (the final day for contributions) will be distributed for the December holidays. Go to http://hr.jhu.edu/fsrp/butterball.cfm for more information on the program. The Adopt-a-Family/Adopt-an-Agency Program provides families and individuals with gifts, clothing and food that they might not otherwise be able to afford. Johns Hopkins faculty and staff adopt a pre-identified
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Cronenweth’s cinematography credits include the films Down with Love, One Hour Photo and Fight Club. In the movie, Eisenberg stars as Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Garfield plays the role of Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of the popular social networking Web site. Eisenberg is best known for his roles in The Squid and the Whale and Adventureland, and Garfield has a leading role in the upcoming Never Let Me Go. In the Q&A session, the Hollywood visitors talked about subjects as varied as their approaches to acting and filmmaking, digital technology’s impact on film production, the SPECTRUM 1-16 GAZETTE 8-08:Layout 2
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family or social service agency and collect gifts to match specific needs. These wish lists are available to faculty, staff or departments. To learn more about this program, or to complete an online registration form, go to http://hr.jhu.edu/fsrp/adopt_fam.cfm. Contact FSRP at 443-997-6060 with questions about either program, or go to http://hr.jhu.edu/fsrp and click on the Community Service link to learn more. Tutoring at Harriet Lane Clinic — Vol-
unteers are needed for the tutoring program serving patients of the Harriet Lane Clinic, which is the general pediatrics outpatient center on the East Baltimore medical campus, during the spring semester. Tutoring is conducted in math and reading with the intent to boost each child’s skills up to grade level. Materials are provided, and tutors are supported by knowledgeable staff and faculty. Times are 4 to 6 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the clinic can be reached from Bayview and Homewood by the JHU shuttle. One two-to-three-hour training session is required. Tutors must have at least a GED or high-school diploma, take a TB test (or have a negative X-ray taken after Nov. 1) and get a copy of their measles, mumps and rubella test record (if born after Jan. 1, 1957). To volunteer or for more information, contact Robyn Nuttall at rnuttal1@jhmi.edu.
Minority Global Health Disparities Research Program for KSAS Undergrads — One student from the School of
Arts and Sciences will be chosen to participate in the Minority Global Health Disparities Research Program, known as MHIRT, which consists of a summer internship for up to three months (June–August). Applications and information on the program and research locations are available in 237 Mergenthaler, Homewood campus, and online at www. krieger.jhu.edu/research/globalhealth.html. An application and two recommendation letters must be turned in to Lisa Jia, 237 Mergenthaler, no later than Tuesday, Nov. 24.
arcs of their careers and the roles of a director and cinematographer in bringing a script to the screen. A number of Johns Hopkins students— mostly from the Theatre Arts and Studies Program—were used as extras during the filming, which was done primarily outdoors and at night and was scheduled to minimize interference with normal activities in residence halls and on academic quads. Homewood stood in for Harvard University’s Cambridge, Mass., campus, where the Facebook story first unfolded. The filmmakers often went to great lengths to cloak Homewood in crimson detail. For a scene shot at Shaffer Hall, the crew redressed the building’s directory to read “Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.” They also brought actual Harvard fliers to post, with references to facilities such as Emerson Hall. Dennis O’Shea, executive director of Communications for Johns 8/28/08 10:26 and AM Public Page Affairs 1 Hopkins, said that the director’s attention to detail, including every physical object and every source of light visible in a single shot, was incredible. “I think everyone will be really happy when they see how Homewood looks on film. I think we’ve got a great shot at an Oscar for best campus,” he said. Choreographing the shoot required the skills and participation of dozens of entities, among them every department in Facilities Management (Grounds, Electrical, Parking and Transportation, Design and Construction, Custodial Services, Plant Operations), Security, three different scheduling offices, the General Counsel’s Office, Homewood Photography, Engineering Facilities, Dining Services, Housing, Residential Life, the Johns Hopkins University Museums, the Film and Media Studies Program, the Theatre Arts and Studies Program, and the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs. The film crew departed on Wednesday. The movie will be released sometime in 2010. G
November 9, 2009 • THE GAZETTE
Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT
Bayview (southeast area), 2BR house w/fin’d bsmt, W/D, prkng pad, no pets. $1,000/mo + utils + sec dep. Elaine, 410-633-4750. Charles Village, corner 2BR, 2BA condo w/balcony, 1,200 sq ft, clean, CAC, 24-hr front desk, steps to Hopkins shuttle, all utils incl’d. 410-466-1698. Charles Village EOG, commercial/residential lease, charming, lots of light, sec dep, credit check and commercial zoning waiver req’d. 443-756-6707. Charles Village (University One), bright, spacious 1BR, 1BA condo, CAC/heat. $1,200/ mo + sec dep (option to buy available). 540785-8231 or tom333@comcast.net. Charles Village, charming, renov’d 5BR house, master/walk-in, 2BAs, hdwd flrs, W/D, porch, deck, nr shuttle. $2,400/mo + utils or $2,100/mo (short-term). 443-8033572 or ramsaybarnes@gmail.com. Cross Keys, updated 1BR condo in secure, gated community, assigned prkng, swim, tennis, nr hospital and university. $1,000/mo + utils or $1,200/mo incl utils. 410-375-7748. Cross Keys Village, 1BR condo w/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 Chase St, luxury 1BR, 1BA apt, 540 sq ft, 9' ceiling, new dw, laundry on same flr, 24-hr security, walk to Peabody, monument, arts district, Penn Station and light rail. $800/mo + utils. 443-388-2802 or dfbls@ yahoo.com. Fells Point (Aliceanna at Broadway), 2BR, 2BA apt, top-of-the-line appliances, granite counters, 2 blks to water, bike to Hopkins. $1,595/mo. 805-338-2277. Hampden, 2BR, 1.5BA house, 1,400 sq ft, expos’d brick, hdwd flrs, laundry, priv porch, yd. $1,300/mo + utils. 202-247-7275. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. 410-378-2393. Hampden, 3BR, 1BA apt, W/D, new BA, oak flrs, fresh paint, garage, yd. $1,275/mo incl utils. Steve, 443-474-1492 or steve@ steverutz.com. Hampden, cute, totally renov’d 1BR, 1BA apt, perf for couple/single, new Berber crpt, updated electric and plumbing, bsmt for storage, access to sm backyd, pets OK. $775/mo + utils. 410-227-8879 or abillian@sshb.com. Homewood, beautiful 3BR apt, lovely light, views, quiet, fp, den, dining rm, eat-in kitchen, avail Jan 1. $2,400/mo. 240-498-1940. Homewood area, spacious 3BR apt w/hdwd flrs, 10' ceiling, new windows, secure bldg. 443-253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com. Jefferson Court, 2BR, 2.5BA TH, steps to JHMI/SoM/SoN, hdwd flrs, W/D, CAC, rear yd, convenience of campus living w/ the amenities of private home. $1,000/mo + utils. eyenstein22@hotmail.com. Mt Vernon, sublet apt nr JHU shuttle, avail Dec 15 to Jan 17, F only. $125/wk. 425-8901327.
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Mt Washington, gorgeous 2BR, 2BA condo w/huge loft, 1,300 sq ft, hdwd flrs, balcony, fp, W/D, dw, microwave, garage, safe neighborhood. $1,500/mo. 301-525-4505 or ufruth@ yahoo.com. Patterson Park, 2BR, 1.5BA house, hdwd flrs, crpt upstairs, stainless steel appls, skylight, expos’d brick, 1.25 mi to JHMI. $1,100/mo. 443-286-4883. Patterson Park, 2BR, 1BA RH, W/D, dw, expos’d brick, yd, avail mid-November, short-term lease considered. $1,200/mo. 410241-2767 or jdph@me.com. Washington Village, lg BR w/BA avail in 3BR house, off-street prkng, mins to 95/295, UMD and downtown. $700/mo incl all utils. mvpurnell@gmail.com. White Marsh, luxury, contemporary condo in secure bldg w/elevator, 2 master BR suites each w/priv BA, 1,400 sq ft, cathedral ceilings, priv prkng. $1,600/mo. 443-623-0087. Windsor Mill, semi-detached house, 3 levels, 3BRs + den, 1.5BAs, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, CAC, free priv prkng, avail December 1. $1,200/mo + utils. 443-380-2210 or windsorshare@yahoo.com. 1BR apt w/study, 3 mins to Homewood north gate, 7 mins to shuttle station, avail December. $1,100/mo incl water, heat, prkng. 443386-1879 or fclatrobeiv@yahoo.com. Nice, spacious 1BR in quiet neighborhood, access to 695/95/downtown/St Agnes/UMBC/ CCBC, application req’d. 443-992-6182.
HOUSES FOR SALE
Canton (3135 Dillon St), 2BR, 2.5BA house w/open floor plan, roofdeck, great location. $339,000. ac3135@yahoo.com. Charles Village, lg 2BR, 2BA at Carrollton Condos, 24-hr front desk, prkng space. $150,000. emmakcontact@yahoo.com. Charles Village/Guilford, sunny 1BR condo w/den, 24-hr front desk, half-blk to JHU shuttle. MLS#BA7177675. $139,900. 443534-8664. Timonium (8 Tyburn Ct), updated, spacious 4BR, 3BA single-family house on cul-de-sac, move-in cond, walk to Dulaney High, 2 mi to I-83 and lt rail station. $375,500. Debbie, 410-241-4724. Wyman Park, fully renov’d 3BR, 2BA TH, hdwd flrs, CAC/heat, 2-car garage, nr JHU/ BMA, rent option. $289,900. 410-581-4939 or syakov@yahoo.com. 249 S Castle St, excellent, completely renov’d RH w/gourmet kitchen, gorgeous patio, best architectural details, walk to JHMI/Fells Point/Canton, open house on Sundays, noon-2pm. 301-730-0159. 501 University Pkwy, 2BR, 1.5BA co-op, pets OK, co-op purchase = less cash at closing. $138,725. Claire, 443-413-6838. Renov’d 3BR, 2.5BA house w/screened porch, fenced yd, prkng, walk to Homewood, will consider selling furn’d. $299,000. 919607-5860 or 410-962-5417.
Prof’l (age 25-35) wanted for nice RH in Highlandtown, upstairs rm, share BA or bsmt BR w/own BA, share living rm and kitchen, no children or pets, but dog and cat in home, nr Bayview/JHH. $600/mo + 1/2 utils. lawrencejackson30@gmail.com. F wanted to share 2BR, 2BA condo in Perry Hall, mins to White Marsh Mall/95/695, own BR and share living rm, kitchen and laundry, no pets. $600/mo incl utils. Jessica, jessaldon@hotmail.com. Lg, partly furn’d bsmt BR w/priv BA avail in beautifully renov’d 3BR RH in Mayfield, across from Herring Run Park, nr Lake Montebello, 10 mins to JHMI, perf for visiting medical prof’ls. $600/mo incl utils and wireless. mayfieldroom@gmail.com. F wanted for lg, sunny rm, 2 blks to JHMI shuttle, 12 blks to Homewood, share lg house, high-speed Internet, kitchen, W/D, living rm, dining rm, porch, deck. $450/mo + utils. 410-963-8741. Share new, refurbished TH w/other medical students, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, at 924 N Broadway, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com. Master rm w/priv BA avail in 2BR apt in the Carlyle, avail from now to January. $700/ mo. 410-375-0394. Lg bsmt BR w/lots of light and priv BA avail in beautifully renov’d Patterson Park RH, conv to JHH/Bayview and 895/95. $785/mo + 1/2 utils + sec dep ($785). 443-799-1814 or shanbarry@gmail.com. 30-yr-old F prof’l w/dog seeks someone to share lg Hampden rental house, dogs welcome. $650/mo + utils. 201-888-3274 or nicolejward@gmail.com.
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Doctoral robe, black polyester w/royal blue velvet stripe on front, 3 bar stripes on puffy sleeves, size XL, 55" long, perf cond, matching velvet tam, lg, w/gold tassel. $150. Linda, 410-608-0925. Conn alto saxophone, mint condition. $650/ best offer. 410-488-1886.
SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED
Occasional babysitter wanted for 2 toddlers in our Oakenshawe/Charles Village home, short walk to Homewood campus, experience and refs req’d, flexible. 410-243-8724. Free ride from JHH to Fairlands Aquatic Center ($22/mo) for a lap swimming partner, 3 eves per wk. ys4cL@yahoo.com. Looking for CS partner; I will take the exam in December. wdyh_co@hotmail.com. Want to learn to play piano? Experienced teacher, master’s student at Peabody, accepting new students. $30 for 30 mins or $40 for 55 mins. 425-890-1327. Newly resettled in Baltimore (from NYC), I am looking for any info on flamenco classes/ events, must be accessible to public transportation. missmasala@gmail.com. Power washing, no job too small, free estimate. Donnie, 443-683-7049. LCSW-C providing 1-on-1 psychotherapy, JHU-affiliated, experience w/treating depression, anxiety, sexual orientation and gender identity concerns, couples. 443-735-9283 or shane.grant.lcswc@gmail.com. “Hire Education” training for youth and young adults, Owings Mills, November 2009-February 2010. 410-363-6525.
F grad student wanted for peaceful, furn’d 3BR, 2BA house, short-term lease OK. $550/mo incl utils and wireless. skbzok@ verizon.net.
Horse boarding, 20 mins from JHU, beautiful trails from farm. $500/mo (stall board) or $250/mo (field board). 410-812-6716 or argye.hillis@gmail.com.
CARS FOR SALE
Evers home improvement, licensed, bonded and insured contractor, MHIC#83053, major credit cards accepted, free estimates. 443-829-2217.
’01 VW Passat GLX sedan, silver, automatic, V6, 4WD, 95K mi. $6,600. 410-375-0394. ’03 Nissan Sentra SE-R, perf cond, Md insp’d, 6-CD changer, 69K mi. $7,300. Nina, 410-504-4434 or nina.bankova@gmail.com.
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Christian Dior Norwegian blue fox fur coat, medium size, full-length, great holiday gift. $1,200. 443-824-2198. Pair of exterior French doors, new, white, 8 ft x 3 ft, made of Auralast wood, w/15 double E-glass panels and double locks. $750/both. 443-768-4751. Leather couch, teal-green, soft, comfortable. $225. 410-542-0409 or ncarrey@comcast .net. 3-step ladder, reciprocating saw, tripods, printer, computer, microwave, chair, digital piano, beach chairs (2), stool. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. Nikon 77mm clear NC filter, $50; Nikon 52mm clear NC filter, $25; Haier air conditioner w/remote, 12,000 BTUs, almost new, $100. 410-807-5979 or aroop@cyberdude .com.
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Calendar COLLOQUIA
“Gandhi’s Spinning Wheel and the Making of India,” an Anthropology colloquium with Rebecca Brown, KSAS. 400 Macaulay. HW
Brain Institute and Biomedical Engineering. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW Mon., Nov. 16, 5:15 p.m. “Is There Such a Thing as InnerEuropean Postcolonial Studies?” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Birgit Wagner, University of Vienna. 101A Dell House. HW
Tues., Nov. 10, 4 p.m.
MUSIC
Tues., Nov. 10 , 4:15 p.m. The Ephraim and Wilma Shaw Roseman Colloquium—“Exploring β-Sheet Structure and Interactions With Chemical Model Systems,” a Chemistry colloquium with James Nowick, University of California, Irvine. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., Nov. 11, 4 p.m. “Victims’
The Prague-based Pavel Haas Quartet performs in the Disovery Series @ the BMA, designed to introduce audiences to emerging artists and less familiar instruments and repertoire. See Music.
Rights: An Afro-Colombian Perspective on the Human Rights Crisis in Colombia,” a Program in Latin American Studies colloquium with Bela Henriquez, daughter of victim of paramilitary violence. 113 Greenhouse. HW
tions discussion with Sen. John McCain. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS
Wed.,
Mon.,
Nov.
11,
4:30
p.m.
“Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That’s Out of Joint,” a Women, Gender and Sexuality colloquium with Lee Edelman, Tufts University. Sponsored by English. 201C Dell House. HW Thurs., Nov. 12, 3 p.m. “The New Astrobiology,” a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Caleb Scharf, Columbia University. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW Thurs., Nov. 12, 3 p.m. “Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhone,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Sara Pritchard, Cornell University. Room 102, 3505 N. Charles St. HW
“Missile Defense and the Cold War, Delta 180 and APL’s Role,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, USAF (retired). Parsons Auditorium. APL
Fri., Nov. 13, 2 p.m.
C O N FERE N C E S Thurs., Nov. 12, 12:30 p.m.
“Advances in Malaria Research: In the Lab and the Field,” a Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute interactive Web summit on the latest findings in the fight against malaria. To register, go to www .jhsph.edu/malariasummit2009. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB D I S C U S S I O N S / TA L K S
“The SAIS Berlin Wall Project: Walls Still to Fall,” the final day of a weeklong SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations “open mic” discussion, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A model of the wall will be torn down. Co-sponsored by the SAIS German Club. Courtyard, Nitze Building. SAIS
Mon., Nov. 9, noon.
“Why Freedom Still Matters,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic RelaMon.,
Nov.
9,
noon.
Nov.
9,
12:30
p.m.
“International Wildlife Conservation in the 21st Century,” a talk by Heather Eves, director and adviser of Bushmeat Crisis Task Force. Sponsored by the Global Energy and Environment Initiative. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS Tues.,
Nov.
10,
12:30
p.m.
“The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Edward Lucas, The Economist, and Donald Jensen (moderator), SAIS. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS
tive discussion with Tim Wirth, president, United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS I N FOR M AT I O N SESSIONS
Mon., Nov. 16, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Online information session for the MS in Bioscience Regulatory Affairs. Learn about admission requirements, curriculum design, course structure, degree requirements; participate in an online discussion or chat with faculty and the associate program chair. Sponsored by Advanced Biotechnology Studies. RSVP online (by Nov. 12) at http://advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/ index.cfm?ContentID=1619.
“The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?” a SAIS International Economics Program discussion with Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS
Mon., Nov. 9, 4 p.m. The Kossiakoff Lecture—“Engineering Cell Death” by Jim Wells, University of California, San Francisco. Sponsored by Biophysics. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Wed.,
Tues., Nov. 10, 5 p.m.
Tues., Nov. 10, 4:30 p.m.
Nov.
11,
12:15
p.m.
“Redefining Impact: PLoS Medicine at Five Years,” a Center for Global Health talk by Larry Peiperl, senior research editor, PLoS Medicine. Co-sponsored by International Health. Part of the Global Health Leaders Forum series. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB Wed.,
Nov.
11,
12:30
p.m.
“Flawed Vision: Nigerian Development Policy in the Indonesian Mirror,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with David Henley, KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden. 736 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS Wed.,
The Sixth Annual Alvin H. Bernstein Lecture—“The U.S.-U.K. Special Relationship: The End of the Affair?” by Eric Edelman. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Sponsored by the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS
Wed., Nov. 11, noon. The W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture— “The Electricity Storm: How Energy Policy Affects Our Future” by Mayo Shattuck III, president and CEO, Constellation Energy. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS
The 16th Sidney W. Mintz Lecture—“On Noticing” by Virginia Dominguez, University of Illinois. Sponsored by Anthropology. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW Wed., Nov. 11, 8 p.m.
Nov.
11,
12:45
p.m.
“Dynamics of Private Equity Funds in Latin America: Future Prospects and the Potential Downside,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Julio Lastres, Darby Overseas Investments Ltd. 517 Nitze Building. SAIS Mon.,
L E C TURE S
Nov.
16,
12:30
p.m.
“Challenges and Prospects of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference,” a SAIS Global Energy and Environment Initia-
The Kenneth O. Johnson Memorial Lecture—“Neural Codes, Perception, Memory and Decision Making” by Ranulfo Romo, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. Co-sponsored by the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/
Fri., Nov. 13, 4 p.m.
Tues., Nov. 10, 7 p.m. “What Makes It Great?” a Washington Performing Arts Society presentation with Rob Kapilow and the Peabody Chamber Players performing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043. Sponsored by Peabody Institute. $30 general admission, $25 for WPAS and Smithsonian members. To purchase tickets, go to www .wpas.org or phone 202-785-9727. Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, 10th St. NE and Constitution Ave. NE.
World premiere of Michael Formanek’s Duologue for Double Bass and Piano, and works by Wayne Shorter, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and James P. Johnson, performed by Michael Formanek, contrabass, and Tim Murphy, piano. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall.
Wed., Nov. 11, 8 p.m.
Peabody
The Shriver Hall Concert Series@the BMA presents the Pavel Haas Quartet. (See photo, this page.) Part of the free “Discovery Series.” Baltimore Museum of Art Auditorium.
Sat., Nov. 14, 3 p.m.
Sat., Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Camerata performs works by Lonnie Hevia, Robert Hall Lewis and Lukas Foss. Griswold Hall. Peabody Sun., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. “4 Hands and 4 Feet,” an organ recital by John Walker and Donald Sutherland playing works by Bach, Alkan, Merkel, Wagner, Leighton, Strauss and Sousa. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody
O P E N HOU S E S Mon., Nov. 9, 10 a.m. to noon.
Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Open House for those who want to learn more about master’s degree programs and courses. Academic and Research Building, 9601 Medical Center Dr., Rockville, Md. Montgomery County Campus. REA D I N G S / B OO K TA L K S
“The Cajal Body and snRNP Biogenesis,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Joseph Gall, JHU and Carnegie Institution of Washington. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 9, 4 p.m.
Mon., Nov. 9, 4 p.m. “Estimates From Below: Spectral Function, Remainder in Weyl’s Law and Resonances,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW Mon., Nov. 9, 4 p.m. David Bodian Seminar—“Maps, Streams and Circuits in Mouse Visual Cortex” with Andreas Burkhalter, Washington University in St. Louis. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW Tues., Nov. 10, noon. “The Dynamic Landscape for Enzymatic Recognition of DNA Damage,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with James Stivers, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB
“Development and Use of Alternative Methods at BASF,” an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Bennard van Ravenzwaay, BASF. Co-sponsored by the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. W7023 SPH. EB
Tues., Nov. 10, noon.
Tues., Nov. 10, 12:15 p.m.
“Repairing Broken Ends by MMEJ: Lessons From Saccharomyces cerevisiae,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Kihoon Lee, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Tues., Nov. 10, 3 p.m. “Use of Natural Zeolite Materials to Restore Groundwater at Nuclear Facilities,” a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Alan Rabideau, SUNY Buffalo. 234 Ames. HW Tues., Nov. 10, 4:30 p.m. “We Know It All: Lessons From a Quarter Century of Web Extraction Research,” a Center for
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Mon., Nov. 9, 12:15 p.m. “The Genes That Were Missed: An Expanding Universe of Small RNAs and Small Proteins,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Gisela Storz, NICHHD/NIH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
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based author James Magruder will discuss and sign copies of his debut novel Sugarless. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Nov.
EB
Wed., Nov. 11, 7 p.m. Baltimore-
Mon.,
Health and Clinical Excellence, UK. Co-sponsored by Health Policy and Managenent and the US Cochrane Center. W3008 SPH.
(Events are free and open to the public except where indicated.)
APL BRB CRB CSEB
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
12:15
p.m.
“Strategies for Linking Policy to Evidence Generation: The UK Experience,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Kalipso Chalkidou, National Institute for
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