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IBM leader to send off JHU grads

Volume 41 No. 26

M A K E O V E R

The big reveal, Homewood-style

By Greg Rienzi

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amuel J. Palmisano, the chairman of the board at computer giant IBM and the company’s former president and CEO, will be the featured speaker at this year’s university commencement ceremony, to be held on Thursday, May Sam Palmisano 24, on Homewood Field. Palmisano, a to speak at 1973 graduate of universitywide Johns Hopkins and a former university trustee, ceremony on began his career at IBM right after May 24 college and rose through the ranks at a business currently listed 18th on the Fortune 500. Palmisano is perhaps best known for leading the ambitious transformation of a 100-year-old company, and for his vision of how technology and global integration are reshaping business and society. Under his leadership, IBM made tough calls to get out of businesses that IBM itself had invented and enter new ones, leading to growth and innovation. In January of this year, Palmisano stepped down as IBM CEO, leaving a legacy of record performance despite the global economic crisis. He continues to serve as IBM’s chairman of the board. “Sam is a daring and visionary leader, whose dedication to discovery and refusal to accept the status quo guided one of the great transformations in business history,” said university President Ronald J. Daniels. “His capacity for bold, creative and critical thinking across domains reflects the power of a Johns Hopkins education. I’m delighted to welcome back one of our own to share his insights as the class of 2012 looks to the future.” Palmisano joins a distinguished group of Johns Hopkins commencement speakers, a list that has included former Vice President Al Gore; comedian Bill Cosby; Elizabeth Dole, former senator Continued on page 10

Slick new study areas, a well-equipped fitness room and a 44-seat movie theater are among the new amenities unveiled this month in Wolman Hall, a residence facility that houses almost 500 undergraduates.

Wolman Hall gets a top-notch upgrade, thanks to Parents Fund By Greg Rienzi

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arlier this month, Wolman Hall residents were given the first glimpse of the building’s recently completed renovation. The “oohs” and “ahhs” came fast and furious. The 92-year-old apartment building (once home to F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda) has been outfitted with a slew of upgrades, new spaces and multimedia knick-

knacks to make the residence hall more homey and livelier. On March 1, Housing and Dining Services pulled back the curtain to the recently completed $2.4 million renovation of the university-owned undergraduate residence building, located on North Charles Street. Continued on page 7

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KSAS named beneficiary of $10 mill bequest Alumnus and wife fund sciences exchange program with Australian institute B y K a t e P i pk i n

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Leslie and Ann ‘Rainey’ Norins

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Homewood-JHMI Shuttle change; Radiothon results; Adopt-a-Class in city public schools

he Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences has been named a beneficiary of a charitable trust established by Leslie

C. Norins, a 1958 graduate of the School of Arts and Sciences, and his wife, Ann “Rainey” Norins, to fund an endowed student and faculty exchange program in the sciences. The future value of the gift, which will be received after the donors’ deaths, is estimated at approximately $10 million. The Norins Fund will support reciprocal exchanges of student scientists and junior science faculty members from Johns Hopkins with those at one of Australia’s most prominent bioscience research cen-

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rom Friday, March 16, through Monday, March 19, the JHMI stop for the Homewood-JHMI Shuttle will be temporarily relocated to the corner of Broadway and Monument streets; buses will not stop at Rutland and Washington streets during what is being described as a trial period. Anyone with feedback regarding this trial period should call 410-516-7275 or email shuttles@jhu.edu.

Radiothon raises $866,000 for kids at Hopkins Children’s

he 23nd annual MIX 106.5 Radiothon benefiting Johns Hopkins Children’s Center raised nearly $866,000 during its three-day broadcast, bringing the total raised to date to more than $15 million. The numbers were unveiled March 5 on the MIX 106.5 Morning Show with DJs Jojo Girard and Reagan Warfield.

Mixed methods research experts to give SoN Dean’s Lecture

ixed methods research experts John Creswell and Joe Gallo will give insight into the future of research methodology at the School of Nursing from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 19. Researchers, students and the public are invited to learn more about the gold standard of research design, which brings together multiple qualitative and quantitative strategies. A reception follows the lecture. Creswell, a professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is a founding editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and was first author of the recent National Institutes of Health–commissioned paper Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences. Co-presenting is Joe Gallo, a professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who conducts a wide range of research with an eye toward integrative interventions. This presentation is part of Nursing’s Dean’s Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the school’s P30 Center of Excellence for Cardiovascular Health and the University of Maryland School of Social Work.

Volunteer groups wanted to ‘adopt’ classes in city schools

ore than 30 Baltimore City Public School teachers have requested ongoing assistance in one-on-one projects, small group activities and overall classroom support through Adopt-a-Class, a Johns Hopkins Takes Time for Schools initiative. Adopt-a-Class provides support to Bal-

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Bioethicist calls on Congress to protect docs in war zones

reater leadership is needed from the U.S. government to protect physicians and health facilities from increased attacks in armed conflict zones like Syria, experts told members of Congress in a special briefing held March 7. “Adherence to norms won’t take place unless it becomes a diplomatic priority, with the U.S. and other states using their considerable leverage to demand adherence to international law,” Leonard Rubenstein, a bioethicist at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics specializing in protection of human rights in areas of conflict, said in a prepared statement. Rubenstein, also a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights, noted a report last year by the International Committee of the Red Cross that more than 1,800 people in 16 countries have been killed or wounded as a result of violence against health care services. Such attacks violate international laws of medical neutrality included in the Geneva Conventions.

‘Gazette’ will not be published week of spring vacation

he Gazette will not be published on March 19, during the week of spring vacation. The calendar in today’s issues carries listings for events through March 26.

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David Phillips to lead Undergrad Admissions and Student Aid By Dennis O’Shea

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y close of business on May 1, the Undergraduate Admissions and Student Aid offices will have the Homewood class of 2016 just about locked down. At 8:30 the next morning, work on admitting the class of 2017 revs into high gear. You don’t get a lot of time to catch your breath in student recruitment at a highly selective university like Johns Hopkins. But a part of David Phillips’ new job as vice provost for admissions and financial aid will be to make sure that everyone involved—from front-line admissions reps to the deans, provost and president—takes time out at key moments. More important, he wants them to use that time to think about strategy, reflect on the data and what it means, and decide how to use that knowledge to tweak the university’s admissions efforts. Phillips, who coincidentally assumes his new position May 1, is a numbers guy. Don’t get him wrong: He believes wholeheartedly in the Johns Hopkins philosophy of evaluating applicants holistically, taking into consideration not just scores and grades but also essays, recommendations, involvement and other less quantifiable factors. But he also knows that a university stashes a lot of information away in its databases during an admissions cycle. That information—if pulled back out, analyzed for patterns and trends, and shared widely—can help the admissions and financial aid staffers

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who recruit students, evaluate applications and administer financial aid. It can help those staffers decide what to emphasize and what isn’t working. If, for instance, you’ve tried to appeal to a particular type of student, Phillips says, you need to know if you’ve succeeded. “You finish yielding a class on May 1. The new year will begin on May 2,” he says. “The more time you take to bring the information together, the less time you have to look at it, analyze it and decide whether to shift what you’re doing, or feel good about what you’re doing and invest more in those directions.” Phillips, who in 22 years in the business

has become a leader in evaluating and testing admissions strategies, says that the answers are there. It’s the ability to get at them that’s the tricky part. “Taking that data and being able to extract it fast and in nimble ways is critical,” he says. “It’s an increasingly competitive landscape for the kinds of students that Johns Hopkins and other highly selective institutions want. You need tools that put data into everyone’s hands very quickly to look at issues in multiple ways. “It’s a framework,” he says, “that allows you to look forward. You can’t just be in the moment. You have to look forward and see what’s coming.” Phillips’ position is a new one and reports directly to the university’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, Lloyd B. Minor. “Throughout his career, David has pursued a purposeful, strategic, coordinated approach to the critical work of enrolling a talented, motivated, diverse class of undergraduates,” Minor says. “He is superbly qualified to help Johns Hopkins continue to attract students prepared to take full advantage of the unique opportunities Johns Hopkins offers.” Phillips has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 2008, first as vice dean of admissions and now as deputy dean of admissions for strategic planning. He previously served in important roles at Columbia University, most recently as assistant dean for enrollment management services in the university’s Undergraduate Division of Student Affairs.

At Penn, Phillips has ensured that units within the Admissions Office are guided by clear, data-driven strategy and coordinate closely in pursuit of the university’s goals. He has contributed toward a 38 percent increase in applications and enhanced diversity and academic quality in the freshman class. Among other assignments at Columbia, he managed a staff of 13 responsible for strategy, data modeling and analysis, process improvement and database systems for the offices of Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid and Advising. Phillips says he is pleased to be joining a highly successful university that, over the past 10 years, has consistently set new records for applications while enhancing the academic quality and diversity of entering classes. He says he looks forward to enhancing collaboration between the Admissions and Financial Aid offices, with the faculty and academic advisers, and with alumni who encourage prospective students to consider Johns Hopkins. Important to those collaborations, he says, is testing and validating even long-held assumptions about how the university can build the strongest class, and leading a full discussion of trends and issues with all involved. “Johns Hopkins has been on a great upward trajectory,” Phillips says. “The question is how to position ourselves to continue along that trajectory. And it does take a whole university. I’m looking forward to building on our existing collaborations.” Phillips is a 1987 graduate of Bard College.

Two JHU mathematicians honored with Simons Fellowships By Lisa De Nike

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wo Johns Hopkins University mathematicians have each been awarded the highly competitive Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, which provides scholars with the opportunity to spend a semester away from classroom and administrative duties in order to pursue their research interests. Christopher Sogge and Joel Spruck, both professors in the Department of Mathematics in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, are among just 50 mathematicians in North America to have received this honorific fellowship. “I’m thrilled that I’ll have free time and resources,” said Sogge, who will use this occasion to strengthen academic partner-

ships with his peers in the People’s Republic of China. “I welcome the opportunity to further develop these ties and to collaborate with them. I’ll also use the fellowship to help me finish writing a book on eigenfunctions of the Laplacian. This field of geometric analysis and harmonic analysis has been a main focus of mine throughout my career.” Spruck will travel to Montreal and Barcelona, Spain, where he too will collaborate with his field’s leading experts. “We will work on problems of common interest involving the interplay of elliptic partial differential equations and Riemannian geometry,” Spruck said. “My last sabbatical of this nature was in 1999 and was a delightful and invigorating experience. I look forward to the opportunities that the Simons Fellowship will bring.” Simons Fellows are chosen based on research accomplishment in the five years

prior to application and the potential scientific impact of the fellowship. The mission of the private, New York City–based Simons Foundation is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. It funds a variety of grants, fellowships and projects. During the professors’ sabbaticals, half of their salaries will be paid by Johns Hopkins and half by the Simons Foundation. The foundation also pays up to an additional $10,000 for expenses related to the fellowship. William Minicozzi, chair of the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins, said, “These fellowships are very prestigious on their own, and it is doubly remarkable for one department to have two of them in the same year.” Sogge and Spruck both have previously been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Sogge in 2005 and Spruck in 1999.

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www.mathematics.jhu.edu/ new Christopher Sogge: mathnt.mat.jhu.edu/sogge/ Christopher_D._Sogge.html Joel Spruck:

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Going to physician visits with older loved ones could improve care B y N ata l i e W o o d - W r i g h t

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amily companions who routinely accompany older adults to physician office visits could be helpful to health care quality improvement efforts, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The authors found that three-quarters of older adults who attend physician visits with a family companion are consistently accompanied over time, nearly always by the same companion. The results are featured in the January issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. “Continuity of care is a central tenet of an effective patient-provider partnership,” said Jennifer L. Wolff, lead author of the study and an associate professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health Policy

and Management. “Our study documents that the patient-provider relationship often includes a consistently present and actively engaged family member. This work suggests that quality of care improvements may result from more productive communication and education that targets both patients and their companions.” Wolff and her colleagues at the Johns Hopkins schools of Public Health, Nursing and Medicine, and at Weill Cornell Medical College, analyzed a national survey of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 or older. The researchers studied the influence of sociodemographic characteristics, health status and physical function in regard to consistent accompaniment to physician visits. They also examined the activities performed by older adults’ family companions during medical visits. The researchers found that 75 percent of the 9.5 million older adults who attended routine physician visits with a family com-

panion were consistently accompanied at 12-month follow-up.. Nearly nine in 10 beneficiaries (87.9 percent) who were consistently accompanied over time were accompanied by the same companion. Patients who were older, less educated and diagnosed with multiple chronic conditions were more likely to be consistently accompanied at one-year follow-up. Nearly 35.5 percent of accompanied beneficiaries were physically disabled and received help with daily activities from their family companion. Companions of these patients were more active in visit communication by providing information directly to the doctor (70.5 percent), asking the doctor questions (67.1 percent) and explaining the doctor’s instructions to the patient (54.5 percent). “Initiatives to improve older adults’ quality of chronic illness care have typically focused on improving health care profes-

sional and patient competencies, and have ignored the fact that Medicare beneficiaries often manage their health conditions and attend routine physician visits with a family member, predominantly a spouse or an adult child,” Wolff said. “Results from this study may help inform health reform initiatives that seek to improve care quality and lower costs, such as the Patient Centered Medical Home.” Previous studies have shown that Medicare beneficiaries who attend routine physician visits with a family companion are disproportionately vulnerable by age, education and health, and that their Medicare expenditures are twice as high as those for beneficiaries who are not accompanied by a companion. The study was written by Wolff, Cynthia M. Boyd, Laura N. Gitlin, Martha L. Bruce and Debra L. Roter. This research was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.

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The researchers noticed that levels of certain microRNAs were lower in brain cells treated with BDNF, suggesting that BDNF controls the levels of these microRNAs and, through this control, also affects protein production. Homing in on those specific microRNAs that disappeared when cells were treated with BDNF, the team found that all were of the same type, so-called Let-7 microRNAs, and that all shared a common genetic sequence. “This short genetic sequence has been shown by other researchers to behave like a bar code that can selectively prevent production of Let-7 microRNAs,” Meffert said. To test if the loss of Let-7 microRNAs lets BDNF increase production of specific proteins, Meffert’s team genetically engineered neurons so that they could no longer decrease Let-7 microRNAs. The researchers found that treating these neurons with BDNF no longer resulted in decreased microRNA levels or an increase in learning and memory proteins. In measuring microRNA levels in cells treated with BDNF, they also found more than 174 microRNAs that increased with BDNF treatment. This suggested to the research team that BDNF treatment also can increase other microRNAs and, thereby, decrease production of certain proteins. Meffert says that some of these proteins may need to be decreased during learning and memory, whereas others may not contribute to the process at all. To confirm that BDNF, via microRNA action, halts the production of certain proteins, the researchers monitored living brain cells to find out where messages go in response to BDNF. Messages that aren’t translated into proteins can accumulate inside small formations within cells. Using a microscope, the researchers watched a lab dish containing brain cells that had been marked with a fluorescent molecule that labels these formations as glowing spots.

Treating cells with BDNF caused the number and size of the glowing spots to increase. The researchers determined that BDNF uses microRNA to send messages to these spots, where they can be exiled away from the translating machinery that turns them into protein. “Monitoring these fluorescent complexes gave us a window that we needed to understand how BDNF is able to target the production of only certain proteins that help neurons to grow and make learning possible,” Meffert said. “Now that we know how BDNF boosts production of learning and memory proteins, we have an opportunity to explore whether therapeutics can be designed to enhance this mechanism for treatment of patients with mental disorders and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease,” she said. Additional authors of the study were YuWen Huang, Claudia Ruiz, Elizabeth Eyler and Kathie Lin, all of Johns Hopkins. The research was supported by funds from the Braude Foundation and the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute.

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and medical publishing ventures that have spanned more than three decades. Often referred to as the “dean of medical newsletter publishing,” Norins has launched more than 80 medical and science newsletters. He was elected to the Hall of Fame of the Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association, served on its board of directors and has twice been the keynote speaker at its national convention. Norins credits Johns Hopkins for igniting both his entrepreneurial spirit and his interest in biomedical research, especially immunology. “As a Hopkins pre-med student, I took as many humanities classes as possible, especially economics,” he said, “and I was fortunate enough to be chosen by the legendary professor of organic chemistry A.H. Corwin to be his student research assistant.” Katherine S. Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School, says that the Norinses’ gift will forge new ground in the exchange of scientific research and discovery. “Our students and junior faculty benefit enormously from the opportunity to share research discoveries with their colleagues in world-class institutions overseas,” she said. “Exchanges that build durable relations and collaborative science are especially valuable, but often costly. This gift will make it possible to sustain these partnerships for the long run, and hence we are all deeply grateful to the Norins family for their vision and generosity.” Norins said that he and his wife, who now live in Naples, Fla., are pleased they are able to plan future support for a collaborative effort between two of the “top-drawer bioscience research centers in the world.” “We feel we have made a wise investment arrangement for the future,” Norins said. “We are paying back, in some small fashion, the many ways Johns Hopkins and the WEHI have aided the formative years of my career.” G

Continued from page 1 ters, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, from which Norins received his doctorate in immunology. “This generous gift represents a wonderful investment in the future,” Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels said. “It’s an opportunity for scientists from two different institutions and countries to work and learn together in the quest for scientific discovery. Such international partnerships will undoubtedly lead to promising scientific advances on the global stage, and we’re grateful to Dr. and Mrs. Norins for their vision and generosity.” Norins grew up in Baltimore, where his father, Abe Norins, operated a small tavern. After graduating from Johns Hopkins and then earning a medical degree from Duke University, Norins was awarded an NIH fellowship that took him to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, where he was the student of Nobel Prize winner Sir MacFarlane Burnet. Norins returned to the United States to direct a major laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control. During the 10 years he served there, he became a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America, published more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific papers and served on committees of the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization. “I have seen the rewards of exposing younger scientists to cross-training at top institutions in other countries,” Norins said. “Not only does it promote exchange of science knowledge and techniques, but it broadens their world outlook in this time of increased globalization. We wanted to enhance such opportunities for future generations of researchers.” Following his decade in scientific research, Norins embarked on entrepreneurial science

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March 12, 2012 • THE GAZETTE

HIV guidelines issued for care of those newly diagnosed B y D av i d M a r c h

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eading AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and other institutions around the world have issued new guidelines to promote entry into and retention in HIV care, as well as adherence to HIV treatment, drawn from the results of 325 studies conducted with tens of thousands of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The guidelines are believed to be the first ever to focus exclusively on how best to get those newly diagnosed with HIV into treatment plans and help them adhere to lifelong drug and check-up regimens. Some 50,000 Americans each year are diagnosed with the potentially deadly, but now treatable, infection, and more than a million Americans already are known to be HIV-positive. However, experts worry that barely twothirds of Americans with HIV disease, some 69 percent, have ever used potent antiretroviral drug therapy, or ART, to keep viral levels in the blood low. Still fewer—59 percent, they say—continue their drug therapy, and less than a third, or 28 percent, have achieved near total viral suppression, to keep the disease in check, by carefully complying with treatment regimens and getting regular tests for viral load. “Clearly, there is lots of room for improvement in how we, as care providers, can get new patients into treatment and help them adhere to the often strict drug regimens needed to suppress the viral disease and prevent drug resistance,” said infectious disease specialist Larry W. Chang, a co-author of the guidelines. The need is urgent, he says, because other research has shown that patients who miss follow-up medical visits within the first year after they begin outpatient drug treatment for HIV infection tend to be out of compliance with regimens and, over the long term, die at twice the rate of those who keep their appointments. Chang, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was one of 31 experts worldwide, including three Johns Hopkins faculty members, who drafted the guidelines on behalf of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care. The guidelines were published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine March 5, coinciding with the 19th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections being held in Seattle. Internationally renowned AIDS researcher and infectious disease specialist John Bartlett, another co-author, said, “We know that clinical care and antiretroviral therapy are very effective when we can convince our

patients to follow their treatment plans and take their medications as prescribed, and much less effective when they don’t.” Bartlett, a professor and former director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins, points out that adherence to ART is a key indicator of how well infected people will suppress the virus. Sufficient suppression is needed to reduce the risk of developing drug resistance, slow disease progression, prevent progression to death from AIDS and lessen the likelihood of transmitting the virus to others. The 37 recommendations that make up the guidelines were crafted by an international team co-chaired by Jean B. Nachega, senior author of the guidelines and an associate scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as a professor of medicine and director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. “These novel guidelines are timely and overdue, especially now that successful treatment is a part of HIV prevention efforts,” Nachega said. “We anticipate that they will be welcomed by both HIV care providers and patients, and that the guidelines will contribute to save lives and decrease the likelihood of transmission of the AIDS virus from mother to child or to sexual partners.” Key among the guidelines is the need for systematic monitoring and tracking of people newly diagnosed with HIV, and those already under care for the disease, to make sure they are actively involved in treatment decisions and properly following their regimens. Possible strategies to help newly diagnosed people include using patient “navigators,” or personal guides, to help them sort through the hospital and community services available, and assist them with paperwork for drug discounts or government aid. Chang says that once people have kept their first clinic appointment, another system needs to be in place to keep them “engaged” (or personally involved in their care) and make sure they never “lose touch” with their care team. He says that this could be as simple as periodic follow-up calls from a nurse or case manager, or direct questions from physicians during clinic visits asking about adherence to medication. More elaborate tracking systems, Chang adds, could include automated systems that alert the pharmacist or physician to missed drug refills or to lapses longer than six months in booking check-ups. What is key, he emphasizes, is physicians’ tracking their patients’ visits and compliance with drug therapy, and working more closely with pharmacies to keep track. The expert panel notably calls for stopping practices that have proved ineffective

Happiness superstar Tal Ben-Shahar imparted his positive-psychology message to a capacity crowd on the Homewood campus last week. More than 1,100 people packed into Shriver Hall to hear the best-selling author and psychologist offer tips and wisdom on how to stay happy and positive, and to pick up autographed copies of his books. His visit to Johns Hopkins kicked off a campuswide happiness effort that centers on the introduction next fall of two new positive-psychology courses inspired by and modeled after Ben-Shahar’s popular class at Harvard.

or not feasible in routine clinical practice, including testing of hair and blood for drug levels, and counting pills to monitor compliance with drug prescriptions. People can always find ways to dispose of their pills, Chang says, especially if they are worried about or bothered by drug side effects. The experts say that streamlining therapies wherever possible to include drugs that need to be taken only once daily, as opposed to two or three times, would help simplify drug taking for people and improve ART adherence. Patient counseling was found effective in keeping patients engaged in their care and ART compliant, but such counseling is best delivered one-on-one instead of in a group setting. This was especially the case in teaching patients how to use a pillbox to sort multiple medications, and in offering helpful hints, such as taking medications all at once and at the same time of day, if possible. Other recommendations were specific to people and groups disproportionately

affected by HIV, including pregnant women, children, homeless people and prisoners. Methadone or buprenorphine therapy, for example, was recommended jointly with HIV treatment for those dealing with addiction to painkillers, especially heroin. Worldwide, an estimated 10 million of the 34 million people infected with HIV receive drug treatment for their infection. Chang says that the group plans to launch an accredited online medical education program to promote the new guidelines to other physicians and health care providers. The international team also has plans for further research into the value of patient navigators, peer support networks and other tactics to foster rapid entry into care for newly infected people or for those who have never entered treatment. Funding support for the guidelines, which took more than a year to complete, was provided by the National Institutes of Health’s Office of AIDS Research.

APL to hold health care IT security symposium B y G e o f f B r o wn

Applied Physics Laboratory

symposium to discuss current challenges in maintaining the security of all aspects of health care information technologies, from patient data to medical devices, will be held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14, in APL’s Kossiakoff Center. Among the speakers are two Johns Hopkins faculty members: Peter Greene, chief medical information officer, associate professor of surgery and associate dean for emerging technologies at the School of Medicine; and Darren Lacey, chief information security officer, director of IT compli-

ance for the university and Johns Hopkins Medicine, and adjunct instructor in the Whiting School of Engineering. Also speaking is Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, director of research for the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection at Dartmouth College. The symposium is part of the weeklong CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, sponsored by and held at APL from March 12 to 17. The competition is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security and several industry groups and organizations involved in cyber security education and services. For more on the symposium, go to www .midatlanticccdc.org/CCDC/2012-speakersymposium.

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Reveal Game on: Residents can unwind in the new game room, which is equipped with big couches and flat-panel TVs.

Continued from page 1 The renovation project, which began in October, focused on reuse of the building’s former dining facility, known as Wolman Station, which had been used mostly for storage or left empty in recent years. The project also included work on the remainder of the first floor and the terrace level of the building. Out of the spaces, the university created a 44-seat movie theater, a common kitchen, a multipurpose room, a fitness room, two lounges, a game room, study space and a small computer room. Renovation crews also expanded the size of the building’s lobby and added a vestibule to the front entrance to enhance energy efficiency. The work was made possible by a gift from the Parents Fund, which supports Homewood student-life programs and activities. Carol Mohr, senior director of Housing and Dining Services, said that the renovation will have a profound impact on life for the building’s residents. “We are grateful for the generosity of the Parents Fund and excited to have this fabulous new space,” Mohr said. “It really is beautiful. All these improvements have created a terrific environment for our residents. Students will now have updated and contemporary new spaces to meet, study, exercise and even cook.” The new fitness room has treadmills, elliptical machines, recumbent bikes and other exercise equipment. The movie theater is outfitted with tiered

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The student meeting room provides residents with areas in which to work alone or in groups.

seating, cable TV and a projection screen that is capable of playing student DVDs, Blu-rays or computer presentations. The game room has couches and large flat-panel TVs that students can hook up to gaming consoles, either their own or ones provided by the Office of Residential Life. Two new lounges feature comfortable fur-

niture, tables and chairs so that students can meet, study or just read a book there. The kitchen, similar to the one in the Charles Commons residence, has a countertop stove, microwave, refrigerator, dishwasher and ample counter space. “Students really wanted space for cooking, so we were sure to include a community kitchen in the design,” Mohr said. “They can create a snack

or meal as a group, or simply bake a pan of brownies whenever they want.” Shaun Grahe, assistant director of residential life for Wolman Hall, said that the student response has been enthusiastic. “Students were using the kitchen literally minutes after it opened. The study room has been constantly packed, and they are already using all the other spaces,” he said. “The students are really excited. The response has been great.” Wolman Hall accommodates up to 483 residents. The renovation was designed by Read and Company Architects, which has done a number of projects for Johns Hopkins, including the renovation of the Johns Hopkins University Press building, the Levering Hall dining facility and the Sheldon Hall Auditorium at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Wolman Hall, once known as the Cambridge Arms Apartments, was built in 1920. The Fitzgeralds lived here for several years in the mid-1930s. The university purchased the building in 1966 and named it in honor of Abel Wolman, a professor of sanitary engineering at Johns Hopkins for eight decades. Wolman famously developed the formula used in chlorinating water supplies, served as an adviser on water matters to the governments of some 50 countries and designed the water systems of many American cities, including Baltimore and New York. The university renovated Wolman Hall in 1990–91, increasing the building’s capacity from 220 students to nearly 500. While the renovation is mostly done, it’s not complete. During spring break, crews will replace the building’s front doors, some windows and a ceiling. G

HIV rates for urban black women five times higher than estimated Data from Baltimore and five other urban ‘hot spots’ cited by researchers B y D av i d M a r c h

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national team of AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere say that they are surprised and dismayed by results of their new study showing that the yearly number of new cases of HIV infection among black women in Baltimore and other cities is five times higher than previously thought. The data show that infection rates for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, among this population are much higher than the overall incidence rates in the United States for African-American adolescents and African-American women. The data come from an ongoing larger series of studies supported by the HIV Prevention Trials Network and reflect testing and analysis of at-risk women in six urban areas in the northeastern and southeastern United States hardest hit by the global AIDS epidemic. The so-called “hot spots” are Baltimore; Atlanta; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Washington, D.C.; Newark, N.J.; and New York City. Researchers presented their findings March 8 at the 19th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held in Seattle. Specifically, the team found that among 2,099 women ages 18 to 44, 88 percent of whom were black, 1.5 percent (32 women) tested positive at the outset of the study and were not enrolled, while among those who remained, 0.24 percent tested positive for HIV within a year after joining the study. All study participants were HIV-negative, including more than 200 from Baltimore, when they volunteered for the study. Experts say that this rate of infection, or seroconversion, is five times that of previous estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for urban AfricanAmerican women. “This study clearly shows that the HIV epidemic is not over, especially in urban

areas of the United States, like Baltimore, where HIV and poverty are more common, and sexually active African-American men and women are especially susceptible to infection,” said the principal investigator for the Baltimore portion of the study, Charles Flexner, a clinical pharmacologist and infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins. “We, as care providers and policymakers, have our job cut out for us in devising HIV prevention programs targeted to sexually active men and women in Baltimore and other cities,” said Flexner, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prevention tactics, he says, should include more counseling about sexually transmitted infections, distribution of condoms and intensive education about safer sex practices. In Baltimore, the study, which was conducted from May 2009 to July 2010, asked participating women about their safe sex prac-

tices and other health issues, then asked them to come to The Johns Hopkins Hospital for HIV testing at no cost. Those who tested positive were offered counseling and treatment. “While we have always known that African-Americans had a higher risk of HIV infection than other American racial groups, this study confirms it and underscores the severity of the national and local problem, especially in cities,” Flexner said. In the United States, more than 1 million men and women are already known to have tested positive for HIV, and Flexner says that women of all races account for a quarter of the 50,000 new infections each year. Sixty-six percent of those women each year are black, even though African-American women represent only 14 percent of the U.S. female population. The national age-adjusted death rate for black women in the United States is nearly 15 times higher than that observed for HIV-infected white women. The new study, formally known as HPTN

064 Women’s Seroincidence Study, was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The study site leader was co-investigator Anne Rompalo, an infectious disease specialist and professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Related websites Charles Flexner: www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ pharmacology_molecular_ sciences/faculty/bios/flexner.html Anne Rompalo:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ Medicine/std/team/rompalo.html HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN):

www.hptn.org

Team of scientists announces ‘birth’ of a baby crystal By Lisa De Nike

Homewood

team of scientists has determined the size of the smallest, cubic, lead sulfide cluster that exhibits the same crystal structure as bulk lead sulfide (rock salt). Determining the size of nanoscale and subnanoscale assemblies of atoms or molecules at which they first take on recognizable properties of the same substance in the macroscopic world is an important goal in nanoscience. Working together, experimental and computational scientists at The Johns Hopkins University and McNeese State University in Louisiana have determined that for lead sulfide, the smallest nanocrystal (cluster) with the same structural (coordination) properties as

the bulk occurs when 32 units of lead sulfide, PbS, molecules assemble together. Their results were published in the Journal of Chemical Physics and The Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. After their calculations made this prediction, the scientists tested it by gently depositing size-selected (PbS)32 clusters onto a graphite surface, where they could easily migrate and merge together to form larger nanoscale structures. “By using scanning tunneling microscope images to measure the dimensions of the resultant lead sulfide nanoblocks, we confirmed that (PbS)32 baby crystals had indeed stacked together as predicted by theory,” said Kit Bowen Jr., the E. Emmet Reid Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins, who worked with his colleague Howard Fairbrother on the project.

Conceptually, these results shed light on how solids are formed. Technologically, these clusters are perhaps the smallest lead sulfide quantum dots, species that may have applications as photovoltaics. The work was supported by a Department of Energy grant.

Related websites ‘The Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology’:

www.vjnano.org Kit Bowen: chemistry.jhu.edu/bowen/ biography.html

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APL team developing solar probe for closest-ever flights past sun By Michael Buckley

Applied Physics Laboratory

JHUAPL

wo-thousand-degree temperatures, supersonic solar particles, intense radiation—all of these await NASA’s Solar Probe Plus during an unprecedented closeup study of the sun. The team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory— which has been developing the spacecraft for this extreme environment—has been given the nod from NASA to continue design work on the probe, building on the concepts it created during an initial design effort. In NASA mission parlance, the team has moved from Design Phase A to Phase B. “Solar Probe Plus is an extraordinary mission of exploration, discovery and deep understanding,” said Lika Guhathakurta, the Living with a Star program scientist at NASA headquarters. “We cannot wait to get started with the next phase of development.” After launch, slated for 2018, Solar Probe Plus will orbit the sun 24 times, gradually moving in toward the sun with each pass. The small car–sized spacecraft will zip through the sun’s atmosphere as close as 4 million miles from our star’s surface, exploring a region—and facing conditions—that no other spacecraft has ever encountered. The probe will include five science investigations specifically designed to solve two key questions of solar physics: Why is the sun’s outer atmosphere so much hotter than the sun’s visible surface, and What accelerates

In an artist’s rendering, Solar Probe Plus, with its solar panels folded into the shadows of its protective shield, gathers data on its approach to the sun.

the solar wind that affects Earth and our solar system? As the spacecraft approaches the sun, its revolutionary carbon-carbon composite heat shield and other components must withstand temperatures exceeding 2,550 degrees Fahrenheit and impacts from hypervelocity dust particles. Its science instruments will survey the most abundant particles in the solar wind—electrons, protons and helium ions—and measure their properties; image

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how the corona is heated and how the solar wind is accelerated. Solar Probe Plus will revolutionize our knowledge of the physics of the origin and evolution of the solar wind.” The APL team will continue testing and development of the heat shield and other tricky aspects of spacecraft design. For example, engineers will build and test a flightlike active cooling system designed to keep the solar arrays at safe operating temperature throughout the orbit. Most spacecraft parts will be subjected to high-velocity dust tests that simulate the pelting they’ll face flying through swarms of high-energy particles near the sun. Andrew Driesman, Solar Probe Plus project manager at APL, said, “Solar Probe Plus presents technical challenges like no mission before it. Over the next 26 months, our goal is to get these technologies to the point where we have full-scale prototypes that we can test in a realistic environment.” Solar Probe Plus is part of NASA’s Living with a Star program, designed to understand aspects of the sun and of Earth’s space environment that affect life and society. The program is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, with oversight from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s Heliophysics Division. Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory manages a mission team that includes the University of California, Berkeley; Southwest Research Institute; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; and Naval Research Laboratory. APL will also build and operate the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft. For more on the mission, go to solarprobe .jhuapl.edu.

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Colin Waugh will discuss his new book, Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa’s Lone Star State. Sponsored by the SAIS African Studies Program. For information, call 202-6635676 or email itolber1@jhu.edu. 736 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS S E M I N AR S Mon., March 12, 9 a.m. “Universal Grammar Protects Initial Syllables,” a Cognitive Science faculty search seminar with Michael Becker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (A Q&A session will take place at 5 p.m. in 111 Krieger.) 111 Krieger. HW Mon., March 12, 10 a.m. “Alco-

hol Outlets and Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Exposure in Children and Young Adults,” a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Adam Milam. 188 Hampton House. EB

“Recent Specialization of the Mammalian X Chromosome,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Jacob Mueller, Whitehead Institute. W1020 SPH. EB Mon., March 12, noon.

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

“Latinos in Maryland: Multiple Prevention Challenges,” a Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions seminar with Olivia Carter-Pokras, University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management. B14B Hampton House. EB Mon., March 12, 12:15 p.m.

“Bundles and Buds: New Views of mRNP Structure and Nucleocytoplasmic Export,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Melissa Moore, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Medicaid: Safety Net Under Stress,” a Health Policy and Management faculty candidate seminar with Sheila Burke of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC. B14B Hampton House. EB Mon., March 12, 12:15 p.m.

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

“Global Justice and Food,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Madison Powers, Georgetown University. W3008 SPH. EB Mon., March 12, 1:30 p.m.

“Neural Engineering Investigation of Deep Brain Stimulation,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Cameron McIntyre, Cleveland Clinic. 110 Clark. HW . (Videoconferenced to 709 Traylor. EB ) “The Role of FLT3-ITD Mutations in Leukemogenesis and Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Resistance,” a Cellular and Molecular Medicine Graduate Program thesis defense seminar with Haihua Chu. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB Mon., March 12, 3 p.m.

Mon., March 12, 4 p.m.

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cial David Bodian Seminar— “Computational Symmetry” with Yanxi Liu, Penn State University. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/ Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Tues., March 13, 10:45 a.m.

“Cybersecurity: How Did We Get Here and How Do We Get Out of Here?” a Computer Science seminar with Carl Landwehr, University of Maryland. B17 Hackerman. HW Tues., March 13, noon. “Revolution and the New York Yiddish Intellectuals: The In Zikh Symposium of 1934,” a Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies seminar with Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW Tues., March 13, noon. “Measuring and Using Speech Production Information,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Shri Narayanan, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. B17 Hackerman. HW

“Protein Folding on the Ribosome: Pulling on Single Nascent Chains With Optical Tweezers,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Christian Kaiser, University of California, Berkeley. 701 WBSB. EB “Mechanistic Insights of Arginine Methylation at the Histone Trail,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Yujun George Zheng, Georgia State University. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Wed., March 14, 4 p.m.

“Prognostic vs. Predictive Performances: Biomarker Associated Design Issues in Pharmacogenomics Confirmatory Trials,” a Biostatistics seminar with Sue-Jane Wang, USFDA. W2030 SPH. EB

Wed., March 14, 4 p.m.

“To Return or Not Return: An Analysis of Donation Behavior Among Blood Donors in Five Blood Centers in China,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Nan Guo. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 15, 9 a.m.

Tues., March 13, noon.

“Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder,” a Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences seminar with John Gunderson, Harvard University School of Medicine. Hurd Hall. EB

Thurs., March 15, 10 a.m.

Tues., March 13, 1 p.m. “Smok-

Thurs., March 15, 10:45 a.m.

ing, Secondhand Smoke Exposure, Indoor Air Pollution and Risk for Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Case-Control Study in Vellore, India,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Sara Mirza. W2033 SPH. EB The M. Gordon Wolman Seminar— “Policy Analysis With an Economic Agent-Based Model of Land and Housing Markets on the Urban Fringe” with Margaret Walls, Resources for the Future. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering. 234 Ames. HW

Tues., March 13, 3 p.m.

Tues., March 13, 4:15 p.m.

“Accuracy, Coherence and Evidence,” a Philosophy seminar with Branden Fitelson, Rutgers University. 288 Gilman. HW “The Story of the Orthopedic Trauma Caregiver,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Anna Bradford. 339 Hampton House. EB

Wed., March 14, 10 a.m.

The Mental Health Noon Seminar— “Developing Treatments for Individuals on the Threshold of Adulthood” with Maryann Davis, University of Massachusetts Medical School. B14B Hampton House.

Wed., March 14, 12:15 p.m.

“Economic Evaluation of a Cancer Screening Patient Navigation Trial Among African-Americans in Baltimore City,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Nkemdiri Iruka. 901 Hampton House. EB

Wed., March 14, 1 p.m.

Wed., March 14, 1:30 p.m.

“The Importance of Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons With Dementia,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Lindsay Schwartz. 461 Hampton House. EB “Toward Scalable User-Agnostic Attack Defense,” a Computer Science seminar with Zhichun “ZC” Li, NEC Research Labs. B17 Hackerman. HW

tural Variants: Implications for Human Genetics and Disease,” a Human Genetics Graduate Program thesis defense seminar with Cheng Ran “Lisa” Huang. Sponsored by the Institute of Genetic Medicine. G-007 Ross. EB “Mast Cell-Mediated Modulation of the Electrical Excitability of Autonomic and Sensory Nerves in the Airways,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Letitia Weigand. W7023 SPH. EB

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“Resilience Across Length Scales in the Attachment of Tendon to Bone,” a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Guy Genin, Washington University at St. Louis. 210 Hodson. HW Fri., March 16, 11 a.m. “Wave Turbulence: A Story Far From Over,” a CEAFM seminar with Alan Newell, University of Arizona. 50 Gilman. HW

Thurs., March 15, 1:30 p.m.

“Measure Matching Using Metamorphosis,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Casey Richardson, WSE. 304 Whitehead. HW “Retrotransposons Are Major Struc-

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Thurs., March 15, 8 p.m. The 2012 Foreign Affairs Symposium—The Paradox of Progress: Chasing Advancement Amidst Global Crisis—presents author and political commentator David Frum. Shriver Hall. HW

“The Effect of Oophorectomy, a Cancer Prevention Strategy, on Adiposity, Bone Health and Mortality,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Anne Marie McCarthy. W2030 SPH. EB

Fri., March 16, 1:30 p.m.

Mon., March 19, 12:15 p.m.

“Dissecting the Circuits That Link Sensation to Action in the Drosophila Visual System,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Tom Clandinin, Stanford University. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Fri., March 16, 1 p.m. “PlioPleistocene Footprints and the Evolution of Human Bipedalism,” a Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution seminar with Brian Richmond, George Washington University. Suite 2-300, 1830 Bldg. EB

The Bromery Seminar—“The Use of Satellite Remote Sensing in Food Security Analysis: Integrating Earth Observations Into Economic Models” with Molly Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW

Thurs., March 15, 1 p.m.

Mon., March 26, 1:30 p.m.

“Toward Bioengineered Control of Cell Fate Post-Transplantation,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Jeffrey Karp, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 709 Traylor. EB . (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW )

Wed., March 14, 10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. JHMI Career Informa-

“Why Poor People Move (and Where They Go): Residental Mobility, Selection and Stratification,” a Sociology brown bag seminar with Stefanie Deluca and Peter Rosenblatt, both of KSAS. 526 Mergenthaler. HW

Fri., March 16, 2 p.m. “Characterization of Murine Carotid Body Function in vivo: Strain Differences and Pharmacological Manipulations,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Luis Pichard. W7023 SPH.

Thurs., March 15, noon. “Genome-wide Profiling of Translation Initiation and Protein Synthesis,” a Cell Biology seminar with Nicholas Ingolia, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Mon., March 26, 12:15 p.m.

“Ctenophores: New Insights From an Ancient Lineage,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with William Browne, University of Miami. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Fri., March 16, noon.

Thurs., March 15, noon. “Trial by Fire and Starvation: How P. falciparum Survives in Its Host,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Daniel Goldberg, Washington University School of Medicine. W1020 SPH. EB Thurs., March 15, noon.

Mon., March 26, 11:30 a.m.

“Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged,” a Sociology brown bag seminar with Dean Katherine Newman and Rourke O’Brien, Princeton University. 526 Mergenthaler. HW

tion Fair, a chance to learn about the variety of careers in science, with exhibitors in the morning and panel discussions beginning at 11:30 a.m. Participants should dress professionally and bring several copies of their resumes. Turner Concourse. EB

Thurs., March 22, noon to 1:30 p.m. The Black Faculty and

Staff Association’s annual Men’s Forum and Luncheon, featuring a talk, “Effective Leadership for the African-American Male: Workplace and Community” by the Rev. Grady Yeargin Jr. Tickets are $15 ($5 for current BFSA members and JHU students). To register (by March 16), go to http:// bfsa.jhu.edu, click on “Events” and then “Men’s Forum.” Clipper Room, Shriver Hall. HW

“Signaling Pathways That Mediate Skeletal Muscle Atrophy and Hypertrophy,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with David Glass, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., March 19, 12:15 p.m.

“Health Care Reform: Translational Research Priorities for the Next Decade,” a Health Policy and Management faculty candidate seminar with Kavita Patel, Brookings Institution. B14B Hampton House. EB “New Insights in Plasmodium vivax Biology,” a special malaria seminar with Laurent Renia, Singapore Immunology Network/Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Sponsored by Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 22, noon.

Thurs., March 22, 1 p.m. “Pharmacogenetic and Optogenetic Deconstruction of Hypothalamic Circuits for Hunger,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Scott Sternson, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

SYMPOSIA Tues., March 13, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Genetic Resources Core

Facility Symposium featuring exhibits from the GRCF and 19 leading life science companies, as well as seminars on various topics and a keynote address, “Increased Accuracy and Utility of WholeGenome Sequencing Analysis for Biomedical Interpretations” by Elliott Margulies of Illumina Inc. For more information, view the GRCF Symposium Guide at http://grcf.jhmi.edu. Sponsored by the Institute of Genetic Medicine and the Genetic Resources Core Facility. Turner Concourse. EB Wed., March 21, 10 a.m. to noon. Joint mini-symposium

with multiple speakers. Sponsored by the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence and the Physical Sciences–Oncology Center. B17 Hackerman. HW Wed., March 21, 1:15 to 4 p.m. The Future of Child Health,

a Population, Family and Reproductive Health symposium on the occasion of the installation of Xiaobin Wang as the Zanvyl Krieger Professor of Children’s Health. W1214 SPH. EB

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Office of Human Resources Wyman Park Building, Suite W600 410-516-7196 Advanced Academic Programs within the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is in search of an educator with online teaching experience and a strategic mindset to serve as the director of the Instructional Resources Center. For a detailed job description and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. Director of IRC

The systems network administrator is part of a small team responsible for providing IT support for various groups within select academic departments on the Homewood campus. The team manages core server infrastructure, multiterabyte database servers, multimillionhit-per-month Web services, HPC clusters and end-user workstations on a combination of platforms (five operating systems on six architectures). For a detailed job description and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. 49287

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School of Medicine Office of Human Resources 98 N. Broadway, Suite 300 410-955-2990 The Department of Emergency Medicine is seeking experienced applicants for a research service manager position. This person will perform high-level financial analysis while reporting and managing the financial activity of sponsored projects, consisting of federal, state and private grants and contracts, which make up revenue in excess of $22 million. He or she also will be responsible for the oversight of financial and administrative staff functions of the department, including sponsored fiscal budget management, and will directly supervise staff within the office; oversee payroll coordination and financial work of support staff involved with SAP transactions; and be responsible for the management of all human resources requirements for all university employees hired on sponsored funds, for CEPAR and for the Division of Special Operations. For a detailed job description and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. 51341

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politically charged period in American history—the Salem witch trials of the 1690s—is set to music in The Crucible, Robert Ward’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera, to be presented this week by the Peabody Opera Theatre. The stage director and designer is Roger Brunyate, director of Opera Programs at the Peabody Conservatory. Faculty member JoAnn Kulesza will conduct the Peabody Concert Orchestra. Like the 1952 Arthur Miller play on which it is based, the opera is an allegory for another politically charged period: the so-called Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, when fear of communism was fanned by public accusations of disloyalty by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, among others. Commissioned by the New York City Opera, The Crucible premiered in 1961, several years after McCarthy’s rise and fall. “The audience will get everything they get in Miller’s play, and they will get the additional power of the music to intensify the drama,” said Brunyate, who directed professional productions of the opera in Chicago and Kansas City in the 1980s. “Robert Ward doesn’t put two singers on the stage without getting them into a quarrel or an emotional clash.” Particularly compelling are scenes

between John Proctor and his wife, Elizabeth, and between Proctor and Abigail Williams, the teenage girl who accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft (and whose affair with Proctor complicates his ability to clear Elizabeth and himself). Proctor and others are taken to be hanged at the opera’s conclusion. Ward, who retired from Duke University in 1987 and is now 94, will not attend the performance but was able to coach the performers last month by video conference. His lushly orchestrated music, requiring strong singers, is in neo-romantic style with modernist touches. The Act 1 ensemble number, “Jesus my consolation,” for example, recalls a traditional hymn even as it is sung at a brisk tempo in 7/8 time. Though the drama takes place in the 17th century in a small and—literally— puritanical community, and the McCarthy era has faded from public consciousness, Brunyate believes that the opera retains its power. “Its themes are religion, sexuality, one’s place in the world, responsibility, political integrity, the discovery of one’s ability to manipulate others,” he said. He also draws a parallel with our own era, citing the Patriot Act and the “culture of plea bargains.” While Brunyate will continue to teach and direct at Peabody, The Crucible will be his last main stage production as director of Opera Programs at the Conservatory, where he has taught since 1980. Performances of The Crucible will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, March 14 to 17, in Peabody’s Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. Tickets are $25, $15 for seniors and $10 for students with ID. For tickets, call the Peabody box office at 410234-4800.

Palmisano Continued from page 1 and then president of the American Red Cross; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Brian Billick, then head coach of the Baltimore Ravens; Sen. John McCain; Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House at the time; and others from the worlds of politics, sports, media and entertainment. Palmisano grew up in Baltimore and attended Calvert Hall College High School. At Johns Hopkins, he studied history and played on the offensive line for the Blue Jays football team that he co-captained. He began his career at IBM in 1973 in Baltimore and took on a series of leadership positions before rising to president and chief operating officer in 2000, CEO in 2002 and chairman of the board in 2003. He holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an honorary fellowship from the London Business School. He received the Atlantic Council’s Distinguished Business Leadership Award in 2009 and the inaugural Deming Cup, presented in 2010 by Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness. He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Palmisano returned to his alma mater in February 2011 to launch the IBM Centennial Lectures, a yearlong series celebrating the company’s 100th anniversary and focusing on leadership and driving progress in an integrated and increasingly techno-

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logically enabled world. To hear the lecture, go to gazette.jhu.edu/2011/02/07/ceo-ofibm-kicks-off-yearlong-lecture-series-athis-alma-mater. Palmisano recently sat down with President Daniels for the spring edition of Johns Hopkins Magazine to talk about higher education, innovation and U.S. global competitiveness. To read the interview or listen to their conversation, go to magazine.jhu.edu/ colloquy. In an effort to promote a more unified Johns Hopkins family, the university in 2010 fused the universitywide commencement ceremony with the Homewood undergraduate diploma ceremony for one grand graduation observance. The result is a single ceremony, at which Palmisano will speak, for graduates from all divisions and campuses. More information on this year’s commencement ceremony, including a full list of speakers for all university divisional ceremonies, will be posted as it becomes available at www.jhu.edu/commencement. G

March 12, 2012 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Baltimore County, 3BR EOG TH in quiet neighborhood, CAC, partly fin’d bsmt, W/D, lg fenced yd, side deck, patio, rear prkng pad, conv access to 95/695, JHMI and downtown, avail June 1. $1,200/mo. 410236-3596 or dwight_pinkney@jbhunt.com. Brewers Hill, 2BR, 2.5BA rehab, gourmet kitchen, fin’d bsmt, deck, no pets. $1,850/ mo. 410-303-1214 or hudsonstreetrental@ hotmail.com. Canton, short-term sublet of fully furn’d 1BR, 1BA house in Canton, prkng space incl’d, avail now to mid-June, ideal for visiting fellow/student. $800/mo + utils. jenny61@aol.com. Charles Village, all new 2- to 3BR apt w/2BAs, 1,600 sq ft, laundry, prkng, 5-min walk to campus. $2,000/mo. 410-383-2876 or atoll4u@gmail.com. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/ full kitchen; call for wkly/wknd rentals. 410638-9417 or jzpics@yahoo.com (for pics). Hampden, 1.5BR TH, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, mudrm, hdwd flrs, AC, W/D, front porch, yd, off-street prkng. $990/mo + utils. 410-366-2208 or renthampden@ gmail.com. Mt Vernon, spacious, fully furn’d and equipped 1BR apt avail for sublet April to August, conv location on Charles St w/ great view of Peabody and the Washington Monument,2 blks to shuttle stop. $900/mo. aarushibhatnagar@gmail.com. Mt Vernon, 2BR, 2BA apt w/new kitchen appliances, W/D, 24-hr front desk, great location, avail June 1. $1,470/mo incl heat and AC. shilpasplace@gmail.com. Ocean City (137th St), 3BR, 2BA condo, steps from beach, lg pool, 2 prkng spaces, short walk to restaurants and entertainment, call now for prime wks. 410-5442814. Patterson Park, 2BR, 2.5BA apt, perfect blend of old and new, nr hospital and shuttle. $1,800/mo. ecolib@verizon.net.

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mi (highway), in excel cond. $11,500/best offer. bmw530i2003@gmail.com.

to JHH or Homewood campus, 1-yr lease. $550/mo incl heat. Paula, 410-868-2815 or paulakowale@gmail.com. Sm 1BR apt, 3 blks to Homewood campus. $600/mo + elec. 443-956-2616 or silkroadxx@comcast.net.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.25BA RH, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, club bsmt, in a quiet neighborhood, 15 mins to JHH. $120,000. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@ juno.com. Renov’d 2BR, 2BA + den TH, new kitchen, BAs, windows, HVAC, plumbing, electric and rec rm; blks to JHH, LNYW grant dollars available for full-time Hopkins employees. 410-404-7072.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Nonsmoker wanted for 2BR in 2.5BR TH next to JHMI in East Baltimore, free priv prkng. Office230@hotmail.com. F nonsmoker bedspacer wanted to share contemporary condo in Washington Hill, adjacent to Church Professional Building, walk to JHH/shuttle. $450/mo + utils. 717739-8233 or retzcare@yahoo.com. Sunny rm in historic Lauraville, nr JHU/ JHH. $500/mo. Melissa, 443-844-4094. Fully furn’d, bright and spacious (700 sq ft) BR in 3BR house in Cedonia owned by young F prof’l, modern kitchen w/convection oven, vaulted ceilings, built-in shelving, walk-in closet, landscaped yd, lg deck, free prkng, public transportation to JHU, wireless Internet incl’d. $550/mo + utils. 410-493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com. Share 3BR home 10 mins from E Baltimore campus in Belair/Edison community, W/D. $600/mo incl utils, wireless Internet. 443226-6497 or expoblk@yahoo.com.

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

F wanted for 2BR, 2BA Mt Vernon apt in green bldg (Fitzgerald Apts), share w/F nurse, 3rd flr, faces garden, W/D in unit, workout facility for residents, pool, covered prkng, pets OK, must be clean, friendly, respectful. 512-638-2834 or ayla.landry@ gmail.com.

Rodgers Forge, 3BR, 2BA TH, CAC, W/D, free prkng, nr county schools, easy access to all JHU campuses. $1,600/mo. dickgeorge@ comcast.net.

F grad/postdoc wanted to share peaceful, furn’d 3BR, 2BA house, 7-min walk to Ellerslie-JHMI shuttle, short-term OK. $550/mo incl all utils, WiFi. skbzok@verizon.net.

Tuscany-Canterbury, 3BR, 2BA condo, nr JHU. $1,200/mo + utils. 443-838-3341 or theincredibleindia@att.net.

Lg BR and priv BA in 1,650 sq ft condo in private waterfront community, east side Baltimore County, 15 mins to JHH, plenty of safe prkng. nonstopchat@verizon.net.

Villages of Homeland, 1BR apt in gated community, CAC, lg closets, pool, exercise rm. $825/mo incl heat, water. 410-532-9492 or 83slinwood@gmail.com.

’04 Landrover Discovery SE7, silver w/black leather interior, in great condition, 109K mi, transferable extended warranty. $9,500. 410-446-1252.

Beautiful, unfurn’d 1BR apt across from park, 2nd flr of TH, priv entry, 10-min drive

’03 BMW 530i, silver w/gray leather, automatic, custom wheels, tinted windows, 61K

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’98 Toyota Avalon, automatic, gold, new battery, clean record, 80.35K mi. $5,200. 217-721-8187 or buysunshinetoday@gmail .com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

German shrunk, black, seven pieces. $1,000/best offer. 240-319-1234 or 410396-0616. Onkyo 7.1 channel home theater receiver, TX-SR705, like new. $200/best offer. 410446-0647.

Raise your income, join fast-growing Lia Sophia team, $50 per hr average. 410828-4743 or www.liasophia.com/regional/ butterfly-stories (for more info). Editing of biomedical journal articles offered by PhD biomedical scientist and certified editor in the life sciences. 443-600-2264 or michellejones@jonesbiomediting.com. Internships avail w/local software startup, experience w/Java, Netbeans, MySQL, send resume. ardenn@novocatalysis.com. Masterpiece Landscaping, knowledgeable, exp’d individual, provides on-site consultation, transplanting, bed prep, installation, sm tree and shrub shaping, licensed. Terry, 410-652-3446.

Oil-filled heaters (3), 1 inkjet printer, portable canvas chair, keyboard case, sand beach chairs (2), 100W amplifier. 410-4555858 or iricse.its@verizon.net.

Pet consultant service offering dog obedience training. 410-710-9191 or www .gilbertspetconsulting.webs.com.

Dyson vacuum cleaner, top of the line, like new. $250. 410-733-3142 or vini.meyers@ gmail.com. Kenmore top-freezer refrigerator, white, 18.2 cu ft, in great cond, $300; Gold’s Gym Stridetrainer 380 elliptical trainer, excel cond, $190; 10,000 BTU window air conditioner w/timer, elec thermostat, remote, in good cond, $150. 301-814-4892. Dell Inspiron 8100 and 8200 w/dock stations, $100 and $120; Toshiba Satellite L25, $80; eMachine 330 w/monitor, $50; HP ScanJet 4570c scanner, $35; 13" and 21" Sony TVs w/HDTV antenna and digital converters, $50 and $100; Panasonic fax/ phone w/DAS, $35; NuWave oven, $50; bread maker, $30; rice cooker, $25. 410812-9267 or azhelon@gmail.com. 32GB iPod touch, 3rd generation, new in box. $200/best offer. 443-682-1262 or stmedicalbooks@gmail.com. Lightly used, well-priced, quality furniture sold by professor, beds, desks, table and chairs, TV, club chair, rugs. 212-960-8003 or shapi28@gmail.com. Olympic pins from Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996, 10 different pins from each Olympics or mix. $20. 443-517-9029 or rgpinman@aol.com.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

St Patrick’s Day luncheon, bingo and bake sale, 10:30am-2pm on Friday, March 16, at 37th and Roland Ave (nr Hampden/Homewood). 410-366-4488. Stata wiz? Doctoral student seeks help w/ statistical analysis using Stata, will pay. 410319-9665 or lori.edwards423@gmail.com.

Licensed landscaper avail for spring/summer lawn maintenance, mulching, yard cleanup, other services incl’d leaf/snow removal, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast .net. Affordable and professional landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com. Can your writing use a good editor? Highly experienced copy editor can help, student/ prof’l work welcome, reasonable rates. Michael, 410-802-6111 or maaron1201@ gmail.com. Certified personal and career coach committed to helping young professionals achieve their potential. 410-375-4042 or www.thinkpowerfullynow.com. Tutor available: all subjects/levels; remedial, gifted; help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading. 410-337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@ hotmail.com. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, great bands, no partners necessary. 410-663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing.com. Hauling/junk removal, next-day pick up, free phone estimate, 15% discount all Hopkins. 410-419-3902. Can move single piece or full house, 30' enclosed box truck, local/long distance, flat rate. John, 443-858-7264. Child care wanted nr Roland Park and JHU, afterschool, activity/school pickup, lt homework assistance, snack prep, must have dependable, safe vehicle, refs req’d. Mon-Fri afternoons, 3 hrs per day, 5 days per wk. st091695@att.net.

PLACING ADS Classified listings are a free service for current, full-time Hopkins faculty, staff and students only. Ads should adhere to these general guidelines:

• One ad per person per week. A new request must be submitted for each issue. HICKORY HEIGHTS WYMAN COURT • Ads are limited to 20 words, Just Renovated! A lovely hilltop setting including phone, fax and e-mail. on Hickory Avenue Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

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

“Move Forward Now”: Life coach, practical, compassionate motivation to help you reach your life and career goals. 410-4564747 or dangalley@verizon.net.

Singer sewing machines (2) in cabinets, in working order, $100/ea; Fender acoustic guitar, $150; corner oak entertainment center, $350/best offer. Chris, 443-326-7717.

CARS FOR SALE

1BR apt w/garage across the street from Homewood campus, available April 1, short-term rent (3 months) available. 917822-5065.

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Calendar COLLOQUIA Mon., March 12, 4 p.m. “The Physics and Metaphysics of Talismans (Imagines Astronomicae) in Marsilio Ficino’s De vita libri tres,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with H. Darrel Rutkin, Stanford University. Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center. 388 Gilman. HW Tues., March 13, 4:15 p.m.

“Excited State Dynamics at a Carbon-Carbon Double Bond: Molecular Interrogations via ab initio Stimulation and TimeResolved Photoelectron Spectro scopy,” a Chemistry colloquium with Michael Schuurman, NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., March 14, 3:30 p.m.

“Variations in the Sun and Climate,” an STScI colloquium with Brian Siana, University of California, Riverside. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Thurs.,

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“ ‘Urgent Anthropology’: E. Richard Sorenson and the National Anthropological Film Center, 1965–80,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Adrianna Link, KSAS. 300 Gilman. HW “What Should We Do About Iran?” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Barbara Slavin, Atlantic Council. Parsons Auditorium.

Fri., March 16, 2 p.m.

APL Tues., March 20, 4:15 p.m.

“Computational Insights Into Functioning of Proteases and Design of Their Synthetic Analogs,” a Chemistry colloquium with Rajeev Prabhakar, University of Miami. 233 Remsen. HW “Constraints on the Ionizing Escape Fraction From Deep HST and Keck Observations: Toward Understanding How Early Galaxies Reionized the Universe,” an STScI colloquium with Mike Barlow, University College London. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW

Wed., March 21, 3:30 p.m.

Fri., March 23, 2 p.m. “Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons From Iraq and Afghanistan,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with John Nagl, Center for a New American Security. Parsons Auditorium. APL

DISCUSSION/ TALKS Mon., March 12, noon. “Domes-

tic Politics and Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations: A Perspective of Taiwan,” a SAIS China Studies Program discussion with Kwei-Bo Huang, Chengchi University, Taiwan. For information, email zji@ jhu.edu. 812 Rome Bldg. SAIS

Mon., March 12, 12:30 p.m.

“Tracking Development: African Power and Politics,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with David Henley, University

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Peabody Institute

he Lunar Ensemble, a contemporary chamber group conducted by Peabody Conservatory alumna Gemma New and featuring Peabody musicians, will premiere five works during its performance at Baltimore’s An die Musik at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13. “It’s a real treat to be performing brand-new works by composers whom the Lunar Ensemble knows well and admires,” said the New Zealand–born New, who is assistant conductor of the New Conductor Gemma New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. “Each piece on the program brings us a view of the present day, portrayed through the unique sound world of each composer. We are especially thrilled that most of these composers are affiliated with the Peabody Institute.” On the program are five works by Peabody-affiliated composers, one by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Harbison and one by Los Angeles–based composer Michael Kibbe. Number Forty-Seven, by Paul Mathews, associate dean for academic affairs and a Music Theory faculty member at Peabody, refers to the 47th poem from Pierrot lunaire, one of the 29 that Arnold Schoenberg did not set. David Smooke, who chairs the school’s Music Theory Department, wrote Hazmats for the California E.A.R. Unite to perform at Arcosanti in the high Arizona desert. Singapore native Emily Koh, who earned her master of music degree in composition at Peabody, named her piece, frigia, after the ultra-modern ice kingdom in the Flash Gordon comic series. The Indian-influenced piece The Soul, Like the Moon, by Jake Runestad, another Peabody master of music graduate, was inspired by the 14th-century Sufi poet Lalla. Alumnus Michael Sheppard, who studied piano with Leon Fleisher and Ann Schein, will perform his own composition, Mad World Fantasy. Kibbe’s Death in the Backyard is a setting of a poem by Roger Anderson, his late brother-in-law. The work by Harbison, a student of noted composers Walter Piston and Roger Sessions, is The Mirabai Songs. These settings of poems to Krishna by 16th-century Indian poet Mirabai will be performed by soprano Lisa Perry, who received her master of music degree from Peabody in 2011, and pianist John Wilson, a current master of music candidate. The members of the Lunar Ensemble, in addition to New, Perry, Sheppard and Wilson, are clarinetist Jennifer Hughson, cellist Peter Kibbe, flutist Stephanie Ray, violinist Martiros Shakzhadyan and percussionist Terry Sweeney, all current Peabody students. Tickets to the concert are $10, $5 for students. To purchase tickets, go to www.instantseats.com or call 410-385-2638. An die Musik is located at 409 N. Charles St.

“The Culture War Over Food and Farming: Who Is Winning?” a SAIS Development and Alumni Relations discussion with Robert Paarlberg, Wellesley College, and author of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know. A “Year of Agriculture” event. For information or to RSVP, call 202-663-5641 or email saisag@jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Thurs., March 15, noon.

Fri., March 16, 2 p.m. “The Political Economy of American Hegemony,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Thomas Oatley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Jana Grittersova (moderator), University of California, Riverside and SAIS. For more information and to RSVP, go to www.eventbrite.com/event/ 3057108895/mcivte. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS

ture—“Targeted Therapy of Cancer: A Paradigm for Translational Research” by Jeffrey Drebin, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Sponsored by Surgery. Tilghman Auditorium. EB Thurs., March 15, 3:30 p.m.

The Dean’s Research Integrity Lecture—“Research Integrity, the Importance of Collaborative Research” by M. Christine Zink, SoM. Sponsored by Research Integrity, Office of Policy Coordination. Hurd Hall. EB Thurs., March 15, 3:30 p.m.

The Corrsin Memorial Lecture in Fluid Mechanics—“Statistical Geometry of Velocity Gradients in Fluid Turbulence: Observations and Models” by Charles Meneveau, WSE. Sponsored by Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Mason Hall. HW “No Nonsense: Viewing Inscriptions in the Ancient Greek Symposium,” a Classics lecture by Alexandra Pappas, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. 108 Gilman. HW

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Wed., March 21, noon. “The State Health Improvement Process: How Local Coalitions Are Achieving Health Care Reform’s Triple Aims,” Public Health Practice grand rounds with Madeleine Shea, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and Barbara Brookmyer, health officer, Frederick County, Md. Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. (A live webcast will be available at www.jhsph.edu/ maphtc.) E2014 SPH. EB

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Master of Science in Biotechnology. RSVP to www .biotechnology.jhu.edu. Tues., March 20, 7 p.m.

A joint MS/MBA Master’s in Biotechnology Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. Go to http://biotechnology.jhu.edu/ graduate-education/m-inbee/index.htm to register.

Mon., March 19, noon. School of Nursing Dean’s Lecture— “Mixed Methods Research: State of the Art and Future Directions” by John Creswell, University of Nebraska, and Joe Gallo, SPH. (See In Brief, p. 2.) 305 Pinkard Bldg. EB Mon., March 26, 4 p.m. The Dean’s Lecture III—“360 Evaluations: Are We Just Going Around and Around?” by Pamela Lipsett, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB

MUSIC Wed., March 14, through Sat., March 17, 7:30 p.m. Peabody

Opera Theatre and the Peabody Concert Orchestra present Robert Ward’s The Crucible. (See story, p. 10.) $25 general admission, $15 senior citizens and $10 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sun., March 18, 5:30 p.m.

The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents pianist Richard Goode. $38 general admission, $19 for non-JHU students; free for JHU students. Shriver Auditorium. HW

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

of Leiden, the Netherlands; and David Booth, Overseas Development Institute. For information, call 202-663-5676 or email itolber1@jhu.edu. 500 BernsteinOffit Bldg. SAIS “The PLA Navy: Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles,” a SAIS China Studies Program panel discussion with Daniel Hartnett, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission; Peter Swartz, Center of Naval Analyses; and Christopher Yung, National Defense University. For information, call 202-663-5816 or email zji@jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Mon., March 12, 5 p.m.

Tues., March 13, 12:30 p.m.

“The Changing Landscape of U.S. Trade,” a SAIS American

Foreign Policy Program discussion with Francisco Sanchez, U.S. undersecretary of commerce for international trade. Co-sponsored by the International Trade Club. For information, call 803-622-1127 or email meredithdukes@gmail.com. RSVP to http://bit.ly/yAcJ1U. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS “Russia and Europe After the Presidential Elections,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Fiona Hill, Brookings Institution. Co-sponsored by the Washington Foundation for European Studies, the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and the American Consortium on EU Studies. For information, call 202-663-5796 or email ntobin@ jhu.edu. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS Tues., March 13, 5 p.m.

L E C T URE S The 2012 Kempf Lectures , by Tobias Colding, MIT. Sponsored by Mathematics. HW

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Tues., March 13, 4:30 p.m.

“Ricci Curvature.” 302 Krieger.

Tues., March 13, noon. The Sam-

uel Novey Lecture in Psychological Medicine—“Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder” by John Gunderson, Harvard University School of Medicine. Sponsored by Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Hurd Hall. EB

Thurs., March 15, 7:30 a.m.

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Mon., March 12, 4:30 p.m.

“Mean Curvature Flow.” 308 Krieger.

March

Author/historian Jehanne Wake will discuss and sign copies of her book, Sisters of Fortune. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

(Events are free and Calendar open to the public Key except where indicated.) APL BRB CRB EB HW KSAS

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Krieger School of Arts and Sciences SAIS School of Advanced International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of Engineering