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Carol Greider honored for her groundbreaking work on telomeres By Greg Rienzi Audrey Huang

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he university’s 2009 United Way of Central Maryland campaign, which kicks off on Wednesday, will stress efficiency and maximize the dollars donated like never before, according to campaign leadership. Michael Klag, dean of the School of This year, Public Health and chair of the univerevery sity’s United Way campaign, said that dollar will in tough economic times, giving to charstretch itable social service organizations is more further important than ever. “In times like these, it’s especially tough for people on the bottom of the economic ladder,” Klag said. “The need is much greater, and thus our contributions, whatever the amount, can have even more impact. United Way allows these community agencies—which often struggle to do fund raising on their own—to fulfill their missions that are essential to the health of the community.” Klag said that you don’t have to go too far from any Johns Hopkins campus to see areas of great need. “And the small community-based organizations that United Way supports help fill the niches that can’t be filled any other way, whether it’s providing meals for those going hungry or services for abused women,” he said. “United Way has developed an efficient way to take a few dollars and make our community better.” This year, every donated dollar will stretch even further. Due to economic conditions, the United Way of Central Maryland has cut operating costs and significantly reduced its designation fee to 5 percent—with a cap of $500 no matter the size of the gift. It previously charged 17.5 percent for paper-pledged designations and 12.5 percent for electronic designations to Continued on page 4

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arol Greider, a self-described early riser, was folding her laundry and preparing to go to a morning spinning class when she learned that she had just been named co-winner of a Nobel Prize—and had 45 minutes to get ready for the official announcement. Talk about a change in plans. “My heart just really started racing at that time,” said Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and director of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. Greider, 48, one of the world’s pioneering researchers on the structure of chromosome ends known as telomeres, was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday, Oct. 5. The academy recognized her for the 1984 discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that maintains the length and integrity of chromosome ends and is critical for the health and survival of all living cells and organisms.

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Hours after learning she’d won a Nobel Prize, Carol Greider is joined at a press conference by Chi Dang, Peter Agre and Ron Daniels.

She became the 33rd person associated with Johns Hopkins University to win a Nobel Prize and the 20th at the School of Medicine to receive the honor. Her excitement clearly had not worn off hours later at a press conference, held at the School of Medicine’s Tilghman Auditorium. Greider thanked the Nobel committee

and praised her “telomerase colleagues” at Johns Hopkins and around the world for making the award possible. “I think what has happened today is really a tribute to curiosity-driven basic science,” said Greider, who was joined at Continued on page 7

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Autism: Genomewide hunt reveals new genetic links By Audrey Huang

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bout 90 percent of autism spectrum disorders have suspected genetic causes, but few genes have been identified so far. Now, leading an international team, Johns Hopkins researchers have identified several genetic links to autism, chief among them a variant of semaphorin 5A, whose protein product controls nerve connections in the brain.

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Semaphorin 5A had already been known to help guide growing neurons to the right connecting points in the brain during fetal development. To verify that semaphorin 5A plays a role in autism, the researchers looked at brain tissue samples from the Autism Tissue Program and the Harvard Brain Bank and found the amount of the semaphorin 5A protein to be significantly reduced in autism brains compared to nonautism brains. The finding suggests that autism could result from differences in how nervous system connections are made in the brain.

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Publishing Oct. 7 in Nature, the team also reports additional evidence that many rare and common genetic variants contribute to autism. “The biggest challenge to finding the genes that contribute to autism is having a large and well-studied group of patients and their family members, both for primary discovery of genes and to test and verify the discovery candidates,” said Aravinda Chakravarti, professor of medicine, pediContinued on page 5

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resident Ronald J. Daniels; Andrew Feinberg, the King Fahd Professor of Molecular Medicine; Jane Guyer, professor of anthropology; and Barbara Landau, the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and chair of the Cognitive Science Department, were among those inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 10 at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. The 212 new fellows and 19 foreign honorary members are leaders in research, scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs. This year’s group includes Nobel laureates and recipients of the Pulitzer and Pritzker prizes; MacArthur Fellowships; Academy, Grammy and Tony awards; and the National Medal of Arts. Among those addressing the inductees were new members Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; ballet dancer and choreographer Edward Villella; and former Northrop Grumman Corp. Chairman Kent Kresa. The ceremony also included a reading from the letters of John and Abigail Adams by actor James Earl Jones and singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris.

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ason Rasgon, an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and

Immunology and the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, was named a 2009 Innovator of the Year by the Maryland Daily Record. Rasgon was recognized for his work identifying AgDNV, a previously unknown virus that infects Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, which are the primary carriers of human malaria. The discovery could one day be used to pass on new genetic information to A. gambiae as part of a strategy to control malaria, which globally kills more than 1 million people annually. Rasgon, along with 23 other area individuals and organizations, was selected by a panel of Maryland business and community leaders based on the originality, power, challenge and value of their innovation. Recipients will be honored on Wednesday, Oct. 14, during a reception hosted at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. The Innovator of the Year program recognizes Maryland individuals and organizations that demonstrate the spirit of innovation by creating products, services or programs that benefit business, industry or communities.

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he Johns Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus has opened a new joint Allergy-Otolaryngology Sinusitis Clinic. Led by Jean Kim, assistant professor of otolaryngology, and Peter Creticos, associate professor of clinical immunology, the clinic provides comprehensive care to patients who have a history of sinus disease, and allergies or asthma. “Many times, our patients suffer for years without relief. We want to identify the problem as soon as we can in order to start the most appropriate treatment,� Kim said. In most cases, patients are seen by a specialist, sent for testing and diagnosed all in the same day. The clinic offers a full range of services, from nasal endoscopy to allergy skin testing. Because chronic sinus problems often occur with other immune and respiratory disorders, Kim and Creticos also can refer patients to the appropriate specialists if needed.

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JHU brings virtual learning to Baltimore County schools By Kristi Marren

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oftware engineers at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, in collaboration with JHU’s Center for Technology in Education, have developed a prototype Virtual Learning Environment to provide Baltimore County students with a gaminglike experience to augment existing math and science curricula. The first of its kind in the nation, the VLE is located at Chesapeake High School in Essex, Md. It is deployed in a new facility modeled after a state-of-the-art 3-D visualization facility at APL, used for Department of Defense and NASA projects, called ARENA for Augmented Reality Environment at APL. Like the ARENA lab, the Virtual Learning facility at Chesapeake High School includes 10 high-definition 72-inch TV monitors arranged in two five-screen semicircles. Students will interface with what they see on screen using a custom-designed digital switch and touch-panel controller. Additionally, an adjoining classroom housing 30 workstations, each outfitted with three monitors, will run the same scenarios as the larger virtual facility so that lessons can be applied on an individual or team basis. The first 3-D virtual environment the students will experience is a geographically accurate terrain model of the area surrounding Mount St. Helens in Washington state.

Dave Peloff of JHU’s Center for Technology in Education, standing at left, and APL software engineers Jim Miller and Kevin Huber, seated at the controls of the Virtual Learning Environment, demonstrate the virtual tool’s capabilities to teachers, students and reporters during Baltimore County Public School Superintendent Joe Hairston’s annual address at Chesapeake High School in Essex, Md.

They’ll traverse the area in a “vehicle” that can morph from an aircraft to a car or boat, encountering learning challenges involving virtual characters, animals or other 3-D objects specific to the curriculum being addressed. The APL-developed software enables teachers to customize the learning modules by adding resources such as documents, Web sites, photos and videos.

“We’re providing a very compelling environment to excite students about math and science,” said Jim Miller, APL’s senior software engineer for the project. “It’s a different way for them to learn, and for teachers to present, math and science concepts.” Tim Frey, assistant supervisor of the APL group developing the Virtual Learning Environment prototype, said, “This is a unique

opportunity to work with other Johns Hopkins personnel and transition technology designed for the government to meet a critical educational need in our community, which reflects a larger educational crisis in our country. Studies have shown that U.S. students are lagging behind in math and science, and we hope this pilot program will capture and maintain students’ interest in these subjects and help expose them to careers in these fields as well,” he said. Although the tool will initially augment math and science curricula, the school also plans to use the Virtual Learning Environment for additional content areas, such as English and social studies courses. During the next year, APL will develop other virtual environments, such as the lunar South Pole. Future software developments will enable teams of students to simultaneously use the system, and will enable teachers to embed quizzes within the learning modules. The Virtual Learning Environment project grew out of a recently completed U.S. Department of Education “Star Schools” grant, initially awarded to Maryland Public Television, focused on the potential of gaming and simulation technologies to provide contextual, active and effective learning experiences. For this project, APL is responsible for software development to support deployment to Chesapeake High School’s VLE. JHU’s Center for Technology in Education is helping Chesapeake teachers develop curricula and scenarios for the prototype, and is training teachers to use the system.

Hispanic children rarely get top-notch care for brain tumors B y K at e r i n a P e s h e va

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ispanic children diagnosed with brain tumors get high-quality treatment at hospitals that specialize in neurosurgery far less often than other children with the same condition, potentially compromising their immediate prognosis and long-term survival, according to research from Johns Hopkins published in October’s Pediatrics. More than a decade after the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” the Johns Hopkins investigators say their findings detect persistent gaps in access to specialized care among certain patients, raising questions about how far across the chasm we have actually come. “What was shocking to us was the finding that, despite the push over the last decade to equalize access to high-quality care, gaps are still there, particularly among Hispanics, and, if anything, they may be getting even worse,” said lead investigator Raj Mukherjee, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at the School of Medicine. Research has shown that patients treated at specialty hospitals that admit a high volume of patients with similar conditions fare better in the long and short term, investigators say. For example, studies show that patients undergoing brain surgeries in hospitals that perform the fewest neurosurgeries have up to 16 times the mortality rate of

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patients treated in hospitals performing the highest number. “Given that brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in children, lack of access to specialized care simply means that thousands of pediatric patients are getting less-than-optimal treatment, putting them at risk for relapse and a host of neurological complications,” said pediatric neurosurgeon George Jallo, co-author on the study and director of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. The study, which looked at 4,421 children with brain tumors over the span of 18 years, found that access was worst among Hispanics, those of lower socioeconomic status and those living in areas with higher immigrant population and with few neurosurgeons. Insurance did not play a role in determining where a patient was treated, the researchers found. The Johns Hopkins team linked two databases—one detailing hospital and patient information and another with demographic and environmental information—elucidating in a novel way the impact of such factors as ethnicity and proportion of foreign-born people in the county of residence. Overall, only 37 percent of the patients in the study who should have been treated at a high-volume hospital had surgeries in such institutions. Hispanics consistently fared worse than the others. Even when adjusting for factors that may affect access to care, such as socioeconomic status and health insurance, Hispanic children still got specialized care at one-third the rate of other children, the team found. “If you’re a Hispanic child diagnosed with a brain tumor, you’re far less likely to get the best possible treatment, and this is concerning in and of itself, but there’s another looming threat emerging from our findings,” said senior investigator Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, an associate professor of neurosurgery and oncology. “Hispanics will make up 25 percent of this country’s population by the year 2050, so unless we do something about this, it looks like in the next few decades a quarter of our population may end up getting substandard care. “Our findings are yet another reminder that we are at a unique crossroad in history as

we try to restructure our health care system, and we have been given a chance to reduce, perhaps even eliminate, these inequalities once and for all,” Quinones said. Researchers said that pinpointing the exact factors that determine who gets care and where they get it requires carefully designed studies that examine individual patient decision making, as well as systemic

factors such as insurance and possible institutional bias in patient selection. The research was funded in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Children’s Cancer Foundation and the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine. Co-investigators in the study are Thomas Kosztowski, Hasan Zaidi, Benjamin Carson and David Chang.

Countries slow to use lifesaving diarrhea treatments for children

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espite evidence that low-cost diarrhea treatments such as lower osmolarity oral rehydration salts, or ORS, and zinc supplements could drastically reduce the number of deaths among children, little progress has been made in implementing these lifesaving techniques, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Examining the implementation of current treatment guidelines, the researchers found that few countries are equipped to quickly adapt policies and that many struggle to develop and maintain the recommended supplies. The analysis is featured in the October issue of Bulletin of the World Health Organization. “Low osmolarity ORS and zinc are inexpensive, safe and easy to use, and have the potential to dramatically lower diarrhea morbidity and mortality,” said Robert Black, chair and Edgar Berman Professor of International Health at the Bloomberg School and co-author of the article. “Many countries have changed diarrhea management policies to include low osmolarity ORS and zinc, but there is a significant gap between policy change and effective program implementation, leaving few children treated appropriately. In many countries, adopting child health policies is complex, and the registration and importation of zinc supplements require input from drug regulatory agencies

and procurement officials, making it difficult to secure these necessary supplies.” Diarrhea remains the second leading cause of death among children globally, accounting for 18 percent of childhood deaths and 13 percent of all disability-adjusted life years. In 2004, the World Health Organization and UNICEF released a joint statement recommending countries switch to a lower osmolarity formulation ORS and introduce zinc supplements for 10 to 14 days to decrease diarrhea deaths among children. The recommendation came after scientific consensus that this treatment has the potential to reduce more than three-quarters of all diarrhea-associated deaths. Large-scale programs in Bangladesh and India have demonstrated that together the two treatments can decrease unnecessary use of antibiotics and reinvigorate community management of diarrhea while keeping costs low and saving lives. “Of 68 priority countries, very few have zinc widely available, and coverage within all countries is extremely limited,” said Christa Fischer Walker, lead author of the analysis and an assistant scientist with the Bloomberg School’s Department of International Health. “Ranked by leading global economists as one of the most cost-effective interventions for advancing human development, zinc supplementation in diarrhea management should be a top global health priority.” —Natalie Wood-Wright

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Latin American Studies celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month B y A m y L u n d ay

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he Program in Latin American Studies in the Krieger School will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with three events this week: a lecture on how Latinos and immigration have been portrayed in the media, a bilingual roundtable discussion about the Latino population in Baltimore and across the state and a reggae concert. Other events are planned throughout the month, all on the Homewood campus. John Nieto-Phillips of Indiana University, Bloomington, will present “The Rising Tide: Latinos, Immigration and the American Imaginary,” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15. At noon on Friday, Oct. 16, Nieto-Phillips and Melanie Shell-Weiss, a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History, will lead a discussion and Q&A in both English and Spanish on “New Direction in Latino Studies: Promises, Challenges and Possibilities.” Both events will take place in the conference

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At 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17, the program is presenting a reggae concert by Nicaraguan artist Philip Montalban, co-sponsored by Casa Baltimore–Limay; the Nicaraguan Network; and the Center for Africana Studies and the International Studies Program, both based in the Krieger School. It will take place in room 101 of the Mattin Center’s F. Ross Jones Building, A daylong conference on Friday, Oct. 23, titled Unsettling Decadence: Crisis and Creativity in Latin America, will feature as keynote speaker William Egginton, of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, discussing “On Creative Exhaustion: Repetition, Time and Novelty in Borges.” It will take place in Levering’s Sherwood Room. And at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 12, the PLAS Colloquium will present Michael Birenbaum, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, who will discuss “Musical Tactics of Diaspora and Modernity on the Margins of the Black Atlantic” in room 113 of the Greenhouse.

Medicine financial goal for the 2009 campaign is $2,060,000. In 2008, Johns Hopkins raised $2,113,344, a total for contributions from all university divisions except SAIS, whose donations are reported to the National Capital Area campaign in Washington, D.C., and the Applied Physics Laboratory, which no longer reports its financial goals and results. Like last year, the Johns Hopkins campaign will be nearly paperless and shorter in duration than in past years. Absent for nearly all JHU affiliates will be the traditional pledge packets that have been either mailed home or sent to employees’ campus mailboxes. Employees may contribute through a secure and confidential electronic system, which can be found at web.jhu.edu/uw. To access the system, employees will use their JHED ID and password. Those who would rather pledge by paper can still download a form from the United Way site or contact their department coordinator. The university’s campaign, which will continue until Dec. 18, will be rolled out by its “ambassadors”—selected Johns Hopkins employees who will educate others about United Way and can answer questions. The campaign will also feature several e-mails reminding people to pledge online and of campaign-related events. Employees will be able to designate all or part of their donation to the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund, now in its third year. The fund supports agencies that serve communities in close proximity to Johns Hopkins campuses and have a strong relationship with Johns Hopkins and its employees. It was created to assist community-ori-

ented organizations and agencies that may not currently receive United Way funding. Last year, the Neighborhood Fund raised more than $200,000. To be considered, nonprofit organizations must be associated with Johns Hopkins through employee and/or institutional involvement and deliver services to the communities near Johns Hopkins campuses. A committee representing a cross section of Johns Hopkins employees oversees the allocation of the fund. The grants address specific requests from the groups for efforts such as student mentoring, community beautification projects, homeless shelter assistance and nutritious meals to individuals in need. The campaign, whose theme is “Whatever You Can Give, Gives Hope,” will focus on funding nonprofit organizations in Central Maryland that provide assistance in the “Live United” areas of education, income and health services. Donors may designate all or part of their contributions to United Way, to the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund or to any other charitable health and human service tax-exempt organization of their choosing in the United States. The “Live United” initiative also asks people to participate in United Way more holistically, not just to give but also to advocate on behalf of its member organizations and to volunteer their time at area nonprofits. To make it easier to volunteer, United Way of Central Maryland has created an online center, shareyourself.org, to find or post volunteer opportunities from across the region. Among the events highlighting this year’s university campaign will be a United Way Celebration, which will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 on Homewood’s Levering Plaza. It will feature food, fun, games and representatives 8/28/08 10:26 AMof United Page 1Way agencies. For admission, participants need to bring a completed pledge form, receipt from an online pledge or a $5 donation. Other important activities are a Chili Cook-Off/Bake-Off, scheduled for Friday, Nov. 13, and a university Day of Caring, whose date has not yet been set. The Johns Hopkins Medicine campaign will feature two hot dog lunches, from noon to 1:30 on Oct. 29 and Nov. 6 in the Turner Plaza. Admission to the event is a completed campaign pledge form or a coupon signed by the employee’s United Way coordinator. The campaigns will feature departmentand office-level events that seek to educate Johns Hopkins employees on the work of the Neighborhood Fund as well as United Way of Central Maryland, which supports human service agencies in Baltimore City and its five surrounding counties. For more information on the Johns Hopkins campaigns, go to www.jhu.edu/united way or contact Jeff Pratt in Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs at unitedway@jhu.edu or 410-516-6060. G

Stephanie Reel, chief information officer and vice provost for information technology, will serve as chair of the Johns Hopkins Medicine campaign, which will run from Oct. 26 to Nov. 6. Reel said that she continues to be impressed by the generosity of the Johns Hopkins community, which always seems to rise to the occasion in times of need. “We are fortunate to work for a great institution like Johns Hopkins. We have the ability to help and the opportunity to make a difference, to give hope to people who are less fortunate,” Reel said. “We need to remember that we are all in this together.” The combined university/Johns Hopkins

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‘Mask debate’ diverts from flu-preventive measures that work By Mark Guidera

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nfection control experts at Johns Hopkins and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that a contentious debate in the medical community over what type of protective masks health workers should wear to prevent the spread of H1N1 and other flu viruses is dangerously distracting the health care community from focusing on simple prevention measures that are clearly known to work. In an editorial published Oct. 1 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Trish Perl and Arjun Srinivasan say that findings of a new study comparing the value of two types of medical masks are likely to ignite still more debate at a time when more emphasis should be placed on vaccination,

rigorous hand washing and other proven prevention measures. The mask study, conducted by a team of Canadian researchers, found that nurses who wore high-tech N95 masks were infected by influenza only slightly less often than those who wore common surgical masks, Perl and Srinivasan say. Perl, chief epidemiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, says that the release of the mask study, to be published in an upcoming issue of JAMA, will further distract attention from other important prevention measures. “Unfortunately, this intense discussion over respiratory protection has distracted attention from the critical importance of implementing other strategies known to prevent the transmission of influenza in health care settings,” Perl and Srinivasan write in JAMA. The authors say that prevention measures are even more pressing in health care

settings today, given the re-emergence of the H1N1 influenza pandemic, which is widespread in much of the United States. A vaccine for H1N1 is expected to be publicly available in mid-October. The chief prevention measure that should be employed more widely among health care personnel is flu vaccination, Perl and Srinivasan note in their editorial. Only about 45 percent of health care workers get a flu shot each year, the two experts say, citing a 2008 CDC study. Annual flu vaccination of health care workers “has been shown to protect both patients and health care personnel, decrease patient mortality and minimize worker absenteeism,” the authors write. Masking plays a role, the authors say, but a diverse approach—using measures such as keeping sick visitors from hospitals, rapidly moving patients with respiratory illness and

high fever into isolation areas and developing programs to encourage cough etiquette and regular hand washing—is better. Health care workers’ “adherence with hand hygiene is also far from ideal,” note the authors. In addition, health care workers commonly work despite having a respiratory illness, thereby putting patients and coworkers at risk. “Hence, a change in culture is needed; personnel must stay home when they are ill, and employers must penalize them when they do [come to work sick],” they add. The authors conclude that while more research and discussion are needed about which type of mask health care workers should wear when near sick patients, that issue should not “excuse anyone from failing to implement other measures that are known to protect patients and [health care personnel] from influenza.”

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new Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing study will test a community-based glucose control intervention program for Korean-American immigrants who have type-2 diabetes mellitus. Miyong Kim, a professor in Nursing Systems and Outcomes, has been awarded a $3.1 million grant for the study. Throughout her career, Kim has conducted immigrant community–based, culturally sensitive research aimed at educating people on better health and preventing disease. Her five-year study, which started in September, will involve patients in the Baltimore-Washington area. A pilot study that included 79 participants with type-2 diabetes, which Kim con-

ducted in the same area from 2006 to 2008, yielded what she called “very promising” results—a more than 1 percent hemoglobin A1C reduction in the intervention group—and shed “much light upon diabetes mellitus control and [the] prevention of lifethreatening complications.” The intervention in the pilot and upcoming studies have three key components: a culturally sensitive education program designed to develop skills that patients can use to control their diabetes, a glucose and blood pressure machine with a phone transmission system to assist in self-monitoring, and telephone counseling and case management by a bilingual nurse who prepares participants to better communicate with their medical providers.

According to Kim, Korean-Americans are among the most medically underserved ethnic groups in the country. Her new study is being done to increase those patients’ ability to manage diabetes, which in turn will prevent complications. Her previous research found that a high number of Korean-American immigrants suffer from uncontrolled diabetes, and that their lack of adequate health care results in part from their sense of isolation due to language and cultural barriers. More than half of Korean American immigrants, she said, lack health insurance, and few go for routine checkups. Their risk for diabetes is increased by the fact that Asian emigrants to the West tend to gain weight and

develop type-2 diabetes and other chronic diseases. Low health literacy among Korean immigrants is worsening “the already high rates of undetected, undertreated or poorly managed chronic illnesses, often leading to costly and tragic consequences,” Kim said. The prevalence of diabetes among AsianAmericans generally, and Korean-Americans specifically, is “alarmingly high” and requires “immediate attention,” she said. “There is a strong need for effective, community-based interventions. This community-based diabetes intervention project is the very first of its kind for Korean-Americans during their U.S. immigration history, which dates more than 100 years.” —School of Nursing

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two sources: the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange and the National Institute of Mental Health. Specifically, the researchers performed two types of genetic analysis to identify genes with both rare and common genetic variations that might contribute to autism. By studying siblings with autism, the authors teased out four regions of the human genome—on chromosomes 6, 15, 17 and 20—where rare variants in yet unidentified genes appear to contribute to autism susceptibility. Additionally, after examining the patterns of genetic similarities and differences in unrelated people with autism, the researchers discovered a common variation near only one gene, semaphorin 5A. That only one common variant came out of this large sample study indicates that “there probably are many more that contribute to autism, but none have large effects,” said Dan Arking, assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins’ McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. “Alternatively, there may be numerous rare gene

variant–containing genes.” Identifying these will require even larger collaborative studies that are currently under way, he said. The identification of semaphorin 5A and seven additional likely—but not yet proven—genes involved in nervous system development, cell structure and other cell functions was possible only through an extensive collaborative effort that included inpatient samples from the Autism Consortium in Montreal, the Autism Genome Project and additional samples from Finland and Iran. “These discoveries are an important step forward but just one of many that are needed to fully dissect the complex genetics of this disorder,” said Mark Daly, a senior associate member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and an associate professor at the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. “The genomic regions we’ve identified help shed additional light on the biology of autism and point to areas that should be prioritized for further study.” The research at Johns Hopkins was sup-

ported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Simons Foundation. Authors of the paper are Daly; Lauren Weiss, also of Massachusetts General Hospital; Chakravarti; and Arking, through a collaboration called the Gene Discovery Project of Johns Hopkins and the Autism Consortium. G

Continued from page 1 atrics, and molecular biology and genetics at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins. “This latest finding would not have been possible without these many research groups and consortia pooling together their patient resources. Of course, they would not have been possible without the genomic scanning technologies either.” Using genomewide scanning technologies, the team “read” the genomes of family members among whom more than one individual was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. In all, they studied 1,031 nuclear families and 1,553 affected children, looking at 500,000 spots in the genome—socalled single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs—for differences that stood out in the DNA. The information was collected from

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Continued from page 1 the event by her two children, Charles, 13, and Gwendolyn, 9. Also in attendance were Ronald J. Daniels, university president; Chi Dang, vice dean for research at the School of Medicine; and Peter Agre, director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and 2003 recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. Daniels told those gathered how thrilled he was at the announcement. “It will come as no surprise that there can be no greater pleasure than joining the Nobel committee in honoring the work of one of our outstanding faculty members,” Daniels said. “Carol, on behalf of all your colleagues, we bask in your glow. We are so proud of you, and we are so thrilled that this well-deserved honor has come your way.” Daniels then joked that Greider’s children had better prepare for life with a Nobel Prize–winning mom. “I told both of them already, Guys, you have to treat a Nobel laureate with a much greater degree of respect,” he said. “There will be extra dishwashing duty.” Greider shares this year’s prize with Elizabeth Blackburn, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and Jack Szostak, of Harvard Medical School, who discovered that telomeres are made up of simple, repeating blocks of DNA and that they are found in all organisms. Greider, Blackburn and Szostak shared the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for this work. At the press conference, Peter Agre took a moment to congratulate his fellow Nobelist. “First off, the Nobel committee always says how their deliberations are really difficult. Well, this year it was really easy, Carol,” Agre said. Considered the most prestigious honor in the world, the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace since 1901 by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Greider, Blackburn and Szostak each will receive a medal and diploma and will share a cash award of 10 million krona ($1.4 million) at a ceremony on Dec. 10 in Stockholm. “This is a wonderful moment,” Daniels wrote in an early-morning e-mail announcement to the university community, “not only for Dr. Greider but also for all of us here at Johns Hopkins who share in her passion for discovery and her zeal for putting knowledge to work for the good of humanity. We are thrilled by this magnificent accomplishment of Carol and her colleagues and even more so by the implications of her continuing work

for our understanding of such complex problems as cancer and aging. Carol has advanced scientific knowledge immeasurably, but she remains unsatisfied and wants to know more. That is the Johns Hopkins way.” Each time a cell divides, its chromosomes become a little shorter. As cells age, their telomeres shorten. The consequent loss of telomere function will cause some cells to stop dividing or to die, and others to undergo chromosome rearrangements that can lead to cancer. Greider, Blackburn and Szostak performed their groundbreaking investigations in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Blackburn showed that simple, repeated DNA sequences make up chromosome ends and, with Szostak, established that these repeated sequences stabilize chromosomes and prevent them from becoming damaged. Szostak and Blackburn predicted the existence of an enzyme

that the recognition highlights the value of “discoveries driven by pure curiosity.” “We didn’t know at the time that there were any particular disease implications [in our research]. We were just interested in the fundamental questions of cell biology,” she said. “Really, it was just trying to understand how cells work,” she said. “From a disease aspect, I liken it to a car mechanic and a broken-down car. If you never knew how the carburetor worked, you would not be able to figure out why that car isn’t working. We are there to figure out the basics of how cells actually work so that in disease you can figure out what went wrong.” Greider worked with a single-celled, ponddwelling organism called Tetrahymena. These organisms—rather than primates or humans—were the best test system, she said, because Tetrahymena contain “more like

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Crews—with the indispensable assistance of a 200-foot, 350-ton crane— last week completed the steel grid frame for the 60-by-60-foot glass skylight that will top Gilman Hall’s new atrium space. Designed, fabricated and installed by Novum Structures, the skylight will feature 154 square glass panels and span the entire courtyard without intermediate support. The arched structure, a precisely engineered combination of compression members and tension cables, will be less than 10 inches thick. The glass panels and cables will be installed in the coming weeks to shut out the elements and allow work to continue in the atrium below. Gilman, the oldest academic building on the Homewood campus, is scheduled to reopen for the fall 2010 semester. —Greg Rienzi

A day to remember: Carol Greider’s children, Gwendolyn and Charles, photograph the press conference following the announcement that she had won a Nobel Prize.

that would add the sequences to chromosome termini. While a 23-year-old graduate student with Blackburn, who was then a member of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, Greider tracked down the enzyme telomerase, and later determined that each organism’s telomerase contains an RNA component that serves as a template for the creature’s particular telomere DNA repeat sequence. In addition to providing insight into how chromosome ends are maintained, Blackburn, Greider and Szostak’s work laid the foundation for studies that have linked telomerase and telomeres to human cancer and age-related conditions. A delighted Greider thanked the Nobel Foundation for the award and emphasized

40,000 chromosomes, compared to our 23 pairs” and thus have far more chromosome ends to study. Stephen Desiderio, director of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at Johns Hopkins, said, “The most far-reaching discoveries are the product of basic research. We are thrilled that Carol is being recognized for her work, which reminds us that science is most powerful when it is driven by curiosity.” Greider grew up in Davis, Calif., where her father was a physicist at the University of California. Greider credits her parents for her decision to go into science, and her father for influencing her attitude about academic science. “My father would talk about academic freedom and the importance of liking what

you do. He would say, ‘You can do whatever you want, but you have to like whatever you do.’ ” She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1983 and earned her doctorate in molecular biology in 1987 from Berkeley. She worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, N.Y., from 1988 to 1997, first as a postdoctoral fellow, then as an associate investigator. She moved to Johns Hopkins in 1997. While at Cold Spring Harbor, Greider, working with Calvin Harley of McMaster University, realized that cancer cells, unlike most cells in the adult human body, contain active forms of telomerase that enable cells to keep dividing by maintaining the length of their chromosome ends. Together, in 1990, the two scientists provided early evidence that telomere length was related to cellular aging. They found that telomerase is activated in cancer cells, a process that allows these cells to bypass cellular senescence and continue growing as immortalized cells. The two researchers began to imagine a treatment for cancer in which the telomerase could be inhibited long enough to wipe out the telomeres in the malignant cells. This would trigger death in the cancer cells but not in normal ones, with their longer telomeres. Subsequent work using cultured human cells and mice genetically engineered to lack the gene for telomerase confirmed that inhibition of telomerase can limit cancer cell division and tumor production. Greider continues to study the role of telomeres in DNA damage and cell death. Recently, she and her colleagues developed a mouse model for a rare, inherited disorder related to stem cell failure, dyskeratosis congenita, that is caused by mutations in telomerase. People with dyskeratosis congenita cannot maintain the telomerase in their bone marrow and eventually die of bone marrow failure. “Suddenly, the studies that we had done on the consequences of telomerase loss were pertinent to this disease,” Greider said. “It’s another example of curiosity-driven research ending up having a direct medical implication.” Greider is currently working on mouse models she helped develop to understand how telomerase may play a role in both cancer and stem cell failure. This might lead to a clearer link between aging and telomeres, she says. “I don’t believe that aging is going to be a matter of just one thing, that there’s going to be one gene that controls all of aging. I think there are going to be multiple different failures, and that the loss of stem cells can play a role in a number of them.” G For more about Greider and her work, go to http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/featured/ 2009NobelMedicine.

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Sloan School of Management Julie L. Christensen, Charles A. Gammal, Jessica Way Mazonson, Angela M. Thedinga, Eduardo Viladesau Franquesa

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, School of Computer Science Anton Bachin, Betty Yee Man Cheng, Matthew Easterday, Brina Goyette, Jonathan Hartje

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, School of Engineering Rachel E. Miller, Kristen Naegle, Megan J. Palmer, Michael M. Schmidt, Marcio Goldani von Muhlen STANFORD UNIVERSITY, School of Engineering and School of Medicine Julia Chen, Christina Fan, Douglas S. Jones, Andrea Seba Les, Chuba Oyolu UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, College of Engineering Jeffrey Allen Dietrich, Rokhaya Diop, Maral Gharib, Gary Chiaray Lee, Somin Eunice Lee UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Joacobs School of Engineering Terrell Green, Amy Hsieh, Roy Lefkowitz, Julio Ng, Jennifer Marie Singelyn

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Calendar Continued from page 12 Tools for Phonosurgery,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Rajat Mittal, WSE. 110 Clark. HW “Signaling CrossTalks in Testicular Gonocyte Development,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Martine Culty, McGill University School of Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB Mon., Oct. 12, 4 p.m.

“The Intrinsic Flat Distance Between Riemannian Manifolds,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Christina Sormani, CUNY Graduate Center/Lehman College. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW Mon., Oct. 12, 4 p.m.

“The Impact of Incarceration on Social Norms Contributing to Heterosexually Acquired HIV Infection Among Adults in Baltimore City, Maryland,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Renee Gindi. W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., Oct. 13, 10 a.m.

“Dissecting Signal Recognition and Signal Control in a Multidrug Sensor,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Herschel Wade, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Oct. 13, noon.

Tues., Oct. 13, 3 p.m. “New Roles for Siderophores in Metal Speciation and Transport,” a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Owen Duckworth, North Carolina State University. 234 Ames. HW

“Hess’ ‘Descent and Codescent Spectral Sequences,’ ” a Topological Langlands seminar with Andrew Salch, KSAS. Sponsored by Mathematics. 205 Krieger. HW

Tues., Oct. 13, 3 p.m.

Tues., Oct. 13, 4:30 p.m. “Using Speech Models for Separation in Monaural and Binaural Contexts,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Dan Ellis, Columbia University. B17 CSEB. HW

“Characteristic Classes for Trivialized Flat U_n Bundle,” an Algebraic and Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Xiang Tang, Washington University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger. HW

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

“Affective and Physiological Effects of Experimentally Induced Social Status,” a Mental Health seminar with Tamar Mendelson, SPH. B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., Oct. 14, noon.

Oct. 14, 3 p.m. “Artificial Nanomotor Design via Molecular-level Simulations,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Yunfeng Shi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 110 Maryland. HW

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“The Combination of Ecological and Individual Level Data,” a Biostatistics seminar with Jon Wakefield, University of Washington, Seattle. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Oct. 15, noon. “Health Care in Maryland,” a Health Policy and Management Fall Policy seminar with Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown. B14B Hampton House. EB Thurs., Oct. 15, noon. Randolph Bromery Seminar—“Resolving Space and Time in Paleoecological Studies” with Grace Brush, WSE. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. 304 Olin. HW Thurs., Oct. 15, noon. “Regulation of Fgfr2 Function During Epithelial Branching Morphogenesis,” a Cell Biology seminar with Matthew Hoffman, NIDCR/NIH/DHHS. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

“Control of Embryonic Cortical Neurogenesis by the Meninges,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Samuel Pleasure, University of California, San Francisco. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., Oct. 15, 1 p.m.

“Decoding Gene Regulatory Program Using ChIPchip and ChIP-seq,” a Biology seminar with Hongkai Ji, SPH. 100 Mudd. HW

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Thurs., Oct. 15, 4 p.m. “Feedback and Weighting Mechanisms for Improving Jacobian Estimates in an Adaptive Stochastic Algorithm,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with James Spall, APL. 304 Whitehead. HW Fri., Oct. 16, 11 a.m. “Turbulent Flames and Other Advected Propagating Fronts: Analysis, Heuristics, Speculation,” a CEAFM seminar with Alan Kerstein, Sandia National Laboratory. 110 Maryland. HW

“MicroRNAs in Cancer” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Frank Slack, Yale University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

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

“ModelBased Target Identification From Gene Expression With Gaussian Processes,” a Center for Computational Genomics seminar with Neil Lawrence, University of Manchester. 517 PCTB. EB

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S P E C I A L E V E N TS Wed., Oct. 14, 4 p.m. The Carolyn and Edward Wenk Jr. Lecture in Technology and Public Policy—“Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology” by James Collins, Boston University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, featuring remarks by President Ronald J. Daniels whose inauguration this year’s lecture celebrates. Reception follows. Sponsored by the Whiting School of Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. 110 Hodson. HW

Wed., Oct. 14, 4 p.m.

Thurs., Oct. 15, 10:45 a.m. “Protein Folding—Questioning the Paradigm,” a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with George Rose, KSAS. 110 Maryland. HW

“Multicellular Morphogenesis and Cell Fate Determination in Myxococcus,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Lawrence Shimkets, University of Georgia. W1020 SPH. EB Thurs., Oct. 15, noon.

Carey School presents Daniel Mudd, CEO of Fortress Investment Group Mudd holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Virginia and was a Carey Business School commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Decorated for combat service in Beirut, Lebanon, he left the military after a tour in aniel Mudd, chief executive the Office of the Secretary of Defense to earn officer of Fortress Investment a master’s degree in public administration Group, will speak on “Housfrom the John F. Kennedy School of Goves Divided: Lessons Learned ernment at Harvard Univerand the Future of sity. He was awarded a Robert Home Buying in America” at Bosch Fellowship to work with the Johns Hopkins Carey Busithe German government durness School’s Leaders & Leging the reunification of East ends lecture series to be held and West Germany. from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Thursday, Mudd serves on the board Oct. 15, at the Legg Mason of Hampton University and Tower in Harbor East. has previously been a director A member of the firm’s board of both corporate and notof directors since February 2007, for-profit institutions. Mudd was appointed CEO in The Leaders & Legends August 2009. Previously, he Daniel Mudd monthly breakfast series features today’s most served as president and CEO of Fannie Mae, influential business and public policy leaders the nation’s largest financer of home mortaddressing topics of global interest and imporgages, where he was also a member of the tance by engaging business and community board and had previously served as the vice professionals in an examination of the most chairman and chief operating officer. compelling issues and challenges facing soci Through the 1990s, Mudd was a corpoety today. rate officer and senior executive at General Admission to the lecture, which includes Electric. Prior to his tenure at GE, he held breakfast, is $35. To register and for more positions in management consulting and information, go to carey.jhu.edu/leadersand financial services with Xerox Corp., Ayers legends. Whitmore and Co. and the World Bank. By Andrew Blumberg

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Webwise nurses harness new media to improve global health By Teddi Fine

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he Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is harnessing the power of wireless technologies and online communities to help nurses throughout the world “connect for health.” Under the direction of Patricia A. Abbott, an associate professor in Nursing Systems and Outcomes, the school’s Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery Community of Practice, or GANM, speeds new health information and know-how to nurses around the globe—from the most urbanized, high-tech cities to the most remote villages—using low-bandwidth telecommunication technologies. Kitty Poon, a graduate of the school, worked with Abbott’s GANM team and created a mechanism for using new media to improve lifesaving skills among geographically distributed areas. Poon; Abbott; Kathleen Woodruff, an instructor in Community Health Nursing; and others developed a high-quality freely downloadable educational module, in Spanish and English, for use by globally dispersed nurses and midwives. The

module focuses on cervical cancer detection using visual inspection with ascetic acid, a low-cost, low-tech cervical cancer screen designed for use in low-resource settings. Cervical cancer kills about 230,000 women annually, and nearly 80 percent of these cases occur in poverty-stricken countries. Members of the GANM community are able to log on, download the module and learn to conduct the inspections. What began as a scholarly project for Poon’s graduate studies has become an important and accessible contribution to women’s health. “By making her educational module available online,” Abbott said, “we give an immediate gift of new knowledge to GANM members and their networks of colleagues. The immediacy and importance of the return on her work far outstrip that of a traditional written report that sits on a shelf somewhere. That’s the power of the new technology at its best.” The GANM electronic Community of Practice, which today includes more than 1,900 nurses and midwives from 136 countries, is managed and maintained by the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing with support from the World Health Organization.

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W OR K SHO P S Thurs., Oct. 15, 1 p.m. “Introduction to Google Sites,” a Bits & Bytes workshop intended for Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs (staff are also welcome to attend). Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

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NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION FOR PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT CERTIFICATION TITLE: Senior Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions LOCATION:

Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

DUTIES: The Senior Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions will be responsible for conducting international recruitment and highly selective application review for countries including Trinidad, Costa Rica, Spain, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey as well as acting as the primary recruiter and reader for applications from Canada, Costa Rica, Pakistan, Venezuela, Philippines, and Malaysia. He/She will also serve as the primary recruiter and reader for all applications received from Delaware and New Jersey; will conduct 50+ high school presentations and several Explore Hopkins presentations yearly. The Senior Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions will coordinate on-campus interview programs as well as hire and train 50 upperclassmen to conduct oncampus admissions interviews. He/She will also act as a liaison to the double-degree program with Peabody Conservatory while serving on the Peabody/Homewood double-degree selection committee; coordinate three day Westgate scholarship competition for the :KLWLQJ 6FKRRO RI (QJLQHHULQJ DQG DFW DV D OLDLVRQ WR WKH 2IÀFH of Disabilities and serve on the transfer student review committee. This position requires approximately 3-6 weeks of independent travel, including nights/weekends, conducting off-campus university events and high school visits for prospective students, families and high school guidance/college counselors. REQUIREMENTS: Master’s degree in Education + 1 year of exSHULHQFH DV D XQLYHUVLW\ DGPLVVLRQV RIÀFHU ZKLFK PXVW LQFOXGH VRPH experience in recruiting travel and applications review; admissions experience in a research university and in a school of engineering; and evaluating education credentials from students outside the U.S. This position requires approx 3-6 weeks of independent travel, including nights/weekends, conducting off-campus university events and high school visits for prospective students, families and high school guidance/college counselors. Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Education + 3 years of experience in lieu of Master’s degree + 1 year experience requirement. SALARY:

$38,835/year - $45,000/year

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Notices Seasonal Flu Vaccines — Seasonal flu vaccines will be offered free of charge to faculty and staff of the Homewood campus (and their spouses/same-sex domestic partners) on two Tuesdays and Wednesdays in October. Vaccines will be administered from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 13, 14, 27 and 28 in the Glass Pavilion, Levering. Distribution of the H1N1 vaccine has just begun in Maryland. If Johns Hopkins secures

a supply, an announcement will be made with the relevant information. Questions about the flu shot schedules should be directed to Debbie Mills at dmills@ jhu.edu. Intersession Instructors Needed —

The 2009 Intersession Personal Enrichment Program, scheduled for Jan. 4 to 22, is looking for instructors in music, art, dance and other subjects. Applications are available in the Student Life Office, located in Suite 102, Levering Hall, or by calling 410-5168209. The deadline for applications is Monday, Oct. 26.

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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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U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Atlanta National Processing Center Harris Tower 233 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 410 Atlanta, GA 30303

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

We’ve changed our address— Read The Gazette online at

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October 12, 2009 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Anneslie, sabbatical rental, Jan 1-July 30, furn’d 3BR house nr Stoneleigh schools, W/D, dw, no pets. $1,700/mo + utils. sheingate@ gmail.com. Bayview area, 2BR house w/fin’d bsmt, W/D, prkng pad, no pets, sec dep + utils. Elaine, 410-633-4750. Belvedere Square, 1BR apt, laundry, prkng, 10 mins to JHU, 20 mins to JHMI, Collegetown shuttle, express bus to JHMI,no pets. $595/mo (yearly). gigiebenezer@gmail.com. Canton, 2 or 3BR, 2.5BA house, fully rehabbed, full fin’d bsmt, prkng pad, 1 blk NE of Square. $1,850/mo. 410-563-2305 or kevin.comegys@ gmail.com. Canton (2443 Fleet St), 2BR, 2.5BA house, new appls, CAC, granite counters, jacuzzi, roofdeck, nr JHH/park/water/Square. $1,500/ mo + utils. 410-375-4862 or okomgmt@ hotmail.com. Canton (Lighthouse Point), 2BR, 2BA waterfront condo w/garage. $1,995/mo. sres1@ comcast.net. Cedarcroft, 3BR, 1.5BA TH, W/D, dw, fenced yd w/deck. $1,250/mo + utils. 410-378-2393. 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. Hampden (40th and Roland Ave), totally renov’d 3BR, 1.5BA house, new kitchen, new appls, W/D, hdwd flrs, walk to JHU/shops, 15 mins to JHH/downtown, nr public transportation. $1,350/mo + sec dep. 443-928-4062. Lake Montebello/Lauraville area, updated 3BR, 2BA house w/garage in tree-lined neighborhood, 2-6 mi from Hopkins campuses, 1 mi to Montebello’s foot/bike path and quaint shops/ restaurants of Lauraville. 410-908-6531. Lombard Rombro Lofts (22 S Howard St): 1BR w/bamboo flrs, 980 sq ft, 13' ceiling, prkng (extra fee), $1,150/mo; fully furn’d 2BR, 2BA, short-term, 1,500 sq ft, prkng incl’d. $2,950/ mo (less if rented for more than 3 mos). 410340-3070.

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Rodgers Forge, 3BR, 2BA TH, W/D, fin’d bsmt, CAC, great county schools, great familyfriendly neighborhood. $1,600/mo + utils. 410592-2684 or dickgeorge@comcast.net.

F wanted for furn’d, bright BR (700 sq ft) in Cedonia, vaulted ceilings, built-in shelving, 5 mi to JHU/Homewood and Morgan State. $550/mo + utils. aprede1@yahoo.com.

Upper Fells Point, 2BR, 1BA apt, W/D, dw, CAC, kitchen, living rm, gated fence, backyd, mins to JHH. 410-733-4622 or ldtantengco@ yahoo.com. 10 N Wolfe St, 2BR TH w/2 full BAs, 3-story, fin’d lower level w/full BA, possible 3rd BR. $1,300/mo + utils. 410-608-9138. Studio apt across from JHMI campus, W/D in unit, free Internet. 301-346-2470 or happyhut4u @yahoo.com. 3BR, 1BA house, CAC/heat, bsmt, priv front/ back porch, fenced yd, nr public transport and MARC train, 1- to 2-yr lease. $750/mo + sec dep. Vera, 410-945-9829. 419 Chadford Rd (off Homeland Ave), 3BR, 2.5BA TH in gated community, w/garage, swimming pool, 20 mins to JHH, nr Gilman/Friends/ Roland Park schools and Notre Dame/Loyola/ Hopkins. $2,000/mo. Ash, 443-386-6288. Updated 1BR condo in secure, gated community, assigned prkng, swim, tennis, nr hospital and university. $1,200/mo incl utils. 410-375-7748.

HOUSES FOR SALE Butchers Hill/Canton, beautiful, rehabbed 2BR, 1BA TH, conv to JHH, open house 1-3pm, Oct 17. $154,900. Tracy, 443-864-5461.

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Huge, beautifully furn’d rm in quiet, safe neighborhood, nr Homewood, great for grad student. $470/mo + utils. rparkroom@yahoo.com.

Lg, partly furn’d bsmt BR w/priv BA avail in renov’d Mayfield RH, across from Herring Run Park, nr Lake Montebello, 10 mins to JHMI, 5 mins to Morgan. $600/mo incl utils and wireless. mayfieldroom@gmail.com. Rms in new TH, no smoking/no pets, walking distance to JHMC. $500/mo + 1/3 utils. 301717-4217 or xiaoningzhao1@gmail.com. Furn’d BR w/own BA in 3BR Fells Point apt, W/D, free Internet access, safe neighborhood, 5-min walk to stores/restaurants/bus stations/ park, 15-min walk to SoM, compensation for monthly bus pass for student and postdoc. $300 and $350/mo + utils. xzhan45@gmail.com. Share house in Patterson Park w/F prof’l and 12-yr-old dog, stainless steel appls, hdwd flrs, great backyd, rm has priv BA, office space, avail Nov 1, nr JHH. $800/mo + 1/2 utils + sec dep ($800). 443-799-1814 or shanbarry@gmail.com. BR avail in 2BR, 2BA apt in the Carlyle, W/D, AC for each rm, safe area, walk to Homewood/ shuttle stop, fitness center, resident lounge, swimming pool, share w/easygoing M Chinese postdoc, short-term lease. bioxsh@gmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE

Cross Keys Village, 1BR condo w/hdwd flrs, CAC/heat, free prkng, 24-hr security, swimming pool. $136,888. 646-284-2279 or tamrirev @yahoo.com.

’85 Buick Riviera, black w/leather interior, fully loaded, V85.0 liter engine, 80K mi. $3,500; ’97 Honda CX, red, 2-dr, 5-spd, AC, passenger side airbag, great on gas, 101.4K mi. $3,850/best offer. 410-294-5194.

Hampden, renov’d 3BR, 2.5BA house, screened porch, fenced yd, priv prkng, walk to Homewood campus/shops/restaurants/grocers/theater. $299,000. 919-607-5860 or 410-962-5417.

’02 Honda Odyssey minivan, slate green, power everything, orig owner, excel cond, 149K mi. $5,800. 410-365-1806.

Historic Fells Point, dramatic 3BR, 3.5BA 4-level contemporary w/garage, 1 blk to water. $799,000. 410-340-3070. Roland Park, beautifully maintained 6BR, 3.5BA Victorian, numerous updates, garage. $675,000. 410-591-8740. Timonium (8 Tyburn Ct), updated, spacious 4BR, 3BA house on cul-de-sac, move-in cond, 1-yr AHS warranty, walk to Dulaney High, 2 mi to I-83 and lt rail station. $375,500. Debbie, 410-241-4724.

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Used African-American fiction, Terry McMillan, Omar Tyree, Eric Jerome Dickey, Mary B. Morrison, Michael Baisden and J. California Cooper, $10-$30 (sets or individually); also SAT flashcards, in box, $20; 2-in-1 speakers, $25. 410-917-7774.

Exterior French doors, pair, both new, white, 8' x 3', made of Auralast wood, w/15 double E-glass panels, double locks. $750/pair. 443768-4751. Christian Dior Norwegian blue fox fur coat, full-length, medium, great holiday gift. $1,250. 443-824-2198. Table lamp, approx 36"H, unique floral design, photos avail. Best offer. sofas4sale@earthlink .net. Zenetti 20" rims (4) w/Pirelli P-zero type tires. $575/best offer. 443-827-0695 or romeyrome _04@yahoo.com. Microwave, chair, tripods, printer, computer, digital piano, 3-step ladder, beach chairs (2), stool, reciprocating saw. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. Moving sale: twin bed w/mattress, $100; lg TV,

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24" x 36" drafting board, like new, refinished, adjustable height, tilts, rarely used. Best offer. Ann, 410-243-1910. Conn alto saxophone, mint condition. $650/ best offer. 410-488-1886. Garmin Micro so/sd memory card, Spain and Portugal, city navigator Europe NT 20092010 edition, fits 200W series Garmin. $50. mrjohnson1@comcast.net. Antique (or nearly) mahogany drop-leaf dining table, carved wood chair, marbletop end table, Ikea beech dresser, like new. 410-889-1213 or judybyen@hotmail.com.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED Halloween costume rentals by Theatre Hopkins, historical, modern or fantasy, by appt before Oct 23, modest rental fees. mikesuse@ comcast.net. Need help w/the SAT, ACT or GRE? Go to www.baltimoreexambusters.com or e-mail baltimoreexambusters@yahoo.com. R&D Maintenance, interior/exterior painting, grass cutting and home/deck power washing, licensed and insured, free estimates, affordable. 410-335-1284 or randy6506vfw@yahoo.com. Learn Arabic (MSA or colloquial) w/experienced teacher and native speaker, courses tailored to needs. thaerra@hotmail.com. Power washing, no job too small, free estimates. Donnie, 443-683-7049. Computer service provided via e-mail or on-site, tutoring, virus removal, system tuning, backup, troubleshooting. jhupcserv@gmail.com. We will come to your vehicle and detail it on the spot; all types of vehicles; call for quote. 443-421-3659. Tutor avail: All subjects/levels; remedial, gifted and talented; also college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading. 410337-9877 or i1__@hotmail.com. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, no partners necessary. 410-583-7337 or www.fridaynightswing.com.

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$60; also bookshelves, chest of drawers and more. Prices negotiable. 443-825-8932.

4GB Zune, black, new and unopened. $100. 410-206-2830 or nlheyls@yahoo.com.

St Croix, USVI, 3BR, 3BA oceanfront vacation condo, private beach, rates from $285/ night. Meg, 202-309-2175.

Patterson Park, 2BR, 1.5BA house, hdwd flrs, crpt upstairs, stainless steel appls, skylight, expos’d brick, 1.25 mi to Johns Hopkins. $1,100/mo. 443-286-4883.

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501 University Pkwy, 2BR, 1.5BA co-op, pets OK, $667/mo fee incl prop taxes, heat, co-op purchase = less cash at closing. $138,725. Clair, 443-413-6838.

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Harborview, 2BR, 1BA single-family house situated on hill overlooking the city, recently updated, hdwd flrs throughout. $168,500. 443604-2797 or lexisweetheart@yahoo.com.

Remington, newly renov’d 4BR TH, new appls, 2 full BAs, 5 blks to JHU Homewood campus. $950/mo + utils. Brian, 410-493-2993 or brian@bcoi.net.

Wyman Park, fully renov’d 3BR, 2BA TH, CAC/heat, hdwd flrs, 2-car garage, nr JHU/ BMA. $299,900 (or rent option). 410-5814939 or syakov@yahoo.com.

Roland Park, lovely, furn’d 3BR+ TH, good neighborhood close to Homewood, many trees, sublet January to August 2010. $1,600/mo. robertroper@earthlink.net.

Mt Washington, lg 3BR, 3.5BA EOG w/bsmt and deck. $1,800/mo (negotiable). 410-5832665 or janmiyamoto55555@yahoo.com.

Pikesville, beautiful 2BR, 1.5BA house w/yd, walk to subway. $1,500/mo + utils + sec dep. jaxbhpr@gmail.com.

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Affordable landscaper/certified horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens, also design, planting, masonry; free consultations. 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail .com. Spending Thanksgiving in London? Seeking sightseeing and/or dining partner. Lagom335@ hotmail.com. Artist/cartoonist looking for work, logos, cartoon strips, 1-panel cartoons, business cards, T-shirts. 443-200-3371. Yard sale: Saturday, Oct 24, 8am-1pm, Lauraville (46306 Mainfield Ave 21214), paintings, frames, canvases, housewares, furniture, more. Piano lessons available w/experienced teacher, Peabody doctorate, all levels/ages welcome. 410-662-7951.

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

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“Translating Cultures: Anthropology and Writing in Ruy Duarte de Carvalho,” an Anthropology colloquium with Livia Apa, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples. Co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies and the Program in Latin American Studies. 400 Macaulay. HW

Tues., Oct. 13, 4 p.m.

Tues.,

Oct.

13,

4:15

A Shriver Concerts debut

p.m.

“The Rising Tide: Latinos, Immigration and the American Imaginary,” a Program in Latin American Studies colloquium with John Nieto-Phillips, Indiana University, Bloomington. (See story, p. 4.) Conference Room, Cafe Azafran, Muller Building. HW

Thurs., Oct. 15, 5 p.m.

“Information Sharing Behind Firewalls,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Nirdhar Khazanie, Northrop Grumman. Parsons Auditorium. APL Fri., Oct. 16, 2 p.m.

C O N FERE N C E Fri., Oct. 16, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Countering Democratic Regression in a Newly Divided Europe and Eurasia,” a European Studies Program conference with leading Europe and Eurasia experts. For a full conference agenda, go to www .sais-jhu.edu/events/pdf/countering .pdf. For more information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5796 or e-mail ntobin@jhu.edu. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS D I S C USS I O N S / TA L K S Mon.,

Oct.

12,

12:30

p.m.

“Keynesian Intervention and Its Effects on the U.S. and World Economy,” a Global Theory and History Program discussion with Jonathan Kirshner, Cornell University. For information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5714 or e-mail sLee255@jhu.edu. 812 Rome Building. SAIS Mon.,

Oct.

12,

4:30

p.m.

“Unlawful Combatants and the International Committee of the Red Cross,” an International Law and Organizations Program discussion with Gary Solis, Georgetown University Law Center. For information and to RSVP, phone 202663-5982 or e-mail tbascia1@jhu .edu. 812 Rome Building. SAIS “Partnering With Johnson & Johnson—An Insider’s Perspective,” a

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

101 Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center. HW

Information session for the MA in Applied Economics program; meet Frank Weiss, associate program chair, discuss curriculum and submit an application. RSVP online at http://advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/ index.cfm?ContentID-1538. LL7, Washington DC Center.

Sun.,

Online information session for the MA in Bioinformatics program. Learn about the program’s admission requirements, curriculum design, course structure, degree requirements and how online education works. Participate in an online discussion, chat with faculty and the associate program chair, and visit a unit from the core course Computers in Molecular Biology. RSVP online at http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=1610.

“Opera Potpourri: A Trio of OneAct Operas in French.” Admission is free, but advance tickets are required. For information, call 410-234-4800 or e-mail boxoffice @peabody.jhu.edu. Friedberg Hall.

Wed., Oct. 14, 6:30 p.m.

Mon., Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m.

“Structural Dynamics From NMR Spectroscopy of Weakly Aligned Proteins,” a Chemistry colloquium with Joel Tolman, KSAS. 233 Remsen. HW Thurs., Oct. 15, 3 p.m. “Kamikaze Technology and Its Aftermath: Mobilizing Engineers for War and Peace in Japan, 1932– 64,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Takashi Nishiyama, SUNY/ Brockport. Room 102, 3505 N. Charles St. HW

at http://advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/ index.cfm?ContentID=1615.

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Ever since colleagues from the Royal College of Music founded the Belcea Quartet in 1994, the chamber music ensemble has been praised for its power and technical accomplishment. This week, it performs in the Shriver Hall Concert Series. See Music.

talk with Joe Smith, vice president for emerging technologies, and Robert Zivin, senior director for science and technology. Part of the Vine & Venture series, sponsored by the Forest City New East Baltimore Partnership. 490 Rangos Building. EB “The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Peter Baldwin, UCLA, and Daniel Hamilton, director, CTR. For information or to RSVP, phone 202-663-7730 or e-mail transatlanticrsvp@jhu.edu. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS Tues.,

Oct.

13,

noon.

Tues., Oct. 13, 5 p.m. “How Have Franco-German Relations Changed Since the Election of President Obama?” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Justin Vaisse, Brookings Institution, and Klaus Larres, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. For information or to RSVP, phone 202-663-5796 or e-mail ntobin@jhu.edu. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS Wed.,

Oct.

14,

12:30

p.m.

“How to Make Electric Vehicles a Political and Economic Reality in the U.S. and Abroad,” a Global Energy and Environment Initiative panel discussion with Patrick Davis, U.S. State Department; John Waters, CEO, Bright Automotive; and Eladio Knipping, Electric Power Research Institute. For information or to RSVP, phone 202-663-5786 or e-mail geei@jhu.edu. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS Wed.,

Oct.

14,

12:45

p.m.

“Will the Kirchner Government in Argentina Survive?” a Latin American Studies Program discussion with Silvia Pisani, La Nacion. For information or to RSVP, phone 202-663-5734 or e-mail jzurek@jhu.edu. 517 Nitze Building. SAIS

“Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America and the Persecution of John S. Service,” a China Studies Program discussion with author Lynne Joiner. For information or to RSVP, phone 202-663-5816 or e-mail zji@jhu .edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS

Wed., Oct. 14, 5 p.m.

“New Direction in Latino Studies: Promises, Challenges and Possibilities,” a Program in Latin American Studies roundtable in both English and Spanish with Melanie Shell-Weiss, KSAS, and John Nieto-Phillips, Indiana University, Bloomington. (See story, p. 4.) Conference Room, Cafe Azafran, Muller Building. HW Fri., Oct. 16, noon.

“Year of Religion” event, with John Rucyahana, bishop of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and head of the Mustard Seed Project; Jessica Einhorn, dean of SAIS, and Peter Lewis, director, the SAIS African Studies Program, will delivery introductory remarks. For information or to RSVP, phone 202-663-5636 or e-mail saisevents @jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS

Mon., Oct. 19, 12:30 p.m.

GRA N D ROU N DS Fri., Oct. 16, 12:15 p.m. “Employ-

ee Involvement in the Deployment of Health IT,” Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Adam Seth Litwin, Carey Business School. W1214 SPH. EB

I N FOR M AT I O N SESS I O N S

Wed., Oct. 14, 11 a.m. “Human Subjects Protection and Social Science Research: A View From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Human Research Protections,” a Political Science lecture by Carol Weil, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Great Hall, Levering. HW

“The Origins of Accountable Government,” by Francis Fukuyama, part of his lecture series Getting to Denmark: Where the State, Rule of Law and Accountable Government Come From. Sponsored by the Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism. For information and to RSVP, phone 202-349-0985 or e-mail scolby2@jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS

Wed., Oct. 14, 12:30 p.m.

Wed., Oct. 14, 5:15 p.m. “An Almost Unknown Masterpiece: Cecco del Caravaggio’s Resurrection (1619–1620),” a Singleton Center for Premodern European Studies lecture by Michael Fried, KSAS. STScI Auditorium, Muller Building. HW

The 2009 William Wallace Scott Lecture— “The Next Generation of Gene Fusion Discovery in Cancer” by Arul Chinnaiyan, University of Michigan. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB Thurs., Oct. 15, 8 a.m.

18,

5:30

p.m.

Mon.,

Oct.

19,

7:30

p.m.

Peabody

O P E N HOUSES

Fall Open House for the Bloomberg School of Public Health, an opportunity for prospective students to learn about the school’s academic community, tour the building and meet faculty, department coordinators and current students. Registration required; go to www.jhsph.edu/admissions/ visit_jhsph/open_house/Open_ House_ Registration_Page. 615 N. Wolfe St. EB

Mon., Oct. 12, 1 to 5 p.m.

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

Readings by Elizabeth Spires and Richard Katrovas. Sponsored by the Writing Seminars. 101 Remsen.

Tues., Oct. 13, 6:30 p.m.

HW

SE M I N ARS Mon.,

Oct.

12,

12:10

p.m.

“A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: Engaging Youth in Research Through the Creative Arts to Learn About Neighborhood Safety,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Jessica Burke and Michael Yonas, both from the University of Pittsburgh. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management. 208 Hampton House. EB Mon.,

Oct.

12,

12:15

p.m.

“How Does Topoisomerase IV Distinguish Left From Right?” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Keir Neuman, NHLBI/NIH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

“Houses Divided: Lessons Learned and the Future of Homebuying in America,” a Leaders & Legends lecture by Dan Mudd, CEO, Fortress Investment Group, and former CEO of Fannie Mae. (See story, p. 9.) Sponsored by the Carey Business School. Mason Hall. HW

Mon.,

Mon.,

“Toward High-Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics-Based

Thurs., Oct. 15, 5 p.m.

Oct.

19,

5:15

p.m.

“Ariadne’s Thread: Sigmund Freud, the Textile Industry and the Invention of Psychoanalysis,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania. 101A Dell House. HW

Tues., Oct. 13, 7 p.m. Online information session for the MA in Museum Studies program; participate in Q&A session with the associate program chair, interact with faculty and visit a unit from the core course Museums in the Digital Age. RSVP online

Oct.

Shriver Hall Concert Series— The Belcea Quartet performs works by Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven. (See photo, this page.) $33 general admission, $17 for student rush tickets. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

M US I C Sat., Oct. 17, 6 p.m. Reggae concert by Nicaraguan artist Philip Montalban. (See story, p. 4.) Co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, Casa Baltimore-Limay, the Nicaraguan Network, the Center for Africana Studies and International Studies.

Oct.

12,

12:15

p.m.

“Privacy Goes Public: The American Battles Over Disease Surveillance,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Amy Fairchild, Columbia University. Cosponsored by Health Policy and Management. W3008 SPH. EB Mon.,

Oct.

12,

1:30

p.m.

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Calendar

Key

(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 PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building

SoM SoN SPH WBSB

School of Medicine School of Nursing School of Public Health Wood Basic Science Building

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