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A rare look inside the Amish world

Service at JHU is a group effort By Greg Rienzi

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ohns Hopkins student groups possess a vibrant and generous volunteer ethos, with Baltimore City communities the beneficiary, according to a recent survey. In fall 2011, 81 student organizations, representing 59 percent of the underHomewood graduate student body at Homewood, students worked on dozens volunteered of city service projects, including teen 69,600 hours mentoring, breast cancer awareness initiatives, neighthis fall borhood cleanups, book drives, home renovations, math tutoring, animal welfare and many others. Of those surveyed, students volunteered on average 1.94 days per week. The undergraduates’ service—more than 69,600 work hours—was valued at a minimum of $1,553,584, based on state of Maryland hourly volunteer rates. The inaugural survey, conducted by the university’s Center for Social Concern, was intended to quantify service organized by Johns Hopkins’ student groups, varsity teams, fraternities, sororities and other undergraduate organizations in a given semester. The survey, the first in-depth examination of its kind at JHU, will be repeated each academic term. The request went out in late fall, and the center processed the information last month. Bill Tiefenwerth, director of the Center for Social Concern, said that the results illustrate the volunteer spirit on the campus. “It tells me that Johns Hopkins students freely give of their time as best they can, although their time is limited with busy schedules,” he said. Tiefenwerth said he was particularly impressed by the level of service from the varsity teams, whose members have to fit in volunteering between a rigorous

Over the course of a year, the team behind ‘The Amish’ had unprecedented access to the traditionally attention-averse Amish communities. Above, a barefoot young girl rides her pushbike past a cornfield in Lancaster, Pa.

Upcoming documentary on PBS features several JHU Press authors By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

rom a distance, the Amish appear caught in 18th-century amber. In the days of iPads and hybrid cars, the members of this Christian order cling to their plain dress, bonnets, long beards, and horse and buggy rides. The truth about this insular group, however, has more shades of gray than the

London skyline, says Donald B. Kraybill, a Johns Hopkins University Press author and an internationally recognized scholar of the Amish and Anabaptist groups. The Amish have over time selectively adopted aspects of modern life, Kraybill says, from inline skates to gas grills. Continued on page 4

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‘Test and treat’: New strategy for eliminating malaria By Tim Parsons

Bloomberg School of Public Health

s researchers work to eliminate malaria worldwide, new strategies are needed to find and treat individuals who have malaria but show no signs of the disease. The prevalence of asymptomatic, or minimally symptomatic, malaria can be as high as 35 percent in populations with malaria, and these asymptomatic individuals

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can serve as a reservoir for spreading malaria, even in areas where disease transmission has declined. In a new study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute found that a strategy of actively identifying undiagnosed malaria and then treating those with the disease resulted in significantly lower prevalence of malaria cases compared to a control group. Their findings are published in the Feb. 3 edition of the journal PLoS ONE.

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“New strategies are needed, particularly in areas of declining transmission. One strategy is to screen people for malaria and treat those who are infected, even those who are not sick enough to go to the clinic,” said lead author Catherine G. Sutcliffe, an assistant scientist in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology. “Using artemisinin combination therapy can enhance Continued on page 5

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WHO publishes new standards for human participant research

he World Health Organization has published “Standards and Operational Guidance for Ethics Review of Health-Related Research With Human Participants,” a compilation of 10 standards for ethics review of health-related research with human participants. “Our goal was to provide global guidance and a minimum set of standards that research ethics committees throughout the world are expected to follow,” said Nancy Kass, a member of the team that prepared the standards. Kass is deputy director for public health at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and served as a member of the WHO Research Ethics Secretariat in Geneva in 2009–2010. “It is important that countries, researchers and collaborators know the expected standards for high-quality research ethics committees and have guidance on how to create and maintain them,” Kass said. The standards are based on existing international guidance documents; international experts recommended, however, that WHO create a document to provide benchmarks by which research ethics committees could measure their performance, as well as specific procedures by which to meet those standards. The document outlines standards and guidance for committee members and staff, and the institutions that constitute and oversee such committees. The document is available at whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/ 2011/9789241502948_eng.pdf.

Summer Camp Discoveries Fair scheduled for Tuesday

he Office of Work, Life and Engagement will hold its annual Summer Camp Discovery Fair from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14, in Turner Concourse on the East Baltimore campus. The fair is an opportunity for prospective campers and their families to meet with local and regional camp organizations and groups offering summer activities for children ages 4 to 18. Both day and overnight programs will be represented, as will be camps for individuals with special needs. Attendees will receive a Summer Camp Fair Guide and can enter to win camp discounts and other prizes. For more information, call 443-997-7000.

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ans of Star Trek: The Next Generation may recall an episode in which Dr. Crusher, having found a genetic abnormality in Capt. Picard, traveled back in time to change Picard’s DNA and return him to optimal health. That was 1990s science fiction. Physicians today might not have time machines, but they do have the ability to personalize patients’ health care based on the pattern of their genes, and APL is helping to expand the use of this practice. The Air Force Surgeon General’s office has asked the Johns Hopkins division to lead development of Patient-Centered Precision Care, or PC2, an innovative program that will build on science and technological advances in genomics to ultimately deliver targeted preventive health care to Air Force personnel and their beneficiaries. “We plan to implement advanced clinical decision support that will compile, interpret and present actionable information from a myriad of patient data,” said Lt. Gen. Charles Green, surgeon general of the Air Force, in a congressional appropriations hearing last spring. The information will include data on family history and environment, as well as on genomic, protein and metabolic factors.

Under the Air Force’s Patient-Centered Precision Care initiative, physicians would be able to screen patients for a variety of medical conditions, including ligament disorders.

Ruth Vogel, of APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Department, said, “Personalized medicine puts the health care community in a better position to provide preventive care. We are really beginning to see the promise of genetics and medicine. Over the last 10 years, while mapping the human genome, scientists have worked to better understand the genome, and associate gene mutations with disease,” said Vogel,

American Indian motor vehicle deaths need to be addressed By Alicia Samuels

Bloomberg School of Public Health

ore research and programs are needed to address the elevated rate of motor vehicle–related deaths among American Indian and Alaska Native populations, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. To better understand this racial and ethnic disparity, the authors conducted a systematic review of literature published over the past 20 years and found just seven studies describing the problem and seven that tested interventions. This first published review of the evidence on risk factors and interventions addressing this disparity appears in the January issue of Epidemiologic Reviews. Motor vehicle deaths in the United States, which have declined overall, are highest among American Indian and Alaska Natives, with a death rate that is three times that for the Asian and Pacific Islander population, which has the lowest rate. “The small number of studies in the peerreviewed literature is surprising given the enormous human and economic impact of motor vehicle–related deaths in this population,” said lead study author Keshia Pollack, an assistant professor with the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, part of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. “If injury disparities are going to be eliminated, support for research and programs targeting those groups disproportionately impacted needs to be made more readily available.” The researchers identified published studies in the peer-reviewed literature by searching public health databases for articles published between Jan. 1, 1990, and Jan. 31, 2011. They also searched relevant websites such as those for the Indian Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and individual electronic issues of the IHS Primary Care Provider, a journal devoted to articles of interest to the Indian Health Service and tribal and urban Indian health care professional providers.

The existing literature suggests that multiple risk factors involving behavior, policy and environmental factors are behind the disparity, including the large number of American Indians and Alaskan Natives who live in rural communities, and the use and availability of alcohol. Another common theme the researchers gleaned from the literature was pedestrian involvement in crashes, likely a result of road conditions in rural areas and/or reservations, which often lack traffic control devices and artificial lighting, and of alcohol use. Despite the frequency of pedestrian-related deaths, the researchers were not able to identify any interventions implemented that specifically sought to improve pedestrian safety. “Studies like this give a bird’s-eye view on the problem,” Pollack said. “In addition to discovering gaps in the existing research and programs, we’re able to identify promising interventions worthy of replication. Priority should be given to interventions that combine multiple methods and use partnerships to change policy, the environment and individual behavior.” Additional authors of the study are Shannon Frattaroli, Jessica L. Young, Gail DanaSacco and Andrea C. Gielen. Support for this research was provided by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through a grant to the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Archaeological Museum plans Valentine’s Day ‘museum chat’

ave you ever wondered about “intimate” details of life in ancient Rome? If so, Valentine’s Day— Tuesday, Feb. 14—is the time to head to the JHU Archaeological Museum, where Classics graduate students Laura Garofolo and Nicole Berlin will lead a discussion of Roman objects of love, from the romantic, to the erotic, till death do us part (or not). The ‘museum chat’ takes place from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. in 150 Gilman Hall, located beneath the Atrium, on the Homewood campus.

who will lead an interdisciplinary team of government agencies, universities and private firms for PC2. “The cost of genome sequencing has fallen rapidly, and the technical capability to manage health information is also in place,” she added. Scientists have developed DNA microarrays (also known as gene chips, DNA chips or biochips) and supporting informatics that can screen patients and determine the relative risk that someone with a specific genetic variant will develop a disease such as age-related macular degeneration, Crohn’s disease, myocardial infarction, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, bipolar disorder, coronary artery disease, hypertension or rheumatoid arthritis. The overall goal of the program is to integrate this into routine health care, Vogel said. “It seemed like a straightforward task, but

we soon realized that there were very important challenges that had to be addressed before moving forward,” she said. “How will the genetic information be used, and where will it be stored? What are the patient’s rights? Do employers have a right to know if a patient is predisposed for a certain disease? How well are health care providers trained?” This is not just a technical project, Vogel said. “It has all the dynamics of a health care issue.” APL has assembled a team of the most respected researchers in genetics and personalized medicine, including investigators from Air Force Medical Command, the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, the National Institutes of Health (including its National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute) and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The team will initially focus on five areas: research (to continue to increase what is known about the application of genetic information to health care), informatics (looking for ways to incorporate genomic data into Department of Defense health information technology), policy (exploring the ethical, legal and social issues arising from genomic information gathering, storage and use, and associated policy implications), education (examining ways to expand graduate education in the field and ensure that patients and physicians understand genomic medicine) and systems engineering (bringing it all together). “There are fears about the proliferation of genetic medicine and what that means for our society,” Vogel said. “But it is clear that the benefits of sequencing and applying that information to improve health care are going to be immeasurable, and worth it.” A version of this article appeared earlier in The APL News.

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Amish Continued from page 1 Although Amish norms generally forbid personal use of the Internet and ownership of computers, some Amish firms keep in touch with customers and clients through email accounts and websites, typically run by non-Amish friends or business partners. The many textures of these simple yet nuanced people are revealed in The Amish, an upcoming PBS documentary that draws on the expertise of Kraybill and several other authors in the JHU Press’ highly regarded series called the Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. The groundbreaking documentary, part of the award-winning PBS series American Experience, was filmed over the course of one year and features unprecedented access to Amish communities. The film’s pro-

ducers claim it’s the first documentary to deeply penetrate and explore this profoundly attention-averse group. The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Enoch Pratt Free Library co-hosted a special pre-broadcast screening of The Amish this past weekend. The film will premiere on television at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, on PBS. Kraybill, series editor of the Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and the author and co-editor of a dozen books on the Amish and Mennonites, was first contacted about the documentary in April 2010. The film’s director, David Belton, and the executive producer of American Experience, Mark Samels, flew in from Boston to persuade Kraybill to participate in the project and help them gain access to Amish communities. Kraybill said that he has been contacted many times over the past 10 years by producers and directors. He routinely said no, as he didn’t want to be involved with a work that either exploited or sensationalized a group of people with whom he has built up decades of good will. “Most attempts at a documentary up until now have been flawed,” he said. “They featured Amish children who had not yet been baptized in the church, or [the filmmakers] used ex-Amish or actors dressed in Amish garb. They have been largely superficial and not very accurate.” He also questioned the feasibility of any film in which the subject would refuse to be photographed for fear of excommunication. “It’s obviously a tremendous challenge,” Kraybill said. “I know [Amish] beliefs and practices, and I told the film’s director I was not going to help violate their moral guidelines. They would have to find a way to do it without asking them to face the camera.” The filmmakers did. The two-hour film hinges on audio-only interviews with more than a dozen Amish from several states, whose rich narratives give voice to striking visuals of Amish life. It also features commentary by Kraybill and JHU Press authors Karen Johnson-Weiner, Steven Nolt and David Weaver-Zercher. The producers said that the film required months of patience and hard-won trust. “In our 23 years, with almost 300 films completed, this was the most difficult that we’ve ever made,” said Samels of American Experience. The JHU Press series on Anabaptist studies dates back to the 1980s. Since then, the Press has published 26 titles, with the latest being Selling the Amish, by Susan L. Trollenger, slated for publication later this month. The Press has published six books by Kraybill, including his landmark work The Riddle of Amish Culture, published in 1989 and revised in 2001, which is a popular book in college-level sociology courses. Kraybill is currently working with Johnson-Weiner and Nolt on a new book that comes out of his involvement with the PBS documentary. Amish in America will be published by the Press in spring 2013. Kraybill grew up in Lancaster, Pa., in a Mennonite farm family. He graduated from Eastern Mennonite University and received his doctorate in sociology from Temple University and then joined the faculty at Elizabethtown College in south-central Pennsylvania, where he currently serves as Distinguished College Professor and senior fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Kraybill says that he’s always been fascinated by Amish culture. “I found this way of life intriguing and interesting. How is it possible for a traditional group that rejects public grid electricity and public schools to continue?” he said. “And

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this group is not merely surviving in postmodern America; it’s actually thriving. And its success raises so many interesting intellectual questions.” The Amish trace their roots to 16thcentury Switzerland, emerging as a separate branch of the Mennonites in 1693. They first arrived in the New World in 1737, and migration continued for the next century. Today, the Amish have more than 40 subgroups spread out over 28 states and the Canadian province of Ontario. The largest populations live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York, Michigan and Wisconsin. The number of Amish, roughly 265,000, doubles every 20 years, Kraybill said, due to sizable families and strong retention rates. The fundamental aspects of the culture, and what unifies them, are a dedication to pacifism, community and a simple life. They meet for worship in their homes, categorically reject television and don’t own or operate motor vehicles. “But within those beliefs there is a great deal of diversity,” he said. “It’s hazardous to talk about them in a uniform way.” The Amish culture’s aversion to media and self-promotion often fosters urban myths, Kraybill said, such as the “wildness” of the rumspringa tradition, wherein Amish youth are said to experiment with drugs, sex and all aspects of popular culture. The rumspringa period starts at age 16, when Amish youth begin socializing with their peers on weekends and are allowed greater freedom because they are not yet baptized and not accountable to the rules of the church. “Some will own a car. They go to movies, go to the beach, travel to a major city,” he said. “But most still live at home with their parents. They just spend time socializing with their friends and gaining their adult identity. Yes, they can get rowdy during this time, but not unlike most teenagers.” Rumspringa ends when the individual decides to get baptized, typically around ages 18 to 21. Kraybill says that it’s aspects of Amish culture such as rumspringa that continue to fascinate outsiders. The JHU Press’ Amish book series, written largely for a general audience, remains one of its bestsellers. Greg Britton, editorial director of the JHU Press, says that public interest with the Amish continues to grow, in part because of the stark contrast with the rest of American culture. “We are all so focused on technology and media, but here is a group that has decided to opt out of that,” Britton said. “Yet authors like Don Kraybill have constantly reminded us that the Amish are not a monolithic group. They are evolving, and they don’t agree on all issues. They are as complicated as any American group. It’s a fascinating story.” Kraybill says that the upcoming PBS documentary sheds a lot of light on the Amish, debunking some urban myths along the way. “The filmmakers have done an incredible job,” he said. “They have managed to create a two-hour film with a subject that does not want to be covered and refused to be interviewed on camera. Most of the cinematography is done from a distance. It’s a remarkable film.” G

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Depressive symptoms, physical impairment often follow ICU stays

ritically ill patients who recover from a potentially deadly syndrome known as acute lung injury frequently emerge with new, apparently long-lasting depressive symptoms and new physical impairments that make them unable to perform many daily tasks, Johns Hopkins research suggests. Results of the new study, published Dec. 8 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, also suggest that the depressive symptoms frequently precede the new physical impairments, not the other way around. The research team also said that the findings may be applicable to patients with other types of disease or injury who spend time in hospital intensive care units hooked up to ventilators that breathe for them. “When people are discharged from the ICU, we tend, understandably, to focus on their physical health, but our data tell us we need to focus on their mental health, too,” said study leader O. Joseph Bienvenu, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Depression can make recovery much more difficult. Identifying depressive symptoms early—and treating them—could make a real difference in how patients fare physically in the long term.” Bienvenu and his colleagues assessed 186 survivors of acute lung injury from four Baltimore hospitals at three, six, 12 and 24 months after they became ill and surveyed their levels of depression as well as their ability to independently perform important tasks of daily life, such as using the telephone, shopping and preparing food. The Johns Hopkins team found that 40 percent of the patients developed depressive symptoms in the first two years after discharge even though they had not previously experienced them, and that 66 percent

Malaria Continued from page 1 this strategy, as treatment can reduce transmission to mosquitoes. In regions of declining transmission, the burden of malaria could be reduced to such an extent that elimination is achievable.” The study was conducted in southern Zambia, with colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Macha. Researchers analyzed data from surveys conducted in 2007 and between 2008 and 2009. In both surveys, households were screened for malaria using rapid diagnostic tests and treated with artemisinin combination therapy when malaria was detected. According to the new study, a proactive test-and-treat case-detection strategy resulted in a sixfold reduction in prevalence in 2008 and 2009, with the initial parasite prevalence at 4 percent. Test and treat showed a twofold reduction in 2007, when community prevalence was higher, at 24 percent. PS-2012 JHU Gazette 2-7

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experienced new physical impairments. The patients in the study were an average of 49 years old—people who should be in the prime of their lives but who became disabled and unable to return to work, the researchers say. The researchers are continuing to follow these patients to see if the problems persist for an even longer period of time. “Patients are burdened for a very long time after their hospital stays,” said principal investigator Dale M. Needham, an associate professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine and of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “We need to figure out what we can do to help these previously productive people get back their lives.” Needham says that it is unclear whether the acute lung injury syndrome itself is causing the new problems or whether the cause is to be found in how patients are routinely cared for in ICUs. Standard ICU care for patients with acute lung injury often includes deep sedation and bed rest. Long stretches of inactivity are known to cause physical impairment, and the use of high-dose benzodiazepines to sedate ICU patients has been associated with depressive symptoms. Needham suspects that both critical illnesses themselves and typical ICU practices contribute to negative outcomes. Patients’ lungs typically recover relatively quickly from acute lung injury, a syndrome often caused by pneumonia but also by other infections or trauma. In acute lung injury, the body’s inflammatory response is revved up and gets out of control, causing fluid to flood into the breathing spaces of the lungs and respiratory failure. An estimated 190,000 Americans suffer from acute lung injury each year, and more than 74,000, almost 40 percent, will die while in the hospital.

William J. Moss, senior author of the study and an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said, “Proactive case detection with treatment using artemisinin-combination therapy can reduce transmission and provide indirect protection to household members. If resources permit, this strategy could be targeted to hot spots to achieve further reductions in malaria transmission.” Worldwide, malaria afflicts more than 225 million people. The disease kills between 800,000 and 1 million people each year, many of whom are children living in Africa. Authors of the study, in addition to Sutcliffe and Moss, are Tamaki Kobayashi, Harry Hamapumbu, Timothy Shields, Sungano Mharakurwa, Philip E. Thuma, Thomas A. Louis and Gregory Glass. The research was funded by the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, a stateof-the-art research facility at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It focuses on a broad program of basic science research to treat and control malaria, develop a vaccine and find new drug targets to prevent and cure this deadly disease. G

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Needham says it is important that intensivists like himself and psychiatrists like Bienvenu work together to ensure the best outcomes for patients, a collaboration that is frequently missing in the care of ICU patients. Bienvenu says that he was surprised by the finding that depressive symptoms frequently precede new physical impairments, since the conventional wisdom is that the inability after an ICU stay to do things such as grocery shopping, driving and walking long distances causes patients to feel demoralized about the loss of these functions. But the reverse appears to be true, he says. Depressed patients, he suggests, are harder to motivate to do the physical

activities necessary for recovery and maintenance of function. Bienvenu says that acute lung injury is considered an archetypal critical illness, and that its consequences may be present to one degree or another in patients who have suffered other critical illnesses. “All doctors should look out for these symptoms in their patients who have been in the ICU,” he said. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study are Elizabeth Colantuoni, Pedro A. Mendez-Tellez, Victor D. Dinglas, Nadia Husain, Cheryl R. Dennison and Peter J. Pronovost. —Stephanie Desmon

Winner by a thread By Greg Rienzi

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Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering student recently won top honors at an inaugural international undergraduate research poster competition for his study of a simple and inexpensive diagnostic assay using cotton threads. Rohit Dasgupta, a senior from Centre ville, Va., flew to Saudi Arabia last month to present his concept of threads as a matrix for diagnostic assay systems that could detect certain diseases and monitor a person’s overall health, especially for use in remote regions and low-resource settings. The hydrophilic thread, treated with reagents, can wick a small blood or urine sample and turn a predetermined color in the presence of ketones, nitrites, proteins and glucose in urine, and alkaline phosphates in blood—markers that might indicate kidney dysfunction, a urinary tract infection or diabetes. Dasgupta said there is a need for an assay platform that is inexpensive, rugged and lightweight, and uses a relatively small volume of a sample, such as blood obtained from a single finger prick. “These [blood and urine tests] are difficult to do in poor regions because they often require a lot of trained people and large laboratories,” he said. “What we were trying to do in this project was find a really lowcost way to run these measurements and get results that can immediately be acted upon.” He conducted the research in the summer of 2009 and winter intersession 2010 in George Whitesides’ Research Group at Harvard University as part of the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. The study was published in the May 2010 edition of the Applied Materials & Interfaces journal of the American Chemical Society. Dasgupta was one of three Johns Hopkins students among the 50 finalists for the King

In Saudi Arabia, Rohit Dasgupta receives his award from Brian Moran.

Abdullah University of Science & Technology Undergraduate Poster Competition. The other Johns Hopkins students selected were senior Sarah McElman and junior Daniel Peng. The competition is part of the King Abdullah University’s Winter Enrichment Program. Posters were invited from undergraduates worldwide in the university’s strategic research areas of energy, water, food and the environment. More than 300 students applied. The authors of the top 50 submissions, representing nations across the world, were invited to spend one week in mid-January at the King Abdullah campus to present and discuss their work and be judged for the top prizes. The all-expense-paid six-day trip featured a diving excursion in the Red Sea, a tour of the city of Jeddah and several lavish dinners. The top six posters at the competition received awards. Dasgupta and the other first-prize winner received trophies and certificates. Dasgupta, who is on track to graduate in May, is currently conducting research to develop a point-of-care diagnostic to detect an enzyme deficiency through the Biomedical Engineering Department’s design team program.

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Johns Hopkins faculty weigh in Bubble dynamics expert elected to on ethics of H5N1 research National Academy of Engineering Berman Institute of Bioethics

n a commentary on the biosecurity controversy surrounding recent publication of bird flu research details, a bioethicist and a vaccine expert at Johns Hopkins reaffirm that “all scientists have an affirmative ethical obligation to avoid contributing to the advancement of biowarfare and bioterrorism” but that there are not sufficient structures in place to evaluate potential societal risks. The commentary, titled “The Obligation to Prevent the Next Dual-Use Controversy,” appears in the Feb. 9 online Policy Forum of the journal Science. Authors Ruth R. Faden and Ruth A. Karron say that adequate assessment of those risks requires “prospective review by an international body with a range of expertise, including, in this case, influenza virology and biosecurity.” International prospective review of socalled dual-use research will help mitigate future dilemmas over how to balance global security, academic freedom and public health threats, the authors say. “There is no doubt that there are formidable obstacles to developing such a global oversight body. But that the challenge is hard is no excuse,” Faden and Karron conclude. Faden is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and Karron is a professor in the Department of International Health and director of the Center for Immunization Research and the Johns Hopkins Vaccine Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. “When you take the perspective that both science and security experts are trying to prevent a global lethal pandemic, the problem becomes one of benefit-risk assessment and risk management,” said Faden, who draws on her experience as a member of the Fink Committee convened by the National Research Council in 2001 to create a roadmap for evaluating biosecurity risks. The Fink Committee’s recommendations led to the creation of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which touched off the current controversy over H5N1 (popularly known as “bird flu”) research by calling

for the redaction of details explaining how a version of the virus that is readily transmissible in ferrets was produced. The board cited concerns that such details could help terrorists weaponize the flu virus. “The challenge is to implement effective practices to properly assess and manage these risks that allow for the vigilant stewardship of both the institution of science and public safety,” Faden and Karron write. The Johns Hopkins co-authors highlight key ethical dimensions of this challenge, including “a moral obligation to ensure that the results of that research are used to help reduce risks to global health,” the prospect of which must be the ethical justification for undertaking the risk of dual-use research at all. In 2006, the authors worked with other international experts at a meeting in Bellagio, Italy, to address the disproportionate impact that global efforts to prevent a lethal influenza pandemic would have on the world’s disadvantaged. The meeting, organized by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, included leaders in the fields of public health, animal health, virology, medicine, public policy, economics, bioethics, law and human rights. In its statement of principles, the group agreed that “developing as well as developed countries should have access to the best available scientific and socioeconomic data and analyses to inform avian and pandemic influenza planning and response.”

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ndrea Prosperetti, a Johns Hopkins professor who is an internationally respected expert in the mechanics of fluids, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the organization announced Feb. 9. Election to the academy is considered among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice or education, and to the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. Prosperetti, who is the Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering, was recognized for “contributions to the fundamentals and applications of multiphase flows.” Multiphase flows include the bottom transport of sediment in rivers, the boiling of a liquid in a power generation plant, the complex gas-liquid mixture in an oil pipeline and other situations in which solids, liquids and gases flow together. His work focuses mainly on bubble dynamics, fluid-particle flows, computational fluid dynamics and acoustics. Regarding his election to the academy, Prosperetti said the credit should be shared. “I think this represents recognition for the conditions that enabled me to do good work at Johns Hopkins,” he said. Prosperetti received a doctorate in engineering science from Caltech in 1974 and taught at the University of Milan, Italy, before joining Johns Hopkins in 1985. Currently the editor in chief of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow, he is author or coauthor of about 180 papers in refereed journals. He also is author of the book Advanced

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Mathematics for Applications and co-author of two other books. In addition to his work at Johns Hopkins, Prosperetti is the Berkhoff Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Applied Sciences of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. This year the academy elected 66 new members and 10 foreign associates, bringing the total U.S. membership to 2,254 and the number of foreign associates to 206. Others on the Johns Hopkins faculty who are members of the academy are Edmund Y.S. Chao, a retired School of Medicine professor of orthopedic surgery; Kenneth Keller, director of SAIS’ Bologna Center; Robert A. Dalrymple, the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil Engineering; Murray B. Sachs, University Distinguished Service Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Eugene D. Shchukin, a Whiting School research professor emeritus; and James E. West, a research professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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Memo to pediatricians: Allergy tests no magic bullet for diagnosis New report includes guidelines on whom and when to test B y E k at e r i n a P e s h e va

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n advisory from two leading allergists, Robert Wood of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Scott Sicherer of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, urges clinicians to use caution when ordering allergy tests, and to avoid making a diagnosis based solely on test results. In an article published in the January issue of Pediatrics, the researchers warn that blood tests, an increasingly popular diagnostic tool in recent years, and skin-prick testing, an older weapon in the allergist’s arsenal, should never be used as stand-alone diagnostic strategies. These tests, Sicherer and Wood say, should be used only to confirm suspicion and never to look for allergies in an asymptomatic patient. Test results, they add, should be interpreted in the context of a patient’s symptoms and medical history. If a food allergy is suspected, Sicherer and Wood advise, the patient should undergo a food challenge—

Service Continued from page 1 academic schedule and the many hours of training and travel. “I found that really gratifying, and their work important,” he said. “It’s also a credit to [Athletics Director] Tom Calder, who has helped instill this ethic among the coaches and students.” This fall, 13 teams, 312 students in total, participated in more than 2,500 hours of service. The women’s lacrosse team volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House of Charities of Baltimore, serving breakfast and spending time with the children there. The idea came from one of the team’s players, who had previously volunteered for the organization. Colleen McCaffrey, a lacrosse team member and a senior majoring in psychology, said that teams are often inspired by the enthusiasm of other teams and teammates. McCaffrey said that the lacrosse squad also receives strong support from its coach, Janine Tucker. “She often tells us that we’re so fortunate that we should take the time to give back to the community,” she said. “And we have a great time with service. Sometimes just showing up with a smile can mean the world to [the people we visit]. And the reactions you get keep you going back, wanting to do more and more.” The women’s lacrosse team also hosted an inaugural Stick It to Sarcoma exhibition tournament this fall. Senior captain Rachel Ballatori, in honor of her father who was battling angiosarcoma, rallied her teammates and coaches to raise money for the fight against the disease. The special event, held Oct. 22, featured players from Johns Hopkins, Navy and the University of Cincinnati. All proceeds, more than $15,000, went to the Johns Hopkins Sarcoma Program. Ballatori said that her teammates’ reaction filled her with “overwhelming gratitude.” “They were there for me during a hard time in my life,” said Ballatori, whose father died in December. “I could not have asked for more.” Ballatori and the lacrosse team plan on hosting another Stick It to Sarcoma tournament this fall. Both the baseball team and the women’s swim team helped clean up areas of Wyman Park Dell, the 16-acre public park located near the Homewood campus. The wrestling team partnered with the Center for Autism and Related Disorders

the gold standard for diagnosis—which involves consuming small doses of the suspected allergen under medical supervision. Unlike food challenges, which directly measure an actual allergic reaction, skin tests and blood tests are proxies that detect the presence of IgE antibodies, immune system chemicals released in response to allergens. Skin testing involves pricking the skin with small amounts of an allergen and observing if and how the skin reacts. A large hivelike wheal at the injection site signals that the patient’s immune system has created antibodies to the allergen. Blood tests, on the other hand, measure the levels of specific IgE antibodies circulating in the blood. These tests can tell whether someone is sensitive to a particular substance but cannot reliably predict if a patient will have an actual allergic reaction, nor can they foretell how severe the reaction might be, the scientists say. Many people who have positive skin tests or measurably elevated IgE antibodies do not have allergies, they caution. For example, past research has found that up to 8 percent of children have a positive skin or blood test for peanut allergies, but only 1 percent of them have clinical symptoms. “Allergy tests can help a clinician in making a diagnosis, but tests by themselves are not diagnostic magic bullets or foolproof predictors of clinical disease,” Wood said.

at Kennedy Krieger Institute to create the Take Down Autism program. The team dedicated its season to autism awareness, and the wrestlers raised money for CARD with each takedown they completed. The wrestlers also visited students and volunteered their time at Kennedy Krieger Institute and local schools. The Greeks were very busy giving back, too. Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma volunteered at the Margaret Brent Elementary Story Pals program. Phi Mu hosted a “Mr. Phi Mu” male pageant among fraternities and men’s sports teams to support the Katie Oppo Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research, named in recognition of a past chapter member. Phi Delta Theta founded and organized the Iron Phi 5K, a race to support the ALS Association. The largest group volunteer effort was the JHU Tutorial Project, the long-standing after-school program that provides academic support for Baltimore City elementary school students. This fall, 150 students donated nearly 11,000 work hours to the project. The student group SHARE had 138 students take part last fall in its community service. The mission of SHARE is to improve the quality of life for members of marginalized populations in medically underserved areas through the provision of otherwise unattainable medical and surgical supplies. Several student groups surveyed participated in the President’s Day of Service held in September. More than 1,000 Johns Hopkins students, faculty, staff and alumni fanned out over Baltimore and beyond to lend a hand to local nonprofit organizations and community centers. The President’s Day of Service, organized by the Center for Social Concern, was set into motion by President Ron Daniels when he took office in fall 2009 as part of his commitment to serving the city. The Center for Social Concern’s fall survey also produced several recommendations, such as having more faculty participate with the students and asking the university to explore ways to increase transportation options for students who wish to serve off campus. Tiefenwerth said that the center is constantly looking for ways to expand and enhance the service experience for students at Johns Hopkins. The Center for Social Concern, founded in 1991, is the student volunteer office for the Homewood campus, and it currently has 60 groups focused on serving the Baltimore community. G

“Many children with positive test results do not have allergic symptoms, and some children with negative test results have allergies.” Undiagnosed allergies can be dangerous, even fatal, but overreliance on blood and skin tests can lead to a misdiagnosis, ill-advised food restrictions or unnecessary avoidance of environmental exposures, such as pets. In addition, the researchers caution, physicians should be careful when comparing results from different tests and laboratories because commercial tests vary in sensitivity. Also, laboratories may interpret test results differently, making an apples-to-apples comparison challenging, Wood says. In their report, the scientists say, skin and blood tests can and should be used to: • Confirm a suspected allergic trigger after observing clinical reactions suggestive of an allergy. For example, children with moderate to severe asthma should be tested for allergies to common household or environmental triggers, including pollen, molds, pet dander, cockroach, mice or dust mites. • Monitor the course of established food F E B .

allergies via periodic testing. Levels of antibodies can help determine whether someone is still allergic, and progressively decreasing levels of antibodies can signify allergy resolution or outgrowing the allergy. • Confirm an allergy to insect venom following a sting that causes anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction marked by difficulty breathing, lightheadedness, dizziness and hives. • Determine vaccine allergies (skin tests only). Conversely, skin and blood tests should not be used: • As general screens to look for allergies in symptom-free children, or in children with history of allergic reactions to specific foods. In this case, the test will add no diagnostic value, the experts say. • To test for drug allergies. Generally, blood and skin tests do not detect antibodies to medications. Nearly 3 percent of Americans (7.5 million) and at least 6 percent of young children have at least one food allergy, according to the latest estimates from the National Institutes of Health. 1 3

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Calendar Continued from page 12 Act,” a JHU Social Policy seminar with Tracy Gordon, Brookings Institution. Sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Economics, and Health Policy and Management. 311 Hodson. HW “How the Genome Folds,” a Biology special seminar with Erez Lieberman Aiden, Google Inc. and the Harvard Society of Fellows. 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., Feb. 16, 4 p.m.

“The Effects of Turbulent Mixing on an Overturning Circulation,” a CEAFM seminar with Kial Stewart, KSAS. 50 Gilman. HW Fri., Feb. 17, 11 a.m.

Fri., Feb. 17, 12:15 p.m. “Patterns of Growth in Children Born Small for Gestational Age: Relationship With Hospitalization Risk and Cognition During Childhood,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Marcia Varella. W2029 SPH. EB

“Repurposing Itraconazole as an Inhibitor of TumorAssociated Angiogenesis and Hedgehog Signaling,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences thesis defense seminar with Blake Aftab. 303 WBSB. EB

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Mon., Feb. 20, noon. “Estrogen and Prostate Cancer—An Update,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Shuk-mei Ho, University of Cincinnati. W1020 SPH. EB

“Looking Into the Dark: Understanding Melanoma Initiation Using the Zebrafish,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Craig Ceol, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

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Nanoparticles as MRI Contrast Agents to Track Immune Responses,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Chien Ho, Carnegie Mellon University. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW ) “Locally Standard Geometries and Algebraic Structures,” a Topology seminar with David Ayala, Harvard University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW

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ies Fair, an opportunity for prospective campers and their families to meet with local and regional camp organizations offering summer activities for children ages 4 to 18. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Sponsored by Work, Life and Engagement. For more information, call 443-997-7000. Turner Concourse. EB

Tues., Feb. 14, 12:15 p.m. Museum Chat—“Love in Ancient Rome,” a special Valentine’s Day look at Roman objects of love, both romantic and erotic, with Classics graduate students Laura Garofolo and Nicole Berlin. (See story, p. 3.) Sponsored by the JHU Archaeological Museum. 150 Gilman. HW

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Listed below are some of the university’s newest openings for indemand jobs that we most urgently need to fill. In addition to considering these opportunities, candidates are invited to search a complete listing of openings and apply for positions online at jobs.jhu.edu.

IT@JH Enterprise Business Solutions has several new position openings. The scope of work is at an enterprisewide level, with typical projects impacting the broader customer base of Johns Hopkins and its most-mission-critical systems. Projects will include largescale integration with a vast, complex and highly distributed network infrastructure. Interaction with departments and teams both within and outside of IT@JH is often required. For detailed job descriptions and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. ERP Business Analyst Lead Business Solution Analyst Senior ERP Business Analyst Senior ERP Business Analyst Senior ERP Business Analyst

School of Medicine Office of Human Resources 98 N. Broadway, Suite 300 410-955-2990 The School of Medicine is seeking experienced applicants for several administrative and financial positions. For detailed job descriptions and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. Revenue Cycle Coordinator Financial Analyst Budget Analyst Administrative Coordinator

Schools of Public Health and Nursing Office of Human Resources 2021 E. Monument St. 410-955-3006 The Bloomberg School of Public Health is offering exciting opportunities for individuals who are seeking positions in the field of nursing and who possess good clinical, organizational and communication skills. For detailed job descriptions and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. Senior Research Nurse Research Nurse

tudents are invited to apply for the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts and the President’s Commendation for Achievement in the Arts in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the arts for the 2011–12 academic year. Students who are in good standing and on track to receive a degree in May 2012 may apply simultaneously for both of the university’s annual undergraduate arts awards by submitting a separate application for each award. Applicants must specify whether they are applying for one award or both. Ten copies of a completed application must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 9. Full guidelines, application forms and submission details may be found at getintothearts.jhu.edu/ sudlerprize. The Louis Sudler Prize for outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance or the visual arts is made to a graduating senior from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering, School of Nursing or Peabody Institute, or a fourth-year student in the School of Medicine, whose submission is not related to his or her major field of study. The winner receives a $1,500 cash award, and his or her name appears in the commencement program. The President’s Commendation for

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Achievement in the Arts is a service award honoring a graduating senior who has contributed extensively to the arts in the Homewood and/or Baltimore communities. Graduating seniors from the Krieger School, Whiting School, School of Nursing or Peabody Institute may apply for the commendation. All art forms are eligible for consideration. The winner receives a certificate, and his or her name appears in the commencement program. A committee of faculty and administrators from the Homewood campus, School of Nursing, Peabody Institute and School of Medicine will review nominees and their supporting materials and make recommendations to President Ronald J. Daniels, who will make the final selections. The Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts has been honoring undergraduate students with artistic talent since 1983. It is made possible through the generosity of Louis Sudler, a Chicago businessman and philanthropist who died in 1992. In addition to Johns Hopkins, the award is given out at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Purdue, Duke, Rice, Stanford, Emory and Michigan State universities; Dartmouth and Oberlin colleges; and MIT. The President’s Commendation for Achievement in the Arts was established in 1989 by Steven Muller, Johns Hopkins president from 1972 to 1990. Questions concerning the 2012 Sudler Prize and President’s Commendation should be directed to sudlerprize@jhu.edu.

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he Helene Fuld Health Trust of New York has awarded a grant to the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing to support the Helene Fuld Leadership Program for the Advancement of Patient Care Quality and Safety. The program will prepare 200 new clinical nurses over the next five years. The Fuld Leadership Program is designed to give Fuld Fellows a solid clinical foundation in quality improvement and patient safety that is firmly grounded in leadership development. The program will focus on older citizens, who represent the majority of hospitalized patients. The initiative builds on the strengths of the School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the new Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality to support the training of clinical nurses as leaders in the promotion of patient care quality and safety. The program extends the success of previous Fuld leadership programs at the School of Nursing that continue to distinguish Johns Hopkins as a pioneer in patient care safety and quality improvement. Fuld Fellows in Patient Care Quality and Safety will benefit from the advantages of interprofessional education provided by the nation’s top-ranked hospital and schools of Nursing, Medicine and Public Health, and will participate in the highest quality health education, research and patient care delivery.

“The Fuld Leadership Program will transform the school’s ability to prepare future clinical nursing leaders with strong competencies in quality and safety,” said Martha N. Hill, dean of the School of Nursing. “In addition, the program will help strengthen nursing education nationwide by offering an exemplary academic approach to building competencies in quality and safety that can be replicated or adapted at other leading institutions.” The new program reflects the recommendation of the 2010 Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing, which calls for increased nurse leadership to help reduce health care errors and improve quality of care. Cheryl R. Dennison Himmelfarb, an associate professor in the Department of Health Systems and Outcomes, has been named director of the program. Dennison Himmelfarb will work closely with three program leaders and three faculty mentors to guide fellows through their course of study and engage resources across the institution. Mentors will be drawn from the School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Armstrong Institute. Dennison Himmelfarb said, “Fuld Fellows will benefit from training and intensive, applied experiences in clinical environments that provide an enduring foundation for continued excellence in advancing quality and safety throughout their careers. They will graduate with special competencies that distinguish them among their clinical colleagues.”

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B L OO D D RI V E S

Tues., Feb. 14, 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., and Wed., Feb. 15, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Val-

entine’s Day Homewood campus blood drive, sponsored by Work, Life and Engagement. Blood donors are urgently needed. Bring a friend to make a donation and be entered into a raffle for a gift card to Ms. Shirley’s restaurant. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW C O L L O Q UIA

“The ‘Secret’ (Gsang Ba) Emerging: Unraveling Intertextualities Across Incommensurate Ideologies,” an Anthropology colloquium with Urmila Nair, KSAS. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., Feb. 14, 4 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 15, 3:30 p.m. “High-

Redshift Galaxy Formation: The High-Resolution View,” an STSci colloquium with Sadegh Khochfar, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW

Thurs.,

Feb.

16,

3:45

p.m.

“Neural Representations of Word Meanings,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University. 111 Krieger. HW Thurs., Feb. 16, 4 p.m. “The Urban Miniature and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin,” an ELH colloquium with Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University. 130D Gilman. HW

“SnoMotes: Robotic Scientific Explorers for Understanding Climate Change,” an Applied Physics Laboratory Black History Month colloquium with Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology. Kossiakoff Center. APL

Fri., Feb. 17, 2 p.m.

of the secret talks between Israel and Hamas for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit five years after his capture. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW

Wed.,

Feb.

15,

12:30

p.m.

“The Congo Botched Election: Where Do We Go From Here?” a SAIS African Studies Program panel discussion with Anthony Gambino, Eastern Congo Initiative; Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution; Jason Stearns, Yale University; and Maja Bovcon, University of Oxford. For information, call 202-6635676 or email itolber1@jhu .edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Wed.,

Feb.

15,

12:30

p.m.

“Due Diligence: Separating Fact From Fiction in Microfinance,” a SAIS International Development Program discussion with David Roodman, SAIS. For more information or to RSVP, email developmentroundtable@jhu .edu. 203 Rome Bldg. SAIS Wed.,

Feb.

15,

12:45

p.m.

“Confronting the Maras: Policy Responses to Organized Crime and Violence in Central America,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Thomas Bruneau, Naval Postgraduate School. For information, call 202-663-5734 or email jzurek1@ jhu.edu. 517 Nitze Bldg. SAIS “Egyptian Administration During the Old Kingdom,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Leslie Ann Warden, West Virginia University Institute of Technology. For information, call 202663-5676 or email itolber1@jhu .edu. Rome Auditorium. SAIS

Fri., Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m.

F I L M / V I D EO

Screening of the film Black in Latin America, as part of the African Diaspora Association’s Black History Month movie series. Sponsored by the SAIS African Diaspora Association. For information or to RSVP, email ada.hopkins@ gmail.com. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS

Mon.,

Feb.

13,

12:30

p.m.

“Renewing America’s Focus on a Secure, Sustainable Energy Future,” a SAIS Energy, Resources and Environment Program discussion with Thomas Farrell, chairman and CEO, Dominion Resources. For information and to RSVP, email saisereglobal@jhu .edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Visiting scholar David Satter and Ben Ginsberg of SAIS will discuss Satter’s new book, It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past. Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Institute at SAIS. For information and to RSVP, call 202-663-5772 or email ckunkel@ jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Tues., Feb. 14, 4:30 p.m.

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies presents a talk by Gershon Baskin, initiator

Wed., Feb. 15, noon.

G RA N D ROU N D S

“HPV Vaccine: Public Health and Ethics Analysis,” Public Health Practice grand rounds with Nancy Kass, SPH, and Connie Trimble, SoM. 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.) W1214 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 15, noon.

Mon.,

Feb.

13,

12:15

p.m.

Sheila Hutzler Rives Memorial Lecture—“Whose Autonomy, Whose Empowerment? Bioeth-

“The Music of Michael Formanek,” performed by the Peabody Jazz Orchestra. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. East Hall.

Fri., Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Peabody

“Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities,” a Humanities lecture by Joshua Landy, Stanford University. 208 Gilman. HW

Sun., Feb. 19, 3 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 13, 5 p.m. “Why Theory Failed in Latin America,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Brett Levinson, Binghamton University. 479 Gilman. HW Tues., Feb. 14, noon. The Jerome

Frank Lecture—“Persuading the Healer: Jerome Frank’s Legacy in an Age of Evolutionary Biology” by Julia Frank, George Washington University. Sponsored by Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Hurd Hall. EB

The Charles and Mary O’Melia Lecture in Environmental Science— “A Risk Forecasting Framework for Nanomaterials” by Mark Wies ner, Duke University. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering. 234 Ames. HW Tues., Feb. 14, 3 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 17, 5 p.m. The Samuel H. Kress Lecture—“Stonehenge: New Discoveries” by Michael Parker Pearson, University of Sheffield, UK. Sponsored by History of Art and the Baltimore Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. 50 Gilman. HW

Dean’s Lecture II—“The Widening Gyre: Biomedical Education in the Age of Information Overload” by Jon Lorsch, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB

MUSIC Tues., Feb. 14, 8 p.m. “Garden of Joys and Sorrows,” a chamber music concert with Marina Piccinini, flute, and guest artists Sivan Magen, harp, and Kim Kashkashian, viola. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody Wed., Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Wind Ensemble performs works by Toch, Zhangyi, Mackey, de Meij and Schoenberg. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody Thurs., Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m.

L E C T URE S

The American Opera Theatre performs Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, with the Baltimore Baroque Band, a Peabody ensemble. $25 general admission, $15 for senior citizens and $10 for students with ID. To purchase tickets, call 410-752-8558 or go to www .theatreproject.org. Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St.

Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m. Dean’s Lecture—“Academia, Industry and the Health of the Public” by Frederick Brancati, SoM. Sponsored by the School of Medicine. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB

Mon., Feb. 20, 4 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 17, 3:30 p.m.

D I S C U S S IO N / TALKS

ics in the ICU” by John Lantos, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine. Sponsored by the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Lunch will be provided.W3008 SPH. EB

Thurs. to Sat., Feb. 16 to 18, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 19, 3 p.m.

The Peabody Improvisation and Multimedia Ensemble performs. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. East Hall. Peabody

Peabody Camerata performs music by Stravinsky, Xenakis and Boulez. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Sat., Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m.

The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. $8 general admission, $6 for senior citizens, JHU affiliates and nonJHU students; free for JHU students and Maryland state employees. SDS Room, Mattin Center.

S E M I N AR S

“Is There a Stem Cell Niche in the Adult Drosophila Midgut?” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Benjamin Ohlstein, Columbia University. W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 13, noon.

Mon., Feb. 13, 12:15 p.m. “Neu-

rometabolic Control of Behavior,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Michael Wolfgang, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

“Melanopsin Signaling in the Eye,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with King-Wai Yau, SoM. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW ) Mon., Feb. 13, 1:30 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m. “African Captives,” a History seminar with Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University. 308 Gilman. HW

“Computational Wave-Field Imaging,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Laura Waller, Princeton University. 320 Hackerman. HW

Tues., Feb. 14, 11 a.m.

Tues.,

Feb.

14,

12:10

p.m.

“Litigation for Injury Prevention,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Stephen Teret, SPH. Sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2008 SPH. EB “Corner Polyhedra and Maximal Lattice-Free Convex Bodies: A Fresh Geometric Approach to Cutting Plane Theory,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Amitabh Basu, University of California, Davis. 304 Whitehead.

Tues., Feb. 14, 1:30 p.m.

HW Tues., Feb. 14, 1:30 p.m .

“La Recherche du Temps Perdu: Why a Novel?” a Humanities Center seminar with Joshua Landy, Stanford University. 208 Gilman. HW

Wed.,

Feb.

15,

12:15

p.m.

Mental Health Noon Seminar— “Coping Power Outcome and Evaluation Studies” with John

Lochman, University of Alabama. B14B Hampton House. EB Wed.,

Feb.

15,

1:30

p.m.

“Self-Assembly and Partitioning of Multiprotein Complexes in Bacteria,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Victor Sourjik, University of Heidelberg. 701 WBSB. EB “Charting the Mammalian Epigenome,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Bing Ren, University of California, San Diego. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Wed., Feb. 15, 4 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 15, 4 p.m. “Regularized Higher-Order Principal Components Analysis,” a Biostatistics seminar with Genevera Allen, Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University and Texas Children’s Hospital. W2030 SPH. EB

“The Relationship Between Electrocardiographic QT Interval Duration and Mortality,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with YiYi Zhang. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Feb. 16, 9 a.m.

Thurs., Feb. 16, noon. The Bromery Seminar—“Modeling Water Waves and Other Free Surface Flows With SPH” with Tony Dalrymple, WSE. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW

“Bialik and the Awakening of a Language,” a Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies seminar with Tamar Sovran, Tel Aviv University. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel).

Thurs., Feb. 16, noon.

HW Thurs., Feb. 16, 1 p.m. “Function and Dysfunction in the Hippocampal/Prefrontal Circuit,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Joshua Gordon, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

“To Adapt or Not to Adapt: The Power and Limits of Adaptive Sensing,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Mark Davenport, Stanford University. 132 Gilman. HW

Thurs., Feb. 16, 3 p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 16, 4 p.m. “A Whole New ARRA? State and Local Government Finances and Federalism After the American Recovery and Reinvestment

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