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Pens with potential win global health prize

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he university has embarked on a comprehensive review of its benefits package with the aim of reducing costs by $15 million annually, while still working to maintain Johns Hopkins’ highly competitive and broad faculty and staff offerings. ‘We need The university will examine current to be benefits, look at peer thoughtful institutions as benchmarks and consider alternatives to existabout our ing practices to bring about more-efficient offerings’ delivery systems and design a more cost-effective program. The 14-member Benefits Advisory Committee, which includes representatives from each academic division, was formed by Lloyd Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, and Daniel Ennis, senior vice president for finance and administration. The committee, which has already met three times, will present a set of recommendations to Ennis and Minor by early fall, with subsequent review needed by President Ronald J. Daniels and the university’s board of trustees. The group is co-chaired by Donald Steinwachs, a professor and director of the Health Services Research and Development Center at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Fred Puddester, senior associate dean for finance and administration for the School of Arts and Sciences. (As Puddester will be leaving Johns Hopkins in June, a new co-chair from an academic division will be named soon.) Key priorities for the committee will be to consider the market competitiveness of JHU’s benefits program for both faculty and staff groups, pay careful attention to the needs of the university’s most vulnerable populations and consider creative and nontraditional health management strategies.

The students show off their invention at BME Design Day, held last week. Front row: Matthew Means, Sherri Hall, Mary O’Grady and Shishira Nagesh. Back row: Peter Truskey, Maxim Budyansky, Sean Monagle and James Waring.

Simple inexpensive test could save lives of women, unborn kids By Phil Sneiderman

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ould simple tests using chemical-filled pens and costing less than a penny per test save the lives of thousands of pregnant women and newborns in impoverished areas? A low-cost Antenatal Screening Kit that aims to accomplish this goal won the grand prize last week for a team of Johns Hopkins graduate students who

entered an international competition sponsored by ABC News and the Duke Global Health Institute. In the students’ system, pens filled with testing solutions are used to make marks on strips of paper, which are then exposed to a pregnant woman’s urine. If Continued on page 4

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Summer in the city: A big draw for students By Greg Rienzi

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he university’s Center for Social Concern unveiled a new student program last fall, not sure what reaction it would get. Here was the pitch: Spend the better part of the summer in Baltimore interning at a nonprofit community-based organization or city social service agency. The program had 25 slots. More than 200 students applied. “The response certainly exceeded expec-

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Adult classes at Peabody Prep; Latino art and music at MCC; singer Marni Nixon honored

tations,” said Abby Neyenhouse, the center’s assistant director for community and nonprofit internships. “It was a bit overwhelming, considering this was the first year for the program.” Next month, the Johns Hopkins Community Impact Internships program will send 25 students to 25 organizations throughout the city to conduct meaningful, hands-on work. The students will work eight 30-hour weeks at places such as the Citizens Planning and Housing Association, the Baltimore City Health Department’s Community Risk Reduction Services, the Mayor’s

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Office of Human Services, Parks and People Foundation, My Sister’s Place and the Office of the Public Defender’s Juvenile Court Division. The student in the Mayor’s Office of Human Services, for example, will be assigned to the Homeless Services Program, charged with overseeing the development and implementation of a gamut of housing services for the homeless or at-risk. The Greater Homewood Community Corp. intern will research and create a Continued on page 6

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ohns Hopkins faculty and staff are invited to take advantage of opportunities to study music and dance during the Peabody Preparatory’s six-week summer session. Individual instruction is offered through the Adult and Continuing Education program in voice and most instruments. There are also group classes in voice, violin, guitar and dance (ballet and contemporary). Tuition remission is available for these noncredit personal enrichment courses. Current students in the ACE program will perform in a free recital at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17, in Peabody’s Cohen-Davison Family Theatre. On Saturday, May 21, ACE will host an information session from 2 to 4 p.m. in Peabody’s Bank of America Lounge. At this session, prospective students can tour the campus and have their questions answered by faculty and staff. The Preparatory’s summer session begins Monday, June 20. For more information, and to register, go to www.peabody.jhu.edu/ prep or e-mail Larry Williams, ACE program director, at larryw@peabody.jhu.edu.

Montgomery County Campus hosts Colores Gallery Night

n May 6, the Montgomery County Campus hosted the Hispanic Business Foundation’s second annual Colores Gallery Night. The event, which drew 75 attendees, was a fundraiser for the foundation’s Partnership Youth Initiative, an internship and mentoring program for disadvantaged high school students. The gala featured art from 10 local Latino artists and music from five local Latino musicians. Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown delivered the evening’s keynote address, and Montgomery County Council member Nancy Navarro gave the art exhibition’s opening remarks.

JHH named by Becker’s mags as a best place to work

hicago-based publications Becker’s Hospital Review and its Ambulatory Surgery Center Review have named The Johns Hopkins Hospital as one of the 100 best places to work in health care in the United States for 2011. Johns Hopkins also made Becker’s listing in 2010. In describing their selection process, the editors state that “each organization has put tremendous thought into the building blocks that make up a great workplace: robust benefits, opportunities for self-improvement, employee appreciation and strong ties between staff members, to name a few. These organizations set and

meet high standards for employee satisfaction and demonstrate to the industry that quality care begins with an engaged workforce.”

Soprano Marni Nixon to receive George Peabody Medal

oprano Marni Nixon, the singing voice of Anna, Maria and Eliza in three of the greatest Hollywood musicals, is the 2011 recipient of the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America. The medal will be presented on May 26 at the Peabody Institute’s graduation ceremony. Though “no credit” clauses in her movie contracts delayed her public recognition, Nixon sang for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. Time magazine called her “the Ghostess with the Mostess.” “Marni Nixon is most famous for her marvelous playback singing in films known to all,” said Peabody Institute Director Jeffrey Sharkey. “But singers of classical music have also long admired her performances of works by Schoenberg, Stravinsky and other emigre composers, with whom she was closely associated.” In addition to receiving the medal, Nixon will speak at Peabody’s graduation ceremony. The George Peabody Medal has been presented since 1980, when the awardees were Leonard Bernstein, Eubie Blake and John Brademas.

Author Michael Kimball to read Tuesday at Barnes & Noble

altimore author Michael Kimball’s second novel was released to much acclaim in the United Kingdom under the title How Much of Us There Was and in Spanish as Lo que queda de nosotros. Last week, it was released in the United States with the title Us, and Kimball will be at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17, to read from and sign the book. Us explores how death affects not only the dying but the bereaved spouse, and it is narrated by both the husband and his grandson, who tries to understand “how love can accumulate between two people over and through two lifetimes.” Kimball is also the author of two other critically acclaimed novels, Dear Everybody and The Way the Family Got Away. His work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and in numerous publications. He is also responsible for the blog Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) and the documentary films I Will Smash You and 60 Writers/60 Places.

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arah B. Steinberg, an 18-year veteran of The Johns Hopkins University who rose through the ranks in the Whiting School of Engineering and Krieger School of Arts and Sciences to become interim vice provost for student affairs, has formally accepted the position of vice provost for student affairs. An engineer by education and training, Steinberg has served as interim vice provost for the past nine months. She will continue to oversee areas of the Homewood campus that relate to student life, enrollment and academic services. She is responsible for matters associated with admissions, financial aid, registration and career services, student activities, counseling and health services, religious and residential life, athletics, and housing and dining services. “Sarah has proven herself repeatedly as an outstanding leader, and she is admired by students, faculty and staff alike,” Provost Lloyd B. Minor said. “She is deeply committed to ensuring that the Hopkins student experience is second to none. I am grateful for Sarah’s vision, her energy and her passion for Johns Hopkins, and I am thrilled that she has accepted this position.” Steinberg succeeds Paula Burger, who retired in August as vice provost and dean of undergraduate education after a 17-year career during which she is credited with improving the undergraduate experience for students both inside and outside the classroom. “I love the diversity of my job,” Steinberg said. “In a single day, my meetings may cover such topics as admitting the class of 2015, meeting the financial need of our students, reviewing the design details for the new Cordish Lacrosse Center and discussing the latest research on the student experience at Hopkins. Each day is exciting and fulfilling. I thrive on the variety and the challenge.” As she assumes her new role, Steinberg expressed enthusiasm about the opportunity to blend her knowledge of the two Homewood schools with her interests in spotlighting and enhancing the undergraduate student experience. Steinberg was named interim vice provost in September 2010, following the departure of Burger, whose position was restructured so that student affairs and academic responsibilities were split between Steinberg and Steven David, who was named vice dean for undergraduate education in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Since that time, Steinberg has been busy working with the Homewood Schools deans, as well as with the deans, directors and managers within Homewood Student Affairs, to strengthen the university’s connections with students and their parents. Steinberg has trav-

Jerry Schnydman, exec assistant to president, announces retirement

eled to a number of cities, including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, to meet and speak with parent groups, working closely with the National Parents Committee. Steinberg said that she looks forward to strengthening the relationship between the activities of Homewood Student Affairs and Constituent Engagement, an arm of Alumni Relations, in an effort to bring young graduates back to Homewood as a resource for current students. She has also worked to help the new Student Life Committee of the university’s board of trustees begin its work. “We have already had some great conversations this year about student satisfaction, admissions and career services,” Steinberg said. She added that President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Minor have demonstrated their strong interest in the undergraduate experience by engaging the students in conversation and activities. “This direct support and engagement from the university leadership makes my job so much easier,” she said. Katherine S. Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School, praised the work Steinberg has done to enhance the student experience at Johns Hopkins. “Sarah Steinberg has been a tremendous asset in this role,” Newman said. “She and her staff are making a remarkable difference in the lives of our undergraduates, from the career advising they provide to the student life enhancements they make possible. Sarah is a very effective leader, and we are grateful to her for assuming this responsibility.” Steinberg has been with the university since 1993 in increasingly responsible roles. She spent 11 years with the Whiting School’s Part-time Engineering Programs (now called Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals), rising from program director to executive director. In late 2004, she moved to the Krieger School, where she served as senior associate dean, responsible for graduate professional programs while also overseeing the school’s information technology strategy and the integration of technology into teaching and research. She also has worked extensively with several universitywide initiatives, including the Homewood Disability Services Advisory Council and committees and task forces designed to streamline student information systems and centrally manage distance learning courses. She currently chairs the University Committee on Part-time Education. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Steinberg worked for 15 years as a geotechnical engineering consultant in Chicago and Northern Virginia. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Cornell University, an MBA with a concentration in marketing and finance from Northwestern University and a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.

By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

erome “Jerry” Schnydman, secretary of the board of trustees and executive assistant to the president, has announced his retirement from the university, effective June 30, 2012. With his departure, Johns Hopkins loses an admired figure who forged a legend on the lacrosse field nearly 40 years ago and then gave his alma mater more than three decades of distinguished service. Schnydman first came to Johns Hopkins in 1963 as an undergraduate and during his student career cemented his place in Blue Jays and lacrosse lore. He served as cocaptain of the 1967 national championship team and was selected in 1966 and 1967 as a first team All-American. He is a member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the halls of fame for the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the Lacrosse Foundation, Johns Hopkins and Baltimore City College High School. Following his 1967 graduation and an eight-year career in the insurance and pension business, Schnydman returned to

Johns Hopkins to join the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, working his way from assistant director to director, a post he held for nearly 11 years. He next served as executive director of Alumni Relations, from 1989 to 1998, when he assumed his current post. In a letter to the board of trustees, President Ron Daniels said that Schnydman has been an invaluable asset and confidant. “Jerry has offered wise and insightful advice and counsel to me and to [former President] Bill Brody, as well as to several chairs of our board of trustees. It is hard to imagine a son or daughter of Johns Hopkins having greater loyalty and affection to the university than Jerry,” Daniels said. “I am sure that you will greet this news with feelings similar to mine—sadness that we will no longer have the benefit of Jerry’s integrity, institutional memory and wonderful sense of humor, but happiness for him that he will have more time to spend with his wife, Tammy, two children and four grandchildren and to devote to community service, particularly with Beth El Synagogue, which he will be serving as president.” Daniels said that the search for Schnydman’s successor will begin shortly.

Michael Strine, VP for finance, named exec VP, COO of UVA

aniel Ennis, senior vice president for finance and administration, announced last week that Michael Strine, vice president for finance, chief financial officer and treasurer of the university, will be leaving Johns Hopkins on June 30 to become executive vice president and chief operating officer of the University of Virginia. In his new post, Strine will oversee the financial affairs of UVA and each of its schools and divisions, including the Medical Center. In addition, several key operational and administrative areas, such as human resources, facilities, real estate and public safety, will report to him. Strine received a doctorate in political science from Johns Hopkins in 1992 and returned to the university in 2008 as executive director of financial planning and analysis and was later named vice president for finance and treasurer before adding the role of chief financial officer. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, he was chief financial officer of New Castle County in Delaware. “This is a wonderful opportunity for Michael but a significant loss for Johns Hop-

kins,” said Ennis in a broadcast message sent May 12. “Since he rejoined the university, Michael has excelled at managing financial issues and building strong, trust-based relationships with colleagues throughout the university.” Among Strine’s accomplishments that Ennis praised were his work with the provost, the deans and financial leaders in the schools to better integrate academic priorities and quality metrics into the budget and planning process; his leadership during the recent national financial crisis that protected the university from disruptions in the financial markets by ensuring that it had sufficient cash; and his help in cutting costs and increasing productivity centrally to ensure there were sufficient resources for institutional priorities such as financial aid. “I am personally very grateful to Michael, who has been a true partner and provided great support to me as I learned my new role at the university this year,” Ennis said. Ennis said that he will soon begin the process of identifying interim financial leadership and recruiting and hiring a new vice president for finance and treasurer.

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Gathering outside EBDI offices after the congressional delegation’s tour of the New East Side redevelopment project are Elijah Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, Ron Daniels, Ed Miller, Barbara Mikulski, Ron Peterson and John Sarbanes.

A congressional visit

embers of Maryland’s congressional delegation and senior Johns Hopkins leadership visited the East Baltimore Development Inc.’s New East Side redevelopment project last week to assess progress on the $1.8 billion 88-acre neighborhood revitalization effort just north of the Johns Hopkins medical campus. On hand were Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin and Reps. Elijah Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger and John Sarbanes. Representatives from Johns Hopkins included President Ron Daniels; Ed Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine; Ron Peterson, president of The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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a mark turns the color of the pen’s cap, the test is positive. So far, the students have been refining and testing pens that can detect early signs of eclampsia, malnutrition, gestational diabetes and urinary tract infections. They also are working on simple blood tests for jaundice and anemia. If left untreated, these conditions can jeopardize the lives of the mother and her unborn child. The pen tests, which require little training for the health workers who use them, are designed to provide an inexpensive early warning that could coax an expectant mother in a remote area to seek treatment at a clinic or hospital that may be many miles away. “When it comes to global health, cost is an enormous barrier to care,” said Richard Besser, ABC News chief medical editor, who announced the prizewinners. “The antenatal screening test is an incredibly innovative approach to saving the lives of pregnant women.” As grand prizewinner, selected from more than 65 video entries from university students on three continents, the Johns Hopkins Antenatal Screening Kit team will receive $10,000 from the Lemelson Foundation, as well as mentorship and support in development, marketing and distribution of their invention. Team members will also present their idea before global health experts at a conference in November in Montreal. The Johns Hopkins team is composed of eight biomedical engineering students enrolled in a one-year master’s degree program offered by the university’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, which is affiliated with both the School of Medicine and the Whiting School of Engineering. The team members are Maxim Budyansky, Sherri Hall, Matthew Means, Sean Monagle, Shishira Nagesh, Mary O’Grady, Peter Truskey and James Waring. The team’s clinical advisers are Soumyadipta Acharya, graduate coordinator of CBID, and Harshad Sanghvi, vice president and medical director of Jhpiego, a nonprofit Johns Hopkins affiliate that administers international health projects. Monagle, unofficial leader of the student team, said that the Antenatal Test Kit originated three years ago, when he was part of a Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering team assigned to develop a lowcost urine test for protein associated with pre-eclampsia in pregnant women, a task proposed by Jhpiego. When he entered the master’s program last summer, he and his 14 classmates were sent to India, Tanzania and Nepal to observe global health problems firsthand. At a hospital in Nepal, Monagle, with help from Jhpiego, was able to conduct further studies on the pre-eclampsia test. Work on additional Antenatal Screening Kit components resumed when the students returned. Jhpiego medical director Sanghvi said, “The two groups of students who worked on

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this have done an amazing job. Developing technologies that are simple and inexpensive is actually a very complex process, and Jhpiego is pleased that the time the students spent visiting Jhpiego’s programs in Nepal, India and Tanzania provided the perfect background for the development of practical solutions.” He added, “The ABC award, together with several other awards that the students have won, is a recognition that engineering for global health solutions is coming of age. The partnership between Jhpiego, which has a presence in 50 countries, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design provides a perfect opportunity for the creative energy of bright student teams to make a massive difference in the global health space. These technologies are custom-built to overcome the challenges of

Related websites The students’ winning video:

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ABC News interview with team members:

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fragile health care systems and will make a big difference for women and newborns most in need.” Last fall, Jhpiego received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue its work in developing the self-test for early detection of pre-eclampsia, a project being conducted with Monagle and his teammates. As they expanded the Antenatal Screening Kit project, the students have collected about $50,000 in additional funding through business plan competitions and grants. The ABC News/Duke Global Health award will add another $10,000 to that sum. “It’s almost surreal, and it’s really exciting,” Monagle said. “I’ve been working on this for almost three years. At first it was just a few undergrads working on this crazy idea of using a pen to save lives. Then, things really started to take off after the USAID grant came in. Now, people are starting to see the value of this project. For the ABC News award, all of these global health experts came together, and they chose us. It really validates all the things we’ve been working so hard on.” The Antenatal Screening Kit was among the graduate and undergraduate projects presented May 9 at the university’s Biomedical Engineering Design Day (see story, page 6). The Antenatal Screening Kit received the first-place People’s Choice Poster Award, the result of voting by those who attended the event. Monagle, 23, of Jacksonville, Fla., will graduate this month. He will then become one of five Global Health Innovation Fellows who will continue to work on the test kit and other projects with Jhpiego and CBID. “I’m just trying to help people,” he said, “and to have some actual impact.” G

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19 local nonprofits receive grants from JH Neighborhood Fund WorkLife & Community Programs

ineteen local nonprofit organizations are receiving financial support from the 2011 Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund in the form of grants totaling nearly $222,000. Fifty-five agencies applied for funding in February, with requests totaling nearly $850,000 for projects that address the needs of communities around Johns Hopkins campuses in the areas of public safety, health, employment, education and community revitalization. The Neighborhood Fund was created to support nonprofits that serve the communities in close proximity to Johns Hopkins campuses, and that are associated with Johns Hopkins through institutional involvement or affiliation with faculty, staff, students or retirees. Donations are made through the Johns Hopkins United Way campaign. “We are really proud of the work we do through the Neighborhood Fund,” said Charlene Hayes, university vice president for human resources, who has been involved with the program since its inception. “It gives our employees the opportunity to invest in the community in which we work, and it underscores our partnership with the people of Baltimore.” Grant applications were reviewed by a committee that comprises a cross section of employees and is chaired by Frank Bossle, executive director of JHI Internal Audits. “It is extremely rewarding to see the generosity of my fellow employees in supporting very needy groups in our neighborhoods,” Bossle said. “The Allocation Committee was very impressed with the quality of the applicants.” Since its inception in 2007, the Neighborhood Fund has awarded 58 grants totaling more than $500,000. The recipients and their funded programs for the 2011 year are as follows: • Alternative Directions, whose Hand in Hand program works to reduce recidivism

among juvenile offenders by offering mental health counseling, individual mentoring and academic services within the Baltimore City Detention Center. Job training, employment connections and continued education opportunities are available after release. • Baltimore Community Foundation, to support Mount Washington Elementary School’s addition of a middle school. • Baltimore Reads, for its NeighborhoodBased Portable Classroom Program, which offers adult literacy classes. • Baltimore Urban Debate League, which will expand elementary and middle school debate programs at 58 of the city’s most underresourced public schools. • Caroline Center, which provides employment readiness through specific skills training, such as Certified Geriatric Nursing Assistant, and additional life skills classes and workshops ranging from math and financial literacy to job searching. • Catholic Charities, whose My Sister’s Place Women’s Center will fund a cook to serve meals to vulnerable women and children. • Charles Village Community Benefits District, which will fund a rat abatement project for Charles Village. • Dayspring Programs, which will fund a mental health consultant who will help parents manage behavior and access mental health services needed by children to develop positive self-concept and self-control, and to be ready to enter school and to learn. • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, toward renovation of six vacant properties near The Johns Hopkins Hospital. • Higher Achievement, which provides four years of mentoring to middle school students in Baltimore City public schools. • Incentive Mentoring, for universitybased volunteers to mentor underperforming students at Dunbar High School in East Baltimore and the Academy of College and Career Exploration in Hampden. • Living Classrooms Foundation, whose Safe Streets public health campaign is

designed to reduce shootings and homicides in several East Baltimore communities. • Oakenshawe Improvement Association, to help transform a vacant lot on a troubled block into a garden and green space for community use. • Southeast Community Development Corp., to create a broader customer base that can sustain the Highlandtown Farmers’ Market operation. • St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, whose Pathway Out of Poverty financial literacy program provides workshops and one-on-one counseling. • St. Francis Xavier Head Start, to purchase computers with early-learning software to support classroom learning.

• Village Learning Place, whose Books2Go program provides early literacy exposure to more than 800 students in Baltimore City public schools. • Writers in Baltimore Schools, toward literacy development for low-income middle school students in the Charles Village, Barclay, Waverly and York Road communities. • Young Audiences of Maryland, which will hire program and residency coordinators for its Access for All program that provides arts programs at 15 percent of the true cost. Additional information about the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund can be found online at web.jhu.edu/uw/NeighborhoodFund .html or by contacting the Office of Work, Life and Engagement at 443-997-6060.

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Engineering students wheel out their capstone projects By Phil Sneiderman

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uring two engineering design showcases last week, Whiting School students demonstrated that they had learned to think big—and, in some cases, think small. At events on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses, biomedical and mechanical engineering students described the many months they had spent brainstorming, designing and testing their prototypes. They also displayed and demonstrated their creations, which ranged from mammoth machines to tiny medical device components. Many of the projects showed great potential. With further refinement, one team’s soil-burrowing robot could someday wind up on a spacecraft that explores another planet. Some of the student-developed medical innovations may eventually extend the survival of patients who require kidney dialysis, or may provide lifesaving stem cells to people with blood cancers. Each Whiting School department has some type of capstone senior design project requirement, but mechanical and biomedical engineering students traditionally participate in the most prominent exhibitions of such work. The projects are shaped in courses set up to prepare students for the sort of realworld assignments they will face after graduation. “This is the centerpiece of your educational experience here,” Nick Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School, told students at one of last week’s design showcases. Kevin Hemker, the Mechanical Engineer-

Matthew Gombolay, Ryan Decker and Elizabeth Martinez look on as the Lee family gets ready to test the motorized tricycle with wagon that they devised.

Endovascular Guide Catheter, selected as the most innovative project, and the Point-ofCare Malaria Diagnosis, which received the team process award. Among the master’s-level projects, first place in the People’s Choice Poster Awards went to the Antenatal Screening Kit, designed to detect dangerous conditions among pregnant women in developing countries. The project last week also won a $10,000 first prize in an international maternal health competition sponsored by ABC News and the Duke Global Health Institute (see story, page 1). Master’s student Neil Shah, part of a team that developed a minimally invasive bone-grafting device, said that the design day capped a rigorous but rewarding year of study. “The experience was fantastic,” he said. “It was a perfect integration between the engineering and medical schools, and the business programs.”

ing Department chair, who attended both of the design days, pointed out that differences exist in the way the programs are structured. “In Mechanical Engineering, we work closely with our industry sponsors and put emphasis on the design process to make a product or project that meets the goals put forth by the sponsor,” he said. “In Biomedical Engineering, the focus is more on innovation and new ideas, and in developing a business model for the project. The approaches are complementary.” Monday’s Biomedical Engineering design event, held in East Baltimore, featured health-related projects developed by teams of undergraduates and master’s degree students. The top undergraduate honors went to the

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Students add their names to the signatures on the beam that was later hoisted into place to top out the first phase of construction on the Brody Learning Commons.

Marking a milestone

embers of the Johns Hopkins community celebrated a milestone in the construction of the Homewood campus’s Brody Learning Commons on Monday, May 9. The topping out ceremony, which included placing a beam that had been signed by students, faculty and staff into the building’s structure, marked the completion of the first phase of the project.

Scheduled to open in summer 2012, the Brody Learning Commons is a four-story facility designed to foster collaborative learning and will include a quiet reading room, 15 group study rooms, an atrium and cafe, and robust technology (wireless, smart classrooms) throughout. The building is named in honor of William Brody, the 13th president of the university, and his wife, Wendy. —Brian Shields

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database of vacant buildings in major retail areas, including the York Road corridor, the Charles Village business district and the Station North arts district. The intern will work with the various community business associations in these targeted areas. For Blue Water Baltimore, a Johns Hopkins intern will assist in the maintenance and tracking of urban forestry projects throughout the watershed’s jurisdiction and provide data management and deployment of health advisories for a bacterial monitoring project on the Inner Harbor and Middle Branch of the Patapsco River. Other projects include a recycling campaign and an afternoon education and enrichment program for city youth. Neyenhouse said that the center looked for organizations with a strong need for manpower and a sustainable project that the student could lead or assist. “We wanted to place students where they could make a real impact and fill a pressing need,” she said. The students start work June 6 and will receive $5,000 stipends, which for most will go to support housing costs. The program was made possible by a $1.25 million gift from an anonymous donor. The funding allows for 50 more interns to be placed next summer and each year thereafter. “Although the gift was accepted months ago, I am still taken by the donor’s sensitivity and willingness to support with great generosity what I see as the three needs to be addressed through the CII program,” said Bill Tiefenwerth, director of the Center for

At Tuesday’s Mechanical Engineering showcase at Homewood, the projects included a steerable bullet, an infant incubator with reduced noise levels, an improved facial restoration instrument and an automated system to clean old magnetic tapes that contain important scientific data or music. The project that received the day’s top prize was the burrowing robot, sponsored by Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory and built by students Daniel Bagdorf, Brandon Hahn and Richard Spatz. “It was an enormous amount of work to come up with an idea for it and actually build it,” Spatz said. But the Mechanical Engineering project that proved to be the most heartwarming was made for 5-year-old Emily Lee of Ellicott City, Md., who has a neuromuscular disease that leaves her too weak to sit or stand, and who requires constant care. Her family wanted a vehicle that would allow Emily’s father, Nate, to take Emily, her 9-year-old sister, Annabelle, and her mother, Diana, on bicycle outings. The mechanical engineering task, dubbed Project Wheels, was taken on last fall by seniors Ryan Decker, Matthew Gombolay and Elizabeth Martinez. On Tuesday they presented to the Lee family a large motorized tricycle carefully attached to a wagon spacious enough to hold Emily in her wheelchair, along with her mother and sister. Nate Lee took the family on a test drive on the brick path beside Homewood’s Hodson Hall. “It’s perfect! We love it!” said Diana Lee. “I can push [Emily] in her wheelchair, but there’s no way for her to feel the wind going by. This is her very first time being able to ‘ride a bike.’” Ryan Decker, one of student designers, was pleased by the family’s reaction. “The reason I took this project was that it was a way to help people,” he said. “This is the only project where you got to see the end user enjoying it.”

Social Concern. “The first being the need for struggling nonprofits to achieve success in their most important priority areas with the talents and abilities of Hopkins students. The second, the need for our students to learn firsthand about Baltimore’s strengths and challenges. The third, the very basic and necessary need to have the support of a stipend to cover the intern’s stay in the city.” Tiefenwerth said that the program has the potential to be a transformational experience. “It is my hope that whatever path the interns take post-graduation that they will carry with them a newly acquired sense of social responsibility and a deep compassion for those who have less,” he said. The students will go through an orientation program in early June and meet for weekly reflection sessions throughout the summer. The program will host a dinner reception on July 30 to culminate the experience. Of the more than 200 applicants, 65 students were interviewed for the available positions. The 25 selected were then matched to the projects based on background and personality. Neyenhouse described the inaugural group of interns as a diverse bunch that includes those majoring in public health, English, engineering and other disciplines. When asked to explain the large number of applications, Neyenhouse said that the students interviewed expressed a strong desire to get off campus and understand Baltimore in a different and more meaningful way. “They told us that they wanted to be involved with the community more directly,” she said. “They wanted to immerse themselves in Baltimore and saw this as a perfect opportunity.” G For more information, contact Neyenhouse at aneyenh1@jhu.edu.

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Internal Revenue commissioner to speak at Leaders + Legends By Andrew Blumberg

Carey Business School

ouglas H. Shulman, commissioner of Internal Revenue, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Wednesday, May 18. The event will take place at 7:30 a.m. in the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. The title of his remarks is “Leading Around Corners: Meeting Today’s Challenges While Positioning for Tomorrow.” The 47th commissioner of Internal Revenue, Shulman was appointed in March 2008. As Douglas commissioner, he presides over the nation’s tax system, which collects approximately $2.4 trillion in tax revenue that funds most government operations and public services. Shulman manages an agency of nearly 100,000 employees and a budget of more than $12 billion. The agency touches

every facet of American society, including individual taxpayers, the tax-exempt sector, small businesses and large corporations. As commissioner, Shulman has emphasized the necessity of maintaining a balance between taxpayer service and tax enforcement. His goals for the IRS are improving service to make voluntary compliance easier for taxpayers and, at the same time, enforcing the law to ensure tax obligations are met by all. During Shulman’s tenure, the IRS has played a major role in the economic recovery efforts by delivering 119 million economic stimulus payments, implementing a significant portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Shulman Act, and designing IRS programs to assist individuals and businesses struggling through difficult economic times. In the face of increasing globalization of tax administration, Shulman has stepped up IRS activity on a variety of international and corporate tax issues, including offshore tax

evasion. Also under Shulman’s direction, the IRS launched the Return Preparer Initiative to ensure high standards of ethics and service across the tax preparation industry. Other major initiatives include expanding use of data and third-party information to enhance compliance, and preparing the IRS workforce for the next decade. He currently serves as chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Forum on Tax Administration. Shulman came to the IRS from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, the private-sector regulator of all securities firms doing business in the United States, where he served as vice chairman. He served in the same capacity at the National Association of Securities Dealers, or NASD, before its 2007 consolidation with New York Stock Exchange Member Regulation, which resulted in the formation of FINRA. After joining NASD in 2000, Shulman played an integral role in restructuring the company, led the negotiations of the sale of the NASDAQ stock market and American Stock Exchange, oversaw the launch of industrywide bond

market transparency and modernized NASD’s technology operations. Earlier in his career, Shulman helped co-found Teach for America, participated in several start-up organizations, was a vice president of a private investment firm and served as senior policy adviser and then chief of staff of the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service. Shulman holds a bachelor’s degree from Williams College, a master of public administration degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a doctor of laws degree from Georgetown University Law Center. The Leaders + Legends monthly breakfast series, which features today’s most influential business and public policy leaders addressing topics of global interest and importance, is designed to engage business and community professionals in an examination of the most compelling issues and challenges facing society today. Admission to the lecture, which includes breakfast, is $35. To register and for more information, go to carey.jhu.edu/ leadersandlegends.

Yeung Center for Collaborative China Studies announces first grants By Lois Perschetz

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he growing number of undergraduates with an interest in China may soon be able to visit the source to hone their language skills and delve into China-centric subjects. A study abroad program in collaboration with Nanjing University’s Institute for International Students is one of the first proposals receiving funding from the Benjamin and Rhea Yeung Center for Collaborative China Studies. Other projects in the pipeline range from a feasibility study for a collaborative museum studies program (with Nanjing Museum) to a partnership to enhance pediatric injury prevention (with Nanjing University) to the creation of a center for engineering a synthetic genome (with Nanjing University of Technology). The Yeung Center, which falls under the auspices of the Provost’s Office, will be formally launched in July to promote innovative new approaches to the study of China. The center was founded with a $10 million gift to Johns Hopkins from Benjamin Yeung, a Chinese-American entrepreneur, and his wife, Rhea. The center has three co-directors: Kellee Tsai, a professor of political science and vice dean for humanities, social sciences and graduate programs in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; David Lampton, director of the China Studies Program and dean of

faculty at the School of Advanced International Studies; and Jason Patent, American co-director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. Proposals selected for the first year fall within the five priority initiative areas: expansion of academic partnerships with Nanjing University, building research capacity at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, creating new degree and course offerings on China, enhancing study and research project opportunities for students in China and annual conferences on China. “The Yeung Center grants not only have offered a chance for the realization of new projects across the Hopkins campuses but have given rise to some unprecedented collaborations between Hopkins faculty and students and counterparts in China in a range of disciplines,” said Carla Freeman, who is currently the interim director of SAIS’ China Studies Program and also served as interim co-director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and of the Yeung Center before Patent assumed his post on May 1. “The projects will both deepen and widen cooperation between Hopkins’ long-standing institutional partner in China, Nanjing University, by involving not only the Hopkins-Nanjing Center but other divisions and departments at Nanjing University.” The projects, Freeman said, also promise to open doors to new institutional relationships in China, among them the Nanjing Museum and the Nanjing University of Technology. “The Yeung grants engage Hopkins with China in innovative ways

from which we can expect some exciting outcomes and, I believe, new opportunities for even more collaborative work in China across the university,” she said. Kellee Tsai said that the inaugural request for proposals brought in more than two dozen submissions from all divisions of the university. “We were most impressed by the excitement and internal collaboration that this funding opportunity inspired among our faculty, students and administrative leaders,” Tsai said. “The lively exchanges brought forth by this first competition revealed a diverse array of research and programmatic interests.” The titles of the initiatives (with the names of their principal investigators) that have been funded for the 2011–2012 academic year are as follows: • “The Johns Hopkins–Nanjing Center for Synthetic Genomics”: Jef Boeke, School of Medicine, and Yilu Chen, Nanjing University of Technology. • “Education and Research Partnership in Environmental Engineering, Science and Management”: Edward Bouwer, Whiting School of Engineering, and Jun Bi, Nanjing University. • “Feasibility Study for Collaboration on Entrepreneurship Programs with Nanjing University School of Business”: Oksana Carlson, Carey Business School, and Shuming Zhao, Nanjing University School of Business. • “Collaborative Program Between the Department of Physics and Astronomy,

Johns Hopkins University, and the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University”: Chia-Ling Chien, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Mu Wang, Nanjing University. • “An Academic Partnership to Enhance Pediatric Injury Prevention”: Andrea C. Gielen, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Qian Gao, Nanjing University. • “Feasibility Study for Collaboration Between Johns Hopkins MA in Museum Studies and the Nanjing Museum”: Phyllis Hecht, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Tao Shui, Nanjing University. • “Johns Hopkins–Nanjing Exchange Program in Statistical and Data Sciences”: Hongkai Ji, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Liwei Zhang, Nanjing University. • “Hopkins Scholars at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center”: Amir Pasic, SAIS, and center leadership of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. • “Hopkins-Nanjing Center Minorities Studies Program”: Thomas Simon, HopkinsNanjing Center, and Fan Ke, Nanjing University. • “The Hopkins-Nanjing Center Law Studies Initiative”: Tomas Simon, HopkinsNanjing Center, and Feng Chuan, Nanjing University. • “Hopkins-in-Nanjing Undergraduate Study Abroad Program”: Kellee Tsai, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Aimin Cheng, Nanjing University. The request for proposals for the 2012– 2013 academic year is expected to be issued in late December or January.

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Cheers

Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent appointments and promotions. Contributions must be submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone number. BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Peter C. Agre , professor in the W. Harry

Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The members represent all subspecialties of microbiology, including basic and applied research, teaching, public health, industry and government service.

HOMEWOOD STUDENT AFFAIRS Chuck Willenborg , head tennis coach,

was named the All-Centennial Conference’s Coach of the Year after leading the Johns Hopkins men’s team to its fifth consecutive and sixth overall conference title.

JOHNS HOPKINS HEALTH SYSTEM Howie Gwon has been named senior

director of the Office of Emergency Management. Since August 2006, Gwon has served as the administrator of Emergency Management for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, School of Medicine and Howard County General Hospital.

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE Irene Gage has been appointed assistant

professor of radiation oncology and oncology in the School of Medicine and regional medical director of oncology for the Johns Hopkins National Capital Region. Gage served on the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine full-time faculty from 1994 to 1998 in Radiation Oncology and held part-time appointments in Oncology and Radiation Oncology from 1998 to 2006. From 1999 to 2010, she was chief of service and chairman of Radiation Oncology at Sibley Memorial Hospital. Michael Carducci , the Aegon Professor of Oncology in the School of Medicine, has been appointed the regional research director of oncology for the Johns Hopkins National Capital Region. Carducci has been on the School of Medicine faculty since 1995 and is currently director of the Prostate Cancer Research Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Danielle Dubois , a doctoral candidate in

the Humanities Center, has been selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow. Dubois’ dissertation, “Reflections on Practice: Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls,” examines the ontological, spiritual and ethical themes in the author’s work. The Newcombe Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. Each fellow receives a 12-month award of $25,000. Richard L. Kagan , professor in the Department of History, has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, whose membership comprises top scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. The country’s first learned society, the APS was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin and others; among its early members were George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Five Johns Hopkins students have been awarded Department of State Critical Language Scholarships for summer study.

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Approximately 575 U.S. students will spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes in 14 countries where these languages are spoken. The students and their languages and countries are as follows: Justin Chen , SPH, Bangla/Bengali, Bangladesh; Ethan Doyle , KSAS, Russian, Russia; Rachel LeCover , WSE, Arabic, Morocco; Elena McGovern , SAIS, Arabic, Morocco; and Thomas Rickers , SAIS, Persian, Tajikistan. CLS Program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. PEABODY INSTITUTE Juniors David Diehl , a student of John Shirley-Quirk’s, and J u l i a n n e M c C a -

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Piano. They will compete May 27 at The George Washington University, and the finals will take place May 28 at the Kennedy Center. Violist C h r i s t i a n K a z m i e r s k i , a junior studying with Stephen Wyrczynski, won the 2011 Durham (N.C.) Symphony Young Artists Competition and played the Walton Viola Concerto with the orchestra on March 6. Master of Music candidate Mar y-Lacey Rogers , a student of Stanley Cornett’s, will be an opera administration resident artist with the Minnesota Opera for two years, starting in August. She will be a member of the chorus and will be considered for supporting roles. In April, Q2—part of Classical 105.9

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JHU geneticist elected to National Academy of Sciences B y V a n e ss a M c M a i n s

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arry C. “Hal” Dietz III, the Victor A. McKusick Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is one of 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, an honorary society that advises the government on scientific matters. “This recognition could not have gone to a more deserving clinician-scientist,” said David Valle, the Henry J. Knott Professor and director of the McKusickNathans Institute. “His team has over the years made such great strides in understanding and treating Marfan syndrome, and his work defines translational medicine.” Dietz, a pediatric cardiologist and geneticist at Johns Hopkins, also directs the William S. Smilow Center for Marfan Syndrome Research at Johns Hopkins and has devoted his career to understanding and improving quality of care for children with Marfan syndrome. Marfan is a potentially fatal connective tissue disease that may have affected Abraham Lincoln and Charles de Gaulle, among others, and causes an enlargement of the aorta, the major blood vessel leaving the heart, making it likely to tear or burst. While Marfan affects only one in 5,000 Americans, enlargement of the aorta kills up to 2 percent of people in developed countries. Through family studies in the late 1980s, Dietz’s research team linked an error in the gene that encodes fibrillin-1,

rthy , a student of Phyllis Bryn-Julson’s,

gave a vocal recital May 14 at the Lightner Museum’s Restoration Gala in St. Augustine, Fla. The program featured works by early-20th-century composers, mirroring the art showcased in the museum. Harpist Jasmine Hogan , a senior, was awarded a Fulbright grant to transcribe Chinese harp (konghou) music for the modern pedal harp and study Chinese traditional instruments. Hogan, who took Mandarin classes at Johns Hopkins, will spend nine months in China, affiliated with the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She also received the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, sponsored by the Baltimore Rotary Club and Rotary District 7620, and performed April 30 at the District Conference. Doctor of Musical Arts candidate Jee In Hwang and junior Sejoon Park , both students of Boris Slutsky’s, have been chosen as semifinalists in the 58th Annual Washington International Competition for

a connective tissue protein, to Marfan syndrome. The investigators have since found or helped find the genes underlying four other conditions that cause aortic aneurysms, including Loeys-Dietz syndrome, which is named after Dietz and another Johns Hopkins scientist, Bart Loeys. Children with the syndrome, which can cause the aorta to rupture at a very early age, were previously thought to have Marfan syndrome or some unspecified connective tissue disorder. In the 1990s, working with mice engineered to lack the fibrillin-1 gene, Dietz’s team discovered that the mice showed typical Marfan symptoms. It also discovered that the fibrillin-1 protein shared a remarkable resemblance to another protein that acts to dampen the activity of transforming growth factor-beta. By injecting fibrillin-1-lacking mice with an antibody that blocks TGF-beta the researchers were able to alleviate the Marfan-like symptoms, suggesting that drugs that could block TGF-beta might be viable treatments for Marfan syndrome. As it turns out, losartan (Cozaar), which is used to treat high blood pressure, blocks TGF-beta activity and had already been approved by the FDA, and in 2007, a clinical trial was launched to test losartan for its ability to slow aortic growth. “I am truly honored to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences and particularly proud to receive this recognition from my peers,” Dietz said. “I owe a great debt of gratitude to the superb clinical and research community at Johns Hopkins and share this great honor with all of the young scientists in my lab.”

WQXR—and NPR Music launched a project to determine listeners’ favorite composers under the age of 40. Making the list, compiled from comments on Facebook, Twitter and the Q2 and NPR Music websites, were Theory faculty member Joel Puckett and Composition faculty member Kevin Puts . Conservatory students swept the Friday Morning Music Club’s voice competition for the 2011 Sue Goetz Ross Memorial Scholarship. Freshman Alexandra Razskazoff won first place; junior Michael Maliakel , second; and junior Peter Drackely , third. FMMC has been promoting classical music in the Washington, D.C., area for more than 120 years. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE P a t r i c k B r o w n , assistant professor of

pediatric oncology, has received a research scholar grant for four years of funding, totaling $720,000, from the American Cancer Society to improve the outcome for child-

hood leukemia with targeted epigenetic therapy. Brown’s research focuses on developing new treatments that are just as effective as present ones against the disease but less toxic to the patient, ultimately resulting in significant improvements in the cure rates for children diagnosed with leukemia. Peter Gehlbach , associate professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute and of biomedical engineering at the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, has been named to the board of trustees of Blind Industries and Services of Maryland. Jeffrey Palmer , professor and director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and a professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery and functional anatomy and evolution, has been elected secretary of the board of trustees of the Association of Academic Physiatrists. He has served as member at large for the past four years. The AAP is the major organization for physiatrists (specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation) involved in research and teaching. It was founded in 1967 to serve as the national organization of physiatrists who are affiliated with medical schools. Jeffrey Palmer and Sara Palmer , a psychologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, are the authors of When Your Spouse Has a Stroke: Caring for Your Spouse, Yourself and Your Marriage, published in April by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Thomas Quinn , professor of infectious diseases in the Department of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, has received the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association’s 2011 Thomas A. Parran Award, which is presented annually to a member for long and distinguished contributions in the field of STD research and prevention. Charles M. Rudin , associate director for clinical research and co-director of the Upper Aerodigestive Cancer Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a 2011 Caring for Carcinoid Foundation–AACR Grant for Carcinoid Tumor and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Research. These two-year grants, totaling $250,000 ($125,000 per year), support junior and senior investigators as they develop and study new ideas and innovative approaches that have direct application and relevance to carcinoid tumors or pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Rudin’s research group focuses on novel cancer therapeutic development. One of the approaches in which they have been most interested is the use of a small RNA virus that can selectively infect and destroy certain cancers, especially cancers with neuroendocrine features. L i l l i e D . S h o c k n e y , administrative director of the Breast Cancer Center, University Distinguished Service Associate Professor of Breast Cancer, associate professor in the departments of Surgery and of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and also an associate professor in the School of Nursing, was inducted April 28 into the Nu Beta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. SCHOOL OF NURSING J a c q u e l y n C . C a m p b e l l , the Anna

D. Wolf Professor in the Department of Community-Public Health, has received the Academy on Violence Abuse Distinguished Scholar Award for advancing education and research on the prevention, recognition and treatment of the health effects of violence and abuse. Distinguished Scholar is the highest honor that AVA extends to its academic community. Martha N. Hill , dean, received an honorary Doctor of Public Health degree from Flinders University on April 14 in Adelaide, Australia. Flinders and the JHU School of Nursing have been collaborating to strengthen the research and educational programs at both institutions. This degree recognizes Hill’s contribution and service to the discipline of nursing, to Flinders University and to the goal of this collaboration.

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Milestones The following staff members are retiring or celebrating an anniversary with the university in May 2011. The information is compiled by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, 443-997-7000. ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS

25 years of service D o w n i n g , Shawn, Center for Talented Youth 15 years of service Courtney, Johns Hopkins University Press

Bond,

10 years of service T h o m a s , Dawn, Johns Hopkins University Press 5 years of service Emilie, Jhpiego M a c d o w e l l , Juliet, Jhpiego S u h o w a t s k y , Stephanie, Jhpiego

Williams,

Sharon, Mental Health

HOMEWOOD STUDENT AFFAIRS

5 years of service S o n g , Young, Center for Social Concern KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

25 years of service G r a n t , Jon, Center for Social Organization of Schools 10 years of service Mandy, Disability Services R a d d i c k , Michael, Physics and Astronomy S c h o n , Arne, Biology Liberto,

5 years of service Martine, Development

Hyland,

SAIS

5 years of service A d i n e w , Asael, Facilities P a i s , Joaquim M.T., Facilities

Hodgin-Aovare,

BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Retiree B u r n s , Barbara, 30 years of service, Center for Immunization Research and Vaccine Sciences 20 years of service Allison, International Health

Quarles,

15 years of service C o m e n d a d o r , Ruval, Center for Immunization Research and Vaccine Sciences L e m o n , Mary, Research Administration 10 years of service Michele, Center for Communication Programs L e a r s , Andrea, Epidemiology S c h o n b a c h , Judith, Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology S m i t h , Jacqueline, Epidemiology S t r a t t o n , David, Information Systems Tu r n e r , Herbert, III, Center for Communication Programs W i l s o n , Laura, Epidemiology Beaupin,

5 years of service B y r d , Melanie, Environmental Health Science G a c h u h i , Debbie, Center for Communication Programs G l a t f e l t e r , Heidi, Development and Alumni Affairs L o g l i s c i , Ralph, Jr., Center for a Livable Future S a v a g e , Jamila, Health Policy and Management

PEABODY INSTITUTE

20 years of service B r o w n , Jacqueline, Preparatory 5 years of service Aleana, Information Technology

Riddell,

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

15 years of service W i l s o n , Catherine, Admissions SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Retirees Lampros-Klein,

Francine, 16 years of service, Pulmonary M a r s e g l i a , Katherine, 17 years of service, Orthopaedics 40 years of service Flora, Pediatrics

Leister,

35 years of service D a v i s , Patricia, Billing 30 years of service K e l l e y , Mary, Welch Medical Library M i l l e r - H a r t , Anita, Oncology 25 years of service B a r s d a , Joann, Neurosurgery H o w e l l , Areh, General Internal Medicine M c C a l l , Vivian, Welch Medical Library S t e r n , Michael, Welch Medical Library 20 years of service Stephanie, Neurology D i c k m a n , Fern, Medicine, General Internal Medicine G a r r i t y , Sheila, Policy Coordination David,

15 years of service Amy, Medicine, Occupational Health C o u n t s , Tammy, Neurosurgery G o g e l , Carol, Psychiatry Alfriend,

Hayes,

Cynthia, Anesthesiology and Critical Care J e w e l l , Mary, Institute of Genetic Medicine W i g g i n s , Ilene, Infectious Diseases 10 years of service Chambers-Thomas,

Tracey, Infectious Diseases H a r r i s , Frances, Pediatrics J e t e r , Stacie, Oncology K a h l e r , Bryan, Safety and Biosafety L a w r e n c e , Chyna, Pediatrics M i l l e r , Gayle, Registrar’s Office M u d d , Shawna, Pediatrics S c h u l e r , F., Oncology S o b o t a , Mark, Safety and Environmental Health Services S w e p s o n , Gloria, Human Subjects Research Va n a n d e n , Elizabeth, DOM Bayview Va u g h a n - P o r t e r , Leslie, Clinical Practice Association 5 years of service Manisha, Neurology A n t o n , Blair, Welch Medical Library B r i d g e s , Shonte, Clinical Practice Association B r o d i n e , Sarah, Ophthalmology B r o t m a n , Elizabeth, Cardiology B r o w n , Travis, Surgery B u r r o w s , Tywanda, Pediatrics C a r r , Shaun, Clinical Practice Association C h o i , Chong, Facilities C l o u d e , Michelle, Urology C o l e m a n , Matthew, Jr., Facilities C o u r t e m a n c h e , Matthew, Institute Clinical Translational Research D a v i s , Mary, Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine D e l l a t e r z a , Nicole, Pulmonary D e s e l l , Melinda, Otolaryngology D o m i n g o , Folashade, Anesthesiology and Critical Care E d e l s t e i n , Daniel, Gastroenterology H a n d , Nicholas, Oncology H i g g i n s , Christine, Bayview J e n k i n s , Bonnie, Financial Aid Office J u d k i n s , Carol, Oncology K w a k , Yong, Facilities L e , Yi, Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Science M a c k , Nicole, Physical Med and Rehabilitation O t e y , Lavahn, Radiology P a r k , Okja, Facilities P i n k n e y , Gail, Pathology Production Billing P o m e r o y , Jeffrey, Comparative Medicine and Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology P o m p a , Judith, Clinical Practice Association S a n g e n a r i o , Lauren, Surgery S a u l y n a s , Melissa, Infectious Diseases S c i u t o , Patricia, Greenspring Anand,

Sellers,

Greaton, Continuing Medical Education Ta y l o r , Dionne, Clinical Pharmacology Tr a u t , Anastasia, General Internal Medicine T s a i , Hua-Ling, Oncology W a d d e l l , Lisa, Infectious Diseases W e s t , Sandra, Oncology SCHOOL OF NURSING

5 years of service A n a g n o s t o u , Chriss, Network Services SHERIDAN LIBRARIES/ JHU MUSEUMS

10 years of service M e n g e l , Elizabeth, Sheridan Libraries UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

25 years of service M a r t i n , Peter, Facilities Management S t i l l e r , Ann, Marketing and Creative Services 20 years of service Doreen, Marketing and Creative Services

Hunt,

15 years of service Effiejane, Controller L a w r e n c e , Curtis, Administration N o r r i s , Deborah, Facilities Management Laurel,

10 years of service Anthony, Enterprise Applications A r c h e r , Linda, Facilities Management C l a y b o r n , Fannie, Facilities Management C r a w l e y , Lisa, Controller C r i p p e n s , Janice, Facilities Management D i x o n , Shelley, Homewood Human Resources J a c k s o n , Margaret, Facilities Management S a b a t i n o , Anthony, Facilities Management S h a c k e l f o r d , Alan, Office of Chief Networking Officer Tr e f i l l , Margaret, Office of the Assistant Provost Research Administration W e i n t r a u b , Etan, Office of Chief Networking Officer Ang,

5 years of service L a t i m e r , Jody, Facilities Management P e r r y - H i l l , Valerie, Facilities Management P f l a u m e r , Patrick, Office of Chief Networking Officer R e d m e r , Alfred, III, Johns Hopkins Internal Audits WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

35 years of service L a n t r y , Deborah, Civil Engineering

Risk adjustment software to support health care reform B y N ata l i e W o o d - W r i g h t

Bloomberg School of Public Health

he Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is launching an updated version of the Johns Hopkins ACG System to support federal health care reform. Developed in 1991, the Adjusted Clinical Groups System is an industry standard risk adjustment and predictive modeling software originally developed by a team of researchers from the Bloomberg School. The updated software will be distributed to the newly formed state health insurance exchanges, or HIEs, and to health plans currently under contract with these exchanges. The innovative technology will be distributed at no cost to facilitate health care insurance reform and encourage equitable care.

“A key provision of federal health reform is the establishment of state-level health insurance exchanges,” said Jonathan Weiner, executive director of the ACG team and a professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health Policy and Management. “Uninsured persons will be able to get subsidized insurance through these exchanges whether or not they have any pre-existing medical conditions. When setting payment rates for the private health plans that will insure people in these HIEs, the differences in the medical needs of the persons selecting different plans must be accounted for. Without such risk adjustment, the health insurance exchange, and possibly health reform itself, could fail, as some health plans may go under and others get large windfalls.” The updated ACG-HIE software is based on the Johns Hopkins ACG Risk Adjust-

ment System, a computer-based algorithm that assesses the health of people enrolled in a given health plan or health system. Government agencies or health plans, in turn, use the ACG System to help predict the need for their future health care services. Today, ACGs help finance and manage the care of more than 80 million people globally and are currently being used by 16 state Medicaid agencies. The Bloomberg School has a full-time team of faculty, clinicians and staff dedicated to research, development and maintenance of the ACG System, and is currently developing the 11th version of ACGs. “The reason we continue to develop and disseminate the ACG tool is to help promote equitable, effective and efficient health care in the U.S. and around the globe,” Weiner said. “The nation is about to embark on the biggest reform of our health insurance

system in history. Making sure that plans covering persons with high levels of medical needs are adequately reimbursed is key to the success of this reform.” DST Health Solutions will support and distribute this free version of the ACG software to state health insurance exchanges on behalf of the university. For more information on Johns Hopkins ACGs and the special HIE version of the software, go to www.acg.jhsph.edu.

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Benefits Continued from page 1 The university’s benefits package includes health care coverage, a tuition remission program, retirement plans, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, vacation days and sick leave, a commuting-to-work program, adoption assistance and many other offerings. The committee’s reach will not extend to the benefits offered to Applied Physics Laboratory and Johns Hopkins Health System employees. Charlene Hayes, vice president for human resources, said that the entire package will be examined. She said that the review will be an open, inclusive and somewhat fasttracked process that will help the university position itself for the future. The undertaking was prompted by the rising costs of health care and education, Hayes said, and increased pension regulation. In fiscal year 2010, the university’s actual benefits program costs were more than $342 million, a 25 percent increase from 2006 totals. The projected costs in fiscal year 2015 represent a 70 percent increase from 2006 figures. “We need to be proactive,” Hayes said. “We’re not in crisis mode, but we don’t want to be in that position sometime down the road. We need to be thoughtful about our benefits offerings and do this in a way that retains our competitiveness.” Ennis said that the university has done much in recent years to manage rising costs, efforts informed by the 2004 Benefits Advisory Committee. However, in 2011 Johns Hopkins faces a new slew of challenges, he said. “We think it makes good sense to continually review our programs to manage cost while also ensuring that we are meeting the needs of our community,” Ennis said. “Given recent economic pressures— which include likely declines in federal budgets, tuition pressures and rising health care costs—it is particularly important that we conduct a systematic review now so that we are well-positioned both financially and competitively in future years. We must also consider the impact of health care reform on our programs.” Hayes said that Johns Hopkins is committed to offering a robust benefits package. “We’ve always been ranked high among our peers and in the local area, and we want to keep it that way,” she said. The group will meet every other week and plans to conduct an online faculty and staff survey later this month or in early June. Steinwachs said that failure to address the rising price tag of benefits could mean that the university would need to shift more of the costs to its employees. Ennis said that this committee’s work will be thoughtful and thorough, realizing that the review will not be an easy task and is one that requires a large measure of sensitivity. “We are all feeling economic pressures both at work and in our personal lives,” he said. “We are confident that the Benefits Advisory Committee will appropriately balance the university’s financial and competitive needs along with the needs of our community. We are certain there will be trade-offs for everyone, and we are committed to an open and transparent process so that everyone in our community understands the challenges that we are faced with and the changes that may come from the review.” He said that the committee’s review “will

be informed by JHU peer data, as available, at every step to ensure that we continue to be able to compete for world-class faculty and staff.” The committee will consult with many groups and departments during the next several months and leaves open the possibility of town hall meetings and forums. Heidi Conway, senior director of benefits, said that once the committee makes its recommendations, some changes could be implemented immediately. However, she anticipates that any major changes would begin sometime in 2013. The university last evaluated its benefits package in 2004. A primary recommendation of that effort was to develop for each employee an annual “total compensation” statement with specific details on all benefits, with corresponding dollar values, utilized in the past year. Another change was to offer more preventive services, such as breast exams and annual checkups, that would be exempt from required co-payments and deductibles. In terms of existing benefits policies and programs, the 2004 committee recommended changes to the benefits dollars allocation with a goal of making it more equitable. To offset the rising cost of health care, employees enrolled in self-insured plans, such as EHP, saw an increase in their maximum out-of-pocket expenses, co-payments and deductibles in a manner consistent with rising costs, while maintaining cost-sharing levels at about 80 percent to 20 percent for the university and employees, respectively. HMO plans, such as Kaiser Permanente, also had increases in co-payments. This current comprehensive benefits review falls on the heels of changes to the university’s retirement plan. In 2009, under the direction of the board of trustees, the university undertook a comprehensive study of support staff retirement benefits. As a result of the support staff study, the university committed to a new defined contribution 403(b) plan and offered employees a one-time opportunity to choose how they wished to accrue future retirement benefits during a “Retirement Choice” period that concluded recently. In addition to the co-chairs, the Benefits Advisory Committee members are Jonathan Bagger, vice provost for graduate and postdoctoral programs and a professor of physics and astronomy in the School of Arts and Sciences; Janice Clements, vice dean for faculty and a professor of comparative medicine in the School of Medicine; James Erickson, executive director of finance for the School of Medicine; Darrell Gaskin, associate professor in the School of Public Health’s Health Services Research Division; Douglas Hough, associate professor and chair of The Business of Health at the Carey Business School; Myron Kunka, senior associate dean for finance and administration at SAIS; Pablo Iglesias, professor in the School of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Isabel Miles, senior administrative manager in the School of Engineering; Denise Montell, professor of biological chemistry in the School of Medicine; Julie Stanik Hutt, associate professor of acute and chronic care and master’s program director at the School of Nursing; Linda Tsantis, associate professor in the Department of Special Education at the School of Education; and Jonathan Wright, professor of economics in the School of Arts and Sciences. Johns Hopkins has hired Mercer, a human resources consulting firm, to gather data from the survey and conduct the focus groups. G

A JHU Blood Drive is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, May 25, at Hopkins@Eastern For more information, email johnshopkinsblooddrive@jhmi.edu or call 410-614-0913.

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Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Bayview, efficiency apt mins walking to JHU Bayview campus. $400/mo + utils. 443-3869146 or fanauh2o@yahoo.com. Belvedere, 3BR, 2BA TH w/fin’d bsmt, avail July 1, email for pics. $1,650/mo (furn’d) or $1,500/mo (unfurn’d). 410-929-6008 or belvedererental@gmail.com. Bolton Hill (Lanvale and Park), 2BR, 2BA apt avail end of June. $1,090/mo. jamila.r.siddiqui@ gmail.com (for pics). Bolton Hill, 4BR, 2BA house, spacious kitchen and BRs, hdwd flrs, walk to Hopkins shuttle, avail June 1. $1,950/mo + utils. 443-540-0713 or 1417johnstreet@gmail.com. Bolton Hill, 3BR Victorian brownstone, 3 full BAs, 1 half-BA, 2 kitchens, upgraded appls, W/D, top flr deck off master BR, hdwd flrs, backyd, prkng in rear, on quiet, cobbled street, email to request pics and arrange viewing. $1,910/mo. tymbuk2@gmail.com. Butchers Hill, newly renov’d 2BR, 1.5BA house, half-blk to Patterson Park, brand-new appls, CAC, prkng pad will be completed this month. $1,000/mo. 410-235-3866. Canton, lg, beautiful 2BR, 2.5BA RH, W/D, dw, CAC, possible additional BR in fin’d bsmt, patio, mins to JHH, dogs OK. $1,645/mo + utils. 410-218-8061. Charles Village, 3BR, 2BA RH w/sec sys, W/D, fenced yd, garden, garage, 5-min walk to Homewood campus/shuttle, no smokers/ no pets. $1,650/mo + utils. 301-699-7583 or housecv@gmail.com. Charles Village (Charles St and University), sunny 1BR studio apt next to JHMI shuttle, AC, storage, laundry, avail August 1. $650/ mo. 443-540-1540 or charlesvillage1br@gmail .com.

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house, W/D. $1,350/mo + utils. 410-409-5136, 410-409-5137 or tmsroka@verizon.net. Mayfield, beautifully renov’d 3BR, 2BA RH, hdwd flrs, fin’d bsmt, front porch, backyd, garden area, detached garage, across from Herring Run Park, mins to Lake Montebello, 10 mins to JHMI/JHU Homewood, avail June 1. $1,700/ mo. mayfieldroom@gmail.com. Mt Washington (Baltimore Co), 4BR, 3.5BA TH nr Summit Park Elementary, avail July 1 (or earlier), credit check req’d. $1,800/mo + sec dep + 1st month. Deanna, 443-722-0541. Mt Washington, 2BR, 2BA condo on top flr, 1,400 sq ft, avail July. $1,370/mo incl utils. 310-386-4879. Ocean City, Md, 3BR, 2BA condo on 137th St, ocean block, steps from the beach, off-street prkng (2 spaces), lg pool, short walk to restaurants/entertainment. 410-544-2814. Ocean City (120th St), 2BR, 2BA condo, sleeps 6, immaculate, new appls/living rm furniture, enclos’d courtyd, 2 blks to beach, indoor/ outdoor pools, tennis, racketball. 410-992-7867 or joel.alan.weiner@gmail.com. Tuscany/Canterbury, spacious, safe 2BR, 1BA apt close to JHU/Union Memorial Hospital/ Loyola, full kitchen, living rm, dining rm, sunrm, hdwd flrs, no smoking/no pets, W/D on premises, prkng avail. $1,800/mo. 213-5506689. Summer sublet: sunny, spacious apt, 2 lg BRs, 2 full BAs, living rm, sunrm, dining rm, pantry, kitchen w/gas stove, dw, W/D, hdwd flrs, WiFi, premium cable TV, AC window units, 24-hr doorman/security, avail from June 15 to August 31 (dates negotiable). $1,500/mo incl utils. 212-729-4350. Sublet 2BR apt nr 30th and Guilford, fully furn’d kitchen, living rm and bedrooms, avail June 1-August 31. $1,200/mo incl utils, cable. 443-452-8575 or snovotney@gmail.com.

Columbia , newly renov’d 5BR, 3.5BA TH, family rm, priv BA, W/D, AC, nr community college and Columbia town center. $450/ mo incl utils, Internet, phone. viaianhan@ yahoo.com.

Luxury 1BR condo in high-rise nr Guilford/ JHU, secure bldg w/doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swimming pool, gym, underground prkng available. $1,200/mo. 757-773-7830 or norva04@ gmail.com.

Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/full kitchen, call for wkly/wknd rentals, pics avail at jzpics@yahoo.com. 410-638-9417.

Beautiful, spacious 3BR, 2BA condo w/garage, great location, walk to Homewood campus. $1,800/mo. 443-848-6392 or sue.rzep2@ verizon.net.

Federal Hill, 1BR, 1BA in brownstone bldg, dw, W/D, CAC/heat, hdwd flrs, pets OK, 1-car garage. $1,550/mo. cb_nd03@yahoo.com. Hampden, 2BR, 1BA TH, CAC, modern kitchen, W/D, 5 mins to JHU Homewood campus, avail May 31. $1,200/mo + utils. 410366-4635. Hampden, beautifully renov’d 3BR, 2BA duplex, eat-in kitchen, dw, master suite has own kitchen, W/D, clawfoot tub, storage bsmt, covered front/back porches, fenced backyd, ample street prkng, nr light rail, 1-yr lease. $1,500/mo + sec dep. Mina, 410-592-2670. Homeland, 2BR, 2BA condo, CAC, W/D in unit, new kitchen appls, storage rm, community pool, fitness rm, security guard, 5 mins to JHU, 6-mo lease avail. $1,150/mo incl most utils. drew@mcproperty.com. Homewood, lg 1BR condo, dining rm/office, dw, W/D, prkng, avail July 1. $1,100/mo. 410235-2190 or csokolom1989@yahoo.com. Howard County (Woodbine area), 4BR, 3BA ranch, AC, W/D, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, family rm w/fp, stone terrace, 2-car garage, big yd, avail June 1. $1,800/mo. 410-929-4479 or hchome111@gmail.com.

33rd St, furn’d/unfurn’d RH nr university/ YMCA and Giant, avail summer/temp/monthly. 917-553-6461.

Canton, beautifully renov’d 2BR, 2.5BA RH, huge master suite, open floor plan, rooftop deck, nr JHH/Bayview. 443-527-1643. Ellicott City, 5BR, 3.5BA single-family house, 42" kitchen cabinets, Corian countertops, full backsplash, fin’d bsmt, nr #1 Centennial Schools. 443-257-5136 or pakshree@hotmail.com. Gardens of Guilford, lg, newly renov’d 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant setting, easy walk to Homewood campus. 410-366-1066. Guilford, charming, renov’d 4BR house, over 1,900 sq ft, CAC, inlaid hdwd flrs, garage, entertainer’s dream home. $175,000. 410-8129070. Mt Washington, sunny 2BR, 2.5BA house, CAC, sunrm, fin’d bsmt, yd, nr blue-ribbon Mt Washington Elementary, perf for young couple. $250,000. 410-979-3833 or aLb457@ gmail.com.

Waverly, 4BR, 2BA TH, EOG unit, fin’d bsmt, wood deck, fenced yd, great neighbors. $125,000. Randy, 410-456-3775 or randy@ HICKORY HEIGHTS WYMAN COURT homeownershipworks.com. Just Renovated! A lovely hilltop setting on

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

Hickory Avenue in Hampden!

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

Shown by appointment - 410-764-7776 www.BrooksManagementCompany.com

doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swimming pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $179,000. 757773-7830 or norva04@gmail.com.

7:30pm, July 21, tier 2, row B, 205-208, no scalp. $330 (firm). wreisig4@comcast.net.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Queen- and king-size mattresses, clean, in very good cond, $150-$200; TVs (2), $50-$75; will deliver if buyer has no car. John, 410-419-3902.

F nonsmoker wanted for furn’d, spacious BR (700 sq ft) in 3BR Cedonia house owned by young F prof’l, modern kitchen, landscaped yd, lg deck, 5 mi to JHU/Bayview/YMCA, free prkng, nr public transportation. $550/mo + utils. 410-493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com. 924 N Broadway, new, refurbished 4BR TH, share w/medical students, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com. F nonsmoker wanted to share lg, sunny EOG RH in Canton/Patterson Park w/dental student, BR w/deck and priv BA and jacuzzi tub. $750/mo incl utils, Internet, sec sys. kdipa001@ gmail.com. Sublet 1BR and 1BA in 2BR Mt Vernon apt, share w/F JHU student, June 18 to August 18, 5 mins to shuttle stop. $750/mo. 203-4792349. Two rms available for 2011-2012 in 4BR Charles Village house, share w/2 M Hopkins undergrads. 347-628-1435. F wanted to share 2BR, 2BA apt in Baltimore County, nr I-83, 15 mins to downtown, great neighborhood. $610/mo + utils. yanjia1217@ yahoo.com.

Complete rehab, gorgeous, close to all Johns Hopkins, must see, prefer prof’l. $165,900. Pitina, 410-900-7436. Luxury 1BR condo in high-rise, secure bldg w/

$10 Virgin Mobile prepaid phone card (pin number). Best offer. barterland@yahoo.com.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED Theater director needs volunteer stage manager, play to be performed during Baltimore Playwright’s Festival in August. Alonzo, 443683-3023 or adljr@comcast.net. Seamstress available for alterations; reasonable prices. 410-404-3548. Piano lessons by experienced teacher w/Peabody doctorate, all levels/ages welcome. 410662-7951. Renting out a graduation gown, cap and hood for doctor of philosophy, all in excel cond, standard gold/black w/blue trim on hood, firstcome, first-served. $125 (for up to 2 days). 443-248-2179. Horse boarding 25 mins from JHU in Glyndon/Worthington Valley, beautiful trails from farm. $500/mo (stall board). 410-812-6716 or argye.hillis@gmail.com. Classically trained musicians/ensemble avail for your special events (weddings, receptions, etc), affordable rate. stamusicministry@gmail.com.

Rms in furn’d Halethorpe house, W/D, backyd, park, nr MARC train/695/I-95, high-speed Internet, cable TV, short-term leases OK. $550/mo + utils. lizo99@hotmail.com.

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

1BR in 2BR, 2.5BA carriage house in Butchers Hill, recently renov’d, great light, roof deck, avail June 1. $950/mo w/prkng. 781-249-5269.

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

Share 2BR apt in Mt Vernon, get your own flr, share W/D and kitchen, 1 blk to Subway and Superfresh, free WiFi. $495/mo + utils. dswanke1@gmail.com.

Donate unwanted guitars for the summer guitar workshop for youth in Hampden community. 410-366-4488.

F nonsmoker wanted to share 2BR, 1BA apt, 3rd flr, W/D, dw, hdwd flrs. $675/mo + 1/2 utils and cable/Internet. joyt1775@gmail.com.

Affordable and professional landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE

Mama, do you want your body back? Eightweek weight loss and fitness program, proven results. blorinc@gmail.com.

’00 Toyota Camry LE, automatic, new timing belt and water pump, Md insp’d, excel cond, 110K mi. $5,500/best offer. 443-636-0663. ’03 Acura TL, leather, ABS, power everything, dual/side airbags, moonroof, Bose sound system, multidisc CD, in good cond, 76K mi. $9,500. 410-484-4843. ’99 Nissan Sentra, manual, in good cond, 97K mi. $2,500. 443-653-1876 or reaeg@yahoo .com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Locust Point (1325 Cooksie St), 2BR, 2BA

Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

ITEMS FOR SALE Bassinet, Carter’s Soothe ’n’ Sleep, like new, w/2 sheets, only used a few times. $80. dmhart752003@yahoo.com. Conn alto sax, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond. 410-4881886. Moving sale: single mattresses, $60; dining table, $45; sofa, $85; many more items, best offers accepted. 571-345-5059 or irajk100@ yahoo.com. Four tickets to Wicked at Kennedy Center,

Need a photographer or videographer for headshots, weddings or other events? Edward S Davis photography and videography. 443-6959988 or esdavisimaging@gmail.com. Resident assistants needed, July 22-29, to supervise 100 high school students for 1-wk camp at Homewood campus. Shanna, skh9701@gmail .com. Licensed landscaper avail for spring/summer lawn maintenance, yd cleanup, other services incl’d fall/winter leaf and snow removal, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-8126090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Mobile detailing and power wash service. Jason, 443-421-3659. Cash for cars, running or not, all makes/models, free towing. $350 and up. 410-419-3902. Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free consultation. 410435-5939 or treilly1@aol.com. Tutor for all subjects/levels; remedial and gifted; also help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading. 410-3379877 (after 8pm) or i1__@hotmail.com.

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• We cannot use Johns Hopkins business phone numbers or e-mail addresses. • Submissions will be condensed at the editor’s discretion. • Deadline is at noon Monday, one week prior to the edition in which the ad is to be run. • Real estate listings may be offered only by a Hopkins-affiliated seller not by Realtors or Agents.

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COLLOQUIA

Wed.,

May

18,

3:30

p.m.

“Missing Baryons in Galaxies and Clusters,” an STSci colloquium with Joel Bregman, University of Michigan. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW “Repairs in Space at 220 Miles High,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Capt. Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, U.S. Navy, former NASA astronaut. Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., May 20, 2 p.m.

C O N FERE N C E S

Thurs., May 19, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Enhancing the U.S.-Japan

Partnership: Education and Cultural Ties in a Changing Global Context,” a Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies conference with keynote speakers Anthony Miller, U.S. deputy secretary of education, and Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese ambassador to the United States. Co-sponsored by Culcon. For complete agenda, go to www.sais-jhu.edu/bin/o/q/culcon_ symposium.pdf. To RSVP, email pfields@jusfc.gov or call 202-6539800. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

DANCE

ebriet@frenchamerican.org or call 646-588-6786. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS “Is the Economic Glass for Central Asia and the Caucasus Half Empty of Half Full?” a Central Asia– Caucasus Institute at SAIS panel discussion with David Owen, International Monetary Fund; Jennifer Leonard, International Crisis Group; and Kazi Matin, World Bank. Co-sponsored by the IMF. To RSVP, email saiscaciforums@ jhu.edu or call 202-663-7721. Rome Auditorium. SAIS

Tues., May 17, 5:30 p.m.

“Women and Religion in Ancient Egypt,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Suzanne Onstine, University of Memphis. Co-sponsored by the American Research Center on Egypt, Washington D.C. chapter. To RSVP, email drsgabrieal@aol.com. Rome Auditorium. SAIS

Fri., May 20, 6:30 p.m.

E X H I B I T I O N S Mon., May 23, 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Reception for the 2011 Medical and Biological Illustration Graduate Student Exhibition, on view through May 26. For more information, go to www.hopkinsmedicine .org/medart or call 410-955-3409. Turner Concourse. EB

Sun., May 22, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. “A Midsummer Night’s

Leaders & Legends Lecture— “Leading Around Corners: Meeting Today’s Challenges While Positioning for Tomorrow” by Douglas Shulman, commissioner of Internal Revenue. (See story, p. 7.) Legg Mason Tower, Harbor East.

Dream,” the Preparatory Spring Dance Showcase. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Advance ticket purchase is required; call 410-234-4626. Friedberg Hall. Peabody DISCUSSIONS/ TA L K S

“Worms at Work: Long-Run Impacts of Child Deworming in Kenya,” a SAIS African Studies Program panel discussion with Michael Kremer, Harvard University; Sarah Baird, George Washington University; and David McKenzie, World Bank. Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Development. (Event is open to the SAIS community and invited guests only.) Center for Global Development, 1800 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington D.C. Mon., May 16, noon.

“Mobilizing Resources for Global Health,” a J.B. Grant International Health Society talk with Christoph Benn, Global Fund. E9519 SPH. EB

L E C TURE S

Wed., May 18, 7:30 to 9 a.m.

The 2011 Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professor Lecture—“Global Issues in Women’s Health” by Timothy R.B. Johnson, University of Michigan. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Alpha Omega Alpha chapter. Hurd Hall. EB Thurs., May 19, 4 p.m.

MUSIC

Recital by students in the Peabody Preparatory Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) program. Cohen-Davison Family Theatre. Peabody Tues., May 17, 7 p.m.

Mon., May 16, noon.

Mon., May 16, 6 p.m. “The World in 20 Years: What Role for France?” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Nicolas Tenzer, co-founder and chairman, Initiative for the Development of French Expertise Abroad in Europe and Worldwide. For information or to RSVP, email

The Peabody Wind Orchestra performs. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Sat., May 21, 3 p.m.

REA D I N G S / B OO K TA L K S Tues., May 17, 7 p.m. Baltimore-based author Michael Kimball will read from and sign copies of his novel Us. (See In Brief, p. 2) Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

S E M I N AR S

Mon., May 16, noon. “Live Imaging of Signal Relay During Chemotaxis, and Its Relevance to Inflammation,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Carole Parent, NCI. W1020 SPH. EB Mon., May 16, 12:15 p.m.

“Epigenetic Regulation of Telomere Capping in Drosophila = The Stories of the Hip Hop Brothers,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Yikang Rong, NCI. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., May 16, 2 p.m. “Modera-

tors of the Relationship Between Life Events and Depression: Recurrence, Social Support and Age,” a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Cynthia Jones. 845 Hampton House.

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

Mon., May 16, 4 p.m.

Tues., May 17, noon. “Hedgehog Signaling at Primary Cilia,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Rajat Rohatgi, Stanford University School of Medicine. 612 Physiology. EB Tues., May 17, noon. “Maternal Nutritional Status: Total Body and Extracellular Water, Placental Weight in Rural Bangladesh: A Pathway to Birth Weight,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Alison Gernand. W4030 SPH. EB

“DoseEffect Relationships: Predictors and Outcomes of the Intensity of Exposure to a Community Health Worker Intervention,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Chidinma Ibe. 744 Hampton House. EB

Tues., May 17, 1 p.m.

“Chemo selective Modification of Viral Proteins Bearing Metabolically Introduced Non-Natural Amino Acids and Sugars,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Partha Sarathi Banerjee, Stony Brook University. 612 Physiology. EB

Wed., May 18, noon.

o p e n h o u S Es

Open house for the Peabody Preparatory’s Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) Program, including information from Preparatory faculty and staff, refreshments and a tour. Bank of America Lounge.

Sat., May 21, 2 to 4 p.m.

Peabody

Wed., May 18, 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday Noon Seminar—

“Attitude Toward Mental Disorder and Mental Health Service Use Patterns Among Asian Americans” with Su Lee. Sponsored by Mental Health. B14B Hampton House. EB “A Tale of Two Proteins: Autoinhibition of the Signaling Adapter Protein Crk-II and Conformational Dynamics of Ribonuclease H,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Arthur Palmer, Columbia University Medical Center. 701 WBSB. EB

Wed., May 18, 1:30 p.m.

“DNA Replication: Challenges and Opportunities for Antibacterial Drug Discovery,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Stewart Fisher, AstraZeneca R&D, Boston. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Wed., May 18, 4 p.m.

Thurs., May 19, noon. “Evaluating the Scale-Up of Community Case Management in Malawi: Health Systems Supports, Health Worker Attidues and Equity of Service Provision,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Jennifer Callaghan. W2030 SPH. EB Thurs., May 19, 2 p.m. “Extrapo-

lation From the Gut: Exploring the Regulatory Control of Pleiotropic Expression of Enteric Crest Genes,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine thesis defense seminar with Zachary Stine. G-007 Ross. EB

Fri., May 20, 9 a.m. “Gender Disparities in Dietary Intake and Obesity Prevalence Among Mexican Adults: A Cross-Country Comparison Between Mexico and the U.S.,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Rebecca Kanter. W2030 SPH. EB Fri., May 20, 10 a.m. “Reducing Blood Waste: The Effect of Implementing a Maryland Collaborative,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with I-Fong Sun. 688 Hampton House. EB

“Recent Developments in Acute Elephant Endotheliolytic Disease Caused by EEHV,” a Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology seminar with Gary Hayward, SoM. West Room (ground floor), BRB. EB

Fri., May 20, 1 p.m.

“Identification and Functional Dissection of Regulatory Sequences at ERBB3 and Other Neural Crest Genes,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine thesis defense seminar with Megana Prasad. G-007 Ross. EB

Fri., May 20, 3 p.m.

Mon.,

May

23,

12:15

p.m.

“Novel Localizations and Functions of Heterotrimeric G Proteins: Gβγ Regulates Trans Golgi Network to Plasma Membrane Transport,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Philip Wedegaertner, Thomas Jefferson University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW May 23, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Speech Emerges and Evolves Through Coupled Oscillations” with Asif Ghazanfar, Princeton University. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/ Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon.,

SPECIAL EVENTS

Tues., May 17, 5 to 7 p.m. Delta Omega Society induction ceremony, with Michael Klag, SPH dean. For information, go to www .jhsph.edu/alumni/events/delta_ omega_induction_ceremony .html. W1214 SPH. EB Wed., May 18, 6:30 p.m. “The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts,” a discussion by Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curator of European sculpture and decorative arts. Part of The House Beautiful lecture series, sponsored by JHU Museums. $20 general admission, $15 for museum members and students. Advance registration recommended; call 410-5160341 or www.brownpapertickets .com/event/157392. Bakst Theatre, Evergreen Museum & Library.

SYMPOSIA

Thurs., May 19, 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Innovations in Cardiac Imag-

ing: New Windows to the Heart, an SoM Tech Transfer symposium with a keynote address, “Cardiac Imaging at Hopkins: The State and Future of Cardiovascular Imaging” by Gordon Tomaselli, SoM, and panel discussions with a variety of speakers. 5:45 p.m. Reception. Carriage House, Evergreen Museum & Library. Mon., May 23, noon to 4 p.m.

Leading the Nation in Women Veterans’ Health: The Important Role of Research, a Johns Hopkins Women’s Health Research Group symposium with Laura Herrera, acting deputy chief officer, Veterans Health Administration. RSVP to www.jhsph.edu/urbanhealth/ whrg/symposium_2011.html. E2030 SPH. EB

W OR K S HO P S

“Writing for Publication,” a JHMI Professional Development Office workshop designed to demystify the process of publishing research, with Donna Vogel, SoM. Topics covered include the purpose of a publication, choosing a journal, authorship issues and understanding peer review. To register, complete the form on the righthand side of the home page at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pdo. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB.

Mon., May 23, 9 a.m.

Calendar Key APL BRB CRB CSEB

(Events are free and open to the public except where indicated.)

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building Computational Science and Engineering Building EB East Baltimore HW Homewood JHOC Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences NEB New Engineering Building PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of Engineering