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Hawk’s tale

Retirement plan options announced By Greg Rienzi

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ith all due respect to the midterm elections, 2011 will be the year of choice for thousands of JHU support staff employees. The university announced today a new defined contribution plan for its support staff retirement benefits package Support staff that will go into effect on July 1. can choose In 2009, under the direction how they of the board of wish to accrue trustees, the university undertook future benefits a comprehensive study of support staff retirement benefits. Many different retirement designs were considered, with university leadership integral to the decision-making process. As a result of the study, the university committed to a defined contribution 403(b) plan, the most common type of retirement package offered in higher education and one that encourages shared responsibility in saving for retirement. The creation of the Johns Hopkins University 403(b) will present a choice to current support staff. They can stay in the existing support staff pension plan and continue to participate in the staff voluntary 403(b) plan, or opt to enroll in the new defined contribution 403(b). Eligible employees will be offered a onetime opportunity to choose how they wish to accrue future retirement benefits during a “Retirement Choice” period that runs from March 18 to April 15. The opportunity for choice is available to roughly 6,000 university employees: support staff who are pension plan eligible and not part of the bargaining unit. Not immediately affected by the new plan are employees at the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins Health System. Charlene Hayes, vice president for human resources, said that the new plan will allow the university to phase out its pension plan gradually and with as little

One of Homewood’s two celebrity red-tailed hawks takes a break from the festivities on Convocation Day in 2009. The female of the pair was recently injured when she flew into a window in the MSE Library.

An uplifting story: Good Samaritans rescue wild bird injured in collision By Greg Rienzi

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ou thought our Blue Jays were tough. An adult female red-tailed hawk—who, along with her mate, has enjoyed a celebrity status on the Homewood campus—is poised to make a full recovery following a calamitous collision with a Milton S. Eisenhower Library window in mid-November. The winged creature has

some Johns Hopkins animal enthusiasts to thank. The bird could be released on campus within weeks, after nearly two months of rehabilitation at a Baltimore County animal clinic. The hawk slammed into one of the Continued on page 5

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Five Hopkins researchers named AAAS fellows

ive Johns Hopkins researchers have been elected by their peers as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Chia-Ling Chien and Marc M. Greenberg, of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; Valeria Culotta, of the Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Se-Jin Lee and Mark Mattson, of the School of Medicine, are among 503 new fellows from around the world. Election as an AAAS fellow honors scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

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The names of the awardees will be published in the “AAAS News and Notes” section of Science on Jan. 28. The newly elected fellows will be awarded a certificate and a rosette pin during the AAAS Fellows Forum at the 2011 AAAS annual meeting to be held on Saturday, Feb. 19, in Washington, D.C. As part of the section for physics, ChiaLing Chien, the Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics in the Krieger School and director of the university’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, was elected for his distinguished contributions to the fields

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of condensed matter physics and materials research, particularly for magnetic and superconducting nanostructures and copper oxide superconductivity, and the newly discovered iron superconductors. His current research interests include fabrication of nanostructured materials and the study of their structural, electronic, magnetic and superconducting properties, magnetoelectronics and electric tweezers. As part of the section on biological sciContinued on page 7

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China studies: Yeung Center now accepting grant proposals By Greg Rienzi

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he Benjamin and Rhea Yeung Center for Collaborative China Studies has announced its inaugural grant opportunities for students, faculty, programs and schools. The newly established Yeung Center, which falls under the auspices of the Provost’s Office, requests proposals for 2011–2012 for initiatives that advance its mission of promoting collaborative research and scholarship on China and supporting the development of new opportunities for Johns Hopkins students to learn about China. The Provost’s Office will fund projects in each of the Yeung Center’s 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. In this first year, preference will be given to applicants who partner with the Hopkins-Nanjing Center or with an academic department or a faculty member at Nanjing University. The center expects to fund several proposals and encourages applicants to seek matching funds from their Chinese partners. Proposals will be accepted from both individuals and institutional units.

All faculty, graduate students and undergraduates in any Johns Hopkins division are eligible to apply for a Yeung Center grant. Applications will be reviewed by the center’s Faculty Steering Committee. The 10-person group, which includes representatives from each academic division of the university, will be co-chaired by David M. “Mike” Lampton of SAIS, Kellee Tsai of Arts and Sciences and Carla Freeman of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. The other members are Edward Bouwer, Whiting School of Engineering; John Castellani, School of Education; Marie Nolan, School of Nursing; Jun Liu, School of Medicine; Leiyu Shi, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Xian Sun, Carey Business School; and Hollis Robbins, Peabody Institute. Pam Cranston, vice provost for international programs, serves on the committee in an ex-officio role. Inquiries should be directed to Cranston at pcranston@jhu.edu or 410-5168993. Application instructions are available beginning today. The RFP and the application can be accessed under “News” on the Office of the Provost’s website, web.jhu.edu/administration/provost. Applications must be received by March 25. Grants will be awarded by April 29, with the earliest dispersal start date of June 1. For more on the Yeung Center, go to gazette.jhu.edu/2010/12/13/johns-hopkinscenter-for-china-studies-announced.

Youth report favorable impressions of street outreach workers By Alicia Samuels

Center for Injury Research and Policy

new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds that youth generally perceive community street outreach workers positively, regardless of whether they have personally worked with one. Street outreach workers are typically members of the community who intervene to prevent conflict and retaliation and, in some programs, also connect individuals with needed services, such as housing, health care and job training. While communities across the United States are increasingly using street workers as a strategy to connect at-risk youth to services and prevent gang-related violence, little is known about how they are viewed by the youth in their communities, particularly among youth who have not yet worked with one. This study, available online in advance of publication in the Journal of Community Health, is the first peer-reviewed study to include the perceptions of youth who are not former or current clients of community street workers. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health surveyed 159 individuals ages 13 to 23 in Lowell, Mass., to assess their perceptions of local street workers. Lowell is a city of 105,167 residents north of Boston. The United Teen Equality Center in Lowell was established in 1999 in response to local gang violence and houses a community street worker program that was the focus of the evaluation. The majority (63 percent) of survey respondents indicated they knew firsthand of fights in which the street workers intervened and/or prevented them from occurring. Eighty-two percent of respondents who reported having participated in street worker–led mediation

activities said their conflicts had successfully been resolved. “These results support the value of communities using street workers to help meet the needs of their youth and in mediating disputes,” said Keshia Pollack, an assistant professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health Policy and Management and lead author of the paper. “Even youth who haven’t directly benefited from working one-on-one with street outreach workers are telling us their presence makes their own community a better place.” Respondents were also asked about their employment, education and health care needs. Close to 60 percent reported needing help finding and securing a job, and approximately one-third needed assistance with resume writing. The No. 1 health need expressed by youth was access to health care, followed by drug rehabilitation and treatment services, and birth control. More than 50 percent of the respondents said they could not have connected with the services they received without the help of the street workers. “Young people have needs beyond conflict resolution strategies, and it is important that communities consider this point when thinking about how best to keep their young people moving in the right direction,” said co-author Shannon Frattaroli, also an assistant professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health Policy and Management. “At the end of the day, teens know that the factors necessary for a successful transition to adulthood include education, employment and health care,” Frattaroli said. Additional authors of the study are Jennifer M. Whitehill, of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence; and Karen Jonsberg, of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. The research was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Men’s lacrosse tix for faculty and staff available on Feb. 1

ickets for the Blue Jays 2011 men’s lacrosse season will be available beginning Feb. 1. To receive two complimentary season tickets, faculty and staff members should bring a valid university ID to the main office in Homewood’s Athletic Center between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Each faculty/ staff member is responsible for picking up his own tickets, meaning only one set of tickets will be given out per person. To accommodate schedules, the department will stay open until 7 p.m. on Feb. 7, 9, 15 and 17. All full-time students get free admission and must present a valid university ID to pick up a ticket before each game. Tickets will be available in the Athletic Center main office beginning the Monday before each home game, or on game day in the Recreation Center lobby, starting an hour and a half before face-off. Gates to Homewood Field will open an hour and a half before face-off. The first home game is on Feb. 26, against Siena. Other visiting teams this year are Princeton, Manhattan, Virginia, Albany, Navy and Loyola. The season opens Feb. 19 at Towson. For a complete schedule, go to www.hopkinssports.com.

Poetry Extravaganza on tap at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins

arnes & Noble Johns Hopkins has teamed up with poetryinbaltimore .com to showcase nine poets in what is being called a Poetry Extravaganza. On Friday, Jan. 21, the store will be visited by poets Azure, Dan Cuddy, David Eberhardt, Embrassemoi, Julie Fisher, Chris George, Mike Monroe, Mark Sanders and ML Scott. Among them are the winner of an individual artist grant from the Maryland Arts Council (Sanders), the editor of the Desert Moon Review (George) and a former inmate incarcerated for pouring blood on draft files in 1967 with Father Phil Berrigan (Eberhardt). The event begins at 7 p.m.

‘Sun’ critic ranks Peabody music events among year’s best

our of the Top 10 classical music events of 2010 in Baltimore and Washington, according to Baltimore Sun critic Tim Smith, were performed and/ or organized by Peabody musicians: the Jan. 17 recital by Hans Kristian Goldstein (BM ’10, Cello), part of the Music in the Great Hall series; the May 12 performance at Metro Gallery of Darryl Brenzel’s jazz band version of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with Peabody student musicians, part of the Contemporary Museum’s Mobtown

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Modern series, curated by Brian Sacawa (GPD ’04, Saxophone); Peabody Opera Theatre’s Nov. 18–21 production of Massenet’s Manon, which Smith called “one of the best Peabody productions in my 10 years here”; and the Dec. 6 performance by Peabody alumni singers of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion at An die Musik, conducted by faculty member Judah Adashi (MM ’02, Composition), part of his Evolution Contemporary Music Series. The full listing is on Smith’s blog at weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/ classicalmusic/2010/12/my_favorite_ classical_music_ev.html.

Cardiologist David Kass to give clarinet recital in Turner

avid Kass, a professor of cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for 27 years, is about to showcase another talent. On Thursday, Jan. 20, he and his clarinet will take the stage in Turner Auditorium along with pianist Sook Hee Choi, the wife of Dong Lee, a postdoctoral fellow in Kass’ lab. The composers they’ve chosen are American (Copland), French (Poulenc) and a German transplant to America (Hindemuth). The concert begins at 5:15 p.m.

Urban Health Institute plans to hold community forum

he Urban Health Institute has announced that it will be hosting a community forum focused on Johns Hopkins’ Access Partnership. Launched in 2009, The Access Partnership is an innovative program that provides free specialtycare access to uninsured patients who live in the neighborhoods around The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Bayview Medical Center. It is the first of its kind in Baltimore. Ron Peterson, president of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, will serve on the panel, as will faith leaders involved in the preliminary conversations about health care access for East Baltimore. TAP proved so successful that it expanded from covering patients living in ZIP codes 21205 and 21213 to include clinic patients from 21202, 21231 and 21224. Roughly 1,130 patients who live near the two campuses are eligible. The Community-Hopkins Forum on The Access Partnership will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 2. It is open only to invited guests. Other Johns Hopkins participants are Barbara Cook, medical director of TAP; Anne Langley, director of Health Policy Planning, Johns Hopkins Health System; and Sai Ma, assistant scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and TAP evaluator.

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Museums and Society program to grow with Mellon grant B y A m y L u n d ay

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grant of $484,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the Program in Museums and Society at The Johns Hopkins University to expand both its course offerings and its staff. With support from the grant, four new courses taught by curators at three Baltimore museums will be added to the roster of the increasingly popular Krieger School undergraduate program, now in its fifth year. Grant funds will also facilitate additional instruction for core courses and administrative staffing, allowing Elizabeth Rodini, the program’s associate director, to concentrate on content. “This grant is not only a wonderful boost to the Program in Museums and Society but a real confirmation of the innovative work that our faculty and students are doing,” said Rodini, also a senior lecturer in the Department of the History of Art. “With

the support of the Mellon Foundation, we will be able to broaden our partnerships with area museums and focus on the intellectual concerns that are at the core of the program. What is most exciting is the chance to share what we are doing at Johns Hopkins with general audiences, through the public forum of the museum.” As with prior practicum courses in the program, the new offerings—dedicated to the printed series at the Baltimore Museum of Art, European decorative arts at the Walters Art Museum and Baltimore’s post-war building boom at the Jewish Museum of Maryland—will each result in a final project such as a special exhibition or experimental installation. A fourth collaboration, with a local museum partner still to be determined, will also be developed. “This is a course model that we have used very successfully to date, but we have not had funding to maintain it consistently nor a mechanism in place to support integrated planning with our partner museums,” Rodini said. “This grant will permit us to continue and refine this work, which is

quite groundbreaking in its tight integration of undergraduate activity with nonaffiliated museums.” Katherine Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, said that the school is immensely proud of the hard work of its faculty and Rodini, who have created a “signature program.” “The recognition of the Mellon Foundation underlines the importance of the ‘public humanities’ at Johns Hopkins, the fusion of creative expression accessible to a broad audience with humanistic scholarship, that lies at the heart of our museum program,” Newman said. “We are particularly pleased that the grant will cement our growing partnerships with the distinguished museums in the city of Baltimore.” Michael Szeto, a senior majoring in political science, discovered the program in his first semester and has taken one class every semester since. “I worked with Elizabeth Rodini, juniors and seniors to put on an exhibition about the Hubble Telescope at the Walters Art

Museum,” he said about his first course. “That class remains, four years after, the most engaging class I have taken. It gave me an entire new perspective on how museums work and the hundreds of decisions that go into putting on even the smallest of exhibits. Students have the chance to complete a final project that will be seen by thousands of people, something few papers or presentations can ever do,” he said. “The Museums program is such a unique undergraduate offering that it makes my coming to Hopkins even more worthwhile,” he said. “Many of my friends at other colleges are envious.” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas: Higher Education and Scholarship, Scholarly Communications and Information Technology, Museums and Art Conservation, Performing Arts, and Conservation and the Environment. The foundation’s grantmaking philosophy is to build, strengthen and sustain institutions and their core capacities rather than be a source for narrowly defined projects.

Engineering for Professionals appoints new program chairs By Debi Rager

Whiting School of Engineering

and a doctorate in biomedical engineering from the Technion, Israel, in 1985. Civil Engineering

ohns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals, which offers part-time education for working engineers and scientists through the university’s Whiting School of Engineering, has appointed five new chairs and a vice chair.

Applied Biomedical Engineering

Eileen Haase, a lecturer in the Whiting School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named chair of EP’s Applied Biomedical Engineering program. Haase received her bachelor’s degree in engineering science and mechanics from Virginia Tech in 1983. She also earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1986 and a doctorate in biomedical engineering in 1991, both from Johns Hopkins. She began her career at the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory, where she was a member of the Fleet Systems Department. Isaac Bankman is the new vice chair of the Applied Biomedical Engineering program. Bankman is a member of the ElectroOptical Systems Group in the Air Defense Systems Department at APL and an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Medicine. Bankman received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey, in 1977, a master’s in electronics from University of Wales, U.K., in 1979,

Rachel Sangree has been appointed chair of EP’s Civil Engineering program. She is an associate research engineer and lecturer in the Whiting School’s Department of Civil Engineering. Sangree received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering in 1998 and 1999 from Bucknell University and a doctorate in civil engineering from Johns Hopkins in 2006. Before starting her graduate studies, she worked for three years as a design engineer with the bridge design group at Whitman, Requardt and Associates in Baltimore and earned her professional engineering license in 2002. Computer Science, Information Assurance and Information Systems Engineering

Thomas Longstaff, chief scientist of the Mission Assurance Branch in the Applied Information Science Department at APL, is the new chair of the EP’s Computer Science, Information Assurance and Information Systems Engineering programs. Longstaff joined APL in 2007 to work on behalf of the federal government on a wide variety of projects involving technology transition of cyber research and development, information assurance, intelligence and global information networks. He received his bachelor’s degree in phys-

ics and mathematics from Boston University in 1983 and his doctorate in 1992 from the University of California, Davis, in software environments. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brian Jennison has been appointed chair of EP’s Electrical and Computer Engineering program. A member of the principal professional staff at APL, Jennison is assistant supervisor of the Systems Group in the National Security Technology Department. He has been with APL since 1990 and has contributed to projects in underwater acoustics, radar and chemical detection for facility protection. Jennison received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla in 1986 and a doctorate in the same discipline from Purdue University in 1990. He has been a member of the EP faculty since 1992 and had been vice chair

of the Electrical and Computer Engineering program since 2007. Mechanical Engineering

Lester Su is the new chair of EP’s Mechanical Engineering program. He is an associate research professor in the Whiting School’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and has research interests in experimental fluid mechanics, turbulent mixing and combustion, laser diagnostics, combustion systems, interaction of experiments and simulations, and spray and droplet dynamics. Su received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1990 and then three degrees from the University of Michigan: a master’s in aerospace engineering in 1991, a master’s in applied mathematics in 1994 and a doctorate in aerospace engineering in 1995. For more information on EP programs, call 410-516-2300, go to ep.jhu.edu or e-mail jhep@ jhu.edu.

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Violist Karen Tuttle, 90, former Peabody faculty member

iolist Karen Tuttle, who taught at the Peabody Conservatory in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Dec. 16 at home in Philadelphia. She was 90. Tuttle was a soloist, a chamber musician and a member of the Schneider, Galimir and Gotham quartets. Her students at Pea-

body included renowned violist and New England Conservatory faculty member Kim Kashkashian, a 1973 graduate who continues to teach workshops in the Karen Tuttle Coordination Technique. An obituary appeared in The New York Times on Dec. 24.

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New study yields better turbine spacing for large wind farms By Phil Sneiderman

Homewood campus, which uses a large fan to generate a stream of air. Before it enters the testing area, the air passes through an “active grid,” a curtain of perforated plates that rotate randomly and create turbulence so that the air moving through the tunnel more closely resembles real-life wind conditions.

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Hawk Continued from page 1 library’s upper windows, located on the Keyser Quadrangle side, just after noon on Nov. 16. Witnesses said that the bird hit the window at full force, leaving a basketballsized hole in the thick glass. “I heard a loud thump, and then saw people rushing to the window where glass had fallen,” said Kamilah Cole, the manager of the library’s Cafe Q coffee bar, which is located near the building’s Keyser Quad entrance. “Students stood over the bird, not sure what to do, as feathers fell down around them.” The animal had plummeted to the library patio and lay motionless for minutes. Homewood Security personnel arrived soon after to ward off people and put up yellow tape. Chris Falzone, an associate research professor in the Chemistry Department and one of the first to arrive, described the scene as morose. “The hawk lay flat and was completely unconscious, with glass broken around it. I thought it must be dead,” he said. “Then it started to move, and we could see it breathing.” Falzone later told his wife, Juliette Lecomte, a professor in the Biophysics Department and a fellow fan of the hawk pair, who are often seen perched on campus buildings and even benches. Lecomte and a colleague—Ranice Crosby, academic program administrator in the Biophysics Department—notified Tim Hoen, a research technician in Biophysics and noted animal enthusiast. Hoen and others speculated that the bird was chasing something, or being chased, and thought that it had a straight shot through the glass to the other side of the library. Many birds, even keen-eyed hawks, can’t see glass until it’s too late. Some birds mistake their reflection for a rival bird. Daniel Klem Jr., a professor of ornithology at Muhlenberg College and an expert on avian mortality, estimates that 1 billion birds

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arge wind farms are being built around the world as a cleaner way to generate electricity, but operators are still searching for the most cost-effective and efficient way to arrange the massive turbines that turn moving air into power. To help steer wind farm owners in the right direction, Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, working with a colleague in Belgium, has devised a new formula through which the optimal spacing for a large array of turbines can be obtained. “I believe our results are quite robust,” said Meneveau, who is the Louis Sardella Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the university’s Whiting School of Engineering. “They indicate that large wind farm operators are going to have to space their turbines farther apart.” The newest wind farms, which can be located on land or offshore, typically use turbines with rotor diameters of about 300 feet. Currently, turbines on these large wind farms are typically spaced about seven rotor diameters apart. The new spacing model developed by Meneveau and Johan Meyers, an assistant professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, suggests that placing the wind turbines 15 rotor diameters apart—more than twice as far apart as in the current layouts—results in more costefficient power generation. The study by Meneveau and Meyers was presented recently at a meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics.

A wind tunnel on the Homewood campus allows researchers to experiment with variables such as the correct spacing of wind turbines. Charles Meneveau and a colleague have devised a new formula for determining the optimal positioning.

The research is important because large wind farms—consisting of hundreds or even thousands of turbines—are planned or already operating in the western United States, Europe and China. “The early experience is that they are producing less power than expected,” Meneveau said. “Some of these projects are underperforming.” Earlier computational models for large wind farm layouts were based on simply adding up what happens in the wakes of single wind turbines, Meneveau said. The new spacing model, he said, takes into account interaction of arrays of turbines with the entire atmospheric wind flow.

Meneveau and Meyers argue that the energy generated in a large wind farm has less to do with horizontal winds and is more dependent on the strong winds that the turbulence created by the tall turbines pulls down from higher up in the atmosphere. Using insights gleaned from high-performance computer simulations as well as from wind tunnel experiments, they determined that in the correct spacing, the turbines alter the landscape in a way that creates turbulence, which stirs the air and helps draw more powerful kinetic energy from higher altitudes. The experiments were conducted in the university’s wind tunnel, located on the

are killed in the United States annually due to window collisions. Klem said that most birds don’t survive such accidents. “As to be expected, most die of head trauma or paralysis,” he said. “One out of two is killed outright within a half hour. This bird was lucky.” Homewood Security notified Tom Wheatley, the university’s carpenter shop supervisor, who has expertise dealing with injured animals. Wheatley, who went through a seven-year falconry apprenticeship, has in the past rescued opossums, birds, snakes and even some bats injured or trapped on campus. Two years ago, he rescued a hawk trapped in the pedestrian bridge over San Martin Drive. “Some of my co-workers call my workshop animal control,” Wheatley joked. “I’m not exactly the Crocodile Hunter, but I would much rather see animals returned to their habitat alive.” Wheatley hurried to the scene of the accident and using leather gloves placed the injured bird in a box, so it would remain still, and brought it back to his workshop. Wheatley decided to take the animal to a friend, Kathy Woods, director of the Phoenix Wildlife Center, a nonprofit clinic that specializes in rehabilitating injured native Maryland wildlife. Woods said that the animal arrived at her clinic later that day in poor shape. “The bird was hunched up like a gnome. It did not present like a hawk at all,” said Woods, who previously worked as a cardiac surgery coordinator at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She founded the Phoenix Wildlife Center in the mid-1990s and left the hospital in 2000 to run the clinic full time. Woods said that the bird was badly bruised over its entire body, except the beak and neck. “I’m guessing that at the last second she pulled up to avoid a headfirst collision,” Woods said. “When she came in, she was in a lot of pain and mostly just lay there.” Woods placed the bird on a regimen of painkillers. During the first month, the bird was kept mostly immobilized in a large stainless steel cage with bumper pads and a mattress pad so that it could not further injure

itself. The clinic staff called her “stumpy” because she could not extend her neck. The animal, who has lived on a diet of water and frozen mice, has since been taken off pain medications and examined by a veterinarian. “Remarkably, nothing was broken,” Woods said. “This bird was very lucky. It’s amazing that it’s not crippled or dead.” Red-tailed hawks are one of the most common birds of prey in North America. Most are brown up top and pale below, with a streaked belly and cinnamon-red tail. They commonly hunt rodents, such as mice and squirrels, found in plentiful supply on the Homewood campus. These birds, once they find a mate, tend to live and hunt in the same area for years. The injured bird has likely lived through several winters on the Homewood campus, Woods said. Woods said that the animal will soon be brought outside to a large flight cage so it can build up its muscles. She anticipates the animal will be ready for release later this month or in early February. She wants to release the animal back on the campus before the mating season starts, as hawks have been known to mate for life and Woods doesn’t want the male to find a new mate, thinking its partner has died. “We certainly don’t want her to lose a spot at Johns Hopkins,” she said. “She might nest there for many years to come.” The window at the library has since been repaired. The library’s windows will soon be affixed with ultraviolet reflective static decals, which although largely invisible to humans, act as visual noise for birds to deter collision. University architect Jim Miller, who approved the decals, said that he is not aware of bird decals on any other Homewood campus buildings. Woods said the bird is currently standing “upright and head up tall” and that she anticipates the animal will make a full recovery. Wheatley said he’s glad to hear about the optimistic prognosis. “That bird took one heck of a hit,” he said. “It sure is a feisty thing.” G

Johns Hopkins video on wind turbine research:

www.youtube.com/ watch?v=U3F9qGo549k

NSF feature on Meneveau’s work:

www.nsf.gov/discoveries/ disc_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_ id=112626&preview=false

Charles Meneveau’s research page:

www.me.jhu.edu/meneveau

Air currents in the tunnel pass through a series of small three-bladed model wind turbines mounted atop posts, mimicking an array of full-size wind turbines. Data concerning the interaction of the air currents and the model turbines is collected by using a measurement technique called stereo particle-image-velocimetry, which requires a pair of high-resolution digital cameras, smoke and laser pulses. Further research is needed, Meneveau said, to learn how varying temperatures can affect the generation of power on large wind farms. He has applied for continued funding to conduct such studies.

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6 THE GAZETTE • January 18, 2011

January 18, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

NASA telescopes help identify most distant galaxy cluster By Lisa De Nike

Homewood

AAAS Continued from page 1 ences, Valeria Culotta, a professor in the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and of Environmental Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School, was elected for her studies on the role of metals in biology. Metals such as copper, iron and manganese are essential nutrients for virtually all life, but excess levels or inappropriate handling can lead to cell damage and disease. In her research, Culotta has shown that cells in higher organisms have evolved with “metal-

Related websites AAAS fellows:

www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows

Chia-Ling Chien:

physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/people/ faculty/clc.html

Valeria Culotta:

faculty.jhsph.edu/default .cfm?faculty_id=162

Marc Greenberg:

chemistry.jhu.edu/Greenberg/ biography.html

Se-Jin Lee:

www.jhu.edu/sejinlee/index.html

Mark Mattson:

neuroscience.jhu.edu/ MarkMattson.php

SUBARU/NASA/JPL-Caltech

team of astronomers has uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today. The developing cluster, named COSMOS-AzTEC3, was discovered and characterized by multiwavelength telescopes, including NASA’s Spitzer, Chandra and Hubble space telescopes, and the groundbased W.M. Keck Observatory and Japan’s Subaru Telescope. Johannes Staguhn, an associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Astrophysical Sciences in the Krieger School’s Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, contributed data to uncover the nature of a main cluster member. “This exciting discovery showcases the exceptional science made possible through collaboration among NASA projects and our international partners,” said Jon Morse, NASA’s Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Scientists refer to this growing lump of galaxies as a proto-cluster. COSMOS-AzTEC3 is the most distant massive proto-cluster known and also one of the youngest, because it is being seen when the universe itself was young. The cluster is roughly 12.6 billion light-years away from Earth. Our universe is estimated to be 13.7 billion years old. Previously, more mature versions of these clusters had been spotted at 10 billion light-years away. The astronomers also found that this cluster is buzzing with extreme bursts of star formation and one enormous feeding black hole. “We think the starbursts and black holes are the seeds of the cluster,” said Peter Capak of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology. “These seeds will eventually grow into a giant, central galaxy that will dominate the cluster—a

Members of the developing COSMOS-AzTEC3 cluster are circled in white in this image taken by Japan’s Subaru Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

trait found in modern-day galaxy clusters.” Capak is first author of a paper appearing in the Jan. 13 issue of the journal Nature. Most galaxies in our universe are bound together into clusters that dot the cosmic landscape like urban sprawls, usually centered around one old, monstrous galaxy containing a massive black hole. Astronomers thought that primitive versions of these clusters, still forming and clumping together, should exist in the early universe. But locating one proved difficult—until now. Capak and his colleagues first used the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the United Kingdom’s James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to search for the black holes and bursts of star formation needed to form the massive galaxies at the centers of modern galaxy cities. The astronomers then used the Hubble and Subaru telescopes to estimate the distances to these objects, and to look for higher densities of galaxies around them. Finally, the Keck telescope was used to confirm that these galaxies were at the same distance and part of the same galactic sprawl.

Once the scientists found this lumping of galaxies, they measured the combined mass with the help of Spitzer. At this distance the optical light from stars is shifted, or stretched, to infrared wavelengths that can only be observed in outer space by Spitzer. The lump sum of the mass turned out to be a minimum of 400 billion suns, enough to indicate that the astronomers had indeed uncovered a massive proto-cluster. The Spitzer observations also helped confirm that a massive galaxy at the center of the cluster was forming stars at an impressive rate. Chandra X-ray observations were used to find and characterize the whopping black hole with a mass of more than 30 million suns. Massive black holes are common in present-day galaxy clusters, but this is the first time a feeding black hole of this heft has been linked to a cluster that is so young. Finally, the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique’s interferometer telescope in France and 30-meter telescope in Spain, along with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array telescope in

trafficking pathways” that guide each metal to its proper destination in the cell and has discovered numerous genes and proteins for metal trafficking. Culotta discovered a family of proteins known as copper chaperones that have evolved to ferry copper ions to specific copper-containing proteins. These copper chaperones have since been implicated in certain motor neuron disorders and diseases of copper metabolism, such as Wilson’s and Menkes diseases. As part of the chemistry section, Marc M. Greenberg, a professor in the Krieger School and director of the Chemistry-Biology Interface graduate program, was elected for distinguished contributions to the field of mechanistic bioorganic chemistry, specifically with respect to how nucleic acids are damaged and repaired. Greenberg’s research group studies the structure, reactivity and function of nucleic acids. DNA plays a critical role as the carrier of genetic information, and the DNA damage and repair processes are important in aging and a variety of genetically based diseases, such as cancer. Greenberg is studying how DNA damage occurs and how it can be detected, and the biological results of this damage and how it can be fixed. His research group co-pioneered the approach for studying how nucleic acids are oxidized using organic chemistry to generate reactive intermediates that are produced by ionizing radiation, antitumor antibiotics and other DNA-damaging agents. Se-Jin Lee, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the School of Medicine, was elected for his discovery of the protein hormone myostatin, a master regulator of skeletal muscle mass and homeostasis. Muscle cells make myostatin, which circulates through the body and blocks muscle growth. Lee showed in laboratory mice that removal of the myosta-

tin gene results in “mighty mice” that have twice the muscle mass of ordinary mice. By exploring the components in the cell that regulate myostatin, Lee has identified several potential therapeutic targets for diseases such as muscular dystrophy and muscle wasting in AIDS patients and the elderly. The pharmaceutical industry is conducting multiple clinical trials for these diseases based upon Lee’s findings. He continues to study how problems with myostatin communication contribute to disease progression, and he is exploring how manipulating proteins that interact with myostatin can become beneficial treatments for certain muscle diseases. Mark Mattson, a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine and chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on

New Mexico, measured the amount of gas, or fuel for future star formation, in the cluster. The results indicate the cluster will keep growing into a modern city of galaxies. “It really did take a village of telescopes to nail this cluster,” Capak said. “Observations across the electromagnetic spectrum, from X-ray to millimeter wavelengths, were all critical in providing a comprehensive view of the cluster’s many facets.” Staguhn, of Johns Hopkins, agreed. “We were excited to contribute to these studies with our two millimeter bolometer camera, GISMO, which uses the latest superconducting detector technologies developed and built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center,” said Staguhn, the instrument PI and also a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “GISMO was built as a pathfinder instrument for our detector technologies, which were developed for suborbital and space applications. Funding from the National Science Foundation enabled us to field this technology at the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique’s 30m telescope, where in the future it will enable more studies of the earliest star-forming galaxies in the universe.” COSMOS-AzTEC3, located in the constellation Sextans, is named after the region where it was found, called COSMOS after the Cosmic Evolution Survey. AzTEC is the name of the camera used on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. This camera is now on its way to the Large Millimeter Telescope located in Mexico’s Puebla state.

Related websites Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins:

physics-astronomy.jhu.edu

NASA’s Spitzer, Chandra and Hubble space telescopes:

www.nasa.gov/spitzer www.nasa.gov/chandra www.nasa.gov/hubble

Aging, was named a fellow for revealing the cellular mechanisms involved in neural plasticity—the ability of neurons to adapt during processes such as learning or injury—and development of neurodegenerative disorders. Mattson studies how dietary intake affects the structure and function of the brain. He found that dietary restriction in mice stimulates the production of new neurons and helps learning and memory, processes normally weakened by aging. Reducing food intake causes the body to turn on genes that have protective effects on the brain because they help the body deal with environmental stress and promote growth. Mattson is continuing to search for other cellular mechanisms that also may be protective against the effects of aging and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. G

8 THE GAZETTE • January 18, 2011 F O R

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. APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY Kurt Lindstrom has been named busi-

ness area executive for Civilian Space. The appointment puts him in charge of APL’s current civilian space science and technology programs as well as business development activities for future space missions. Lindstrom had served as acting business area executive since May 2010, after becoming the deputy business area executive in July 2009. He came to APL in May 2008 after a 25-year NASA career that included headquarters roles as a program analysis branch chief as well as a budget director and program executive, overseeing missions such as the Europa Orbiter, the Dawn asteroid orbiter and the New Horizons mission to Pluto. He also directed the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and served as a program manager at NASA Ames Research Center. Jack Roberts , a program manager and principal investigator, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The honor recognizes Roberts’ significant engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. His expertise includes structural analysis, composite materials, biomaterials, biomechanics and tribology, the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. Since joining APL in 1990 he has led programs covering buckling and bending of composite panels and the development of computational and experimental models of the human body, including a lifelike torso model for studying the mechanics of ballistic and blast-related injuries. Richard T. Roca , director emeritus, has been inducted as a full member of the Pan American Academy of Engineering, which honors exceptional engineers who have contributed to the scientific and engineering progress of their individual countries, and the greater Americas as a whole. Roca was one of 19 engineers inducted in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct. 21. During the ceremony, all new members signed a charter signifying their commitment to “strengthen engineering and technological activities in each country of the Americas and promote in them economic, social and human welfare within sustainable development.” The organization currently has 116 members, representing 24 different countries. BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Chad Boult , the Eugene and Mildred Lip-

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Eight brain, behavior researchers are NARSAD Young Investigators

ight Johns Hopkins University researchers are among 214 new NARSAD Young Investigators with what are considered the most promising ideas to lead to breakthroughs in understanding and treating mental illness. Receiving up to $60,000 over two years, Young Investigators pursue brain and behavior research related to schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, autism, ADHD and anxiety disorders, such as OCD and PTSD. The grants are considered catalysts for additional funding, providing researchers with proof of concept for their work. On average, NARSAD Young Investigators have used their grants to leverage an additional 19 times their original grant amount, and some have gone on to receive much more than that after proving initial hypotheses with the first NARSAD grant support. The Johns Hopkins recipients, all from the School of Medicine, are: • Robert H. Cudmore, who will examine on the cellular level the effects of exercise as an alternative and complementary treatment for mood disorders. • Minae Niwa, who will address the question of whether and how the immune system affects functioning of the dopamine neurotransmitter system to induce psychiatric disorders.

itz Professor of Public Health and director of the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, has been named senior adviser for geriatrics and long-term care by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for its new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010, the center will examine new ways of delivering health care and paying health care providers that can improve the quality of care and Americans’ health, while saving money for Medicare and Medicaid. Boult will remain on the Bloomberg School faculty, but a national search is being conducted to find his replacement as the Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor and as director of the Lipitz Center. Dan Morhaim , an associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates since 1994, has been selected as one of the recipients of the American Medical Association’s 2011 Dr. Nathan Davis Awards for Outstanding Government Service, in the category Outstanding Member of a State Legislature. Honorees are selected by an independent panel of judges. The

• Frederick Charles Nucifora Jr., who will explore the role in schizophrenia of a gene called neuronal PAS3 (NPAS3). • Bagrat Abazyan, who plans to generate a mouse model of a gene that when functioning abnormally in cells called astrocytes may contribute to symptoms of schizophrenia. • Mi-Hyeon Jang, who is exploring the regulatory mechanisms of neurogenesis—the birth of new nerve cells—in the hippocampal region of the brain, and how this is affected by the so-called disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) gene. • Shinichi Kano, who is investigating a mechanism through which altered glial cells and infection may work synergistically to contribute to schizophrenia. • Sun-Hong Kim, who will study a novel mediator of nitric oxide–regulated behaviors in relation to brain development disturbances implicated in schizophrenia. • Emily G. Severance, who proposes to test whether a breached gastrointestinal barrier contributes to symptoms of psychiatric disorders. Since 1987, NARSAD: The Brain and Behavior Research Fund has awarded more than $274 million in 4,046 grants to 3,319 scientists around the world.

award will be presented at a banquet to be held Feb. 9 in Washington, D.C. Moyses Szklo , a professor in the Department of Epidemiology, was awarded the Physician’s Merit Medal from Brazilian President Jose Lula da Silva. Szklo was presented with the medal by the health minister, Jose Gomes Temporao, at a ceremony held in Brasilia in November. Induction into the Physician’s Merit Order honors physicians who provide outstanding service in public health or medicine. Szklo, a native of Brazil, has been since 1975 a part of the Johns Hopkins faculty, where he has studied the natural history and the etiology of cardiovascular diseases. He is also editor in chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology. KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES A l b e r t B e v e r i d g e , a lecturer in the

History Department, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring Jan. 26, 2016. Beveridge is a founding member and senior counsel of the law firm Beveridge &

Diamond and has served as general counsel of the American Historical Association for 15 years. He was a founding member of the National Trust for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is also Distinguished Historian in Residence at the American University. A graduate of Princeton, he received his master’s degree from Johns Hopkins and his law degree from Harvard. PEABODY INSTITUTE Evan Combs and Yi Wang , master of

music candidates in computer music, will each have a composition performed at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States conference, to be held Jan. 20 to 22 in Miami. Combs’ piece is “A Short Stop” for vibraphone and electronics, and Wang’s is titled “Talking Ocean.” Joseph Frank , a freshman cellist who is a student of Alison Wells ’, won the Keller Concerto Competition and will perform Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33, with the Lafayette Symphony in Indiana on Jan. 22. An article by musicology faculty member John Gingerich , “Ignaz Schuppanzigh and Beethoven’s Late Quartets,” appears in the current issue of Musical Quarterly. The piece includes a date for Op. 131, which has until now been a mystery. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Bashir Zikria , an assistant professor in

Orthopaedic Surgery, served as team doctor for the Afghanistan team participating in the Asian Games held in November in Guangzhou, China.

SCHOOL OF NURSING Martha Hill , dean, has been selected to

receive the 2011 Leadership in Research Award from the Southern Nursing Research Society. Excellence in Nursing Research is the theme of the 25th Annual SNRS conference, to be held Feb. 16–19 in Jacksonville, Fla., where Hill will be presented with the award. Marie T. Nolan , chair of the Department of Acute and Chronic Care, has been promoted to the rank of professor. Elizabeth “Ibby” Tanner , an associate professor in Community Public Health Nursing, has been inducted as a National Gerontological Nursing Association fellow. At the School of Nursing, Tanner has led development of the gerontology curriculum and created a geriatric interest group for Nursing, Public Health and Medicine students. She also holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology and is core faculty in the Center on Aging and Health. WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Seth Guikema , assistant professor in the

Department of Geography and EnvironmenContinued on page 9

JHU bioethicists named to presidential bioethics commission By Michael Pena

Berman Institute of Bioethics

he Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has appointed two faculty experts at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics to senior staff positions. They will support the advisory panel in its ongoing work to provide the White House with expertise and guidance on matters such as emerging technologies and human subjects protections. The 13-member commission is charged with examining specific bioethical, legal and social issues in the areas of scientific research, health care delivery and technological innovation. The commission is then expected to deliver practical, actionable guidance. The Berman Institute’s deputy director for medicine, Jeremy Sugarman, will serve as one of two senior advisers to the com-

mission. The other is bioethicist Jonathan Moreno, of the University of Pennsylvania. “It will be a privilege to work with the commission on projects that will lead to a better understanding of critical issues in bioethics,” said Sugarman, the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. He will serve a part-time, six-month post. Over the next year, Debra Mathews, the Berman Institute’s assistant director for science programs, will serve as a senior policy and research analyst part time in the commission’s Washington, D.C., office. On Dec. 16, the commission issued its first report on how the government should regulate synthetic biology and evaluate future emerging technologies. Leading up to the report’s presentation, Berman Institute Director Ruth Faden testified before the commission with other experts to help its members develop a broad framework for

evaluating emerging technologies. “The work of the commission has the potential to inform and guide public policy for decades to come,” Faden said, “and we welcome this opportunity for our faculty members to contribute to the commission’s efforts.” The commission next meets Feb. 28 to address President Barack Obama’s request for a thorough review of protections in America and abroad for human subjects in research. The request came after the recent revelation of unethical research on sexually transmitted diseases that took place in the 1940s in Guatemala, where U.S. public health officials intentionally infected prisoners and other study subjects without their knowledge. Following that news, Obama sent a memo in November to commission chair Amy Gutmann, asking that a panel be convened in January 2011 to review whether federal policies and international standards adequately protect participants in scientific

studies funded by U.S. tax dollars. The president ordered the commission to consult with international experts and deliver a full report within nine months. One of Sugarman’s roles at the commission will be to provide expertise on international research ethics. Also, Laura Biron, a postdoctoral Greenwall Fellow at the Berman Institute, will serve this semester as a part-time intern at the commission, providing research assistance to the commission members and staff. The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics conducts advanced scholarship on the ethics of clinical practice, biomedical science and public health, both locally and globally. With more than 30 Johns Hopkins faculty members—most of whom are jointly appointed in the schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing or Arts and Sciences—the Berman Institute is one of the largest centers of its kind in the world.

January 18, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Milestones The following staff members recently retired or celebrated an anniversary with the university in January 2011. The information is compiled by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, 443-997-7000.

Kajic,

Bedja,

McMickens,

Carney,

Martin, Office of the Dean Valana, Advanced Academic Programs S u c h k o v , Anatoly, Physics and Astronomy PEABODY INSTITUTE

5 years of service B a k e r , Zane, Finance Administration L e w i s , Elizabeth, Conservatory

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10 years of service W a l l a c e , Patricia, Center for Talented Youth Z a r u k a e v a , Svetlana, Center for Talented Youth

Retirees

5 years of service Vincent, Center for Talented Youth R u s s o , Deirdre, Jhpiego S a n d e r s , David, Center for Talented Youth T h u r l o w , Katharine, Center for Talented Youth Bonina,

BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

30 years of service Va n N a t t a , Mark, Epidemiology 25 years of service S m i t h , Maryann, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology 10 years of service Patricia, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology B u r k e , Lanisha, Center for Immunization Research Vaccine Science M i t r a , Maithilee, Human Nutrition O l l i n g e r , Robert, Development Bazemore,

5 years of service B e n t z , Joseph, Facilities F r a n k , Jacqueline, Public Affairs O r k i s , Jennifer, Center for Communication Programs W a n g , Yaping, Epidemiology HOMEWOOD STUDENT AFFAIRS

10 years of service P e a r s o n , Tierra, Office of the Registrar 5 years of service Michele, Student Employment and Payroll Services

Yo s t ,

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15 years of service S p o l t o r e , Joan, Office of the Dean Tu n i s o n , Jeffrey, Physics and Astronomy 10 years of service Deborah, Mind/Brain Institute R a y m o n d , Sabrina, Mathematics Kelly,

5 years of service H a s t i n g s , Richard, Development

Cheers Continued from page 8 tal Engineering, has received the Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Risk Analyst Award from the Society for Risk Analysis. The honor is given annually to a member of the SRA age 40 or younger who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in science or public policy and exceptional promise for continued contributions to risk analysis. Steve H. Hanke , a professor of applied economics in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, has received a doctorate of economics, honoris causa, from the Free University of Tbilisi for his pioneering work on currency boards and economic reforms in emerging-market countries. On the occasion of this award,

Goodell,

Studies

Grace, 26 years of service, Asian

Tillman,

Martin, 11 years of service, Student Affairs

20 years of service Rodger, Facilities

Nelson,

15 years of service S t e w a r t , Gary, Facilities SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Retiree Schlott,

Donald, 16 years of service, General Internal Medicine

40 years of service G o e r t z , Philip, Student Services S o u t h e r l a n d , Marcela, Pathology 30 years of service E l l e r , Susan, Surgery F l o c k , Debra, Pediatrics R a s p a , Beverly, Orthopaedics S m i t h , Jeffrey, Oncology 25 years of service Elizabeth, Emergency Medicine R u b a l c a b a , Elizabeth, Pediatrics S t e v e n s , Maria, Ophthalmology Ta n n , Jane, Billing Tu n i n , Richard, Cardiology Kennedy,

20 years of service Roxann, Institute of Genetic Medicine C l e m o n s , Teresa, Otolaryngology G o l d b e r g , Harry, Office of Academic Computing R i g s b y , Theresa, Housestaff Education, Bayview S e d d o n , Carole, Oncology S h a f f e r , Audrey, Gynecology and Obstetrics S y l v e s t e r , Ann, Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology Ashworth,

15 years of service D a h l , Stephen, Health Safety and Environment F o r m a n , Mary, Surgery H a m b y , Julia, Infectious Diseases W a t k i n s , Alicia, Clinical Practice Association W i l l i a m s , Melony, Gynecology and Obstetrics 10 years of service Zizwe, HEBCAC B a r n e s , Mathilda, Infectious Diseases Allette,

presented Dec. 10, 2010, Hanke’s new book, A Blueprint for a Safe, Sound Georgian Lari, which he co-authored with his longtime collaborator and former Johns Hopkins postdoctoral fellow Kurt Schuler, was released. Susan Hohenberger , assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER award, given to faculty members at the beginning of their academic careers, is one of NSF’s most competitive awards and emphasizes high-quality research and novel education initiatives. Hohenberger’s award for “Practical Cryptography for the Cloud” will support the development of cryptographic schemes for the cloud environment, including methods to protect the privacy and integrity of data for the growing number of consumers who utilize cloud services.

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P e t e r L i n , a doctoral candidate in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, was named second runner-up for the Morgan Stanley First Annual Prize for Excellence in Financial Markets, which “recognizes the critical importance of finance theory in improving our understanding of how financial markets work.” Lin was one of five finalists in the competition, which attracted 97 entries from around the world. He was awarded the prize for his paper, “Stochastic Splines Model: A Paradigm Shift in Interest-Rate Modeling.” En Ma , professor of materials science and engineering, and Denis Wirtz , professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, have been named 2010 fellows of the American Physical Society. Ma’s citation states that he was selected for his “pathbreaking research and outstanding publications on metastable, amorphous and nanocrystalline metals and alloys, and

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international outreach in the metallic materials field.” Wirtz’s citation notes his “seminal contributions to the understanding of basic cellular functions through the development and application of novel biophysical methods grounded in statistical mechanics and polymer physics.” Allison Okamura and Louis Whitcomb , both professors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been named to the class of 2011 IEEE fellows. The grade of fellow, the association’s highest grade of membership, is conferred upon individuals who have an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Okamura was cited “for contributions to the design and control of haptic systems and medical robotics” and Whitcomb “for contributions to the theory and application of robotics for intervention in extreme environments.”

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Transplant surgeons fear using organs from ‘high-risk’ donors

s a response to a 2007 episode in which four patients in Chicago were transplanted with organs from a single donor unknowingly infected with HIV—the only such episode in 20 years— one-third of transplant surgeons in the United States “overreacted” and routinely began using fewer organs from high-risk donors, new research from Johns Hopkins finds. In a study appearing in the January issue of the journal Archives of Surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers say that many surgeons are shunning use of such organs instead of searching for ways to put in place more safeguards that would protect and inform recipients but make maximum use of scarce organs. “These organs help people, and the risk of contracting an infectious disease from them is very small compared with other risks in transplantation,” said Dorry L. Segev, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study’s leader. “There is ample evidence that many patients are better off receiving organs from high-risk donors than waiting for a different organ, but that’s not what’s happening in many transplant centers.” Donors considered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be at high risk for infection include intravenous drug users, men who have sex with men, and prostitutes. They comprise nearly 10 percent of organ donors in the United States and are tested for HIV and other infections before their organs are approved for transplantation. But, Segev says, the tests sometimes, as in the Chicago case, don’t find the infection. Transplant experts believe that in the Chicago case the deceased donor’s HIV infection was too recent to show up on the screening tests administered before transplantation. Four patients at four different Chicago-area hospitals received contaminated organs and were later diagnosed with the virus. For the current study, Segev and his colleagues performed a national survey of 422 transplant surgeons’ use of, and attitudes toward, organs from high-risk donors before and after the 2007 transmission. Among the changes that came about after the Chicago episode, the survey found, was the use by some surgeons of new consent forms that explained the risks presented by high-risk donor organs or counseling sessions that emphasized the risk. For example, some

consent forms now highlight the limitations of blood tests, which can’t catch every HIV infection, notably those that are recent. Segev characterizes 76 percent of the changes made by surgeons after the highly publicized disease transmission as “defensive medicine,” which he calls worrisome because high-risk organs have been shown to provide significant survival benefit to transplant recipients and a very small risk of infection transmission. Doctors should make efforts to protect and inform patients, he says, but not avoid the use of these organs to such a large degree. He says surgeons may be backing off from use of high-risk organs because they are afraid of being sued or anticipate pressure from regulators. “The litigious and regulatory environment we’re currently in is not acting in the best interests of patients and may actually harm patients,” Segev said. Segev and his colleagues also found that 16.7 percent of surgeons reported increasing their use of nucleic acid testing, which shortens the window for diagnosing a new infection from 22 days to nine days for HIV and from 59 days to seven days for hepatitis C. Such testing would have prevented the transplantation of the Chicago donor’s organs. The Johns Hopkins Hospital performs nucleic acid testing on organs from all highrisk donors, and closely monitors recipients of such organs after transplant to start antiviral therapy immediately in the unlikely event that an infection could occur, Segev says. He adds that nucleic acid testing is not the national standard. Other Johns Hopkins researchers who worked on this study are Lauren M. Kucirka, R. Loris Ros, Aruna K. Subramanian and Robert A. Montgomery. —Stephanie Desmon

Related websites Dorry Segev:

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Comprehensive Transplant Center at Johns Hopkins:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ transplant

Website follows JHU archaeologists in Egypt

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ohns Hopkins Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team of students, artists, conservators and photographers have returned to their investigation of Mut Temple, focusing their attention on the area south of the temple’s Sacred Lake. Bryan and her crew are resuming their excavation in Luxor, Egypt, and are sharing their work via “Hopkins in Egypt Today,” their popular digital diary offering a virtual window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. New posts will appear through the end of January at www.jhu.edu/egypttoday. This year, Bryan and her team are working in the area where industrial areas for baking, brewing and ceramic production were discovered between 2002 and 2006. The goal of the website is to educate visitors by showing them archaeological work in progress. The daily photos and detailed captions emphasize not only

discoveries but the teamwork among Bryan, her colleagues, students and their gufti, the local crew members who are trained in archaeology. That teamwork is essential to a successful dig, Bryan said. The website typically garners more than 50,000 hits every winter, when the dig ordinarily is active. According to Bryan, modern-day Luxor is rich in finds from ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom, such as the major discovery made by the Johns Hopkins team in 2006: a 3,400-year-old nearly intact statue of Queen Tiy, one of the queens of the powerful king Amenhotep III. Bryan has said that the statue is “one of the true masterpieces of Egyptian art.” Bryan is the Alexander Badawy Professor in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins. Her work is funded by grants from the American Research Center in Egypt and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Bolton Hill, 2 big BRs, 2.5BAs in immaculate TH, hdwd flrs, recent appliances, AC, new roof/windows, porch, bsmt, 2 prkng spaces, 4-min walk to metro, avail July. $1,850/mo. 410-383-7055 or viLca11@gmail .com. Butchers Hill, fully furn’d, cute and cozy house, 1BR + office, hdwd flrs, sec sys, all appls, WiFi, satellite system. jhmirental@ gmail.com. Catonsville, 2 apts in Victorian Fieldstone Mansion of Academy Heights, high ceilings, new w/w crpt, updated kitchen and BAs, nr bus line, free prkng. $850/mo (1BR) or $995/mo (2BR). 443-386-4639. Charles Village (33rd and Guilford), newly renov’d, spacious 2BR, 2BA apt, hdwd flrs, laundry in bldg, indoor prkng (one car). $1,195/mo. laljah@comcast.net. Charles Village, spacious, bright 3BR apt, newly updated, nr Homewood. $1,350/mo. 443-253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com. The Colonnade, 1BR, 1.5BA condo in upscale, full-service bldg (across from Homewood Field), marble flrs, balcony, freshly painted, W/D in unit, CAC, underground prkng, gym, storage locker. $1,200/ mo. 410-925-9330. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/ full kitchen, call for wkly/wknd rentals, pics avail at jzpics@yahoo.com. 410-615-1663. Ednor Gardens, 2-3BR, 1.5BA house 1 mi from Homewood campus, updated kitchen and BA, W/D, front porch, rear deck. $1,350/mo + utils. 443-695-2292 or reneewnl@yahoo.com. Fells Point, 1BR condo in secure waterfront bldg, garage prkng. $1,750/mo. 443-6902208. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410378-2393. Hampden, 2BR EOG w/fin’d bsmt, prkng pad, 5 mins to JHU, 10 mins to downtown. $1,150/mo. 410-227-7110. Harborview (23 Pier Side Drive), 1BR unit, 1st flr, great views of water and swimming pool, 2 health clubs, garage prkng, security incl’d; applicant must have good credit. $1,600/mo. 443-471-2000. Mayfield, charming 3BR, 2BA house in historic neighborhood, hdwd flrs, fp, garage, yd and patio, nr Homewood/JHH/Bayview. $1,800/mo. 410-852-1865 or miriam .mintzer@gmail.com. Ocean City, Md, 3BR, 2BA condo (137th St), ocean block, steps from beach, offstreet prkng (2 spaces), lg pool, walk to restaurants/entertainment; call for rates. 410-544-2814. Pikesville, 3BR, 2.5BA TH, W/D, bsmt w/ den, nr Old Court subway station. $1,500/ mo + utils + sec dep ($1,500). 443-7422671 or 443-326-1081. Roland Park, spacious, furn’d 2BR, 2BA condo in secure area, W/D, walk-in closet, swimming pool, cardio equipment, .5 mi to Homewood. $1,600/mo. 410-218-3547 or khassani@gmail.com. WYMAN COURT HICKORY HEIGHTS Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

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Snowshoe Mountains, 1BR condo, sleeps 4, ski in/out. 571-331-0899 (for details, rates, availability) or dr_ndelev@yahoo.com. Union Square, 1BR boutique apt in Victorian TH, furn’d, flexible terms, in historic district, perfect for visiting academic or sabbaticals. 410-753-2522, richardson1886@ gmail.com or http://therichardsonhouse .vflyer.com/home/flyer/home/3200019. Beautiful 3BR, 2BA condo w/garage, spacious, great location, walk to Homewood campus. $1,800/mo. 443-848-6392 or sue .rzep2@verizon.net.

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Federal Hill, TH w/numerous updates, bamboo hdwd flrs, in living and dining rm, updated kitchen and BA. $179,900. 410808-4869 or jodiemack@gmail.com. Gardens of Guilford, newly renov’d, lg 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant setting, easy walk to Homewood campus. 410-366-1066. Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com. Hampden, updated 3BR duplex in quiet neighborhood, 2 full BAs, spacious eat-in kitchen, dw, master BR has own BA and kitchenette, mud rm and W/D, front and back porches, fenced yd, free street prkng (front and back). $215,000. 410-592-2670. Mays Chapel, 2BR, 2BA condo on ground flr, w/laundry rm. $174,000. http://3gurteencourt.com. Mt Washington (5905 Pimlico Rd), 1865 farmhouse on private rd, acre of open and wooded land, 3BRs, orig wide plank flrs, lg updated kitchen, 1,600 sq ft deck; open houses Jan 23 and Jan 30 (1-3pm) or call for appointment. 443-562-1634. Mt Washington, 2BR, 2.5BA TH in Greenberry Woods condos, nr I-83 and light rail. $140,000. 410-542-3341 or 410242-5236. Lg 1BR condo in luxury high-rise, secure bldg w/doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swimming pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $179,000. 757-773-7830 or norva04@gmail .com.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Share all new refurbished TH w/other medical students, 924 N Broadway, 4BRs, 2 BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com. Roommate wanted for furn’d accommodation, 1 blk to historic Patterson Park, good neighborhood, 10-min walk to JHH. $475/mo incl everything. 951-941-0384 or arcroshani@hotmail.com. Share nice 3BR, 2.5BA TH in White Marsh. $550/mo + 1/2 utils. 443-621-4519 or ctillett@gmail.com. F wanted for furn’d rm w/priv BA in lg 2BR, 2BA condo on N Charles St, 8th flr, amazing view, swimming pool, gym, sauna, doorman, 24-hr security, underground prkng, walk to Homewood campus/shuttle. $1,000/mo incl utils (not Internet or dish). 443-478-7914. Lg, bright rm w/full private BA in lg, upscale apt, DISH, high-speed Internet, full-size W/D in apt, conv to 695/I-83/Charles St. $800/mo

incl utils. 443-465-7011 or jdamero@gmail .com.

CARS FOR SALE

’86 Mercedes 560 convertible w/hard and soft tops and cover, garage-kept, in excel cond, 80K mi, must sell. $8,200/best offer. 443-676-1046 or lan.afram@comcast.net. ’04 Honda Pilot EX, 4WD, seats 8, garagekept, looks and runs great, Md insp’d, 152K mi. $8,495. 410-365-6782. ’06 Kia Sedona minivan, automatic, power windows/locks, entertainment system, pads and rotors replaced, tires 1 yr old, 1 owner (nonsmoker), well-maintained, 87K mi. $8,800. 410-592-2119 or maherclan@ comcast.net. ’09 Honda Civic VP sedan 4-dr, gray, manual 5-spd, 1.8L engine, ABS, side/overhead airbags, CD, AC, regular service by owner, no smoking, no accidents, good cond (Carmax appraised), 15.1K mi. 443-5209581 or gksinghal@gmail.com. ’01 Nissan Altima GLE, automatic, power windows/locks, rear multi-CD player, automatic sunroof, 4 new tires, in good cond, 205K mi runs very well. $2,750/best offer. 410-804-9703.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Maytag refrigerator, black, 6 yrs old, works great, you haul. $125 (cash). 443-226-0961 or evitelio@hotmail.com.

New, heavy-duty motorized scooter, weight capacity up to 500 lbs. $4,500/best offer. 410-562-5740 or 443-942-0857. Conn alto saxophone, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond. 410-488-1886. HP 94 Inkjet print cartridges (4). $40/all. frandlk@gmail.com.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Responsible, loving pet-, baby- or housesitter, avail, JHU employee has experience w/special needs children and cats/dogs, refs avail. 202-288-1311 or janyelle.marie@ hotmail.com. Seeking home for brother/sister cats, 8 yrs old, raised w/dogs. 443-527-0135 or henochryugo@gmail.com. Medical faculty couple looking for FT nanny to care for one infant in Fells Point, starting March or April, refs req’d. 443-759-6105. Aquatic and box turtles avail for adoption through Mid-Atlantic Turtle & Tortoise Society. matts_adoptions@hotmail.com. Private piano lessons by graduate student at Peabody Institute, affordable rates. 425890-1327. Looking for reliable babysitter for occasional wknights/wknds in Towson area, must be nonsmoker, have own transportation, refs req’d. 443-829-8478 or hoprobin@gmail .com.

Ski equipment for a 7- to 12-yr-old child: Swiss boots, $35; Leedom helmet, $35; poles, $5. 410-580-9479 (eve) or bgramat@ boris-gramatikov.net.

Great photos! Headshots for interviews/ auditions, family pictures, production shots, events. Edward S Davis photography/videography. 443-695-9988 or esdavisimaging@ gmail.com.

1925 Chickering baby grand piano, beautiful bass sound quality, ivory keys, located in Baltimore nr Homewood campus. $2,950 (negotiable). 410-366-4488 or stamusicministry@gmail.com.

MHIC-licenced carpenter specializing in decks, flrs, trim work, custom stairs, roofs, framing and/or sheetrock; any carpentry project. Rick, 443-621-6537.

Yamaha outdoor 2-way spkrs, black, model# NS-AW1, $50; Thule Set-to-Go kayak saddles (2 pairs, 4 total), can sell separately, $125/both pairs; Thule rooftop ski carrier, holds 2 pairs of skis, great cond, $75; best offers accepted, e-mail for photos. grogan .family@hotmail.com. Dining rm set, table w/leaf, 4 chairs, china cabinet and sideboard, in excel cond. $225. 410-633-2064. Treadmill from Sears, updated features, excel cond. $200. 410-522-7546. Adult mountain bike w/pump and padlock (2 keys). $75. odufor@gmail.com. Pack’n Play w/mobile, music box, 2 quilted covers for bottom, in excel cond. $75. Chris, 443-326-7717. Conrad Johnson PV-107 all-tube preamp, needs new power supply; Bryston 3B all-tube power amplifier; Carver TX-10 AM-FM tuner; and significant length of highquality wire. Best offer over $100. arthur .perschetzbakerd.com or 443-570-7299. Red Cross pins from Europe, 15 different. $28. 443-517-9023 or rgpinman@aol.com.

Licensed landscaper avail for fall/winter leaf or snow removal, other services incl yd cleanup, lawn maintenance, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Absolutely flawless detailing. Jason, 410630-3311. Tutor for all subjects/levels; remedial and gifted; also help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design and programming. 410-337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@hotmail.com. Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free consultation. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@aol.com. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to the general public, no partners needed. 410663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing.com. Free: piano (no bench), old Betsy Ross spinet, works but needs tuning and hauling from 2nd flr. chunkyrice@gmail.com. Piano tuning and repair, PTG craftsman serving Peabody, Notre Dame, homes, churches, etc, in Central Maryland. 410382-8363 or steve@conradpiano.com.

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“Mapping Dysregulated Metabolic Pathways in Disease Using Activity-Based Proteomics,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Daniel Nomura, Scripps Research Institute. Mountcastle Auditorium. EB

Thurs., Jan. 20, noon. “Cancer Genomes and Their Implications,” a Cell Biology seminar with Nickolas Papadopoulos, SoM. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

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“Colon Cancer: Is It an Infectious Disease?” Pathology grand rounds with Cynthia Sears, SoM. G-007 Ross. EB

JILLIAN EDELSTEIN

Fri., Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.

Mon., Jan. 24, 2 p.m. “The North Korean Shelling of Yeon pyong Island: How Can We Prevent a Second Korean War,” a U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS discussion with Song Young Gil, mayor of Incheon, Korea. To RSVP, e-mail jhill50@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5830. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Mon., Jan. 24, 3 p.m. “Predictors and Prediction Modeling of Loss to Follow-up, Immuno-Virologic Outcomes and Sub-Optimal Drug Adherence Among Adults Receiving HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in Nigeria,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Chuka Anude. W2029 SPH. EB

Thurs., Jan. 20, 10 a.m.

“Repairs in Space at 220 Miles High,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with U.S. Navy Capt. Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, former NASA astronaut. Parsons Auditorium. APL

“The Way Forward in Haiti,” a SAIS International Law and Organizations Program panel discussion with Paulo Lyra, Pan American Health Organization; Tamara Kreinin, United Nations Foundation; Amy Coughenour, deputy director, Pan American Development Foundation; David Meltzer, American Red Cross; Andrea Koppel (moderator), American Red Cross and the Henry L. Stimson Center. For information or to RSVP, e-mail tbascia1@jhu.edu or call 202-6635982. Rome Auditorium. SAIS

“Forecasting Emergency Medical Service Call Arrival Rates,” a Biostatistics seminar with David Matteson, Cornell University. W2030 SPH.

Fri., Jan. 21, 2 p.m.

Mon., Jan. 24, 12:30 p.m.

Ge Yang, Carnegie Mellon University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Wed., Jan. 19, 4 p.m.

C OLLO Q U I A

“The Red Chapel of Queen Hatshepsut,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Matthias Seidel, KSAS. Co-sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt, D.C. Chapter. For information or to RSVP, e-mail itolber1@ jhu.edu or call 202-663-5676. Rome Auditorium. SAIS

of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Multiple award–winning American pianist Jonathan Biss returns to the Shriver Hall Concert Series. See Music.

LE C TURE S

The Roger M. Herriot Lecture—“Skin Stem Cells in Morphogenesis and Cancer” by Elaine Fuchs, HHMI and Rockefeller University. Sponsored by Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. W1214 SPH. EB

Fri., Jan. 21, 4 p.m.

more’s finest poetic talent including Julie Fisher, Mark Sanders, Dave Eberhardt, Chris George, Azure and ML Scott. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW S E M I N AR S

The Peabody Trio performs chamber music by Schnittke, Shostakovich, Gubaidulina and Brahms. $15 general admission, $10 senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Wed.,

Jan.

19,

p.m.

Thurs., Jan. 20, 5:15 p.m. Clarinet recital by cardiologist David Kass and pianist Sook Hee Choi. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Turner Auditorium. EB

Shriver Hall Concert Series presents pianist Jonathan Biss. (See photo, this page.) $38 general admission, $19 for non-JHU students; free for JHU students. Shriver Hall. HW

Sun., Jan. 23, 5:30 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 19, noon.

REA D I N G S Fri., Jan. 21, 7 p.m. Poetry Extravaganza, with some of Balti-

Retirement Continued from page 1 disruption as possible to the retirement plans of current employees. It will also offer more-predictable retirement plan costs for the university, she said. “Most employers have moved away from pension plans, so we wanted to do that but give our people the choice,” she said. “Government pension regulations are so complex and constantly changing. They represent greater risk. The new plan will make it a lot easier for employees to understand their retirement benefit. They will know how much the university is putting in and will have more control over the money that is available to them at retirement.” The new 403(b) plan will provide an automatic university contribution of 4 percent of base pay for eligible support staff members under age 35, and 8 percent of base pay for those age 35 or over. It will become the default retirement plan for all

“Assessment and Treatment of Depression in Patients With Heart Disease,” a Psychiatry seminar with Kenneth Freedland, Washington University School of Medicine. 1-191 Meyer. EB

Tues., Jan. 18, noon.

Wed., Jan. 19,

Thurs., Jan. 20, 1 p.m. “Regulated Axon Outgrowth as a Mechanism for Axon Guidance,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Samantha Butler, University of Southern California. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Thurs.,

“Glycomarkers: From the Bench to the Bedside,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Pauline Mary Rudd, Dublin-Oxford Glycobiology Laboratory. WBSB Auditorium. EB

Tues., Jan. 18, noon.

MUSIC

“Cellular Factors Influencing HIV-Host Cell Interplay,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Mario Stevenson, University of Miami. W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., Jan. 20, noon.

12:30 p.m.

Jan.

20,

“Development of Advanced Flow Diagnostic Techniques to Study Complex Thermofluid Phenomena,” a CEAFM seminar with Hui Hu, Iowa State University. 106 Latrobe. HW

Fri., Jan. 21, 11 a.m.

Mon., Jan. 24, noon. “Domain Communication in Enzymatic Assembly Lines: NMR Reveals Transient Interactions in NonRibosomal Peptide Synthetases,” a Biophysics seminar with Dominique Frueh, SoM. 100 Mudd. HW

Wed., Jan. 19, 4 p.m. “Proteomic Tools for Epigenomic Studies,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Alan Tackett, University

Mon., Jan. 24, 12:15 p.m. “Com-

putational Analysis of Kinesin Dynein Coordination in Axonal Cargo Transport,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with

they leave the university, they can take it with them. It’s their money to manage,” she said. The university’s 403(b) plan allows employees to make pretax contributions to the plan each pay period, from a minimum of $15 per month up to the annual maximum established by the IRS, which is $16,500 for 2011. Those enrolled in the plan choose from a pool of financial and investment vendors, such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF. In the coming weeks and months, university employees will receive extensive information online, in meetings and in mailings to their homes. The comprehensive communication campaign will include newsletters, website updates, town hall meetings, Retirement Choice fairs, one-on-one meetings with representatives from retirement vendors and more. Heidi Conway, senior director of benefits, said that the university will offer a comprehensive set of tools to help employees with their Retirement Choice decision. She said that the Mychoices website (www.benefits .jhu.edu/mychoices) will help employees choose the best option for them. The site will contain a modeling tool that will allow

W OR K S HOP S The Center for Educational Resources sponsors a series of

workshops on the Blackboard 9.1 interface. The training is open to all faculty, staff and students in full-time KSAS or WSE programs who will serve as administrators to a Blackboard course. To register, go to www.bb.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW •

p.m.

“Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” a Center for Musculoskeletal Research seminar with Bjorn Olsen, Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Sponsored by Orthopaedic Surgery. 5152 JHOC. EB

“Regulation of Redox Signaling Through the Keap1-Nrf2 Pathway: Implications for Inflammation and Cancer,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with John Hayes, University of Dundee. 303 WBSB. EB

university support staff hired after July 1. Staff who choose to stay in the voluntary 403(b) plan will continue to receive a university dollar match—up to 20 percent on the first 3 percent of base pay. Those who select the new 403(b) plan will receive the university’s contribution and retain pension benefits accrued through June 30, 2011. Those under age 35 with less than two years of service as of June 30, 2011, will not be offered this choice. Instead, they will automatically become eligible for the new 403(b) plan once they reach two years of service or they reach age 35, whichever comes first. The new 403(b) plan is closely modeled after the current faculty and senior staff plan. “Support staff have long asked for a defined contribution like that offered by the faculty and senior staff plan,” Hayes said. “The new plan has a set university contribution and not a match. It takes out the guesswork.” Hayes said that another benefit is the plan’s portability. “Once Johns Hopkins contributes dollars to the plan, it’s the employees’ money, and if

Mon., Jan. 24, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Tracking the Flow of Information Through the Hippocampal Formation in the Rat” with Josh Neunuebel, KSAS. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Tues., Jan. 18, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Mon., Jan. 24, 10 a.m. to noon. “Getting

Started With Blackboard.” •

Wed., Jan. 19, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. “Blackboard

Communication and Collaboration.”

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Thurs., Jan. 20, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. “Assessing Stu-

dent Knowledge and Managing Grades in Blackboard.”

Calendar Key

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

APL EB HW JHOC

Applied Physics Laboratory East Baltimore Homewood Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 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

people to see how their money will grow under each plan. “We don’t want to make the decision for people; they can crunch the numbers and talk to benefits specialists,” Conway said. “What plan employees ultimately choose will depend on a number of factors, such as age, years vested and risk threshold.” Hayes said that the university considered making the retirement choice part of the open enrollment benefits period but decided that the retirement decision needed to stand on its own. “We wanted to give people enough time to consider how their accounts work and the implications of a defined contribution, and the impact on their retirement and future,” she said. “We also didn’t want them to worry about other benefits [at the same time] but just focus on this one important decision.” To access up-to-date information about the retirement changes and Retirement Choice, go to www.benefits.jhu.edu/mychoices. For questions, contact the Benefits Service Center at 410-516-2000 or e-mail the university’s benefits team at retirementchoice@ jhu.com. G