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hey will divide and volunteer, for Baltimore’s sake. Nearly 1,000 Johns Hopkins students, faculty, staff and alumni will fan out over Baltimore and beyond on Saturday to lend a hand to local nonprofit organizations and community centers. Volunteers The President’s Day of Service, organized head out on by the Johns Hopkins Center for Social President’s Concern, was spearheaded by President Day of Ron Daniels when he took office in fall Service 2009 as part of his commitment to serving the city. The initiative is an outgrowth of Involved, a former freshman day of service that introduced incoming Homewood students to the city. Last year, nearly 800 students participated in the one-day event that featured more than 40 service projects. Gia Grier-McGinnis, assistant director of the Center for Social Concern, said that the extra manpower, even if just for a day, can have a significant impact. “The nonprofits we have established relationships with look forward to this day, and the new agencies we are working with are really excited to meet Johns Hopkins students and expose them to their agency’s work,” Grier-McGinnis said. “It introduces many students to volunteer opportunities.” This year’s event again features the theme “One Johns Hopkins, One Baltimore” and seeks to illustrate the transformative power of collective action and the positive change that Johns Hopkins can generate in the community. Students and Johns Hopkins personnel will participate in more than 40 projects. In addition to the Homewood-based effort, the President’s Day of Service will be replicated at the university’s East Baltimore, Peabody and Applied Physics Laboratory campuses, with roughly 200 people registered at each site. Continued on page 7

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Digitizing a visual history of Baltimore Student-designed robot scans historical images for ‘Afro’ newspaper By Greg Rienzi

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ore DIY than R2D2, a student-invented robot will help preserve and archive 115 years of photographic black history in Baltimore, and could soon be made available to museums and archives around the country. Thomas Smith, creator of the robot named Gado, spent a good portion of his senior year at Johns Hopkins tinkering on the machine, an open source robotic scanner designed for sensitive archival materials. He enjoyed the project so much, he never left. Smith, who graduated last May with a degree in cognitive science and anthropology, conceived of the device following a visit to Baltimore’s Afro-American newspaper in spring 2010. He hoped to add visual elements to an oral history project he was working on with the Johns Hopkins Center for Africana Studies’ Diaspora Pathways Project. On the newspaper’s second floor, he found a treasure trove. By its estimation, the publication houses roughly 1.5 million photos— boxed up and sorted—that date back to the paper’s founding in 1892. The BaltiContinued on page 5

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Thomas Smith with his original photo-scanning robot. His slimmed-down, newer version will be available to small archives and museums for around $500.

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‘Synthetic’ chromosome permits ‘evolution’ of yeast JHU researchers create man-made system with built-in diversity generator By Maryalice Yakutchik

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team of Johns Hopkins researchers has engineered from scratch a computer-designed yeast chromosome and incorporated into its creation a new system that lets scientists intentionally rearrange the yeast’s genetic material. A report of their work appears Sept. 14 as an advance online publication in the journal Nature. “We have created a research tool that not only lets us learn more about yeast biology and genome biology but also holds out the possibility of someday designing genomes for specific purposes, like making new vaccines

or medications,” said Jef D. Boeke, a professor of molecular biology and genetics, and director of the High Throughput Biology Center, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Boeke notes that yeast is probably the best-studied organism with a nucleus and is “already used for everything from medicine to biofuel,” making it a good candidate for his team’s focus. In designing the synthetic yeast chromoContinued on page 4

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n the Best Colleges rankings released last week by U.S. News & World Report, Johns Hopkins takes the 13th spot for National Universities. Last year it was tied at that spot. In the rankings for best undergraduate engineering programs among schools whose highest degree is a PhD, Johns Hopkins ranked No. 1 in biomedical engineering, No. 5 (tie) in environmental/environmental health engineering and No. 15 overall. Other categories in which Johns Hopkins is ranked are High School Counselor rankings (9) and Best Value Schools (32). Complete listings are online at colleges .usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/bestcolleges.

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reliminary designs for the East Baltimore Community School will be presented at two Architecture Open Houses this week: from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the school’s temporary location (1101 N. Wolfe St.) and from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the Armstrong Building on the JHMI East Baltimore campus. The school, which is run by Johns Hopkins and Morgan State University, is scheduled to open in August 2013 on a seven-acre campus just north of the Johns Hopkins campus. The $30 million 90,000-square-foot EBCS will be the first new school built in East Baltimore in 25 years. It will share the campus with a $10 million 28,000-square-foot early childhood center. The school will have a capacity of 540 and the early childhood center, 180.

Johns Hopkins readies for Baltimore Book Festival

he George Peabody Library, the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Sheridan Libraries will jointly host 18 activities in the exhibit hall and stack room of the university’s historic Peabody Library during this weekend’s Baltimore Book Festival. The event will be held in Mount Vernon from noon to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24, and from noon to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25. The JHU Press Book Sale takes place in the exhibit hall throughout the festival, with Press authors scheduled to meet the public and sign books on all three days. Also planned are activities for children, readings by Writing Seminars faculty and students, discussions of Peabody Library holdings by members of its Special Collections staff, advice on book collecting and preservation

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by experts at the Sheridan Libraries and music in the library For a complete schedule, go to www .baltimorebookfestival.com; to see the JHU events, click on the George Peabody Library tab.

Emergency alert system at Homewood to be tested Tuesday

omewood Campus Safety and Security will conduct a test of the campus siren/public address system and the Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert text messaging system at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20. The test will be a full-scale simultaneous activation of both systems. The siren/PA system, which is activated by radio signal from the Homewood Communications Center, is composed of speakers on Garland Hall, Whitehead Hall and the O’Connor Recreation Center. The sirens will simultaneously sound the alert tone and then sequentially broadcast the voice message, announcing, “This is a test of the Homewood campus emergency warning system.” Those who have subscribed to the text message alert system will receive a brief message that reads, “This is a test of the Homewood Emergency Alert text message system. There is no emergency. Had there been an imminent threat additional information would follow.” Shortly after the public address broadcast, an all-clear alert tone will sound, followed by the message saying, in part, “This has been a test of the Homewood campus emergency warning system. Had there been an actual emergency, you would have been given specific instructions on what to do.” Because the public address system incorporates a silent self-test feature that exercises each module on a weekly basis, Campus Safety and Security will schedule “live” tests only three times a year. The main purpose of the exercise is to familiarize the Homewood community with the sound of the system. Except for these periodic tests, the system will be used only in the event of an incident or situation that presents a significant threat to the lives or safety of the campus community.

Smithsonian Museum Day offers free admission

he university’s Homewood and Evergreen museums are taking part in the nationwide Museum Day on Saturday, Sept. 24. For one day only, participating museums and cultural institutions across the country are offering free admission to smithsonian.com readers and visitors, allowing the free-admission policy of the Smithsonian’s Washington, D.C.–based facilities to be emulated across the country. For complete information, and to download the Museum Day ticket, go to microsite .smithsonianmag.com/museumday.

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James Connaughton, pediatric psychiatrist, beloved teacher, 80 Trained generations of physicians in the art of interviewing patients B y E k at e r i n a P e s h e va

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ames Patrick Connaughton, professor emeritus of psychiatry and pediatrics and a superbly talented clinician who treated and cared for some of East Baltimore’s most vulnerable children, died on Sept. 11 at his Woodbrook home. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Connaughton, who was 80, had been treated for the disease at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he received outstanding medical care, family members say. “Jim was one of the giants of child psychiatry at Hopkins, a master of psychotherapy and a gifted clinician with unparalleled skill for compassionately interviewing children,” said colleague and friend James Harris, director of Developmental Neuropsychiatry and a former director of Child Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Connaughton was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Mental Health Center, a community psychiatric clinic that has helped generations of Baltimore’s children and youth deal with psychological trauma and behavioral problems. Colleagues remember Connaughton as the backbone of the center, which he founded in 1981 and directed until 1993, and an unwavering presence in the clinic, taking care of patients and always running back and forth between the main hospital

James Connaughton

and Caroline Street, where the center is located. During his 31 years at Johns Hopkins, Connaughton mentored generations of fledgling psychiatrists and taught them the art and science of interviewing children with mental health problems. He had a rare talent for talking to and connecting with children, a psychiatrist’s most valuable diagnostic tool. “You can’t fool a child, and those kids whose lives were one huge trauma knew they could trust him, and they loved him,” said Catherine DeAngelis, a professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and former JAMA editor, who did a pediatric residency under Connaughton and later worked with him. “He was the most modest man of great integrity and love for children,” DeAngelis added. “He was underappreciated because

he wasn’t boastful and didn’t do research. He took care of kids with problems—that’s what he did—and he did it like no one else I’d ever known.” “He could befriend a child in five minutes and talk to them on their level to get the most important information. I learned a lot from him about interviewing children and so did many others,” said former student Marco Grados, who is now clinical director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Hopkins Children’s. Maryland Pao, the clinical director of the National Institute of Mental Health and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins, said that Connaughton was a formative influence on her. She met Connaughton as a third-year medical student and went on to do a psychiatry rotation under him. “He played a pivotal role in my decision to become a child psychiatrist,” said Pao, who subsequently nominated Connaughton for a teaching award at Johns Hopkins, one of several he received. Colleagues and students remember Connaughton as a mesmerizing storyteller whose charming brogue and gregarious, feisty personality made him a beloved figure. His passion for helping the most underserved and traumatized children was contagious, Pao added. “He had a great turn of phrase and fired up these kids’ imaginations, and had the same effect on his students,” she said. Born and raised in Dublin, Connaughton graduated with a medical degree from University College Dublin and, in 1958, with his wife, Monica, set out for the United States for a psychiatric residency at the Seton Psychiatric Institute in Baltimore. From 1961 to 1965, Connaughton taught and practiced at Marquette University in

Fossil of newborn dinosaur discovered in Md. B y S a r a h L e wi

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esearchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with help from an amateur fossil hunter in College Park, Md., have described the fossil of an armored dinosaur hatchling. It is the youngest nodosaur ever discovered, and a founder of a new genus and species that lived approximately 110 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous Era. Nodosaurs have been found in diverse locations worldwide, but they’ve rarely been found in the United States. The findings are published in the Sept. 9 issue of the Journal of Paleontology. “Now we can learn about the development of limbs and the development of skulls early on in a dinosaur’s life,” said David Weishampel, a professor of anatomy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “The very small size also reveals that there was a nearby nesting area, or rookery, since it couldn’t have wandered far from where it hatched. We have the opportunity to find out about dinosaur parenting and reproductive biology, as well as more about the lives of Maryland dinosaurs in general.” The fossil was discovered in 1997 by Ray Stanford, a dinosaur tracker who often spent time looking for fossils close to his home. This time, he was searching a creek bed after an extensive flood. Stanford identified it as a nodosaur and called Weishampel, a paleontologist and expert in dinosaur systematics. Weishampel and his colleagues established the fossil’s identity as a nodosaur by recognizing a distinctive pattern of bumps and grooves on the skull. They then did a computer analysis of the skull shape, comparing its proportions to those of 10 skulls from different species of ankylosaurs, the group that contains nodosaurs. They found that this

The fossil of ‘Propanoplosaurus marylandicus’ measures only 13cm long, just shorter than the length of a dollar bill.

dinosaur was closely related to some of the nodosaur species, although it had a shorter snout overall than the others. Comparative measurements enabled them to designate a new species, Propanoplosaurus marylandicus. In addition to being the youngest nodosaur ever found, it is the first hatchling of any dinosaur species ever recovered in the eastern United States, Weishampel says. The area where the fossil was found had originally been a flood plain, where Weishampel says that the dinosaur drowned. Cleaning the fossil revealed a hatchling nodosaur on its back, much of its body imprinted along with the top of its skull. Weishampel determined the dinosaur’s age at time of death by analyzing the degree of development and articulation capability of the ends of the bones, as well as deducing whether the bones themselves were porous, as young bones would not be fully solid. Size was also a clue. The body in the tiny fossil was only 13 cm long, just shorter than

the length of a dollar bill. Adult nodosaurs are estimated to have been 20 to 30 feet long. Weishampel also used the position and quality of the fossil to deduce the dinosaur’s method of death and preservation: drowning and getting buried by sediment in the stream. Eggshells have never been found preserved in the vicinity, and by the layout of the bones and the size of some very small nodosaur footprints found nearby, Weishampel was led to believe that the dinosaur was a hatchling, rather than an embryo, because it was able to walk independently. “We didn’t know much about hatchling nodosaurs at all prior to this discovery,” said Weishampel, who is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution. “And this is certainly enough to motivate more searches for dinosaurs in Maryland, along with more analysis of Maryland dinosaurs.” Stanford has donated the hatchling nodosaur to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where it is now on display to the public and also available for research. This study was funded by the Johns Hopkins Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution. Valerie DeLeon, also of the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, was an additional author.

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Wisconsin, where he also worked as a senior staff psychiatrist at Milwaukee Psychiatric Hospital. During this period, Connaughton also was involved in the design of the Peace Corps program and the training of its first crop of volunteers. In 1965, Connaughton returned to Maryland and spent the next 31 years at Hopkins Children’s as a clinician, a teacher and a mentor. Between 1967 and 1981, he directed numerous programs at Johns Hopkins and consulted with many local and regional mental health clinics, including the Dundalk Mental Health Clinic, Associated Catholic Charities, Oldfields School, Children’s Guild, John F. Kennedy Institute, Villa Maria Residential Treatment Center and Francis Scott Key Community Psychiatry Program. He worked closely with the City of Baltimore Department of Education, community mental health programs and the East Baltimore Mental Health Center. Taking care of underserved and troubled children and supervising psychiatric residents remained Connaughton’s unwavering focus until his retirement in 1997. A voracious learner, he enrolled in the Business of Medicine program at Johns Hopkins and, in 2002, earned a master’s degree. Connaughton was elected a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom. He won Teacher of the Year Award at Johns Hopkins several times, an accolade bestowed by medical residents on their mentors. This, his family said, was among the accomplishments he cherished most. Connaughton is survived by his wife of 54 years, Monica; their three sons, two daughters and 14 grandchildren; a brother; and a sister.

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Yeast Continued from page 1 some, Boeke says, the goal was to make it maximally useful to researchers by laying down some ground rules: First, the product could not compromise yeast survival; second, it must be as streamlined as possible; and third, it had to contain the capacity for genetic flexibility and change. Using the already known full genetic code—or DNA sequences—of the yeast genome as a starting point, Johns Hopkins graduate student Sarah Richardson wrote a software program for making a series of systematic changes to the DNA sequence. The changes were planned to subtly change the code and remove some of the repetitive and less-used regions of DNA between genes, and to generate a mutated “version 2.0” of a yeast cell’s original 9R chromosome. The smallest chromosome arm in the yeast genome, 9R contains about 100,000 base pairs of DNA and represents about 1 percent of the single-celled organism’s genome. Building the actual chromosome started with stringing together individual bases of DNA that were then assembled into longer segments. Large segments of about 10,000 base pairs were finally put into live yeast cells and essentially swapped for the native counterpart in the chromosome, a process for which yeast are naturally adept. In addition to 9R, the team made a smaller piece of the chromosome 6L. Yeast cells containing the synthetic chromosomes were tested for their ability to grow on different nutrients and in different conditions, and in each case came out indistinguishable from natural yeast. The Johns Hopkins team says that what distinguishes this constructed chromosome from the native version—and sets it apart from other synthetic genome projects— is an “inducible evolution system” called SCRaMbLE, short for Synthetic Chromosome Rearrangement and Modification by Lox-P mediated Evolution. “We developed SCRaMbLE to enable us to pull a mutation trigger, essentially causing the synthetic chromosome to rearrange itself and introducing changes similar to what might happen during evolution, but without the long wait,” Boeke said. Why build in the scrambling system? To change multiple things at once, says Boeke, an action that is anathema among experimental scientists, who traditionally change only one variable at a time. Nature is never that well-controlled, Boeke says. The team activated SCRaMbLE in yeast containing both the synthetic 9R and 6L chromosomes, then analyzed the DNA from the yeast cells. Testing this population of

SCRaMbLEd yeast fed various nutrients, the scientists found that some grew fast, some slowly and others really slowly, and some of the fast-growing ones had very specific defects resulting from specific gene loss, showing that SCRaMbLE does indeed introduce random variation. When the researchers analyzed the molecular structure of the synthetic 9R and 6L chromosomes from this SCRaMbLEd population, they found chromosomes with small deletions, rearrangements and other alterations, at wildly varying locations. “If you think of the yeast genome as a deck of cards, we now have a system by which we can shuffle it and/or remove different combinations of 5,000 of those cards to get lots of different decks from the same starter deck,” Boeke said. “While one derivative deck might yield good hands for poker, another might be better suited for pinochle. By shuffling the DNA according to our specifications, we hope to be able to custom-design organisms that perhaps will grow better in adverse environments, or maybe make 1 percent more ethanol than native yeast.” Boeke says that the 9R and 6L experiments are “the beginning of a big project whose ultimate goal is to synthesize the whole yeast genome (about 6,000 genes) and SCRaMbLE the 5,000 likely to be individually dispensable. And he wants to make the tool available to anyone who wants to use it, without intellectual property protection. Major support for this study came from the National Science Foundation, with contributions from Microsoft, the Department of Energy and the Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale. In addition to Boeke and Richardson, Johns Hopkins scientists who contributed to the Nature study are Jessica S. Dymond, Candice E. Coombes, Timothy Babatz, Joy Wu Schwerzmann, Heloise Muller, Narayana Annaluru, Annabel C. Boeke, Junbiao Dai, Srinivasan Chandrasegaran and Joel S. Bader. Other contributors were William J. Blake, of Codon Devices; and Derek L. Lindstrom and Daniel E. Gottschling, both of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. G

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Digitizing Continued from page 1 more-based company is the longest-running family-owned African-American newspaper in the nation. Its photo collection is a visual history of daily African-American life in Baltimore up until the present. The Diaspora Pathways Project is a longterm initiative aimed at better understanding the changing landscape of the living African Diaspora, especially as it pertains to the greater Baltimore area. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Johns Hopkins $476,000 for the initiative’s centerpiece, the Diaspora Pathways Archival Access Project, which involves collaborating with The Afro to open its historic archives to access by scholars and others. In November 2007, the DPAAP selected five students from Johns Hopkins, Goucher College and Morgan State University as its initial intern cohort to uncover and describe the contents of the paper’s archives. Their work began in January 2008. The objectives of the project, which is supported by the univeristy’s Center for Educational Resources, are to identify important unprocessed collections at the newspaper, inventory and organize the collection, and ultimately create an online database for searching the material. Problem was, Smith found, there was not yet an easy way to reference and disseminate the newspaper’s photos. The Afro wanted to digitize the collection and make it available to the public, but the newspaper had only one person to manually scan the photos. Why not automate the process, Smith thought. He devised Gado (a West African word for inheritance), a 3-foot-wide by 2-footdeep robotic arm that is able to lift flat and delicate materials using suction, place them on a scanner and scan them into a database or computer file system. The Center for Africana Studies provided funding to make Smith’s vision a reality. Using the funds, he pieced together some precision-cut wood, tubing and metal and gave it all a custom circuit-board brain. He did all this for $496. Gado worked. At a rate of a photo every two minutes, the robot in testing session

scanned and archived 1,000 photos, which are available in either print-ready or highresolution electronic formats. In a stroke of good fortune, most of the photos had information on the subjects taped or stapled to the back, either full text or words written in grease pencil. Smith’s robot is able to scan this information and use it as metadata so that the photos can be searched by subject, name, location, year or other category. In June, Smith launched phase two of Project Gado to create a more-user-friendly, slimmed-down version of the machine. Gado 2, the “IKEA version” as Smith likes to call it, will be sold as a kit that staff at smaller archives and museums can assemble and use to digitize their photographic holdings. He wants to keep the cost to $500. “The goal is to find other small archives who want to digitize their collections,” Smith said. “The ideal user is an archive with a large volume of relatively uniform materials and few human resources. The machine is perfect for something like a newspaper, since the paper’s business process resulted in a lot of images produced and stored at much the same size and in much the same way.” Since Gado is an open source device, the public can use any aspect of the machine and apply it to wherever low-cost, autonomous digitization process is needed. To make phase two possible, Smith received a grant from The Abell Foundation and funds from the JHU Sheridan Libraries. The project is being managed by Smith through the university’s Center for Social Concern in partnership with The Afro, the Center for Africana Studies and the Sheridan Libraries. Smith said that images of everyday African-American life are scarce, a situation that makes the newspaper’s photos so valuable. The collection includes images of WWII soldiers, the civil rights era, street parties, local leaders, families and documentation of nearly 50 years of the newspaper’s “The Clean Block” campaign that started in the 1930s. The successful campaign, an annual event, sought to improve the physical appearance of, and reduce crime in, various Baltimore neighborhoods. “Through just these photos, the collection provides a block-by-block visual history of the city,” he said.

Gado 2 will not only be smaller and cheaper but faster, too. Smith plans for the device to scan images in 30 seconds. Gado 2 will feed the scanned photos into two separate databases, one for images at a lower resolution available online free to anyone, and the second to house highresolution images capable of being blown up to billboard size without distortion and available for a fee. “This will help create a new revenue stream for the organization and keep the project sustainable,” Smith said. “Basically, the idea for Gado 2 was to reduce complexity and use the cost savings to source and manufacture higher-quality parts to have a faster and more robust machine for the same price tag as before.” Historical images such as those on file at The Afro are sought after by other news publications, documentary filmmakers and historians. A historical image license can be sold for between $200 and $700, depending on the medium. Smith said he anticipates that Gado 2, once completed, will scan 20,000 more images this

year, enough to launch a licensing website. He also wants to sign an agreement with at least one other archive or museum. Moira Hinderer, an archivist with the Sheridan Libraries and a lecturer in the History Department and the Center for Africana Studies, said, “The Afro’s collection is just such an incredibly rich visual resource in African-American history. It will keep scholars busy for years. It’s my hope that Tom’s efforts will bring these photographs before a much broader audience,” she said. “Certainly this could be a wonderful resource for local educators and students.” Smith currently works on Gado 2 in the basement of the Center for Social Concern’s building on North Charles Street, just blocks from The Afro. While he appreciates the use of the space, he admits that the dimly lit, unfinished area is not an ideal location to work on sensitive machinery. Smith plans to move the project into the Emerging Technology Center at the Johns Hopkins at Eastern campus later this month. G

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6 2011 6 THE THE GAZETTE GAZETTE •• September August 15, 19, 2011

JOHN G. RANGOS

MEDAL OF HONOR IN CREATIVE THINKING

FIRST PRIZE - $20,000 & The John G. Rangos Medal

SECOND PRIZE - $5,000

THIRD PRIZE - $1,000

The Riddle of Cancer Therapy Most metastatic cancers remain incurable and continue to kill one out of four Americans. Even initially responsive tumors quickly become resistant to therapy and become untreatable. In contrast, a small number of advanced cancers do not exhibit this type of therapeutic resistance. These include testicular cancer and some forms of childhood leukemias and lymphomas. These cancer types have over 80% sustained complete remission rates. Lance Armstrong is a famous example of this type of curable cancer. It is completely unknown why some metastatic cancers are curable while the vast majority are not. If we understood the reasons for these favorable results, we might be able to apply them to the more resistant forms of human tumors. Purpose:

To inspire students to generate original and creative ideas to solve this riddle we are challenging Johns Hopkins trainees to compete for the Rangos Medal along with a cash prize. We will also assist the trainees in ways to test their ideas.

Eligibility: Open to currently enrolled full-time trainees at any division of The Johns Hopkins University including undergraduate, graduate and medical students, residents and fellows. Answers must be the ideas of the trainees and cannot have been funded from another source to be eligible. All aspects of the student’s idea and this award must comply with all Johns Hopkins University policies. Process:

Applicants must prepare an essay of no longer than five pages (single spaced), including references, with scientific support that addresses the riddle of cancer described above. A University-wide panel will independently score the essays and the top five will be invited to give a presentation of their idea. The awardees will be selected from these presenters.

Submit:

http://prostatecancerprogram.onc.jhmi.edu/rangosAward

Deadline: November 1, 2011

September 19, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Five engineering doctoral students named Siebel Scholars By Phil Sneiderman

Homewood

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ive Johns Hopkins graduate students who are applying the latest advances in biology and technology to the prevention and treatment of health problems such as cancer and brain disorders have been named to the 2012 class of Siebel Scholars. The merit-based program provides $35,000 to each student for use in his or her final year of graduate studies. The Johns Hopkins recipients, who expect to receive their doctoral degrees in May, were among 85 students selected this year from prominent graduate schools in the United States and China, including Harvard, Princeton, MIT and Stanford. The Siebel Scholars program was founded in 2000 by the Siebel Foundation to recognize the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science and bioengineering. The program’s more than 700 recipients from 19 graduate programs serve as advisers to the Siebel Foundation and work collaboratively to find solutions to society’s most pressing problems. At Johns Hopkins, the Siebel program supports doctoral students in bioengineering studies. This year’s recipients are pursuing their degrees in the university’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, which is shared by the School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering, and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, which resides in the Whiting School. The 2012 Johns Hopkins Siebel Scholar honorees are: • Manisha Aggarwal, of Ghaziabad, India: Under the supervision of Susumu Mori, a professor of radiology in the School of Medicine, Aggarwal has been using a

The 2012 Siebel Scholars from Johns Hopkins are Suneil Hosmane, Stephanie I. Fraley, Manisha Aggarwal, Donny Hanjaya-Putra and Hannah Carter.

technology called high-field diffusion tensor magnetic resonance micro-imaging to view white matter in mouse brains, a key step toward developing new ways to conduct brain research in humans. • Hannah Carter, of Louisville, Ky.: Under the supervision of Rachel Karchin, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Carter is using computer technology to study the role of genetic mutations in cancer. By teasing out the few mutations responsible for tumor growth and drug resistance, she hopes to speed up the search for drug targets and identify which tumors are most likely to respond to treatment by anti-cancer drugs. • Stephanie I. Fraley, of Chattanooga, Tenn.: Under the supervision of Denis Wirtz, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Fraley is investigating the basics behind how cancer cells spread

the disease through the body and how this might be prevented. Her work has led to one patent filing and the beginning of a diagnostics-based start-up company. • Donny Hanjaya-Putra, of Surabaya, Indonesia: Under the supervision of Sharon Gerecht, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, HanjayaPutra designs three-dimensional scaffolds that enable stem cells to grow, differentiate and form functional networks of tiny blood vessels. His goal is to provide a blood supply that will support efficient human tissue and organ transplantation.

Service Continued from page 1

By Tim Parsons

School of Public Health

new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds that helicopters that service the drilling platforms and vessels in the Gulf of Mexico crash on average more than six times per year, resulting in an average of five deaths per year. From 1983 to 2009, 178 crashes resulted in 139 deaths, including 41 pilots and three co-pilots. Mechanical failure was the most common cause, leading to 68 crashes (38 percent of the total), followed by bad weather leading to 29 (16 percent of the total). While the challenges such as bad weather and long travel distances associated with helicopter flights related to oil and gas operations in the gulf are recognized, this study is noteworthy for examining the circumstances of the crashes. The article is published in the September issue of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine. Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, examined fatal and nonfatal crash records of the National Transportation Safety Board from 1983 to 2009. Analyses determined that the most common result of mechanical failure in both fatal and nonfatal crashes was loss of engine power, which occurred in almost one-third of fatal crashes. The majority of forced landings following mechanical failure occurred in water, with 20 percent resulting in the sinking of the helicopter despite the fact that most helicopters are equipped with pilot-activated flotation devices. Bad weather was the second most common precipitating factor for fatal and nonfatal crashes and was responsible for the largest number of deaths. In fact, bad

weather was the only factor that significantly increased the risk of pilot death when a crash occurred. Pilot error was a major contributor to 83 crashes (47 percent), with poor decision making the most prevalent error. For example, the NTSB conclusion for many of the bad-weather crashes was that the pilot should not have flown given the forecast or observed bad weather. “This study raises concern about the safety of helicopter flights related to oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico, particularly during bad weather,” said Susan P. Baker, a professor with the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the paper’s lead author. “Our findings suggest that efforts to reduce crashes and deaths must address mechanical failure, nonactivation of flotation devices and pilot error.” Baker is a licensed private pilot and received the Aerospace Medical Association’s Harry G. Moseley Award in 2010 for her work applying the public health model to aviation safety. The researchers also examined crash trends over the study time period and found an increase in the most recent time period, 8.2 annually during 2000 to 2009 versus 5.6 during 1983 to 1999. Following 2007, however, the researchers measured a decrease in crashes. “While the apparent deterioration in safety over time is alarming, I am encouraged by the most recent data,” Baker said. “Only time will tell whether this is a temporary statistical blip or the beginning of a positive trend.” Additional authors of the study are Dennis F. Shanahan, associate faculty at the Center for Injury Research and Policy; Wren Haaland, consultant to the Center for Injury Research and Policy; and Joanne Brady and Guohua Li, both of Columbia University. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

dedicated to providing arts to Waverly community residents, especially neighborhood youth. The site hosts visual art classes, drawing classes, piano lessons and monthly Saturday workshops for different age groups. The volunteers will put up fliers to recruit donations and support, organize art supplies, paint and get creative with sidewalk chalk in front of the Waverly Library. “We made an attempt this year to have fewer but bigger projects so that we could send more students to each location,” GrierMcGinnis said. More than 40 student groups will participate. A 12-person student planning committee helped coordinate the day’s activities. Grier-McGinnis said that the hope is that the projects spark interest in volunteering and expose participants to the needs of the community. “It’s about creating awareness to the challenges that people in the community face,” she said. “Ideally, we would like them to stay involved and delve deeper into volunteer work during their time at Johns Hopkins.” The Homewood event kicks off at 11 a.m. at the O’Connor Recreation Center with opening remarks from President Daniels. The volunteers will work from noon to 4 p.m. and then return to Homewood for a post-service party to include a raffle and a performance by the AllNighters, JHU’s only all-male a cappella group. G

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Oil, gas operations in Gulf claim 139 lives in helicopter crashes

The Johns Hopkins Student Outreach Resource Center, better known as SOURCE, will coordinate activities for the schools of Public Health, Nursing and Medicine. Mindi Levin, director and founder of SOURCE, said that roughly 200 people will participate in eight projects around the East Baltimore campus, including meal preparation and service at Our Daily Bread, encouraging HIV testing at the Shepherd Clinic and outreach work with the mobile unit of Sisters Together and Reaching, known as STAR. Grier-McGuiness said that the other divisions were added to make this truly a universitywide event under one banner. Homewood volunteers will help mentor children at local schools, put on talent shows, work at food providers, plant gardens, paint and help refurbish buildings, clean streams and contribute to a host of other projects. One group will travel to the Reservoir Hill area to participate in a large-scale landscaping project to clean up and create gardens and green spaces at five different sites in the community. Another group of volunteers will go to 901 Arts, a space on Montpelier Street

• Suneil Hosmane, of Dekalb, Ill.: Under the supervision of Nitish Thakor, a professor of biomedical engineering, Hosmane has developed innovative micro-devices that have shed light on new communication pathways that govern neurodegenerative diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and transverse myelitis. Siebel Scholars are selected from among students who rank at the top of their class. They are chosen by the deans of their respective schools on the basis of outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership. “Being recognized as one of the nation’s top bioengineering programs is a terrific honor for the school and for our five outstanding graduate students,” said Nick Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School. “The distinction provides our students with entry into a community of exceptionally talented future leaders and expands their opportunities for entrepreneurship and collaboration—goals that are integral to our academic program.” Karen Roter Davis, executive director of the Siebel Scholars Foundation, added, “We are proud to support the Siebel Scholars Class of 2012 as they collaborate and forge lifelong ties with this engaged community of leaders. They are joining an exceptional group of talented individuals working together with the Siebel Foundation to address critical societal issues in health, food and energy.” In October, current and alumni Siebel Scholars will meet in Virginia to explore the science, applications, benefits and risks of synthetic biology with world-renowned scientific, industry, ethics and policy experts.

Johns Hopkins volunteers clean up neighborhood property in 2010.

8 2011 8 THE THE GAZETTE GAZETTE •• September August 15, 19, 2011 F O R

Cheers

T H E

R E C O R D

K U D O S

Johns Hopkins astronomer wins 2011 Balzan Prize

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. BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Renee Blanding , assistant professor of

anesthesiology and critical care medicine, has been named vice president of medical affairs. She will maintain her current positions as medical director of the operating rooms and chair of the medical affairs council. T h o m a s M a g n u s o n , associate professor of surgery, has been named director of the Department of Surgery. Mark Duncan , associate professor of surgery and oncology, has been named deputy director. Scott Wright , professor of medicine, has been named chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine.

SCHOOL OF NURSING Kathleen Becker , assistant professor in

CENTER FOR TALENTED YOUTH Karen Bond , Amy John and Molly McGrath , in collaboration with the Balti-

more Educational Scholarship Trust and the Baltimore City Public School System, have been named a 2011 Innovator of the Year by The Daily Record. The honor recognizes the group’s collaboration on Compass: A Directory of Resources for Bright Students in Baltimore. JHM INTERNATIONAL Jane C. Shivnan has been named execu-

tive director of Clinical Quality and Nursing. Shivnan has more than 20 years of health care leadership experience, including service as executive director of the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing and as director of the institute’s Office of Global Nursing. In her new role, Shivnan will provide strategic oversight and leadership in JHI’s clinical, consulting and knowledge transfer activities. She also will continue to serve the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing as executive director. John Ulatowski , professor and director of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, has been named vice president and executive medical director. He will continue in his role as director of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Eric J. Sundquist , professor of English, and Neta Stahl, assistant professor of com-

parative and modern Hebrew literature, both in the School of Arts and Sciences, and A. Jonathan Eake, associate professor of education in the School of Education, have joined the Faculty Editorial Board, which meets monthly to review and approve books and new journals proposed for publication by the Press’ acquisitions editors. Also serving on the 2011–2012 board are faculty members Gregor y F. B a l , S t u a r t W. L e s l i e , R o n a l d P. Lesser , Francis M. Mondimore , Theodore O. Poehler , Bernard Shiffman , Adam Sheingate and Ben Vinson . Richard Macksey is senior adviser to the board, and Provost Lloyd Minor and Press Director Kathleen Keane are ex officio members. Six JHUP books won prizes in the Washington Book Publishers 2011 Design and Effectiveness Awards competition. Daniel O’Quinn’s Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790; and a new translation by X.J. Kennedy of Guillaume Apollinaire’s The Bestiary, or Procession of Orpheus won first-place honors, for typographic text and typographic cover, respectively. M a r t h a S e w a l l designed the former and G l e n Burris , the latter. Second-place prizes went to Todd J. Cohen’s A Patient’s Guide to Heart Rhythm Problems, also designed by Sewall, for technical text; and to William S. Dudley’s Maritime Maryland, designed by Burris, for illustrated text. James R. Spotila’s Saving Sea Turtles and C. Renee James’ Seven Wonders of the Universe That You Probably Took for Granted won third place in illustrated

International Academy of Cardiology’s Distinguished Fellowship Award for his “profound contribution to international cardiovascular medicine and sciences.” Ron Cohn , Tao Qiu and R yan Riddle are the first recipients of grants from the Musculoskeletal Research Pilot and Feasibility Grant Program, established by the JHU Center for Musculoskeletal Research and funded by an anonymous donor. Cohn is an assistant professor in Pediatrics. Qiu and Riddle are assistant professors in Orthopaedic Surgery. C h r i s t o p h L e h m a n n , an associate professor of pediatrics and a medical informatics pioneer and neonatologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, has been elected vice president of services for the International Medical Informatics Association. Lehmann’s three-year term begins in 2012.

Joseph Silk

By Lisa De Nike

Homewood

ohns Hopkins University astronomer Joseph Silk has been awarded the 2011 Balzan Prize, for his pioneering work on the infant universe. The $950,000 award is given annually to people or organizations that have made outstanding achievements in the fields of the natural sciences, humanities and culture, as well as for peace-promoting endeavors. Silk, a research professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy in Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, will be presented with his prize by the International Balzan Prize Foundation in a ceremony on Nov. 18 in Berne, Switzerland. The foundation is located in both Zurich and Milan. Silk was recognized for his work on the early universe, and his research into the effects of various physical processes and phenomena, including dark matter and the fluctuations of cosmic background radiation. “We have made immense progress in early universe studies since I began my research career,” said Silk, who was honored for his project The Early Universe (from the Planck Time to the First Galaxies). “The major advance that has impacted my research is the measurement of the initial fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. These characterize the

and typographic text, respectively. Amy Ruth Buchman designed Sea Turtles and Wilma Rosenberger , Seven Wonders. At the 25th Annual New York Book Show, the Book Industry Guild of New York honored three JHUP books. Maritime Maryland took first place among professional scholarly books; Walter G. Ellison’s Second Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia, designed by Sewall, took first place among professional reference books; and Theodore Kornweibel Jr.’s Railroads in the African American Experience, designed by Kimberly Glyder , won an award of merit in general trade nonfiction. PEABODY INSTITUTE Maureen Harrigan has been appointed

associate dean for finance and administration. Harrigan was previously chief financial officer of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, which operates campuses and hospitals in Philadelphia and Kennett Square, Pa.; from 2001 to 2007, she was an analyst in the Office of Budget and Management Analysis. Earlier, she managed corporate philanthropy at Agi-

seeds of galaxy formation. But we still have a long way to go, both in terms of observation and theory, before we can say that we fully understand the evolution of cosmic structure.” Born in London in 1942, Silk studied at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge and Princeton University, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Oxford. He has written or co-authored more than 500 publications. “Dr. Silk is one of the world’s leading theoretical astrophysicists,” said Daniel Reich, chair of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins. “Over a research career spanning more than 40 years, he has made numerous major contributions to the study of cosmology, galaxy and star formation, and dark matter. His work has informed and motivated many of the crucial experiments done over this time in these fields. This award is richly deserved.” The International Balzan Prize Foundation was established in 1978 by the family of Eugenio Balzan, a journalist who made Switzerland his home after fleeing Fascist oppression of the media in his native Italy. It focuses on fields that may often be overlooked by other foundations. The winners of the prize—the others this year were in jurisprudence, musicology and epigenetics—must use half the prize for research work, preferably involving young scholars and researchers.

lent Technologies in Wilmington, Del., and spent 18 years at Hewlett-Packard in operations, planning and project management positions. RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS Jeremy Bushyager , professor of military

science, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. SAIS Samantha Duncan , a student in the

International Development Program, has received the 2011 Westfield Fellowship, one of 15 fellowships awarded by the American Australian Association. The fellowships are awarded to leading Australian postgraduate scholars to undertake research and study on environmental sustainability, engineering and medicine at prestigious American institutions. Duncan’s research interest is sustainable development in emerging markets. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Lewis Becker , professor of cardiology and

general internal medicine, has received the

Community-Public Health, has been named a 2011 Hepatitis Hero by the Maryland Hepatitis Coalition. Pamela Jeffries , associate dean for academic affairs, has been named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow for 2011. Jeffries joins a group of 21 nurse leaders from across the country who will participate in a three-year leadership development program designed to enhance nurse leaders’ effectiveness in improving the U.S. health care system. Jeffries is nationally known for her work in developing simulations and online teaching and learning. Rachel Klimmek , a doctoral student, received the school’s 2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award; she was nominated for “applying creative approaches to helping students learn the complex challenges of caring for older patients.” The award recognizes a graduate teaching assistant who has demonstrated exceptional performance in the classroom, innovation and commitment to learning at the school. Mar y Paterno , a doctoral student, was the winner of the 2011 PhD Student Published Paper Award, which recognizes the best published paper led by a doctoral student that was in a refereed journal between June 2010 and June 2011. Paterno’s paper, “Evaluation of a Student-Nurse Doula Program: An Analysis of Doula Interventions and Their Impacts on Labor Analgesia and Cesarean Birth,” will appear in the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health later this year. Paterno co-authored the paper with faculty member Shirley Van Zandt and doctoral student Jeanne Murphy . Kathleen White , an associate professor in Health Systems and Outcomes, coauthored with Sharon Dudley-Brown , an assistant professor of gastroenterology at the School of Medicine, Translation of Evidence into Nursing and Health Care Practice, a first-of-its-kind text for DNP students, just published by Springer Publishing Co. WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Mark Foster , assistant professor in Elec-

trical and Computer Engineering, has received the 2011 DARPA Young Faculty Award. The objective of the award is to “identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions while exposing them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process.” Foster is being recognized for his work on “SWiPhT: Scalable Ultra-High-BandWidth Photonic Transmultiplexer.” The award will provide funding, mentoring, and industry and DoD contacts to enable him to further develop his research ideas in the context of DoD needs. Sri Sarma , assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, has received an Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation award from the National Science Foundation. Sarma’s award supports her research in brain-machine interactive control of prosthetic limbs for high speed and natural movements that takes into account the specific motor cortical output of patients with spinal cord injuries.

September 19, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

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

25 years of service Brugge r , Robert, Johns Hopkins University Press 20 years of service Gill , Baldev, Montgomery County Campus Ro b ins on , Susan, Jhpiego 10 years of service Alex ande r , Kathy, Johns Hopkins

University Press Ma szcze nski , T., Johns Hopkins University Press Ren nison , Robin, Johns Hopkins University Press 5 years of service Ali , Nancy, Jhpiego BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

40 years of service Do n i than , Michele, Epidemiology 25 years of service Welsh , Kelly, Epidemiology 15 years of service Ba iley , Michael, Center for Communication Programs Ferrett i , Michael, Facilities 10 years of service Livingst on , Hope, Epidemiology Na n ce , Lisa, International Health P a n iche llo , Theresa, Center for Communication Programs 5 years of service K lein , Kellie, Finance and

Administration Ma ss e y , Sheree, International Health McLendon , Shawnel, Environmental Health Sciences Ra mesh , Priti, Environmental Health Sciences HOMEWOOD STUDENT AFFAIRS

15 years of service Fletche r , Sherryl, Undergraduate Admissions Irlb ache r , Michael, Housing and Dining Services 10 years of service Agelopas , Carole, Undergraduate Admissions Vo n H agen-Jamar , Shelley, Counseling Center 5 years of service To wnes , Tiffany, Student Health and Wellness Center

S c hri v e r , Brian, Physics and

Astronomy 5 years of service Mi ha l a s , Stefan, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute Mu ska u s k i , Diana, Center for Social Organization of Schools P r yse ski , Charlene, Center for Social Organization of Schools S pe c k , Caroline, Psychological and Brain Sciences S ta rne s , Elizabeth, Postbac Premed PEABODY INSTITUTE

25 years of service B i c he l l , Carolyn, Finance Administration 10 years of service F a rre l l , Gavin, Preparatory

5 years of service Cook , Jeremy, Campus Operations SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

A n d er s o n , Jaclyn, Johns Hopkins

5 years of service S ha rke y , Jeffrey, Peabody Institute

SAIS

Retirees Ca sti l l e j o , William, 15 years of service,

Facilities Gu ti e rre z , Valentin, 22 years of service,

Facilities H u ntl e y , Vanessa, 26 years of service, Finance and Administration 25 years of service H a rri ng t o n , John, Academic Affairs

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

10 years of service B u c ki ng h a m , Michelle, Teacher Development and Leadership

45 years of service B a i l e y , Patricia, Radiology 35 years of service B re e de n , Sophia, Psychiatry La ske r , Adrian, Neurology 30 years of service B e l l , Cynthia, Gynecology and Obstetrics Cre swe l l , Philip, Registrar’s Office E l l i s , Gwendolyn, Welch Medical Library S pe a rm an , Arlene, Anesthesiology and Critical Care S te rn , Edith, Neurology 25 years of service D a i l y , Barbara, Institute of Genetic Medicine K e l l y , William, Infectious Diseases P a ka ski , Laura, Surgery Ze m a nsk i , Teresa, Continuing Medical Education 20 years of service D i e te r , Sarah, Infectious Diseases D i ggs , Wanda, Human Resources H a rri son , Betty, Facilities J a c kson , Shirley, Facilities Ma l i now s k i , Christine, Oncology Mc R a e , Tylicia, Health Safety and

20 years of service Hea ly , Teresa, Earth and Planetary Sciences

R a w l i ng s , Kimberly, Pathology

15 years of service

15 years of service Ay d , Mary Ann, Marketing and Communications B u r g es s , Vanessa, Facilities C o l l i n s , Carolyn, Ophthalmology Hef t er , Gail, Cardiology Jo n es , Michelle, Bayview, Rheumatology Ken ea l y , Robin, General Internal Medicine O l i ver , Jacqueline, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Si m p k i n s , Beth, Marketing and Communications Wi l l i a m s , Carolyn, Bayview, General Administration Wi l l i a m s , Estelle, Rheumatology, Bayview 10 years of service A l b r i t t o n , Christine, Ophthalmology B el l a m y G r a b o w s k i , Elizabeth, Psychiatry B er g n er , Amanda, Neurology B r o w n , Kimberly, Neurology Do n g , Peihong, Cardiology E d w a r d s , Nancy, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine E l z a B r o w n , Kathy, Oncology F r eed , Irwin, Oncology G a n t , Letrice, Human Subjects Research G r een , Natalie, Research Animal Resources Pa n , Yan, Pathology Po l l o ck , Lori, Radiology R ey es , Diane, Radiology Sp a n o l i a , Mary, Gynecology and Obstetrics Ts a i , Ya Chea, Pathology W h i t e , Keonne, Cell Biology

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K irk , Robert, Communications

Wi l l i a m s , Odessa, Facilities

Environment R e ye s , Rafael, Biomedical Sciences Ta yl or , Juanita, Anesthesiology and

Critical Care Whi te , Joann, Facilities

5 years of service Technology B er l a n s t ei n , Bruce, Radiology B i s t r a n - Ha l l , Amanda, Neurology B r o w n , Nicholas, Facilities B r o w n l ee , Lamonte, Research

Administration B u r t h ey , Amina, Geriatric Medicine, Bayview C a i , Hongyan, Oncology C a i , Yuan, Neurology C a s e , Kathryn, Continuing Medical Education C h a p i n , Margie, Human Subjects Research C h i l co t e , Nancy, Neurosurgery C o l ey , Tameka, Continuing Medical Education C o s b y , Hilary, Gastroenterology C r o s b y B u d i n g er , Meghan, Psychiatry Del M u r o , Liza, Health, Safety and Environment F a r r el l , Mary, Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine F l a v a h a n , Sheila, Anesthesiology and Critical Care G r a f f , Marcus, Surgery Ha n d y , Mary, Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Bayview Hen s o n , Stephanie, Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine Hi ck s , Dion, Jr., Pathology Jo , Choon, Facilities Jo h n s o n , Tiffany, General Administration Jo r d a n , Taylor, Johns Hopkins Technology

Keel , Cathy, Orthopaedics Kul ag a , Heather, Molecular Biology and

Genetics M eer on , Maia, Fund for Johns Hopkins

Medicine M ur p hy , Sara, Oncology M ur r ay , Kimberly, Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine N oc k , Desiree, Infectious Diseases N op p enber g er , Dene, Surgery N ozar i , Azin, Pathology Obi e , Cassandra, Institute of Genetic Medicine P al anc i , Justin, Psychiatry Ren , Yixin, Cell Biology Rom er o , Elen, Oncology Sm i t h , Ruth, Oncology St eel , Gary, Institute of Genetic Medicine Thom as , Veronica, Surgery Thom p s on , Xavier, Radiology Tol en , James, Oncology Tr avi s , Patricia, Research Administration Wang , Ping, Pathology Yu , Yi, Psychiatry SHERIDAN LIBRARIES/ JHU MUSEUMS

35 years of service Shep p er d , Mary, Sheridan Libraries Towns end , Darlene, Sheridan Libraries 5 years of service H al l , Vaux, Sheridan Libraries

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Retiree El wood , Esperanza, 31 years of service,

Enterprise Applications 25 years of service Cam p o , Denise, Office of the Chief

Networking Officer 20 years of service H awki ns , Whalen, Facilities P ar ker , Charles, Facilities

15 years of service M c Cor m i c k , Gwendolyn, Controller Seaby , Mary, Development and Alumni Relations 10 years of service Cas c i o , Nelson, Enterprise Applications Fol ey , Lawrence, Treasurer M ur p hy , Kenneth, Enterprise

Applications Rad ke , Deborah, Johns Hopkins Internal Audits 5 years of service Abr am s , Mimi, Development and

Alumni Relations Al p hons e , Fritz, Controller Col e , Nancy, Development and Alumni

Relations Jac ks on , Anthony, Facilities Kl ei n , Samuel, Treasurer P ar r i s h , Micah, Design and Construction Tos h , Kathi, Controller WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

15 years of service Gr aham , Laura, Computer Science Rac e , Debra, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Live Near Your Work The Live Near Your Work program provides Johns Hopkins employees with the opportunity to receive combined cash grants from the university, Baltimore City and the state of Maryland to be used for the purchase of homes within selected local neighborhoods. Grants are available to full-time, benefits-eligible employees of Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Health Care, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Johns Hopkins Bayview and Johns Hopkins Home Care Group. Other restrictions may apply. To find out more, contact the Office of Work, Life and Engagement at 443-997-7000 or go to web.jhu.edu/lnyw/index.html.

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Job Opportunities The Johns Hopkins University does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristic in any student program or activity administered by the university or with regard to admission or employment.

Homewood

Office of Human Resources: Suite W600, Wyman Bldg., 410-516-7196 JOB# POSITION

48788 49246 49237 49238 49287 49426 49431 49439 49440 49447 49450 49467 49487

Program Manager, CTY Student Payroll Specialist Multimedia Systems Specialist Research Technologist Systems Network Administrator LAN Administrator IRC Technical Assistant Associate Director, Research Administration Research Technologist School Based Transformation Facilitator Youth Development Facilitator Foundation Relations Officer Instructional Technologist

Schools of Public Health and Nursing Office of Human Resources: 2021 East Monument St., 410-955-3006 JOB# POSITION

44976 44290 44672 41388 44067 44737 44939 44555 44848

Food Service Worker LAN Administrator III Administrative Secretary Program Officer Research Program Assistant II Sr. Administrative Coordinator Student Affairs Officer Instructional Technologist Sr. Financial Analyst

School of Medicine

Office of Human Resources: 98 N. Broadway, 3rd floor, 410-955-2990 JOB# POSITION

47679 47740 48165 48194 48238 48250 48312 48639 48699

Laboratory Assistant Nurse Practitioner Research Assistant Research Data Analyst MRI Technologist Research Data Analyst Sr. Medical Office Coordinator Research Program Assistant II Patient Access Manager

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Research Service Analyst Executive Specialist Employee Assistance Clinician Employee Assistance Clinician Sr. Financial Analyst Sr. Programmer Analyst Software Engineer Software Engineer Network Security Engineer Software Engineer Sr. Internal Auditor HR Specialist ERP Business Analyst, HR/Payroll Sr. ERP Business Analyst, HR/Payroll Sr. ERP Business Analyst, Supply Chain/SRM Sr. Financial Analyst Gift Processing Supervisor Programmer Analyst

44648 Assay Technician 44488 Research Technologist 43425 Research Nurse 43361 Research Scientist 44554 Administrative Specialist 44684 Biostatistician 42973 Clinical Outcomes Coordinator 43847 Sr. Programmer Analyst 45106 Employment Assistant/Receptionist 45024 Payroll and HR Services Coordinator 42939 Research Data Coordinator 42669 Data Assistant 44802 Budget Specialist 44242 Academic Program Administrator 44661 Sr. Research Program Coordinator 45002 Research Observer

48702 48705 48824 49059 49090 49094 49119 49125 49150 49167 49186 49242 49249 49325

Immunogenetics Technologist Trainee Clinic Manager Occupational Therapist Research Navigator Nurse Physician Assistant IT Specialist Technical Facility Manager Research Program Assistant II Research Program Assistant Sr. Financial Manager Research Technologist Data Assistant Disclosure Specialist Revenue Cycle Coordinator

B U L L E T I N

Notices KSAS Dean’s Undergraduate Research Awards — Applications are now being

accepted from KSAS undergraduates and faculty mentors for the newly created Dean’s Undergraduate Research Awards. The awards are designed to promote independent research projects among undergraduate students in the Krieger School of Arts S E P T .

Continued from page 12 “Risk Adjustment in a European Primary Care Context: Assessing the Properties of Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) for Predictive Modeling, for Special Populations and Using ATC Pharmacy Codes,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Paulo Boto. 461 Hampton House. EB

Fri., Sept. 23, 10 a.m.

Fri., Sept. 23, 11 a.m. “Investigating Transport and Mixing of Atlantic Water in the Nordic Seas With Surface Drifters,” a CEAFM seminar with Inga Koszalka, KSAS. 50 Gilman. HW Fri., Sept. 23, noon. “Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Frustrations in Understanding the Process of Choosing,” a Sociology seminar with Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania. 526 Mergenthaler. HW

“Progressives and the Market: Why Give It to the Right?” an Institute for Policy Studies Social Policy seminar with Dean Baker, codirector, Center for Economic and Policy Research. Great Hall, Levering. HW

Fri., Sept. 23, 3 p.m.

Mon., Sept. 26, noon. “EM, SAXS, Molecular Modeling and Traditional Biochemistry Reveal the Topology of Cleavage Factor I, an Essential Heteroheptameric Complex in mRNA Processing,” a Biophysics seminar with Andrew Bohm, Tufts University. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

“Histone Variants, Nucleosome Dynamics and Epigenetics,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Steve Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

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

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and Sciences. Funding, which ranges from $500 to $3,000, will enable undergraduates in KSAS to pursue original research, work closely with a faculty mentor and advance knowledge for the world. Two types of awards are available, Faculty Research Assistantships and Senior Capstone Project Awards. For additional information and application instructions go to http://krieger.jhu.edu/dura. The application deadline for both awards is Oct. 14. Questions should be directed to Ami Cox at ami@jhu.edu. 1 2

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Mon., Sept. 26, noon. “Posttranscriptional Regulation of Cancer Traits by HuR,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Myriam Gorospe, NIA/NIH. W1020 SPH. EB

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

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Mon., Sept. 26, 4 p.m. “Specialties: The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern World History,” a History seminar with Giancarlo Casale, University of Minnesota. 308 Gilman. HW Mon., Sept. 26, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Basal Ganglia Dynamics During Action Selection and Suppression” with Joshua Berke, University of Michigan. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

SPECIAL EVENTS

Wed., Sept. 21, noon to 3 p.m.

SOURCE’s annual Community Involve-

ment Fair, ice cream, prizes and opportunities to get involved in the East Baltimore community. E2030 and first floor gallery, SPH. EB 2011 Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium—America’s Boundless Possibilities: Innovate, Advance, Transform, with TV host Jerry Springer. Talk followed by question-and-answer session and reception. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

Wed., Sept. 21, 8 p.m.

Mon., Sept. 26, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

“A Taste of Africa,” a chance to experience African culture through food, music and networking. Co-sponsored by the African Public Health Network and the JHSPH Student Assembly. Cafe, 9th floor, SPH. EB W OR K S H O P 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 have administrative responsibilities in a Blackboard course. To register, go to www.bb.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW •

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“Getting Started With Blackboard.” “Blackboard Communication and Collaboration.”

edge and Managing Grades in Blackboard.” Tues., Sept. 20, 11 a.m., and Wed., Sept. 21, 4 p.m. “Refworks 2.0,” an

MSE Library workshop on organizing citations and making quick, easy bibliographies. To register, go to www.library .jhu.edu/researchhelp/workshops.html. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW

“Preparing a Course Syllabus,” an Eyes on Teaching workshop open to all grad students, postdoctoral fellows, lecturers and faculty in KSAS or WSE. To register, go to www .cer.jhu.edu/events.html. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

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“Introduction to Blogs and Wikis,” a Bits & Bytes workshop. The training is open to Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs; staff are also welcome to attend. Registration is strongly encouraged; go to www.cer.jhu .edu/events.html. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Thurs., Sept. 22, 1 p.m.

September 19, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Bayview, rehabbed 3BR, 2BA house w/ hdwd and ceramic flrs, contemporary kitchen/BAs, dedicated prkng, walk to campus. $1,450/mo. George, 410-529-9644. Bolton Hill, 4BR, 2BA house, hdwd flrs, spacious kitchen and BRs, walk to Hopkins shuttle. $2,100/mo + utils. 443-540-0713 or 1417johnstreet@gmail.com. Cross Keys Village, 3BR, 2.5BA TH, access to swimming pools and tennis courts, avail Nov 1. maison.my@gmail.com. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/full kitchen, call for wkly/wknd rentals, pics avail at jzpics@yahoo.com. 410-6389417. Edgewood, bsmt apt in 2BR TH, nr 95/Rt 40/Aberdeen Proving Grounds, priv BA. $700/mo incl water, electric, cable, WiFi. 443-655-4901. Ferndale, cozy efficiency in priv home, lg kitchen and BA, nr BWI. $900/mo incl utils, Internet, cable. Marsha, 410-7668385. Guilford, sunny 3BR, 3BA condo, 2,200 sq ft, 700 sq ft wraparound terrace, study, living rm, dining rm, gourmet kitchen, family rm, laundry rm, 2 prkng spaces, 5-min walk to Homewood/JHU shuttle stop. coquille@ mris.com. Locust Point (1325 Cooksie St), 2BR, 2BA house. $1,300/mo + utils. 410-409-5136, 410-409-5137 or tmsroka@verizon.net. Manhattan, 1BR apt, walking distance to Central Park, excel when in town for conference. $2,000/wk. NYC1BR@yahoo.com. Mt Vernon, 3BR bsmt apt. $1,350/mo incl all utils. 425-890-1327. Mt Washington, stunning short-term rental, 2BRs, 2 studies, baby grand piano, parquet flrs, patios. 718-915-3180. $2,600/mo. barbarakarni@gmail.com. Owings Mills, gorgeous 3BR, 2.5BA TH, short-term rental (1 night up to 3 mos), 5-min drive to metro, save gas and prkng,

M A R K E T P L A C E

live in stress-free environment, pics emailed on request. Georgia, 240-246-5665. Rodgers Forge/Towson, 3BR EOG TH w/ new kitchen, no pets/no smoking, avail Oct 1. $1,800/mo. totalnsolutions@yahoo.com. Upper Waverly, charming 2BR, 1BA apt nr the 33rd Street Y. $750/mo. Andrea, 410905-4036. 3BR, 2BA charmer in diverse, historic neighborhood nr JHU, inlaid wood flrs, new appls, sunrm, no smokers/no pets. $1,600/ mo. dewi.smith@gmail.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Cockeysville, 5BR, 3.5BA house on 1.24 acres. 443-846-2950. Gardenville, 3BR, 1.25BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt w/cedar closet, fenced maintenance-free yd and carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com. 3BR, 2.5BA TH w/fin’d bsmt, 25-min commute to JHH. ktbsn@mac.com.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Rm in 2BR, 2BA on Keswick in Hampden, new kitchen, W/D, hdwd flrs, nr the Avenue. $750/mo + utils. 801-361-6880.

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

on Hickory Avenue in Hampden!

2 BD units from $760 w/Balcony - $790!

Shown by appointment 410.764.7776 www.BrooksManagementCompany.com

Letters written by experienced writer, all types, first-come free in exchange for your references for start-up company. emceea@ gmail.com.

’03 Cadillac Deville, V-8, black exterior and interior, gold emblems, 130K mi. $5,700/ best offer. 443-942-0857.

Piano/music appreciation lessons by graduate student in Mt Vernon, willing to travel to Homewood. 425-890-1327. Patient Chinese language teacher available. LiLacw22@gmail.com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Kawai upright piano, in very good cond. $2,000. teleky@verizon.net Samick 6'1" grand piano, professionally maintained. 410-444-1273 or http://baltimore .craigslist.org/msg/2544736267.html (for photos and complete appraisal). Woman’s leather motorcycle jacket w/insulated lining, brown, size XS, $125; woman’s Milwaukee motorcycle boots, black, size 7, $95; both nearly new, photos avail. lisamwolf@comcast.net. Music cassette tapes (lot of 276), fitness chair, 21" TV, 35mm cameras, silk flowers and vase, Asian decor pillows, office file units (lot of 10), men’s travel bag, dining rm set, full-length silver fox coat, new exterior French doors, Blackberry Bold accessories, more. 443-824-2198 or saleschick2011@ hotmail.com. Conn alto saxophone, in excel cond. 410488-1886. Towson spa eyebrow waxing certificate. Best offer. 410-337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@hotmail.com. Otto Benjamin violin, 4/4, like new. $900/ best offer. 410-991-5046 or jessicaswitzman@ verizon.net. Lyric Opera, La Traviata, Nov 4, 7:30pm, 2 premium orchestra seats (H122, 123). $100/ both. Barbara, 410-661-4376.

Share Owings Mills TH in quiet neighborhood, W/D, dw, Internet, 10 mins to metro. $500/mo (each). 443-841-2098 or gjhoward@gmail.com.

Baby crib, mattress and pad cover, in excel cond. $75. 410-633-2064.

Share new 3BR, 3.5BA TH, 2 blks to JHMI. $550/mo + utils. 410-979-0721 or grant.tz@ comcast.net. Rm avail in 2BR Mt Vernon apt. 443-2877115. Share gorgeous Hampden house, on quiet street, 8 blks to the Avenue, BR/BA, office, garage, gardens. $1,000/mo. 304-282-3836.

CARS FOR SALE

’04 Lexus RX 330, gray w/beige leather seats, one owner, no accidents, runs well, cosmetic dents/scratches, passed MD state inspection, 95K mi. uni1condo@hotmail.com.

JHU’s 2010 annual security report now available he Johns Hopkins University 2010 Annual Security report of crime statistics and security policies, to be published by Oct. 1 by federal regulation, is now available on the university’s website at www.jhu.edu/security. In keeping with the mandates of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the university’s annual report contains statistical compilations of reported crimes that occurred on campus, in certain offcampus buildings owned or controlled by the university and on public property within or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus for the three most recent calendar years. Also included are campus security policies including those related to missing-student notifications, alcohol and drug use, sexual assault, crime prevention and the reporting of crimes. A printed copy of the annual crime report

’03 Toyota Echo, automatic, red, 4-dr, CD player, surround sound, 33mpg (city) or 39mpg (highway), 71K mi, in good cond. $5,900. echo.toyota.2003@gmail.com.

Share 3BR house 10 mins to E Baltimore campus in the Belair-Edison community. Darrick, 443-226-6497.

HICKORY HEIGHTS WYMAN COURT Just Renovated! A lovely hilltop setting Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

may be obtained from the security directors at the Homewood campus, 410-5164612; Peabody Institute, 410-234-4609; medical institutions, 410-614-3473; Applied Physics Laboratory, 443-778-7575; School of Advanced International Studies (D.C.), 202-663-5689; or from the deans/directors/ coordinators for other JHU campuses and centers in Baltimore (Harbor East), 410-2349303; Columbia, Md., 410-516-9700; Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C., 202-452-0780; Carey Business School in Washington, D.C., 202-588-0597; Montgomery County, Md., 301-294-7022; Bologna, Italy, 202-663-5700; and Nanjing, China, 202-663-5802. All faculty, staff and students are encouraged to read and print out the report at www.jhu.edu/security/annual_report.pdf and to report all criminal incidents promptly to their respective security department or other security authority.

Fisher-Price Smart Cycle Racer, physical learning system, like new, 2 game cartridges incl’d. $60.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Tai chi: Beginner’s classes starting in Charles Village and Towson. 410-296-4944 or www .baltimoretaichi.com. Cheap, reliable DJ, $30 for 1st hour, $20 for each subsequent hour. Weston Butler, 908418-8689 or wbutler159@yahoo.com. Wanted: Nikon Multiphot macro camera system or parts. jtvriv@hotmail.com. Dog- and housesitter wanted for dachshund in local home, Friday eve, Oct 21, to Sunday, Oct 23. Jack, 410-215-2808 or black.47@comcast.net. Looking for rideshare daily from Delaware to Baltimore, will take turn driving or share cost, time is flexible. 302-444-8433 or surreana@yahoo.com. Multi-family block sale: Saturday, Sept 24, 8-10:30am, 200 blk Oakdale Rd at corner of Keswick, rain date Sunday, Sept 25. aweil@ baitman.org.

Affordable and professional landscaper and certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com. Licensed landscaper avail for spring or summer lawn maintenance, yd cleanup; other services incl trash hauling, fall/winter snow removal. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Piano lessons by Peabody graduate, 50% off this month for private lessons. 425-8901327 or qinyingtan@gmail.com. Mobile auto detailing and power wash service. Jason, 443-421-3659. Occasional babysitter wanted for 11-yr-old boy, usually later afternoons/eves, Roland Park, 5 mins to Homewood campus, car/ excel refs req’d. 410-458-3265. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, great bands, no partners needed. 410663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing.com. Masterpiece Landscaping: knowledgeable, experienced individual, on-site consultation, transplanting, bed preparation, installation, sm tree and shrub shaping; licensed. Terry, 410-652-3446. Horses for lease or half-lease for trail riding, showing, eventing, must stay on farm in Glyndon in Baltimore County, your expense. $150-$275/mo (including farrier). 410-812-6716. Clarinet/piano lessons taught by Peabody master’s student, multiple years’ teaching experience, lessons summer and year-round. 240-994-6489 or hughsonjennifer@gmail .com. Piano lessons w/experienced teacher w/ Peabody doctorate, all levels/ages welcome. 410-662-7951. Chinese zither (GuZheng) lessons offered at low price, instrument provided. 573-5294358 or qgb253@gmail.com. Two prof’l movers w/30-ft box truck for your next move, free estimate, 15% discount for all Hopkins. 410-419-3902. Blanka will clean houses, apts, do laundry and more; free estimates, reasonable prices, great refs, text or leave message (English OK, Spanish better). 443-621-1890 or crabdean@gmail.com. Piano tuning and repair, PTG craftsman serving Peabody, Notre Dame, homes, churches, etc., in central Maryland. 410382-8363 or steve@conradpiano.com. Computer data recovery, website and administrative services provided by Jolene Patey. 410-746-8345 or jpatey@jolenepatey.com. Tutor wanted: F AP statistic tutor w/ prior experience, once a wk on Saturday. tLwang21212@yahoo.com.

PLACING ADS Classified listings are a free service for current, full-time Hopkins faculty, staff and students only. Ads should adhere to these general guidelines: • One ad per person per week. A new request must be submitted for each issue. • Ads are limited to 20 words, including phone, fax and e-mail.

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

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

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Mon., Sept. 19, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Young Spinoza, a Philosophy

conference with John Brandau, KSAS; Ed Curley and Tad Schmaltz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Karolina Hubner, University of Toronto; Michael LeBuffe, Texas A&M University; Frederic Manzini, Paris IV-Sorbonne; Colin Marshall, University of Melbourne; Filippo Mignini, University of Macerata, Italy; John Morrison, Columbia University/ Barnard College; Alan Nelson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ursula Renz, Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria; and Leo Russ, Princeton University. For more information, go to http:// web1.johnshopkins.edu/~emp/ YoungSpinoza/main.html. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

DISCUSSIONS/ TALKS Mon., Sept. 19, 12:30 p.m.

“Space: China’s Tactical Frontier,” a SAIS China Studies Program discussion with Eric Hagt, Center for Defense Information and SAIS. For more information, call 202-663-5816 or email zji@jhu .edu. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS Mon., Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m. “How Do You Know Anything About North Korea?” a U.S.–Korea Institute at SAIS discussion with Pomnyun Sunim, Buddhist monk and chairman of the Good Friends and Peace Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Sejong Society. For information or to RSVP, go to http:// uskoreainstitute.org/events/?event_ id=87. Rome Auditorium. SAIS Sept.

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“The Gravedigger Paradox: How Museveni’s Success Is Creating Conditions for His Fall,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Andrew Mwenda, Independent Publications Limited. For more information, call 202-6635676 or email itolber1@jhu.edu. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS Wed., Sept. 21, 12:30 p.m.

“Salafist Insurgencies in West Africa: The Enigma of Boko Harma,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Andrew

Wed., Sept. 21, noon to 1:30 p.m. Armstrong Bldg.

lence Prevention: Lessons From Implementation of the CeaseFire Model in Chicago and Baltimore,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Jennifer Whitehill. 208 Hampton House. EB Thurs., Sept. 22, noon. “Parainfluenza Virus in the Respiratory Tract,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Charles Russell, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. W1020 SPH. EB

“Poly (ADP-ribose) Regulates Stress Responses and MicroRNA Activity in the Cytoplasm,” a Cell Biology seminar with Anthony Leung, SPH. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., Sept. 22, noon.

Tues., Sept. 20, 7 p.m. William Egginton, KSAS, will discuss and sign copies of his book, In Defense of Religious Moderation. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

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C O N FERE N C E S

Tues., Sept. 20, 4 to 6 p.m.

East Baltimore Community School. 1101 N. Wolfe St.

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

p.m.

“Activation, Termination and Adaptation of Olfactory Signal Transduction,” a Biology colloquium with Haiqing Zhao, KSAS. Mudd Auditorium. HW

Tues.,

Hopkins employees, East Baltimore residents, current and future EBCS families and personnel, members of community organizations and employers. (See In Brief, p. 2.) EB

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“One-Electron Oxidations of Phenols and Thiols: PCET and Otherwise,” a Chemistry colloquium with David Stanbury, Auburn University. 233 Remsen. HW Wed.,

East Baltimore Community School Open House , for Johns

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Tues., Sept. 20, 4 p.m. “The Value of (Performative) Acts,” an Anthropology colloquium with Michael Lambek, University of Toronto. 400 Macaulay. HW Tues.,

O P E N H OU S E S

Ulrich Tukur stars in a true story of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937–38. The award-winning film, ‘The Story of John Rabe,’ will be screened on Thursday. See Film/Video.

Lebovich, New America Foundation, and Paul Lubeck, University of California, Santa Cruz. For more information, call 202-349-0981 or jcarste1@jhu.edu. 736 BernsteinOffit Bldg. SAIS Thurs., Sept. 22, 4:30 p.m. “The

Second Presidential Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Medard Mulangala Lwakabwanga, president, Union for a Republican Majority for the DRC. For more information, call 202-663-5676 or email itolber1@jhu.edu. 417 Nitze Bldg. SAIS

F I L M / V I D EO

Screening of the biographical film The Story of John Rabe, sponsored by East Asian Studies. (See photo, this page.) 113 Greenhouse. HW

Thurs., Sept. 22, 7 p.m.

G RA N D ROU N D S

Wed., Sept. 21, noon. “The New Food Safety Modernization Act: What It Does and Why We Need It,” Public Health Practice grand rounds with Sharon Mayl, USFDA, and Keeve Nachman, SPH. Co-sponsored by the MidAtlantic Public Health Training Center. W1214 SPH. EB

L E C T URE S

The Beatrice and Jacob H. Conn Lecture in Regenerative Medicine— “Induction of Pluripotency: 20 Years of Research” by Hans Robert Scholer, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine. Sponsored by the Institute for Cell Engineering. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB

Mon., Sept. 19, 2 p.m.

The M. Daniel and Patricia Sonquist Lane Lecture—“Born to Run: The Story of the PEPCK-Cmus Mouse” by Richard Hanson, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Sponsored by Biological Chemistry. WBSB Auditorium. EB

Mon., Sept. 19, 4 p.m.

Tues., Sept. 20, 7:30 to 9 a.m.

Leaders & Legends Lecture— “Enduring Institutions, Evolving

Cities: Johns Hopkins and Baltimore” by President Ronald Daniels. Business attire required. 100 International Drive, Harbor East. Wed., Sept. 21, 3:30 p.m.

Dean’s Research Integrity Lecture—“Research Integrity, the Importance of the Scientist as a Responsible Member of Society” by Constantine Lyketsos, SoM. First in a series of lectures on the responsible conduct of research. Sponsored by the Office of Policy Coordination. Hurd Hall. EB The Bromery Lecture—“Two Tales of Ocean Tides: Tidal Resonance in the Present Day and During Ice Ages, and Tides in PresentDay Ocean Forecasting Models” by Brian Arbic, University of Michigan. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW

Thurs., Sept. 22, noon.

Thurs., Sept. 22, 4 p.m. The John G. Gilbridge Memorial Lecture—“An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine” by Howard Markel, University of Michigan. Sponsored by the History of Medicine. West Reading Room, 2nd flr, Welch Medical Library. EB Thurs., Sept. 22, 4 p.m. Tudor and Stuart Lecture—“Frozen Thought, or, the Horror of Philosophy” by Eugene Thacker, The New School. Sponsored by English. 130D Gilman. HW

“An Iliad for a Refined Taste: Mythological Paintings and Distinguished Lifestyle in a Domus of the Late Republic,” a Classics lecture by Adrian Staehli, Harvard University. 108 Gilman. HW

Thurs., Sept. 22, 5 p.m.

MUSIC Tues., Sept. 20, 8 p.m. “An Evening With Joe Burgstaller and Friends,” crossover arrangements of works by Bach, Ravel, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn and others. Part of the Sylvia Adalman Chamber Series. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

S E M I N AR S Mon., Sept. 19, noon. “A Role for the Mediator of RNA Polymerase II Transcription in Elongation Control,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Joan Conaway, Stowers Institute for Medical Research. W1020 SPH. EB

“Limits to Disaster Resiliency: The ‘New Normal’ Concept,” an International Health seminar with Frederick Burkle, Asia-Pacific Center for Biosecurity, Disaster and Conflict Research, Hawaii. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Sept. 19, noon.

“Targeting Human Pathogens in Their Mosquito Vectors,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with George Dimopoulos, SPH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

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

Tues., Sept. 20, 12:10 p.m. “Nat ional Study on Costs and Outcomes of Trauma (NSCOT),” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Ellen MacKenzie, SPH. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. 250 Hampton House. EB Tues., Sept. 20, 3 p.m. “Public Reaction to Potential FDA Actions Under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act: Regulating e-Cigarettes, Banning Menthol and Reducing Cigarette Nicotine Content,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Jennifer Pearson. W2033 SPH. EB

“Peace Corps: The Next 50 Years of International Health Engagement,” an International Health seminar with Peace Corps director Aaron Williams, in recognition of the department’s 50th anniversary. Reception follows (in E2030 SPH). E2014 SPH. EB

Tues., Sept. 20, 4 p.m.

Wed., Sept. 21, 12:15 p.m.

Mental Health Noon Seminar— “Autoimmunity and Psychosis” with William Eaton, SPH. B14B Hampton House. EB Wed., Sept. 21, 4 p.m. “Valid Statistical Inference After Model Selection,” a Biostatistics seminar with Lawrence Brown, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. W2030 SPH. EB Thurs.,

Sept.

22,

9:30

a.m.

“Street Outreach for Youth Vio-

Thurs., Sept. 22, noon. Advocacy and Action: Local, State, Regional and National Perspectives, the Health Policy and Management Fall Policy Seminar Series—This week’s guest is Jeff Singer, president and CEO, Health Care for the Homeless. The seminar includes a Q&A session and discussion. B14B Hampton House. EB Thurs.,

Sept.

22,

p.m.

“Responding and Adjusting to Stress: A Synaptic Perspective,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Jaideep Bains, University of Calgary. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Thurs., Sept. 22, 1:30 p.m.

“On High-Dimensionality in Multivariate Regression Problems,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Alan Izenman, Temple University. 304 Whitehead. HW Thurs., Sept. 22, 3 p.m. “Consistent Segmentation and Normalization of Magnetic Resonance Images of Human Brain,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Snehashis Roy, WSE. 132 Gilman. HW Thurs., Sept. 22, 3:30 p.m.

“Genome Instability: Chromosome Plasticity and Centromere Dynamics,” a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Judith Berman, University of Minnesota. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB Thurs.,

Sept.

22,

p.m.

“Assembling and Aligning DNA Sequences From Next-Generation Sequencers,” a Biology seminar with Steven Salzberg, SoM. 100 Mudd. HW Continued on page 10

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

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