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Volume 40 No. 38

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Small grants, big impact Urban Health program funds JHU-community collaborations

By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

COURTESY OF FINDING OUR WINGS

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n the Finding Our Wings community documentary program, Baltimore teen girls record their journeys through high school and into womanhood—from exams and what not to wear to the prospects of college placement and unintended pregnancy.

The short, poignant documentaries tell an inner-city coming-of-age story through the lens of a pocket-size Flip or a professional camcorder. In one film, a girl talks of the loss of her mother to HIV; in another, a teen describes why she creates singing and poetry venues to raise funds for children with AIDS. Co-founded by a Maryland Institute College of Art faculty member in 2006, the program features a small rotating cadre of students from six Baltimore high schools: Edmonson-Westside, Dunbar, Reach Academy, Carver Vocational, Frederick Douglass and Western.

The project focuses on teaching video skills as a means to empower the girls and offer a forum for individual reflection. It also allows the participants to co-create a long-form documentary, to

Baltimore teens in the Finding Our Wings community documentary program gather for filming in Patterson Park. A grant from the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute shored up the group’s finances during a slumping economy.

be screened at city high schools and film festivals, that captures the complexities of their journeys.

These stories might not have been told if not for a grant from the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute that kept the pro-

gram running when its traditional funding dried up early last year.

Kirsten Hollander, the director of Finding Our Wings and a full-time professor at MICA, said that the slumping economy finally caught up with the project in

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atient safety expert Peter J. Pronovost, a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named director of the newly established Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins.

Along with becoming director of the institute, Pronovost has been named

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Johns Hopkins Medicine’s senior vice president for patient safety and quality.

Pronovost is internationally known for his work using a simple five-step checklist coupled with a program of culture change to dramatically reduce the number of central line–associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units, virtually eliminating them at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and throughout the state of Michigan. Pronovost’s program—now in place in nearly every

In Brief

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Pronovost to head new Johns Hopkins patient safety institute

By Stephanie Desmon

2010. Feeling the financial pinch, Hollander and Wings co-founder Jacquelyn Duval-Harvey, deputy commissioner for youth and families in the Baltimore City

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Messenger data from Mercury orbit confirm theories, offer surprises B y P a u l e t t e C a m pb e l l

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fter nearly three months in orbit about Mercury, Messenger’s payload is providing a wealth of new information about the planet closest to the sun, as well as a few surprises.

The spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury on March 17, becoming the first spacecraft ever to do so. Its instruments are performing the first complete reconnaissance of the planet’s geochemistry, geophysics, geologic history, atmosphere, magnetosphere

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Shakespeare in the Meadow; ‘Regulation of Medical Devices’; Krotkoff memorial

and plasma environment.

Tens of thousands of images of major features on the planet—previously seen only at comparatively low resolution—are now available in sharp focus. Measurements of the chemical composition of Mercury’s surface are providing important clues to the origin of the planet and its geological history. Maps of the planet’s topography and magnetic field are revealing new clues to Mercury’s interior dynamical processes. And scientists now know that bursts of energetic particles in Mercury’s magnetosphere are a continuContinued on page 5

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Homewood-Peabody-JHMI Shuttle changes announced

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n Friday, July 1, the HomewoodPeabody-JHMI Shuttle will introduce several changes.

On that day, an updated fleet of heavyduty coaches operated by Broadway Services comes into service, and a new schedule— available online at www.parking.jhu.edu and on the buses—goes into effect.

In addition, due to planned construction at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the boarding and drop-off location for the JHMI campus will be temporarily relocated from the front of the school to the front of the Washington Street Garage, one block northeast.

The location will be marked with a sign.

Questions, comments and feedback about this shuttle service can be directed to shuttles@jhu.edu or 410-516-7275. For real-time concerns about bus arrivals and departures, Broadway Services’ dispatch office may be reached by calling 443-573-8180.

Parking permit rate changes set at Homewood and Eastern

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ew permit parking rates go into effect on July 1 for parking lots and garages on the Homewood and Eastern campuses.

All surface lots are $57 per month. Faculty hangtag parking and general garage parking are $90 per month. Reserved parking spaces at the West Gate, San Martin and South garages will be $120 per month. Reserved surface lot parking is $80 per month. Ellerslie satellite parking will be $35 per month.

Current customers satisfied with their permit do not need to act. Anyone wishing to purchase a permit, cancel a permit or change parking locations should contact the Homewood Parking and Transportation Office, located in the South Garage, at parking@jhu.edu or 410-516-PARK.

Former Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar joins SAIS

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ose Maria Aznar, former president of the government of Spain, has joined the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies as a distinguished fellow.

Based at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, Aznar, who was president from 1996 to 2004, will serve as a focal point for the center’s Atlantic Basin Initiative, which is seeking to research, map and chart the future of the relationships among the four Atlantic Ocean continents. His activities will include giving periodic lectures to SAIS students. He also will contribute to the center’s ongoing work on strengthening transatlantic relations through NATO and the EU, and to the advancement of SAIS’ Latin-American relationships.

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Aznar to the center,” said Dan Hamilton, CTR executive director and Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Research Professor.

“As president of the government, he was a visionary leader for Spain, and I am confident he will bring that same kind of visionary leadership to our center.”

Aznar joins former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton, also a distinguished fellow at CTR, as a European former head of government now dedicating a portion of his time to the advancement of the transatlantic relationship through SAIS.

Health, Safety and Environment to survey offices for hazards

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ue to several incidents, including a small fire, that have occurred in offices, the Office of Health, Safety and Environment will initiate a program of surveying all university and hospital offices for safety hazards. Focused on fire safety, the survey will specifically address electrical hazards due to overloaded circuits, hazards from using improper light bulbs, maintaining a minimum 18-inch clearance below ceilings with sprinklers and 24 inches below those without, use of unapproved personal heaters such as ceramic, radiant and convection, and use of unapproved electrical equipment.

Surveys will be scheduled with each department so as to minimize disruption.

Questions should be directed to John Schaefer, associate director of Health, Safety and Environment, at jas@jhmi.edu.

Presentation proposals sought for annual Diversity Conference

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he Eighth Annual Diversity Conference, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Leadership Council, will be held from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, on the Homewood campus. More than 500 Johns Hopkins leaders, faculty and staff members are expected to be on hand to examine critical questions related to diversity, cultural awareness, disability matters, inclusion and equity in postsecondary education.

Organizers are now soliciting proposals for topics to be addressed. Possible topic areas include training new leadership for the future, best practices for diversifying the faculty, creating a culture of inclusion for individuals with disabilities, race and gender relations, civility in the workplace, bridging the gender gap in higher education, the multigenerational workplace, toxic talk in the workplace, religious diversity, lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender issues, First Amendment rights and civility, conflict resolution and community engagement.

To submit a proposal online, go to www .hopkinsadmissions.com/jhuoie/dlcconference/ callforpres.php. The deadline for proposal submission is Friday, July 15.

Contributing Writers Applied Physics Laboratory Michael Buckley, Paulette Campbell Bloomberg School of Public Health Tim Parsons, Natalie Wood-Wright Carey Business School Andrew Blumberg, Patrick Ercolano Homewood Lisa De Nike, Amy Lunday, Dennis O’Shea, Tracey A. Reeves, Phil Sneiderman Johns Hopkins Medicine Christen Brownlee, Stephanie Desmon, Neil A. Grauer, Audrey Huang, John Lazarou, David March, Vanessa McMains, Ekaterina Pesheva, Vanessa Wasta, Maryalice Yakutchik Peabody Institute Richard Selden SAIS Felisa Neuringer Klubes School of Education James Campbell, Theresa Norton School of Nursing Kelly Brooks-Staub University Libraries and Museums Brian Shields, Heather Egan Stalfort

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Barbara Starfield, 78, championed importance of primary care

By Tim Parsons

“Barbara was passionate about her life’s work and steadfast in her belief that a quality primary care system is critical to the future of health care in this country and worldwide,” said Ellen MacKenzie, the Fred and Julie Soper Professor and chair of the

Department of Health Policy and Management. “She will be missed at so many levels and by so many people.”

Originally from Brooklyn, N.Y., Starfield attended Swarthmore College and graduated with honors in 1954. She went on to earn her medical degree from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1959.

Starfield came to Johns Hopkins in 1959 as an intern and assistant resident in pediatrics at the Harriet Lane Home at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1962 she joined the School of Hygiene and Public Health (now the Bloomberg School of Public Health), where she earned her master of public health degree in epidemiology. As a professor, she went on to lead the Division of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management from 1975 to 1994. After stepping down as division head, Starfield remained an active member of the faculty and was founding director of the Primary Care Policy Center. Starfield also held an appointment as a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She was named Dis-

tinguished University Service Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy in 1994.

Starfield was greatly admired as a researcher, teacher and mentor to many colleagues, friends and students around the world.

Among her many accomplishments, Starfield was the co-founder and first president of the International Society for Equity in Health, a scientific society devoted to contributing knowledge to assist in the furtherance of equity in the distribution of health. She served on many government and professional committees, including the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was also a member of the Institute of Medicine and served on its governing council.

Starfield leaves behind her husband, Neil “Tony” Holtzman; four children; and eight grandchildren.

The family held private remembrance gatherings last week in California and New York. A memorial service will be held at the Bloomberg School in October. In accordance with Starfield’s wishes, the family asks that donations in her honor be made to The Health Research Group, 1600 20th St., NW, Washington, DC 20009.

tory,” said Pronovost, a 2008 winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, or “genius grant,” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. “Now we want to scale up for all other types of preventable harm using this model of research, practice and evaluation, and share that with the world, too. We have an amazing team of interdisciplinary researchers and safety leaders to guide the way. I am honored and humbled to be given the opportunity to do just that,” he said.

The Armstrong Institute is made possible by a $10 million gift from C. Michael Armstrong, chairman of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine and retired chairman of Comcast, AT&T, Hughes Electronics and IBM World Trade Corp.

The Armstrong Institute will oversee all of the current patient safety and quality efforts throughout Johns Hopkins Medicine. It is designed to rigorously apply scientific principles to the study of safety for the benefit of all patients, not just those at Johns Hopkins.

The focus will be on eliminating preventable harm for patients, abolishing health disparities, ensuring clinical excellence and creating a culture that values patient-centered care, collaboration, accountability and organizational learning. Johns Hopkins will serve as a learning laboratory to test the best that its researchers have to offer in the fields of patient safety and quality improvement.

“Peter Pronovost has exemplified excellence at Hopkins and throughout the country through his patient safety research, implementation and results,” Armstrong said. “He is the right leader for the Arm-

strong Institute and will take patient safety to the next level.”

Pronovost, who earned both his medical degree and doctorate in public health from the university, currently heads Johns Hopkins’ Quality and Safety Research Group and is medical director of Johns Hopkins’ Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. Both groups, as well as other partners throughout the university and health system, will be folded into the new Armstrong Institute.

Pronovost has written more than 400 articles and chapters related to patient safety and the measurement and evaluation of safety efforts. Last year, he chronicled his experiences in Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care From the Inside Out. He chairs the ICU Physician Staffing Committee for the Leapfrog Group and serves on the Quality Measures Work Group of the National Quality Forum.

He also serves in an advisory capacity to the World Health Organizations’ World Alliance for Patient Safety and is leading WHO efforts to improve patient safety measurement, evaluation and leadership capacity globally. Because of Pronovost’s efforts, WHO has recently established its first office dedicated to advancing patient safety, located at Johns Hopkins.

Pronovost says that he expects to bring a multidisciplinary approach to the new Armstrong Institute because, he says, “there are different types of safety problems that require different theories and different methods to solve. More important, we need to listen to

and partner with clinicians.” For example, he says, he plans to tap the expertise of psychologists to assist in improving teamwork, sociologists to help with organizational culture, and human factors and systems engineers to improve the interaction between staff members and new hospital technologies.

“Originally, 120 years ago the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine was founded to link research and practice by becoming the first medical school linked to a hospital,” Pronovost said. “Numerous discoveries were made, and so many [patients] were saved as basic research was married to clinical practice. Now, we’re building on that noble tradition as we take aim at preventable harm, bringing the best science to the urgent need of improved patient safety and the highest in health care quality.” G

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Pronovost Continued from page 1 state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and many nations around the world—is believed to have saved thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars.

The infections, which kill more than 30,000 Americans annually, are down 58 percent across the country in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Edward D. Miller, the Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D., Dean of the Medical Faculty at The Johns Hopkins University and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said, “While it’s rare for research to impact practice, and rarer still for it to impact policy, Peter has a knack for conducting research that does both.

“Peter has been a tireless advocate for the development of innovative, field-tested and practical patient safety tools,” he said. “His design of clinical care practices is saving the lives of countless patients who might otherwise have been lost to human error and infection.”

Pronovost says that he wants to build on the success of his checklist and bring the same focus to other areas of medicine where preventable harm continues unabated.

“Our team has proved you can take one safety problem and nearly eliminate it by bringing science to the delivery of health care, and by using our hospital as a labora-

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arbara Starfield, professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, passed away on June 10. She was 78.

Starfield died of an apparent heart attack while swimming in her pool in California, an activity she dearly loved, according to her family.

“Our school has lost one of its great leaders. Barbara was a giant in the field of primary care and health policy who mentored many of us and was greatly admired,” said Michael J. Klag, dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Starfield was an accomplished researcher and champion of the need for a strong primary care system in the United States and worldwide. Her work led to the development of important methodological tools for assessing diagnosed morbidity burden, including the Adjusted Clinical Groups System, the Primary Care Assessment Tools and the CHIP tools for assessing adolescent and child health status.

Barbara Starfield

University Finance launches employee recognition program

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For more details and to view the online nomination form, go to http://finance.jhu .edu/pubs/honoring_u_form.html.

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Department of Health and an instructor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, applied for funding through the UHI’s Small Grants Program, formed in 2008 to stimulate and advance communityuniversity collaborations around research and program development related to the health and well-being of Baltimore residents.

The grants are awarded to collaborations between community groups and Johns Hopkins students and faculty that demonstrate the greatest need and potential.

Undergraduate-community projects are each given $3,000; graduate student projects are awarded $5,000 each. Faculty can apply for $10,000 grants. In each category, the Johns Hopkins affiliate is required to partner with a community agency or community leader.

Hollander said that the $10,000 grant that Finding Our Wings received helped pay basic operating expenses, including transportation, food, camera repairs and maintenance, and miscellaneous items.

“This grant stabilized us and got us through a difficult period,” Hollander said.

“The economy is tough, and finding philanthropical support these days is not easy.”

Since its founding, the Small Grants Program has awarded 33 grants totaling more than $205,000.

In 2010, the program funded 13 projects.

In addition to Finding Our Wings, the grants helped finance efforts such as the Sail-Ability Program at the Downtown Sailing Center, which gave sailing sessions to eight inner-city youth.

Theresa Marshall, a graduate student at the Carey Business School and an avid sailor, applied for the grant with representatives of the Downtown Sailing Center and Mentor Maryland.

Marshall said that the program doesn’t

just expose youth to the sport of sailing but offers holistic health benefits.

“Mental health is as important as physical health, and sailing transcends physical skills and can offer a Zen-like experience for these young people,” she said.

A $3,000 UHI grant helped support a project called Unrealized Potential: Preparing East Baltimore Youth for Sustainable Careers in Science, Engineering and Medicine. The ongoing program, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Social Concern, has undergraduate students from the Homewood campus conduct weekly sessions with elementary school students at the Carmelo Anthony Youth Center to engage youth in sciThe UHI ence activities.

For Recovering a Sense program of Place: Environment and has to date Community in Treatment for Addiction, a $5,000 UHI grant went toward awarded data collection and analysis. The ReSPECT project 33 grants investigates how Baltimore residents perceive and respond to drug addiction and treatment in their community.

The program identifies and recruits area residents to serve as artist-researchers who take photographs and conduct interviews in the Beverly, Waverly and Oakenshawe neighborhoods. The aim of the effort is to provide key insights and novel methodology to more effectively address drug addiction and its treatment in Baltimore.

Robert Blum, director of the Urban Health Institute, said that the vision of the small grants program was to jump-start and support collaborations between community members and Johns Hopkins students and faculty—all for the betterment of Baltimore.

Students and faculty can team up with a community organization, for example, for a pilot study, to analyze existing data or to expand a program in a new direction. The grants, he said, have been used to spur innovation, keep programs moving forward and

build bridges between Johns Hopkins and the community.

“The key to the program’s success is that we are working on issues that the community groups feel are critically important,” said Blum, who is also the William H. Gates Sr. Professor of Population and Family Health Sciences and chair of the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health in the Bloomberg School. “The community organizations and their needs drive our request for proposals.”

The grant proposals are reviewed and graded by both Johns Hopkins and community members. Only the projects that score highly and are supported by both parties are considered.

UHI will not fund the same program twice.

Blum said that the initiative has clearly had a positive, meaningful impact, and that success and satisfaction are measured in terms of the grants contributing in some significant way to the project’s work, with evidence that some positive change has occurred.

He points to one funded project at the Baltimore City Health Department that looked into rates of sexually transmitted infections by neighborhood and zip codes.

In this case, he said, the Johns Hopkins and community collaboration was able to determine that the outreach vans used by the city were not spending the majority of time where the needs were greatest.

For a project focused on health care for the homeless in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins grant recipients were able to adapt a methodology used to track North Korean migrants into China to identify young homeless persons, a traditionally hard-to-track-down population.

“These are just a few examples of our grants helping to maximize what is already going on,” he said.

The 2011 grant applications are due June 30. The program has funds for up to 10 graduate student–community projects, 10 undergraduate student–community projects and six faculty-community projects.

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Lacks Award honors collaboration between Baltimore communities and JH

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he Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute has established a $15,000 award to recognize and support Baltimore community organizations that are collaborating with The Johns Hopkins University to improve the health and well-being of the residents of the city of Baltimore.

The Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award, named in recognition of Henrietta Lacks, highlights the importance of collabora-

Messenger Continued from page 1 ing product of the interaction of Mercury’s magnetic field with the solar wind.

“Messenger passed a number of milestones just [last] week,” said Messenger principal investigator Sean Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. “We completed our first perihelion passage from orbit on Sunday, our first Mercury year in orbit on Monday, our first superior solar conjunction from orbit on Tuesday and our first orbitcorrection maneuver on Wednesday. Those milestones provide important context to the continuing feast of new observations that Messenger has been sending home on nearly a daily basis.”

As part of Messenger’s global imaging campaign, the Mercury Dual Imaging System, or MDIS, is acquiring global monochrome and stereo base maps with an average resolution of 250 meters per pixel and a global color base map at an average of 1.2 kilometers per pixel. These base maps are providing the first global look at the planet under optimal viewing conditions.

Orbital images reveal broad expanses of smooth plains near Mercury’s north pole.

Flyby images from Messenger and from Mariner 10 in the 1970s indicated that smooth plains may be important near the north pole, but much of the territory was viewed at unfavorable imaging conditions. Messenger’s new orbital images show that the plains are likely among the largest expanses of volcanic deposits on Mercury, with thicknesses of up to several kilometers. The broad expanses of plains confirm that volcanism shaped much of Mercury’s crust and continued through much of Mercury’s history, despite an overall contractional stress state that tended to inhibit the extrusion of volcanic material onto the surface.

Among the fascinating features seen in flyby images of Mercury were bright, patchy deposits on some crater floors. Without high-resolution images to obtain a closer look, these features remained a curiosity.

New targeted MDIS observations at up to 10 meters per pixel reveal these patchy deposits to be clusters of rimless, irregular pits varying in size from hundreds of meters to several kilometers. These pits are often surrounded by diffuse halos of higher-reflectance material, and they are found associated with central peaks, peak rings and rims of craters.

“The etched appearance of these landforms is unlike anything we’ve seen before on Mercury or the moon,” said Brett Denevi, a staff scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and a member of the Messenger imaging team.

“We are still debating their origin, but they appear to have a relatively young age and may suggest a more abundant than expected volatile component in Mercury’s crust.”

The X-ray Spectrometer, or XRS—one of two instruments on Messenger designed to measure the abundances of many key elements on Mercury—has made several important discoveries since the orbital mission began. The magnesium/silicon, aluminum/silicon and calcium/silicon ratios averaged over large areas of the planet show that

tion between the community and the university and recognizes the accomplishments of these partnerships. The Urban Health Institute will be accepting nominations for the inaugural award until July 15. The winner will be announced on Oct. 1 at Johns Hopkins’ annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, a series that was launched in 2010.

Collaborators may self-nominate or be nominated by others. Partnerships must include at least one community organization and at least one Johns Hopkins faculty member, staff member or group working together on a community program that has been sustained for a minimum of three years. There

can be multiple organizations and/or universities engaged in the initiative. The award will be given to the community entity that is the central partner in the relationship.

Nominations will be reviewed by a selection committee composed of leadership from community and city organizations and Johns Hopkins.

Henrietta Lacks was an East Baltimore resident and cervical cancer patient in the early 1950s at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where cells taken from her tumor became the first “immortal” human cells grown in culture and have led to breakthroughs in cell research related to cancer, AIDS, the effects

of radiation and more. Lacks’ family was unaware that her cells, now known worldwide as HeLa cells, were being used for research until more than 20 years after her death. The Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award honors Lacks and her family and is intended to be an enduring reminder of her contribution to medical science and to her community.

For more information about the award, including nomination submission information, go to the Urban Health Institute website at www.jhsph.edu/urbanhealth or email Amy Gawad at agawad@jhsph .edu.

Mercury’s surface, unlike that of the moon, is not dominated by feldspar-rich rocks.

XRS observations also have revealed substantial amounts of sulfur at Mercury’s surface, lending support to prior suggestions from ground-based telescopic spectral observations that sulfide minerals are present. This discovery suggests that the original building blocks from which Mercury was assembled may have been less oxidized than those that formed the other terrestrial planets, and it has potentially important implications for understanding the nature of volcanism on Mercury.

Messenger’s Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer has detected the decay of radioactive isotopes of potassium and thorium and has allowed a determination of the bulk abundances of these elements. “The abundance of potassium rules out some prior theories for Mercury’s composition and origin,” said Larry Nittler, a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

“Moreover, the inferred ratio of potassium to thorium is similar to that of other terrestrial planets, suggesting that Mercury is not highly depleted in volatiles, contrary to some prior ideas about its origin.”

Messenger’s Mercury Laser Altimeter has been systematically mapping the topography of Mercury’s northern hemisphere. After more than 2 million laser-ranging observations, both the planet’s large-scale shape and profiles of geological features are being revealed in high detail. The north polar region of Mercury, for instance, is a broad area of low elevations. The overall range in topographic heights seen to date exceeds 9 kilometers.

Two decades ago, Earth-based radar images showed that around Mercury’s north and south poles are deposits characterized by high radar backscatter. These polar deposits are thought to consist of water ice and perhaps other ices preserved on the cold, permanently shadowed floors of high-latitude impact craters. Messenger’s altimeter is testing this idea by measuring the floor depths of craters near Mercury’s north pole. To date, the depths of craters hosting polar deposits are consistent with the idea that those deposits occupy areas in permanent shadow.

The geometry of Mercury’s internal magnetic field can potentially discriminate among theories for how the field is generated. An important finding is that Mercury’s magnetic equator, determined on successive

orbits as the point where the direction of the internal magnetic field is parallel to the spin axis of the planet, is well north of the planet’s geographic equator. The best-fitting internal dipole magnetic field is located about 0.2 Mercury radii, or 480 kilometers, northward of the planet’s center. The dynamo mechanism in Mercury’s molten, metallic outer core responsible for generating the planet’s magnetic field therefore has a strong north-south asymmetry.

As a result of this north-south asymmetry, the geometry of magnetic field lines is different in Mercury’s north and south polar regions. In particular, the magnetic “polar cap” where field lines are open to the interplanetary medium is much larger near the south pole. This geometry implies that the south polar region is much more exposed than the north to charged particles heated and accelerated by solar wind– magnetosphere interactions. The impact of those charged particles onto Mercury’s surface contributes to the generation of the planet’s tenuous atmosphere and to the “space weathering” of surface materials, both of which should have a north-south asymmetry given the different magnetic field configurations at the two poles.

One of the major discoveries made by Mariner 10 during the first of its three flybys of Mercury in 1974 were bursts of energetic particles in Mercury’s Earth-like magnetosphere. Four bursts of particles were observed on that flyby, so it was puzzling that no such strong events were detected by Messenger during any of its three flybys of the planet in 2008 and 2009.

With Messenger now in near-polar orbit about Mercury, energetic events are being seen almost like clockwork, says Messenger project scientist Ralph McNutt, of APL. “While varying in strength and distribution, bursts of energetic electrons—with energies from 10 kiloelectron volts to more than 200 keV—have been seen in most orbits since orbit insertion,” McNutt said. “The Energetic Particle Spectrometer has shown these events to be electrons rather than energetic ions, and to occur at moderate latitudes. The latitudinal location is entirely consistent with the events seen by Mariner 10.”

With Mercury’s smaller magnetosphere, and with the lack of a substantial atmosphere, both the generation and distribution of these energetic electrons are different than at Earth. One candidate mechanism

for the generation of these energetic electrons is the formation of a “double layer,” a plasma structure with large electric fields along the local magnetic field. Another is induction brought about by rapid changes in the magnetic field, a process that follows the principle used in generators on Earth to produce electric power. Which of these mechanisms, if either, predominates in its acceleration will be the subject of study over the coming months.

“One mystery has been answered, only to be replaced by another, but that is how science works,” McNutt said. “In the coming months, as Messenger’s orbit swings around the planet, we will be able to observe the overall geometry of these events, providing yet more clues to their production and interaction with the planet.”

“We are assembling a global overview of the nature and workings of Mercury for the first time,” Solomon added, “and many of our earlier ideas are being cast aside as new observations lead to new insights. Our primary mission has another three Mercury years to run, and we can expect more surprises as our solar system’s innermost planet reveals its long-held secrets.” G

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Among the newcomers are Kymanox, which uses a technical project management approach to help organizations achieve their

mission-critical objectives; eDoctor, a health IT company that provides a comprehensive electronic prescription system, patient data migration services and health IT support to health care professionals and hospitals; and, most recently, Gene Facelift, a JHU spin-out company that is researching gene transfer using topically applied plasmids for collagen regeneration, skin restoration and wound healing.

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NASA’s Voyager probe edges closer to interstellar space

By Michael Buckley

Applied Physics Laboratory

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urprising observations from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft raise questions about the radial extent of the heliosheath—the heated outer shell of our sun’s sphere of influence—leading scientists to believe the intrepid probe is closer to interstellar space than they thought.

Launched nearly 34 years ago and now cruising through space some 10.8 billion miles from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where the velocity of the hot ionized gas, or plasma, emanating directly from the sun has slowed from 150,000 miles an hour down to zero. Writing in the June 16 issue of the journal Nature, a team of Voyager scientists led by Stamatios Krimigis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory shows that the outflow of the solar wind may have stopped because of the pressure from the interstellar magnetic field in the region between stars.

Since December 2004, Voyager 1 has been monitoring the bulk velocity of plasma in the heliosheath, a reservoir of energetic ions and electrons. It has now entered a transitional “layer” surrounding our solar system between the solar wind and the interstellar medium.

The radial component of this velocity has been decreasing almost linearly over the past three years from more than 40 miles per second to zero. The transverse component that had been flowing sideways relative to the sun is also trending toward zero.

“This tells us that Voyager 1 may be close to the heliopause, or the boundary at which the interstellar medium basically stops the outflow of solar wind,” said Krimigis, principal investigator for Voyager’s Low Energy Charged Particle instrument, which was built at APL. “The extended transition layer

This concept illustration shows NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun. After more than 33 years of travel, the two Voyager spacecraft will soon reach interstellar space, which is the space between stars.

of near-zero outflow contradicts theories that predict a sharp transition to the interstellar flow at the heliopause—and means, once again, we will need to rework our models.”

Our sun gives off a stream of charged particles that form a bubble in the interstellar medium, known as the heliosphere, around our solar system. The solar wind travels at supersonic speed until it crosses a shockwave called the termination shock. At this point, the solar wind dramatically slows down and heats up in the heliosheath.

Voyager 1, launched on Sept. 5, 1977, crossed the termination shock in December 2004 and moved into the heliosheath. Scientists have used directional flow data from

the Low-Energy Charged Particle instrument to deduce the solar wind’s velocity.

When the speed of the charged particles hitting the outward face of Voyager 1 matched the spacecraft’s own outward speed, researchers knew that the net outward speed of the solar wind was zero. This occurred in April 2010, when Voyager 1 was about 10.6 billion miles from the sun.

Because the velocities can fluctuate, scientists watched several more monthly readings before they were convinced that the solar wind’s outward speed actually had slowed to zero. Analysis of the data shows that the velocity of the solar wind has steadily slowed at a rate of about 45,000 mph each year

since August 2007, when the solar wind was speeding outward at about 130,000 mph.

The outward speed has remained very nearly zero (or sometimes even slightly inward) for the past year.

Scientists believe that Voyager 1 has not yet crossed the heliopause into interstellar space. Crossing into interstellar space would mean a sudden drop in the density of hot particles of the heliosheath and an increase in the density of cold particles of the interstellar plasma. The APL authors estimated the location of the heliopause by combining the Voyager 1 observations and energetic neutral atom images of the heliosheath from the Cassini mission. They concluded that the heliopause may be as close as 11.3 billion miles, meaning that Voyager 1 could exit the transition layer and enter the galactic medium by the end of 2012.

A sister spacecraft, Voyager 2, was launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and is 8.8 billion miles from the sun. The two spacecraft have been traveling along different trajectories and at different speeds. Voyager 1 is traveling faster, at a speed of about 38,000 mph, compared to Voyager 2’s velocity of 35,000 mph. Therefore, in the next few years, Voyager 2 may encounter the same kind of extended transition layer as Voyager 1 found.

The Voyagers were built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which continues to operate both spacecraft.

Related websites Voyager spacecraft:

www.nasa.gov/voyager

Low Energy Charged Particle experiment:

sd-www.jhuapl.edu/VOYAGER/ index.html

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Seeking a better way to collect stem cells from cord blood

By Phil Sneiderman

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ohns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn’s umbilical cord and placenta, so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood disorders can be treated with these valuable cells.

The prototype is still in the testing stage, but initial results are promising. The student inventors have obtained a provisional patent covering the technology and have formed a company, TheraCord, to further develop the technology, which may someday be used widely in hospital maternity units.

The students say that the need for this system is obvious.

“Cord blood, collected from the umbilical cord and placenta after live birth, is the most viable source of stem cells, yet over 90 percent is uncollected and discarded,” the team members wrote in a presentation of their project at the university’s recent Biomedical Engineering Design Day. “One of the main reasons valuable cord blood is so frequently discarded is because no adequate collection method exists.”

The students say that their easy-to-use invention, called the CBx System, could remedy these shortcomings.

When a baby is born, a few families pay for private collection and storage of the child’s cord blood, in case its stem cells are needed to treat a future illness. When families do not choose this option, the materials containing cord blood are generally thrown away as medical waste. But at the 180 hospitals affiliated with public cord blood banks, new mothers can donate cord blood so that its stem cells can be extracted and used to rebuild the immune systems of seriously ill patients, particularly those with blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

The TheraCord team—Christopher Chiang, Elias Bitar, James Waring, Sean Monagle and Matthew Means—with a prototype of their device for collecting stem cells.

Attached to it is a fabric facsimile of a placenta and umbilical cord.

According to the Johns Hopkins students, the current method of collecting these cells from cord blood doesn’t work well because it relies strictly on gravity. The National Marrow Donor Program says that about 50 percent of the units collected in this way contain enough stem cells to be stored for transplant use. Another organization, the National Cord Blood Program, says that only 40 percent of collected units meet transplantation standards. Even when the procedure is successful, the Johns Hopkins students said, the average collection yields only enough stem cells to treat a child but not enough to treat an adult patient, based on the recommended cell dosage.

To solve these problems, the students, who were enrolled in a master’s degree program in the university’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, spent the past year

developing a collection method that uses both mechanical forces and a chemical solution to help detach and flush more stem cells from the cord and placenta blood vessels.

“This is important for two reasons,” said James Waring, a member of the student team.

“First, we believe it collects enough cells from each birth so that stem cell therapy can be used on adult patients, who need more cells.”

In addition, in early testing on discarded cords and placentas at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the team’s device collected up to 50 percent more stem cells than the traditional gravity system, the students said. “We think our system will increase the number of successful cord blood collections, meaning more patients overall will benefit,” Waring said.

Along with Waring, the student inventors were Elias Bitar, Christopher Chiang, Matthew Means and Sean Monagle.

While developing the system, the team entered its project in college business plan competitions, gathering recognition from judges and about $14,000 in prize money.

After completing their academic program, the students recently received their master’s degrees. Chiang and Means have chosen to remain in Baltimore to manage and advance TheraCord over the coming year.

“Our next step,” Chiang said, “is to optimize the system so that it collects even more stem cells. Based on previous experiments using similar techniques, we believe it’s possible to get two to five times the amount produced by the existing gravity technique. The other important goal is to make the system as easy as possible for hospital employees to use.”

The students learned about the need for a better way to collect stem cells early in their master’s program when they accompanied physicians on hospital rounds to learn what new medical tools and devices were needed most urgently. Edith Gurewitsch, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine associate professor of gynecology/obstetrics and biomedical engineering, first identified the clinical need for a better method to collect cord blood. Agreeing to be the student team’s clinical adviser, she provided guidance on both the clinical and workflow aspects of the device’s design. In the patent documents, Gurewitsch is listed as a co-inventor of the CBx System technology.

Related websites Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design:

cbid.bme.jhu.edu

Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering:

www.bme.jhu.edu

‘Rewarding’ objects can’t be ignored, JHU neuroscientist finds

By Lisa De Nike

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he world is a dazzling array of people, objects, sounds, smells and events— far too much for us to fully experience at any moment. So our attention is either automatically snagged by something startling, such as a slamming door, or deliberately focused on something important to us right then, such as locating our child among the hordes on the playground. We also know we are hard-wired to seek out and pay attention to things that are rewarding, such as food when we are hungry, or water when we are thirsty.

So what happens when the things that signify a “reward” are actually not important at all? Are they still powerful enough to capture our attention, when so many other things are competing for it?

According to a team of neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins, the answer is yes, especially when those things previously have been associated with something rewarding, such as money. In a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Steven Yantis of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences found that test subjects completing a visual-search task were distracted when items that had previously been associated with small amounts of money occasionally appeared.

The results have implications for understanding how the brain responds to rewarding stimuli and may therefore contribute to the development of more-effective treatments for drug addiction, obesity and ADHD, said Yantis, professor and chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

“We know that not everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted to them, but we also recognize that there is some connection between the euphoria that the drugs cause and how that sensation ‘rewires’ the brain in ways that make it difficult to suppress the craving to experience that again,” he said.

“One aspect of this scenario is how rewardrelated objects capture attention automatically in the way that a sign advertising happy hour at a bar might snag the attention of a recovering alcoholic. Understanding the psychological and brain mechanisms of that reward-object pairing, and why some people are more susceptible to it than others, could lead to more-effective treatments.”

In the study, people first searched for red or green circles in an array of different-colored circles displayed on a computer screen. One color was always followed by a monetary reward (10 cents) and the other by a smaller reward (1 cent). After doing this task for more than an hour, the subjects were asked to search for particular shapes (for instance, a circle among diamonds), and color was no longer relevant or rewarded. Occasionally, one item displayed was red or green, and when that happened, the subjects’ responses slowed down, even though they had been instructed to ignore those items, and the items were inconspicuous and had no relevance to the task at hand.

“It was clear to us that those red or green items had become valuable to the study subjects because they were linked in their minds with a reward,” Yantis said.

In addition, the study subjects completed a questionnaire measuring impulsivity. The team found that people who were more impulsive to begin with were even more prone to being distracted by the “high value” red or green objects.

“One measure of good cognitive control is how long a person can hold information in his or her short-term memory, and we found that those people who were less impulsive tended to be more resistant to distraction by those things that had no value in and of themselves but had become associated with a reward,” Yantis said. “We also found that the distraction caused by value-related features persists for weeks after the original learning.”

The team is now investigating how value is learned, and how learned value can seize the brain’s attention circuits, Yantis said.

“We think that this form of attentional

capture may play a role in various clinical syndromes like drug addiction,” he said.

The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and was co-authored

by Brian Anderson, a graduate student, and Patryk Laurent, a postdoctoral student.

The article is available online at tinyurl .com/6xmwqk4.

Related website Steven Yantis’ lab:

pbs.jhu.edu/research/Yantis/ facultyinfo

John W. ‘Jack’ Griffin memorial service set for June 27

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memorial service will be held on Monday, June 27, on the East Baltimore campus to celebrate the life of John W. “Jack” Griffin, an internationally respected expert in neurologic diseases. Griffin, a member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine faculty for more than 40 years, died April 16 at age 69.

The service, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in Hurd Hall, will honor Griffin for his research contributions, his mentorship to generations of students and colleagues, and his long record of service to the university. Edward D. Miller, dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, along with other colleagues and friends, will pay tribute to Griffin. A reception will follow in the

lobby of the Phipps Building.

Griffin was a University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Neurology, professor in the departments of Neuroscience and Pathology, and founding director of the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute.

The John W. Griffin, M.D., Fund for Laboratory Investigation, a fund to assist young investigators in the early years of their laboratory research, has been established in his honor. Donations can be made to The Johns Hopkins University, c/o Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine, 100 N. Charles St., Suite 436, Baltimore, MD 21201 with a note indicating the donation is in memory of Griffin for the benefit of the John W. Griffin, M.D., Fund for Laboratory Investigation.

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Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent appointments and promotions. Contributions must be submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone number.

BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Parul Christian has been promoted to

professor, with tenure, in the Department of International Health.

Margaret Daniele Fallin has been promoted to professor, with tenure, in the Department of Epidemiology.

KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Caroline Block , a doctoral student in the

Department of Anthropology, is one of eight doctoral students in the United States and Israel to have received a grant from Targum Shlishi to support research for dissertations on topics related to Jewish studies. Block’s dissertation is titled “The Spirit of Tradition and the Institution of Authority: Knowledge and Community in American Orthodox Women’s Talmud Programs.”

Wendy Spivak , assistant dean for financial operations, has been named interim senior associate dean for finance and administration. Spivak came to the university in 1987 and in 1989 joined the Dean’s Office of the Krieger School, where she was promoted to senior director of finance in 2002. In 2008, she was named assistant dean for financial operations, managing the budget process, ongoing financial reporting, sponsored research, and pre- and post-award activities.

JHPIEGO Leslie Mancuso , president and CEO, is a

finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Maryland Award program, which recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Winners will be announced at a gala event on June 23 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront.

PEABODY INSTITUTE C h e r y l L i m , a doctor of musical arts

candidate, won second prize in the Central Ohio Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, held in April in Columbus. Lim’s teacher, Marina Piccinini, was the featured guest artist at COFA’s Flute Fair.

Ivan Moshchuk , a sophomore, presented a paper on the music of Rachmaninoff at the International Theory Conference in Kharkov, Ukraine, in April. He received a Peabody Career Development grant to attend. His theory teacher, Ildar Khann a n o v , also participated, presenting a paper on neo-Riemannian and Schenkerian approaches to Rachmaninoff’s harmony.

Tempesta di Mare, a Philadelphia-based baroque orchestra led by faculty artists Gwyn Roberts , recorder, and Richard Stone , lute, toured Germany in April.

Other faculty artists in the ensemble are Stephen Bard , baroque oboe, and Adam Pearl , harpsichord.

Gar y Thomas , director of Jazz Studies and tenor saxophone, performed on Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer, which received the 2011 Fryderyk Award for best jazz album of the year in Poland. Recorded in Warsaw in 2009, the CD features arrangements by saxophonist Adam Pieronczyk of works by Krzyzstof Komeda (1931–69), who wrote the scores for several Roman Polanski films.

ROTC Paul Carroll , lieutenant colonel and pro-

fessor, has been named director of the Military Science Department.

SAIS Fouad Ajami , professor, was honored on

June 6 with the 13th annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, a prize presented annually by News

Corp. In announcing the award, the New York Post, part of News Corp., said, “From his perch as director of Middle Eastern Studies at the Nitze School at Johns Hopkins University, and in stirring columns in The Wall Street Journal, Ajami has advocated a vigorous U.S. role abroad and helped illuminate the roiling first months of the nascent Arab Spring.”

The $20,000 award is named in honor of The Post’s late editorial-page editor.

Anna Ottani Cavina , adjunct professor of Italian art history at SAIS Bologna, was named Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et

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plishments that form the foundation for important applications in clinical microbiology. Carroll’s work focuses on the diagnosis and epidemiology of health care–associated infections, especially Clostridium difficile and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Charley C. Della Santina has been promoted to professor in Oncology–Head and Neck Surgery, with a secondary promotion in Biomedical Engineering.

Frank J. Frassica has been appointed to the Frank J. Frassica, M.D., Professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery.

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Matthias Matthijs receives SAIS’ Max M. Fisher Prize for teaching

By Felisa Klubes Neuringer

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atthias Matthijs, a professorial lecturer of international economics and international relations at SAIS, received the 2011 Max M. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Teaching at the school’s commencement ceremony on May 26 in Washington, D.C. The award is presented each year to one professor selected by the students.

Matthijs has been teaching part time at SAIS since summer 2005 and has offered graduate courses on microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic development, international trade theory, European integration and international political economy. In spring 2010, he spent a semester at SAIS’ Bologna Center, teaching trade theory and a seminar on globalization and the world economy.

He currently serves as an assistant professor of international economic relations at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, D.C. He specializes in the politics of economic crises and the role of economic ideas in economic policymaking, as well as international and comparative political economy, and regional integration.

Matthijs’ current research focuses on the global financial crisis, Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and the global battle for economic ideas.

In 2010, Matthijs published his first book, Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain From Attlee to Blair (1945–2005). The book is based on his doctoral dissertation, which won the 2010 Samuel H. Beer Prize for Best Dissertation on British Politics by a North American scholar, awarded by the British Politics Group, a related group of the American Political Science Association. In addition to his teaching experience, Matthijs has served as a consultant to the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the World Bank, the Economist Intelligence Unit and Oxford Analytica.

In nominating him for the teaching award, one of Matthijs’ students wrote: “Professor Matthijs made me appreciate international economics. … I would have barely satisfied my SAIS econom-

des Lettres by France’s minister of culture, Frederic Mitterrand, on May 28 at Chateau de Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Dwight E. Bergles has been promoted

to professor of neuroscience.

Xu Cao has been appointed to the Lee H. Riley Endowed Professorship of Orthopaedic Surgery, effective retroactive to July 1, 2009.

Karen Carroll , professor of pathology and medicine, and director of the Division of Medical Microbiology in the Department of Pathology, has received the American Society of Microbiology’s BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology. This award honors a distinguished scientist for research accom-

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ics requirements if it weren’t for him!

Instead I completely integrated international economics with my international relations course work, which made my SAIS degree far more meaningful. When it comes to SAIS, Professor Matthijs embodies the education we all need!”

Another student wrote, “If there is one person I can think of who should get this prize, it’s Professor Matthijs. He’s a wonderful economics professor and has the ability to relate economic theory to day-to-day problems like no one else.”

A native of Belgium, Matthijs received his master’s and doctorate in international relations from SAIS. The Max M. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Teaching was established in 2007 by the family of Max Fisher as a tribute to his life and his abiding interest in international affairs. Former chairman of Aurora Gasoline, Fisher was a dedicated advocate for the Jewish community and for his hometown of Detroit. He served as an adviser to Republican presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to George H.W. Bush and as an unofficial ambassador between the United States and Israel.

His daughter, Marjorie Fisher, is a trustee of The Johns Hopkins University.

In the fall, Matthijs will give a public lecture at SAIS, one of the stipulations of receiving the prize, on “Enduring Macroeconomic Imbalances in the World Economy.”

Justin Hanes has been appointed to the Lewis J. Ort Chair in Ophthalmology in the Department of Ophthalmology, effective July 1.

John W. Krakauer has been appointed and simultaneously promoted to professor in the Department of Neurology, with a secondary appointment in Neuroscience, effective retroactive to Oct. 1, 2010.

Michael A. Kraut has been promoted to professor in Radiology, with a secondary promotion in Oncology.

Robert Kurman , professor of gynecology and obstetrics, oncology and pathology, and head of the Division of Gynecologic Pathology, has received a multi-million-dollar Ovarian Cancer Research Program Consortium Award from the Department of Defense’s

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. Initial funding for Kurman’s consortium, which consists of Johns Hopkins and 10 other research universities, institutes or centers, is $9.5 million and could go up to $12 million, depending on future appropriations. Kurman was among five finalists for the award. The research will focus on identifying precisely where high-grade serous carcinomas originate, a finding that will aid in developing strategies for preventing these deadly cancers.

Andrew P. Lane has been promoted to professor in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.

Craig Montell , professor of biological chemistry and a member of the Center for Sensory Biology in the school’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, has received an honorary degree from Baylor College in recognition of his career accomplishments and leadership in the scientific community.

Montell in 1989 identified the TRP channel, which, since its discovery, has transformed our understanding as to how animals, ranging from insects to humans, sense their environments. More recently, Montell and his team have found that TRP channels are required for sensing insect repellents, opening the door for using TRP channels as a way to test new chemicals for their ability to control insect pests that spread malaria and other infectious diseases.

James B. Potash has been promoted to professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Thomas Quinn , professor of infectious diseases and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, has received the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association’s 2011 Thomas A. Parran Award, presented annually to a member for long and distinguished contributions in the field of STD research and prevention.

Stuart C. Ray has been promoted to professor in Medicine and Oncology.

Frederick “Fritz” Sieber has been promoted to professor in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.

Bruce J. Trock has been promoted to professor in Urology.

SCHOOL OF NURSING Rachel Klimmek , a doctoral student, has

received financial support from the John A. Hartford Foundation through its Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity initiative. Klimmek has been awarded $98,481 over the next two years to complete her research, “Understanding the Work of Transitional Cancer Survivorship for Rural African-American Elders and Their Caregivers.”

Marie T. Nolan , professor and chair of the Department of Acute and Chronic Care, was named president of the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing, for a four-year term effective May 11.

Cynda Hylton Rushton has been promoted to professor in the Department of Acute and Chronic Care. A faculty member since 1995, Rushton also holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and is a core faculty member of the Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Julie Stanik-Hutt , associate professor in the Department of Acute and Chronic Care and director of the Master’s Program, was presented with the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties 2011 Outstanding Policy Award at the annual NONPF meeting in Albuquerque, N.M. The award is given to nurse practitioners who lead in policy development, advocate for nurse practitioner–related legislation, lead policy implementation and are politically active in legislation related to advanced practice registered nurses.

WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Kalina Hristova has been promoted to

professor, with tenure, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, effective July 1.

Marc Ostermeier has been promoted to professor, from tenured associate professor, in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, effective July 1.

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Two Krieger School faculty members awarded ACLS fellowships B y A m y L u n d ay

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wo early-career faculty members in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences have been awarded opportunities to further their research, thanks to the American Council of Learned Societies.

Yitzhak Melamed, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, and Juan Obarrio, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, are among the more than 350 scholars from the United States and abroad to receive ACLS awards this year totaling nearly $15 million.

Melamed received the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, an award that supports scholars

Milestones The following staff members are retiring or celebrating an anniversary with the university in June 2011.

The information is compiled by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, 443-997-7000.

ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS

10 years of service R u p a r e l i a , Chandrakant, Jhpiego 5 years of service B h a l l a , Karnika, Jhpiego V i a n d s , William, Johns Hopkins University Press BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

25 years of service C h i a r i t o , Zoila, Center for Communication Programs 20 years of service Richard, Facilities

Shaw,

15 years of service H u m m e l l , Frances, Financial Operations K l a a s , Brian, Center for Teaching and Learning With Technology R e y n o l d s , Sandra, Epidemiology W a d d e l l , Melissa, Environmental Health Sciences

in the humanities and social sciences in the crucial years immediately following the granting of tenure, and provides potential leaders in their fields with the resources to pursue long-term, ambitious projects.

Using the $75,000 fellowship, Melamed will spend the 2013–2014 academic year at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, pursuing a study of Spinoza and German idealism, a project designed to significantly advance our understanding of German idealism and modern philosophy.

Obarrio received the $35,000 ACLS Fellowship award supporting individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences. Obarrio’s project, “‘Customary Citizenship’ in Contemporary Africa,” will explore the contemporary political status of customary law and chieftaincy in post-

colonial Africa with a view to developing a comparative study of the current resurgence of tradition and its figures of authority across the continent. He will be on leave in 2012 to work on the project.

The fellowship program was highly competitive this year, with ACLS making awards to 64 out of 1,160 applications.

Additionally, the Krieger School will welcome two newly minted PhDs to Homewood in the fall through the ACLS New Faculty Fellows program, designed to help young scholars in an increasingly tight job market.

The council provides $50,000 stipends to the scholars to fund two-year positions in the humanities and social sciences at universities and colleges across the country.

Joining the Department of Political Science will be Isaac Kamola, who earned his

doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. The Department of the History of Art will appoint Jeremy Melius, who earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

ACLS, a private nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly organizations, is the pre-eminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Founded in 1919, it is dedicated to “the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.”

Awarding peer-reviewed fellowships is central to its work. Since 1957, more than 9,200 scholars have held ACLS fellowships and grants.

CAREY BUSINESS SCHOOL

Andrews,

Bivens,

5 years of service O w i n g s , Joyce, Business and Financial Services

Dauses,

HOMEWOOD STUDENT AFFAIRS

25 years of service B o w l i n g , Gustave, Housing and Dining Services 10 years of service M c L e a n , Gail, Student Health and Wellness Center KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

25 years of service C u n n i n g h a m , Arlene, Advanced Academic Programs 20 years of service Linda, Sociology

Olson,

15 years of service Susan, Advanced Academic Programs

Howard,

10 years of service Kathleen, Academic Advising

Sindt,

5 years of service Sherron, German and Romance Languages and Literatures K e l l y , Grant, Development Athletics Ye h , Ting-Yu, Biology Bullock,

SAIS

Retiree

10 years of service C h a l k , Guy, Center for Communication Programs G r e e n , Timothy, Environmental Health Sciences O r e n g o , Alejandro, Health Policy and Management W a n i o n e k , Kimberli, Center for Immunization Research and Vaccine Sciences Z h e n , Lijie, Environmental Health Sciences

London,

5 years of service C a r t e r , Valerie, Facilities C l i t s o , Lena, Center for American Indian Health C o h o - M e s c a l , Valerie, Center for American Indian Health J o n e s , Tanya, Center for American Indian Health L y n c h , Matthew, Center for Communication Programs M a r t i n , Tamerra, Center for American Indian Health M a t t h e w s , Denise, Health Policy and Management M i t c h e l l , Molly, Population, Family and Reproductive Health Services P e e l e , Pauline, Facilities P i e r c e , Christopher, Epidemiology W y n d e r , Laquinnya, Center for Communication Programs

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Deryck, 12 years of service, Facilities

5 years of service Maurice, Facilities

Burt,

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

20 years of service R e i s s , Timothy, Administrative Services 5 years of service Julia, External Affairs

Golbey,

Retirees O r d , Sarah, 19 years of service, Oncology Ve l a s c o , Rogelio, 12 years of service, Anesthesiology and Critical Care 50 years of service Julia, Radiology

Buchanan,

40 years of service D i x o n , Susan, Pediatrics 35 years of service David, Ophthalmology

Kays,

30 years of service Dawn, Surgery M c L a u g h l i n , Diane, Welch Medical Library Lichtenberg,

25 years of service A m b e r g e r , Joanna, Genetic Medicine

Donna, Oncology, Greenspring Tianna, Oncology T h o r n t o n , Patricia, Otolaryngology 20 years of service B o o n e , Michael, Clinical Practice Association G o o d m a n , Carole, Ophthalmology L i n t o n , Monique, Billing 15 years of service F o g l e , Rhonda, Clinical Practice Association H u m p h r e y s , Michael, Facilities H u o , Yuqing, Psychiatry K r u e g e r , Page, Production Billing S o r r e n t i n o , Therese, Oncology 10 years of service B a c h - B u r d s a l l , Lisa, Medcine, Gastroenterology C r a i g , Brian, Center for Inherited Disease Research C r e i g h t o n , Jason, Neurology D a v i s , Denise, Surgery E v a n s , Dawn, Biological Chemistry G r a y , Nichelle, Pathology G r u n w a l d , Martina, Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine H e c k , Elizabeth, Cardiology H o l t , Lasharon, Human Subjects Research H u r t , Lynnia, Clinical Practice Association L e a d r o o t , Jennifer, Genetic Medicine O n n e r s , Beth, Oncology W a r d , Mary, Geriatric Medicine, Bayview 5 years of service Joanna, Medicine, Infectious Diseases B u t l e r , Kimberly, Continuing Medical Education C a l l e n d e r , Carly, Immunogenetics C h a v e z , Raquel, Orthopaedic Surgery C u m m i n s , Margie, Surgery C u r r i e , Alison, Urology D u , Annie, Neurology G a r c i a , Jose, Facilities G a v e r , Jennifer, Psychiatry J o n e s , Amber, Radiology L i e b s c h , Anita, Occupational Health M a y , Lindsey, Otolaryngology M c M i l l e r , Tracee, Surgery M c N a i r - H a y n e s w o r t h , Knikia, Clinical Practice Association M o r g a n , Timothy, Neurology N g u y e n , Tuyet, Johns Hopkins Technology P e d r o s o , Christopher, Neurology P e t e r s o n , Elizabeth, Policy Coordination Office R e u b e l - S i m p s o n , Neferterria, Infectious Diseases S h a r m a , Ritu, General Internal Medicine W a t t e r s , Anthony, Sr., Ophthalmology Bizub,

SHERIDAN LIBRARIES/ JHU MUSEUMS

Retiree

Barbara, 23 years of service, Sheridan Libraries

15 years of service K e i f e r , David, Sheridan Libraries 10 years of service M e r r i l l , Betsy, Sheridan Libraries S i n n , Robin, Sheridan Libraries UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

Retiree Saunders,

Deborah, 12 years of service, Alumni Relations

35 years of service Julia, Office of the Secretary to the Board of Trustees

Morgan,

30 years of service Richard, Enterprise Technology Services R o a c h , Iran, Plant Operations Caserta,

25 years of service Mary, Administrative and Financial Services

Wa l k e r ,

20 years of service Mark, Security Services G r a y , Brenda, Benefits Administration and Shared Services S c h l e i c h e r , Timothy, Research Information Systems Carter,

15 years of service Maria, Compensation/ HRIS F e l l , James, Security Services Crough,

10 years of service B r o w n , Michael, Controller E m e r y , Timothy, Enterprise Applications F u s t i n g , Judith, Alumni Relations J o h n s o n , Linnea, Talent Management and Organization Development P o g a c h , Jamie, Office of the Chief Networking Officer S a u e r , Todd, Development and Alumni Services 5 years of service Carlotta, Talent Management and Organization Development C l a r k , John, Office of the Chief Networking Officer M e i s e l m a n , Sam, Administrative and Financial Services R o d r i g u e z , Ben, Security Services R o d z o n , Barbara, Controller S n e a d , Susan, Development and Alumni Services W i n a k e r , Donald, Office of the Chief Networking Officer Chappelle,

WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

5 years of service R i e t v e l d , Martin, Institute for NanoBioTechnology

10 THE GAZETTE • June 20, 2011 P O S T I N G S

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., 410-516-8048 JOB#

POSITION

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Sponsored Project Accountant Graduate Recruiter Assistant Program Manager, CTY Tutorial Assistant Distance Education Online and Mobile Marketing, Communications Strategist/Developer Distance Education Instructor (Computer), CTY Sr. Research Program Coordinator Research Program Assistant II Sr. HR Specialist Administrative Coordinator Executive Housekeeper Administrative Coordinator

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Schools of Public H e a l t h a n d N u r s i n g Office of Human Resources: 2021 East Monument St., 410-955-3006 JOB#

POSITION

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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

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Sr. Research Program Coordinator II Research Program Manager Budget Analyst Sr. Development Data Assistant Quality and Innovation Project Administrator Animal Facility Specialist Grants Associate Sr. HR Coordinator Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

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Field Manager Sr. HR Specialist Sr. Systems Administrator Sustainability Analyst Web and Electronic Media Specialist Sr. Programmer Analyst Online Production Coordinator Sr. Accountant Billing and Accounts Receivable Student Assistant Director Regional and International Programs Procurement Assistant Administrative Coordinator Sr. Systems Engineer Accounting Specialist Office of Finance Student Assistant Sr. Development Director for Asia Associate Dean, Development and Alumni Relations Assay Technician Research Technologist Research Nurse Research Scientist Administrative Specialist Biostatistician Clinical Outcomes Coordinator Sr. Programmer Analyst Employment Assistant/Receptionist Payroll and HR Services Coordinator Research Data Coordinator Data Assistant Budget Specialist Academic Program Administrator Sr. Research Program Coordinator Research Observer

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Sr. Clinical Technician Animal Facility Assistant Clinical Nurse Medical Assistant Research Technologist Laboratory Manager Laboratory Technologist Research Technologist Administrative Coordinator Biostatistician Pharmacy Research Assistant Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant CRNA Research Technologist Administrative Coordinator

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

Woodcliffe Manor Apartments

S PA C I O U S

G A R D E N A PA RT M E N T L I V I N G I N

R O L A N D PA R K

• Large airy rooms • Hardwood Floors • Private balcony or terrace • Beautiful garden setting • Private parking available • University Parkway at West 39th St. 2 & 3 bedroom apartments located in a private park setting. Adjacent to Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus and minutes from downtown Baltimore.

410-243-1216

Notices

105 West 39th St. • Baltimore, MD 21210 Managed by The Broadview at Roland Park BroadviewApartments.com

B O A R D

Peabody Preparatory Summer Dance Classes — This six-week summer session

start times vary from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Students with prior training must complete a placement session to determine their appropriate level. Those with no formal training may enter the Ballet Level 1 or Contemporary Dance Fundamentals classes without placement. Tuition is $140 to $180.

For more information, call 410-234-4626 or 410-234-4630, or email dance@peabody .jhu.edu.

Classifieds

Clarinet/piano lessons by Peabody clarinet master’s student, avail throughout the summer and into school yr, affordable rates. 240994-6489 or hughsonjennifer@gmail.com.

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

has openings for teens and adults in ballet and contemporary dance. Classes will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from June 20 to July 30, at the Peabody Dance Studios;

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B U L L E T I N

Stereo, buffet cabinet, dishware, dining set, TV, TV stand, photos available. 410-2352190 or csokolom1989@yahoo.com.

Yamaha digital piano, 76 keys, touch-sensitive w/sustain, find condition, hardly used. $200. wreisig4@comcast.net.

Oak entertainment center, $600; 1967 vintage Americana Wurlitzer jukebox, restored professionally, over 100 45s (delivery available), $700; Fender acoustic guitar, $350; teak outdoor furniture, also lots of baby items; best offers accepted. Chris, 443-3267717.

Signed framed photo, Ray Lewis sacking Rothlisberger. $225. 410-661-0554.

Dyson DC14 vacuum cleaner, upright w/ telescope reach wand, used once. $300/best offer. judyhampden@gmail.com.

Godinger Shannon crystal Ferris wheel w/ stand, 12" high, beautifully crafted w/moving seat, spins on its stand, in orig box. $30/ best offer. 410-207-2217.

Specialized Enduro Comp mountain bike, A-1 aluminum frame, Shimano Deore XT, FoxFloat RL 130mm front and FoxFloat R Propedal back shocks, Juicy-5 disc brakes. $500/best offer. 443-562-3447.

Conn alto sax, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond. 410-4881886.

Tickets for Sister Act, New York, Saturday, June 25, 2pm. $80 per ticket. Lori, 410-9177774.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Ernie and Stella are great w/kids, they are sisters, declawed and spayed, we want to make sure they find a good home; if it doesn’t work out after 3 months we’ll take them back. 410-458-2371 or clinhoff@ gmail.com.

Responsible MPH student looking for house­ sitting opportunity in July while staying in Baltimore, will take care of your house like my own (am a homeowner myself), water plants, etc. plubens@gmail.com.

F student from JHU School of Education looking for an apt and/or F roommate(s) for 1-yr contract, starting July 1, nonsmoker, don’t party, am serious about my studies. tedattukaren@gmail.com.

Free: 2 bedside tables, full-size mattress and boxspring, desk, all in very good cond. 952807-4769.

Experienced, responsible college student available for summer house- or petsitting, short or extended periods, refs available.

410-218-8140 or jc111@gwmail.gwu.edu.

Mother of 2 kids ages 5 and 8 offers babysitting on PT basis, clean, safe, loving environment, reasonable rates. shaylean@gmail .com.

Piano tuning. $70-$120 (depending on how much out of tune). 410-209-0326 or thebirdcage@gmail.com.

Licensed landscaper avail for spring/summer lawn maintenance, yd cleanup, other services incl’d fall/winter leaf and snow removal, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@ comcast.net.

Mobile detailing and power wash service.

Jason, 443-421-3659.

Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free, confidential consultation. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@aol .com.

Affordable and professional landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com.

M resident assistants needed to supervise 100 high school students for 1-wk camp at Homewood campus, July 22-29. skh9701@ gmail.com.

Working, high-energy dance band needs lead vocalist who can also play guitar. seekingguitarist@hotmail.com.

Piano lessons by experienced teacher w/ Peabody doctorate, all levels/ages welcome.

410-662-7951.

Masterpiece Landscaping: knowledgeable, experienced individual, on-site consultation, transplanting, bed preparation, installation, sm tree and shrub shaping; licensed.

Terry, 410-652-3446.

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

Hopkins retiree provides fast and accurate transcription services. 410-323-0899.

Need a website developed? We have over 15 yrs developing sites for departments within the university or outside commercial enterprises; no job too small. pizzaL@comcast. net.

Horse boarding and horses for lease, beautiful trails from farm. $500/mo (stall board) and $250/mo (field board). 410-812-6716 or argye.hillis@gmail.com.

Moving/hauling, two prof’l movers for hire, small or lg truck available, 300 mi or less, 15% discount for Hopkins. 443-682-4875.

Wanted: gently used 12" boy’s bicycle w/ training wheels. beaadd@aol.com.

Mobile detailing and power wash service.

Jason, 443-421-3659.

Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, great bands, no partners necessary.

410-663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing .com.

Piano tuning and repair, PTG craftsman serving Peabody, Notre Dame, homes, churches, etc., in central Maryland. 410-382-8363 or steve@conradpiano.com.

June 20, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Bayview, 2BR apt on 2 flrs (fin’d bsmt + 1st flr), 3 entrances, priv prkng pad, no smoking/no pets, 6 blks to hospital, applications and refs req’d. $700/mo + sec dep + utils.

Chris, 443-255-9692.

Bayview, rehabbed 3BR, 2BA RH, hdwd flrs, ceramic, granite, Kohler fixtures, prkng for 2. $1,450/mo. George, 410-529-9644.

Bayview, 3BR, 2BA house, W/D, CAC, fin’d bsmt, sec dep and refs req’d; must see.

410-633-2064 or 443-600-8037.

Bolton Hill, 3BR Victorian brownstone, 3 full BAs, 1 half-BA, 2 kitchens, upgraded appls, W/D, top flr deck off master BR, hdwd flrs, backyd, prkng in rear, on quiet, brick cobblestone street w/gazebo; email to request pics, arrange viewing. $1,910/mo.

571-933-3341 or tymbuk2@gmail.com.

Butchers Hill, beautifully remodeled 3-story house w/rooftop deck, three 1BR suites, 3.5BAs, kitchen, W/D, dw, sec sys, avail July 1. $2,399/mo. Sharon, 443-695-9073.

Canton, 3BR, 2.5BA EOG, open layout, 2 masters, CAC, W/D, 2-tier deck. 443-2579453 or clairetamberino@yahoo.com.

Canton, 2BR, 2.5BA RH nr JHH/Bayview, open flr plan, huge master suite, rooftop deck. 443-527-1643.

Catonsville, 1BR in Victorian field stone mansion in Academy Heights, updated kitchen, w/w crpt, high ceilings, nr bus line, free prkng. $895/mo. 443-386-4639.

Charles Village apts avail for summer/ fall occupancy. $975/mo (spacious 2BR) and $1,350/mo (3BR). 443-253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com.

Charles Village lovely 3BR, 2BA TH w/ sec sys, W/D, fenced yd, garage, 5-min walk to Homewood/shuttle, no smokers/no pets. $1,650/mo + utils. 301-699-7583 or housecv@gmail.com.

Cockeysville, 4BR, 2.5BA single-family house, hdwd flrs, deck, 1-car garage, great schools (Dulaney/Cockeysville/Warren), avail July 15. $2,100/mo + utils. 443-7682399 or gongjp1@hotmail.com.

M A R K E T P L A C E

Fells Point, fully furn’d 1BR condo, dw, W/D, nr JHMI and everything, avail September 1. $980/mo + elec. sienacatherine@ yahoo.com.

Fells Point, lovely, all new 1BR, 1BA condo w/water view, 1,000 sq ft, overlooks Inner Harbor at Henderson’s Wharf, incls secure, convenient prkng space. $2,300/mo. szyzygy@telamon1.us.

Fells Point (Jefferson Court), 2BR, 2.5BA TH, hdwd flrs, W/D, CAC, rear yd, offstreet prkng incl’d, steps to medical campus, avail July 1. $1,200/mo + utils. drniabanks@ gmail.com.

Hampden, 2BR, 1BA TH, CAC, modern kitchen, W/D, storage, 5 mins to Homewood campus. $1,100/mo + utils. 410-366-4635.

Homewood, lg 1BR condo, dw, W/D, dining rm/office, prkng, avail July 1. $1,100/ mo. 410-235-2190 or csokolom1989@yahoo .com.

Mayfield/Montebello, 3- or 4BR semi-detached, family-friendly neighborhood, mins to Homewood/JHH/Bayview, pets OK case by case. $1,600/mo + utils. neboland@ gmail.com or http://pelhamhousebaltimore .blogspot.com.

Mt Vernon, 2BR, 1.5BA TH in quiet gated community, W/D, dw, CAC, hdwd flrs, front patio, prkng space in rear, 7- to 10-min drive to JHH/SPH, 5-min walk to Hopkins shuttle; email for pics and to arrange viewing. $1,800/mo. dradri23@gmail.com.

Ocean City (120th St), 2BR, 2BA condo, sleeps 6, immaculate, new appls/living rm furniture, enclos’d courtyd, 2 blks to beach, indoor/outdoor pools, tennis, racketball. 410992-7867 or joel.alan.weiner@gmail.com.

Ocean City, Md (137th St), 3BR, 2BA condo, ocean block, steps from beach, offstreet prkng for 2 vehicles, lg in-ground pool, walk to restaurants/entertainment, great location. 410-544-2814.

Old Catonsville, 5BR, 3BA house, 2,100 sq ft, completely renov’d, w/garage. Mike or Wendy, 410-274-6670.

Orlando, FL, 1BR, 1BA timeshare, sleeps 4, fully equipped. $400/wk. 646-441-1534 (afternoons).

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

Owings Mills, adorable 3BR, 1.5BA TH, nice area, nr subway, avail in July. $1,800/ mo. 410-303-9760 or jayselway@gmail.com.

Eastwood (6904 Eastbrook Ave), beautiful, renov’d 2BR, 1.5BA house nr Bayview. $1,195/mo. 443-570-5492 or dave918@ gmail.com.

Remington (Lil Garden Paradise), adorable 2BR, 1.5BA house steps from Homewood campus. $1,200/mo. Alonzo, 443-683-3023 or adljr@comcast.net.

Ellicott City, 5BR, 3.5BA single-family house, 3,104 sq ft, 42" kitchen cabinets w/ Corian countertops, full backsplash, fin’d bsmt, nr #1 Centennial schools. 443-2575136 or pakshree@hotmail.com.

Roland Park, lg 1BR corner apt w/views, secure bldg, elevator, big closets. $1,150/mo incl AC, prkng, swimming pool. 240-4419096 or aazm2@yahoo.com.

Federal Hill, 2BR, 2.5BA RH, many upgrades, new CAC, decks w/water views, plenty of prkng, avail July 1. $1,800/mo.

410-340-0146 or scitanium@gmail.com.

Parisian ambience in Otterbein. 143 W. Montgomery St. $349K loft, walled gardens, "green" kitchen!

Towson, 3BR, 2BA EOG TH, off-street prkng (2 pads), deck, 15 mins to downtown Baltimore/Hopkins campus. $1,400/ mo. 443-255-4954 or 410-817-4945.

1BR condo nr 695/I-95, W/D, balcony, free prkng. christineepps0@msn.com.

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

4425 Hamilton Ave. $249,900, Solid cape, 3BDͲ2BA, hot tub, 1700 sf.Ͳ1/2 ac., Room galore, charming!

Hickory Avenue

in Hampden!

Studios - $595 - $630 2 BD units from $750 1 BD Apts. - $710-740 Sarah Taylor w/Balcony - $785!

2 BD from $795 CHASE FITZGERALD REAL ESTATE Shown by appointment - 410-764-7776

410Ͳ627Ͳ1988 sarahzt@aol.com

or $590/mo + utils. ncmguard-craigslist@ yahoo.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Bolton Hill, charming 2BR, 2BA carriage house, renov’d modern kitchen, great living spaces, ample storage, nr JHU shuttle. $249,000. 443-377-1616 or bhchinbmore@ gmail.com.

Butchers Hill, RH in family-friendly neighborhood, 1 blk to Patterson Park, walking distance to JHH. $269,000. 410-913-9081 or www.redfin.com/MD/Baltimore/2122-ELombard-St-21231/home/9063631.

Canton, 2BR, 2.5BA house w/2 master suites, granite and stainless steel, hdwd flrs, fin’d bsmt, patio. $278,000. 703-868-6810.

Catonsville, 4BR, 3BA house. $355,000.

443-253-6641, n.agopian@gmail.com or www.postlets.com/repb/5630802.

Catonsville/Violetville, beautiful, totally rehabbed RH in quiet neighborhood, 2 spacious BRs, 2BAs, hdwd flrs, new appls, fin’d lower level, 15 mins to JHH, walk to St Agnes Hospital. $130,000 (or rent to own). Jan, 410-456-2565 or janetmargaret@ verizon.net.

Ellicott City, 3BR, 2.5BA TH w/new windows, lots of upgrades, fin’d bsmt, nr #1 Centennial schools. $315,000. 410-5058977 or rashmachaudhry@yahoo.com.

www.BrooksManagementCompany.com

Sunny rm in historic Lauraville, W/D, lg yd, vegetable garden, quiet neighborhood, shared utils, nr JHH/JHU, avail July 1.

Melissa, 443-844-4094.

Mature F prof’l wanted to share RH in historic Loch Raven Village, access to laundry rm and kitchen, must be nonsmoker, no drugs, must have excel refs, credit check and background check will be conducted. $550/mo + sec dep. 410-870-0794.

1BR in furn’d 3BR, 2BA apt in Fells Point, W/D, free Internet access, quiet street, best neighborhood, close to everything, free shuttle to SoM. $350/mo to $400/mo + utils. xzhan45@gmail.com.

F grad student/prof’l wanted to share 2BR, 1BA apt in Charles Village w/30-yr-old F, 3 blks to Homewood campus, 1-yr lease. $475/mo + utils. 706-799-0836.

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

Grad student wanted for 1BR in 3BR Hampden RH, 5 mins to Homewood campus, nr shuttle, no smoking/no pets, move-in flexible. danielle.buonaiuto@gmail.com.

Gardens of Guilford, lg 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant setting, newly renov’d, easy walk to Homewood campus. 410-366-1066.

924 N Broadway, refurbished 4BR TH, share w/medical students, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com.

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA 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.

F wanted for rm in 3BR, 1.5BA Nottingham house, nr Perry Hall/White Marsh, W/D, AC, dw, deck, fenced yd, swimming pool on same street. 443-287-0584 or kwojo2@ yahoo.com.

Remington (2717 Atkinson), 3BR house w/updated BA, tankless H2O, remodeled kitchen, 10-min walk to Homewood campus. 410-935-3642.

CARS FOR SALE

Roland Park, 1BR condo in beautiful bldg, updated BA, high ceilings, W/D, awesome patio, prkng. $159,900. Dorsey, 410-9673661.

903 University Pkwy, 2BR condo in quiet bldg, clean, freshly painted, W/D, CAC/ heat, garage. $141,000. 410-371-3473 or quarkhitch@gmail.com.

’06 Toyota Matrix Sports Wagon, 4-dr, automatic, excel cond, 52K mi. $9,750/best offer. sean320@msn.com. ’95 Toyota Camry, new timing belt and tires, excel cond, 165K mi. $2,600/best offer. 443220-2138 or hlhuang@gmail.com. ’05 Subaru Forester X, automatic, silver, original owner, very good cond, 100K mi. $10,000. 410-833-5781.

3402 Mt Pleasant Ave, totally rehabbed house nr Johns Hopkins campuses, perfect for a professional. $159,900. Pitina, 302981-6947 or jvgiiird@hotmail.com.

’91 Honda Civic, red, 4-spd, $1,600/best offer; ’89 GMC 4x4 pickup, 2500 series, rebuilt motor, new tires/battery. $2,400.

410-419-3902.

ROOMMATES WANTED

’01 VW Passat 1.8T, green, has had regular maintenance, in excel cond, everything works, 79K mi. $5,500/best offer. 443-5623447.

F wanted for furn’d rm and priv BA in 2BR, 2BA Guilford condo, gym, sauna, swimming pool, front desk, 24-hr security desk, fantastic view, walk to Homewood campus/ shuttle. $1,000/mo incl all utils. 443-8313374 or monanoureldin@hotmail.com.

Rooming unit w/shared BA, hdwd flrs, no kitchen, no living rm. 443-269-8463 or 410-383-2876 (for appointment for viewing).

2nd flr and bsmt rms in 4BR Canton TH, clean, nonsmoking, like new, shared BA, 1-yr lease begins August 1. $640/mo

’00 Volvo V70 XC, burgundy/cream leather, reliable and safe, recent emissions/safety inspections, 152K mi. $3,700/best offer.

443-453-6386.

ITEMS FOR SALE

72-gal bowfront aquarium w/stand, 2 new filters, accessories, excel cond. $300/best offer. 443-257-9825.

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‘Asian Influence—Western Vision’

Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger.

HW

“Using Google Search Query Logs to Identify Health Patterns Related to Chronic Disease and Health Behaviors,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with John Ayers. 744 Hampton House. EB

Wed., June 22, 9:30 a.m.

Thurs., June 23, 9 a.m. “From Individuals to Populations: Applications and Insights Concerning the Generalized Linear Mixed Model,” a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Bruce Swihart. W2030 SPH. EB Fri., June 24, 1:30 p.m. “Dynam-

ics in DNA Damage Recognition,” a Program in Molecular Biophysics thesis defense seminar with Josh Friedman. 701 WBSB. EB

The David Bodian Seminar—“Testing Hypotheses About Coding and Computation in the Visual System and Something New About Retinal Prosthetics” with Sheila Nirenberg, Weill Medical College, Cornell University. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute.

338 Krieger. HW

Mon., June 27, 4 p.m.

The opening of ‘Asian Influence—Western Vision: The Watercolors of Morton Wesley Huber’ begins this year’s ‘Summer Evening at Evergreen.’ Huber, a JHU alumnus, is a former professor of organic and biochemistry, environmental science and qualitative organic analyses. See Special Events.

E X H I B I T I O N S Wed., June 29, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Opening reception for the

exhibition Asian Influence— Western Vision: The Watercolors of Morton Wesley Huber, which continues through August 28.

(See image, this page.) Free with museum admission and on view as part of the regular guided tour.

Evergreen Museum & Library.

LE C TURES The FDA Lecture Series ,

Regulation of Medical Devices, sponsored by the Center for Bioengineering

Innovation and Design. West Lecture Hall. EB •

“PMA Process” by Tina Morrison, FDA.

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Wed., June 29, 6 p.m. “EPI”

by Nilsa Loyo-Berrios and Daniel Canos, both FDA.

Fri., June 24, 6 p.m.

“Animal Pain: What Is It and Why It Matters,” a Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing lecture by Bernard Rollin, Colorado State University. Rollin will also sign copies of his recent book, Putting the Horse Before Descartes: My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals. Co-sponsored by

the Center for a Livable Future.

W3008 SPH. EB Tues., July 5, 8 p.m. “ATLAST: The Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope,” an STScI public lecture by Marc Postman, STScI. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW

Tues., June 28, noon. “From a Global to a Celluar Resolution in Metabolic Biochemistry,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Michael Wolfgang, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB Fri., July 1, 10 a.m. “Multidimen-

sional Influences on HIV Medication Adherence and Protective Sexual Behaviors Among People Living With HIV on HAART in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Homaira Hanif. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., June 27, noon.

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Mon., June 20, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Does Activity in the Primary Visual Cortex Support Perceptual Experience?” with Alexander Maier, NIMH. Sponsored by the Krieger

Tu e s . , J u n e 2 8 , n o o n t o 2 p.m. Memorial tribute for Georg

Krotkoff, professor emeritus, Near Eastern Studies. RSVP no later than June 21 by phone to 410-2420983 or edwinhostetter@comcast

.net. Dutch treat lunch at Orchard Market & Cafe, 8815 Orchard Tree Lane, Towson, MD. Wed.,

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“Summer Evening at Evergreen,” a chance to meet watercolorist and Johns Hopkins alum Morton Wesley Huber at his exhibition opening (see image, this page), and printmaker/paper installation artist Tai Hwa Goh, Evergreen’s artist-in-residence. 8 p.m. Opening performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It presented outdoors by the Maryland Shakespeare Festival. Tickets required (see entry below for prices); go to www.mdshakes.org/summer-tour or phone 301-668-4090. Picnicking is invited. Sponsored by JHU Museums. Evergreen Museum & Library.

Wed., June 29 to Sat., July 2, 8 p.m. The Maryland Shakespeare

Festival’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, which will also be presented July 6 to 10. 6 p.m. Gates open and picnicking begins. Family-friendly pre-show begins at 7:20 p.m. $20 general admission, $15 for military and senior citizens, $10 for students; $55 for family package (4 tickets). For tickets and information, phone 301-668-4090 or go to www.mdshakes.org/summer-tour.

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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

EP announces concentration in human systems engineering

By Debi Rager

Whiting School of Engineering

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he Johns Hopkins University’s Engineering for Professionals program, part of the Whiting School of Engineering, is offering a new concentration in the field of human systems engineering.

The concentration, an option in the parttime master’s degree program in systems engineering, will be available beginning in fall 2011.

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on how complex systems should be designed and managed over their life cycles, taking into account hardware, software and human elements. Disregarding the human element in systems engineering can lead to less-effective system performance and even to catastrophic failure, the program organizers say. For example, a contributing factor in the Three Mile Island power plant incident in 1979 was operator confusion resulting from poor design of control panels and an overabundance of unmanageable alarms.

“It is essential that systems engineers include human factors in their design of complex systems,” said Sam Seymour, vice chair of the Systems Engineering program.

“The addition of knowledge and skills in this domain will set the graduates of Johns Hopkins apart from their peers and will enable viable, successful products to be developed with this holistic view.”

The human systems engineering concentration will enable students to consider human participants and other stakeholders in a system as part of an overall system solution. A number of factors must be considered, including human capabilities and limitations; human performance measurement and analysis; integration of people and technology; system use in complex operational situations; and the influence of environmental, organizational and social factors on system requirements and design.

The Systems Engineering program has developed a series of courses that comprise the core of the new concentration: Foundations of Human Systems Engineering, Integrating Humans and Technology, Social and Organizational Factors in Human Systems Engineering, Methods in Human-Systems Performance Measurement and Analysis, and Human-Computer Interaction.

In this concentration, students will gain a deeper understanding of how the appropriate application of human systems engineering adds value to systems, and they will be able to make informed judgments when

involved in developing and operating a complex system.

To receive a master’s degree in systems engineering with a concentration in human systems engineering, students must com-

plete 10 one-semester courses in five years, including a master’s project.

For more information about the new concentration, call 443-778-5711 or go to www .ep.jhu.edu/se.

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