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n an effort to streamline operations, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences has reconfigured her office, moving to a structure that will better serve departments and permit more “interdisciplinary synergies” between Five vice departments and across divisions. deans are “Department chairs need to be able to named to take concerns and questions about all streamline levels of their program—from underoperations graduates to postdocs and faculty—to a vice dean who can work on all of these elements as a united package,” said Katherine S. Newman, who assumed the deanship of the Krieger School on Sept. 1. “The new configuration is a way of tailoring our services, so to speak, to most efficiently address the present and future needs of the departments, divisions and individuals. At the same time, it allows us the latitude to look across the construct at the special needs of our students and faculty that are not department bound.” At the heart of the office’s new internal architecture is the appointment of five vice deans, whose individual and intersecting responsibilities form an umbrella of coverage over the entire Krieger School. Gregory Ball, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and formerly dean of research and graduate education, has been named vice dean for science and research infrastructure. Kellee Tsai, a professor in the Department of Political Science and former director of the East Asian Studies Program, will serve as vice dean for humanities, social sciences and graduate programs. (The East Asian Studies Program will now be headed on an interim basis by Rebecca Brown, a visiting associate professor in Political Science.)
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n a midmorning last week, a student walked out into the Rogers House courtyard and made a beeline for a cluster of pots. She inspected a leaf of one of the herb plants and glanced at the young, unripened tomatoes and green peppers in neighboring pots. Satisfied, she popped back inside the residence hall.
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he first Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert went out around 11:20 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 16: A physician had been shot on the eighth floor of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Nelson Building, and the gunman had not been apprehended. With quick dispatch, Johns Hopkins security and Baltimore City Police were on the scene, some buildings had been evacuated and others locked down, surrounding streets had been secured, and electronic messages had apprised faculty, staff and students of the situation and updated them on the status of
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classes, hospital operations and transportation relating to the East Baltimore campus. Over the next several hours, details of the incident became known. The faculty physician, whose name was not released because of privacy and confidentiality policies, had been rushed into surgery for an abdomen wound; the gunman had been isolated in a patient room; and later, at 1:30 p.m., police reported that the situation had ended: A SWAT team had determined that the gunman had fatally shot his mother, who was a patient, and himself.
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he Johns Hopkins chapter of Phi Delta Kappa International is hosting the annual PDK Area Back to School Picnic from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, on the APL campus. This year’s theme is “Reclaim, Recruit and Retain!” Phi Delta Kappa International is a 100-year-old professional association for educators that focuses its work on the tenets of service, research and leadership. Its mission is to support education, particularly public education, as the cornerstone of democracy. The JHU chapter has been in existence since 1932. To register for the event, contact Yolanda Abel at yabel@jhu.edu or 410-516-6002.
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British theoretical physicist doing groundbreaking work in developing “invisibility materials” —a la Harry Potter’s famous invisibility cloak—will this week deliver the inaugural Robert Resnick Lecture, which honors a Johns Hopkins alumnus who was a renowned physics educator. Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London will present “Invisible Cloaks and a Perfect Lens” at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 23, in the Bloomberg Center’s Schafler Auditorium, Homewood campus. Pendry is known for his research into the creation of special materials and techniques that could lead to the creation of “cloaks” of invisibility around objects, rendering them unable to be seen. Such materials, called “metamaterials,” would be made up of tiny wires and blends of polymers that would skew the paths of electromagnetic radiation so onlookers could see—or appear to see— right through or beyond them.
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Frederick Jelinek, 77, pioneer in speech and text understanding technology By Phil Sneiderman
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hortly after the recent death of Johns Hopkins University faculty member Frederick Jelinek, one of his colleagues, Jason Eisner, spoke about Jelinek’s critical contributions to the field of language and speech processing technology. Eisner is an associate professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins.
Q. To begin with, what do you mean by “speech recognition”?
A. Well, you talk, and the computer writes down what you said. Q. Who uses speech recognition?
A. The original application was dictation. On your cell phone, for example, speaking is easier than typing, and there are people who cannot easily type at all because they are handicapped or illiterate or their hands are busy. The other side of the coin is that reading is easier than listening, and not only for the deaf. You can now use speech recognition to skim or automatically search voice mail, meet-
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rederick Jelinek, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member whose research laid the foundation for modern speech recognition and text translation technology, died on Sept. 14 while working at the Homewood campus. He was 77. During 21 years at IBM Research and nearly two decades at Johns Hopkins, Jelinek pioneered the statistical methods that enable modern computers to “understand,’’ transcribe and translate written and spoken language. In recognition of this work, he was inducted in 2006 into the National Academy of Engineering. “He envisioned applying the mathematics of probability to the problem of processing speech and language,” said Sanjeev Khudanpur, a Johns Hopkins associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who worked with Jelinek. “This revolutionized the field. Fifty years ago, no one thought that was possible. Today, it’s the dominant paradigm. “Initially,” Khudanpur added, “Fred’s ideas generated some hostile reviews, owing to philosophical differences, but ultimately his approach prevailed and became mainstream. Over the past 10 years or so, he received lifetime achievement awards, one after another, from diverse professional societies.” At Johns Hopkins, which he joined in 1993, Jelinek was the Julian S. Smith Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing. The center is based in what was then known as the Computational Science and Engineering Building, where Jelinek died while concluding his workday. The cause of death was not immediately determined. The following day, faculty members and friends of the Whiting School of Engineering gathered for a previously scheduled ceremony during which the building was renamed Hackerman Hall, in honor of university benefactor Willard Hackerman. Nick Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School, asked the attendees to observe a moment of silence to pay tribute to Jelinek, saying that he was “a respected colleague and will be greatly missed.” “I think that this afternoon, as we consider the significance of this building and what it means to our community, it is important to note that a scholar of Fred’s
Frederick Jelinek in a 2005 photo
distinction resided here,” Jones said. “It is a testament to what this building is about that a world-renowned researcher such as Fred thrived, mentored, taught and created knowledge here.” Speaking later with The Gazette, another Johns Hopkins colleague, Jason Eisner, recalled Jelinek as lively, witty, cultured and intellectually curious. “He was a real straight shooter—no politics, no varnish— and a man of his word,” Eisner, an associate professor of computer science, said. “He was known for his strong personality, yet he was always ready to acknowledge counterarguments or concede points, and he was generous in his praise.” Jelinek was born near Prague in what is now the Czech Republic. In 2001, when he accepted an honorary doctorate from Charles University in Prague, Jelinek recalled his difficult childhood. “When I completed second grade,” he told the audience, “a Nazi edict prevented us Jews from further school attendance. We were taught the subjects of the third and fourth [grades] privately in small, constantly changing groups. My classmates as well as my teachers were being progressively sent to various concentration camps. … Beginning with the summer of ’42, all instruction was forbidden.”
During the Nazi occupation, Jelinek’s physician father died of typhoid in the Terezin concentration camp. Fearing that the Communist regime would not allow her son to advance his education, Jelinek’s mother emigrated after the war to New York with him and his sister. Engineering was not Jelinek’s first career choice. “My mother wished for me to become a physician, just like my father,” he said in his 2001 speech. “My parents planned to have me educated in one of England’s famous public schools. To teach me German, they engaged a German governess. I myself wanted to be a lawyer, defender of the unjustly accused. But my career is the result of political circumstances, academic possibilities and lucky accidents.” In New York, Jelinek discovered that an engineering degree could be obtained in four years, while becoming a lawyer would require seven. He also worried that his foreign accent would hamper his success in the courtroom. “So I took up electrical engineering in the Evening Session of the City College of New York, having shown no previous inclination toward that profession,” he said. Eventually, he succeeded well enough in his studies to gain acceptance to MIT, where he earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering. “Fortunately,” he said, “to electrical engineering there belonged a discipline whose aim was not the construction of physical systems: the theory of information.” After obtaining his doctorate in 1962, Jelinek joined the faculty of Cornell University, where he continued to study information theory. A decade later, he applied for a summer position at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Soon he was appointed to head the center’s large Continuous Speech Recognition group on a full-time basis. “Our group completely revolutionized the standard approach to speech recognition,” Jelinek said in his 2001 speech. “This was made easy by the fact that practically none of us was educated in any subject related to speech. Those who contributed most had their doctorates in information theory or physics. Their creativity, determination, originality and courage to risk was what accounted for our success.” Jelinek’s son, William Jelinek, said his father “was extremely proud of the speech recognition group he led at IBM for 21 years. When he retired from IBM in 1993, he wanted to continue to do research, and
Johns Hopkins gave him the opportunity when the school asked him to direct the Center for Language and Speech Processing there.” At Johns Hopkins, his colleagues said, Jelinek was able to build upon his groundbreaking work at IBM and share it with students and other faculty members. He led highly regarded summer workshops that brought together speech and language processing researchers from industry, government and academia, along with undergraduate and graduate students. “These workshops helped a lot of people get their start in this field and led to many great research collaborations,” said Eisner, the computer science professor. A funeral service for Jelinek was held Friday at Sol Levinson & Bros. in Pikesville, Md. William Jelinik said that the family plans to conduct memorials and remembrances in the coming months in Baltimore, New York and Prague to allow colleagues and friends to celebrate his father’s life. In addition to his son, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., Frederick Jelinek is survived by his wife, Milena Jelinek, a Czech filmmaker who teaches screenwriting at Columbia University; his daughter, Hannah Sarbin, of Larchmont, N.Y.; his sister, Susan Abramowitz, of Montreal, Canada; his half-sister, Jirina Hlavac, of Zurich; and grandchildren Alex Sarbin, Sophie Jelinek and Benjamin Jelinek. Family members said that contributions in memory of Frederick Jelinek may be sent to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, to be directed to the Prague Jewish Community, P.O. Box 530, 132 E. 43rd St., New York, NY. 10017.
Related websites Frederick Jelinek’s Web page:
www.clsp.jhu.edu/people/jelinek
Frederick Jelinek’s honorary doctorate acceptance speech:
www.clsp.jhu.edu/people/jelinek/ promoce.html
Frederick Jelinek’s acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics:
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Frederick Jelinek’s legacy in language and speech processing technology ing transcripts, lectures, political speeches or YouTube video soundtracks, as if those things had been typed out in the first place. Q. Why is speech recognition difficult for computers?
A. Because human speakers are not robotic voices. The same word can come out sounding many different ways. Even supposing that you could control for the speaker’s voice, accent, speech rate, emotional state, microphone quality, background noise, etc., the same word would still sound very different in different contexts. And then there would still be a lot of random variation on top of that. Q. How did Dr. Jelinek’s approach solve this?
A. The computer rapidly considers billions of possibilities for what you might have said. Some of these possible transcriptions get low scores because they contain unusual sequences of words, or because they seem to be at odds with the audio in places. So even
though the unpredictability of speech means that billions of transcriptions are possible, the computer tries to find the one that is most plausible overall. Q. Dr. Jelinek is said to have recast language problems as mathematics. Where do the statistical formulas come in?
A. The technique rests on a method for scoring transcriptions. One of the transformative insights was that these methods didn’t have to be rules manually devised by linguists. The computer could automatically learn how good transcriptions differed from bad ones by looking at lots of examples of correctly transcribed speech. What it learned in this way could be enormously detailed. Q. Is this approach still used in practice?
A. Yes, Fred’s methods are at the heart of all systems today. Speech recognition is a $5 billion business. The first commercial products were in the early 1980s, done
by IBM and by ex-IBMers from Fred’s group. The scoring models are getting better and better. In the past decade, Fred focused on developing sophisticated models that paid more attention to linguistic properties like grammar, meaning and context. Q. Did Dr. Jelinek do anything else?
A. Plenty. For one thing, he applied the same ideas to translation between languages. This allows you, for example, to type in a sentence in French, and the computer will tell you what it says in English. Fred saw that it was really the same problem: There are billions of possible English translations, too, and a computer can automatically learn how to score them. Try it yourself at translate.google.com. In fact, this way of thinking has taken over across artificial intelligence. Most of AI is now about learning statistical models from uncertain data and using them to make predictions.
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Serving the East Baltimore community, one project at a time This is part of an occasional series about services available to faculty and staff. By Greg Rienzi
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his summer, a large contingent of Johns Hopkins staff and faculty rolled up their sleeves to help beautify four East Baltimore schools over a one-month period. At the Wolfe Street Academy, a public charter elementary school, participants painted seven classrooms, a cafeteria and a hallway. Volunteers at the East Baltimore Community School, also a charter, cleaned nearly all surfaces, coded and set up the school’s new library and repaired broken desks, chairs and bookshelves. In total, 40 Johns Hopkins volunteers, alongside nearly 40 community members, made a sizable impact on the four schools, which also included Tench Tilghman Elementary School and the Dr. Raynor Browne Academy. The school revitalization project was organized by the Office of Community Services, a division of the Johns Hopkins Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs. For the past 20 years, the office, funded by the Johns Hopkins Health System, has sponsored hundreds of volunteer projects in East Baltimore, such as park cleanups, mentoring programs, food drives, after-school programs and others. Pamela Bechtel, the office’s community projects coordinator, said that the staff looks for projects based on need. “We regularly attend neighborhood meetings and engage with community groups and
Volunteer Kirk Higdon, husband of staff member Sheila Higdon, repairs a chair.
individuals, inquiring about how we can help and the needs of the area,” Bechtel said. “We help directly where we can, and also help connect the community to the right resources and groups if we don’t provide the direct service.” The office has partnerships with East Baltimore Development Inc., the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition, Operation P.U.L.S.E. (People United to Live in a Safe Environment), the Baltimore City Public School System, the Baltimore City Police Department’s Eastern District and the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks. Community Services organizes roughly 20 projects per year, with one or two ongoing each month in a campaign it calls Com-
munity Works! Volunteers for East Baltimore. Bechtel said that the office is continually looking for new volunteers and projects, which are open to all Johns Hopkins faculty, staff and students, and community residents. Tom Lewis, vice president for government and community affairs, said that Johns Hopkins is a large and critical part of the community and the economy of East Baltimore—which entails an inherent social responsibility. “Johns Hopkins has worked diligently for many years to be a good neighbor,” Lewis said. “Over time, and in partnership with the East Baltimore community, the Office of Community Affairs has worked with the many parts of Johns Hopkins to share our collective resources. And together with our partners in the community, we have worked to become agents of hope, empowerment and positive change.” Through Oct. 1, the office will put on a Books for Baltimore drive for new and gently used books of all reading levels. Donated books will benefit Baltimore area schools and senior centers. Drop-off bins are located at various Johns Hopkins locations, including the Arthur Friedheim Library at the Peabody Institute, the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on the Homewood campus, the Davis Building on the Mount Washington campus, Bond Street Wharf in Fells Point, and the 550 Building and The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Patient Library on the East Baltimore campus. In October, the office will organize a reading program in which Johns Hopkins faculty and staff will go to several East Baltimore schools to read to students, drop off
book donations and give students Halloween goody bags. Later this year, the office will put on a holiday gift-giving drive and a Turkeys and Trimmings program for area senior centers and the Bea Gaddy Family Center. The office also sponsors ongoing programs such as the Community Science Education Program, whose mission is to promote science education among students attending Baltimore City Public Schools. In the program, Johns Hopkins faculty and staff help host science days, science fairs and a weeklong science camp at the university’s School of Medicine. Earlier this year, the Office of Community Services, in conjunction with the Whiting School’s Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, started the City Springs Science Outreach Program, which exposes fifth-graders at City Springs Elementary School to the wonders of science. Two DoGEE faculty members visited the East Baltimore school monthly, leading hourlong science sessions in which they unraveled basic science principles, such as water tension and electricity, through simple and lively experiments and demonstrations. Community Services’ school-based projects are eligible for the Johns Hopkins Takes Time for Schools program, which offers full-time benefits-eligible university staff up to two days per year of paid leave to pursue service opportunities in the Baltimore City public schools. To view a calendar of the office’s events and to sign up, go to www .johnshopkinscommunityworks .org. For more information, contact Bechtel at pbechte1@jhmi.edu or 410-614-0744.
Study: Weight-loss surgery frees obese type 2 diabetics of insulin By Stephanie Desmon
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esults of a large national study show that nearly three-quarters of obese patients with type 2 diabetes who undergo weight-loss surgery are able to stop insulin and other anti-diabetes drugs within six months. In the Johns Hopkins study of insured obese diabetic patients, researchers also found that in the third year following surgery, average annual health care costs per patient decreased by more than 70 percent. The study is published this month in Archives of Surgery. “The cost to care for the average obese diabetic person in America is $10,000 a year, which could be cut to $1,800 with a very safe operation that eliminates more than 80 percent of the medications these individuals have depended on,” said Marty Makary, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study’s leader. “The results show that bariatric surgery has huge implications for public health and control of health care costs.” Makary and his colleagues studied 2,235 adults with Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance from throughout the United States who had type 2 diabetes and underwent bariatric surgery during a four-year period from Jan. 1, 2002, to Dec. 31, 2005. The average
Related websites Marty Makary:
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Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery:
www.hopkinsbayview.org/ bariatrics
age of those in the study was 48, and 74.5 percent were women. More than 23 percent of participants were insulin dependent, while more than 50 percent took metformin hydrochloride to keep their diabetes in check. Makary and his colleagues found that within one year following surgery, the number of patients dependent on insulin dropped from 23.4 percent to 5.5 percent. Those on metformin dropped from 50.5 percent to 8.4 percent. Bariatric surgery, at an average cost of $30,000, reduces stomach capacity, typically by stapling off the stomach and creating a much smaller pouch. Studies show that it results in long-term weight loss, improved lifestyle and decreased mortality in some populations. Its use has increased 200 percent during the last five years, the authors note. The risk of mortality from bariatric surgery is .3 percent. Makary points out that the health risks associated with diabetes and obesity are much greater. Makary says that more obese diabetic people should be offered a surgical weight-loss option but notes that insurance coverage of the procedure is not universal, even for appropriate patients. Some private insurers may not cover it, and people with Medicaid do not have equal and uniform access to the operation. “Our results suggest that insurance companies would do well to more readily cover bariatric surgery because it improves health and cuts health care costs,” he said. Makary says that while bariatric surgery has been shown to result in long-term weight loss, improved lifestyle and decreased mortality in many patients, its impact on diabetes has not been widely studied. The weight loss that results from the surgery is one explanation for why diabetes symptoms subside, but for some patients, markers of the disease disappear even before significant amounts of weight are lost.
One theory is that stomach hormones are somehow altered by the surgery, and those changes allow for better natural control of blood glucose levels almost immediately. “Until a successful nonsurgical means for preventing and reversing obesity is developed, bariatric surgery appears to be the only intervention that can result in a sustained reversal of both obesity and type 2 diabetes I N
in most patients receiving it,” Makary said. The research was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study were Jeanne M. Clarke, Andrew D. Shore, Thomas H. Magnuson, Thomas Richards, Eric B. Bass, Francesca Dominici, Jonathan P. Weiner, Albert W. Wu and Jodi B. Segal.
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memorial service was held at SAIS’s Washington campus, following a on Friday at St. Matthew’s year at the Bologna Center. Cathedral in Washington, “Julia’s background prior to joining the D.C., to honor Julia BachleitSAIS community clearly showed that she ner, 26, a SAIS student who had a passion for international affairs, died Tuesday from injuries in particular development suffered in an accident on issues, and a love of lanSept. 8 in the city’s Adams guages,” wrote Dean Jessica Morgan neighborhood. FolEinhorn in a letter to SAIS lowing the service, a recepstudents, faculty and staff. tion was held in SAIS’s Nitze “She interned for the United Building. Nations and the European Bachleitner, a native of Union. She also worked for Austria, and fellow student the Austrian Foreign MinisMelissa Basque, from France, try and spent a year in Asia, were struck by a car that where she participated in mounted the center island a rural development project where the two women were in northern Thailand,” she waiting to cross the street. said. “We understand that Basque, also 26, suffered Julia Bachleitner she had an interest in pursusevere injuries but has been ing a public service career, released from the hospital. According to The either with her country’s foreign ministry or Washington Post, police said that the driver’s an international organization, such as the blood-alcohol limit was nearly twice the U.N.” legal limit for driving in the District. Bachleitner’s parents, her twin sister, other Bachleitner was concentrating in Conflict family members and her boyfriend were with Management and had just begun her studies her when she died.
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Hopkins supporters, establishing scholarships for graduates of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute to attend Johns Hopkins, funding faculty chairs in the School of Medicine and the Whiting School of Engineering, and supporting several university research centers. Hackerman, president and chief executive officer of Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., is a 1938 civil engineering graduate of the university and a former trustee. He led the effort to re-establish the university’s stand-alone engineering school in 1979 and was instrumental in securing the school-naming gift in honor of his mentor, G.W.C. Whiting.
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n Saturday, Sept. 11, the university hosted its sixth annual community block party, known as Convergence, for its Charles Village neighbors. Expanding from a modest start in 2004 with only 12 people in attendance, the event this year drew an estimated 1,000 JHU affiliates and neighbors of the Homewood campus, who came together on the 3200 block of St. Paul Street to celebrate their community together. Attendees were treated to free hot dogs, popcorn and cotton candy; face painting by the JHU women’s lacrosse team; and popular activities such as the moon bounce, carnival games, chess and checkers, and prize giveaways, and were also given the opportunity to meet exhibitors from local nonprofits, civic organizations, city schools and Charles Village shops, as well as university and student groups. Convergence is sponsored by the JHU offices of Homewood Student Affairs and Community Affairs, and the Charles Village Business Association, with leadership from Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. JHU groups that offer opportunities to the local community and are interested in free exhibitor tables at the 2011 Convergence should e-mail christinekavanagh@jhu.edu or call 443-287-9928. —Christine Kavanagh
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JHH Continued from page 1 students learned, staff did their critical work in support of the Johns Hopkins mission. I am grateful to you all,� he said. “I especially want to thank Baltimore’s police, led by Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld, for a rapid and very professional response that unquestionably prevented the situation from becoming even worse,� he continued. “Their actions protected patients, visitors and employees in the hospital, and we are most appreciative.� Baltimore Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake released a statement that afternoon saying, “I was deeply troubled to learn of the incident at Johns Hopkins earlier today. Johns Hopkins is a proud Baltimore institution, the city’s largest private employer and arguably one of the most important medical
institutions on the planet. A unified incident command was established very quickly, and all the appropriate law enforcement, city agencies and Johns Hopkins officials worked together to respond to the incident. “The importance of the Johns Hopkins community to the City of Baltimore cannot be overstated,� she said. “The safety and security of Johns Hopkins employees and residents in the surrounding neighborhoods was paramount during the city’s response efforts. I would like to personally thank the men and women of the Baltimore Police Department as well as other city agencies for the swift response to the incident.� The physician who was shot underwent surgery for his wound and is expected to have a full recovery. The gunman was identified by police as Paul Warren Pardus, 50, and his mother as 84-year-old Jean Davis, of Arlington, Va., who had recently undergone surgery related to her cancer treatment. The gunman had been listening to the physician when he
“became emotionally distraught and reacted ... and was overwhelmed by the news of his mother’s condition,� according to Bealefeld. In the wake of the shootings, faculty, staff and students were reminded to subscribe to the university’s system for getting vital information out in the event of a life-threatening emergency. If an active shooter event, a fire or a similar imminent situation should occur, a Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert text message would be sent to subscribers to the service for the affected campus. Along with relevant details to keep recipients safe, it would offer advice on where to get updated information as the situation developed. Those who are not yet subscribed, or who don’t remember if they are, can go to http:// my.johnshopkins.edu and sign in using their JHED ID and password, then click on the “myProfile� icon in the upper left-hand side of the page and the “Emergency Alerts� link on the right to select the campus or campuses about which they’d like to be notified. G
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Continued from page 1 Steven David, a professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, holds the role of vice dean for undergraduate education. Ben Vinson III, a professor in the Department of History who was also director of the Center for Africana Studies, will hold the post of vice dean for centers and interdepartmental programs. (Africana Studies will now be headed by Franklin Knight, the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History.) Judith Babbitts, formerly of the Bostonbased International Honors Program, has joined the Krieger School as vice dean for graduate professional programs. In that role, she oversees strategic planning for Advanced Academic Programs, the school’s rapidly growing graduate program for parttime students. According to Newman, the five new vice deans—and Ball and Tsai, in particular— will serve as critical liaisons with the chairs of the departments in their divisions. Ball agrees that the change will make things more efficient overall. “The advantage of this new structure is that the department chairs will now have ‘one-stop shopping’ when it comes to their dealings with the Dean’s Office,” Ball said. “In the previous structure, appointments went through the dean of faculty, but issues related to research support and faculty start-up went through the dean for research. Now, for example, as vice dean for science,
Healthy Continued from page 1 wood’s Office of Residential Life has designated Rogers House, located on Greenway and University Parkway, for its Healthy Living at Hopkins Experience, which debuted this fall. The building’s residents, all sophomores, will participate in a year’s worth of programs that foster balanced living, exercise, nutrition, rest and relaxation, and a substancefree lifestyle. At the start of the term, the students received a fitness class pass to the O’Connor Recreation Center, stress management kits and supplies for planting a vegetable and herb garden. The four-story residential building itself got a makeover with new carpets, flooring and stoves and cooking equipment for the common kitchens, and the basement was turned into an exercise room, courtesy of no-longer-needed equipment from the recreation center. Students also were provided with an outdoor grill and a composter. Throughout the fall and spring semesters, students will have direct access to dietitians, an herbalist, fitness gurus and massage therapists. Students also will participate in cooking classes, seminars by health professionals and other events, such as trips to farmers markets. Come midterms and finals, the residents will get visits from Stressbusters, a student group that provides free five-minute backrubs and other stress-relieving techniques. The students self-selected Rogers House as part of the housing application process and filled out a questionnaire as to why they wanted to live there. The option was open to both men and women. Shelly Fickau, director of Residential Life, said that her office wanted to put together like-minded individuals for a unique healthcentered experience that would encourage stress reduction, proper nutrition and other healthy habits.
“We wanted to give them an experience that they are not going to get anywhere else, and make some friends in the process,” Fickau said. “Residential Life is committed to healthy living. We’re constantly doing programming related to health in collaboration with the Center for Health Education and Wellness. The residence halls are where they live, grow and learn.” Carolyn Pearce, the resident adviser for Rogers House, said that the hall has already become a tight-knit community. The students take turns cooking, help cultivate the garden and often go in groups to the recreation center. Pearce said it feels like a home. “Everybody really wanted to live here and had similar objectives,” Pearce said. “There’s definitely been a big emphasis on learning to cook. We’re always trying new recipes.” Pearce said that while the house promotes healthy living, the students don’t have to deprive themselves of anything—they can indulge in sweets and snacks if they want. In other words, nobody gets voted out of the house for bringing home a 56-ounce bag of M&Ms. “We make these healthy options available to the residents, but it’s up to them to pursue aspects that they feel are healthy for them,” Pearce said. “Healthy living goes beyond eating; we promote more of a balanced lifestyle” Marie Hepfer, a physics major, said that she chose to live in Rogers House to help motivate her to exercise more. “I didn’t exercise enough last year, and it got to me,” Hepfer said. “ I did varsity sports in high school and don’t do sports here. I was missing that aspect of my life.” Hepfer said that she uses her fitness class pass for yoga sessions, and takes full advantage of the equipment in the basement. Pearce said that with the equipment just feet from the laundry room, students can take a 20-minute turn on the elliptical while they wait for their clothes to dry. The current plans, Fickau said, are to make Rogers House permanently the healthy living house, but the program could be expanded to other halls in the future. G
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roject MUSE, the acclaimed online collection of scholarly journals managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, has announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and offerings to libraries. Beginning next year, e-book collections will be available alongside MUSE journal collections, with an integrated discovery environment that allows for browsing and searching journal and book content side by side. The e-book program, called Project MUSE Editions, will offer titles published by the JHU Press as well as a growing number of participating publishers, including Baylor University Press, Brookings Institution Press, ELT Press, Indiana University Press, Kent State University Press, Penn State University Press, Purdue University Press and University of Illinois Press. A pioneering collaboration between the JHU Press and the univer-
sity’s Milton S. Eisenhower Library that began in 1995, Project MUSE currently publishes online more than 450 journals from more than 100 not-for-profit scholarly presses. “For 15 years, MUSE has successfully brought together publishers and libraries to develop a sustainable, innovative model for digital scholarly publishing,” said Dean J. Smith, director of Project MUSE. “Our future lies in leveraging our trusted relationships with both our library customers and participating presses into new product offerings that recognize the shared challenges faced by both these constituencies,” he said. “And our user community will benefit greatly from the integrated research opportunities presented by putting university press book content online alongside MUSE’s well-respected journal collections.” For more about Project MUSE Editions and the JHU Press, go to www.press.jhu .edu.
Peabody celebrates birthday of Arthur Friedheim Library
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I can work with the science chairs in a comprehensive fashion to help them attain excellence in all aspects of their mission, including teaching and research.” Currently, Ball and Tsai are working with Newman to convene divisional councils of chairs (in the sciences for Ball, the humanities and social sciences for Tsai), a step that Newman calls “pivotal” to the two-academic-year strategic planning process that began this month and which involves all departments and programs. The process, she says, will lay the groundwork for the future development of the Krieger School’s programs, faculty and students, and ensure that Johns Hopkins is poised to remain one of the nation’s leading academic institutions. “The strategic planning process involves all of the new vice deans and every single department and interdepartmental program in the Krieger School, and it challenges us to think critically about the future of our defined academic disciplines, as well as the new synergies that we may realize at their intersections,” Newman said. “Our goal is to at once nurture the traditional disciplines while realizing that they are not static and must move into the future. Exciting things are happening at the interstices between disciplines, and sometimes we will find we need to create new programs to accommodate them, or to find cross-fertilization in other fashions. It’s a very exciting time, that’s for sure.” Newman says that the new structure commits the same amount of faculty FTE (fulltime equivalent) to the KSAS “deanery” as there was in the past. The new configuration, she says, preserves the essential role of the vice deans as teachers and researchers, since all of them remain an active presence in the classroom. G
Named for pianist Arthur Friedheim, the library at Peabody holds roughly 30,000 books, 65,000 scores and 25,000 sound recordings.
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o celebrate the 20th “birthday” of Peabody’s Arthur Friedheim Library, the public is invited to an open house at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, during the Baltimore Book Festival on Mount Vernon Place. Remarks by Peabody Institute Director Jeffrey Sharkey and new head librarian Jennifer Ottervik will be followed by birthday cake. The state-of-the-art facilities for the music library were made possible by a $2 million gift from Eric Friedheim, for many years the owner and editor of Travel Agent magazine. In recognition of this gift, then the largest single donation in Peabody’s history, the library was named for his father, a student of Franz Liszt. Also opened in 1990 as part of the Friedheim Library were the P. William and Vera Ruth Filby Rare Book Room, the Joseph Meyerhoff Reading Room and the Marbury Room, a conference room on the second floor. Eric Friedheim’s widow, Edith, a former
concert pianist, is planning to attend Saturday’s open house. Born in Saint Petersburg, where he studied with Anton Rubinstein, pianist Arthur Friedheim (1859–1932) left Russia in 1878 to study with Liszt in Weimar. Though he continued to teach and compose, his celebrated career as a performer essentially ended with World War I and the associated anti-German sentiment. Friedheim’s son Eric (1910–2002), born in London and raised in Germany and the United States, became Washington correspondent and aviation editor for the International News Service, then enlisted in the Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor. In 1973, during his years with Travel Agent, he was the first American travel writer to report from the People’s Republic of China. The Friedheim Library’s holdings currently number roughly 30,000 books, 65,000 scores and 25,000 sound recordings. The library receives more than 200 periodicals. Parts for works with nine and fewer performers are lent by the library, while parts for works with more than nine performers are handled by Peabody’s Ensemble Office.
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ist in Technical Services, received the 2010 Distinguished Alumnus award from Harford Technical High School in Bel Air, Md. Bumford, a 1998 graduate of the school, was recognized for his “success and longevity in the field of machining and manufacturing.” Bruce Newhall , program area chief scientist in the National Security Technology Department, has been elected a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for his contributions to undersea surveillance sonar. Newhall was among 15 fellows chosen during the society’s spring meeting. He’ll receive the award during the group’s plenary session in October.
leaders’ contributions within their chapter, national ASHHRA and the human resources profession. Stephen Milner , professor of plastic surgery, pediatrics and dermatology and director of the Johns Hopkins Burn Center, has received an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Glamorgan in Wales. Milner, who is chief of the Burn Division and head of Plastic Surgery at Johns Hopkins Bayview, was recognized for his career as a surgeon and exceptional contributions to medicine. B. Lee Peterlin has joined the Johns Hopkins Headache Center as director of headache research. Her research interests have focused on the association between migraines and obesity, as well as the relationship of migraines with stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and abuse. Peterlin, an assistant professor, received her doctor of osteopathy degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, completed her residency in neurology and a neurophysiology fellowship at Penn State Hershey Medical Center and completed a headache fellowship at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER John Burton , professor of geriatric medi-
PEABODY INSTITUTE Soprano Jennifer Edwards , a Gradu-
Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent appointments and promotions. Contributions must be submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone number. APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY Brent Bumford , an experimental machin-
cine and director of the Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Education Center Consortium, and Jane Marks , associate director of the consortium, have received a five-year $2,094,412 award from the federal Health Resource and Services Administration to support geriatrics education outreach to physicians, nurses and other health care professionals throughout Maryland. Bruce Leff , associate professor of medicine and associate director of the Elder House Call Program, has received an appointment to the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program. This competitive and prestigious oneyear fellowship, sponsored by the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program and the Atlantic Philanthropies, gives professionals specializing in health and aging a unique opportunity to work on public policies affecting older Americans. Leff will focus his efforts on implementation of the Independence at Home Act that was part of the recently passed health care reform package. Matthew McNabney , assistant professor of geriatric medicine and gerontology and medical director of Hopkins ElderPlus, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the National PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) Association. McNabney has been medical director since 1998 of ElderPlus, which is the only PACE program in Maryland. James Miller , senior director of Personnel Services, was named the recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Chapter Officer Award by the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration. The award recognizes ASHHRA chapter
ate Professional Diploma candidate, made her debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop, at the BSO’s Gala Celebration Concert on Sept. 11. Edwards sang the aria (cantilena) movement from Villa-Lobos’ Bachiana brasileira No. 5. Also appearing at the concert were four guitar students of faculty artist Manuel Barrueco: Gonzalo Arias Contreras , Petrit Ceku , Jeremy Lyons and Marco San Nicolas . The four performed the allegretto from Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto Andaluz with the BSO. Colorfields, an orchestral diptych by Armando Bayolo , an adjunct faculty member in Music Theory, was performed by the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra under Maximiano Valdez at the Interamerican Festival for the Arts in San Juan on Sept. 4. Susan Forscher Weiss is one of three editors of Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, recently published by Indiana University Press. Weiss, who chairs the Musicology Department at Peabody and holds a joint appointment in German and Romance Languages and Literatures in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, also wrote the chapter “Vandals, Students or Scholars? Handwritten Clues in Renaissance Music Textbooks.” She will talk about and sign copies of the book at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, in Peabody’s Arthur Friedheim Library. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Duke Cameron , professor of cardiac sur-
gery, has been named chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery in the School of Medicine and cardiac surgeon in charge at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Cameron
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he Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has awarded predoctoral fellowships to 17 Johns Hopkins University students for the 2010–2011 academic year. The awards provide support for outstanding students who are committed to the discovery and/ or application of knowledge related to CLF’s two main program areas, Farming for the Future and Eating for the Future. Recipients of Farming for the Future Predoctoral Fellowships are Ann Carroll , Environmental Health Sciences; R i c a r d o C a s t i l l o , Epidemiology; Meghan Davis , Environmental Health Sciences; B e t h F e i n g o l d , Environmental Health Sciences; Jillian Parr y Fr y , Health Policy and Management; L i n n e a L a e s t a d i u s , Health Policy and Management; Yessika Mashins k i , Environmental Health Sciences; Melissa P o u l s e n , International Health; and Supriya Shah , Health Policy and Management. also will be co-director of the Heart and Vascular Institute, director of the Dana and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli Center for Aortic Diseases, director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and the James T. Dresher Sr. Professor of Surgery. Internationally renowned for his work in surgically repairing the heart’s main blood vessel to prevent catastrophic ruptures, Cameron began his Johns Hopkins career as a cardiac surgery resident in 1984. He has been interim head of the division since William Baumgartner , vice dean for clinical affairs, relinquished the post in 2009 after serving in it for 17 years. G a i l D a u m i t , associate professor of medicine; Guo-Li Ming , associate professor of neurology and neuroscience; and Shanthini Sockanathan , associate professor of neuroscience, have each received an independent investigator grant for mental health research from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the world’s leading charity dedicated to mental health research. Daumit, Ming and Sockanathan were among 42 innovative researchers selected from 217 applicants for the grants. The three grants total $300,000. Gar y Lees , associate professor, director of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine and head of the graduate program in medical and biological illustration, has received the 2010 Brodel Award for Excellence in Education from the Association of Medical Illustrators. The award is named for Max Brodel (1870–1941), founding director of Johns Hopkins’ Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, the first of its kind in
Recipients of Eating for the Future Predoctoral Fellowships are Megan Clayton , Health, Behavior and Society; Jennifer Hartle , Environmental Health Sciences; Holly Henr y , Health, Behavior and Society; Lisa Lagasse , Health, Behavior and Society; Rebecca Nachman , Environmental Health Sciences; Remle Stubbs-Dame , International Health; A m b e r S u m m e r s , Health, Behavior and Society; and Patti Truant , Health Policy and Management. Each CLF Predoctoral Fellowship award provides one year of support in an amount up to $60,000 to be used for tuition, stipend and/or research expenses, depending on individual needs. Students are eligible for support during any stage of their doctoral program and must be enrolled in any division of The Johns Hopkins University in a PhD, ScD or DrPH program. The program, now in its eighth year, is made possible through the generous support of an anonymous donor. the country. Lees, head of the department since 1983, received the AMI’s lifetime achievement award in 2002. The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Sleep Disorders Center has been named the best department of its kind in the country by ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine magazine. The publication said that the six-bed Johns Hopkins program “leads the way with a host of quality improvement projects.” Under Nancy Collop , its medical director, the six-member sleep staff “has implemented quality improvement programs to facilitate inpatients’ sleep in the neurology ward and medical intensive care unit,” the magazine noted, including efforts to reduce nighttime environmental noise by minimizing pages in patients’ rooms, floor cleaning and the like. UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION Gerard D. St. Ours , associate general
counsel, was elected to a three-year term as a member at large of the board of directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys during its 50th Anniversary Conference in Washington, D.C. Currently vice chair of the NACUA Committee on Legal Education, St. Ours has served on several of the organization’s committees and has been a frequent speaker at NACUA workshops and conferences. Milestones, which usually accompanies Cheers, will run in the Sept. 27 issue.
Researchers discover why some stem cells don’t change J
ohns Hopkins researchers have determined why certain stem cells are able to stay stem cells. The report in the June 4 issue of Cell Stem Cell reveals that an enzyme that changes the way DNA is packaged in cells allows specific genes to be turned on and off, thereby preventing a stem cell from becoming another cell type. Each cell has to fit in six feet of highly organized and carefully packaged DNA. Some regions of the DNA are more tightly compacted than others, and this structure is dynamic. There are specific enzymes that change how condensed the DNA is to help turn genes on and off. The genes that are turned off generally are found in tightly condensed DNA. To turn genes on, the DNA around those genes is loosened so that activators and other proteins can interact with the DNA. The Johns Hopkins researchers believed that restructuring the DNA by proteins that make up chromosomes could play a role in
deciding if a stem cell was going to change into another cell or stay a stem cell, since change in the DNA packaging would allow for many genes to be turned off and other genes to be turned on. By genetically engineering flies to lack several proteins involved in packaging DNA, in the stem cells of the testes in fruit flies, the research team found that if the enzyme NURF is removed from testis stem cells, the stem cells disappeared. A constant supply of stem cells in the testes is responsible for making cells that eventually become sperm. More staining of the testes with colored markers showed that these cells hadn’t gone away completely but were becoming another cell type, sperm cells. “This experiment was really hard to do,” said Erika Matunis, a professor of cell biology in the School of Medicine. “As soon as you remove NURF from these cells, they leave, so you have to take a lot of samples to
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see how the cells are moving, since we are not looking at living moving cells but rather individual flashes in time.” So how does NURF keep stem cells as stem cells? NURF can both turn on and turn off genes. “We still don’t know what is happening in this case with how NURF regulates genes to keep stem cells from changing,” Matunis said. Matunis’ group last year discovered proteins that were able to prevent stem cells from becoming other types of cells in the fruit fly testes. Now the scientists showed that these same proteins also work with NURF to keep stem cells from changing. “By any means, this isn’t the only pathway, though; it’s just the one we know more about,” Matunis said. “It’s probably a tangled hairball of all kinds of signals going on in these cells that prevent these stem cells from differentiating.” NURF keeps stem cells from changing in fruit fly testes, but whether NURF keeps
other stem cells from changing still needs to be tested. Matunis said she believes that proteins similar to NURF will factor into whether a cell decides to change or not in other cell types. In addition to Matunis, graduate student Christopher Cherry is an author on the paper. Funding for the research was provided by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. —Vanessa McMains
Related websites Erika Matunis:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/cellbio/ dept/MatunisProfile.html
‘Cell Stem Cell’:
www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell
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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#
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• 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.
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Thurs., Sept. 23, noon. “Regulatory Cascades Controlling Mosquito Reproduction,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Alexander Raikhel, UC Riverside. W1020 SPH. EB
“If You Only Have Time to Attend One Talk on Autophagy Today, This Is the One,” a Cell Biology seminar with Daniel Klionsky, University of Michigan. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Sept. 23, noon.
Thurs., Sept. 23, 12:15 p.m. “Entrepreneurship in Medicine, An Emergency Medicine Perspective,” a Health Policy and Management Fall Policy seminar with Joseph Fastow, Physician Management LTD. B14B Hampton House. EB Thurs., Sept. 23, 12:15 p.m. “Policy and Innovation: Are They Out of Sync?” an International Health seminar with Mary Moran, honorary senior lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB Thurs., Sept. 23, 1 p.m. “Toward Molecular Understanding of Chronic Pain,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Min Zhuo, University of Toronto. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Thurs., Sept. 23, 1:30 p.m. “Manifold Matching: Joint Optimization of Fidelity and Commensurability,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Carey Priebe, WSE. 304 Whitehead. HW
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The Randolph Bromery Seminar—“The Phoenix Inner Core—Convectively Induced Melting and the Structure of the Earth’s Inner Core and Lowermost Outer Core,” with Renaud Deguen, KSAS. 305 Olin. HW
Thurs., Sept. 23, 3 p.m.
“Closed-Loop Control of Turbulent Flows,” a CEAFM seminar with Mark Glauser, Syracuse University. 110 Maryland. HW
Fri., Sept. 24, 11 a.m.
Mon., Sept. 27, 12:15 p.m. “Cell Cycle Regulators in Neurogenesis and Cancer,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Rod Bremner, Toronto Western Research Institute. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., Sept. 27, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Neural Signal Integration in Pyramidal Neurons and Inhibi-
tory Interneurons in the Hippocampus” with Nelson Spruston, Northwestern University. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW “Where Are We With ‘Historical Avant-Gardes’? Italian Futurism in Historical Perspective,” a History seminar with Walter Adamson, Emory University. 308 Gilman. HW
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National Postdoc Appreciation BBQ, an outdoors buffet and raffle. Sponsored by JHPDA. Purchase tickets at the door, or in advance for discount. For ticket information, go to https:// sites.google.com/site/hopkinspostdocs/ home or e-mail postdoc@jhmi.edu. [Rain date is Sept. 24.] Turner Courtyard. EB Fri., Sept. 24, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Cheers! Traditional Tastings presents “Tasting 1: Mad About Madeira,” with guest Madeira connoisseur Mannie Berk, The Rare Wine Company. $12 admission, $8 for Homewood Museum members. Advance registration and payment required, online at brownpapertickets. com or by calling Homewood at 410-5165589. Homewood Museum. HW PDK Area Back to School Picnic, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins chapter of Phi Delta Kappa International. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) For information or to register, contact Yolanda Abel at yabel@jhu .edu or 410-516-6002. APL
Sat., Sept. 25, noon to 5 p.m.
SYMPOSIA Thurs., Sept. 23, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Fourth Annual Young Investigator Symposium on Genomics and Bioinformatics, with keynote speaker Tim Bestor, Columbia University, and featuring research discussions and a poster session by Johns Hopkins faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students. For the complete agenda, go to www.genomics .jhu.edu. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB W OR K S HO P S Tues., Sept. 21, 10:30 a.m. to noon, and Wed., Sept. 22, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
“RefWorks,” a workshop for MSE Library’s Web-based citation manager and bibliography creator. For information or to register, go to http://guides .library.jhu.edu/refworks. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW Tues., Sept. 21, 1:30 p.m. “Eyes on Teaching: Preparing a Course Syllabus,” a Center for Educational Resources workshop for faculty, postdocs and graduate students. To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW
September 20, 2010 • THE GAZETTE
Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT
Baltimore City (Old Pimlico Rd), furn’d 2BR, 2BA condo in secure community, nr light rail/Summit Park ES, free prkng, swimming, tennis. $950/mo incl utils. Tinghuai, 443-846-8750 or tinghwu@gmail.com. Baltimore City, updated 1BR condo in secure gated community, assigned prkng, swimming, tennis, nr hospital and university; option to own ($135,000). $1,200/mo incl utils. 410-951-4750. Bayview (300 blk Elrino St), spacious, bright 1BR apt, end unit, 2nd flr, living rm, hdwd flrs, walk to Bayview campus. $650/mo + utils. 410-633-3698 or fanauh2o@yahoo.com. Canton, rehabbed 2BR, 2.5BA TH, second BR good size office or child’s rm, great location nr JHH, avail Jan 1. Courtney, 410340-6762. Cedonia, 1BR apt w/new kitchen and BA, walk-in closet, W/D, priv entry, deck, landscaped fenced yd, free prkng, nr JHH/ Homewood/Morgan State and public transportation, pets welcome. $710/mo + utils. 410-493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com.
M A R K E T P L A C E
on monthly basis, safe, quiet neighborhood, walk to grocery, free prkng, 5 mins to metro station. hari.iyer16@gmail.com.
’01 Chevy Cavalier, automatic, blue, 2-dr, AC, needs muffler, 145K mi. $2,000/best offer. Laszlo, 443-825-2554.
Union Square, upscale and modern 1BR suite in Victorian TH in historic district, furn’d, flexible terms. $750/wk. 410-9883137, richardson1886@gmail.com or http:// therichardsonhouse.vflyer.com/home/flyer/ home/1931153.
’99 BMW 328i, maroon w/beige leather, premium sound, new battery and tires, excel cond, 42K mi. $10,000/best offer. alvin.stuff. for.sale@gmail.com.
Waverly (E 33rd St at Westerwald Ave), spacious, remodeled 4BR, 1.5BA TH, partly furn’d, W/D, CAC/heat, alarm, storage, new deck, garage, no smokers/no pets, 2 blks to YMCA/Giant. $1,450/mo + sec dep. e33rdstreet@gmail.com. Rm in new TH, 1-min walk to Human Resources at JHMI, must be nonsmoker, no pets. 410-456-1708 or xiaoningzhao1@ gmail.com.
1108 E Belvedere Ave, spacious 2BR, 1BA apt, controlled access, crpt, laundry and free storage in bsmt, pets OK under 35lbs, nr Square, 10-min drive to JHU. $840/mo + elec. 443-909-9681 or ambiva1982@gmail .com.
Cockeysville, 4BR, 2.5BA single-family house, hdwd flrs, deck, 1-car garage, great schools (Dulaney/Cockeysville/Warren), avail Oct 15. $2,000/mo + utils. 443-7682399 or gongjp1@hotmail.com.
HOUSES FOR SALE
Hampden/Medfield, 3BR house + office, furn’d/unfurn’d, laundry, priv prkng, walk to campus/shopping/public transit. $1,300/mo + utils. adecker001@yahoo.com. Little Italy TH. $1,800/mo. 410-578-0382 or quinnabato1@verizon.net. Mt Vernon, spacious studio, 2nd flr, nr Peabody, great location, perf for JHMI students or couples. $899/mo incl water. 443-6911439 or wjjhkust@gmail.com. Mt Washington, office in the Village, shared waiting rm. $675/mo incl utils and prkng. 410-852-8404 or dinahmiller@yahoo.com. Owings Mills, rm avail in single-family house Little Italy Rental - 3 level, 2 BD Renovated TWH featuring new kitchen, spacious tiled full BA, Rooftop decks & gas fireplaces! $1800 mo. + util. Deposit & ref. req. 410 578 0382 or quinnabato1@verizon.net.
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Share all new, refurbished TH w/other med students, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI (924 N Broadway). gretrieval@aol.com.
St Agnes Hospital area, 2BR, 1.5BA TH w/ club bsmt. $900/mo + sec dep ($900). 443244-5044.
Charles Village, refurbished, spacious 1BR apt in Tudor-style bldg, hdwd flrs, kitchen w/ new appls, high ceilings, 5-min walk to JHU shuttle/Homewood, lease Oct-Feb (renewable). $1,025/mo + utils. 443-248-1169 or mckeightley@hotmail.com.
Glen Burnie/Pasadena, waterfront w/boatlift, 2 lg BRs, 1BA, open flr plan. $1,800/mo. Frank, 410-980-0686.
Rm in sunny 3BR apt in Charles Village (St Paul St), share w/2 grad students, nr shuttle. $560/mo + elec. maryscott91@gmail.com.
CARS FOR SALE
3BR, 1.5BA house, new kitchen and BAs, 2-car garage, 15 mins to Bayview. $1,800/ mo. rubycell7103@gmail.com or https://sites .google.com/site/essexhouserental.
Ednor Gardens, 4BR, 2.5BA EOG TH, all appls, W/D, fin’d bsmt, fenced yd, nr Homewood and Eastern campuses, pets welcome. $2,000/mo + utils. mrochern@gmail.com.
piano and harpsichord lessons. 425-8901327 or qinyingtan@gmail.com.
ROOMMATES WANTED
Rodgers Forge, 3BR TH in family neighborhood, good schools, convenient location, no pets. $1,300/mo. bwverlywise@hotmail.com.
Charles Village, spacious 1BR, 1BA apt nr Homewood/JHMI shuttle. $780/mo + utils. cvillage27@gmail.com.
Ednor Gardens, 3BR, 1.5BA RH, avail Oct 15, hdwd flrs, updated kitchen and BA, W/D, deck, off-street prkng. $1,500/mo. Brady, 410-952-9324.
ITEMS FOR SALE
3-pc full-size bedroom set, headboard w/ drawers, bedframe, dresser w/mirror, chest; mattress not incl’d. $150. balt.furniture4sale@hotmail.com. Oak fireplace mantle, $100; table w/2 chairs, $65; also mahogany drop-leaf table, end tables, carved side chair. 410-889-1213 or judybyen@hotmail.com. Conn alto saxophone, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond. 410-488-1886. Gift card for Dick’s Sporting Goods, $105.98 value. $95/best offer (cash only). anuray6@ gmail.com. Sports equipment, full mattress and bedspring w/frame, coffeemaker, kitchen tools, dishes, computer case, more. zshah26@ yahoo.com (for complete list). 1918 Knabe reproducing upright piano w/bench, roll cabinet, 212 orig Ampico rolls, immaculately restored by orig owners. Estelle, 301-718-8898.
Arcadia/Beverly Hills (3019 Iona Terrace), spacious, renov’d 4BR, 2.5BA detached house in beautiful neighborhood, open kitchen/dining area, deck, landscaped, mins to Homewood campus. $229,900. 410-294-9220.
Lg collection of books, both new and old, fiction/nonfiction. $50. 443-912-3690.
Ellicott City, eco-energy-saving rancher, 3BRs + office, 2.5BAs, nr Patapsco State Park. $385,000. 410-313-8650 or irenamalak@ gmail.com (for info/booklet).
Looking for after school care for our children, ages 6 and 8, pick up from school Mon-Fri, 2:45-5:45pm, pref French spkrs, transportation and good driving record necessary; we can reimburse for gas. 443-4389259 or k_e_dooley@hotmail.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 w/carport, 15 mins to JHH. $142,000. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@ juno.com. Old Greenbelt (suburban DC), quiet 1BR, co-op handles most maintenance. $122,000. www.39hridge.com. Charming 3BR, 2BA condo, separate garage, walk to the university, great buy, low $200s. 443-848-6392 or sue.rzep2@verizon.net. 8 S Broadway, 5BR, 3.5BA house w/bsmt apt. $319,900. carriecluka@yahoo.com. Luxury high-rise condo, 1BR in secure bldg, doorman, CAC/heat, W/D, pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $180,000. norva04@ gmail.com. Large HFS in Timonium Heights - $289,900
Huge 6 BR/4 BA home--perfect for extended family, in-laws, roommate! LL set up as sep. living area w/kitchen, patio. 3 BR/2 BA, laundry, sep. entrance & meter! Move-in condition--freshly painted, new carpet! Deck off main level. Lg. hobby shop out-bldg., could be office/studio or convert to garage! 2 driveways for ample parking. Excellent schools and public transportation nearby! 240-472-0316 or vsk2004@hotmail.com
WYMAN COURT HICKORY HEIGHTS Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!
Studio from $570 1 BD Apt. from $675 2 BD from $785
Hickory Ave. in Hampden, lovely Hilltop setting!
2 BD units from $750, or, with Balcony - $785!
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Seeking piano teacher for student familiar w/the Taubman technique, student is 88 yrs old and lives in Homeland (Baltimore City); ideally lessons would take place in her home. 410-444-1273. Seamstress available for clothes alterations and window treatments. 443-604-2797 or lexisweetheart@yahoo.com. Prof’l Hopkins couple looking to house- or pet-sit in month of October, honest, capable, dependable, clean homeowners w/excel refs. 443-527-8869 or r1100r@gmail.com. Guitar lessons by accomplished guitarist w/5 yrs’ experience, seeking beginner and advanced students, all ages welcome, reasonable rates. 410-889-4228. Graduate student from Peabody offering
Expert clock restoration and repair. Rich, 215-465-5055 or rich@restoredclocks.com. Experienced, warmhearted teacher, TESOLcertified, avail to tutor children or adults in English, reasonable rates, refs provided. 828729-3280 or thejetsons2@mac.com. Transcription servics by JHU staff members-lectures, panel discussions, oral histories, etc; transcripts proofed, customized to your specs. 410-374-3561 or silverdune@hotmail .com. Benefit concert, Sunday, Oct 17, 3pm at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, musicians from the Washington Opera and Peabody grads, free admission. 410-366-4488 or aosbaltproject@gmail.com. Need a dynamic headshot for job interview or audition? Edward S Davis photography and videography. 443-695-9988 or eddaviswrite@comcast.net. Horse boarding and horses for lease, beautiful trails from farm; stall board, $500/mo or field board, $250/mo. 410-812-6716 or argye.hillis@gmail.com. Piano tuning and repair, PTG craftsman serving Peabody, Notre Dame, homes, churches, etc, in central MD. 410-382-8363 or steve@conradpiano.com. Quality, personalized horse boarding avail at Bel Air farm, lessons on our horse or yours w/qualified instructor. $325 (full care) or $250 (partial care). www.baymeadowfarm .net. Affordable landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also design, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410-683-7373 or grogan .family@hotmail.com. Loving dog walker avail day/eve, overnight sitting w/complimentary house-sitting services, impeccable references. 443-801-7487 or alwayshomepc@gmail.com. Licensed landscaper avail for scheduled lawn maintenance, other landscaping services, trash hauling, fall/winter leaf and snow removal. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-8126090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Free ballroom dancing and lessons (waltz, rumba, tango), Fridays at 8pm at JHU ROTC bldg, everyone welcome. 410-599-3725. Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free consultation. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@aol.com. Tutor avail for all subjects/levels; remedial and gifted; also help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design and programming. 410337-9877 or i1__@hotmail.com. Mature, reliable babysitter available, loves kids, has excel refs. 443-653-1908 or acc7802@hotmail.com. I need a used car, price below $5,000, w/ clean title, mileage less than 100K mi. 443909-6063. Graduate student w/master’s degree in piano performance from Peabody is offering piano and harpsichord lessons; call for an interview. 425-890-1327. Need papers typed? Editing help? Prof’l creative writer will assist. Alonzo, 443-6833023 or adljr@comcast.net.
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by Blakey Vermeule, Stanford University. Sponsored by English. 388 Gilman. HW Thurs., Sept. 23, 4:30 p.m.
“Making History: The Heading of the Res Gestae,” a Classics lecture by Tony Woodman, University of Virginia. 108 Gilman. HW “Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by historian Francois Dosse. Co-sponsored by the Centre Louis Marin. 479 Gilman. HW
Fri., Sept. 24, 4 p.m.
“Laws, Markets and Regulatory Culture: A Historian in Vain Pursuit of Social Theory,” an Anthropology colloquium with Harry Marks, SoM. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., Sept. 21, 4 p.m.
“The Many Faces of the Coordination Chemistry of Nitric Oxide and Its Significance for the Biosynthesis, Sensing and Detoxification of Nitric Oxide in Biological Systems,” a Chemistry colloquium with Nicolai Lehnert, University of Michigan. 233 Remsen. HW
Tues., Sept. 21, 4:15 p.m.
READ I N G S / B OO K TA L K S Mon., Sept. 20, noon. Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology and author of The Oyster Question, will discuss her book and plans for oyster aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay. Sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future. W3030 SPH. EB
“How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony,” a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Ross Duffin, Case Western Reserve University. Griswold Hall. Peabody
Wed., Sept. 22, 5 p.m.
World War II survivor Henny Brenner will read from her book, The Song Is Over: Survival of a Jewish Girl in Dresden. Co-sponsored by the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies and by German and Romance Languages and Literatures. Smokler Center. HW
Mon., Sept. 20, 5 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 23, 2 p.m. “The Art of the Possible,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Patricia Driscoll, Frontline Defense Systems. Kossiakoff Center. APL
Jean McGarry (see photo this page), professor in the Writing Seminars, will read from her latest novel, Ocean State. Sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries. Nolan Room, Gilman. HW
Wed., Sept. 22, 6 p.m.
C O N FERE N C E S
“How Did the Immune System Ever Become Related to Behavior?” a Psychiatry research conference with Keith Kelley, University of Illinois, editor-in-chief of the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity. 1-191 Meyer. EB Tues., Sept. 21, noon.
D I S C U S S I O N / TA L K S
“The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a CashStrapped Era,” a SAIS American Foreign Policy Program discussion of Michael Mandelbaum’s book of the same name, with Eliot Cohen, director, SAIS Strategic Studies Program; Eric Edelman, Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies; and Walter Shapiro, author and political columnist, Politics Daily. For information or to RSVP, e-mail kkornell@jhu .edu or call 202-663-5790. Rome Auditorium. SAIS
Mon., Sept. 20, 5:30 p.m.
Tues., Sept. 21, 9 a.m. “Challenges of Change: Religion, Secularism and Rights,” part of the SAIS Cultural Conversations series with various speakers. For information or to RSVP, go to https:// salsa.democracyinaction.org/ o/1657/p/salsa/event/common/ public/?event_key=62407. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS
“U.S. and EU Public Opinion: Issues and Implications,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Bruce Stokes, German Marshall Fund, and contributing editor, National Journal. For information, e-mail ntobin@jhu. edu or call 202-663-5796. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS
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Jean McGarry, a professor in the Writing Seminars, reads from ‘Ocean State,’ her latest novel. See Readings/Book Talks.
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“Bringing Science to Policy: The Use of Research by Public Health Advocacy Organizations to Advance Policy Solutions,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Jonathan Kromm. 250 Hampton House. EB
Mon., Sept. 20, 10 a.m.
the Systemic Consequences of the Slowly Abating Crisis and the Need to Reformulate the Case for Capitalism,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic. For information or to RSVP, go to http://transatlantic .sais-jhu.edu/events/2010/klaus .htm. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS We d . , S e p t . 2 2 , 1 2 : 4 5 p . m .
“Is Latin America Divided Ideologically and Does It Matter?” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Luis Maira, former minister of planning and cooperation of Chile and former Chilean ambassador to Argentina and Mexico. For information or to RSVP, e-mail jzurek1@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5734. 517 Nitze Bldg. SAIS “U.S.– Korea Institute at SAIS and Sejong Society,” a U.S.–Korea Institute at SAIS discussion with Pomnyun Sunim, chair, Good Friends and the Peace Foundation. For information or to RSVP, e-mail jhill50@ jhu.edu or call 202-663-5830. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS Thurs., Sept. 23, 6 p.m.
“Quebec and the United States: Open and Integrated Partners,” a SAIS Canadian Studies discussion with John Parisella, delegate general of Quebec in New York. For information or to RSVP, e-mail starr.lee@ jhu.edu or call 202-663-5714.
Fri., Sept. 24, 12:30 p.m.
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The Beatrice and Jacob H. Conn Lecture in Regenerative Medicine—“Reprogramming and Pluripotent Stem Cells” by George Daley, Harvard Stem Cell Institute/Harvard Medical School. Sponsored by the Institute for Cell Engineering. Owens Auditorium, CRB2. EB Tues., Sept. 21, 5:15 p.m.
“Fiction and Cultures,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Francoise Lavocat, Universite Paris 7–Denis Diderot. Co-sponsored by the Centre Louis Marin. 479 Gilman. HW “Fra Napoli e Gerusalemme: Erri De Luca e la scrittura come resto,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Myriam Ruthenberg, Florida Atlantic University. 479 Gilman. Wed., Sept. 22, 5:15 p.m.
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The Robert Resnick Lecture— “Invisible Cloaks and a Perfect Lens” by Sir John Pendry, Imperial College London. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Sponsored by Physics and Astronomy. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW Thurs., Sept. 23, 4 p.m. Tudor and Stuart Lecture—“Irony and Its Relation to the Unconscious”
the Genetic Resources Core Facility’s High Throughput Sequencing Center. Tilghman Auditorium, Turner Concourse. EB
“NMR Studies of Histone Chaperones and Nucleosomes,” a Biophysics seminar with Yawen Bai, National Cancer Institute. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
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Mon., Sept. 20, noon. “Higher Education and the Dropout Problem,” a Sociology seminar with Paul Attewell, CUNY Graduate Center/visiting professor at JHU. 526 Mergenthaler. HW Mon., Sept. 20, noon. “SREBP Controls Adaptation to Hypoxia in Fungi,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Peter Espenshade, SoM. W1020 SPH. EB Mon., Sept. 20, 12:15 p.m.
“Seeing Through the Eyes of a Fish: Developmental and Genetic Control of Opsin Gene Expression,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Karen Carleton, University of Maryland. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Application of Large Scale Whole Human Genome Sequencing,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Steve Lincoln, vice president, Complete Genomics Inc. Sponsored by
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1:30
p.m.
“Directing and Killing Cells With Surfaces,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Alan Russell, University of Pittsburgh. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW ) Mon., Sept. 20, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Visual Search Gets Real: From the Lab to the Airport to the Radiology Suite” with Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard School of Medicine. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW Mon.,
Sept.
20,
4
p.m.
“Bleached Bones and Unclaimed Corpses: Burying the Dead in 19th-Century Jiangnan,” a History seminar with Toby MeyerFong, KSAS. 308 Gilman. HW Mon., Sept. 20, 4 p.m. “Endpoint Strichartz Estimate for the Klein-Gordon Equation With Application,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Jun Kato, Nagoya University, Japan. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW Mon.,
Sept.
20,
4:30
p.m.
“Manifolds of Trees, With Possible Applications to Biology,” a Topology seminar with Jack Morava, KSAS. Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger. HW Tues.,
Sept.
21,
4:30
p.m.
“Improving the Weil Bound for Artin-Schreier Curves,” an Algebraic Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Daqing Wan, UC Irvine. Sponsored by Mathematics. 205 Krieger. HW Tues.,
Sept.
21,
4:30
p.m.
“Searching for Information in Very Large Collections of Spoken Audio,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Richard Rose, McGill University. B17 Hackerman Hall. HW Wed., Sept. 22, 12:15 p.m.
“Drug Abuse and Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention: An Overview of Study Findings,” a Mental Health seminar with William Latimer, SPH. B14B Hampton House. EB “Publishing Trends in Materials Science,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with David Flanagan, editor, Advanced Functional Materials. 110 Maryland.
Wed., Sept. 22, 3 p.m.
HW Wed., Sept. 22, 4 p.m.
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Calendar Key APL BRB CRB EB HW KSAS
(Events are free and open to the public except where indicated.)
Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Krieger School of Arts and Sciences PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of Engineering