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Experts look at civilians hurt supporting war

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fter analyzing data on 2,155 private contractors, diplomats and other civilians supporting war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan who were medically evacuated from combat zones, researchers have found that such civilians are more likely to be evacuNonmilitary ated for noncombat-related account for injuries but more great number likely to return to work in-country of those now after treatment for these conditions.

Still, the find­­­­­­­­­ deployed ings of the Johns Hopkins–led research team, published online in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, note that 75 percent of the nonmilitary group medically evacuated from the war zones to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany between 2004 and 2007 did not return to the field.

“Everyone is understandably focused on the troops, but wars have fundamentally changed. Today, roughly half of those deployed in Iraq and two-thirds in Afghanistan are not members of the military,” said study leader Steven P. Cohen, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. “These individuals are increasingly an integral part of the mission but have been almost completely ignored in the medical literature. That needs to change so that we can develop better methods of injury and disease prevention.”

Cohen suggests that money may be one main reason that nonmilitary personnel return to work more often than those in the military. “Private contractors and other civilian workers tend to have significantly higher salaries than soldiers, and if they don’t return to work on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan, they don’t get paid,” he said. Soldiers, by contrast, will still get paid even if Continued on page 10

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A conceptual drawing of the Cordish Lacrosse Center, as seen from Schelle Pavilion, highlights an abundant use of glass and a second-level patio that can accommodate spectators on game days. It’s scheduled to open after the 2012 season.

Cordish Lacrosse Center will be the first college facility of its kind

By Dennis O’Shea

Homewood

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or more than 100 years, Homewood Field has been the Yankee Stadium of college lacrosse: a comfortable nest for homestanding Blue Jays, a house of horrors for visiting teams.

But eventually, even Yankee Stadium needs an upgrade.

“We don’t stand on tradition alone,” university President Ronald J. Daniels said

in announcing that a new facility, the Cordish Lacrosse Center, will be built at Homewood Field’s east end as a new home for the women’s and 44-time national champion men’s lacrosse programs.

The $10 million 14,000-square-foot Continued on page 6

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Astrophysicist Riess wins the 2011 Einstein Medal Award recognizes work related in some way to that of the famous scientist

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dam Riess, an astrophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science

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Institute, on Friday was awarded the Einstein Medal 2011 by the Albert Einstein Society of Bern, Switzerland. The society’s board of trustees recognized Riess for leadership in the High-z Supernova Search Team’s 1998 discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, a phenomenon widely attributed to a mysterious, unexplained “dark energy” filling the universe.

Riess shares this year’s prize with Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley and the Law-

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rence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose Supernova Cosmology Project team published similar results shortly after those published by Riess and High-z teammate Brian Schmidt, of the Australian National University. The two teams shared The Peter Gruber Foundation’s 2007 Cosmology Prize—a gold medal and $500,000—for the discovery of dark energy, which Science magazine called “The Breakthrough Discovery of the Year” in 1998. The researchers also Continued on page 4

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Breast cancer patients with diabetes more likely to die

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reast cancer patients are nearly 50 percent more likely to die of any cause if they also have diabetes, according to a comprehensive review of research conducted by Johns Hopkins physicians.

The findings, published in the January issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, suggest that future research could focus on whether high levels of insulin in patients with type 2 diabetes could play a role in promoting tumor growth.

The researchers who conducted the review also found that diabetics tend to be diagnosed with later-stage breast cancers and to receive altered and potentially lesseffective treatment regimens.

“When patients are faced with a diagnosis of breast cancer, which they see as an imminent threat to their lives, diabetes care often goes on the back burner,” said study leader Kimberly S. Peairs, an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “This research suggests we may need to proactively treat the diabetes as well as the cancer,” she added, noting that diabetes is a systemic disease that has many different effects on the body.

Peairs and her team conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of previously published research on breast cancer and diabetes, ultimately looking in depth at eight studies. In six of seven studies of breast cancer patients, pre-existing diabetes was associated with significantly higher longterm all-cause mortality.

Diabetes and cancer are major causes of illness and death worldwide. In 2007 in the United States alone, roughly 24 million people had diabetes (about 8 percent of the population), and 2.5 million were survivors of breast cancer. Diabetics are known to have a higher risk of breast cancer, Peairs says.

Peairs says her research suggests that

diabetics diagnosed with breast cancer may get less-effective treatment because practitioners may be concerned about these patients suffering more side effects from chemotherapy or radiation treatments as a result of the metabolic condition. Patients also may be more likely to be hospitalized, get infections and/or become anemic, complicating their care. Peairs says that the higher death rate may also be linked to the fact that these patients come to breast cancer treatment less healthy than their counterparts without diabetes, which is associated with obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Women with diabetes may also be at greater risk of chemotherapy-related toxicity, which may explain—and even justify—some of the less-aggressive treatment, she says.

Peairs says that more research should reveal whether increased insulin production in type 2 (adult onset) diabetics contributes to worse outcomes among diabetic breast cancer patients. Small studies suggest that some diabetes drugs may be associated with worse outcomes for cancer patients, while other medications may actually improve survival.

She notes that the popular drug metformin, which makes diabetes patients more insulin-sensitive, thereby lowering the amount of unused insulin in the body, may be associated with better survival outcomes.

The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and American Cancer Society.

Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study are Claire F. Snyder, HsinChieh “Jessica” Yeh, Frederick L. Brancati and Antonio C. Wolff.

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n Feb. 22, 1876, The Johns Hopkins University opened with the inauguration of its first president, Daniel Coit Gilman. This Tuesday, the Homewood campus will celebrate the 135th anniversary of this historic day.

Students, faculty and staff are invited to stop by the Breezeway between 9 and 11 a.m. to pick up a Commemoration Day button and to visit the Glass Pavilion between noon and 2 p.m. for birthday cake and a walk down memory lane. Everyone is encouraged to show their school pride by sporting Johns Hopkins apparel as they view the exhibit of historical photographs and listen to student a cappella groups. Commemoration Day knit caps will be given out to the first 500 students wearing JHU attire (J-Card required).

The event is sponsored by Student Life, the Parents Fund and the Office of the Deans.

CareFirst Scholarships to aid Nursing master’s students

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n collaboration with CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing will offer two CareFirst Scholarships for the upcoming academic year.

The scholarship awards $40,000 in tuition and living expenses—for two years—to students in the master’s program who intend to become nursing faculty members upon graduation.

Getting this level of funding for two master’s students “is just phenomenal—I have no other word for it,” said Julie Stanik-Hutt, director of the master’s program. “And it’s even better in terms of preparing people to become faculty members. Every day we’re encountering more and more difficulty finding nursing faculty. Having this money for nurses who have an interest in teaching is invaluable.”

Scholarship recipients must enroll full time and complete the 12-credit Nurse Educator Certificate option as part of the master’s program. In addition, they must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and agree to teach at a school of nursing in Maryland, Northern Virginia or the District of Columbia for at least three years following graduation.

The scholarship aims to address the country’s growing nurse faculty shortage as part of the CareFirst Commitment Campaign.

Pianist Andre Watts to step in for Nelson Freire at SHCS

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ue to a flare-up of tendonitis and on the advice of his doctors, pianist Nelson Freire has had to cancel his North American recital tour in March. In Baltimore, the incomparable pianist Andre

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Watts will step in for a Shriver Hall Concert Series debut in a recital of works by Franz Liszt at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, in Homewood’s Shriver Hall. Tickets are $38, $19 for students.

Watts burst upon the music world at the age of 16, when Leonard Bernstein chose him to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic in its Young People’s Concerts, broadcast nationwide on CBS-TV. Two weeks later, Bernstein asked Watts to substitute for the ailing Glenn Gould with the Philharmonic, thus launching his career in storybook fashion. More than 45 years later, he remains one of today’s most celebrated pianists.

Azar Nafisi’s ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ now a chamber opera

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University of Maryland doctoral student and composer, Elisabeth Mehl Greene, has set SAIS faculty member Azar Nafisi’s bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran to music.

A free informal performance of Greene’s chamber opera took place Friday night in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and was followed by a discussion with Nafisi, Greene and opera director Leon Major.

The opera score draws inspiration from both the popular and folk music traditions of Iran, as well as music reminiscent of the literature discussed in Reading Lolita in Tehran, including Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Like the blending of past and present literary work in the novel, the music melds sounds from diverse geography and history into the contemporary opera form.

The libretto, co-written with IranianAmerican poet Mitra Motlagh, retells Nafisi’s experiences teaching Western literature after the Iranian Revolution, first in the classroom and then in secret to a group of young women students.

Brian Gragnolati to head new JHM Community Division

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rian Gragnolati, president and CEO of Suburban Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has been named senior vice president of the Johns Hopkins Health System. In his new position, Gragnolati will head Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Community Division, a newly established office designed to ensure greater systemwide clinical integration. The effective date of the appointment is March 1.

Gragnolati’s appointment follows similar recent moves by JHM to position itself to more effectively and efficiently deal with health care reform initiatives, an expanding JHHS health care delivery system and a marked growth in its international arm, Johns Hopkins Medicine International.

For details about the Community Division and Gragnolati’s appointment, go to www .hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases.

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eniors with hearing loss are significantly more likely to develop dementia over time than those who retain their hearing, a study by Johns Hopkins and National Institute on Aging researchers suggests. The findings, the researchers say, could lead to new ways to combat dementia, a condition that affects millions of people worldwide and carries heavy societal burdens.

Although the reason for the link between the two conditions is unknown, the investigators suggest that a common pathology may underlie both or that the strain of decoding sounds over the years may overwhelm the brains of people with hearing loss, leaving them more vulnerable to dementia. They also speculate that hearing loss could lead to dementia by making individuals more socially isolated, a known risk factor for dementia and other cognitive disorders.

Whatever the cause, the scientists report,

their finding may offer a starting point for interventions—even as simple as hearing aids—that could delay or prevent dementia by improving patients’ hearing.

“Researchers have looked at what affects hearing loss, but few have looked at how hearing loss affects cognitive brain function,” said study leader Frank Lin, assistant professor in the Division of Otology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “There hasn’t been much cross talk between otologists and geriatricians, so it’s been unclear whether hearing loss and dementia are related.”

To make the connection, Lin and his colleagues used data from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. The BLSA, initiated by the National Institute on Aging in 1958, has tracked various health factors in thousands of men and women over decades.

The new study, published in the February Archives of Neurology, focused on 639 people whose hearing and cognitive abilities were tested as part of the BLSA between 1990 and 1994. While about a quarter of the vol-

unteers had some hearing loss at the start of the study, none had dementia.

These volunteers were then closely followed with repeat examinations every one to two years, and by 2008, 58 of them had developed dementia. The researchers found that study participants with hearing loss at the beginning of the study were significantly more likely to develop dementia by the end. Compared with volunteers with normal hearing, those with mild, moderate and severe hearing loss had two-, three- and fivefold, respectively, the risk of developing dementia over time. The more hearing loss they had, the higher their likelihood of developing the memory-robbing disease.

Even after the researchers took into account other factors that are associated with risk of dementia, including diabetes, high blood pressure, age, sex and race, hearing loss and dementia were still strongly connected.

“A lot of people ignore hearing loss because it’s such a slow and insidious process as we age,” Lin said. “Even if people feel as if

they are not affected, we’re showing that it may well be a more serious problem.”

The research was supported by the intramural research program of the National Institute on Aging.

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Scientists warn against stifling effect of stem cell patenting ‘Science’ commentary calls for action to increase access to cells, data

By Michael Pena

Berman Institute of Bioethics

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n an opinion piece published Feb. 10 in the journal Science, a team of scholars led by a Johns Hopkins University bioethicist urges the scientific community to act collectively to counter the negative effects of the patenting and privatizing of stem cell lines, data and pioneering technologies.

This means grappling with the ambiguity of several fundamental distinctions typically made in ethics, law and common practice, the experts insist.

The team, led by Debra Mathews, of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, says that failure to properly manage the widespread patenting by both private and public organizations threatens to obscure what is and what isn’t in the public domain.

In addition, this disarray may well hinder progress toward breakthroughs that could lead to new treatments the public desperately wants.

“Pervasive taking of intellectual property rights has resulted in a complex and confusing patchwork of ownership and control in the field of stem cell science,” said Mathews, assistant director for science programs at the Berman Institute. “While intellectual property provides a critical incentive to take basic scientific discoveries and translate them into marketable products, transparency about such property is equally critical.”

The commentary was co-authored by Mathews; David Winickoff, an associate professor of bioethics and society at the

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ay Rala Xanana Gusmao, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, will speak at SAIS at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24.

The prime minister will discuss “Goodbye Conflict, Welcome Development: The Timor-Leste Experience.”

The event, hosted by the SAIS Southeast Asia Studies Program and Asia Society, will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to 202-663-5837 or seasia@ jhu.edu.

Related websites Debra Mathews:

www.bioethicsinstitute.org/ mshome/?ID=75 Science

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www.sciencemag.org/ content/331/6018/725.short

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www.aaas.org/news/releases/ 2011/0208hinxton.shtml

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www.hinxtongroup.org

University of California, Berkeley; Gregory Graff, an assistant professor at Colorado State University with expertise in intellectual property rights; and Krishanu Saha, a postdoctoral fellow in stem cell research at the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass.

“Following trends seen elsewhere in the sciences,” the authors write, “stem cell researchers—and the companies and universities for which they work—are increasingly taking private ownership of early-stage technologies, cell lines, genes and associated data.”

The tracking and trading of intellectual properties is much harder than the tracking and trading of other kinds of assets, such as real estate, according to Graff. Using the analogy of the Multiple Listing Service, the popular real estate website, he said that there is no equivalent public “MLS” that serves as a property records registry for stem cell researchers.

“The lack of transparency about who owns what intellectual property rights can hamper stem cell research and development, and so can the resulting ambiguity of the distinction between what is private property and what is in the public domain,” Graff said.

Further bogging down the field, the authors assert, is the increasing blurriness of two additional and fundamental distinctions. For one, they say, the boundary that separates what is “information” and what is “material” gets more obscure by the day.

Second, stem cells are not simply research material: All cell lines are derived from the tissues of human beings—people who may have an interest in the future of their genetic material and, by law, have certain personal rights that must be respected.

“Existing programs to reform science are based on a partial diagnosis of the problem,” Winickoff said. “We need a conceptual syn-

thesis that reflects how stem cells entangle persons and things, information and materials, property and the public domain.

“A real solution to the problem,” he continued, “will have to manage all three of these complexities together, and we think we have a pathway for doing that.”

The authors echoed a recent consensus statement issued by the Hinxton Group, an international consortium of experts in stem cell science, ethics and law, which decries the increasingly secretive climate created by excessive patenting and proprietary claims within the stem cell community.

“There are very real concerns in industry about freedom to operate and concerns about lawsuits down the line, once they’ve invested a huge amount of money—and then, a patent pops up that they didn’t know

about,” Mathews, a member of the Hinxton Group, said at a Jan. 24 panel discussion that coincided with the release of the consensus statement.

Both the statement and the Feb. 10 article in Science call for collaborative information and materials hubs that would broaden access and help clarify what types of information are rightly proprietary and what types are not. One such hub, the authors suggest, might take the form of a centralized portal for access to existing databases, such as the UK Stem Cell Bank and the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry.

The authors acknowledge that major challenges to the development of a centralized portal and similar resources include securing funding, designing and programming talent, and deciding who would provide ongoing administrative oversight.

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Johns Hopkins astrophysicist wins Sloan Research Fellowship

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adia L. Zakamska of the Krieger School’s Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins has received a Sloan Research Fellowship to continue her work that uses Earth- and space-based telescopes and large data sets to answer important questions about the universe and its origins.

Administered by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowship recognizes early-career scientists and scholars with two-year $50,000 grants aimed at helping them establish their laboratories and advance their research. Zakamska, 31, was one of 118 young scientists or economists to receive the award this year, in recognition of their potential to contribute to academic advancement. Since the Sloan Foundation began awarding fellowships in 1955, 38 recipients have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers.

“I am very excited to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship because I am looking forward to welcoming postdoctoral fellows and graduate student researchers into the group I am building at Johns Hopkins, and the grant will help sup-

port these ongoing efforts,” Zakamska said.

Zakamska accepted an assistant professorship at Johns Hopkins in July 2010.

She is spending this year as a research associate at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University, supported by the Fred Kavli Institute Fund, and will start full-time work on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in July 2011.

Zakamska earned her master’s degree in theoretical physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2001 and her doctorate in astrophysics from Princeton University in 2005. From 2005 to 2010, she was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., as both a postdoctoral fellow on a NASA Spitzer Fellowship and as a long-term member on a John N. Bahcall Fellowship. While at Princeton University, she was awarded the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship.

“The Sloan Fellowship is a fitting recognition of both Nadia’s accomplishments and her potential for the future,” said Daniel Reich, chair of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins. “We look forward to her continued development as a scientist and as a leader in her field.”

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shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in astronomy for the same discovery.

Riess will receive a medal at an awards ceremony scheduled to take place in May at the University of Bern.

“The discovery of the acceleration of the universe and its implications for the presence of dark energy suggest we indeed live in an interesting time,” said Riess, a professor of physics and astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins. “Although Einstein is considered the intellectual godfather of this discovery, I think even he would have been surprised to see it. As for me, I have been very fortunate to work with tremendous colleagues and have access to powerful facilities.”

The Albert Einstein Society, which is associated with the University of Bern, promotes Einstein’s legacy by annually awarding this medal to individuals who have done outstanding scientific work that is associated in some way with that of the famous scientist, according to Philippe Jetzer, president of the society’s board of trustees. The medal was awarded for the first time in 1979 to British theoretical physicist and author Stephen Hawking.

Other medal recipients have included Johns Hopkins alumnus and Princeton professor John Archibald Wheeler (1988), Nobel laureates Joseph Taylor (1991) and George Smoot (2003) and California Institute of Technology professor Kip Thorne (2009).

Riess’ accomplishments have been recognized with a number of other prestigious awards. In 2008, he won a $500,000 John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Grant, often referred to as a “genius grant.” That same year, he was among the 212 fellows elected to the 228th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to sharing the 2007

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Adam Riess is being recognized for his team’s discovery of ‘dark energy.’

Peter Gruber Foundation’s Cosmology Prize, in 2006 he won the $1 million Shaw Prize, considered by some to be “the Nobel of the East.” In 2009, Riess was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Riess led the study for the High-z Supernova Search Team of highly difficult and precise measurements—across 7 billion light-years—that resulted in the remarkable 1998 discovery that many believe has changed astrophysics forever: an accelerated expansion of the universe propelled by dark energy.

“We originally set out to use a special kind of exploding star called supernova to measure how fast the universe was expanding in the past and to compare it to how fast it is expanding now,” Riess said. “We anticipated finding that gravity had slowed the rate of expansion over time. But that’s not what we found.”

Instead, Riess’ team was startled to discern that the rate of expansion was actually speeding up.

“If you tossed a ball into the air and it kept right on going up instead of falling to

the ground, you’d be pretty surprised. Well, that’s about how surprised we were to get that result,” Riess said.

These startling observations sent the team back to the idea—first proposed by Albert Einstein but later rejected as his “biggest blunder”—that the so-called vacuum of space might produce a sort of “antigravity” energy that could act repulsively, accelerating the expansion of the universe.

“Suddenly, that idea made sense,” said Riess, who posits that dark energy may account for up to 70 percent of the universe.

However, exactly what dark energy is and how it behaves remain among the most pressing questions in astrophysics today.

“One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity,” he said.

“Currently, physicists have to choose between those two theories when they calculate something. Dark energy is giving us a peek into how to make those two theories operate together,” Riess said. “Nature somehow must know how to bring these both together, and it is giving us some important clues. It’s up to us to figure out what [those clues] are saying.” G

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Protein involved in CF plays role in other lung diseases

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team of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers has discovered that a protein involved in cystic fibrosis also regulates inflammation and cell death in emphysema and may be responsible for other chronic lung diseases.

The findings, published online in the December issue of The Journal of Immunology, pave the way toward new treatments to prevent lung damage caused by infections or cigarette smoke in emphysema.

The protein, called CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator), is already well-known for its role in transporting chloride in and out of cells. In cystic fibrosis, the protein’s chloride-carrying ability is absent due to genetic mutations, resulting in the buildup of thick sticky mucus in the lungs, which causes lung infections and breathing problems.

But the new Johns Hopkins study indicates that CFTR is involved in immune regulation and response on a far wider scale.

The research, conducted in mice and using lung tissue from people with and without emphysema, shows that those with lung damage from emphysema had less CFTR on the cell surface and that changes in the level of CFTR corresponded directly to disease severity. Decreases in CFTR also corresponded to increased buildup in the lung cells of a fatty molecule called ceramide, a well-known trigger of inflammation and cell death. Thus, the researchers said, by regulating ceramide’s inflammation-causing activity, CFTR appears to be a watchdog for inflammation and cell death.

“Our findings suggest that CFTR is a multitasker protein that is not only involved in chloride transport but also in regulating cell death and inflammation by keeping in check the rampant and dangerous accumulation of ceramide,” said principal investigator Neeraj Vij, a pulmonary researcher at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

To elucidate the role played by cigarette smoking—the leading cause of emphysema—the researchers analyzed CFTR and ceramide levels in lung tissue obtained from nonsmokers and from former or current light and heavy smokers. To further explore the link between cigarette smoke, CFTR and ceramide, the researchers compared lung tissue from mice with “virgin” lungs never exposed to smoke to tissue from the lungs of mice exposed to cigarette smoke for five hours a day over five days. The lungs of smoke-exposed mice had decreased CFTR expression and increased ceramide levels, thus confirming the role of cigarette smoke in lung damage. The heavier the smoking, the greater the lung damage, the lower the CFTR expression and the higher the ceramide accumulation, the researchers noted, clearly linking CFTR and ceramide levels to smoking history and disease severity.

Beyond clarifying the link between CFTR, ceramide and lung damage, the Johns Hopkins team explained just how CFTR causes ceramide to trigger lung-damaging inflammation. Analyzing lung cells from people and mice lacking CFTR in their cell membrane under a microscope and with a technique called flow cytometry that captures changes in inflammatory and protein markers, the scientists noticed increased clustering of ceramide molecules on sections of the cell membrane called lipid rafts, known to be hot spots where inflammatory signaling proteins congregate. This clustering, the researchers said, leads to increased inflammatory signaling, greater inflammation and cell damage, but cells with normal CFTR had no such clustering. When it is functioning properly, the researchers said, CFTR apparently keeps a lid on the signaling activity of inflammatory receptors by preventing them from clustering, thus warding off inflammation and lung damage.

“We anticipate that membrane CFTR and ceramide may turn out to be useful predictors of susceptibility to lung damage from smoking and infections and may be tailored for drug therapy to alter disease course,” Vij said.

To further test their hypothesis, the researchers used two types of ceramide inhibitors to treat mice with lung damage caused by a bacterial infection. One of the inhibitors, FB1, successfully decreased ceramide buildup in mice with intact CFTR but failed to stop ceramide accumulation in mice with absent CFTR, as is the case in CF. However, the other type of inhibitor, AMT, curbed ceramide activity in the mice with the absent CFTR, while failing to do so in those with decreased CFTR. “Each inhibitor appeared to be effective based on the levels of membrane CFTR and ceramide, suggesting two different therapies tailored to treat lung damage stemming from two distinct lung disorders: emphysema and CF,” said co-investigator Manish Bodas, a postdoctoral fellow in Vij’s lab at Johns Hopkins.

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute.

Co-investigators in the study were Taehong Min and Steven Mazur, both of Johns Hopkins.

—Ekaterina Pesheva

Related websites Neeraj Vij and his research:

www.hopkinschildrens.org/ Neeraj-Vij-PhD.aspx

web.jhu.edu/vij

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/21135173

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introduced by Nick Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Homewood Engineering. After the speech, Daniels and Jones will present the Blumenthal Award to rwin M. Jacobs, co-founder of Qualcomm, Jacobs. will be the honored guest and speaker The lecture series was conceived by Sydon Tuesday, March 1, at a technology ney Blumenthal, who earned an electrical management lecture and award program engineering degree at Johns Hopkins in established by a Johns Hopkins 1937 and went on to become graduate and his wife. chairman of the Blumenthal This year’s Sydney and Mitzi Khan Electrical Limited PartBlumenthal Lecture and Award nerships, a contracting comfor Contributions to Managepany based in Owings Mills, ment in Technology program Md. will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the In 1993, he and his wife, main auditorium, room B17, of Mitzi, endowed the award and Hackerman Hall on the Homelecture to enrich the educawood campus. A reception will tional experience at Johns follow.

Hopkins. The lecture allows Jacobs will discuss the evo- Irwin Jacobs students to hear distinguished lution—since the founding of speakers talk about subjects Qualcomm 25 years ago—of wireless telesuch as business management, entrepreneurphone technology, its growth beyond 5 ship, law and ethics, and how these topics billion subscribers and its expanding impact apply to engineering and technology. on machine-to-machine communication, Sydney Blumenthal died in 1999, and his telemedicine, education and virtual reality. widow has continued to support the pro His talk is titled “Innovation Underlying gram, which has brought prominent speakthe Exciting World of Wireless: Technology, ers from business and government to the Devices, Platforms and Applications.”

Homewood campus.

The Blumenthal Lecture program will Those who expect to attend Jacobs’ lecture open with remarks from university President are asked to place a reservation by calling 410Ronald J. Daniels, and the speaker will be 516-8723 or e-mailing engineering@jhu.edu.

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opular Baltimore DJs Jojo Girard, Reagan Warfield and Sarah Jacobs of MIX 106.5 will join Johns Hopkins Children’s Center patients, faculty and staff to mark the start of the 22nd annual radiothon to benefit the children’s hospital.

In a new twist this year, the MIX 106.5 Radiothon will take place over three weekdays ending on Friday instead of four days that conclude on Sunday. The broadcast begins at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, and continues through 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 25.

The radiothon has raised more than $13.1 million for Hopkins Children’s since its debut in 1989.

“Radiothon is the cornerstone of our fundraising, and we are grateful for the unwavering support of our friends at MIX 106.5,” said George Dover, director of Hopkins Children’s. “Year after year, the dedication and talent of our friends at MIX capture

the story of Hopkins Children’s in a heartfelt way to garner the support of our community.

“While radiothon funds help Hopkins Children’s pursue new treatments and discoveries for childhood illness and injury, these dollars primarily improve the care we provide and the hospital experience for our young patients and their families,” Dover added.

Girard, who has been involved in the broadcast since its inception, said, “Broadcasting live for three days from the hospital, meeting all the families [and] the nurses, can be demanding emotionally and physically, but telling their stories to the world and being able to rally the support of the listeners is one of the most exhilarating and rewarding experiences you can have.”

The MIX 106.5 Radiothon is part of the ongoing “Caring for Kids” multimedia campaign to benefit Hopkins Children’s patients and their families. Another component of the initiative is the annual special with WMAR-TV, which will air at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 25.

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President Ron Daniels, David Cordish and men’s lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala before the news conference announcing the Cordish Lacrosse Center.

Lacrosse Continued from page 1 facility “will once again set us apart from every other collegiate team in the country,” Daniels said.

The first facility of its kind, built solely for a university’s lacrosse programs, the Cordish Center will house locker rooms and coaches’ offices for the men’s and women’s teams, a 50-person theater, a conference room, an academic center and a training room.

A reception area on the second floor will lead to a patio overlooking the field that can be used for receptions and for game day

spectators. On the field level, exhibits will chronicle the history of both programs.

The center will be named for David Cordish, chairman of the Cordish Cos., a 1960 Johns Hopkins graduate, three-year lacrosse player and lead donor to the project. Lacrosse alumni Dennis and David Townsend and Joe Cowan and alumnus Ralph O’Connor were also major contributors.

The building “will give our recruits— from the moment they start dreaming about the Homewood campus—a sense of what lacrosse means at Johns Hopkins,” Daniels said. “It will give thousands of our lacrosse alumni a home to which they can return to reconnect with this sport and this university.”

Women’s lacrosse coach Janine Tucker gives a hug to Tom Calder, director of Athletics. On the stand is a drawing of the building as seen from Homewood Field.

A ceremonial groundbreaking is planned for halftime of the Johns Hopkins–Navy men’s game on April 23, but construction will begin in earnest after commencement.

The teams will occupy the center after the 2012 season.

“Isn’t this fabulous?” women’s coach Janine Tucker said at a news conference last week where artists’ renderings of the building were released to the news media.

“Everyone’s so calm,” said Tucker, speaking after Daniels, Athletics director Tom Calder and men’s coach Dave Pietramala.

“I’m freaking out!”

Tucker joined Pietramala in conveying thanks from their teams and alumni to the donors, to President Daniels and to the entire university.

“This transformative facility will have an immediate impact on the experience of our student-athletes, alumni, fans and recruits,” Pietramala said. “The Cordish Lacrosse Center—dedicated solely to our lacrosse programs—clearly demonstrates Johns Hopkins’ unrivaled commitment to men’s and women’s lacrosse.”

Completion of the Cordish Center will also benefit other Johns Hopkins athletes.

The NCAA Division I lacrosse squads currently share space in the Newton H. White Athletic Center with the university’s 22 other sports programs. When the lacrosse teams move out, space they now occupy will open up to some of Johns Hopkins’ other teams, which compete with great success in NCAA Division III. G

February 21, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

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he Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Leadership Council is seeking nominations for its ninth annual Diversity Recognition Awards.

These awards recognize exceptional contributions of faculty, staff and students in advancing and celebrating diversity and inclusiveness at Johns Hopkins.

Faculty, staff and students from all divisions of Johns Hopkins are eligible to receive the award, with the exception of current members of the Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Leadership Council. Previous award recipients are eligible six years after receiving their last award.

Individuals may nominate themselves, or be nominated by any member of the Johns Hopkins community. The criteria for this award are a demonstrated com-

mitment to the advancement of diversity, inclusion and/or multiculturalism, and specific efforts and activities supporting diversity and inclusion that are above and beyond the nominee’s regular duties and responsibilities.

The nomination form can be found online at jhuaa.org/nomination2011.html.

Completed nominations and any inquiries should be sent to dlc-awards@jhu.edu or Johns Hopkins University Office of Institutional Equity c/o DLC, 3400 N. Charles St., 130 Garland Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218.

The deadline for receipt of nominations is Friday, March 18. The award ceremony will be held at noon on Wednesday, May 4, in the Glass Pavilion on the Homewood campus.

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Nominations sought for 2011 Diversity Recognition Awards

President Ron Daniels has an informal ‘fireside chat’ and answers questions from students in Charles Commons.

JHU Press wins two prestigious Settling in for a ‘fireside chat’ 2010 PROSE Awards

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resident Ron Daniels sat down for a “fireside chat” with Homewood undergraduates last week as part of Charles Commons Connections, a program launched in 2006 to foster community at Johns Hopkins. The event was held at the Charles Commons residence hall’s Salon C, located behind the Nolan’s on 33rd restaurant.

Daniels, dressed in jeans and a sport coat, spoke for 25 minutes about his life before Johns Hopkins, as the “accidental academic” who became a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, then the school’s dean and later provost at the University of Pennsylvania

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wo JHU Press publications are winners of the prestigious 2010 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, known as the PROSE Awards. Mammal Teeth: Origins, Evolution and Diversity, by Peter S. Ungar, won the PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences category. The Journal of Late Antiquity received the PROSE Award for Best New Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The awards were presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers during the PSP Annual Conference held Feb. 3 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Mammal Teeth provides an impressive and comprehensive exploration of the evolution of mammals, including humans, through the prism of dental change. Synthesizing decades of research, Ungar reveals the interconnections among mammal diet, dentition and evolution. He describes how the simple conical tooth of early vertebrates became the molars, incisors and other forms seen in mammals today. The author is Distinguished Professor and chair of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. The book was acquired for the JHU Press by executive editor Vincent J. Burke.

The Journal of Late Antiquity is the first international English-language journal dedicated to the study of Late Antiquity writ large. With the goal of highlighting the status of Late Antiquity as a discrete

historical period in its own right, JLA provides a venue for multidisciplinary coverage of all the methodological, geographical and chronological facets of the relevant scholarship. Ralph W. Mathisen, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, serves as the journal’s editor. It was acquired for publication at JHU Press by journals publisher William M. Breichner.

The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry. AAP’s more than 300 members include most of the major commercial publishers in the United States, as well as smaller and nonprofit publishers, university presses and scholarly societies.

before joining Johns Hopkins in 2009 as president.

In keeping with the tradition of fireside chats, Daniels sat in a cozy chair flanked by a cardboard fireplace brought in for the occasion. After the informal talk, he fielded questions—ranging from the personal to the administrative—from the 65 gathered students.

The fireside chats were started in 2009 and have so far featured Susan Boswell, dean of student life; Paula Burger, then dean of undergraduate education; and Michela Gallagher, vice provost for academic affairs. The next chat could take place later in the spring semester.

—Greg Rienzi

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Cheers

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

BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Eric Howell , associate professor, chief of

the Division of Hospital Medicine and deputy director of Hospital Operations for the Department of Medicine, received the Outstanding Hospitalist Achievement Award from the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians on Feb. 4.

Cynthia Rand , professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and deputy director for patientcentered care, will receive the Vice Dean’s Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty on March 1. Rand has a long track record of individual research accomplishments and of acting as a mentor to other investigators.

JOHNS HOPKINS HEALTH SYSTEM Rabbi Tsvi Schur has received the Rab-

binical Council of America’s 2011 Health Care Chaplain of the Year Award. Schur has served as a Jewish chaplain for more than 30 years and is an integral member of the spiritual care team in the Department of

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

ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS

30 years of service E s t e p , Deborah, Jhpiego 20 years of service J o h n s o n , Stacy, Center for Talented Youth L o n s d a l e , Vilma, Center for Talented Youth 15 years of service B r e i c h n e r , William, Johns Hopkins University Press S i e v e r s , John, Jhpiego W a l s h , Margaret, Center for Talented Youth 10 years of service B l o u g h , Mary, Jhpiego K a m b o n , Khari, Center for Talented Youth S i m s , Wynette, Center for Talented Youth BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Retiree C a s e y , Roberta, 30 years of service, International Health

Pastoral Care. He also served as the Jewish Community Services chaplain in Baltimore from 1998 to 2010.

PEABODY INSTITUTE Sarah Hayashi , a sophomore, was a final-

ist in the live preliminary round of the magazine Classical Singer’s University Competition, which gives out more than $2 million in cash prizes, university scholarships and summer program scholarships. She will compete in the second round in Los Angeles on May 20.

Ildar Khannanov , a Music Theory faculty member, has published an article, “Existential Signification: The Abyss Between Chopin’s Mazurkas, Op. 6, No. 1 and Op. 68, No. 4,” in the Russian journal Problemy Muzykal’noi Nauki.

Jason Kim , a senior and cello student of Alison Wells , was selected to take part in the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Mannes College The New School for Music, under the direction of Jamie Laredo. The seminar brought together 45 string players and 18 wind and brass players, ages 15–22, who performed at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 24 and 28.

Stacey Mastrian , who teaches singing in Italian and Italian song at the Conservatory, was a soloist from Jan. 28 to Feb. 5 in performances of Luigi Nono’s opera Intolleranza at Teatro La Fenice in Venice. She also covered the female lead.

SAIS Michael G. Plummer , the Eni Professor

10 years of service L o v c h i k , Janece, International Health P a r s o n s , Timothy, Communications and Public Affairs S i m p s o n , Brian, Communications and Public Affairs W e b e r , Sherry, CCP 5 years of service Bridget, International Health O p p e n h e i m , Donna, Health Behavior and Society W a n g , Yuehong, Information Systems W e r a p i t i y a , Deepthi, Academic Affairs McMahon,

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15 years of service G r e e n b e r g , Robin, Business and Financial Services HOMEWOOD STUDENT AFFAIRS

10 years of service B u f f a l i n , Deborah, Digital Media Center 5 years of service O l s e n , Jill, Athletics and Recreation KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

25 years of service H o e n , Timothy, Biophysics 20 years of service T i l l e t t , Yolanda, Development 10 years of service Grant, Advanced Academic Programs D i x o n , William, Physics and Astronomy Barrus,

5 years of service Tami, Sociology P a t t i s o n , Viveca, Film and Media Studies

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of International Economics at SAIS Bologna (on leave of absence) and head of the Development Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, will be a distinguished speaker at the Singapore Economic Review Conference 2011, to be held Aug. 4 to 6 in Singapore. The Singapore Economic Review is a leading journal in economics in Asia. More than 300 economists from nearly 40 countries are expected to attend the conference, whose past speakers include Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Edward Prescott, and editors of major economics journals. Author of several books and many articles on economic integration and trade, Plummer is also editor in chief of the Journal of Asian Economics and an international advisory board member of the ASEAN Economic Bulletin and World Development.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Norm Barker , an associate professor in

Pathology and in Art as Applied to Medicine, and director of the Pathology Photography and Graphic Arts Laboratory, has been named by the BioCommunications Association to represent it on the board of the Journal of BioCommunication. Barker was honored in 2008 with BCA’s highest honor, the Louis Schmidt Award, for his outstanding contributions to the progress of communications in the life sciences. He also has received numerous awards at BCA’s BioImages, an annual juried competition for biomedical photographers.

25 years of service D i B l a s i o , Sandra, Clinical Practice Association 20 years of service D a m e r o n , June, Cardiology M c N a i r , Kay, Oncology S o w a r d s , Kimberly, Gynecology and Obstetrics W e t z e l , Kathleen, Radiology

Daniel Berkowitz , professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and R o b e r t H i e n z , associate professor of behavioral biology, have been appointed to leadership posts in the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Houston.

Berkowitz will be associate leader of the NSBRI’s cardiovascular alterations team, helping to manage scientists at five institutions, including Johns Hopkins, work on six research projects seeking to determine the effect of long-duration spaceflight on the heart and blood vessels. Hienz, who is a member of the Behavioral Biology Research Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview, will be associate leader of the psychological factors team. He will help manage eight projects at five institutions, Johns Hopkins included, that seek to identify how stress and isolation affect crew health, safety and productivity during long-duration space missions.

Peter Burger , professor of pathology, neurosurgery and oncology and director of Surgical Neuropathology, has received the NeuroOncology Lifetime Achievement Award from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University.

Michael Choti , professor of surgery and oncology, vice director of the Department of Surgery, and director of the Johns Hopkins Colorectal Center, has become president of the International Society of Gastrointestinal Oncology. The 950-member ISGIO Continued on page 9

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Jonathan, Oncology Ricki, Cardiology S t a h l , Jessie, Radiology S t e v e n s o n , Robert, Anesthesiology and Critical Care W i l l i a m s , Lashelle, Cardiology X u , Linping, Oncology Ya f f e , Linda, Safety Information Technology Smith,

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15 years of service A d d i s o n , Bonnie, Pulmonary J o h n s o n , Emma, Clinical Practice Association J o n e s , Carolyn, Facilities M i n e r , Nathan, Registrar’s Office S e b a l d , Suzanne, Molecular Biology and Genetics Ta n g , Xiao, Neurology 10 years of service Terrence, Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences G r a h a m , Telisa, Infectious Diseases H a r r i s o n , Tara, General Internal Medicine M e r r y m a n , Mary, Gynecology and Obstetrics P r u n e a u , Pauleanne, Pediatrics R a m s e y , Nicole, Neurosurgery S a u n d e r s , Rosalee, Facilities Caldwell,

5 years of service A l b a n , Phyllis, Continuing Medical Education A v a r a , Kathleen, Cardiology B o g g s , Christopher, Ophthalmology C a p o t e , Christine, General Administration, Chairman’s Office C o o k , Courtney, General Internal Medicine C r a i g , Therese, Safety Occupational Health Services G o t t s , Julia, Clinical Practice Association G r a , Robert, Oncology I k e , Yoko, Cell Biology J a c k s o n , Pamela, Otolaryngology J o h n s o n , Latisha, Chemical Dependency L i n d e n , Katherine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care M a n i s , Colleen, Cardiology M e t z b o w e r , Elizabeth, Ophthalmology M o r a l e s , Lisa, Cardiology N e a l l y , Kim, Endocrinology N i c k e n s , Aaron, Facilities N i c o l o s i , Susan, Human Resources R e e d , Susan, Surgery

15 years of service G r a y , Jacquelin, Development 10 years of service A l t o n , Denelle, Admissions SHERIDAN LIBRARIES/JHU MUSEUMS

10 years of service A n a b a , Mercy, Sheridan Libraries D o l a n , Shellie, Sheridan Libraries 5 years of service G a r a , Jeff, Sheridan Libraries O s b o r n , Donald, Sheridan Libraries UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

35 years of service M o r r i s , Barbara, Controller 15 years of service Magellan, Facilities O ’ N e i l , Rose, Controller S c h r o e d e r , Frederic, III, Office of the Sr. Associate Vice President Mariano,

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Cheers Continued from page 8 is the first global educational organization committed to GI oncology and the only society dedicated to the multidisciplinary management of GI cancer.

Joshua M. Epstein , professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, has been appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Identifying and Prioritizing New Preventive Vaccines for Development.

Epstein will serve a 16-month term on the committee.

Steven Goodman , professor of oncology, epidemiology, pediatrics and biostatistics, has been appointed to the 15-member Methodology Committee of the new federal Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. PCORI was established under the federal health reform act to guide standards for accurately comparing medical treatments. It seeks to help caregivers and patients make health care decisions by facilitating the use of current outcomes research that specifically includes comparisons of various treatments.

Anthony Kalloo , professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, has been named one of the 75 best gastroenterologists in America by Becker’s ASC Review, a Chicago-based publication that provides general news, analysis and insight on such specialties as gastroenterology, bariatrics, orthopedics/spine, neurosurgery, pain management, ophthalmology, ENT and anesthesiology. The list was created through extensive research and recommendations from around the nation.

The top gastroenterologists are chosen for their leadership of the work of such organizations.

Petros Karakousis , assistant professor of medicine and international health, has received a four-year $2.1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to use a systems biology approach— linking biologists, computer scientists and engineers—in Johns Hopkins’ Center for Tuberculosis Research to study the mechanisms of TB latency and reactivation.

P a u l L a d e n s o n , professor of endocrinology, medicine, pathology, oncology, radiology and international health, has been named director of JHM International’s Trinidad and Tobago Health Science Initiative diabetes outreach program. Ladenson sucF E B .

Calendar Continued from page 12 Optimization,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Shiqian Ma, Columbia University. 304 Whitehead. HW “Imaging and Genetic Analysis of Peripheral Nerve Development in Zebrafish,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Bruce Appel, University of Colorado School of Medicine. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.

Tues., Feb. 22, 4 p.m.

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“Entrainment to the Other in Conversational Speech,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University. B17 Hackerman. HW Wed.,

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Wednesday Noon Seminar— “Can Genetics Explain the Heterogeneity of Psychiatric Illness?

The Case of Schizophrenia” with Ayman Fanous, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics. Sponsored

by Mental Health. B14B Hampton House. EB Wed., Feb. 23, 12:15 p.m. “A Subversive View of Global Health,” a Center for Global Health seminar with Stephen Lewis, co-founder and co-director, AIDS-Free World. W1214 SPH. EB Wed., Feb. 23, 1:30 p.m. “Mapping, Rewiring and Evolving Bacterial Signaling Pathways,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Michael Laub, MIT and HHMI. 701 WBSB. EB

“Personalized Genomic Medicine: Latent Variable Models for Assessing Individual Drug Sensitivity and

Wed., Feb. 23, 4 p.m.

for Predicting Hereditary Disease Risk,” a Biostatistics seminar with W. Evan Johnson, Brigham Young University. W2030 SPH. EB Thurs., Feb. 24, 10:45 a.m.

“Get Another Label? Improving Data Quality and Machine Learning Using Multiple, Noisy Labelers,” a Computer Science seminar with Panagiotis Ipeirotis, New York University. B17 Hackerman. HW Thurs., Feb. 24, noon. “Mechanisms of Host Defense Against Intestinal Worm Infection,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Fred Finkelman, Children’s Hospital Medical Research Foundation. W1214 SPH. EB

“How Does Initial Treatment Choice Affect Short-Term and LongTerm Costs for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer,” a Health Policy and Management seminar with Kevin Frick, SPH. Part of the LunchLearnLink series. W1214 SPH. EB Thurs., Feb. 24, noon.

“Outcome Expectancies and the Mysterious Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Reinforcement Learning,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Geoffrey Schoenbaum, University of Maryland.

West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

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“Large-Scale Optimization With Applications in Compressed Sensing,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Fatma Kilinc Karzan, Georgia Institute of Technology. 304 Whitehead. HW Thurs., Feb. 24, 3 p.m. “The Economic Burden of MRSA in Europe: A Swiss Case Study on Sources of Bias, Cost-Effectiveness and Organizational Factors Affecting Hospital Policy,”

ceeds Christopher Saudek, the prominent endocrinologist and pioneer of the implantable insulin pump, who died in October.

J u n L i u , professor of pharmacology, molecular sciences and oncology and director of the Johns Hopkins Drug Library, has received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for his internationally recognized creativity in pharmacological research and discovery. The award carries a five-year $2.5 million research grant for Liu, who proposes designing and creating a new series of novel drugs. He has specialized in finding new uses for often-forgotten drugs.

Cynthia Salorio , assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, has received a $50,000 grant from the Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science and Technology Development and the Maryland Biotech Center to help her develop the commercial potential of a programmable vibrating wristband she designed to treat neurological motor disorders. The noninvasive device aims to aid patients who have had an injury to the brain that results in hemiplegia, a condition marked by severe motor deficits on one side of the body. Salorio’s invention, called ArmAware, helps send signals to the brain that increase awareness of the affected arm and thereby foster long-term recovery.

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SCHOOL OF NURSING Pamela Jeffries , associate dean for aca-

demic affairs, has been recognized for her role in developing and advancing the field of simulation in nursing with a Presidential Citation from the International Society for Simulation in Healthcare. The presentation of the award was made at the society’s annual meeting in New Orleans in January.

The Society for Simulation in Healthcare represents the largest-growing multiprofessional group of educators and researchers who use simulation techniques for education, testing and research in health care.

More than 2,800 members aim to improve performance and reduce errors in patient care using methods that leverage simulation and its associated technologies to their fullest extent.

SHERIDAN LIBRARIES/JHU MUSEUMS Earle Havens has been appointed the

William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Sheridan Libraries.

Liz Mengel , head of Collection Management at the Sheridan Libraries, has been appointed a permanent member of the Association of Research Libraries’ Library Assessment Planning Committee.

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an International Health thesis defense seminar with Ananthram Murthy. W3031 SPH. EB Thurs., Feb. 24, 3 p.m. “Shear Thickening in Concentrated Suspensions and a General Stress Equation for Particulate Fluids,” a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Eric Brown, University of Chicago. 210 Hodson. HW Thurs., Feb. 24, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., and Fri., Feb. 25, 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The Futures Semi-

nar—Department of Political Science with featured speakers Jacob Hacker, Yale University; Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University; Dan Slater, University of Chicago; and Neta Crawford, Boston University. Mason Hall Auditorium (Thursday) and Charles Commons (Friday). HW

“Structural and Functional Aspects of Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions in Innate Immunity,” a Biology seminar with Gerardo Vasta, University of Maryland School of Medicine. 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., Feb. 24, 4 p.m.

“Energy Efficiency: From Fundamental Physics to Power Systems,” a CEAFM seminar with Dennice Gayme, Caltech. 110 Maryland.

Fri., Feb. 25, 11 a.m.

HW

“Vitamin D Supplementation in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Pharmacokinetic and Safety Studies,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Daniel Roth. W4013 SPH. EB

Mon., Feb. 28, 10 a.m.

“CDX2, a Transcription Factor With Dynamic Binding Sites and Distinct Functions During Differentiation,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Michael Verzi, Harvard Medical School. 612 Physiology. EB

Mon., Feb. 28, noon.

Mon., Feb. 28, noon. “Global Enclosures, Food Crises and the Ecological Contradictions of Capitalism,” a Sociology seminar with Farshad Araghi, Florida State University. 526 Mergenthaler. HW Mon., Feb. 28, 12:15 p.m. “The Changing Landscape of Cancer

Genomics,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Kenneth Kinzler, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Setting the Dynastic Record Straight: High Politics and Mundane Heirlooms Among the Habsburgs, 1578– 1617,” a History seminar with Luc Duerloo, University of Antwerp.

Co-sponsored by Humanities. 308 Gilman. HW

Mon., Feb. 28, 4 p.m.

M o n . , F e b . 2 8 , 4 p . m . The David Bodian Seminar—“Rapid Loss of Long-Term, Stable Spatial Firing Patterns of Place Cells

by Inhibiting PKM?” with Jeremy Barry, SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger.

HW

“The Aleksandrov-Fenchel Inequalities of k+1-Convex Domains,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Yi Wang, Princeton University.

Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 28, 4 p.m.

S P EC I AL E V E N T S Mon., Feb. 22. Commemoration Day, celebration of the 135th anniversary of JHU’s founding. (See In Brief, p. 2.) 9 to 11 a.m. Commemoration Day buttons on the Breezeway. Noon to 2 p.m. Birthday cake, a special exhibit and a cappella groups; special knit caps for the first 500 students wearing JHU attire (J-Card required). Sponsored

by Student Life, the Parents Fund and the Office of the Deans. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Global Health Day events, sponsored by the Center for Global Health. For details, go to www.hopkinsglobalhealth .org/education_events/events/ global_health_day/index.html.

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Opening presentations with remarks by President Ron Daniels, and faculty awards. Refreshments follow presentations.

Global Health Student Experience Fair, an opportunity to view posters and talk to students about their experiences overseas.

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4 to 5 p.m. Prize recipients announced, followed by refreshments.

Thurs., Feb. 24, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Memorial event honor-

ing M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, including a special seminar, a reception and the opening of The Wolman Pebble Count installation (located in the F. Ross Jones Bldg., Mattin Center). (See story, p. 12.)

110 Maryland. HW Thurs., Feb. 24, 8 p.m. The 2011 Foreign Affairs Symposium—Global Citizenship: Re-examining the Role of the Individual in an Evolving World, with Franklin Raines, former chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW Sat., Feb. 26, 3 to 7 p.m.

“Privileged Pursuits Party,” an evening of dancing with Goucher College’s dance history ensemble Choregraphie Antique, live music, period gaming, savories, fencing demonstrations by the Mid-Atlantic Society for Historical Swordsmanship and costumed interpreters. In conjunction with Homewood Museum’s current exhibition, Privileged Pursuits: Cultural Refinement in Early Maryland. $20 general admission, $15 for museum members, $10 for students. Advance registration required; call 410-516-5589.

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“Navigating the U.S. Job Market for International Students,” a workshop for international students seeking work in the U.S., with immigration lawyers Mark Rhoads and Helen Konrad from the firm McCandlish Holton.

Sponsored by Career Services.

W1214 SPH. EB “Introduction to TeamSpot,” a Bits & Bytes workshop, providing an introduction to the collaborative environment software. The training is open to Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs; staff are also welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Thurs., Feb. 24, 1 p.m.

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Hospital shootings rare, but rate of other assaults high, study finds

By Mark Guidera

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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hootings like the one in which a gunman shot a doctor and killed a patient at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in September are “exceedingly rare,” but the rate of other assaults on workers in U.S. health care settings is four times higher than in other workplaces, conclude two Johns Hopkins emergency physicians after reviewing workplace violence in health settings.

The rate of assault in all private-sector industries in the United States is two per 10,000, compared to eight per 10,000 at health care workplaces, note Gabor D. Kelen and Christina L. Catlett in a commentary published in the Dec. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

As a result, while hospital shootings get widespread media and other attention, security experts instead should focus their efforts on preventing common everyday assaults in hospitals and other health care facilities says Kelen, professor and chair of the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine.

In the JAMA piece, Kelen and Catlett say that they determined from a review of violence in health care settings that investing heavily in magnetometers or other expensive high-tech security measures to prevent shootings, while a popular idea, isn’t called

Civilians Continued from page 1 they are sent back to the United States, losing only the small percentage of their pay that’s attributed to hazardous duty.

The study showed that combat injuries were not the leading cause of evacuation for either military personnel or civilians. Musculoskeletal injuries were the leading cause of medical evacuation in both groups, with a higher proportion of soldiers suffering those injuries than civilians. In modern warfare, the researchers note, injuries sustained in combat have never been the leading source of soldier attrition. Respiratory and infectious diseases were the main causes from World War I through the Korean War. By Vietnam, nonbattle injuries (e.g., back pain, fractures, overuse injuries) had become the leading source of loss of unit strength, and have remained so ever since.

Not surprisingly, military personnel were more likely to be evacuated for war-related injuries than civilians, Cohen and his colleagues found. The study considered combat, traumatic brain and some musculoskeletal/ spine injuries, as well as psychiatric conditions, suffered during operational missions to be war-related. Civilians, who often work in security and transportation jobs, are less likely to be in the line of fire and don’t expect to be injured in combat, Cohen said.

When they are, they are less likely to return to a war zone, with many concluding that the job “isn’t exactly what they signed up for.”

The most prevalent diagnoses for civilians were musculoskeletal/spine injuries (19 percent), combat-related injuries (14 percent) and circulatory disorders (13 percent).

Among members of the military, the most common diagnoses were musculoskeletal (31 percent, 6.4 percent of them considered war-related), combat (14 percent) and psychiatric (9 percent).

for, considering how rare shootings are in health care.

“Magnetometers certainly project a protective aura; however they are not a security panacea in most health care settings,” Kelen and Catlett write.

In fact, argue the authors, metal detectors may “emote a false sense of security” because they do not detect nonmetallic weapons and have no effect on preventing assaults in which no weapon is used. As one reviewed report found, magnetometers installed in one hospital failed to decrease the number of weapons discovered in treatment areas because patients typically bypassed the detectors. “Importantly, there was no change in the rate of assaults,” the authors write.

To further underscore their point, Kelen and Catlett found in their review of available data that many shootings at health care facilities occurred outside, not inside.

In addition to focusing on preventing more common everyday assaults against health care providers in the workplace instead of installing sophisticated screening equipment, the authors argue that the expectation of perfect safety and security in hospitals must align itself to the realities of contemporary American life, with its high rate of violence and incivility. In short, Kelen says, security perfection in hospitals is an unreasonable expectation that can’t be met.

The full commentary is available online at jama.ama-assn.org/content/304/22/2530.full.

Cohen noted that civilians with psychiatric diagnoses were significantly more likely to return to duty (16 percent, versus 9 percent for soldiers). “Despite the military’s emphasis on screening and early treatment for psychiatric disorders, they still take a much greater toll on military personnel than nonmilitary personnel,” said Cohen, who is also director of Chronic Pain Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

The longer that wars continue, he added, the worse this problem will be. “The more times a soldier is deployed, the more likely he is to experience a psychiatric problem,” he said. “Instead of becoming more resistant, soldiers become more vulnerable.”

According to the study, 16 percent of military personnel returned to duty compared to 22 percent of civilians after being evacuated for a routine musculoskeletal or spine injury. Soldiers’ jobs tend to be more physically taxing than civilian jobs, Cohen said, making it harder, perhaps, for them to return to duty after such injuries. Civilian workers were more likely to be evacuated because of circulatory and heart problems, Cohen said, probably owing to their average older age (44.4 years compared to soldiers’ 29.8 years) and accompanying age-related disorders.

The study was funded in part by the John P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute, the U.S. Army and the Army Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine Initiative.

Charlie Brown, of Johns Hopkins, and Scott Strassels, of the University of Texas, also contributed to this research. G

Related website Steven Cohen:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ anesthesiology_critical_care_ medicine/research/experts/ research_faculty/bios/cohen.html

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Classifieds

M A R K E T P L A C E

APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

lg backyd, quiet. $925/mo. 410-598-2819 or carlostaylorart@verizon.net.

Belvedere, beautifully renov’d 3BR, 2BA TH, available June. $1,600/mo (furn’d) or $1,450/mo (unfurn’d). 410-929-6008 or belvedererental@gmail.com.

Towson/Loch Raven area, 3BR, 2BA TH, located on bus line to JHU Homewood, move in middle to end of February. $1,600/ mo. hous-vxz9a-2190776642@craigslist.org.

Bolton Hill, 2 big BRs and 2.5BAs in immaculate TH, hdwd flrs, recent apps, AC, new roof/windows, porch, bsmt, 2 prkng spaces, 4-min walk to metro, avail July. $1,850/mo. 410-383-7055 or viLca11@ gmail.com.

Wyman Park, sunny 2BR apt, AC, laundry in bldg, easy walk to Homewood/JHMI shuttle, avail May 15. $1,150/mo. 443-615-5190.

Bolton Hill, beautiful 1BR, 1BA apt on Park Ave, 1,300 sq ft, 8 rms, separate guest rm, office and dining rm. $1,595/mo. gbaranoski@covad.net.

Charles Village, beautiful 1BR, 1BA apt, close to shuttle and Homewood campus, available April. 410-404-2330.

Charles Village, spacious, bright 3BR apt, 3rd flr, newly updated, nr Homewood campus. $1,350/mo. 443-253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com.

Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/full kitchen, call for wkly/wknd rentals, pics avail at jzpics@yahoo.com. 410-6389417.

Fells Point, great, fully rehabbed 2BR apt, walking distance to Hopkins. $1,400/mo.

410-205-5503.

Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410378-2393.

Hampden, 4BR, 2BA apt, private prkng. $1,300/mo + utils. adecker001@yahoo .com.

Harborview (23 Pier Side Drive), 1BR unit, great views of water and swimming pool, 2 health clubs, garage prkng, 24-hr security incl’d, safe area; applicant must have good credit. $1,600/mo. 443-471-2000.

Mayfield, charming 3BR, 2BA house in historic neighborhood, hdwd flrs, fp, garage, yd and patio, nr Homewood/JHH/Bayview. $1,675/mo. 410-852-1865 or miriam .mintzer@gmail.com.

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

Parkville, charming 1BR, 1BA cottage house w/huge yd, hdwd flrs, W/D, bsmt, driveway. $900/mo (negotiable). 410-422-0146 or pelelika2001@yahoo.com.

Pikesville, sublet a lovely, lg 1BR, 1BA apt, available from March 1 to May 31. $750/ mo. 443-934-3750.

Reisterstown, 3BR, 2.5BA TH, spacious rms, new appls, deck, backyd, 10 mins to Owings Mills metro. $1,500/mo. www.21136rent .com (for pics and details).

Roland Park, spacious 2BR, 2BA condo, furn’d, W/D, walk-in closet, swimming pool, cardio equipment, .5 mi to Homewood, secure area. $1,600/mo. 410-218-3547 or khassani@gmail.com.

Sublet 2BR apt nr Homewood campus and JHMI shuttle stop, W/D, closed prkng at extra charge, on-site swimming pool, current lease ends Aug 30; option to renew.

410-336-3620.

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

HOUSES FOR SALE

Belair-Edison, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in familyoriented, quiet neighborhood, CAC/heat, hdwd flrs, fin’d bsm, carport and ample street prkng, 15 mins to JHH/JHU, 5 mins to Bayview. $100,000. 443-413-3644.

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. $139,500. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com.

Mt Washington, affordable 3BR, 2.5BA house, Deep Cape, fin’d bsmt, sunrm, yd, nr park and best elementary school; great find.

410-491-3133.

Mt Washington (5905 Pimlico Rd, extension of Western Run Drive; enter through gate of Falls Village), 1865 farmhouse on private rd, acre of open and wooded land, 3BRs, orig wide fir plank flrs, lg updated kitchen, stunning 1,600 sq ft deck; call for appointment. 443-562-1634.

Roland Park, beautiful 4BR, 2BA family home, off-street prkng, easy walk to Homewood campus. Dorsey, 410-967-3661.

Lg 1BR condo in luxury high-rise, secure bldg w/doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swimming pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $179,000.

757-773-7830 or norva04@gmail.com.

3BR, 3BA brick Cape Cod in great neighborhood, nice yd and schools, great location nr JHH/JHU. $349,900. chapline2@ comcast.net.

ROOMMATES WANTED

F nonsmoker wanted for 2BR house, suitable for med student or other professional. 410913-5801 or jhickey1951@gmail.com.

Furn’d rm in new TH, walking distance to JHMI, pref nonsmoker/no pets. $550/mo + 1/3 utils. 301-717-4217 or jiez@jayzhang .com.

1st flr + fin’d bsmt in 2BR, 1BA TH nr Bayview, kitchen, living rm, W/D, hdwd flrs. $650/mo + utils. 410-371-9449 or bayviewenterprises@msn.com.

Rosedale, 1BR divided rancher, lg living rm and dining rm, complete kitchen, new refrigerator/windows/crpt, washer, garage,

Furn’d rm nr JHH/SPH. $500/mo incl elec, water, wireless Internet. 972-533-8468 or rabinsharma764@gmail.com.

WYMAN COURT HICKORY HEIGHTS

Little Italy! Perfect for short stay or long term lease!

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!

Shown by appointment - 410-764-7776

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Beautiful fully furnished rehab in Little Italy!

3 BD/3BA, LR /Eat-in Kitchen, Court Yard & Deck. Walk to Inner Harbor, Harbor East and Fells Point! Call 443-690-0075, ask for Lou.

Furn’d BR in 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.

Lg, partly furn’d bsmt BR w/priv BA in beautifully renov’d 3BR Mayfield RH, across from Herring Run Park, mins to Lake Montebello, 10 mins to JHMI, perfect for temporary visiting medical prof’ls. $600/mo + utils, wireless. mayfieldroom@gmail.com.

F roommate wanted nr Homewood campus, 5-min walk to JHU shuttle stop. 734-2773168 or shammku@yahoo.com..

CARS FOR SALE

‘99 Mercury Cougar, automatic, power everything, premium wheels, leather interior, sunroof, rear spoiler, rear windshield wiper, AC, 20-26 MPG, 153K mi. $2,950.

443-604-5807. ’04 VW Golf, silver w/black interior, good mileage, 45K mi. $8,100. annenatk@yahoo .com. ’02 Mitsubishi Galant ES sedan, 4-dr, gray, car and tires in very good cond, 94K mi. $3,500. mhv.galant@yahoo.com. ’05 Toyota Corolla CE, standard transmission, dk blue, good tires and brakes, CD player, good mileage, very reliable. $6,000. 443-415-5415 or sharonspector@ gmail.com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Heavy-duty motorized electric scooter, weight capacity up to 500 lbs, brand new, serious calls only. $2,000/best offer. 410562-5740.

Sealy Posturepedic king and twin mattress sets w/bedframes, $450 and $250; 42" plasma TV, $410; Ikea “Billy” bookcase, $45; more. 443-760-8566 or loo.jing.liang@ snec.com.

Ski equipment for a 7- to 12-yr-old child: boots, helmet, poles. 410-580-9479 (eve).

Ikea furniture, twin bed w/mattress, $75; lg bookcase, $30; in great cond. 443-415-6949.

Conn alto saxophone, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond.

410-488-1886.

Moving sale: furniture, electronics, children’s items less than 1 yr old; e-mail for full list and prices of 50 items. chinnjing@ pacific.net.sg.

Printer, dresser w/shelves, sand beach chairs (2), reciprocating saw, digital piano, amplifier. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net.

Tory Burch shoes, red patent, size 10, $75; black leather Gucci replica bag w/tassels, $150; sm white Prada bag, $70; gold Coach handbag, $75; Tylie Malibu bags (2), black suede w/Swarovski crystals in black leather strap, $100, and a green suede w/Swarovski crystals in brown leather strap, $80. 410-3714318 or sullivan89@gmail.com.

Elton John concert tickets (2) for March 26. $200. 410-294-1781.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Family needs sitter for 9-mo-old boy, Tues to Thurs, 8:30am-12:30pm, other times flexible, must have experience w/young children, 1 blk from Homewood campus.

513-461-9125.

Two visiting medical students looking for 2 sm adjacent rms in study-friendly apt during April and May, nr JHMI/Mt Vernon/Butchers Hill etc. $650/mo and negotiable utils. dr.saran.soman@gmail.com.

Responsible F college student looking to babysit family for the summer, has car, Red Cross CPR- and babysitting-certified. ctgodack@eckerd.edu.

Pampered Chef offers kitchen and entertainment items, browse catalog or contact me to purchase, host a party or with questions. www.pamperedchef.biz/donnawirt.

Depression/bipolar support group, Sundays 11 am-12:30pm at Grace Fellowship Church, Lutherville. Dede, 410-486-4471 or dedebennett@comcast.net.

Responsible, loving pet-, baby- or housesitter, avail, JHU employee has experience w/special needs children and cats/dogs, refs available. 202-288-1311 or janyelle.marie@ hotmail.com.

Absolutely flawless detailing and mobile power-wash service. Jason, 443-421-3659.

Tutor for all subjects/levels; remedial and gifted; also help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design and programming. 410-337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@ hotmail.com.

Need a photographer or videographer for weddings or other events? Edward S Davis photography/videography. 443-695-9988 or esdavisimaging@gmail.com.

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

LCSW-C providing psychotherapy for adults and couples w/sexual health or sexuality concerns, EHP accepted. 410-235-9200 #6, or shane.grant.lcswc@gmail.com.

Piano/harpsichord lessons offered by Peabody Institute grad student, reasonable rates; call to schedule an appointment.

425-890-1327.

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

410-663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing .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.

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

Database programmer/volunteer needed for ambitious ecology project. Mark, 410-4649274.

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Mon., Feb. 28, 6:30 p.m. Information session for the Master of Arts in Government degree program, sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP online at http://advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/ index.cfm?ContentID=2898.

Washington D.C. Center

B LOO D D R I V E S Mon., Feb. 21 through Wed., Feb. 23, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

JHU/American Red Cross blood drive. For eligibility requirements, go to www.hopkinsworklife.org/ community/blood_drive_locations .html. To schedule a donation, call 410-550-0289. Francis X. Knott Conference Center. Bayview

LECTURE S

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COLLO Q U I A Tues., Feb. 22, 4:15 p.m. “Natural and Artificial Catalysis by FlavinBased Compounds,” a Chemistry colloquium with Ksenija Glusac, Bowling Green State University.

233 Remsen. HW Wed., Feb. 23, 3:30 p.m. “Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations,” an STSci colloquium with Stephane Courteau, Queen’s University.

Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg.

HW

“Population Cycles, Disease and Networks of Ecological Knowledge,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Susan Jones, University of Minnesota. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Thurs., Feb. 24, 3 p.m.

Thurs.,

Feb.

24,

3:45

p.m.

“Learning and Representing Talker-Specific Acoustic Detail: Effects on Language Processing in Preschoolers and Adults,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Sarah Creel, University of California, San Diego. 134A Krieger. HW Fri., Feb. 25, 2 p.m. “Emerging Non-GPS Navigation Technology for Aerospace Systems,” an Applied Physics Laboratory Black History Month colloquium with Darryll Pines, University of Maryland. Parsons Auditorium. APL

D I S CU S S I O N / TAL K S

“The Eurozone Crisis: Stumbling Toward Economic Government,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with David Cameron, Yale University. For information, e-mail atobin1@jhu.edu or call 202-6635796. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS Tues., Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 23, 12:30 p.m. “The Rise of HIV/AIDS as a Global Health Issue: A Reporter’s Notebook,” a SAIS Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative discussion with Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times. To RSVP, e-mail tnagpaL1@jhu.edu or call 202663-5947. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS

“Do Not Die: The Nigerian Voter Restored,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Okey Ndibe, Brown University and Trinity College. For information, e-mail itolber1@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5676. 736 BernsteinOffit Bldg. SAIS

Wed., Feb. 23, 12:30 p.m.

“Current State of Play in the Markets: Stability or Volatility?” a SAIS Wed., Feb. 23, 12:45 p.m.

Dean’s Lecture III by Srinivasa Raja, SoM. Sponsored by the Dean’s Office, School of Medicine. Hurd Hall. EB

Mon., Feb. 21, 4 p.m.

‘The Wolman Pebble Count’ installation displays Reds Wolman’s personal items among stones contributed by his admirers.

M

. Gordon “Reds” Wolman loved stones, especially those found in his beloved rivers and streams. The distinguished and longtime professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins collected them on his many travels and would often send family and friends on scavenger hunts to find a perfectly round stone.

Stones, rocks and pebbles, which Wolman considered nature’s works of art, could be found on nearly every flat surface in his house.

To honor the memory of Wolman, who passed away on Feb. 24, 2010, and his passion for art and nature, a seminar titled Pebbles and People: Art and Play in the Science of Social Health will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday in Taylor Auditorium, 110 Maryland Hall, on the Homewood campus.

A reception will follow from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the F. Ross Jones Building of the Mattin Center, site of the installation of The Wolman Pebble Count. The more than 200 pebbles and stones that make up this installation were contributed by his students, colleagues and friends from around the world. The bodies of water represented include the Upper Ganges River in India; the south shore of Lake Superior; Redwood Creek in Humboldt County, Calif.; the Yangtze River near Shiguzhen, China; the Jones Falls in Baltimore; and many others.

The installation—created by Wolman’s daughter Elsa Wolman Katana in collaboration with Royce Faddis, a senior graphic designer in JHU’s Office of Marketing and Creative Services—incorporates personal items of Wolman’s including his field pouch and notebook, a Brunton compass, a hand level and the gravelometer he invented.

The display continues through March 14.

At the time of his death, Wolman was the B. Howell Griswold Jr. Professor of Geography and International Affairs in DoGEE and had been a part of the Johns Hopkins community for more than 60 years.

Thursday’s seminar will feature a talk titled “Geology, Pedology and Art: Can They Relate?” by Rivka Amit, Quaternary geologist and senior research scientist with the Geological Survey of Israel, and a talk titled “Right Brain, Left Brain: Visualization and Aesthetics in Earth Science” by Robert B. Jacobson, a research hydrologist and chief of the river studies branch of the U.S. Geological Survey.

For more information, go to eng.jhu.edu/wse/Reds_Wolman/ memorial-seminar or call 410-516-8723.

—Greg Rienzi

Latin American Studies Program discussion with Patrick Esteruelas, Moody’s Investors Service.

To RSVP, e-mail jzurek1@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5734. 517 Nitze Bldg. SAIS Fri., Feb. 25, 12:30 p.m. “A Global Network of Development Practitioners,” a SAIS International Development Program discussion with Raj Kumar, Devex (Development Executive Group). To RSVP, e-mail developmentroundtable@ jhu.edu or call 201-739-7425. 200 Rome Bldg. SAIS

mation sessions on how to do research in the library. To register, go to www.library.jhu.edu/ researchhelp/workshops.html.

Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW •

Tues., Feb. 22, 4:30 p.m.

“Introduction to Research in Engineering.”

•

Wed., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m.

•

Thurs., Feb. 24, 4:30 p.m.

“Refworks.”

“Introduction to Research in Medicine.”

Information session for the Master in Applied Economics degree program, offering a chance to discuss curricula, submit an application and meet program director Frank

Wed., Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m.

I N F ORMAT I O N SESSIONS The Milton Library offers

S.

Eisenhower

a series of infor-

Tues., Feb. 22, 4 to 6 p.m.

The Humanities Center presents a series of talks by Robert Pippin, University of Chicago—“Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy I”; “Trapped by Oneself in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past”; “ ‘A Deliberate, Intentional Fool’ in Orson Welles’ The Lady From Shanghai”; and a discussion of Edgar Ulmer’s Detour. 208 Gilman. HW “Betwixt and Between, the Hidden and the Seen—The Poetics of Anticipation in Exile Tibetan Politics,” an Anthropology lecture by Urmila Nair, KSAS. 400 Macaulay. HW Tues., Feb. 22, 4 p.m.

The Walter M. Elsasser Memorial Lecture—“How Science Made a Difference in Ending the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” by Marcia McNutt, U.S. Geological Survey.

Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Hall Auditorium.

Thurs., Feb. 24, 4:30 p.m.

HW

MU S I C Tues., Feb. 22, 8 p.m. The Peabody Symphony Orchestra performs music by Puts, Ibert and Ravel. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall.

Peabody Thurs., Feb. 24 through Sat., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 27, 3 p.m. The Peabody Cham-

ber Opera performs Remember the Fifties, a double bill of oneact operas by Lee Hoiby (This Is the Rill Speaking), and Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti). $25 general admission, $15 for senior citizens and $10 for students with ID. To purchase tickets, go to www .missiontix.com or call Theatre Project at 410-752-8558. Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St. O P E N HOU S E S

Open house for the new Institute for NanoBioTechnology headquarters, featuring lab tours, video premiere and refreshments. For information, call 410-516-5634.

100 NEB. HW

Fri., Feb. 25, 4 to 6 p.m.

S EM I N AR S Mon., Feb. 21, noon. “Transcriptional Pausing: A Unique Mechanism in the Regulation of Hematopoietic Differentiation,” a

Biological Chemistry seminar with Xiaoying Bai, Children’s Hospital Boston. 612 Physiology. EB Mon., Feb. 21, noon. “Genetic and Imaging Analysis of Glial Cell Development in Zebrafish,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Bruce Appel, University of Colorado School of Medicine. W1020 SPH. EB

“Nucleation of Clathrin-Coated Vesicle Formation: Why Endocytosis Is the Pits,” a Biophysics seminar with Kat Jenkins, KSAS. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., Feb. 21, noon.

Mon.,

Feb.

21,

12:15

p.m.

“Using Mouse Genetics to Unravel the Pathways That Regulate Morphogenesis,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Irene Zohn, Children’s Research Institute. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon.,

Feb.

21,

1:30

p.m.

“Ultraconserved Nonsense: Gene Regulation by Splicing and RNA Surveillance,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Steven Brenner, University of California, Berkeley. 110 Clark. HW (Videoconferenced to 709 Traylor. EB ) “Reading the Trial of Dr. Sacheverell,” a History seminar with Brian Cowen, McGill University. Cosponsored by Humanities. 308 Gilman. HW

Mon., Feb. 21, 4 p.m.

Mon.,

Feb.

21,

4:30

p.m.

“Iwasawa Theory for Supersingular Modular Forms,” a Number Theory/Topology joint seminar with Sarah Zerbes, University of Exeter. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW “Micro­ RNA-Mediated Conversion of Human Fibroblasts to Neurons,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Andrew Yoo, Stanford University. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Feb. 22, noon.

Tues.,

Feb.

22,

12:10

p.m.

“The Hidden Life of Guns: Investigative Research and Revelations About the Source of Guns Used in Crime,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy seminar with David Fallis, The Washington Post. Sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy, the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence and the Center for Gun Policy and Research. 208 Hampton House. EB “Fast Splitting and Alternating Linearization Methods for Convex

Tues., Feb. 22, 1:30 p.m.

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Calendar

Key

APL BRB CRB EB HW JHOC

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

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Johns Hopkins Outpatient

Center KSAS Krieger School of Arts

and Sciences NEB New Engineering Building PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced

International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of

Engineering