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SAIS says farewell to Dean Jessica Einhorn By Greg Rienzi

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embers of the SAIS community heaped praise, well-wishes and gifts on departing Dean Jessica Einhorn earlier this month at an event held on the school’s main campus in Washington, D.C. Those gathered at the intimate gathering also learned which Downton Abbey character Einhorn most closely matched, and how the dean will spend a portion of her retirement. Einhorn, the first SAIS graduate to serve as its dean, will step down on June 30 after a decade as leader of one of the nation’s most prominent graduate professional schools of international relations. She joined Johns Hopkins in 2002 after nearly 20 years with the World Bank, where she served as managing director in charge of the bank’s financial management and, earlier, as vice president and treasurer. She also spent a year as a visiting fellow at the International Monetary Fund and has held positions at the Treasury and State departments and the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency. SAIS colleagues used the school’s annual staff recognition milestone event—for staff marking five, 10 and 15 years of service—to honor Einhorn. The

She digs it: Gardening enthusiast Jessica Einhorn receives one of her going-away gifts—a new trowel—from senior associate dean Myron Kunka.

event was held June 6 in the Herter Room of the school’s Nitze Building. Colleagues praised Einhorn particularly for her focus on the student experience and her efforts to “modernize” the campus in terms of administration and classroom technology. Myron Kunka, senior associate dean for

finance and administration at SAIS, said that Einhorn has made a “tremendous difference” in how the school conducts its business and educates its students, including recruiting exceptional faculty, supporting faculty research and overseeing the creation or expansion of a number of research centers. “Jessica, you’ve put us on solid ground and

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Bloomberg School of Public Health

reventable childhood deaths caused by illnesses such as pneumonia and diarrhea can be nearly eliminated in 10 years, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Institutes of Health. In a commentary featured in the June issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the researchers

outline a strategy and benchmarks for curbing childhood preventable deaths and recommend a new common vision for a global commitment to end all preventable child deaths. Eight Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, were developed in 2000 by the United Nations to meet the needs of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations. Guidelines for achieving the goals were established and agreed

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Shuttle changes; CTY’s Rural Connections scholarship program; Camp Soar in E. Balto.

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Plan to end preventable child deaths in a generation outlined B y N ata l i e W o o d - W r i g h t

in the perfect position for our new dean to build for the future,” said Kunka, referring to Vali R. Nasr, who will assume his position as dean on July 1. Kunka and others noted that Einhorn has expanded student opportunities for learning outside the classroom through internships, study trips and other activities. She oversaw the introduction, in collaboration with Nanjing University, of the first master’s degree program in international studies in China, offered at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. She also worked to position the school’s Bologna Center in Italy in the changing European market for higher education. John M. Harrington Jr., associate dean for academic affairs and a professorial lecturer in international economics, said that Einhorn should be praised for her efforts to improve the student experience. “I think many of you have heard [Jessica] say that her vision is to have the SAIS student experience begin on the first day of Pre-term and continue until Commencement. I think she has raised that awareness, and raised money for that awareness, to make this a reality for our students,” Harrington said. “She sees the SAIS education as more than surges during the four semesters and includes student trips and internships during breaks. Jessica, thank you for your

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JHU’s Bennett and WMAP team awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize Astronomers’ findings form foundation of Standard Cosmological Model By Lisa De Nike

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he Gruber Foundation announced June 20 that the 2012 Cosmology Prize will be awarded to Johns Hopkins University Professor Charles L. Bennett and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy

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STScI public lecture; ‘Public Health and Bioethics in a Developing Country’

Probe space mission science team that he led. Bennett and the WMAP team are being recognized by the foundation for their transformative study of an ancient light dating back to the infant universe. So precise and accurate are the WMAP results that they form the foundation of the Standard Cosmological Model. Bennett and the 26-member team will share the $500,000 prize. A gold medal will be presented to Bennett at the International Astronomical Union meeting in Beijing on Continued on page 3

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Shuttle changes now in effect on two routes

CTY offers summer scholarships for gifted rural students

hanges for two shuttle routes went into effect on June 18. The Stieff Building stop has moved from the Keswick-Homewood-EasternJHMI Shuttle route to the Homewood– Mount Washington Shuttle route. Approximate travel time to the Stieff Building from Homewood’s Mason Hall is two minutes; approximate travel time from Mount Washington’s McAuley Hall is 12 minutes. Departure times from Mason and McAuley halls have not changed. Because of the growing demand for the Keswick-Homewood-Eastern-JHMI Shuttle, express shuttles are being added from JHMI and the Keswick building during morning and evening rush hours. For schedules, route maps and other details, go to the Homewood Parking and Transportation website at parking.jhu.edu.

ll kids need a place where they feel like they belong. But when you are smart and living in a rural area, finding classes and cultural opportunities, libraries and labs, and teachers and peers to inspire and engage you can be difficult. Rural Connections, a new scholarship program launched this summer by Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth, addresses this need. Rural Connections gives bright seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders from low-income rural families the opportunity to attend CTY’s challenging summer programs and join a community of learners. Students selected for the program receive a full scholarship to attend a three-week residential summer program at one of CTY’s 24 U.S. sites, as well as supplemental academic and peer support following the program. According to a 2005 study by the BelinBlank Center at the University of Iowa, many gifted students from rural schools encounter less-challenging academic programs than those from suburban and urban schools. These students are also less likely to be identified as gifted, to have access to a well-developed variety of programs and, perhaps most critically, to have peers who share their intellectual interests. More than 120 students will be reached through the three-year initiative, which is funded by a major grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. This year’s class of 42 Rural Connections Scholars hails from more than a dozen states, including Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas. CTY summer courses range from astrophysics and advanced cryptology to zoology.

SoE, Peabody, CTY partner for E. Balto. summer camp

he School of Education is partnering with the Peabody Preparatory and the Center for Talented Youth to develop a unique summer camp offering fun learning activities for students of the East Baltimore Community School. Camp Soar, to be held at the school, is also open to students whose parents work at Johns Hopkins University. “Camp Soar represents an exciting new partnership with Peabody and CTY that will provide learning opportunities that will challenge and stimulate students,” said David Andrews, dean of the School of Education. “The program will provide rich educational activities during the summer months, when many students experience a learning loss.” The camp will run from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., July 9 through Aug. 3. With support from the Windsong Trust, it will feature morning sessions taught by Peabody Preparatory faculty and afternoon sessions developed by the Center for Talented Youth. The Peabody sessions will encourage students to be creative through activities integrating movement, singing, composing and playing. Children will develop hand/ eye coordination and listening and improvisation skills, as well as cooperation and teamwork. CTY sessions will inspire students to challenge themselves and explore multidisciplinary subjects in dynamic ways. They will engage in science labs, writing activities, social and mathematical studies, and visual art projects. The program, open to students ages 6 to 10, is limited to 25 participants. The cost of the four-week program is $1,000. For more information, contact Annette Anderson at 410-516-2012 or annette.anderson@jhu .edu.

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Correction The June 11 Gazette article on the JHU Press’ War of 1812 book series incorrectly identified two books—187 Things You Should Know About the War of 1812 and In Full Glory Reflected—as being Press books and part of the series. The two works are being distributed by the Press but were published by the Maryland Historical Society. The same article also gave the wrong date for the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent. The treaty was ratified on Feb. 16, 1815, not Feb. 17.

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

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June 25, 2012 • THE GAZETTE

‘Master molecule’ may improve stem cell heart attack treatment By Phil Sneiderman

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ohns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a single protein molecule may hold the key to turning cardiac stem cells into blood vessels or muscle tissue, a finding that may lead to better ways to treat heart attack patients. Human heart tissue does not heal well after a heart attack, instead forming debilitating scars. For reasons not completely understood, however, stem cells can assist in this repair process by turning into the cells that make up healthy heart tissue, including heart muscle and blood vessels. Recently, doctors elsewhere have reported promising early results in the use of cardiac stem cells to curb the formation of unhealthy scar tissue after a heart attack. But the discovery of a “master molecule” that guides the destiny of these stem cells could result in evenmore-effective treatments for heart patients, the Johns Hopkins researchers say. In a study published in the June 5 online edition of the journal Science Signaling, the team reported that tinkering with a protein molecule called p190RhoGAP shaped the development of cardiac stem cells, prodding them to become the building blocks for either blood vessels or heart muscle. The team members said that by altering levels of this protein, they were able to affect the future of these stem cells. “In biology, finding a central regulator like this is like finding a pot of gold,” said Andre Levchenko, a biomedical engineering professor and member of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering, who supervised the research effort. The lead author of the journal article, Kshitiz, a postdoctoral fellow who uses only his first name, said, “Our findings greatly enhance our understanding of stem cell biology and suggest innovative new ways to control the behavior of cardiac stem cells before and after they are transplanted into

a patient. This discovery could significantly change the way stem cell therapy is administered in heart patients.” Earlier this year, a medical team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles reported initial success in reducing scar tissue in heart attack patients after harvesting some of the patient’s own cardiac stem cells, growing more of these cells in a lab and transfusing them back into the patient. Using the stem cells from the patient’s own heart prevented the rejection problems that often occur when tissue is transplanted from another person. Levchenko’s team wanted to figure out, at the molecular level, what causes the stem cells to change into helpful heart tissue. If they could solve this mystery, the researchers hoped the cardiac stem cell technique used by the Los Angeles doctors could be altered to yield even better results. During their research, the Johns Hopkins team members wondered whether changing the surface where the harvested stem cells grew would affect the cells’ development. The researchers were surprised to find that growing the cells on a surface whose rigidity resembled that of heart tissue caused the stem cells to grow faster and to form blood vessels. A cell population boom occurred far less often in the stem cells grown in the glass or plastic dishes typically used in biology labs. This result also suggested why formation of cardiac scar tissue, a structure with very different rigidity, can inhibit stem cells naturally residing there from regenerating the heart. Looking further into this stem cell differentiation, the Johns Hopkins researchers found that the increased cell growth occurred when there was a decrease in the presence of the protein p190RhoGAP. “It was the kind of master regulator of this process,” Levchenko said. “And an even bigger surprise was that if we directly forced this molecule to disappear, we no longer needed the special heart-matched surfaces. When the master regulator was missing, the stem

cells started to form blood vessels, even on glass.” A final surprise occurred when the team decided to increase the presence of p190RhoGAP, instead of making it disappear. “The stem cells started to turn into cardiac muscle tissue, instead of blood vessels,” Levchenko said. “This told us that this amazing molecule was the master regulator not only of the blood vessel development, but that it also determined whether cardiac muscles and blood vessels would develop from the same cells, even though these types of tissue are quite different.” But would these lab discoveries make a difference in the treatment of living beings? To find out, the researchers, working on the heart-matching surfaces they had designed, limited the production of p190RhoGAP within the heart cells. The cells that possessed less of this protein integrated more smoothly into an animal’s blood vessel networks in the aftermath of a heart attack. In addition, more of these transplanted heart cells survived, compared to what had occurred in earlier cell-growing procedures. Kshitiz said that the special heartlike surface on which the cardiac stem cells were grown triggers regulation of the master molecule, which then steers the next steps. “This single protein can control the cells’ shape, how fast they divide, how they become blood vessel cells and how they start to form a blood vessel network,” he said. “How it performed all of these myriad tasks that require hundreds of other proteins to

Cosmology Continued from page 1 Aug. 21, and he will deliver a lecture the following day. “It is tremendously exciting to be recognized with the Gruber Cosmology Prize,” said Bennett, the Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Gilman Scholar in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy in Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. “I have been very fortunate to work with the talented and fine people of the WMAP team, and I am particularly delighted that our entire science team has been honored with this prestigious award.” Under Bennett’s direction, the WMAP mission determined with unprecedented precision the age, shape (WMAP nailed down the curvature of space to within 0.6 percent of conventional Euclidean geometry), composition and history of the universe from the first-ever, exquisitely detailed full-sky “baby picture” of the universe, dating from when it was only 378,000 years old—13.75 billion years ago. Using this picture, the team determined that the universe consists of 72.8 percent dark energy, 22.7 percent dark matter and 4.6 percent atoms. The team also concluded that the first stars formed when the universe was only about 400 million years old. The WMAP data substantiated key predictions of the cosmic inflation paradigm that describes the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second of the universe, while at the same time ruling out some specific implementations of the theory. WMAP data also place limits on the mass of the neutrino (an elementary particle with no electrical charge and which travels at almost the speed of light) and provide evidence for primordial helium, consistent with big bang theory predictions.

Related websites Charles Bennett:

cosmos.pha.jhu.edu/bennett Gruber Foundation:

gruberprizes.org

Related websites Andre Levchenko’s lab:

jshare.johnshopkins.edu/alevche1/ web Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins:

bme.jhu.edu Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering:

hopkins-ice.org

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Flexner family’s contributions to medical education are honored B y D av i d M a r c h

“Chuck Bennett and the WMAP team put the ‘precision’ in the new field of precision cosmology and set the ‘standard’ for the Standard Cosmological Model,” said fellow Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Adam Riess, who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, as well as the Gruber Prize in 2007, for his finding that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The annual Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes “fundamental advances in our understanding of the universe,” according to the foundation’s website. The Cosmology Prize is co-sponsored by the International Astronomical Union and aims to acknowledge and encourage further exploration. This is the second time that Bennett has been honored by the Gruber Foundation. In 2006, the prize was awarded to NASA’s John Mather and the Cosmic Background Explorer team, of which Bennett was a member. The WMAP team honored this year includes Johns Hopkins associate research scientists David Larson and Janet Weiland. Throughout his career, Bennett has made significant contributions to the knowledge of cosmology through pioneering measurements of the cosmic background radiation, the oldest light in the universe and a remnant of the hot, young universe. For this research, Bennett has received many previous accolades, including the 2010 Shaw Prize, 2009 Comstock Prize in Physics, 2006 Harvey Prize, 2005 Draper Medal, 1992 and 2004 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award and 2003 NASA Outstanding Leadership Award. G

act in a complex interplay was an interesting mystery to address, and one that rarely occurs in biology. It was like a molecular symphony being played in time, with each beat placed right at the moment before another melody has to start.” Along with Levchenko and Kshitiz, the co-authors of the study were Eun Hyun Ahn and Deok-Ho Kim, both of the University of Washington and formerly of Johns Hopkins, and Johns Hopkins researchers Maimon E. Hubbi, John Downey, Junaid Afzal, Sergio Rey, Connie Chang, Arnab Kundu, Gregg L. Semenza, and Roselle M. Abraham. Funding for the research was provided by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the American Asthma Foundation and other sources. The findings are protected in part by a provisional patent filed through the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office.

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our generations of the Flexner family, starting with Abraham Flexner, who in 1886 earned a bachelor of arts degree from The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Arts and Sciences, and continuing on to his great-greatnephew Charles Flexner, who graduated from the university’s School of Medicine in 1982, will be honored with the 2012 Heritage Award from the university’s Alumni Association. The award recognizes the Flexner family’s long-standing commitment to medical education, which includes six graduates of Johns Hopkins’ schools of Medicine, Arts and Sciences and Public Health. The award will be presented to Charles Flexner, on behalf of the entire Flexner family, at the Johns Hopkins Medical & Surgical Association’s next biennial meeting, in June 2013. “The contributions made by the Flexner family to how the United States and Canada train and educate their physician scientists have endured for more than a century, and cannot be overstated,” says Edward D. Miller, the Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D., Dean of the Medical Faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. “The Flexner family has profoundly influenced how millions of physicians practice medicine, and its efforts continue today with Charles’ current work to progressively reform and evaluate what our current 800 Johns Hopkins medical residents and fellows should get from their years of training here. Charles led a task force whose goals were to determine what the physician of the 21st century should look like and the best way to educate and train the model physician.”

Miller says that Abraham Flexner’s groundbreaking 1910 report on medical education revolutionized how medical schools across North America operated, forcing universities to adopt stricter standards on entrance requirements, size and training of faculty, size of endowment and tuition, quality of laboratories and availability of teaching hospitals whose physicians and surgeons would serve as clinical teachers. Among the many Flexner family forebears with ties to Johns Hopkins, Miller cites Simon Flexner, who studied from 1898 to 1890 under William Henry Welch, one of Johns Hopkins’ four founding physicians, and who became a noted pathologist and bacteriologist in his own right (he was later director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, now Rockefeller University); Louis B. Flexner, class of 1927, and his wife, Josefa B. Flexner, who served on the faculties of the schools of Arts and Sciences and Public Health; physician Morris Flexner, Class of 1914 and Charles’ grandfather; and physician John M. Flexner, Class of 1954, Charles’ father. Charles Flexner, a clinical pharmacologist and infectious disease specialist, is a professor of medicine, pharmacology and molecular sciences at the School of Medicine. He is also a professor of international health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Related websites Heritage Award:

alumni.jhu.edu/heritage Charles Flexner:

hopkinsmedicine.org/ pharmacology_molecular_ sciences/faculty/bios/flexner.html

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Einhorn Krieger School names associate

dean for external affairs B y K at e P i p k i n

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

ebra Lannon, an experienced fundraiser and longtime member of the Johns Hopkins community, has been appointed associate dean for external affairs for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She will lead the school’s development, stewardship and communications efforts. Lannon began her career at Johns Hopkins in 1987 at the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education (now the Carey Business School and the School of Education) before moving in 1989 to the Whiting School of Engineering, where she rose to director of development. While at Engineering, she secured numerous gift commitments, including the Rome Deanship. In 2009, Lannon moved to the Office of the Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, where she worked on special projects and served as interim associate dean for development and alumni relations for the Berman Institute of Bioeth-

ics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the School of Nursing. Most recently, Lannon has been managing the Krieger School’s transition period between associate deans. “During this process, we realized that Deb is perfectly suited for the position,” said Katherine Newman, dean of the Krieger School. “She brings a deep understanding of Johns Hopkins and the Homewood schools, strong management skills and a passion for the mission of the school. Deb has exceptional judgment and a level of integrity and professionalism that allows her to build and sustain outstanding relationships both internally and externally.” Lannon says that she is pleased to be filling the associate dean position on a permanent basis. “In the months that I’ve held the interim position at the Krieger School, I have been so impressed with the expertise of the faculty and also with the many innovative initiatives under way. I look forward to working closely with Dean Newman and others as we plan and carry out the upcoming capital campaign.”

Microsorting device could catch roaming cancer cells By Mary Spiro

Institute for NanoBioTechnology

n life, we sort soiled laundry from clean, ripe fruit from rotten. Two Johns Hopkins engineers say that they have found an easy way to use gravity or simple forces to similarly sort microscopic particles and bits of biological matter—including circulating tumor cells. In the May 25 online issue of Physical Review Letters, German Drazer, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and his doctoral student, Jorge A. Bernate, report that they have developed a lab-on-chip platform, also known as a microfluidic device, that can sort particles, cells or other tiny matter by physical means such as gravity. By moving a liquid over a series of micron-scale-high diagonal ramps—similar to speed bumps on a road—the device causes microscopic material to separate into discrete categories, based on weight, size or other factors, the team reports. The process described in the journal article could be used to produce a medical diagnostic tool, the Whiting School of Engineering researchers say. “The ultimate goal is to develop a simple device that can be used in routine checkups by health care providers,” said Bernate, who is lead author on the paper. “It could be used to detect the handful of circulating tumor cells that have managed to survive among billions of normal blood cells. This could save millions of lives.” Ideally, these cancer cells in the bloodstream could be detected and targeted for treatment before they’ve had a chance to metastasize, or spread cancer elsewhere. Detection at early stages of cancer is critical for successful treatment. How does this sorting process occur? Bernate explained that inside the microfluidic device, particles and cells that have been suspended in liquid flow along a “highway” that has speed bump–like obstacles positioned diagonally on, instead of perpendicular to, the path. The speed bumps differ in height, depending on the application. “As different particles are driven over these diagonal speed bumps, heavier ones have a harder time getting over than the lighter ones,” Bernate said. When the particles cannot get over the ramp, they begin to change course and travel diagonally along

the length of the obstacle; as the process continues, particles end up fanning out in different directions. “After the particles cross this section of the ‘highway,’” Bernate said, “they end up in different ‘lanes’ and can take different ‘exits,’ which allows for their continuous separation.” Gravity is not the only way to slow down and sort particles as they attempt to traverse the speed bumps. “Particles with an electrical charge or that are magnetic may also find it hard to go up over the obstacles in the presence of an electric or magnetic field,” Bernate said. For example, cancer cells could be “weighted down” with magnetic beads and then sorted in a device with a magnetic field. The ability to sort and separate things at the micro- and nanoscale is important in many industries, ranging from solar power to biosecurity. But Bernate said that a medical application is likely to be the most promising immediate use for the device. Bernate is slated to complete his doctoral studies this summer; until then, he will continue to collaborate with researchers in the lab of Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, a professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and with colleagues at InterUniversity Microelectronics Center in Belgium. In 2011, Bernate spent 10 weeks at IMEC in a program hosted by Johns Hopkins’ Institute for NanoBioTechnology and funded by the National Science Foundation. Drazer, Bernate’s doctoral adviser, says that the research described in the new journal article eventually led Bernate down the path at IMEC to develop a device that can easily sort whole blood into its components. A provisional patent has been filed for this device. The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Related websites German Drazer:

microfluidics.jhu.edu Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins:

jhu.edu/chembe

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insight. This is change that will last a long time.” Harrington gave the first of what would be many gifts: a promise of an email that will give her access to the online pre-calculus and calculus for economists math courses offered to all incoming students. Einhorn said she needed some brushing up on the subject. “She already has the DVD version of the Harrington lectures, but what she is going to have is the streaming version with all the quizzes and exercises,” Harrington told the crowd, “because she is going to have a lot of time on her hands in between gardening and solving the financial problems of the world.” Although she has no set plans, Einhorn said that she wants to keep a toe in the world of finance, in addition to traveling and “escaping the D.C. heat” by spending more time on Cape Cod. Several in attendance lauded Einhorn’s fundraising efforts. During her tenure, SAIS received the three largest gifts in its history, including the recent gift of a residential property valued at $5.9 million. This property will be sold by the Johns Hopkins University Real Estate Office to create a permanent base of support for the Foreign Policy Institute. SAIS, in fact, has received more $1 million gifts in the past 10 years than in its first 60 years of existence. Also, the school received $27 million from donors as additions to its endowment fund during Einhorn’s tenure. Einhorn made a concerted effort to reach out to alumni, and SAIS now holds 80 alumni events annually. Ruth Swanson, interim associate dean for development and strategic planning, said that she will miss talking with Einhorn about the dean’s favorite show, Downton Abbey, the award-winning PBS series that follows a cast of characters on a fictional estate in Yorkshire, England, during the early 20th century, before, during and after WWI. “Downton Abbey is, I like to think, a bit like SAIS,” Swanson said. “We are a complex place with tradition and a lot of moving parts. There are people up front who are the public face, and a lot of people behind the scenes that keep the place running. And there are major changes socially, economically and globally going on around us that impact us and in which we are actively engaged.”

Child deaths Continued from page 1 upon by all countries and a number of the world’s leading development institutions. The goals range from halting the spread of HIV/AIDS to reducing preventable deaths among children to providing universal primary education by 2015. “Preventable deaths remain the leading cause of deaths among children under 5,” said Robert Black, senior author of the commentary and the Edgar Berman Professor in International Health and chair of the Bloomberg School’s Department of International Health. “Recent studies suggest a decline in the total number of deaths between 2000 and 2010; however, the decline is not sufficient enough to reach Millennium Development Goal number 4, which seeks to reduce child mortality by two-thirds in 2015. During the last 20 years, global health efforts have saved over 50 million child lives—half of them from pneumonia, diarrhea and measles. Success in bending the curve of child mortality is predicated on renewed commitment and political will, as well as continued innovation in health technology and implementation.” To reduce child mortality and improve maternal health, as outlined in Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, government officials from the United States,

Swanson had earlier taken an online personality quiz for Einhorn to determine which Downton Abbey character she matched, and later confirmed her results by making Einhorn take the quiz. On both occasions, Einhorn matched with Robert, Earl of Grantham, the lord of the manor, who inherited an estate desperately in need of money and whose leadership and strategic relationships put Downton Abbey back on its feet. “Jessica, this means you are honest and old-fashioned. You’re primarily motivated by honor and duty. You’re so honorable, you’re actually willing to let a virtual stranger inherit all your worldly goods rather than risk breaking up your family’s legacy,” said Swanson, drawing laughs from the audience. “You can be extremely generous and forgiving toward those you feel have earned your loyalty.” To show appreciation, several gifts were presented to Einhorn, including a collection of SAIS mugs and some items for two of her favorite hobbies, gardening and swimming. The gifts included a set of gardening tools and the official swim cap and T-shirt of the JHU varsity swim team. She also received a signed photograph of the SAIS courtyard taken in the late 1960s. Einhorn, who appeared delighted throughout the proceedings, was given time to share her thoughts at the end of the event. “I am deeply touched. Thank you,” she said. “It’s my greatest concern that I don’t say thank you enough to each of you individually.” She also had some words on SAIS’ past, present and future. “We have really come a long way in these years. We do stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Bonnie Wilson [associate dean for student affairs] is right when she says that SAIS is not a job—it’s family—and one I would continue to love,” she said. “It has been a wonderful 10 years here, and I appreciate all the kindness you have shown. I also know that I am extremely well succeeded and that SAIS’ best years are ahead of you.” SAIS was founded in 1943 in Washington, D.C., to prepare students to assume major responsibilities in the postwar world. It became a part of Johns Hopkins in 1950 and now has additional campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. Its nearly 1,000 students across the three locations benefit from the school’s emphasis on diverse knowledge and skill sets in core disciplines such as strategic studies, international development, international economics, regional study and foreign language training. G

India and Ethiopia, in collaboration with UNICEF and other partners, convened a Child Survival Call to Action this month in Washington, D.C. Maternal and child health experts discussed building on significant global achievements and creating a coordinated strategy to support the MDGs beyond the 2015 deadline. Researchers say they believe if the world’s average under-5 mortality rate can be reduced to that of industrialized countries today, the global total this year would be 2 million deaths or less. The Lives Saved Tool, developed at Johns Hopkins, predicts improvements in mortality rates that can be achieved in 2035 by scaling up current interventions to provide full and equitable coverage. This modeling tool could provide insights into the individual value of each intervention. “Such a vision will not be compelling unless it can be tied to concrete and measurable benchmarks at global and country levels that are both ambitious and plausible,” note the authors of the JAMA piece. “In this commentary,” Black said, “we endorse one proposed benchmark: that all countries achieve a national under-5 mortality rate of 20 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2035 and the global average under-5 mortality rate be 15 per 1,000 in 2035. Of 195 countries, 102 are already at 20 deaths per 1,000 or below, 39 would reach the goal by 2035 at current annual rates of reduction, and 54 would have to accelerate the progress above the 2000–2010 annual rates of reduction.” G

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Paddle vs. propeller: Which swimming stroke is superior? By Phil Sneiderman

Homewood

wo swimming strokes—one that pulls through the water like a boat paddle and another that whirls to the side like a propeller—are commonly used by athletes training for the Olympic Games. (U.S. swimming trials begin today in Omaha, Neb.) But elite swimmers and their coaches have long argued over which arm motion is more likely to propel an aquatic star toward a medal. A university research study has picked a winner. A team supervised by a Johns Hopkins fluid dynamics expert has found that the deep catch stroke, resembling a paddle, has the edge over sculling, the bent-arm, propeller-inspired motion. “This is a result that is simple but sweet, which is something we usually struggle to arrive at in research,” said Rajat Mittal, a mechanical engineering professor in the Whiting School of Engineering. “The deep catch stroke is more efficient and effective than the sculling stroke.” To obtain this result, Mittal’s team started with high-precision laser scans and underwater videos of elite swimmers. The researchers then used animation software to bend and otherwise change the shape of the static arm in such a way as to match the video sequence. This software allowed the researcher to insert a “joint” into the arm so that the limb could be moved in a realistic manner. The team then ran computer simulations to study the flow of fluid around the arm and the forces that acted upon the limb. Each simulation involved about 4 million

degrees of freedom and required thousands of hours of computer processing time. The findings concerning the deep catch and sculling strokes were featured in the doctoral thesis of Alfred von Loebbecke, who studied under Mittal, and in a report by Loebbecke and Mittal that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. Mittal, a recreational swimmer, joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2009. His research into motion through water began almost a decade ago, when, while based at George Washington University, he was awarded a U.S. Navy grant to figure out how fish use their fins to swim so well. To tackle this task, Mittal’s team developed software and computer models to study the movement of marine animals. Mittal later contacted USA Swimming to see if he might use these high-tech tools to crack the secrets of elite swimmers. Russell Mark, the biomechanics coordinator of USA Swimming, was intrigued, and he provided Mittal’s team with underwater videos of top swimmers and startup funding. With this support, Mittal and Loebbecke collaborated on studies of the “dolphin kick” used in butterfly events and, increasingly, during starts and turns in freestyle and backstroke races. After completing that study for USA Swimming, Mittal’s team turned its attention to the debate among top coaches about the merits of deep catch and sculling strokes. In the 1960s, the sculling stroke gained popularity thanks to James “Doc” Counsilman, then the head men’s swimming coach at Indiana University. Counsilman, highly regarded for his science-based approach to

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Alumni teaching award goes to Jacobellis at SAIS Bologna B y O d e t t e B o ya R e s ta

abrizio Jacobellis, adjunct professor of international economics at SAIS Bologna, was awarded the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award for academic year 2011–12 during the SAIS Bologna Commencement Ceremony, held May 26 in Bologna, Italy. Winners of the award in the university’s other academic divisions were announced earlier and highlighted in the May 21 issue of The Gazette (gazette.jhu.edu/2012/05/21/ making-learning-come-alive). Below are Jacobellis’ responses to the questions The Gazette has asked all the recipients.

the class, with each and every student, and about giving them the comfort that no one will be left behind during the entire course, no matter how challenging this can be. What’s the best piece of teaching advice you ever received? Not sure it was the best piece

of advice, but it surely had an impact on me. Once I met a professor who told me while I was his teaching assistant, “If your students hate you, then it means you are doing a good job; otherwise, you are fired.” I never really understood whether it was a joke or he was serious about it, but I firmly refused to follow that advice, and while working as TA in his class, I started looking around for another job as TA. You never know in life. Did you have any teaching inspirations? I had

the opportunity to sit for three graduate programs in my career as a student, so I have been through several teaching styles.

certainly indicates that the arm does not behave simply like a paddle. However, the simulations also indicate that exaggerated sculling motions, which are designed to enhance and exploit lift, actually reduce both the lift and drag contributions to thrust. So, lift is in fact important, but not in the way envisioned by these early coaches who were trying to bring fluid mechanics into swimming.” Mittal has shared his findings with USA Swimming. He also pointed out that many top swimmers use variations of the classic deep catch and sculling strokes. Outside of competitive swimming, Mittal’s findings could be useful in designing exoskeleton suits that the U.S. Navy is seeking to help elite military forces swim more quickly and efficiently. At the same time, Mittal said, the research could have more down-to-earth applications by steering recreational swimmers toward the most-effective strokes. “People sometimes stop swimming because they feel they are not doing it well enough,” he said. “If this research can help recreational swimmers swim more effectively and feel better about their swimming at an early stage, I think that could have an impact on health and fitness.” See a related video at youtube.com/watch?v= eRkZTclaEsA.

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swimming stroke mechanics, also was head coach of the U.S. men’s swim team that won a combined 21 gold medals in the 1964 and 1976 Olympic Games. Counsilman encouraged his swimmers to use the propeller-like sculling stroke, in which the elbow is raised to a higher position and the arm moves inward and outward in an S-shaped, propeller-like pattern during the propulsion phase of the stroke, when the swimmer’s hand is pushing on the water. While supervising the current study, Mittal considered Counsilman’s reasoning. “A propeller, when it rotates, is producing a lift force, and it is that lift force that pushes a boat forward,” he said. “Counsilman believed that to travel efficiently in a fluid, a swimmer should be using lift forces.” This contradicted the advice given by many swimming instructors. “In the past, the analogy for a swimming stroke was that it was like a paddle in a boat: Put the paddle in the water, push it back as hard as possible,” Mittal said. “This is called dragbased propulsion. You’re actually dragging the water back, and the water drags you forward.” Counsilman insisted that the lift force— generated by that propeller-like movement—was a more effective way of producing thrust than drag force. But Mittal and Loebbecke’s research suggests that the fluid dynamics of this stroke are more complicated than the renowned coach had imagined. “Sculling, in my view, is a swimming stroke that is based on an incomplete understanding of fluid mechanics,” Mittal said. “We found that Doc Counsilman was not correct overall about the sculling, but in some ways he was more correct than he would have ever thought. We did find that lift is indeed a major component in thrust production for both strokes, and that

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June 25, 2012 • THE GAZETTE R E C O G N I T I O N

Johns Hopkins celebrates its staff

he season of celebration is under way. Staff recognition events are being held this month for employees retiring, reaching 20-plus years of service and celebrating five-, 10- and 15-year anniversaries. Various members of JHU’s leadership, including President Ron Daniels and Provost Lloyd Minor, have shown their appreciation for the collective years of service by attending and delivering remarks at different events held recently on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses. By the end of June, more than 1,500 employees—with more than 18,240 years of collective service—will have been recognized for celebrating a milestone anniversary. —Karen Clark Salinas

PHOTOS BY WILL KIRK / HOMEWOODPHOTO.JHU.EDU Susan Doane and Dean Katherine Newman

Eric Davis, Pamela Davis, Patricia Von Paris and John Von Paris

20+ years/retirees

Michael Pinn, Beverly Pinn, Jeanette Castronova and Donald Castronova

Ben Kaneda and President Ron Daniels

Veronica Green, Patricia O’Neill and Crispino Gutierrez

Homewood

Jermaine Garrison and Tiphanie Redmon Galen White, Boyd White and Adena Rojas

Lynnise Norris, Andre Hickman and Alan James

School of Nursing

Theresa Strawder, Helen Dunne, Jennifer Yeager and Anne Belcher

Danielle Burcham, Kelley Carpenter and Mfonobong Umana

Raymond San Juan, Kristina Guanzon, Marie Davidson and Patrice Hamilton

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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 Clifton “Bing” Bingham III , an asso-

ciate professor of medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, has received a two-year $500,000 grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. A rheumatologist, Bingham is developing an interactive questionnaire that will help incorporate the unique, personal perspectives of individual rheumatoid arthritis patients into their clinical care. PCORI grants are part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and aim to help people make informed health care decisions and improve health care delivery and outcomes. Bingham is believed to be the first Johns Hopkins physician to receive one.

BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Marie Diener-West , a professor of bio-

statistics, was recently inducted as a fellow of the Society for Clinical Trials in recognition of her “leadership in the design and conduct of clinical trials, for broad educational activities on major topics relating to clinical trials and for substantial service to the society.” M a r y F o x , an assistant professor in Health Policy and Management, has been selected to serve on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board Ad-hoc Panel. Established by Congress in 1978, the Science Advisory Board is charged with reviewing the quality and relevance of the scientific and technical information being used or proposed as the basis for EPA regulations. Fox and others on the panel will focus on developing advice based on current information about perchlorate, a naturally occurring and processed chemical found in drinking water. R a f a e l I r i z a r r y , a professor in the Department of Biostatistics, has been named the 2012 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer by the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he will present a lecture on Sept. 13. The lectureship is awarded each year to a promising statistician who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodologic research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine and/or has shown excellence in the teaching of biostatistics. Jill Marsteller , an associate professor, and Lainie Rutkow, an assistant professor, both in the Department of Health Policy and Management, are recipients of the Advising, Mentoring and Teaching Recognition Award given to outstanding faculty by students. This is the second AMTRA for each. R o l a n d J . T h o r p e J r. , an associate scientist in the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, has been named a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the nation’s oldest and most-established interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education and practice in the field of aging. Receiving fellowship status in the GSA is an acknowledgment of outstanding and continuing work in the field of gerontology. Albert Wu , a professor in Health Policy and Management and director of the Center for Health Services Outcomes Research, has been selected to serve on the National Quality Forum’s Patient-Reported Outcomes Expert Panel. The forum’s mission is to improve the quality of American health care by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement, and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

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Two faculty members from the Department of Health Policy and Management have been selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of SOURCE Service-Learning Faculty Fellows. C a r e y B o r k o s k i , an instructor in the Institute for Policy Studies, and Beth Resnick , an associate scientist, will be trained to integrate service-learning pedagogy into their academic course work, and will receive a monetary award to assist with community engagement activities. PEABODY INSTITUTE

ICA Classics has re-released on DVD a 1977 Boston Symphony Orchestra performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 featuring soprano P h y l l i s B r y n - J u l s o n , who chairs the Conservatory’s Voice Department.  Faculty artist Keng-Yuen Tseng , violin, organized and led a visit to Shanghai last month by violinists Michelle Skinner , a master of music candidate, and Colin S o r g i , a graduate performance diploma candidate; violist Jaclyn Dorr , an alumna;

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Center in Italy. He also received the school’s teaching award in 2006. Filippo Taddei , an assistant professor of economics (effective in October) at SAIS Bologna, has been awarded the Lamfalussy Fellowship for the year 2012 for his research proposal What Really Matters About Financial Frictions? Asymmetric Information, Limited Pledgeability and Their Interaction. The fellowship is offered by the European Central Bank to promising young researchers who are committed to carrying out research in an area of interest to the bank. Stefano Zamagni , a senior adjunct professor and vice director of International Economics at SAIS Bologna, in May received an honorary doctor of philosophical sciences degree from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, for his thorough knowledge of economic theories, his work on the modification of the paradigms of economic theory and his pioneering of a new and more humane economics.

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Iglesias installed as Edward J. Schaefer Professor in Electrical Engineering By Mary Beth Regan

Whiting School of Engineering

ablo A. Iglesias, director of the Johns Hopkins Cellular Signaling Control Laboratory, has been named the Edward J. Schaefer Professor in Electrical Engineering, in the fifth and final Whiting School of Engineering endowed professorship installation of the academic year. Peter N. Devreotes, professor and director of the Department of Cell Biology at the School of Medicine, introduced Iglesias at the June 4 ceremony, held in Mason Hall, with words that highlighted the collaboration between engineering and medicine. “Pablo has the rare ability to bridge our two worlds,” Devreotes said. Iglesias, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, focuses on the use of control theory and information theory to study biological signal transduction pathways. He is working to understand how cells interpret directional cues to guide cell motion, the regulatory mechanisms that control cell division, and the sensing and actuation that enable cells to maintain lipid homeostastis.

cellist Mia Barcia-Colombo , a GPD candidate; and bassist Paul Johnson , a faculty artist. The group gave a sold-out performance on May 5—shown on television the following weekend—at the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. Tseng and Johnson, outgoing and incoming chairs, respectively, of the Conservatory’s Strings Department, also taught master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory. SAIS Francisco E. Gonzalez , the Riordan

Roett Senior Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, received the 2012 Max M. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Teaching during the school’s commencement ceremony on May 24 in Washington, D.C. Student Government Association president Christopher Cochran, who had taken a course from Gonzalez, presented the award to his professor on behalf of the entire student body. “Your enthusiasm for Latin American Studies is infectious and inspires us to do our best work,” Cochran said. “Though you have a commanding knowledge of your subject, you are humble and respectful of your students, entertaining all theories with thoughtful consideration. We are thankful for you.” Gonzalez joined the SAIS faculty in Washington in 2005, after spending a year as a professorial lecturer at the school’s Bologna

Pablo A. Iglesias

Iglesias received his doctorate in control engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1991. He then joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins, where he is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics. During the 2012–13 academic year, he will be on sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Ravi Anchoori, Elisabetta Kuhn, Leonel Maldonado and Ana Isabel Tergas have received a total of $70,000

in Outside the Box Grants funding from the HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation to pursue ideas and research new directions in the treatment, early detection and prevention of ovarian cancer. Anchoori, a research associate in Oncology, will study ovarian cancer inhibitors. Kuhn, a postdoctoral fellow in Pathology, will research ovarian cancer precursors and progression. Maldonado, a postdoctoral fellow in Gynecology and Obstetrics, will research treatment responsiveness. And Tergas, a postdoctoral clinical fellow in Gynecologic Oncology, will explore barriers to health care faced by a diverse group of ovarian cancer patients at Johns Hopkins. Gabriel Ghiaur , a fellow in hematology, has received a $50,000 grant from the American Society of Hematology for his work on the role of retinoic acid in human hematopoietic stem cell biology. Ghiaur is one of just five fellows nationwide to receive the 2012 ASH grants, which seek to encourage junior researchers in hematology-related training programs to pursue careers in academic hematology. Adil Haider , a trauma surgeon and associate professor of surgery, has been named

director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Surgery Trials and Outcomes Research. Previously, Haider was co-director of CSTOR with Timothy Pawlik , who is now director of the Division of Surgical Oncology. An internationally acclaimed trauma outcomes scientist, Haider is credited with uncovering significant race- and insurance-based disparities in survival after traumatic injury in the United States. He also is widely known for incorporating sophisticated biostatistical techniques into surgical outcome analyses and for mentoring dozens of trainees in outcomes- and patient-centered research at the Johns Hopkins schools of Medicine and Public Health. Peter Hill and Richard Rothman , longtime veterans of the Department of Emergency Medicine, have been named to two newly created vice chair positions. Hill, an associate professor and medical director of the Emergency Acute Care Unit that he created in 2001, has been promoted to vice chair for clinical affairs. Clinical director of the department since 2005, he has been involved closely in streamlining and improving such departmental operations as delivery of service, risk management and quality improvement. Rothman, a professor and director of the department’s research efforts since 2009, has been promoted to vice chair for research. He has developed a strong focus on translational research, launching and overseeing studies in epidemiology, diagnostic test development and implementation, and the public health implications of infectious diseases from an emergency care perspective. Gr eg g Sem enza , a professor of pediatrics, medicine, oncology and radiation oncology, is among three recipients of the Institute of France’s Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation Scientific Grand Prize for 2012. The 600,000 Euro award, one of the largest and most prestigious in scientific medicine, recognizes Semenza’s work in purifying and isolating the protein HIF-1 (hypoxia-inducible factor-1), which switches genes on and off in cells in response to low oxygen levels. Co-recipients of the award were William Kaelin Jr., a Johns Hopkins intern and resident from 1987 to 1988 and now a professor at the DanaFarber Cancer Institute; and Peter Ratcliffe, of Oxford University, who discovered how oxygen regulates HIF-1. These landmark discoveries opened the field of oxygen biology to molecular analysis and could lead to treatments for cancer, diabetes and arterial disease. The annual Stanley L. Blumenthal M.D. Cardiology Research Awards have been bestowed following the division’s yearly cardiovascular research retreat. First place for oral presentations went to Jonathan Kirk , second place to Seth Martin and third place to both Dong Lee and Deetankar DeMazumder , all fellows in Cardiology. First place for poster presentations went to Mariana Lazo , an epidemiologist in the Bloomberg School; second place to Birju Patel , a medical student in Cardiology; and third place to Ir fan Khurram , a fellow in Cardiology. First place in basic science research went to Alice Ho , a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering; and a tie in second place to Viola Kooij and Guangshuo Zhu , both in Cardiology. SCHOOL OF NURSING Casey Shillam has joined the Depart-

ment of Acute and Chronic Care as an assistant professor. She comes to Johns Hopkins from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis, where she was a postdoctoral fellow. Shillam, whose research and practice have focused on pain management in the elderly, completed her doctorate at Oregon Health and Science University and was an assistant professor at the University of Portland School of Nursing before undertaking her postdoctoral work.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION J oh n s H op k i n s M ag azi n e , produced

by the Office of Communications, was awarded two medals in CASE’s 2012 Circle of Excellence competition: a silver for excellence in design for the Spring 2011 Africa cover and a bronze for general excellence among magazines of 75,000-plus circulation.

June 25, 2012 • THE GAZETTE

Be prepared: July marks start of Charles Street reconstruction

harles Street reconstruction is finally about to begin. Baltimore City has awarded a construction contract, and work is expected to begin in July on rebuilding the roadway from 25th Street north past the university’s Homewood campus to University Parkway. In a letter sent last week to faculty, staff and students, Greg Smith and Michael Sullivan of Facilities Management said that they expect to learn more within the next few weeks on when the road will close, which sections will be rebuilt first, where pedestrians will cross the work area and how traffic

Milestones The following staff members are retiring or celebrating an anniversary with the university in June 2012. The information is compiled by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, 443-997-7000. ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS

20 years of service Arms tead , Stacey, Sr., Johns Hopkins University Press La co st e , Maryjane, Jhpiego 10 years of service Ca rroll , Michael, Johns Hopkins University Press Go chenour , Kathleen, Johns Hopkins University Press Ma n cuso , Leslie, Jhpiego 5 years of service Alva rado-Has kins , Paola, Center for

Talented Youth

Co gs well , Devin, Center for Talented

Youth

Ja ck son , Dwayne, Center for Talented

Youth

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Retirees Blizor , Marie, 13 years, Institute for Policy Studies 25 years of service Lettenmaie r , Cheryl, Center for Communication Programs Steue rnagle , Karen, Epidemiology Wh itt ake r , Malcolm, Facilities 15 years of service Da llas , Jean, Center for American Indian Health Ya n g , Jiong, Biostatistics 10 years of service Do dds , Elgerthia, Center for Communication Programs Meyerer , Mark, Epidemiology P ra mmawat , Sirikarn, Epidemiology Supan , Victorino, Health, Behavior and Society 5 years of service Adn e y , Jerome, Support Services Alch es ay , Melanie, Center for American Indian Health Ca rn , Janet, Master of Public Health K o imur , Edna, Financial Operations Myers , Kimberly, Human Resources Sessi ons , Chanell, Epidemiology Steve ns , David, Environmental Health Sciences To rtice , Iralene, Center for American Indian Health CAREY BUSINESS SCHOOL

5 years of service Dea n , Denise, Admissions

detours will work, and that they would relay the information to the university community. “The result,” they said, “will be a roadway that is safer for pedestrians and smoother for drivers, that provides dedicated lanes for bicyclists and that is even more attractive than the current Charles Street. The project will also modernize the utility infrastructure buried beneath the roadway.” The most dramatic changes, they said, would take place between 28th Street and University Parkway, the portion of Charles Street that fronts the Homewood campus. The new look will include an ellipse

between the Beach on the west side and Wolman and McCoy halls on the east. Traffic signals at the north and south ends will make the entire ellipse into one large, controlled, safe pedestrian crossing. The sweeping right turn from southbound Charles onto Art Museum Drive, where now drivers often fail to stop—or even slow down—for pedestrians will be converted to a 90-degree turn. The $25 million project is financed in part by a $2.5 million contribution from the university. The work is expected to take about two years. While it is under way, pedestrians

will be able to cross the work area only at designated spots, which will change from time to time. There will be traffic detours and shuttle bus route changes. The city’s project website is charlesstreet .mdprojects.com. The university will post Johns Hopkins–specific information at fm .jhu.edu/charlesstreetconstruction. Questions can be sent to charlesstconstruction@ jhu.edu. For more details and illustrations, see this Gazette story from a year ago: gazette.jhu.edu/ 2011/05/02/charles-street-renovation-ready-togo.

H a f ne r , Emily, Development and External

Dea n Pr i ce , Marylisa, Finance Business

Rus h , Denise, Immunogenetics

Affairs

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25 years of service Mohr , H., Housing and Dining Services 20 years of service A rri nd e ll , Nicholas, International Student and Scholar Services 5 years of service R e i d , Ikeisha, Housing and Dining Services KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Retirees F l i e g e l , Constance, 22 years, Physics and Astronomy 10 years of service B ri tt , Erdeen, Center for Social

Organization of Schools Q u a l l s , Anna, Office of the Dean 5 years of service G i l l e spi e , Bruce, Physics and Astronomy PEABODY INSTITUTE

10 years of service Wa d yka , Barbara, Finance Administration 5 years of service D e nni s , Paul, External Relations Wi l son , Sandra, Preparatory SAIS

Retirees E i nhorn , Jessica, 10 years, Office of the Dean

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Retirees H a s , Denise, 32 years, Facilities 35 years of service K owa l c zy k , Halina, Orthopaedics Long , Kathleen, Office of the Dean

30 years of service H e bd e n , Bonnie, Rheumatology, Bayview K ozl ow sk i , Lori, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Ma rti n , Zenaida, Pathology Whi tf i e l d , Michele, Dermatology 25 years of service C l a rk , Michelle, Cell Biology D a i l e y , Margaret, Surgery H e a gga n s , Sarah, Oncology H ol brook , Ruthann, Gynecology and Obstetrics Ma l a k , Irena, Immunogenetics S hoc k , Susan, General Administration (Chairman’s Office), Bayview Tra c e y , Rick, Pathology 20 years of service B l a nc ha r d , Levelle, Institute of Genetic Medicine B row n , Sharron, Clinical Practice Association C l a rk S m i t h , Wanda, Radiation Oncology

Office E n n i s , Diana-Lee, Office of the Dean Ha h n , Lisa, Facilities Ho l co m b , Jennifer, Surgery Ka n e , James, Ophthalmology M a r o s y , Beth, Institute of Genetic Medicine M o r i n , Cynthia, Oncology Pr i ce , Scott, Facilities Wi l l i a m s , Matthew, Infectious Diseases

15 years of service C u n n i n g h a m , Anita, Graduate Student Affairs Du k es , Joyce, Clinical Practice Association G er w i g , John, Infectious Diseases G r o d e , Ann, Gynecology and Obstetrics Ha r r i s , Laura, Gynecology and Obstetrics Ho d a k , Jacqueline, Clinical Practice Association Jo n es , Carolyn, General Administration, Clinical Operations Jo n es , Sherry, Otolaryngology Kr i eg er , Barbara, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine M cC r a ck en , Tracy, Research Administration M o h r , David, Institute of Genetic Medicine M o s es , Wanda, Neurosurgery M y er s , Lee, Radiation Oncology Pa r i s h , Michelle, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Sei f er t , Kimberly, Plastic Surgery 10 years of service B l a n ch f i el d , Laura, Neurosurgery C o t t r el l , Tracy, Neurology F i g u er o a , Stephanie, Emergency Medicine Ha i l e , Azeb, Orthopaedics Ha r r i s , Tracy, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine L a n e , Kelly, Psychiatry N o r r el l , Anna, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine O d u m , Sheila, Cardiology Pa n , Weiying, Health, Safety and Environment R o es l er , Carey, Orthopaedics Sch a t z , Linda, Orthopaedics Sco t t , Marquititus, General Administration, Clinical Operations Sp eck , Kathleen, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Tes l o w , Terrance, Radiation Oncology U n d er l a n d , Patricia, Pediatrics Wa r r i n g t o n , Amber, Oncology 5 years of service B o y ce , Danielle, Pulmonary

Shi ves , Judy, Occupational Health Tat e , Adrienne, Ophthalmology Vand er hoff , Jessica, Psychiatry War s aw , Maisha, Dermatology Wi l l i am s , Kimberly, Clinical Practice

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15 years of service Yeag er , Jennifer, Special Events and AV UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

Retirees Young , James, 24 years of service, Facilities 25 years of service Sc huber t , Gregory, Facilities Thom as , Megeen, Human Resources Wi l ey , Brenda, Johns Hopkins Club

20 years of service Br i g ht , Lynna, Communications P aul s on , Jill, Development and Alumni Relations 15 years of service Al ex i ou , Lisa, Development and

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5 years of service Cr am er , Charles, Facilities M c L aug hl i n , Michelle, Development and Alumni Relations M i l l er , Jodi, Office of the President Tur ner , Terri, Office of the Vice President and General Counsel

B r o w n , Jack, Radiology C h en , Ya, Pediatrics Du Va l , Anna, Pediatrics G r a n t , Carolann, Neurosurgery Hen d er s o n , Sharon, Psychiatry I l k , Sarah, Psychiatry L a i k o , Marina, Oncology L i v i n g s t o n , Alison, Ophthalmology O ves o n , Brian, Ophthalmology R i f a t , Dalin, Infectious Diseases

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Classifieds Continued from page 11 Sm/med 5-pc dining rm set, $50; exterior French doors (2), $175/ea; full-length Dior silver fox coat, $950; fitness chair, $10; office supplies, $40; man’s travel bag, $10; Fossil watch boxes (6), $10; art display case, $25; also decorative items. 443-8242198 or saleschick2011@hotmail.com. Eat healthier: I need someone to buy out my share of wkly organic produce basket (contains whatever crops are ripe from a local farm), 21 wks remaining, pickup Tuesdays 3:15-5pm at SPH. $11.87/wk (we split the food). 208-870-1987.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

Sublet wanted by 4th-yr medical student from Scotland, July to Sept 2012, nr JHMI shuttle/mass transit. Nikki, nicola_heller@ hotmail.com. Johns Hopkins employee looking for Owings Mills house to rent for long-term and/or option to buy, 3+ BRs only. kishagbrown@ yahoo.com. Cartoonist/caricaturist artist looking for work. 443-500-0672 or streettoons@gmail.com. Looking for energetic Chinese tutor for 3-yrold, 1-2 hrs/wk. drchriswu@gmail.com. Huge sidewalk sale! 40 items of furniture,

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June 25 and 26 in the 2000 blk of McElderry St (raindate: June 27 and 28). Mature, prof’l man seeks an opportunity to house-sit for 1 to 12 months. 443-847-0597. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to the public, no partners necessary. 410-663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing.com. Tutor available for all subjects/levels; remedial, gifted; help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading. 410-337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@ hotmail.com. Editing of biomedical documents offered by a PhD biomedical scientist and certified editor in the life sciences. 443-600-2264 or michellejones@jonesbiomediting.com. Landscaper/certified horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@ hotmail.com. Licensed landscaper available for spring and summer lawn maintenance, mulching, yard cleanup, other services incl’d trash hauling. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Masterpiece Landscaping provides knowledgeable on-site consultation, transplanting, bed prep, installation, sm tree/shrub shaping, licensed. Terry, 410-652-3446. Would you like to play indoor tennis this summer on a Johns Hopkins team? Tuesday evenings through Aug, men’s, women’s and mixed doubles, approx 3.0-4.0 level. Peter Barker, pbbark@gmail.com.

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Homewood Office of Human Resources Wyman Park Building, Suite W600 410-516-7196 The Whiting School of Engineering seeks a LAN Administrator II to provide IT support for a research group within the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. For a detailed job description and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. 52234

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Schools of Public Health and Nursing Office of Human Resources 2021 E. Monument St. 410-955-3006 The Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking skilled applicants for several fulltime positions. For detailed job descriptions and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. 52258 53120 52871 53102

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Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Assateague Pointe, 2BR house in gated community, 2 swimming pools, fishing pier, biking, birding, quiet place for friends/family, 5 mi to Ocean City and Assateague National Seashore, avail wkly year-round. $950/wk. Claire, 410-908-5286 or cjh3219@ msn.com. Bayview (Elrino St), spacious, bright EOG TH, 2 apts avail, 3 blks to Bayview campus. $650/mo or $500/mo incl Internet (or best offer). 443-386-8471 or fanauh2o@yahoo .com. Bayview, 2BR, 2BA TH, totally rehabbed, W/D, club bsmt, $1,400/mo; 1BR, 1BA apt, 2nd flr, lg kitchen, $600/mo; 2BR, 1BA apt, 1st flr and bsmt, lg eat-in kitchen, 3 private entrances, $800/mo. Chris, 410-633-9936 (leave message). Bolton Hill (1718 Linden Ave), 2BR Victorian brownstone located on quiet, cobblestone street w/gazebo, 1 full BA, 1 half-BA, renov’d BAs/kitchen, upgraded appls, W/D, deck off master BR, backyd, prkng in rear, mins to JHH/Penn Station; email for pics or for viewing. $1,250/mo. 571-933-3341, tymbuk2@gmail.com or go to boltonhill.org. Butchers Hill, beautifully remodeled 3-story house, 3 bedroom suites, 3.5BAs, kitchen, W/D, dw, sec sys, amazing rooftop deck, walk to school. $2,495/mo. Sharon, 443-695-9073. Canton, luxury loft apt on Boston St (Shipyard Bldg), 1.5BAs, stainless steel appls, W/D, lg walk-in closet, spiral staircase, skylight, gated prkng, 24-hr security, walk to great restaurants and waterfront. 240-6031899 or home4rent2006@yahoo.com. Canton (940 S Kenwood St), 2BR, 2.5BA house, galley kitchen, soak-in tub, great views of harbor from 3rd flr. $1,750/mo. 443-928-8129 or 443-928-8125. Charles Village, lovely 3BR, 2BA Victorian house, W/D, sec sys, fenced yd, garage, 5-min walk to shuttle, no smokers/no pets, avail Aug 1. $1,650/mo + utils. housecv@ gmail.com. Charles Village, studio apts, 1-, 2- and 3BRs, JHU discount. 410-383-2876 or atoll4u@ gmail.com. Charles Village, 1BR apt in historic RH, sunny kitchen, AC, W/D, bsmt storage, porch swing, Internet, nr shuttle. $925/mo (unfurn’d) or $975/mo (furn’d). 410-2369840. Cockeysville, 4BR, 2.5BA single-family house, hdwd flrs, deck, 1-car garage, great schools (Dulaney/Cockeysville/Warren), avail Aug 10. $2,000/mo + utils. 443-7682399 or towsonrenthouse@gmail.com. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/ full kitchen; call for wkly/wknd rentals. 410638-9417 or jzpics@yahoo.com (for pics). Fells Point, 1BR, 1BA apt, wood flrs, ceramHFR— Waterfront 4 BR, 2.5 Bath, next to Marina, 20 minutes from JHMI, 1 yr min. lease. Security deposit required. Avail.‐Aug 1 (possibly July 15), furn. or unfurnished. 2 car carport. NO SMOKING. $1600 + u�l. Call Jim 410‐588‐7755.

M A R K E T P L A C E

ic tile in BR, CAC, appls, private roof deck, pref nonsmoker. $1,200/mo + utils. 410-3754862 or okomgmt@hotmail.com. Greektown, 2BR, 2BA RH, recently renov’d, orig hdwd flrs, stainless steel appls, W/D, central HVAC, sec sys, bsmt, prkng pad. $1,400/mo. 410-982-7273 or anthonyweitzel@gmail.com. Hampden, 3BR house w/2 full BAS, W/D, dw, porch, backyd, 1-yr lease and sec dep req’d. Mina, 410-592-2670. Mayfield, charming 3BR, 2BA house in historic neighborhood, hdwd flrs, fp, garage, yd/ patio, nr Homewood/JHH/Bayview. $1,750/ mo. 410-852-1865 or miriam.mintzer@ gmail.com. Mt Vernon (1001 St Paul), lg, furn’d studio, wood flrs, 24-hr front desk, nr Hopkins shuttle, avail Sept 1. $795/mo. 410-967-7027 or weiwhua@hotmail.com. Mt Washington, cozy 2BR, 1BA apt, top flr of restored house, perf for mature person who values simple peace, shady trees, yd, daytime sleep schedule no problem. $1,249/ mo. 410-419-6840.

Glyndon, garden for sale ... w/3BR, 2BA house attached, surrounded by 1.8 acres, mature trees, groomed paths and glorious gardens. $384,900. 410-245-4128. Greenway, Manhattan-style efficiency condo in owner-occupied, elegant and secure bldg, steps to Homewood campus. $86,500. 443414-6282. Mt Washington, 4BR, 3.5BA TH, landscaped, private community, easy commute to JHU/JHMI. $289,000 (and seller’s $5,000 contribution toward settlement costs). lisamwolf@comcast.net. Mt Washington, 4BR, 3.5BA TH, beautiful renovations, deck, backyd, blue ribbon school, county, easy commute to JHU/JHMI. $269,900. 410-653-9164, zlatkina711@ gmail.com or zillow.com/homedetails/ 53-Jones-Valley-Cir-Baltimore-MD-21209/ 36349995_zpid. Stewartstown, PA, 2,170 sq ft rancher, stick-built w/full bsmt, on private lane, many updates, exit 4 off I-83. $314,900. 410-977-2103. 3402 Mt Pleasant Ave (21224), completely rehabbed and superb quality, price reduced. $154,900. jvgiiird@hotmail.com.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Mt Washington, spacious 4BR house, 2.5BAs, furn’d, CAC, ideal for family on academic sabbatical, avail Aug 20, 2012, to Aug 30, 2013. $2,400/mo. 410-466-0255 or b.meneveau@comcast.net.

F wanted for rm in peaceful, furn’d 3BR, 2.5BA house in Owings Mills, easy access to JHU metro, short-term lease OK. $550/ mo incl wireless, utils, prkng. jsethi33@ yahoo.com.

Remington/Hampden, 3BR, 1BA RH w/ hdwd flrs, expos’d brick, stainless steel appls, W/D, bsmt for storage, walk to Homewood campus. $1,500/mo incl water, cleaning service. aascosi@agorafinancial.com.

Nonsmoker wanted for rm and BA in brand new TH, walking distance to JHMC, no pets. 301-717-4217 or xiaoningzhao1@ gmail.com.

Roland Park, 3BR, 2.5BA house, AC, W/D, updated interior and appls, walk to Roland Park Elementary; email for pics. $2,500/mo + utils. malimidwives@gmail.com. Towson, 3BR, 2BA EOG TH, remodeled, CAC, fenced yd, no thru street, nr mall/ bank/pharmacy/grocery. $1,650/mo. 410321-8889. Towson, new 3BR detached house in nice, safe area, great features, 2 mins to Towson University shuttle, 2-min walk to MTA bus #3, #19 and #55, free, safe prkng, 5 mins to 695/95/I-83, 20-min drive to Homewood/ JHMI. wjfj@hotmail.com. 3- and 4BR apts nr Homewood campus, very spacious. $1,395/mo and $1,495/mo. 443253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com (to make an appt). 1BR apt on 2nd flr of TH, across from park, priv entrance, 10-min drive to JHH/ Homewood campus, unfurn’d, 1-yr lease. $550/mo incl heat. Paula, 410-868-2815 or paulakowale@gmail.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Bayview/Greektown, newly renov’d 2BR, 2BA EOG, 1,400 sq ft, bright rms, new appls, granite, lg upstairs laundry (or office or 3rd BR), washer on fin’d lower level. $158,000. 410-935-8060. Gardenville, 3BR, 1.25BA RH w/new kitchen and new BA, CAC, wood flrs, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, club bsmt w/cedar closet, quiet neighborhood, 15 mins to JHH. $105,000. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com.

Apartment for rent near JHMI HICKORY HEIGHTS A lovely hilltop setting on Hickory Avenue Renovated 1BD‐2nd Floor, $500.00 in Hampden! 2 BD units from $760 per mo. + $500.00 security . U�li�es with Balcony - $790 not included. No pets, no children. Shown by appointment 410.764.7776 Call 410‐276‐1212 or apply in person, 2053 E. Monument Street www.brooksmanagementcompany.com

F wanted to share RH nr Homewood campus and shuttle stop. $525/mo incls furn’d rm and all utils. Lvf3116@yahoo.com. Prof’l or student wanted to share lovely 2BR, 3BA White Marsh TH, community pool, free prkng, pref nonsmoker. 443-717-3456. BR avail in 2BR, 1BA TH in Halethorpe, must be clean, no pets (my dog does not get along w/other dogs but loves people), easy access to 95/695/295, free WiFi and basic cable. $600/mo + 1/2 utils. 443-474-4194. M wanted to share apt w/M undergrad, gym, secure door, surveillance, 10-min walk to Inner Harbor, 2-min walk to University of Maryland hospital, subway and light rail station, 2 stops to JH subway. $575/mo to $600/mo incl all utils. 443-831-3375 or kelmansi@stevenson.edu. Share all new, refurbished TH w/other medical students, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI (924 N Broadway). gretrieval@aol.com. F wanted for furn’d rm in Guilford apt, very safe and bright, 5-min walk to Homewood campus/shuttle, gym, sauna, swimming pool, front desk, security desk. $1,000/mo incl all utils. 443-831-3374. F wanted for peaceful, furn’d 3BR, 2BA house, 2 cats, short-term lease OK. $600/mo incl wireless, utils, prkng. skbzok@verizon

.net. 3 BRs avail in newly renov’d 3BR house nr Homewood campus, 2 full BAs. $500/mo and $400/mo incl utils and Internet. Alex, 443-271-3859 or alex21771@gmail.com. Furn’d rms in several TH bldgs nr JHMI/ shops/restaurants/ transportation, W/D in units, some assigned prkng, roommates are JHU students. $350-$550/mo (depending on rm size, length of lease) + shared utils. 410-680-6971 or happyhut4u@yahoo.com. Rm avail in 3BR Belair-Edison area house, 10 mins to JHU, free cable and WiFi. $500/ mo incl utils. Darrick, 443-226-6497. Share Loch Raven Village TH, fin’d bsmt and priv BA, prkng, laundry, shared use of common areas. $800/mo incl utils. crettaliata@ gmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE

’96 Lexus ES300, leather seats, sunroof, garage-kept, needs minor work for inspection, 210K mi. $1,500. Kathy, 410-491-3153. ’96 Honda Accord, leather seats, power windows, sunroof, AM/FM stereo, cruise control, all scheduled maintenance, in good cond, 125K mi. $2,800. 443-930-5412. ’05 Honda Civic si hatchback, Honda VTEK turbo, insp’d, in excel cond, new (good) tires and brakes, agile, responsive and tight, owned by nonsmoking JHU staff, dealer-maintained, 103K mi. $10,000. 410963-8741 or naturegazer@gmail.com. ’05 Toyota Matrix, automatic, 4WD, phantom-gray, XR trim, mechanically perfect, sm dents from street prkng, 98K mi. $7,200. 410-925-6726 or jinysong@yahoo.com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Purebred teacup Yorkie puppies (2), 12 wks old, M and F, born/raised indoors, dew claws removed, tails docked, CKC registered, current vaccines, dewormed, pics avail. samantha01@blumail.org. Weber gas grill w/full tank of propane. $100/ best offer. Ellen, 410-294-1348. Lg modern mirror w/silver brushed finish, frame measures 3 x 2.5 ft (1.5 x 1 ft actual mirror), $50; beautiful black bi-level wood coffee table, 2.5 x 2 x 2 ft, in perf cond, $100. 443-386-5967. Stamping set w/ink pads, 24 different artistic stamps for making greeting cards or general artwork, never used; also lg amount of scrapbooking materials, never used. $50/ best offer (cash). 410-207-2217. Desk w/hinged top and pullout writing extension, 31"W x 19.5"D x 34.25"H, cherry finish throughout, 3 cubby holes inside, removable legs, good cond, top needs tiny refinishing. 410-444-1273 or 443-799-2932 (for pics). Queen-size plush pillowtop mattress, excellent quality, used less than 1 wk. $350. 410-235-5775. Continued on page 10

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12 THE GAZETTE • June 25, 2012 E V E N T

A great big family picnic

lmost 1,700 staff members, faculty and their families attended the JHU Staff Appreciation Picnic held June 8 on the grounds of Johns Hopkins at Eastern, where a catered BBQ dinner was served by members of the administration, and attendees played carnival games and sang karaoke. “The picnic is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and thank the university’s staff for their exceptional dedication and hard work,” said Daniel Ennis, senior vice president for finance and administration, who brought along his wife and children. —Karen Clark Salinas

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Haidan Guo and President Ron Daniels Lisa Su and Candice York

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“Exploring the Depths of 30 Doradus,” an STScI public lecture by Elena Sabbi, STScI. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW

Tues., July 3, 8 p.m.

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“Promoting Public Health and Bioethics in a Developing Country,” an International Health seminar with Myint Htwe, Myanmar Ministry of Health. RSVP to mnyunt@jhsph.edu. E6519 SPH. EB

Mon., June 25, noon.

“Understanding Nutrition Environments and Their Association With Obesity Prevalence in South Korean Adolescents: A Multilevel Approach,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Sohyun Park. W2030 SPH. EB

Wed., June 27, 10 a.m.

“Political Forces and Policymaking to Protect the Chesapeake Bay From Industrial Farm Animal Pollution: A Case Study in Maryland,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Jillian Fry. E9519 SPH. EB

Wed., June 27, 2 p.m.

“Are Recessions Good for Everyone’s Health? The Impact of a Declining Economy on Socioeconomic Status and Racial Health Disparities,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Ruth Fesahazion. 250 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., June 28, noon.

Thurs., June 28, 12:15 p.m. “Genetic and Evolutionary Dissection of the SleepFeeding Conflict,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Alex Keene, University of Nevada, Reno. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

“Delineation of Molecular Basis of Chromosomal and Mendelian Phenotypes,” a Human Genetics thesis defense seminar with Nara Lygia Sobreira. Sponsored by the Institute of Genetic Medicine/Human Genetics Graduate Program. G007 Ross. EB Fri., June 29, 2 p.m.

Mon., July 9, 1 p.m. “Targeting Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen-1 (LFA-1) and Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 (ICAM-1) Interactions to Prevent the Sexual Transmission of HIV1,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Janet Tai Guedon. W2030 SPH. EB Mon., July 9, 2 p.m. “Regulation of Musculoskeletal Development and Function by Myostatin/GDF-11 Binding Proteins,” a Human Genetics thesis defense seminar with Yun-Sil Lee. Sponsored by the Institute of Genetic Medicine/ Human Genetics Graduate Program. 517 PCTB. EB

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New data: HIV superinfection rate comparable to initial infection B y N ata l i e W o o d - W r i g h t

Bloomberg School of Public Health

uman immunodeficiency virus superinfection may be as common as initial HIV infection and is not limited to high-risk populations, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the first large-scale study of HIV superinfection in a general heterosexual population, researchers examined the rate of superinfection among a community of sub-Saharan adults. HIV superinfection occurs when an HIV-infected individual acquires a new viral strain that is phylogenetically different from all other detectable viral strains. Superinfection can have detrimental clinical effects as well as accelerated disease progression and increased HIV drug resistance, even among individuals who were previously controlling their HIV infection. The results are featured online in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. “We found it remarkable that the rates of superinfection and underlying new HIV infections were equivalent. This raises many interesting questions about the natural immune response and its inability to generate resistance to HIV reinfection,” said Thomas Quinn, co-author of the study, an NIAID senior investigator, a professor with the Bloomberg School’s Department of International Health and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. Andrew Redd, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at NIAID, said, “For years there has been great debate regarding the rate of HIV superinfection among populations, and previous studies have focused on individuals exposed to the virus through high-risk sexual activity or intravenous drug use. We were looking to determine the rate of HIV superinfection among a broader, general population using a novel technique sensitive enough to detect even the lowest levels of circulating HIV strains.” The researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at the NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories, the Johns Hopkins Rakai Health

Sciences Program in Kalisizo, Uganda, and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, used an ultra-deep sequencing technique to examine the blood samples of HIV-infected participants of the Rakai Community Cohort Study. Samples were tested at initial HIV diagnosis and at least one year later, before beginning antiretroviral therapy. The rate of superinfection was then compared to an estimated overall HIV incidence rate for HIV-negative individuals during this same time. Of the 149 individuals tested, Quinn and colleagues identified seven cases of HIV superinfection during follow-up, and all were initially infected with some variant of HIV subtype D. In addition, the rate of superinfection was 1.44 per 100 persons and consisted of both intersubtype and intrasubtype superinfections, comparable to primary HIV incidence in initially HIV-negative individuals in the general population in Rakai. “These results also have significant implications for estimations of the age of the HIV epidemic and for phylogenetic modeling of viral evolution because many of these models assume that superinfection is not occurring,” suggest the authors in the study. “In addition, the finding that superinfection is common and occurs within and between HIV subtypes suggests that the immune response elicited by primary infection confers limited protection and raises concerns that vaccine strategies designed to replicate the natural anti-HIV immune response may have limited effectiveness.” Redd added, “Our findings suggest that HIV vaccine strategies designed to re-create the natural immune response to HIV may be insufficient to protect an individual from infection. However, the data also provide an interesting new population to explore, since it is possible that some individuals will be protected from superinfection. Determining what controls this could lead to new avenues for vaccine research.” Authors of the study from Johns Hopkins, in addition to Quinn, are Caroline E. Mullis, Xiangrong Kong, Changchang Xiao, Mary K. Grabowski, Oliver Laeyendecker, Ronald H. Gray and Maria J. Wawer. The research was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.