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October 25, 2010

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ith help from a $1.3 million federal stimulus grant from the National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins researchers are about to build a powerful energy-efficient computing center in a house-sized room that once Transformed served as the mission control center for a NASA astroFUSE room physics satellite.

The transformato hold hightion of room 156 performance of the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy computers will give science, engineering and library researchers at the Homewood campus the space to house about four times as much highperformance computing power, allowing them to launch or expand important projects in areas such as astronomy, turbulence modeling and research data archiving.

“We now have computing projects that are on hold, waiting for space to open up,” said Jonathan Bagger, a vice provost and professor of physics and astronomy, who is principal investigator for the grant. “We have other projects that are operating in very small spaces, waiting for an opportunity to expand.

Receiving this grant is allowing us to solve many of these problems.”

The award is among the 475 stimulusfunded research grants and supplements totaling more than $225 million that Johns Hopkins has garnered since Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, bestowing the NIH and the National Science Foundation with $12.4 billion in extra money to underwrite research grants that were allocated through September.

This computing center stimulus grant can be used only for renovating the room and upgrading its networking systems. However, some computing equipment from other locations will be moved

Working with colleagues across the university, Katherine Newman is exploring the possibilities of more cross-disciplinary initiatives, increased arts-related offerings, expanded interaction with the city of Baltimore and more.

New dean of Krieger School puts her longrange vision in motion

By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

This is part of a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory.

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ven before she rolled up her sleeves as dean, Katherine S. Newman began thinking about a long-range vision for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences that

would focus on the quality of undergraduate life and education at Johns Hopkins, improvements in financial packages offered to students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and productive interactions with other university divisions to foster interdisciplinary work.

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Surviving trauma: Being female confers advantages

By Stephanie Desmon

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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omen who have been severely injured are 14 percent more likely to survive than similarly injured men, according to a new Johns Hopkins study, a difference that researchers believe may be due to the negative impact of male sex hormones on a traumatized immune system.

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Journal of Trauma, the study is believed to be the largest in humans to date to suggest a survival disadvantage among men from male sex hormones, a hypothesis that has been successfully tested in mice. Both men and women have androgens (male sex hormones, including testosterone) and estrogens (female sex hormones) but in different ratios that change over time. The new findings could lead to ways to improve survival in badly injured men, such as giving androgen-blocking drugs to male patients who have been critically injured.

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“Female sex hormones appear to give women better resiliency to extreme injury, while male sex hormones seem to worsen their survival after severe trauma,” said Adil H. Haider, an assistant professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study’s leader. “If we can come up with ways to manipulate those hormones in men, for example, by temporarily blocking sex hormones, we may be able to improve [the patients’] survival.”

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Computer model shows U.S. vulnerable to TB epidemic

By Tim Parsons

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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hile the United States has made great progress in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, the nation has become more susceptible to potential epidemics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, according to a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers.

Computer simulations show that as TB prevalence falls, the risk increases for more extensive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB. In addition, the simulation shows that higher detection of TB cases without proper treatment also increases risk. The study findings are published in the Sept. 22 edition of the journal PLoS ONE. An interactive TB computer simulation used by the research team is available at mdr.tbtools.org.

MDR-TB is a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to at least two of the primary antibiotics used to treat the disease. The World Health Organization estimates that MDR-TB affects between 500,000 and 2 million people each year worldwide, but there were only 111 cases reported in the United States in 2006.

For the analysis, the researchers developed a computer model to simulate the potential for MDR-TB epidemics.

Eighty-one scenarios covering a 500-year period were created with varying levels of treatment quality, diagnosis accuracy, microbial fitness and the degree of immunogenicity of drug-susceptible TB.

According to the study, when 75 percent of active TB cases are detected, improving therapeutic compliance from 50 percent to 75 percent can reduce the probability of an epidemic from 45 percent to 15 percent. Paradoxically, improving the case-detection rate from 50 percent to 75 percent when compliance with directly observed treatment is constant at 75 percent increases the probability of MDR-TB epidemics from 3 percent to 45 percent.

“The ability of MDR-TB to spread depends on the prevalence of drug-susceptible TB,” said David Bishai, senior author of the study and an associate professor in the departments of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

“The most successful approach to reduce this risk for MDR-TB epidemics in the U.S. would be to ensure that populations around the world combine high rates of case findings that are tightly coupled to high compliance with directly observed drug therapy.”

Additional authors of the study are Jason D. Bishai, an undergraduate student at Stanford University, and William R. Bishai, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research.

The research was funded in part by an award to Jason Bishai from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Epidemiology Scholars Contest and by NIH grant 5R01AI079590-03.

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SAIS hosts forum on state of marriage in United States

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n the second installment of the 2010–2011 Provost’s Lecture Series, SAIS will host a forum titled “The Marriage-Go-Round: How and Why Family Life Is Different in the United States Than in Other Wealthy Nations,” featuring a lecture by Andrew J. Cherlin, professor of sociology and public policy at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Cherlin is the author of The Marriage-GoRound, published by Random House in 2009.

The event, which is part of “The Year of Demography” at SAIS, will take place at 5:30 p.m. today, Oct. 25, in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium.

According to Cherlin, marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it is not in other developed countries. Americans have more turnovers in their family lives, more spouses and partners moving in and out of the household, they marry and divorce more often and have more short-term live-in partners than Europeans, and gay Americans seem to have more interest in legalizing same-sex marriage. This distinctive pattern, Cherlin says, comes from Americans’ embrace of two contradictory cultural ideals: marriage, a formal commitment to share one’s life with another; and individualism, which emphasizes personal growth and self-development. Religion and law reinforce both behavioral poles, fueling turbulence in family life and heated debate in public life.

To attend the forum, non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to saispubaffairs@jhu.edu or 202-663-5648.

‘Changing Face of American Poverty’ is topic of discussion

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he Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Concern and Tribe Inc. will present a panel discussion titled “The Changing Face of American Poverty” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, in Homewood’s Glass Pavilion.

Amid the greatest economic recession in decades, the panelists will address the philosophical and political divide between market solutions and government intervention, while seeking tangible solutions to the precipitous decline of the American middle class.

The panelists will be Donald Williams of Bread for the World, Adam Schneider of Health Care for the Homeless and Jason Hartling, principal at Northwestern High School in Park Heights, who will also represent Teach for America.

Immigration and Latino life are focus of PLAS roundtable

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he Program in Latin American Studies will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a roundtable discussion on immigration and Latino experiences in Baltimore and the United States.

Editor Lois Perschetz Writer Greg Rienzi Production Lynna Bright Copy Editor Ann Stiller Photography Homewood Photography A d v e rt i s i n g The Gazelle Group B u s i n e ss Dianne MacLeod C i r c u l at i o n Lynette Floyd Webmaster Tim Windsor

“Haciendo Comunidad: Compartiendo Experiencias y Conocimientos (Making Community: Sharing Experiences and Knowledge)” is co-sponsored by the Office of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and La Organizacion Latina Estudiantil, or OLE. The event is designed to bring together scholars and community-based activists to share their knowledge and experience. It will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, in 111 Mergenthaler Hall, Homewood campus.

Johns Hopkins named Center of Excellence in Nursing Education

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he National League for Nursing has named the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education.

According to the NLN website, schools so designated “demonstrate sustained, evidence-based and substantive innovation in the selected area; conduct ongoing research to document the effectiveness of such innovation; set high standards for themselves; and are committed to continuous quality improvement.”

Johns Hopkins earned recognition in “Creating Environments That Enhance Student Learning and Professional Development,” one of three designated areas of excellence.

The award was presented earlier this month at the National League for Nursing Education Summit in Las Vegas.

NIH holds forum on enrolling pregnant women in trials

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uth R. Faden, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a leading advocate for increasing clinical studies on pregnant women, spoke on Oct. 18 at a forum that took aim at fears that keep soon-to-be mothers from participating in vital research.

The event was hosted by the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health for researchers, physicians, policymakers, ethicists, scientists and regulatory officials.

“Pregnant women are no magical exception to the need for evidence-based medicine,” Faden said. “Like other people, pregnant women are best protected through research, not from it.”

Clinical investigators have historically failed to make meaningful efforts to encourage pregnant women to participate in drug trials and other research, out of concerns that the fetus or woman might be injured.

But Faden and her colleagues say most of those fears are based on sparse evidence, and that persistent exclusion of pregnant women in clinical research is unethical and leaves them vulnerable. Every year, more than 400,000 women are estimated to face serious illnesses while pregnant, but because there is little data on how to safely and effectively treat them, neither doctor nor pregnant women know what to do.

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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Owen Phillips, world-renowned JH oceanographer, dies at 79

By Lisa De Nike

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wen Martin Phillips, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member emeritus and renowned oceanographer, died on Oct. 13 at his Chestertown, Md., home. He was 79.

Phillips was world-famous for devising a methodology for predicting and describing the shape of ocean waves and, in particular, giant waves—10-story upheavals of the sea surface—knowledge of which is essential for designing ships and drilling platforms capable of withstanding these destructive swells of water.

An engineer and scientist who probed the complex physics of fluids in motion, Phillips spent half a century at Johns Hopkins and was the chief architect of the school’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, formed in 1967. His work in fluid mechanics is widely recognized as having had a profound impact on the field, cutting across traditional disciplines and encompassing practical applications as disparate as the Earth’s crust, its atmosphere and oceans.

“Owen was a true giant in the field of fluid mechanics for his contributions to oceanography and other geophysical flows.

Much of our understanding of ocean waves can be traced to fundamental research done

by Owen,” said Darryn Waugh, chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. “Owen had a huge impact on Johns Hopkins University. Not only did he play a

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major role in the formation of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and twice serve as chair, but he also was its first and longest-serving chair, during which time he guided its growth and development into an internationally recognized interdisciplinary center for research and teaching.” Many of Phillips’ former students are now distinguished researchers worldwide.

A prolific writer, Phillips authored more than 100 papers in his field. His 1966 book, The Dynamics of the Upper Ocean, is a standard reference volume for students struggling to understand waves and turbulence, and his 1991 volume, Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks, unified the chemistry and

physics of certain geological processes and is still used by students today.

Phillips was born on Dec. 30, 1930, in Paramatta, New South Wales, Australia. His father, a veteran of both world wars, moved the family of six to a small country town in northern New South Wales in 1936, then to Sydney in 1944, where Phillips attended high school. In 1948, Phillips entered the University of Sydney in the engineering program, which at the time was among the most rigorous academic training grounds in the world. He earned a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics with highest honors in 1952 and his doctorate at Cambridge University in 1955.

He published his first scientific papers in 1955, and two years later joined The Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. That year, he published a paper outlining his still-famous and influential theory on ocean wave generation. Three years later, he left for Cambridge, accepting a position as assistant director of research in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. It did not take him long, however, to discover that the field of oceanography was expanding much more rapidly in the U.S. than it was in the U.K., so he returned to Johns Hopkins in 1963 as a full professor of geophysical mechanics.

In 1965, Phillips was awarded the coveted Adams Prize by the Royal Society of London for his first monograph, Dynamics of the Upper Ocean, published the following year.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1968, at the age of 37. Phillips was chair

of the newly formed Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences for the next 10 years, and then again from 1988 to 1989.

He was awarded the Sverdup Gold Medal in 1974, served as president of the Maryland Academy of Sciences from 1979 to 1985 and was elected a fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1980 and of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.

In April 1998, hundreds of friends and colleagues packed Johns Hopkins’ Shriver Hall auditorium to hear the world’s foremost experts in fluid dynamics pay tribute to Phillips upon his retirement. The turbulence expert was admired for his research acumen and accomplishments, and beloved for his gracious charm, quick sense of humor and generosity of spirit.

“Owen Phillips was genuinely a renaissance man, a true polymath,” said Peter Olson, a colleague of Phillips’ and a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, last week. “He took a sincere interest in everyone in EPS, and he was unfailingly generous, especially when it came to sharing his thoughts, ideas and insights with colleagues and students.”

Phillips is survived by his wife of 57 years, Merle, and his four children, Lynette Phillips, of Huntington, N.Y., Christopher Phillips, of Albany, N.Y., Bronwyn Phillips, of Baltimore; and Michael Phillips, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Colleagues and friends in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences are planning a memorial service for Friday, Jan. 21, at a time and place to be announced. When more information is available, it will be posted on the department website, eps.jhu.edu.

Diagnostic guidelines a barrier to prompt relief for back pain

By Stephanie Desmon

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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lavishly following long-held guidelines for diagnosing the cause of arthritisrelated back pain is resulting in excessive tests, delays in pain relief and wasteful spending of as much as $10,000 per patient, new Johns Hopkins–led research suggests.

Though a common cause of back pain, arthritis is difficult to precisely diagnose, experts say, because of the poor correlation between a finding of arthritis on an X-ray or MRI and the degree of a patient’s back pain. That has routinely led to a series of temporary diagnostic nerve blocks to prove the arthritis connection before doctors will recommend radiofrequency denervation, a

relatively safe, noninvasive procedure that interrupts nerve-pain signals from arthritic joints.

The new study, published in the August issue of the journal Anesthesiology, says that the wiser course is to skip the diagnostic nerve blocks altogether and move straight to treatment when arthritis is the suspected cause of back pain.

“The whole way we’re doing this is wrong,” said study leader Steven P. Cohen, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “If we just do the radiofrequency procedure first, we’re going to help more people, and we’re going to save a lot of money.”

In Cohen’s study, 151 patients at several hospitals whose back pain fit the criteria

School of Public Health receives $2.4 mill high school safety grant

By Tim Parsons

School of Public Health

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he Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will receive $2.4 million from the U.S. Department of Education over the next four years as part of the Safe and Supportive School Grants program. Under a $13.2 million grant awarded to the Maryland State Department of Education, researchers from the Bloomberg School and Sheppard Pratt Health System will help support research, data collection and school safety training at Maryland high schools with the greatest safety needs.

Catherine Bradshaw, associate professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Mental Health and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, will serve as principal investigator and research director for the initiative.

Philip Leaf, professor and director of the

Center for Prevention of Youth Violence, will serve as co-investigator.

“This project builds on a 10-year collaboration between the Maryland State Department of Education, Sheppard Pratt Health System and Johns Hopkins,” Bradshaw said.

“The collaboration has already provided training in evidence-based prevention programs to over 800 Maryland schools and launched two federally funded randomized, controlled research trials. This new project illustrates the collaboration’s commitment to conducting sound research, as we were very excited to build a randomized trial into the study design,” she said.

The grant is designed to help with the development and administration of a sustainable measurement system to assess school safety, student engagement and the school environment. Schools with high levels of incidents will receive on-site training and assistance to improve school safety.

for arthritic back pain were randomized to one of three groups: Group 0 received radiofrequency denervation based on clinical findings without nerve blocks; group 1 underwent the radiofrequency treatment only after a positive response to a single diagnostic block; and group 2 got the treatment only if they had positive responses to two diagnostic blocks.

One-third of the patients in group 0 experienced significant pain relief lasting at least three months, while just 16 percent of group 1 and 22 percent of group 2 improved.

Those in group 0 were treated immediately, visited a clinic just once and lost no extra days of work to undergo repeated diagnostic tests, Cohen said. The costs per successful treatment in groups 0, 1 and 2 were $6,286, $17,142 and $15,241, respectively.

Notably, among those who had radiofrequency treatment, success rates were higher in those who had the diagnostic blocks first because they were more likely to actually have arthritis. Still, Cohen said, those patients endured long delays and multiple procedures before finally getting lasting pain relief, and some may not have gotten needed radiofrequency treatment because of the false-negative results associated with diagnostic blocks.

“Our goal is to get people feeling better,” he said. “When you do two blocks, you may be wrongly weeding out many people who would actually benefit from radiofrequency denervation.”

Cohen noted that radiofrequency denervation is as safe as giving a diagnostic block and needs to be done only once for relief of symptoms. “The proof is in the treatment,” he said. Radiofrequency denervation is unlikely to help patients whose back pain is not caused by arthritis. However, the procedure is not considered dangerous for those without arthritis.

Radiofrequency denervation is the second most common procedure in pain clinics across the United States. The relief can last many months and sometimes years, but often must be repeated when pain returns.

Cohen, who is also a colonel in the U.S.

Army Reserves and director of Chronic Pain Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said that the idea to do without diagnostic blocks came from his experience treating active-duty soldiers who complain of debilitating back pain. Deployed military doctors are under time pressure because soldiers who can’t be sent back to their posts quickly are likely to be evacuated out of the war zone with the likelihood that they will not return.

In the civilian world, he said, patients also should be treated as quickly and safely as possible. Going straight to treatment typically means that those patients also can return to work and their normal lives in a shorter period of time.

Until recently, the big debate in the painmanagement community was whether to do one or two diagnostic blocks before the radiofrequency nerve-burning procedure.

The rationale behind using two blocks is that some people without arthritic back pain can get relief from a single block, which is called a “false-positive” test. But Cohen and colleagues said they believe that making diagnostic accuracy a higher priority than pain relief may be misguided.

“If you ask patients what their main goal of treatment is, the answer is typically that they want to be able to pick up their grandkids or play golf,’” he said. “It’s not, ‘I want to know if it’s my arthritic joints or my discs.’”

Cohen cautioned that diagnostic nerve blocks are called for in some cases. For example, he said, they should be used to determine whether surgery is the right option for relieving certain kinds of back pain in people without a clear-cut anatomical problem in order to avoid an unnecessary, risky operation.

The research was supported by a grant from the John P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute, the U.S. Army and the Army Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Institute.

Kayode A. Williams, of Johns Hopkins; Connie Kurihara, of Walter Reed; and Scott Strassels, of the University of Texas, also participated in the study.

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The finding, published in the September issue of Endocrinology, could eventually lead to new ways to explain and treat depression, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.

Scientists and physicians have long been interested in the cause of depression, a sometimes debilitating disorder that affects about 16 percent of people at least once over the course of a lifetime. While studies have shown that many other mental illnesses are strongly heritable, the risk of depression has been shown to be only about 40 percent genetic. Consequently, environmental factors are thought to play a major role in causing this disease.

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To see if stress might influence epigenetic marks on genes involved in depression, Potash and his Johns Hopkins colleagues, including study co-leader Gary Wand, a professor in the Division of Endocrinology; Kellie Tamashiro, an assistant professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and Richard Lee, a postdoctoral fellow in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, gave some mice corticosterone in their drinking water for four weeks. Corticosterone is the mouse version of cortisol, a hormone produced by the human body during stressful situations.

Other mice drank water without this hormone.

At the end of the four-week period, the mice who received corticosterone displayed anxious characteristics in behavioral tests.

Gene expression tests on these animals showed a marked increase in protein produced by a gene called Fkbp5, which in its human form has been linked to mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disease.

When the researchers examined the rodents’ DNA for epigenetic marks on Fkbp5, they found substantially fewer methyl groups attached to this gene in mice that received corticosterone compared with those that didn’t. These differences in epigenetic marks persisted for weeks after the mice stopped receiving the hormone, suggesting long-lasting change. “This gets at the mechanism through which we think epigenetics is important,� said Potash, who directs research programs at Johns Hopkins’ Mood Disorders Center.

He explains that epigenetic marks that are added through life experience may prepare an animal for future events. “If you think of the stress system as preparing you for fight or flight, you might imagine that these epigenetic changes might prepare you to fight harder or flee faster the next time you encounter something stressful.�

Although these behaviors were probably advantageous earlier in evolution, they aren’t as useful today, with modern stressors that we can’t fight or flee, such as work deadlines, Potash added. Consequently, he said, chronic stress might instead lead to depression or other mood disorders triggered by epigenetic changes.

Potash, who holds the Arlene and Robert Kogod Professorship in Mood Disorders, notes that, eventually, doctors may be able to look for these epigenetic changes in DNA isolated from a patient’s blood to predict or diagnose psychiatric illnesses. Ultimately, researchers may someday be able to target these epigenetic marks with drugs to treat depression and other diseases.

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kins Sustainability Committee and director of the Office of Sustainability, said that his team has made a concerted effort this past year to create a more universitywide sustainability network, and to reach out beyond Homewood.

“I don’t think we can do a universitywide green week yet, but we can at least do the two largest campuses,” he said. “But the plan is to expand each year.”

Bookhart said he views Green Your Routine Week as part of the multifaceted Implementation Plan for Advancing Sustainability and Climate Stewardship that was adopted by university President Ronald J. Daniels earlier this year. The plan encompasses research, education, community outreach, and green practices and infrastructure. A

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tudents, staff and faculty lined up in front of Homewood’s Levering Hall last Wednesday to play a game of guess the water: bottled or filtered tap. Many guessed wrong or had trouble discerning the differences, an uncertainty that only bolstered the Students for Environmental Action group’s point that bottled water—no matter how stylish the package design—doesn’t necessarily triumph in a taste battle with its tap form.

Why does it matter? For starters, eight out of 10 plastic water bottles end up in a landfill. To illustrate that point, a group from ECO-Rep stood at a table on Keyser Quadrangle flanked by hulking bags of empty water bottles that had been discarded and not recycled.

These lessons on water use came on day three of Green Your Routine Week, a full slate of events to celebrate environmentally sustainable living and thinking at Johns Hopkins. The week, an annual event started in 2007, also casts a spotlight on the number of student-led efforts currently under way to greatly improve Johns Hopkins’ environmental profile.

This year, Green Your Routine Week was hosted on both the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses, a joint effort of the Office of Sustainability, the School of Public Health’s Environmental Stewardship Committee, Johns Hopkins IT Recycling and environmental student groups from both campuses. At Homewood, the SEA, ECOReps, Real Food Hopkins and the Sustainable Hopkins Infrastructure, or SHIP, took the lead. In East Baltimore, the Leadership Initiative for the Environment sponsored events at the School of Medicine, and the Environmental Health Sciences Student Organization organized for the School of Public Health.

The Homewood-based activities included an e-cycling drive to collect unwanted electronic devices, a tour of the campus’s new energy-saving cogeneration power plant, an excursion to plant trees at Gwynns Falls Elementary School and an Urban Foraging Tour.

For the tour, Marta Hanson, an expert at the School of Medicine on ancient medicine, guided participants around the campus to discover edible and useful grasses, fruits and more that grow in unsuspecting places. Highlights were the Cornelian cherry orchard (the fruit makes great sour cherry soup or jam, she said), the quince tree (worth the effort it takes to turn it into tea) and an American persimmon tree (for cookies, as a jam to go with sharp cheeses and in a baked pudding). She also pointed out wild chives, dandelions, pokeweed, chicory, burdock, prickly lettuce, camomile, pine and cedar needles, mint, mulberry and serviceberry trees, acorns, beechnuts and sugar maple trees.

“The main point,” Hanson said, “is that I would like to see an even more edible landscape on campus and around the city.

And that I would like more people to pay attention, harvest, process, etc., the range of edible foods in our urban environment— harvesting, of course, only what one can consume and leaving, of course, plenty for other critters and foragers. It’s fun and makes life, eating and cooking more interesting,” she said.

The East Baltimore events included a bike-commuter workshop and a group bike ride through Patterson Park, a composting focus group at the School of Public Health, a Sustainable and Healthy Harvest Table at the Farmers Market at Johns Hopkins and an EmPOWER Maryland You Owe It to Yourself interactive exhibit at the School of Medicine’s Broadway Research Building that allowed users to calculate the environmental and financial savings associated with various energy-efficient behaviors.

Davis Bookhart, chair of the Johns Hop-

key component is the goal of cutting emissions of climate-changing carbon dioxide gas by more than half from projected levels by 2025.

The university is investing more than $73 million in conservation and efficiency measures that will cut emissions caused by facilities operations by an initial 81,000 metric tons a year. The remainder of the goal will be achieved by adopting new technologies that emerge between now and 2025 and by motivating members of the university community to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact.

Bookhart said that events like those hosted this past week can serve as reminders that sustainability needs buy-in from everyone.

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“The message here is that my office can’t make this a green school by itself. We need everyone’s contribution to make this a more sustainable university,” he said. “No matter what their role or function, people are making decisions throughout the day that will impact whether or not we will become a more or less green institution. Whether you turn off the lights when you leave the office or shut down your computer, these are things I can’t do. But if we have tens of thousands of employees all doing things that help us reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we can achieve what we set out to do.”

To promote this philosophy, the Office of Sustainability will roll out an Every Job Is a Green Job campaign next month.

Bookhart said that the university’s sustainability push is already paying dividends.

In the past year, the university decreased energy use by 2 percent despite adding buildings, and its recycling rate increased by 24 percent. Since 2006, water use has decreased by roughly 21 percent each year.

A sore spot for Bookhart has been the university’s paper use, which has increased each of the past three years.

“We want to bring down these numbers,” he said, “and this is a great example of how lots of little decisions at the individual level add up to big impacts. If those decisions are adjusted even slightly, we can transform this place.”

One good example of how small changes make a difference, he said, is that “the amount of recycled paper we purchase has increased. Frankly, I would like 100 percent of our paper to be recycled.”

Bookhart said he bets that most people can’t tell the difference between 35 percentrecycled paper and plain paper.

Perhaps that will be a guessing booth in next year’s green week?

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The former mission control center for a NASA astrophysics satellite, seen here in 2007, will be transformed into a center for high-powered computers.

Computers Continued from page 1 into the new center, and participating researchers are expected to use their own grants to pay for still more modules that will be installed in this space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While some of these groups have the funds to buy powerful computers, we still need someplace to put them,â&#x20AC;? Bagger said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without this new center, these researchers would have to keep their equipment in closet-size rooms that are not designed for it and that are less energy-efficient. Having a large, specially designed center for these computers is cheaper and greener. And it will allow researchers to pool their computing power.â&#x20AC;?

Between 1999 and 2007, the 3,100-square-foot room served as the control center for NASAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Explorer mission. FUSEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose was to explore the universe using the technique of high-resolution spectroscopy in the far-ultraviolet spectral region. The original three-year mission was extended several times, but in 2007 the spacecraft was decommissioned, and the former control center has remained mostly vacant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were very lucky that the large room used for directing the FUSE mission was available,â&#x20AC;? Bagger said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The timing was perfect.â&#x20AC;?

Marty Kajic, facilities project manager for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, said that the space will be reconstructed to accommodate the power supply, cooling system and backup protection required for high-performance computing modules. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will have a full monitoring system that collects data on how well the equipment is operating, so that we can make the room even more energy-efficient,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The renovated room will also feature significantly upgraded connections to Internet 2, which can be used to share data with other U.S. research universities and national labs. Construction is expected to begin in the coming weeks, with completion due within about six months.

Until the renovation is completed, many researchers will continue to use the Homewood High-Performance Cluster, a data center run by a group of the campusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scientists, engineers and library researchers who share limited resources in a smaller room on the fourth floor of the Bloomberg building. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough cooling capacity to expand,â&#x20AC;? said Mark O. Robbins, a physics and astronomy professor, who chairs the cooperativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steering committee.

Moving the existing cluster equipment to the former FUSE room and adding modules that researchers have been waiting to purchase will allow the university to take a major step forward, Robbins said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The need for having more and more power for computing is one of the challenges that we face,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you need to be a major player in computational science and

engineering research. This will be a state-ofthe-art facility.â&#x20AC;?

Also looking forward to the facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completion is Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean of university libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, who received an NSF grant whose primary goal is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to preserve research data being generated by science and engineering projects throughout the country.â&#x20AC;?

Without the expanded computing capacity that the new center will allow, this archiving project would be difficult, Choudhury said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our current policy calls for having two copies of each data collection. That would take up half of our libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current archiving storage space. We really need this new infrastructure to expand our project,â&#x20AC;? he said.

For Charles Meneveau, the Louis M. Sardella Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Whiting School, the new high-performance computing center will allow him to complete a long-awaited project: a simulation of a turbulent channel flow. Such a simulation will allow researchers to study precisely what happens when a fast-moving gas or liquid rushes past a solid boundary, such as over an aircraft or wind turbine wing. The friction causes turbulence to form adjacent to this boundary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal,â&#x20AC;? Meneveau said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is to be able to describe this phenomenon mathematically in four dimensionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in three spatial dimensions and over time. But this requires a vast amount of computing power and storage space. Right now, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough computer power to perform, and space to store, the entire turbulent flow simulation.â&#x20AC;?

The new computing center should resolve that problem, Meneveau said, allowing him and his colleagues to operate a large storehouse of turbulence data. Via the Web, researchers around the world will be able to access select portions for their own research projects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could think of it like a bank,â&#x20AC;?

Meneveau said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bank maintains a database with a huge amount of information about all of its accounts and transactions, but you might just want to look at one small part of this, such as your own checking account.

In the same way, this project will allow scientists all over the world to look at whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening to a single particle flowing within a turbulent channel flow.â&#x20AC;?

The facility will eventually also house Data-Scope, a new scientific instrument capable of â&#x20AC;&#x153;observingâ&#x20AC;? immense volumes of data from various scientific domains such as astronomy, fluid mechanics and bioinformatics. The project, led by Alexander Szalay, a professor of physics and astronomy, will include the integrated software and hardware needed to analyze massive data sets. A Data-Scope project summary states that the instrument is â&#x20AC;&#x153;designed to enable data analysis tasks that are simply not possible today.â&#x20AC;?

The $1.3 million grant for transformation of the former FUSE control room became effective Sept. 1 and will be allocated over a three-year period. Szalay, Meneveau, Choudhury and Robbins are serving as coinvestigators for the award. G

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Newman Continued from page 1 No empty rhetoric here: Newman has a track record of getting results.

A distinguished scholar and veteran academic leader, Newman led major interdisciplinary initiatives at Princeton and Harvard universities before being named the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School. She assumed the position on Sept. 1.

Just prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Newman was the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes ’41 Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology at Princeton, where she directed the universitywide Institute for International and Regional Studies. She also founded and chaired Princeton’s joint doctoral program in sociology, politics, psychology and social policy.

At Harvard, she was the first dean of Social Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and developed a universitywide research program in the social sciences, promoting collaboration among faculty in Arts and Sciences, Public Health, Medicine, Law and Education. She also has served on the faculties of Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Newman, who has written 10 books and edited five volumes thus far, has focused much of her scholarly work on the lives of the working poor and mobility up and down the economic ladder.

Newman recently sat down with The Gazette to talk about her first month on the job and the direction of the Krieger School. We learned that she loves challenges in her intellectual life—and that her role calls for a creative approach to problem solving.

Q: Getting to know Baltimore yet?

A: To be perfectly honest, my commute

is now about two blocks between here and my home, and I have had very little time to enjoy the city since the job itself is very demanding. But I’m certainly going to explore the city after I get my arms around my work. I will say that I’ve found my way to the Charles Theatre. As a devoted film buff, I knew I would love it here as soon as I found myself in a first-rate venue for independent film.

Q: How has the transition been professionally?

A: This is a very different job than those

I’ve had before, although it builds upon skills and experiences that I’ve used for many years now as a university leader. I was responsible for creating new programs at several different universities, so I’m accustomed to institution building, but the range of departments that I’m responsible for now is much greater.

I love learning about new fields, and that is what this job fundamentally requires. It’s about learning the vocabulary and intellectual puzzles that engage my colleagues in the wide range of fields that make up the arts and sciences. For anyone who enjoys ideas, there is probably no better place than the Dean’s Office for developing at least a passing understanding of what astronomers or art historians are proccupied with.

Q: You recently reconfigured the school’s top administrative structure, specifically creating new vice dean posi-

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tions [see ‘Gazette’, Sept. 20]. You, in essence, split the school in two with the creation of a vice dean for science and research infrastructure, and a vice dean for humanities, social sciences and graduate programs. What was the thinking behind this restructuring?

A: When I look at my office from the

viewpoint of a department chair, who has multiple kinds of responsibilities for undergraduate programs, graduate programs and for faculty, I’m imagining that person would appreciate as close as possible to a one-stop arrangement—precisely, one place where they can go for what they need from my office.

Before they had to go to multiple places to support the different constituencies that they have to be responsible for. I was trying to make a structure that was easier for them to access the resources they need. It also reduces the wingspan to a more manageable, although still difficult, concentration of fields for the vice deans.

In the prior structure, the dean of faculty had responsibilities that were as broad as mine. I thought it would be more efficient for the Krieger School to have two vice deans who had portfolios that were more closely configured and could provide a deeper range of understanding for the departments that fell under their aegis.

Thanks to the hard work of Greg Ball on the science side and Kellee Tsai on the humanities/social science side, I think we are able to support our colleagues better. It is certainly a great help to me to be able to turn over issues that require more in-depth engagement with chairs and faculty to my vice deans. Given the amount of time I devote to Alumni Relations off campus, it is a real boon to be able to turn to these two very capable people for the many day-to-day issues that need to be resolved.

Q: Tell me your thoughts about the recently reopened Gilman Hall and what this renovated building means to the school.

A: This is now the fifth university that

I have worked for, and I don’t recall ever seeing an academic building as beautiful as Gilman Hall on any of those campuses. It’s an honor to arrive here at a time when we are celebrating this magnificent new home.

But it’s a lot more than a building. It’s a monument to a set of ideas about what is important in intellectual terms to the university: the centrality of the humanistic disciplines to our understanding of our historical origins, moral dilemmas and forms of creative expression.

Having everyone in the same building increases their accidental encounters with one another, which changes the natures of their conversations. It surfaces connections and lines of intellectual inquiry that might not have emerged before.

Q: The faculty certainly seemed to look forward to being back together under one roof.

A: Even in this era of electronic communi-

cation, when we think we are connected to everybody every which way, creativity still depends on proximity.

Social scientists who study innovation have shown that people from disparate disciplines are more likely to collaborate with one another if they are just across the hallway than they will with someone exactly in their field who is physically separated.

Face-to-face interaction creates intellectual interchange, and that is what Gilman Hall is making possible for students and faculty— and for me, if I ever get my office over there [laughs].

Q: You dropped that not-so-subtle hint to President Daniels at the building’s reopening.

A: I would love to be there. As it is, I will

have to settle for an office that looks out at it.

Q: The public health major continues to be very popular among undergraduates, as does a new major on sustainability.

Do you feel we have an excess of altru-

istic students, those who want to go out and save the world?

Q: Major challenge going forward?

A: I think Johns Hopkins students are very

our dreams. We have no shortage of ideas, and no shortage of talent. But we are going into a capital campaign in 2013 that is going to be absolutely essential to finding all the resources to make these dreams come true.

oriented toward service in the world, as are many people of their generation. Young people throughout the United States share this ethic of service. They want to make the world a better place than the way they found it.

Ironically, I think that the catastrophe of 9/11 had a profound effect on the generation that is in college right now. It left them with questions about the place of our country in the world. Enrollment in languages such as Arabic and Chinese has just skyrocketed.

Why is that? There are many reasons. Students see that there are opportunities for them in the future if they can master these languages, but I think there is also just a broader sense of interest in the world beyond our boundaries that was catalyzed by truly tragic events.

Public health is part of this calling because a focus on international well-being of people far from our shores is integral to the study of public health, as well as questions of the underserved in our own country. This same ethic of service attracts students to international studies and to medical science.

Q: Have you begun to reach out to other schools or divisions for interdisciplinary collaborations?

A: Oh, definitely. I spend quite a lot of time

with my colleague in the School of Engineering, [Dean] Nick Jones, talking about how we can better serve students that we are both responsible for in a curricular fashion.

Many Whiting School students start off taking courses on the Krieger School side.

We are seeking new grants from foundations and relying on support within the university that will support our faculty as they develop new ways of teaching introductory science courses that emphasize problem solving and direct experience with experimental methods. The new science lab building behind Mudd Hall will express in a physical way new ideas regarding the integrated science curriculum, and this will matter to students in Engineering as much as it does to those in the Krieger School.

I have also opened up conversations with [Bloomberg School of Public Health] Dean [Michael] Klag about ways we might engage on healthy policy, for example. This would be part of a broader initiative that my colleagues in Sociology, Economics and Political Science are working on to develop programs that have a deeper footprint in Washington, D.C., in this domain of social policy.

I have talked with [Martha Hill] the dean of the School of Nursing, where they have a lot of interest in questions concerning poverty and underserved populations, and where I think our students have something to contribute. Dean Ed Miller, who is responsible for the School of Medicine, has a lot of helpful thoughts on how the basic science faculty in his domain can collaborate with my colleagues in Chemistry, Biology and Physics.

I have also called on my colleagues Winston Tabb [Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums] and Peabody Director Jeff Sharkey to convene a task force on the arts. They have drawn together faculty in Peabody and on the Homewood campus to think about the possibilities of more curricular offerings that crisscross these boundaries in music, theater, the Writing Seminars, Museum Studies, and Film and Media Studies. I’m asking them to engage on my behalf in thinking about the future of the arts here.

Q: Can you elaborate on your plans for more arts-related offerings?

A: As everyone knows, we have a world-

class program in the Writing Seminars and a thriving interest in filmmaking as well. I am very proud of the new developments in Museums and Society. Growing a program that provides more opportunity to study music would complement these arts programs. From my perspective, the arts and “public humanities” are critical to the health of the Krieger School.

A: Finding the resources to realize all of

Q: Tuition relief, financial aid certainly.

A: Yes, those are very, very important provi-

sions for making sure that the most talented students continue to come our way. They are highly sought after, as they should be, and we need to be able to meet their needs as other universities do, and that is expensive, but it’s worthwhile.

Q: Do you want to see our students have an even bigger stake in the community?

A: I do. I would like us to expand a pro-

gram of internships in city agencies. I think there is a lot more that our students have to offer to the city of Baltimore, and I think it would be very valuable to them to have that experience. There are some places where our students are actively engaged, but they are not everywhere.

I also think we will see an increasing amount of research on the faculty end that will engage students as well in the city of Baltimore. We want to extend our footprint in the national conversation about questions of inequality, poverty, education and employment, all the serious issues that affect the people of the country.

I hope to see us develop more opportunities for our undergraduates to engage in Washington, D.C., where all of these issues are debated in Congress, think tanks, nonprofit organizations and the like. But these problems matter just as much here at home in Baltimore. If we can create a stronger research presence in Washington for our faculty and students, then Baltimore becomes the place where we look to see if these ideas have real traction.

I think we have a responsibility to do what we can to make it a stronger and more vibrant city.

Q: I’m looking behind you at your books.

Do you miss the scholarly world?

A: In a sense, but I also gain a huge amount

with a job like this, which is the unique opportunity to engage with brilliant colleagues and fantastic students in plotting the future of an institution that everyone cares about so much. That is a privilege. It is mind-expanding, and it is intellectually challenging.

But to come back to your question, I have a book coming out in February and a book deadline for next September, and I’m going to meet all those commitments. Before I knew I had this job, I promised to write four books on different topics, and they will all get done. They will just take a little longer to do. I don’t walk away from the things I’ve committed to do. I don’t think I will ever abandon my role as a writer and public scholar; it’s way too important to who I am.

But it will definitely take a back seat to the more pressing demands of the Krieger School.

Q: What is the book you’re writing now about?

A: It’s called “The Accordion Family,” and

it’s about the impact of globalization on household configurations; in particular, the pattern that many young people in many countries are staying home for longer and longer periods of time than they used to, delaying marriage, delaying forming their own households.

Q: What are you reading right now?

A: I picked up a copy of The Corner

because I just finished watching The Wire, which was my introduction to the city of Baltimore. Of course, this is pretty close to my area of specialization as a scholar of urban poverty.

I have also been reading a lot of reports [laughs].

October 25, 2010 • THE GAZETTE

Hypertension may take toll on youngest black children’s hearts B y E k at e r i n a P e s h e va

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ersistently high blood pressure, or hypertension, may spell worse heart trouble for black children under the age of 13 than for other children of the same ages, according to research led by scientists at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and published in the November issue of Pediatrics.

The study analyzed data from 184 children and young adults, 45 of them black, ages 3 to 20, treated at three hospitals for primary hypertension.

Black children were, overall, more prone to left-ventricular hypertrophy, a dangerous thickening of the heart muscle, one of hypertension’s earliest, most insidious and most common complications, and the difference was particularly pronounced in those younger than 13, the researchers report.

“The bottom line is to monitor carefully and treat early all children with hypertension because they are all at risk, but pediatricians should also keep in mind that African-American patients may develop worse complications or develop them sooner,” said lead investi-

gator Tammy Brady, a kidney specialist at Hopkins Children’s.

Using a special monitor that automatically takes a child’s blood pressure every 20 to 30 minutes over 24 hours, the researchers found that black teenagers had more severe hypertension than teens from other races.

Not only did black teens have higher blood pressure overall, but their blood pressure remained in the dangerously hypertensive range for longer periods compared to other children. Thus, in black teens, 57 percent of the readings for systolic blood pressure (top number) recorded over 24 hours were dangerously elevated compared to 41 percent for other teens. Nearly 30 percent of the diastolic pressure (bottom number) measurements during 24 hours were abnormally high in black teens, compared to 19 percent in teens of other races.

While the difference in hypertension severity was absent in those under 13, younger black children had higher rates of obesity and overweight (96 percent) than other races (74 percent) and were more likely to have abnormally higher levels of renin, the blood pressure–regulating hormone produced by the kidneys (8.7 nanograms per milliliter of blood per hour) than other children (3.6). They were more than twice as likely to have thickening of the

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heart muscle (56 percent) than children of other races (26 percent).

The racial differences in renin levels and left-ventricular hypertrophy disappeared in those 13 years of age or older, a finding potentially due to the higher overweight and obesity among the younger children, the researchers say.

While establishing clear racial differences among children with hypertension, the study findings underscore the need for early diagnosis and prompt treatment of high blood pressure in all children, regardless of race and age. Indeed, more than half the children in the study were either overweight or obese, and more than one-third had heart-muscle abnormalities.

The study did not explore the reasons behind these racial differences, but the researchers hypothesize that they may be related to biological variations, diet, access to health care and low birth weight, which is more common in African-Americans and is a well-known risk factor for hypertension.

A single episode of high blood pressure is not necessarily hypertension, but investigators say that all children with one episode of high blood pressure during a visit to the doctor should be monitored. Clinically important hypertension is defined as elevated blood pressure on three consecutive visits. Normal

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“Child Health Equity in India: Crying for Attention,” an International Health seminar with Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. W2030 SPH. EB Thurs., Oct. 28, 12:15 p.m.

“Wendell Potter: Whistleblower From Inside the Health Insurance Industry,” a Health Policy and Management Fall Policy seminar with Wendell Potter. B14B Hampton House. EB “Mouse Genetic Toolkit Toward a Genetically Based Brain Connectivity Atlas,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute for Brain Science.

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tation to Signaling Pathways,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Akhilesh Pandey, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

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Humanities Center, with Daniel Morgan, University of Pittsburgh; Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University; Bernard Rhie, Williams College; and Yi-Ping Ong, Leonardo Lisi and Anne Eakin Moss, KSAS. Mason Hall Auditorium (Thursday) and Charles Commons Conference Center (Friday). HW Fri., Oct. 29, 1 p.m. “The Impact of Global Budgeting System on Health Service Utilization, Health Care Expenditures and Quality of Care in Pneumonia, Acute Pancreatitis and Fear of Unknown Origin in Taiwan,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Chun-Yi Lin. 461 Hampton House. EB

“The Effects of Lifestyle Intervention on Stroke Risk Factors,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Sony-Yen Tsai. W2303 SPH. EB Mon., Nov. 1, 10 a.m.

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“Genomewide Profiling of Translation Initiation and Elongation,” a Center for Computational Genomics seminar with Nicholas Ingolia, SoM. 517 PCTB. EB Mon., Nov. 1, 4 p.m. “Recent Progress on Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow,” an Analysis/ PDE seminar with Jingyi Chen, University of British Columbia.

Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

The David Bodian Seminar—“Computation and Representation of Choice Certainty in the Parietal Cortex” with Roozbeh Kiani, Stanford University. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., Nov. 1, 4 p.m.

Mon., Nov. 1, noon.

“Proteomics—From Genome Anno-

Mon., Nov. 1, 12:15 p.m.

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Oct.

25,

5:30

p.m.

“Brunelleschi’s Magic Bullet: On Painting the City With Perfect Projection,” a slide show and talk by urban landscape painter Nicholas Evans-Cato. Co-sponsored

blood pressure values for adults are 120/80 and under, but normal values in children vary by age, gender and height.

All children diagnosed with hypertension should be referred to a kidney specialist and have an ultrasound to check the heart muscle thickness and function.

More than 4 million children in the United States are estimated to have hypertension, a number that has increased fivefold over the last 30 years, likely because of growing obesity in children, among other factors, the researchers say.

The research was funded by the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation and the Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for the Children of Baltimore City.

Co-investigators from Johns Hopkins are Barbara Fivush and Rulan Parekh.

Joseph Flynn, of Seattle Children’s Hospital, also participated.

Related website Tammy Brady:

www.hopkinschildrens.org/ Tammy-Brady-MD.aspx

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by Homewood Art Workshops and Homewood Arts Programs.

101 Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center. HW Mon., Oct. 25, 6 p.m. “Porches, Porticoes and the Architecture of Democracy” by architect and author Allan Greenberg. Last in the Baltimore’s Great Architecture Lecture Series on the history and cultural significance of the porch in America. 5 p.m. Prelecture reception at Homewood Museum. $20 general admission, $15 Homewood and AIA Baltimore members and students.

Advance registration required; call 410-516-5589 or go to www .brownpapertickets.com/producer/ 22987. 111 Mergenthaler. HW The 2010 Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium— The Global Net-

work: America’s Changing Role in an Interconnected World.

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Tues., Oct. 26, 8 p.m. Former Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas. Talk followed by question-andanswer session and reception.

Shriver Hall Auditorium.

HW

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Thurs., Oct. 28, 8 p.m.

“Colorful China,” a showcase of song, dance, costumes and instruments highlighting the 56 ethnic groups of China, presented by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States with World Artists Experiences.

Shriver Auditorium. (Before the show: Free food, games and entertainment, sponsored by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association at JHMI, and the JHU Lion Dance Troupe. 6:30 p.m. Wyman Quad in front of Shriver.) HW

Thurs., Oct. 28, 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. United Way Kickoff Break-

fast, with guest speaker Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels, and remarks by Symone Hurt, My Sister’s Place, and Mark Furst, president and CEO, United Way of Central Maryland. RSVP by Mon., Oct. 25 by e-mail unitedway@jhu.edu or call 443-997-4893. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW SYMPOSIA Mon., Oct. 25, noon p.m. The 2010 Daniel J.

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Raskin Memorial Symposium on Injury Prevention—“Distracted Driving: From Public Health Problem to Pulitzer Prize” with New York Times journalist and 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winner Matt Richtel.

E2030 SPH. EB Sat., Oct. 30, 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Symposium in honor

of Harry M. Marks, sponsored by the Institute of the History of Medicine. Four sessions consisting of a series of conversations led by panelists around various themes in the history of 20th-century medicine suggested by Marks and his writings.

Registration required. For more information, e-mail manfredo@ jhmi.edu. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. 6 p.m. Reception, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library.

EB

W OR K S HO P S

“Eyes on Teaching: Testing and Grading,” a Center for Educational Resources workshop for faculty, postdocs and graduate students only. Registration required; go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Tues., Oct. 26, 1:30 p.m.

“Focus on Blackboard’s Grade Center,” a Center for Educational Resources “Bits & Bytes” workshop. Register at www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Thurs., Oct. 28, 1 p.m.

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10 THE GAZETTE • October 25, 2010 P O S T I N G S

Job Opportunities

Homewood

Office of Human Resources: Suite W600, Wyman Bldg., 410-516-8048 JOB#

POSITION

43097 43101 43218 43251 43294 43298 43336 43397 43405 43406 43411 43442 42958

Sr. Programmer Analyst Accounting Aide Alumni Relations Coordinator Network Analyst Research Service Analyst Employee Assistance Clinician Programmer Analyst Data Assistant Accountant Sr. OD Specialist Accounting Manager Instructional Facilitator Sr. Employer Outreach Coordinator

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

43084 43833 44899 44976 44290 44672 41388 44067 44737 44939 44555 44848 44648 44488 43425 43361 44554

POSITION

Academic Program Coordinator Grant Writer Maintenance Worker Food Service Worker LAN Administrator III Administrative Secretary Program Officer Research Program Assistant II Sr. Administrative Coordinator Student Affairs Officer Instructional Technologist Sr. Financial Analyst Assay Technician Research Technologist Research Nurse Research Scientist Administrative Specialist

School of Medicine

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

38035 35677 30501 22150 38064

43015 43041 43060

43087

43115 43152 43244 43245 43250

43403 42291 42755 42771 42861 42942 43341 43395

LAN Administrator II Software Engineer DE Instructor, Center for Talented Youth Assistant Program Manager, Center for Talented Youth Residential Life Administrator Tutor Building Operations Supervisor Building Maintenance Technician Program Manager, Center for Talented Youth Admissions Officer Project Manager LDP Stationary Engineer Programmer Analyst Financial Manager Multimedia Technician Sr. Technical Support Analyst Research Service Analyst

44684 42973 43847 45106 45024 42939 43754 42669 44802 44242 44661 45002 44008

44005 41877 44583 44715 44065 44112 44989 44740 39063 44603

Biostatistician Clinical Outcomes Coordinator Sr. Programmer Analyst Employment Assistant/Receptionist Payroll and HR Services Coordinator Research Data Coordinator Malaria Adviser Data Assistant Budget Specialist Academic Program Administrator Sr. Research Program Coordinator Research Observer Manuscript Editor, American Journal of Epidemiology Research Service Analyst Health Educator Multimedia Production Supervisor Research Program Coordinator Research Data Manager Sr. Laboratory Coordinator Sr. Research Assistant Sr. Administrative Coordinator Research Assistant Budget Analyst

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Sr. Administrative Coordinator Sr. Administrative Coordinator Sponsored Project Specialist Program Administrator Sr. Research Program Coordinator

POSITION

Assistant Administrator Sr. Financial Analyst Nurse Midwife Physician Assistant Administrative Specialist

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

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

Montgomery Village Middle School students Delonte Freeman, Matthew Ramirez and Eduardo Ramos in the JHU Center for Biotechnology Education wet lab on the Montgomery County Campus.

Exploring new frontiers

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lmost 600 seventh-grade students from two Montgomery County middle schools participated in the recent second annual Frontiers in Science and Medicine Day. The university’s Montgomery County Campus and Center for Biotechnology Education partnered with 19 Montgomery County–based businesses for this event, B U L L E T I N

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Trauma Continued from page 1 Haider and his colleagues analyzed information from the National Trauma Data Bank on more than 48,000 patients who, between 2001 and 2005, were severely injured and arrived at an emergency room with low blood pressure, a sign of significant blood loss.

The researchers split the data into three categories: children 12 years and younger, teens and adults ages 13 to 64 and seniors age 65 and older. In the younger patients, whose sex hormones hadn’t developed yet, and in the older patients, whose hormone activity was expected to be significantly diminished, survival did not vary based on gender. It was only the middle group of 13to 64-year-olds—those most likely to have the highest levels of estrogen and progestin or testosterone—where women were significantly more likely to survive. The survival advantage was there even when factors such as race, insurance status and source of injury were taken into account.

“The results of the study suggest that female sex hormones provide an advantage and help women survive after trauma,” Haider said. “As expected, the female-tomale advantage is restricted to the group likely to have more sex hormones, rather than in the very young or the old.”

Haider said that scientists have long suspected that female sex hormones have some kind of immune-enhancing effect, something that can be an advantage in trauma but may lie behind the greater prevalence of autoimmune disorders such as lupus, which is seen primarily in women. After trauma, he said, sex hormones appear to have special-

during which each student spent an hour undertaking hands-on experiments on the Montgomery County Campus and an hour touring a local company’s laboratory.

Among the activities were hearing about personalized medicine from a biotechnology professor, playing a video game used by surgeons for training and finding out why grape Kool-Aid is purple.

—Robin Ferrier B O A R D

ment Program, scheduled for Jan. 10 to 28, is looking for instructors in music, art, dance and other subjects. Applications are available in the Student Life Office, located in 102 Levering Hall, or by calling 410-516-8209. The deadline for applications is Friday, Oct. 29.

ized roles in regulating metabolic, cardiovascular and immune reactions; there may be other mechanisms involved as well.

The impetus for Haider’s study came about several years ago, after Edward E. Cornwell III, then a Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon, treated a male patient who arrived at The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Emergency Department with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and the testicles, which were almost completely destroyed by the shots.

The patient had a poor prognosis, but soon after surgery showed a remarkable recovery, Haider recalled. Aware of studies showing that male mice were less likely to survive than female mice after severe trauma—and that castrated mice fared better, surviving at rates similar to female mice—Cornwell, who is senior investigator on the current study, suspected this patient’s nearly destroyed testicles and resulting lack of testosterone production could have been a reason why he survived his severe wounds.

Haider said he hopes that this new study leads to future research into the use of sexbased therapies for severe trauma. He said that trials should be conducted to explore the survival benefits of using drugs to temporarily block androgens in severely injured or critically ill men. Such medications are used as part of treatment for prostate cancer and don’t have permanent effects in those men, he said.

Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study are Joseph G. Crompton, David T. Efron and Elliott R. Haut. G

Related website Adil Haider:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/surgery/ faculty/Haider

October 25, 2010 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Bolton Hill (Park Ave), beautiful 1BR, 1BA apt, 8 rms, 1,300 sq ft, 28-ft living rm, office, guest rm, butler’s pantry. $1,595/mo. gbaranoski@covad.net.

Canton (2443 Fleet St), 2BR, 2.5BA house w/CAC, new appls, granite counters, jacuzzi, fp, nr JHH, park, water and square. $1,500/ mo + utils. 410-375-4862 or okomgmt@ hotmail.com.

Canton, furn’d 3BR, 2.5BA TH on waterfront, w/2-car garage. $2,850/mo. Sandeep, 443-955-2040 or sandeep5511@gmail.com.

Canton, 2BR, 2.5BA rehabbed TH, great location, close to JHH, avail Jan 1. $1,700/ mo. Courtney, cedwar15@gmail.com.

Catonsville/Ellicott City, 4BR, 3.3BA TH, 4 yrs old. $1,580/mo. 443-631-0476.

M A R K E T P L A C E

smoking, credit report/references req’d. $1,075/mo. 410-518-6427.

Union Square, 1BR boutique apt in Victorian TH, furn’d, flexible terms, in historic district. 410-988-3137, richardson1886@gmail .com or http://therichardsonhouse.vflyer .com/home/flyer/home/3200019.

White Marsh, 3BR, 2.5BA TH, hdwd flrs, fenced yd, dogs allowed, nr the Avenue and 95. $1,400/mo. Lori, 410-440-2873.

White Marsh/Nottingham, 3BR, 1.5BA TH, updated eat-in kitchen w/new appls, lg attic w/pulldown stairs for storage, upper and lower decks, fenced backyd, conv to 695 and 95. $1,500/mo + utils. 443-255-9998.

Wyman Court Apts (Beech Ave), new, spacious efficiency w/balcony, sunlight, 3 closets, 5-min walk to Hopkins. $625/mo. smartdocs@gmail.com.

Charles Village, 1BR w/study, 1,000 sq ft. $1,350/mo. http://st-paul-apt.weebly.com (pics/info) or stpaulapt21218@gmail.com.

TH nr JHMI, 2BRs each w/priv BA, 1st flr, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, W/D, AC, alarm and half-BA. $1,300/mo. 516-6806703.

Columbia/Howard, newly renov’d 3-4BR TH, 3.5BAs, family rm, priv BA, W/D, AC, carpool to JHU, nr community college and Columbia town center. $450/$550/mo incl all utils, Internet. 571-271-2991 or viaianhan@ yahoo.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

E Northern Pkwy (nr Harford Rd), spacious 1BR apt in private house. $750/mo + sec dep ($750). 410-592-5780 or cwags57@ msn.com.

Ellicott City, 4BR, 2.5BA single-family house w/fin’d bsmt, 2-car garage, lg backyd, excel schools and location. $2,700/mo + utils. 202-441-7913 or jmwu2918@gmail .com.

Arcadia/Beverly Hills (3019 Iona Terrace), spacious, renov’d 4BR, 2.5BA detached house in beautiful neighborhood, CAC, open kitchen/dining area, deck, landscaped, mins to all JH campuses. $229,900. 410294-9220.

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com.

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

Guilford/Tuscany-Canterbury, lg, newly renov’d 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant neighborhood, easy walk to Homewood campus.

410-366-1066.

Hampden/Medfield, 3BR single-family house w/office, furn’d or unfurn’d, laundry, priv prkng, walk to campus/shopping/public transit. $1,300/mo + utils. adecker001@ yahoo.com.

Hampden, updated 2BR, 2BA TH, hdwd flrs, CAC, lg closets, beautiful deck, prkng, easy walk to Homewood campus. $209,000.

410-808-2969.

Kensington, MD, 2BR nr NIH/Suburban Hospital and DC mass transit, patio, fenced backyd, fp, hot tub, animals negotiable. $1,900/mo + utils + sec dep. 301-807-3570.

Roland Park, 6BR, 3.5BA house w/new kitchen, new bsmt w/half-BA, external entrance, landscaped lot, separate 1.5 car garage, enclos’d 1st and 2nd flr porches, lg deck. $690,000. wsharpeiii@gmail.com.

Mays Chapel/Timonium, 3-4BR EOG TH, 3.5BAs, family rm, deck, patio, fenced yd, nr good schools, pleasant green area great for walking/jogging, 5 mins to 695 via I-83, close to Lutherville light rail park & ride. $1,600/mo + utils. 410-321-8889.

Lg 1BR in luxury high-rise condo, secure bldg, doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swimming pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $180,000. 757-773-7830 or norva04@gmail .com.

Mt Vernon, spacious, loft-style 1BR, easy prkng. $1,200/mo incl all utils, Internet.ron .stamper@gmail.com or www.dLbrown.net/ 22w/inside1.html.

Parkside Drive (at Bel Air Rd), spacious 1BR apt for nonsmoker, 2 flrs, W/D, priv prkng pad in back, 10-min drive to JHH/ JHU. $600/mo. Paula, 410-868-2815 or paulakowale@gmail.com.

Rehoboth Beach, dog-friendly 3BR TH, 15-min walk to boardwalk, JHU discounts for beautiful fall wknds. galeeena@yahoo.com.

Roland Park, 1BR, 1BA avail in 2BR, 2BA apt, can be furn’d or unfurn’d, avail Dec 1.

410-375-7633.

Severna Park, sm 2BR, 1BA house, nonWYMAN COURT HICKORY HEIGHTS Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

Studio from $570 1 BD Apt. from $675 2 BD from $785

Hickory Ave. in Hampden, lovely Hilltop setting!

2 BD units from $750, or, with Balcony - $785!

Shown by appointment - 410-764-7776

www.BrooksManagementCompany.com

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ROOMMATES WANTED

Share 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.

Nonsmoker wanted for furn’d, spacious BR (700 sq ft) in 3BR house in Cedonia owned by young F prof’l, modern kitchen, lg deck, landscaped yd, free prkng, 5 mi to JHH/Bayview/Homewood/YMCA, public transportation to JHU/Penn Station. $550/mo + utils.

410-493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com.

F wanted for rm w/priv BA in lg 2BR, 2BA condo on N Charles St, 8th flr, amazing view, swimming pool, gym, sauna, doorman, Contemp 5BD-3.5BA For Sale in gated community w/ view of woods from deck, LR, BD, courtyard w/ garden.

Moldings, built-ins, closets, storage, huge kitch w/new appl, W/D-1st flr, CAC, finished LL., + garage! Condo fee incl. pool, tennis, playground, snow remov & ext maint. Walk to Beth Tfiloh Synagogue/School. $439,000 By appt.. No brokers/agents. 410-484-4155 or email: phil408@aol.com

24-hr security, underground prkng, walk to Homewood campus/shuttle. 410-967-4085.

CARS FOR SALE

’09 Toyota RAV4 SUV, black, 5-dr, 4WD, 2.5L, 4-cyl, 12.9K mi. $20,900. 443-9340164 or 608-807-0416. ’99 Dodge Durango SLT, needs brakes replaced but is in good cond, approx 156K mi. $2,000/best offer. prhutch@verizon.net.

Elderly, special needs or child care provided in your home, wknd or after 6pm. Lisa, 410299-3973.

Mature, experienced nanny avail for FT care of infant/toddler, will also do light housework/laundry. Mary, 410-736-0253.

Professional landscaping at its finest, high-quality landscaping at an affordable price. Terry Butler, 410-652-3446 or masterpiecelandscaping@yahoo.com.

’03 VW GTI, 1.8T, 5-spd, automatic Tiptronic transmission, leather heated seats, moonroof, CD, one owner (nonsmoker), in great cond, well-maintained, 78K mi. $7,900/best offer. 410-381-7628.

Geek wanted! Need help w/learning Power­ Point (audio/video clips) and Excel for prof’l presentation, must be familiar w/ both programs and able to communicate clearly and teach skills directly, nr JHH but transportation necessary. 410-484-7780 or mreader@aol.com.

’96 VW Jetta, Trek edition, black, manual transmission, 1 owner, in great cond, free bike rack, 73K mi. $2,900/best offer. 414350-5472.

Bodywork massage studios, professional massage services, gift certificates avail. 443983-7987 or www.bodyworkmobilemassage .com.

’VW Golf, silver w/black interior, new tires and brakes, in good cond. $8,100. annenatk@yahoo.com.

Experienced gardener wanted to help w/ fall clean-up and planting. $15/hr. Jim, 410366-7191 or jwilli33@gmail.com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Halloween costumes for rent, Theatre Hopkins stock avail, contact by Oct 26. $25-$35 for a complete outfit. 410-516-7159 or thehop@jhu.edu.

Formal oak dining rm chairs and table, 44" x 86" w/2 leaves, in excel cond. $600.

Lsab1960@yahoo.com.

Toshiba Satellite laptop, model# A505S6980, 16" w/sleeve, bag, battery and mouse, works perfectly. $350 (cash only).

301-873-8047.

Loving, trustworthy dog walker avail day and evening, overnight sitting w/complimentary housesitting services, impeccable references. 443-801-7487 or alwayshomepc@gmail .com.

Full-size bedroom set: headboard, bedframe, dresser w/mirror, chest; mattress not incl’d.

Best offer. balt.furniture4sale@hotmail .com.

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

Single bed mattress w/frame, $65; computer case, new, $20; sports equipment, $20/ea; Dell computer, no monitor, $50; kitchen items, $5 and up. irajk100@yahoo.com.

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

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

410-488-1886.

Tutor avail 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.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

My loving, reliable nanny is available to take care of 2 other babies, treats my baby like a grandchild, highly recommended; Hopkins Bayview area. 301-661-5627.

Experienced housekeeper needed for wkly housework in Baltimore City, must have JHU references. $20/hr. cavallon@gmail .com.

Research analyst/project management asst needed for sm consulting firm, ideal for someone interested in social science/neuroscience research, flexible hrs, great pay. earlehavens@gmail.com.

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

Graphic designer w/20 yrs’ experience, 10 yrs in Web design, can assist w/reports, presentations. Reasonable rates. 828-729-3279 or thejetsons2@mac.com.

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

Experienced, reliable babysitter avail, excel references, JHU faculty. Lisbeth, 443-8570072.

Responsible house sitter available for your sabbatical, 14-yr JHU employee. 410-9631785 or bweber112003@yahoo.com.

Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, no partners needed, great bands. 410663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing.com.

Very experienced, loving and gentle nanny available, outstanding references, do not have car but I am extremely reliable.

Annette, 443-813-5028.

Violin/viola teacher w/10 yrs’ experience, student-centered curriculum adaptable to all levels, can teach at my residence, will also travel within city limits for travel expenses only. $25 for half hr, $40 for hr. Annabel, 410-209-0326 or thebirdcage@gmail.com.

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

• Ads are limited to 20 words, including phone, fax and e-mail.

• We cannot use Johns Hopkins business phone numbers or

e-mail addresses.

• Submissions will be condensed at the editor’s discretion.

• Deadline is at noon Monday, one week prior to the edition in which the ad is to be run.

• Real estate listings may be offered only by a Hopkins-affiliated seller not by Realtors or Agents.

(Boxed ads in this section are paid advertisements.)

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

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Calendar Columbia University. Sponsored by the Writing Seminars. Part 2: “Why Virginia Woolf Was Right About Symbols.” Mudd Auditorium. HW

C OLLO Q U I A Tues.,

Oct.

26,

4:15

p.m.

“Functionalized Nanovessels: New Approaches to Drug Delivery and Vaccines,” a Chemistry colloquium with Philip DeShong, University of Maryland. 233 Remsen. HW

Thurs., Oct. 28, 4:30 p.m.

“Medea as American Other,” a Classics lecture by Helene Foley, Columbia University and Barnard College. 108 Gilman. HW

“The Growth of Galaxies at z ~ 2: Insights From IFU Surveys,” an STSci colloquium with Natascha Forster-Schreiber, MPE Garching.

Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg.

Wed., Oct. 27, 3:30 p.m.

Thurs., Oct. 28, 5:15 p.m.

HW

“Memory for the Past and Anticipation of the Future by Black-Capped Chickadees,” a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with David Sherry, Brown University.

233 Ames. HW

Wed., Oct. 27, 4 p.m.

Thurs.,

Oct.

28,

3

p.m.

“‘Consumers in Wonderland’: Historical Reflections on the 20thCentury American Drugstore,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Nancy Tomes, SUNY. Seminar Room, 3rd flr, Welch Library. EB “History of the Soviet Nuclear Weapon Project,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Peter Volkovitsky, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., Oct. 29, 2 p.m.

D I S C U S S I O N / TAL K S

“Haciendo Comunidad: Compartiendo experiences y conocimientos (Making Community: Sharing Experiences and Knowledge),” a Program in Latin American Studies panel discussion, celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Co-sponsored by the Baltimore Mayor’s Office and OLE Round Table. 111 Mergenthaler. HW Tues., Oct. 26, 6 p.m.

The music of renowned Dutch composer Louis Andriessen will be performed this week at Peabody. See Music.

students includes film and dessert reception. For tickets, go to www .jhpiego.org/events/filmscreening/ tickets.htm or call 410-537-1813.

Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art. Thurs.,

F I L M / V I D EO

Baltimore premiere of the film No Woman, No Cry, with supermodel/filmmaker Christy Turlington who will take questions after the screening.

Sponsored by Jhpiego. $200 for special reception with Christy Turlington before the event. Limited to 40 people; includes parking, the screening and a dessert reception after the film. $100 for individuals, includes the film and dessert reception after the film; $75 each for two tickets or more. $10 for

Mon., Oct. 25, 7 p.m.

28,

7:30

p.m.

Mon., Nov. 1, noon. The Kossiakoff Lecture—“Inventing Fibrin: The Evolution of Blood Clotting in Vertebrates” by Russell Doolittle, University of California, San Diego. 111 Mergenthaler. HW Mon., Nov. 1, 5:30 p.m. The 2010 Iwry Lecture—“The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible” by Daniel Fleming, NYU. Sponsored by Near Eastern Studies.

50 Gilman. HW

MUSIC

A recital presenting the music of Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Sponsored by Music Theory.

Griswold Hall. Peabody

Tues., Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.

G RA N D ROU N D S

“Information Transformation and Artiface Use in Cognitive Work Systems: Experience in ED,” Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Priyadarshini Pennathur, SoM. E2014 SPH. EB

Fri., Oct. 29, 12:15 p.m.

LE C TURE S

by Kazuya Kato, University of Chicago. Sponsored

by Mathematics. HW

Kempf Lectures,

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Wed., Oct. 27, 12:30 p.m. “Afri-

can Governance in the Post-Independence Era,” a SAIS African Studies Program panel discussion with Joel Barkan, CSIS; Michael Bratton, Michigan State University; and Said Adejumobi, Lagos State University and Economic Community of West African States. To RSVP, e-mail itolber1@ jhu.edu or call 202-663-5676. 736 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS

Oct.

Women, Gender and Sexuality presents Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1, part of the film series “Violence and Vengeance.” 113 Greenhouse. HW

“On Medea’s Presence in EarlyModern Literature,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Juliette Cherbuliez, University of Minnesota. 479 Gilman. HW

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Mon., Oct. 25, 4:30 p.m.

“Classifying Spaces of Degenerating Hodge Structures.”

304 Krieger.

Tues., Oct. 26, 4:30 p.m.

“Degeneration of Hodge and p-adic Hodge Structures.” 300 Krieger.

“Libraries and Reading Culture in the High Empire,” a Philological Society lecture by William Johnson, Duke University. Co-sponsored by Classics. 108 Gilman. HW Mon., Oct. 25, 5 p.m.

The Provost’s Fall Lecture Series—“The Marriage Go-Round: How and Why Family Life Is Different in the United States Than in Other Wealthy Nations” by Andrew Cherlin, KSAS. (See In Brief, p. 2.) A Year of Demography event, sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Office of the Dean (SAIS). Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Mon., Oct. 25, 5:30 p.m.

No Second Troy: Symbols and Persons From Homer Till Now—The 2010 Turnbull Lecture by Edward Mendelson,

Wed., Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m.

Peabody Faculty Chamber Music Concert with Marina Piccinini, flute; Jane Marvine, oboe; Steven Barta, clarinet; Phillip Kolker, bassoon; Philip Munds, horn; and Lura Johnson, piano. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Wed., Oct. 27, 8 p.m.

The Peabody Concert Orchestra performs music by von Weber, Beethoven and Copland. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Fri., Oct. 29, 8 p.m.

S E M I N AR S

“Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis of Biochemical Reaction Systems,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Hongxuan Zhang, WSE. 210 Clark. HW

Mon., Oct. 25, 10 a.m.

“How Cofilin Severs an Actin Filament,” a Biophysics seminar with Enrique De La Cruz, Yale University. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., Oct. 25, noon.

Mon., Oct. 25, noon. “A Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition Method for Drowsy and Fatigued Driver Assistance,” a Civil Engineering seminar with Azim Eskandarian, George Washington University. B17 Hackerman. HW Mon., Oct. 25, 12:15 p.m.

“Maintaining Skeletal Muscle

1

Mass: Lessons Learned From Hibernation,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Ronald Cohn, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Engineering Human Tissues,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Gordona Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW ) Mon., Oct. 25, 1:30 p.m.

“The Role of Geriatrics and Gerontology in Comparative Effectiveness Research,” a Center on Aging and Health seminar with Richard Hodes, National Institute on Aging. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB

Mon., Oct. 25, 3:30 p.m.

“The HNF6 Transcription Factor Regulates Pancreas Differentiation and Homeostasis,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Maureen Gannon, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., Oct. 25, 4 p.m.

“The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration,” a History seminar with Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania. 308 Gilman. HW

Mon., Oct. 25, 4 p.m.

Mon., Oct. 25, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Driven and Spontaneous Gamma Oscillations in Sensory Neocortex” with Diego Contreras, University of Pennsylvania. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW Tues.,

Oct.

26,

10:45

a.m.

“10x10: A New Paradigm for Computer Architecture,” a Computer Science seminar with Andrew Chien, University of California, San Diego. B17 Hackerman. HW Tues., Oct. 26, noon. “Exosome Biogenesis and Retrovirus Budding,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Stephen Gould, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB Tues., Oct. 26, noon. “Making Aquaculture Sustainable,” a Center for a Livable Future seminar with Dave Love, SPH. Part of the Farming for the Future seminar series. W3030 SPH. EB Tues., Oct. 26, 12:10 p.m. “Injuries and Incidents on the Front Lines—Investigating and Correcting Hazards,” an Occupational Injury Prevention seminar with Emory Knowles, Northrup Grumman. Co-sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health. W2017 SPH. EB

“Innovations in Surfactant Enhanced Remediation for Accelerated Recovery of Subsurface LNAPL,” a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Frank Barranco, EA Engineering, Science and Technology. 234 Ames.

Tues., Oct. 26, 3 p.m.

HW Tues., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. “Strichartz Estimates in Polygonal Domains and Cones,” an Analysis seminar with Matthew Blair, University of New Mexico. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW Tues.,

Oct.

26,

4:30

p.m.

“Advances in Human Assess-

ment,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Carlos Busso (“Tracking Nonverbal Behavior”) and John Hansen (“Speaker Variability for Speaker ID”), University of Texas, Dallas.

B17 Hackerman. HW Wed.,

Oct.

27,

12:15

p.m.

“Subgroup Analysis and Factorial Design in Randomized Controlled Trials,” an Epidemiology faculty candidate seminar with Xin Sun, McMaster University.

W1030 SPH. EB Wed.,

Oct.

27,

12:15

p.m.

Wednesday Noon Seminar— “Sex Offenders: Criminals or Patients? A Public Health Perspective” with Frederick Berlin, SoM. Sponsored by Mental Health. B14B Hampton House.

EB Wed., Oct. 27, 3 p.m. “Biomaterials and Imaging Technologies in Liver Tissue Engineering,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Hanry Yu, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine/ National University of Singapore.

110 Maryland. HW Wed.,

Oct.

27,

3:40

p.m.

“Functional Data Analysis, Causal Inference and Brain Connectivity,” a Biostatistics seminar with Martin Lindquist, Columbia University. W2030 SPH. EB Wed., Oct. 27, 4 p.m. “Cryptic Catalytic Capabilities and Serendipitous Metabolic Pathways in E. coli,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Shelley Copley, University of Colorado, Boulder. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Wed.,

Oct.

27,

4:30

p.m.

“Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South,” a Women, Gender and Sexuality seminar with Marie Jenkins Schwartz, University of Rhode Island. Co-sponsored by History. 113 Greenhouse. HW Thurs., Oct. 28, noon. “Pleio­ tropy and Non-Immunological Determinants of Resistance to Infection in Drosophila,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Brian Lazzaro, Cornell University. W1020 SPH. EB

“Looking But Not Asking: Pediatric Clinic Technology in Medieval China,” an East Asian Studies seminar with Chia-Feng Chang, National Taiwan University. Cosponsored by History. 366 Mergenthaler. HW

Thurs., Oct. 28, noon.

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Calendar

Key

APL BRB CRB EB HW KSAS

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

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Krieger School of Arts

and Sciences PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced

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

Engineering