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Sculpture at Evergreen

Covering Homewood, East Baltimore, Peabody,

At Homewood, a lunch of gyros

Artists and architects create

SAIS, APL and other campuses throughout the

and hamburgers kicks off

10 site-specific installations for

Baltimore-Washington area and abroad, since 1971.

Spring Fair weekend, page 10

the museum’s grounds, page 12

April 26, 2010

The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University

F A C I L I T I E S

A hard-hat summer for Homewood

Volume 39 No. 31

A D M I N I S T R A T I O N

Q&A with Nursing’s Martha Hill

By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

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summer of progress, capital project–style, lies ahead for the Homewood campus and nearby university facilities.

When the academic term ends, hard hats, trailers and temporary fences will become familiar Dozens of sights as literally dozens of conconstruction struction projects, building renovaprojects will tions, upgrades and retrofits are be under way on tap.

Some will begin; on campus others will wind down.

Notably, the ex­­tensive three-year $73 million renovation to Gilman Hall will reach its conclusion, as the historic, 95-year-old building is set to welcome back faculty and staff in July. The flagship space for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ humanities departments now features an extensively reconfigured interior, modernized lighting and mechanical systems, and a dramatic new three-story glass-topped central atrium.

Work also ends on the Gilman Tunnel, which will feature new ADA-accessible entries.

The construction on the cogeneration power plant, which began last fall, will be finished in June. The plant will run on natural gas and supply a significant portion of the campus’s energy needs.

“Cogeneration” refers to the utilization of both power and heat. The new plant is an addition to the existing campus Power Plant, located at the southern end of Whitehead Hall.

The renovation of the Johns Hopkins University Press Building, located at 2715 N. Charles St., will also wrap up in June. The project includes the renovation and reconfiguration of interior space on the building’s first four floors, with full mechanical equipment and electrical systems upgrades. In addition, the lot on the north side of the building

A Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1980, Martha Hill was named dean of the school in 2002.

School’s dean foresees growth in enrollment, programs and facilities

By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

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

M as interim dean.

artha Hill, a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1980, became dean of the School of Nursing in July 2002 after a one-year role

A tireless and passionate champion of the profession, Hill, who earned her diploma from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1964, has been with the School of Nursing since its beginning.

She was one of the first four faculty members to join Dean Carol Gray when the new school was established as an independent Continued on page 4

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Susan Baker receives highest prize in public health

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olumbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health announced last week that it will award the highest prize in public health—the Frank A. Calderone Prize—to Susan P. Baker, “the pioneering researcher and advocate whose extraordinary career spanning close to five decades has been instrumental in bringing the prevention of injuries to the forefront of public health and public policy.”

Baker, an epidemiologist and licensed pilot, is professor of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins and a founder of the school’s Center for Injury Research and Policy.

The Frank A. Calderone Prize in Pub-

Susan Baker

In Brief

Attracting investors to research; JH-U-Turn recycles goods; Tech Fellow demonstrations

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lic Health, the pre-eminent award in the field, is overseen by the Mailman School of Public Health and is presented to an individual who has made a transformational contribution in the field of public health.

The prize recognizes an individual who has accomplished extraordinary distinction in public health and/or who has made a specific contribution that has had long-term national or global implications. This is the first time the prize has been bestowed upon an injury-control researcher.

For more than four decades, Baker has made the study and reduction of preventable

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JH-U-Turn launched to collect unwanted clothing, other items

Workshop planned on attracting investors to research projects

hrough the end of May, the university’s Student/Community Liaison Office is asking students, faculty and staff to donate unwanted clothing, furniture, books, electronics and other household items for a sale benefiting the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund, part of the United Way campaign. The sale, called JH-U-Turn, will be held at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 12, in the O’Connor Recreation Center.

In keeping with the university’s mission of demonstrating smart, sensible and creative actions promoting sustainability and community strengthening, the first JH-U-Turn sale is designed to help reduce waste and support nonprofits near our campuses.

Student donations may be placed in specially marked boxes in Homewood residence halls, and faculty and staff may make an appointment for drop-off at one of the designated outdoor containers on campus.

Donation receipts and estimated values for tax purposes will not be provided.

Faculty, staff and community volunteers will be needed from late May through the day of the sale to sort, check, clean and organize the items. For more information, to schedule a drop off or to sign up to volunteer, contact Carrie Bennett at liaison@jhu.edu, or go to the JH-U-Turn Web site, http://web.jhu.edu/ liaison/UTurn.html. Details are also available on the Facebook page JH-U-Turn 2010.

he Carey Business School will hold a daylong workshop on methods for making research projects attractive to potential investors. Scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, at the university’s Downtown Center, the PreClinical Translational Research Workshop is designed for professionals involved in public or private research in the academic, pharmaceutical and biotech fields.

Carey officials say that the event should also appeal to venture capitalists, “angel” investors, professionals with responsibilities as in-house corporate or patent counsel, and representatives of state and federal researchfunding agencies.

Phillip Phan, professor and vice dean for faculty and research, is lead organizer of the workshop. Keynote presentations will be given by Barbara Slusher, chief scientific officer in the Brain Science Institute’s NeuroTranslational Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Allen D. Roses, director of the Deane Drug Discovery Institute at Duke University. Two panel discussions on research strategies will feature experts from higher education, private industry and the legal profession.

The $50 registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, a closing reception and parking.

For more information, go to http://carey.jhu .edu/landing_pages/trans_research.

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New classroom technology to be showcased at MSEL

Donors needed at April 27–28 Homewood blood drive

inners of the 2010 Technology Fellows competition will demonstrate their technological innovations from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 4, on Q-Level of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Homewood. All 11 of the winning faculty-student teams will be on hand to demonstrate how they used their grants to enhance undergraduate instruction.

Projects cover a wide range of disciplines and topics from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering and Peabody Institute.

All faculty who attend will receive a free 2GB mini-flash drive, and students will receive gift certificates for Café Q. Now in its 10th year, the Technology Fellows program was created by the Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources to assist faculty in the development of digital course resources. Funded by the Office of the President and the Smart Family Foundation, the program awards $5,000 grants to faculty/ student teams for projects that integrate technology into instructional programs.

CER technology experts and librarians collaborate with the teams on projects that encourage active learning, facilitate access to course materials and enhance pedagogy.

For more information, go to www.cer.jhu .edu or contact Cheryl Wagner at cwagner@ jhu.edu or 410-516-7181.

pproximately 95 percent of the U.S. population will need blood during their lifetime or know someone who will, yet only about 5 percent give blood, which is why donors are needed for the Homewood campus blood drive on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 27 and 28. Spring drives help replenish area blood supplies depleted over the winter months.

The drive runs from 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. in the Glass Pavilion of Levering Hall. To schedule a donation, go to www.membersforlife.org/ rccm/mobilesch/login.php?sponsorcode=1008 or call 443-997-6060. For information about other upcoming Johns Hopkins blood drives, go to www.hopkinsworklife.org/community/ blood_drive.html.

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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 Business Dianne MacLeod C i r c u l at i o n Lynette Floyd Webmaster Tim Windsor

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Peabody ensemble to play at Museum of Natural History

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altimore Symphony Orchestra–Peabody Conducting Fellow Ilyich Rivas, age 16, will conduct the Peabody Chamber Players, a new student ensemble, in a study of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat on Tuesday, April 27, in Washington, D.C. The event, at 7 p.m. in Baird Auditorium of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, is part of the Washington Performing Arts Society’s What Makes It Great? series with Rob Kapilow.

Contributing Writers Applied Physics Laboratory Michael Buckley, Paulette Campbell Bloomberg School of Public Health Tim Parsons, Natalie Wood-Wright Carey Business School Andrew Blumberg 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, Katerina 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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Mouse or hippo? How does a heart know when it’s big enough?

By Maryalice Yakutchik

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protein discovered in fruit fly eyes has brought a Johns Hopkins team closer to understanding how the human heart and other organs automatically “right size� themselves, a piece of information that may hold clues to controlling cancer.

The protein, named Kibra, is linked to a relay of chemical signals responsible for shaping and sizing tissue growth by coordinating control of cell proliferation and death, according to research published Feb. 16 in Developmental Cell by teams at Johns Hopkins and Florida State universities.

In a series of experiments, the scientists manipulated Kibra’s role in a signaling network called the Hippo pathway, which consists of several proteins working together as a braking system. Counterparts of the components in the Hippo pathway in flies are found in most animals, suggesting that this pathway may act as a “global regulator� of organ size control, according to Duojia Pan, a professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. “People have always been curious about what makes a hippopotamus grow so much bigger than a mouse,� Pan said, “as well as how our two hands, which develop independently, get to very similar sizes. Our studies show that Kibra regulates Hippo, which keeps organs characteristically sized, preventing my heart or your liver from becoming as hefty as those befitting a large African amphibious mammal,� he added, referring to the signaling pathway’s name.

Pan’s team identified the gene they named Hippo in 2003, showing that an abnormal copy of it led to an unusually large eye in a

developing fruit fly. Two years later, the team established that Hippo lies in the middle of a signaling cascade: Its “stop growing� message— relayed along a molecular pathway of biochemically linked proteins— limits the expression of genes that otherwise promote cell division and cell survival. In 2007, they showed that by manipulating the pathway in a mouse liver, the organ grew to five times its normal size and became cancerous.

The new experiments, Pan says, moved the investigation “slowly and methodically upstream� to find Hippo’s trigger, where, he believes, “the key to size-control lies.�

The Hippo-Kibra link could be a key to understanding and treating cancer, Pan says, because cancer is literally a disease of uncontrolled growth.

The Johns Hopkins and Florida State teams discovered Kibra by studying ovarian cells from adult flies and by using a genecontrolling technique called RNA interference to systematically turn off each of the approximately 14,000 genes in the fly

genome, one at a time, in cultured fly cells.

They then analyzed the function of Kibra in the developing fly larvae. Each of the specialized discs that develop into a fly’s eyes starts out with approximately 30 to 40 cells and then grows by about a thousandfold in the larval stage before stopping, making larvae the ideal place to catch the right-sizing process in action, Pan says. These studies told them that the Hippo pathway was not active in the absence of Kibra.

Further studies on human cells measured the activity of the Hippo pathway while manipulating human Kibra and showed that, like its fruit fly counterpart, human Kibra acts as a tumor suppressor protein that regulates Hippo signaling. “The discovery of Kibra moves us an important step closer to identifying the initial signal that triggers Hippo’s activation,�

Pan said. “We’re making progress along the Hippo pathway, heading toward the cell surface, and believe we will find that elusive signal en route.�

The name Kibra is a shortened combination of the words kidney and brain and is based on earlier evidence that Kibra is prominently expressed in those two organs.

Kibra’s role in memory performance in humans has already garnered interest.

Authors of the paper, in addition to Pan, are Jianzhong Yu, Stephen Klusza and WuMin Deng, all of Florida State; and Yonggang Zheng and Jixin Dong, both of Johns Hopkins.

This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Related Web sites Duojia Pan:

http://humangenetics.jhmi.edu/ index.php/faculty/duojia-pan.html

‘Developmental Cell’:

www.cell.com/developmental-cell

SoE hosts summit on ‘Attention and Engagement in Learning’ B y J i m C a m pb e l l

School of Education

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he Johns Hopkins School of Education Neuro-Education Initiative will host its second annual summit and roundtable discussion on the intersection of brain research and its practical application in schools, at home and in the community.

This year’s summit, to be held Wednesday, May 5, at the American Visionary Arts Museum, will explore the topic “Attention and Engagement in Learning.� “Linking brain research to education is extremely valuable to our understanding of

student development and learning,� said Mariale Hardiman, interim dean of the School of Education and co-chair of the Neuro-Education Initiative, along with Susan Magsamen, author on family and learning topics.

The summit will bring together scientists, educators and advocates to explore current research on the topic of attention and student engagement and to develop a research agenda to inform educational practice at school and home and in the community.

Moderated by clinical psychologist Lynne Michael Blum, the research panel will include Martha Bridge Denckla, of the Kennedy-Krieger Institute and the Johns

Hopkins School of Medicine; Hal Pashler, of the University of California, San Diego; Michael Posner, of the University of Oregon; Daniel Willingham, of the University of Virginia; and Steve Yantis, of Johns Hopkins. Speakers also include Kurt Fischer, of Harvard University and the International Mind, Brain and Education Society, and Susan Rome, a teacher at the Baltimore Lab School.

This summit is made possible, in part, by the generous support of L. Robert Kimball and Associates and Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Brain Science Institute. For more information or to register, go to www.education .jhu.edu/nei.

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Nursing Continued from page 1 division of the university in 1984. Previously, nursing education at Johns Hopkins, which can be traced back to 1889, had occurred as a hospital-based school and within the former evening college.

After a series of moves and temporary homes, the School of Nursing built and in 1998 moved into the Anne M. Pinkard Building, the first structure dedicated solely to nursing education at Johns Hopkins.

Today, the school continues to redefine nursing education nationally. Nearly 700 students are currently enrolled in its baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral programs, and Hill hopes to see that number get bigger.

Hill is internationally known for developing and testing strategies to improve hypertension care and control among urban, underserved African-Americans, particularly young men. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was recently named an inaugural inductee of the Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. In 1997–98, she served as president of the American Heart Association, the first nonphysician to do so.

At Johns Hopkins, she holds joint faculty appointments in the schools of Medicine and Public Health.

Hill recently sat down with The Gazette to talk about the nursing profession and where the school is headed. Get her talking about the school’s future, and you’re likely to hear a litany of big, glowing adjectives.

Q: You’ve had a long tenure as dean, with no signs of slowing down. What keeps you going?

A: What keeps me going are the vision and the strategic planning we have for the continued growth and development of the School of Nursing. This is a vibrant, transitioning organization with unlimited potential. The best part of being a dean is that you get to create an environment and allocate resources to help people—students, faculty and staff—be the best that they can be.

Q: How would you define your leadership style?

A: Collaborative. Consensus building.

Positive. Energetic. Can do, will do. And very committed to the values that we have: excellence, respect, diversity, integrity and accountability.

Q: You were here 25 years ago, when the school was born. Much has changed, I imagine.

A: Almost everything has changed. When we began, there was one nursing administration office, on the second floor of the Billings Building in The Johns Hopkins Hospital. This is where the first four faculty would meet to draft the curriculum and the policies. Just one room. That is how we began. After a year of planning, we were able to attract and recruit the first class of students—all 27 of them.

Q: The construction of the Pinkard Building was certainly a milestone. Any plans for expansion?

A: When we built this building, we had a community of 555 students, faculty and staff.

The goal was to put everyone under one roof in a School of Nursing building. We experienced a series of misadventures as tenants, and we needed our own space. It was also psychologically extremely important to have a place that had the name of the school on it. This is something that our alumni had desired for over 100 years. They were very generous in helping build this.

There was a conservative financial approach to the planning of the building and its construction. We made sure that the school would be financially solid, but there was no plan for growth. As of the time we moved into this building, we filled it.

Now our community numbers 810, with 50 percent more students. We are now in very tight quarters and have an urgent need

for additional space. We have planned for a new building that would double our space, and we have begun to raise money. It’s a tough challenge to raise money for capital improvements, and certainly a tough challenge for nursing.

With the economic crisis, our fund raising has been greatly slowed down. Right now we are in a holding pattern. What is temporarily saving us are the two houses adjacent to the school, one on McElderry Street and one on Jefferson Street. We have purchased these houses and the Jefferson Street parking lot area, excluding the Children’s House. This secures our future. We have control of that space, and we will build on it. We are also in a partnership with the School of Public Health. They own the strip of land in the parking lot along Washington Street, and an SPH building will be dropped in there, adjacent to and linked with the Nursing buildings. We have architectural plans already drafted. We now need to reboot the fund raising and press forward.

In the meantime, we have moved administration offices into the house on McElderry Street. The house on Jefferson Street we will call the student house; it will house admissions, the registrar, financial aid, student lounges and student study spaces. This allows us to temporarily decompress and reconfigure some of our academic and simulation units.

Q: What sets the School of Nursing apart from its peers?

A: First of all, it’s the Johns Hopkins brand and the reputation for excellence we have as a university. It’s also this school’s reputation for community public health nursing, our access to the No. 1 hospital in the nation and our program of rigorous research and research training.

We also have faculty who have national and international reputations of excellence in their fields. Students will tell you that they came here because they wanted to study with this person, or take a class with a certain professor.

We are known for being a happening place. It’s flexible. It’s dynamic. We’re small compared to our peer schools. The individual attention our students get sets us apart, from the beginning of their admission process all the way through the program. The mentorship and the commitment from everyone here optimize the potential of every student and help them achieve success.

This sort of environment attracts older students. The vast majority of our baccalaureate students are second-degree, and the average age is 26. The maturity of these students creates an environment that is very different from that of other nursing schools.

Q: Switch gears. What sort of impact will the health care bill have on the school and on the profession?

A: We have a strong concentration on the care of underserved, vulnerable populations.

That is consistent with our theme and focus on community public health nursing. So the notion of 40 million Americans who don’t have health insurance, and who do not seek health care until they are seriously ill, is a problem. We are very concerned about access to health care and health care interventions.

We see this as an opportunity that these people will have greater access to services.

And many of these are nursing services.

Nurses are well-qualified and able to meet these needs. We look forward to the expanded opportunity to be able to do this.

We are also very pleased to see the provisions in the bill that pertain to practice by nurse practitioners, midwives, nurse anesthetists and others in terms of reimbursement.

The lack of reimbursement is a big problem in diminishing the availability of these services and the capacity for bringing people to practice. So the loan forgiveness, the training support, all those areas that are part of the bill are ones that we are delighted to see.

Q: You recently partnered with the Department of Medicine for its new resident training program in urban health, which seems right up your alley.

A: Oh, yes. We need to be training physi-

cians and nurses together so that they are psychologically and behaviorally prepared to practice together. It’s a very exciting opportunity.

Q: Speaking of collaborations, the school’s name increasingly comes up in partnerships with other disciplines.

A: Interprofessional collaborations are extremely important to me personally and professionally. But it’s also part of our mission. When you have different disciplines working together, the sum is greater than the total of the parts. I am inherently collaborative. I just can’t help myself [laughs].

For example, we are having conversations with Biomedical Engineering. This field should not only mean “bio” and the profession of medicine. Look at all the problems we have in hospitals. Patients falling.

Medication errors. Staffing. These all call for engineering solutions, and they are all critical elements of nursing practice. Look at home care—how nurses get in their car and drive from house to house. They need a laptop, cell phone and other devices to input their findings into a patient’s record.

They take an EKG in the home and send it to a cardiologist so he or she can immediately read it. All this requires engineering solutions applied to the practice of nursing.

Q: Other collaborations you’d like to mention?

A: We have a dynamite dual-degree program with the School of Public Health. The graduates are now all over the world. Several of our alums are the medical directors of the health programs in U.S. embassies.

They are running countrywide programs in Africa. One is running the entire sub-Saharan Africa technical assistance program for Jhpiego. They can do anything in community public health nursing, anywhere in the world. They are beautifully prepared. These are people who come here to gain the skills and knowledge that they need to go and serve underserved areas.

He came from the University of Pennsylvania, which has one of the top nursing schools in the country. He told me when I first met him that the dean of that school told him to tell me he was a work in progress. I laughed and I said I’m very pleased to be the beneficiary of her investment in you.

Ron knows a lot about professional nursing at a research-intensive, private university, which is very helpful in that I don’t have to justify or explain a lot to him. He gets it. He’s very supportive and enthusiastic, and very fair. He wants to be sure when he talks about undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins that it’s not just the Krieger and Whiting schools, but that Nursing and Peabody are in every equation.

Q: What keeps you even-keeled in the face of stress?

A: My family and my friends, my colleagues.

To balance a professional and personal life, what has helped me through all my years of research was that the personal friendships and professional relationships overlapped.

That creates an efficiency. We call it group therapy and social support.

I also value my personal friends outside of Johns Hopkins. They are very understanding. They know this is a 24/7 job. They know it involves a lot of travel and commitment. They work on the system of no news is good news. Of course, I have always had a husband who is very supportive and proud of my professional work, as are my sons, both of whom have boomeranged back to Baltimore.

Having them here is really nice, so I have someone to call if the car battery is dead [laughs].

Q: What one thing can’t you live without?

A: Personal interaction with people. I am inherently a social being, and I thrive on interaction. I thrive on being able to debate, and process ideas and strategies. Moving things forward so that others can benefit.

Q: Anything else you want to talk about?

Q: Is this an example of global nursing that you’ve been championing?

A: Exactly. Global symbolizes international health. Now there are people who will tell you that international health means we go there, assist and then come back. The leaders in this new field of global health will tell you that this is a more comprehensive, longterm commitment. It’s mutually beneficial, and it’s domestic as well as international.

We have underserved, low-resource communities here. Look out the window. The skills we have in community health nursing go from local to global. When you go elsewhere and come back, you bring attitudes and skills that you learn elsewhere.

I can tell you that we are very excited about participating in the Center for Global Health and in President [Ron] Daniels’ new initiatives to support greater student involvement in international health. We are going to be launching soon a new program within the school that I’m conceptualizing as a center for academic global nursing.

Q: Tell me about some of the school’s big challenges.

A: Financial aid, certainly. Cost of tuition.

The cost of doing business in a researchintensive environment. We are very small in terms of our peer schools. We are one-third or half the size, yet we rank No. 5 in terms of NIH funding. Imagine if we were twice as big [smiles].

It’s that potential that excites me. We have high standards here as leaders in the nursing profession. The legacy of our glorious past, and the potential we have in moving the profession forward in the future, is just wonderful.

We manage a very fiscally conservative organization, but it’s bold and dynamic in terms of our vision, programs and future aspirations.

Q: Have you and President Daniels had much of a chance to get acquainted?

A: We certainly have. President Daniels visited the school for three and a half hours his second day on the job. He’s very interested in what we are doing.

A: Nursing capacity. Worldwide there is a shortage of nurses, and that is for several reasons. One is that as the population ages and people are living longer with multiple chronic diseases, the demand for nursing care is increasing. Secondly, as technology increases in hospitals and in people’s homes, the need for nurses has increased. Acute care has become more dependent on technology, and people are being kept alive in situations where previously they would not have survived. We need nurses with extremely high levels of skills, especially in critical thinking and clinical judgment. Whether they’re in a burn unit or neonatal intensive care unit, we need nurses who are stunningly well-versed with technology. The better educated the nurse, the better patients do.

Here at Hopkins, we are in the business of preparing leaders. We are looking at the transition from the baccalaureate level to the graduate level. We also have a new clinical professional doctorate program, the Doctor of Nursing Practice. Nurses today cannot be too well-educated. Knowledge about strategic planning, business plans and budgets keeps them at the table in the planning and evaluation of how health care is delivered. They have to be there. If they are excluded, the glue isn’t in the structure.

Q: What are you reading now?

A: I’m reading all three of [School of Medicine Professor] Kay Jamison’s books.

I’m reading them because in the past few years I’ve experienced the deaths of several friends. When I heard about her book on bereavement and grief, I wanted to read it. When I got to the bookstore I thought, well, I want to read the ones on manic depression and suicides as well. So I bought all three. I’m going in chronological order.

Learning about death is important for me.

We’ve dealt with the loss of colleagues and their family members here at the school. It’s the result of an aging workforce. This will increasingly be part of our lives. To have a better understanding of the process and the impact it has over time will help me, not only as a person and friend but as a leader of a community.

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Two Hopkins scientists awarded European honorary doctorates Maryalice Yakutchik

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wo genetics researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been awarded prestigious honorary doctor of medicine degrees by European scientific institutions.

Andrew P. Feinberg, the King Fahd Professor of Molecular Medicine and director of the Center for Epigenetics, will receive an honorary doctorate from the Karolinska Institutet of Sweden during a ceremony in the Stockholm City Hall on May 7.

Craig Montell, a professor of biological chemistry and a member of the Center for Sensory Biology at Johns Hopkins, received his degree from the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium on March 26.

For more than a quarter century, Feinberg has been investigating how genetic factors outside human nuclear DNA, or “epigenetic” phenomena, are related to human disease, having done the first experiments on the epigenetics of cancer in the early 1980s. More recently, he has been leading a group in the study of the epigenetics of human complex traits with a Center of Excellence in Genome Sciences award from the Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

In addition to directing the Center for Epigenetics at Johns Hopkins, Feinberg has been an adjunct professor at Karolinska Institutet and contributed to its formation of an epigenetic profiling platform at its Center for Molecular Medicine. The board of research of Karolinska stated, “Professor Feinberg’s work saves lives, and he person-

ally encourages other researchers to push the boundaries of knowledge in biology and medicine.””

Montell joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1988 and a year later published a seminal paper on the cloning of the gene encoding the founding TRP channel in the fruit fly.

In 1995 Montell reported the identification of human TRP proteins. The various members of the TRP family of proteins have transformed our understanding about how animals, ranging from insects to humans, detect a broad array of sensory stimuli.

Recently, the Montell group revealed the cellular mechanism underlying an early childhood neurodegenerative disease, mucolipidosis type IV, providing a novel strategy for treating this disease.

Stephen Desiderio, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, said, “The research community at Johns Hopkins is proud that both Andy and

Craig have received such honors. Each has contributed significantly over the years to his respective field as well as to the scientific enterprise at Hopkins, and this recognition of their work is muchdeserved.”

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven was founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V and is the oldest existing Catholic university in the world. Previous recipients of Leuven’s honorary degree include Nobel Prize–winning scientists, religious pioneers and noteworthy politicians, including Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Christian de Duve, Charles De Gaulle, Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower.

Previous honorary doctorates from the Karolinska have gone to South African peace activist Nelson Mandela, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and actor and Parkinson’s research advocate Michael J. Fox.

Discovery: How red wine may shield brain from stroke damage

By Stephanie Desmon

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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esearchers at Johns Hopkins say they have discovered the way in which red wine consumption may protect the brain from damage following

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blood test for certain forms of prostate specific antigen, or PSA, and measurement of DNA content in biopsy tissue accurately predict which men with potentially nonlethal prostate cancers may eventually need treatment, say Johns Hopkins scientists.

“Our goal is to develop new biomarkers to select the right patients for the right therapy and know when the therapy should be delivered,” says Robert Veltri, associate professor of urology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, who adds that up to half of prostate cancer patients with low-grade, low-stage disease could safely be monitored rather than treated aggressively.

To make their prediction calculations, Veltri and his colleagues evaluated two tests on 71 men enrolled in a Johns Hopkins Proactive Surveillance program to monitor their small, low-grade cancers, none of which could be felt on physical examination. The first is a blood test that combines three forms of PSA and is called the prostate health index (phi), which was developed by

Beckman Coulter and is not FDA-approved.

The second test involves examining biopsy tissue for the amount of DNA in cells; normal cells contain precisely two chromosomes, while the number of chromosomes in cancer cells varies.

Results show that the prostate health index was higher in 39 men whose annual biopsy showed worsening prostate cancer.

Also, in these men, abnormal DNA copies in cells from biopsied prostate tissue were overexpressed in cancerous areas as well as in adjacent noncancerous areas. The median time for following the study participants was about three and a half years.

“There are no outward signs that these small prostate cancers may be progressing— men clinically feel the same, and physicians are not likely to detect it on conventional imaging scans,” Veltri says. “We believe that close monitoring with the right biomarker tools may help to detect this shift in pathological stage.”

Veltri plans to continue studies with a larger group of patients over a longer time period. He is also studying other biomarkers that include other types of PSA and the shape of nuclei in cells.

Funding for the study was provided by Early Detection Research Network and SPORE Prostate Grant of the NCI and

the Patana Fund. Other participants were Sumit Isharwal, Lori Sokoll, Patricia Landis, Jonathan Epstein, Alan Partin and H. Ballentine Carter, all of Johns Hopkins; Danil Makarov, of Yale University; and Cameron Marlow, of the Johns Hopkins University Cell Core Facility.

The findings were presented at the 101st annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, held April 17 to 21 in Washington, D.C.

Peabody, St. Ignatius Loyola students present free concert

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he Junior Bach program, in which Peabody composition students mentor middle school students at St. Ignatius Loyola Academy, will present a free end-of-year concert at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 30, in Peabody’s Hilda and Douglas Goodwin Recital Hall.

Conservatory students will perform works

by St. Ignatius students Antwon Allen, Nicholas Fullard, Daekwan Jacobs, Chijoke Oranye, Jeremee Tripp and Salim-Hassan Williams, including Williams’ Bipolar Rhapsody for flute, clarinet, piano, bass and drum set.

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matic system that is already present within the cells. “Even a small amount may be sufficient,” he said.

Doré says that his ongoing research also suggests some therapeutic benefits to giving resveratrol to mice after a stroke to limit further neuronal damage.

The research was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Wine Institute and the ABMR Foundation.

Other Johns Hopkins authors of the study are Hean Zhuang, Herman Kwansa and Raymond C. Koehler.

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not tested resveratrol in clinical trials. And while resveratrol is found in red grapes, it’s the alcohol in the wine that may be needed to concentrate the amounts of the beneficial compound. Doré also cautions that drinking alcohol carries risks along with potential benefits.

He also notes that even if further research affirms the benefits of red wine, no one yet knows how much would be optimal to protect the brain, or even what kind of red wine might be best, because not all types contain the same amount of resveratrol.

More research is needed, he says.

Doré says his research suggests that the amount needed could end up being quite small because the suspected beneficial mechanism is indirect.

“Resveratrol itself may not be shielding brain cells from free radical damage directly but, instead, resveratrol and its metabolites may be prompting the cells to defend themselves,” he said.

“It’s not likely that brain cells can have high enough local levels of resveratrol to be protective,” he said. The resveratrol is needed to jump-start this protective enzy-

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Two hours after feeding mice a single modest dose of resveratrol, a compound found in the skins and seeds of red grapes, the scientists induced an ischemic stroke by essentially cutting off blood supply to the animals’ brains. They found that the animals that had preventively ingested the resveratrol suffered significantly less brain damage than the ones that had not been given the compound.

Sylvain Doré, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and of pharmacology and molecular sciences, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says that his study suggests that resveratrol increases levels of heme oxygenase, an enzyme already known to shield nerve cells in the brain from dam-

age. When the stroke hits, the brain is ready to protect itself because of elevated enzyme levels. In mice that lacked the enzyme, the study found, resveratrol had no significant protective effect, and their brain cells died after a stroke.

“Our study adds to evidence that resveratrol can potentially build brain resistance to ischemic stroke,” said Doré, the leader of the study, which appears online in the journal Experimental Neurology.

Red wine has gotten a lot of attention lately for its purported health benefits.

Along with reducing stroke, moderate wine consumption has been linked to a lowered incidence of cardiovascular disease: the socalled French paradox. Despite diets high in butter, cheese and other saturated fats, the paradox goes, the French have a relatively low incidence of cardiovascular events, which some have attributed to the regular drinking of red wine.

Doré cautions against taking resveratrol supplements, available alongside vitamins and minerals and on Web sites touting its benefits, because it is unclear whether such supplements could do harm or good. He has

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CEO of First Washington Realty First Homewood Technology and to give annual Berman Lecture Innovation Showcase set for May 3

By Andrew Blumberg

Carey Business School

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hrough its generosity and visionary thinking, the family of Baltimore businessman Allan L. Berman became the driving force behind the creation of real estate business education at The Johns Hopkins University with the creation in 1989 of the Allan L. Berman Institute for Real Estate Development and an annual lecture, both at the Carey Business School. This year’s lecture will be given by William J. Wolfe, a member of the school’s corporate advisory board and co-founder, president and CEO of First Washington Realty, a privately held real William estate investment advisory and management firm. The lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, at the university’s Downtown Center.

Wolfe, whose remarks are titled “All Commercial Real Estate Is Not Alike: The First Washington Realty Story,” has been a prominent leader in commercial real estate across the United States for the past quarter century. His lecture will tell the dramatic story of how he built, sold and then bought back his company. When it was publicly

traded, the company owned, operated and managed retail properties with a value in excess of $5 billion.

Wolfe served in the administration of President Jimmy Carter from 1978 to 1979, working on the President’s Reorganization Project, which was tasked with improving the efficiency of government agencies. He currently is on the board of trustees of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Alternatives for Youth Foundation, Business Executives for National Security and the World Presidents’ Organization.

In 1971, Wolfe founded the Key Program, a New England– based youth service agency that provides a variety of residential and nonresidential programming to at-risk youth and their Wolfe families, and served as its chairman for 25 years. Since its inception, Key has provided services to more than 70,000 young people and their families through contracts, grants and contributions worth more than $500 million.

Wolfe received his bachelor’s degree from Clark University and master’s degree from Harvard University.

To register for the lecture and for more information, go to www.carey.jhu.edu/ berman.

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iming to foster fresh connections between university researchers and the businesspeople who can help move their projects into the marketplace, a Johns Hopkins University advisory board has organized its first Homewood Technology and Innovation Showcase.

The event, spotlighting current faculty and student breakthroughs, will be held Monday, May 3, in the Glass Pavilion on the Homewood campus.

Alumni and friends of the university have been invited to attend the event, which begins at 6 p.m. with dinner and an opportunity to meet faculty members and students who have produced inventions and research advances that may provide opportunities for investment and commercialization. These showcase participants are affiliated with the university’s Whiting School of Engineering and Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Their projects include applications in biomedical and computer science and innovations in materials science and electronics.

Nicholas P. Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School, will

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Calendar Continued from page 12 Tues., April 27, 2 p.m. “New Results in the Design of Switched Feedback Controllers for Linear Systems,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Keith Santarelli, Sandia National Laboratories. 109 Maryland. HW Tues.,

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4:30

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“Deep Learning With Multiplicative Interactions,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto/Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

B17 CSEB. HW “Titan: An Earth Analogue in the Outer Solar System,” an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Catherine Neish, APL. 304 Olin. HW

Wed., April 28, noon.

“Mysteries of Ubiquitin: How to Understand Specificity in the Midst of Diversity,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Rachel Klevit, University of Washington. W1214 SPH. EB Wed., April 28, noon.

Wed., April 28, 12:15 p.m.

“Psychiatric Outcomes of Offspring Who Experienced Parental Suicide: How Are They 30 Years Later?” a Mental Health seminar with Janet Kuramoto, SPH. B14B Hampton House. EB “BiDirectional Signaling in the EFG Receptor,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Linda Pike, Washington University School of Medicine. 713 WBSB. EB

Wed., April 28, 1:30 p.m.

Wed., April 28, 4 p.m. “Control of Organ Size and Tumorigenesis by the Hippo Signaling Pathway,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Duojia Pan, SoM. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Wed., April 28, 4 p.m. “Recommender Systems for Fun and Profit,” a Biostatistics seminar with Chris Volinsky, AT&T LabsResearch. W2030 SPH. EB Wed.,

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4:30

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“Rigidity for Local Holomorphic Isometries from Bn into a Product of Balls,” a Complex Geometry seminar with Yuan Yuan, Rutgers University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW Thurs., April 29, 10:30 a.m.

“Poly(ADP-ribose) Regulates microRNA Activity and Stress Responses in the Cytoplasm,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Anthony Leung, Koch Center for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT. W1020 SPH. EB Thurs., April 29, noon. “The Insect Chemoreceptor Superfamily Mediating Smell and Taste in Mosquitoes and Other Insects,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Hugh Robertson, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. W1020 SPH. EB Thurs., April 29, 12:15 p.m.

“Is There a Choice? Violence and Guns on the Streets of Baltimore,” a seminar with Daniel Webster, SPH. Part of the series “The Wire as a Lens Into Public

Health in Urban America,” cosponsored by the Urban Health Institute, and the departments of Health, Behavior and Society and of Epidemiology. B14B Hampton House. EB Thurs., April 29, 1 p.m. “Toward

Achieving Successful Neural Regeneration,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Clifford Woolf, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.

West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

“Studies on the Mechanisms of Taenia soilum Larval Stage Adherence to Host Tissue,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Manuela Verastegui. W2030 SPH. EB

Fri., April 30, 10 a.m.

“Health Information Exchange: What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It?” a Health Policy and Management seminar with Gilad Kuperman, NYCLIX and New York–Presbyterian Hospital. 688 Hampton House. EB Fri., April 30, noon.

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“Transport and Health Outcomes in Developing Countries,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Anthony Bliss, World Bank. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2033 SPH. EB “Copying and Reprogramming Heterochromatin With Small RNA,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Rob Martienssen,

Mon., May 3, 12:15 p.m.

welcome the event’s guests. At 7 p.m., attendees will hear remarks from Edward D. Miller, the Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D., Dean of the Medical Faculty at the School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

The showcase has been organized by the Johns Hopkins Homewood Technology Commercialization Advisory Board, a panel of about 40 alumni and university friends who are assisting the university’s technology transfer staff in channeling Johns Hopkins’ intellectual property to the commercial sector.

The board’s inaugural chair is Phil Garfinkle, a successful technology businessman and Whiting School parent.

Garfinkle, based in Washington, D.C., is managing partner of Planet Cotton and managing director of Navig8. In addition, he is a venture adviser for Gabriel Venture Partners. He recently sold Trust Strategy Group, in which he was managing partner. He holds many technology-related patents and serves as a board member for a number of technology companies.

Anyone wishing to attend the May 3 showcase should contact Allison W. Baker at 410-516-6721 or abaker@jhu.edu.

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., May 3, 4:30 p.m. “Tate Spectra, Bimodules and Calculus of Functors,” a Topology seminar with Michael Ching, University of Georgia. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW

S P EC I AL E V E N T S Mon., April 26, 5:30 p.m. Legendary cartoonist Kim Deitch gives a slide talk, “The Search for Smilin’ Ed and Other Tales.”

Sponsored by the Homewood Art Workshops, as part of its 35th anniversary celebration. 101 Ross Jones Bldg., Mattin Center. HW Sun., May 2, through Sun., Sept. 26. Sculpture at Evergreen

6: Simultaneous Presence, the sixth biennial installment of 10 new site-specific outdoor sculptures.

(See story, p. 12.) Evergreen Museum & Library.

SYMPOSIA Thurs., April 29, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Fourth Annual Insti-

tute for Nanobiotechnology Symposium—“Environmental and Health Impacts of Engineered Nanomaterials,” with keynote speaker Ruth Lehmann of the Skirball Institute, N.Y., and talks by eight Hopkins faculty experts.

W1214 SPH (talks) and E2030 SPH (posters). EB Thurs., April 29, 5 to 8 p.m. , and Fri., April 30, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 29th Carnegie

Institution Symposium—Journey of the Germ Cell. Sponsored by Embryology. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW •

Thurs., April 29, 5:45 p.m.

“Germ Cells Are Forever,”

keynote address by Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institute, N.Y. •

Fri., April 30, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Talks by James Priess,

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Xin Chen, KSAS; Richard Behringer, University of Texas; Tim Schedl, Washington University; Gary Wessel, Brown University; and William Sullivan, University of California, Santa Cruz.

THEATER Thurs., April 29, Fri., April 30 and Sat., May 1, 8 p.m. JHUT

presents Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Final performances. $15 general admission, $13 for senior citizens, JHU faculty, staff, retirees and alumni; $5 for students with ID. Merrick Barn. HW W OR K S HO P S Tues., April 27, and Thurs., April 29, 9 a.m. to noon.

“Research Leadership for Postdoctoral Scholars,” a Professional Development workshop. Register at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pdo.

Mountcastle Auditorium. EB “Introduction to RefWorks,” a Bits & Bytes workshop, designed for faculty and TAs, but staff are welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources.

To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu.

Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Thurs., April 29, 1 p.m.

Fri., April 30, noon to 6 p.m.

“Madness and Religion,” a Graduate Workshop on Religion and Psychiatry, featuring a keynote address, “Why Obsessive People and Religious People Perform Rituals” by Pascal Boyer, Washington University, St. Louis. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

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Frances Ferguson of English Department elected to AAAS B y A m y L u n d ay

Romantic period, including poetic, novelistic and essayistic; the rise of educational philosophy in the 18th and early 19th centuries; the rise of legal philosophy in the 18th and early 19th centuries; 20th-century literary theory; and the poststructuralist critique of the social sciences, with particular interest in why psychoanalysis was its central target.

She is also active in the Krieger School’s

Program for Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality.

Ferguson has written three books— Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit (1977); Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (1992); and Pornography, the Theory (2005) —and essays on a variety of 18th- and 19th-century topics and literary theory. She is currently

working on a project that aims to identify the difference that Locke’s, Rousseau’s, Kant’s and Bentham’s work on children and education made to their accounts of modern democratic political liberalism.

AAAS fellows and foreign honorary members are nominated and elected to the academy by current members. A broadbased membership of scholars and practitioners from mathematics, physics, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts, public affairs and business allows the academy to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and public policy research.

Ferguson will be inducted on Oct. 9 in Cambridge, Mass., alongside other fellows, including CNN’s chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour; New York Times op-ed columnist and political analyst David Brooks; secretary of the Smithsonian Institution G. Wayne Clough; film director Francis Ford Coppola; demographer and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves; Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Daniel Howe; actors John Lithgow, Steve Martin, Liev Schreiber and Denzel Washington; Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie; jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins; and Nobel laureate economist Myron Scholes.

Ferguson’s induction will bring the number of Johns Hopkins fellows of the academy to 45.

will be directing pedestrian traffic away from that area.”

Latimer said that the construction will get noisy at times, and Design and Construction plans to host informational meetings with faculty and staff in neighboring buildings to acquaint them with the construction schedule and timelines in order to minimize disruptions.

Also in June, work begins on renovations to the Whiting School’s New Engineering Building and Maryland Hall, both related to a new research center dedicated to the study of the physics of cancer. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology were awarded a $14.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to launch the research center, aimed at unraveling the physical underpinnings that drive the growth and spread of cancer.

The New Engineering Building will feature new lab and office space dedicated to this effort. To accommodate displaced NEB tenants, new offices and labs will be created in Maryland Hall, and some school administration, including the Dean’s Office, will move to the Wyman Park Building.

“It’s like dominoes,” Latimer said. “The new center creates the need for the reconfiguration of these spaces.”

Elsewhere, the Whitehead Hall and Mergenthaler Hall elevators will be shut down from May 17 to Sept. 1 to undergo modernization.

The main entrance to Shriver Hall will be reconstructed with new ADA-compliant ramps. Construction will begin on June 1 and be completed by Sept. 30. Access to the building for events will be maintained through all other entrances.

The Shaffer Hall lobby will be renovated

in two stages beginning May 17 to 28, with work restarted on Aug. 2. The project, which is scheduled to be finished by Aug. 29, will include abatement and new paint, as well as the replacement of the floors, ceilings and front doors. Access to the Academic Affairs Office will be maintained through the New Engineering Building.

In Jenkins Hall, new labs will be created on the building’s second and fourth floors.

The Bloomberg Hall computer server room, located in the building’s basement, is being enlarged. The existing equipment within the space will be temporarily relocated during construction, scheduled for May 1 through mid-August.

Public restrooms in the Athletic Center and Krieger, Maryland, Shaffer, Levering, Shriver and Ames halls will be upgraded with reconfigured stalls, new water-con-

serving plumbing fixtures, energy-efficient lighting and new finishes. The spaces will be reconfigured as necessary to provide full ADA accessibility. Construction, slated for June 1 to Aug. 15, will be scheduled so that facilities are maintained within each building at all times.

Smaller upgrades will be taking place on the campus as well.

“There’s certainly a long list of projects this summer,” Latimer said. “There’s typically a good deal of construction work going on here after classes end, but this will be a particularly busy couple of months.”

Latimer said that Design and Construction is working with the various contractors to minimize disruptions to campus traffic and parking. Much of the noisiest work will be conducted from 7 to 9 a.m. and on the weekends. G

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Hard-hat Continued from page 1 was excavated for a new courtyard to bring natu­­ral light and outdoor access to lowerlevel conference rooms.

As some of these projects end, new ones will begin.

In early June, construction commences on the Brody Learning Commons, named to honor the university’s 13th president, William R. Brody, and his wife, Wendy. The sixstory addition will sit directly to the south of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and is being built for technology-driven, collaborative learning. The facility, scheduled to open in July 2012, will feature ample natural light; smart technology throughout; group study, quiet reading and seminar rooms; exhibit space for art; and a cafe.

Jody Latimer, director of Design and Construction for the Homewood Office of Facilities Management, said that the portion of campus around the Brody Learning Commons will be a hot spot of construction activity. The area between the Merrick Barn and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library will be fenced in and inaccessible for the next two years, she said.

Access to the Krieger Hall and Maryland Hall loading docks will be maintained but limited, Latimer said. Access to the MSEL dock will be closed for the duration of the project.

“There’s a lot going on this summer with this portion of campus being extremely busy,” Latimer said. “Expect to see trucks, trailers and construction crews moving around. We

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rances Ferguson, a professor in the Department of English in the Krieger School, is among 229 fellows elected to the 230th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 19.

Ferguson, the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences, joins a long line of Johns Hopkins faculty members who have been chosen by the academy, including President Ronald J. Daniels, who was among four faculty members inducted last fall.

The academy was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and others. Its dual role is to honor excellence in the arts and sciences and to provide independent, nonpartisan study of important societal issues.

Since its inception, the academy has elected leading “thinkers and doers” from each generation. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Ferguson teaches courses in 18th- and 19th-century materials and 20th-century literary theory. She has previously taught courses on the rise of novelism in the 18th century; various kinds of writing in the

Frances Ferguson, the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences.

New eFax service introduced for occasional users

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elecommunications is offering a new service, eFax, which allows occasional fax users to eliminate the need for a fax machine, fax phone line and maintenance plan. The service is designed to save time and reduce expenses; the cost is $5/ month per fax number.

The eFax system uses a Web-based interface for sending electronic versions of documents to another party’s fax machine. Faxes are received as e-mails with the documents attached as PDF files.

The application is recommended for occa-

sional usage and is not intended for users or groups with high fax volumes, according to Telecommunications. It is to be used only when sending or receiving a fax is required, not when sending or receiving a regular e-mail is possible.

Upon registering for this service, users receive an eFax Web account, login ID/ password and a fax number.

To subscribe to the service and/or learn more details, go to http://it.jhu.edu/ restricted/telecom or contact Katrece Cobb in Telecommunications at 443-287-4663.

Chairman/CIO of T. Rowe Price to give Leaders & Legends talk

By Andrew Blumberg

Carey Business School

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rian C. Rogers, chairman and chief investment officer of T. Rowe Price Group, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders & Legends lecture series to be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 28, at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East.

Originally planned for Feb. 11, the event was rescheduled due to heavy snow.

Rogers, whose remarks are titled “Leading Through a Financial Crisis,” is also a member of the institution’s board of directors and has 27 years of investment experience, 24 of which have been with the Baltimore-based firm.

T. Rowe Price Group and its affiliates serve as investment adviser to more than 450 separate and commingled institutional accounts and more than 80 stock, bond and money market funds. The company’s international investment arm, T. Rowe Price International, is headquartered in London and has offices in Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Paris and Singapore. As of Sept. 30, 2009, T. Rowe Price had $366.2 billion under management.

Chair of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s

independent review board, Rogers is past chair of the archdiocese’s Investment Committee and a past member of its board of financial administration, and also is a past board member of Business Volunteers Unlimited. He serves on the board of the Greater Baltimore Committee, the investment committees of Vanderbilt University and Gilman School, and the Johns Hopkins University board of trustees and its Investment Committee.

Rogers earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and an MBA in finance from the Harvard Business School. He is accredited as a Chartered Financial Analyst and as a Chartered Investment Counselor.

The Leaders & Legends monthly breakfast series, which features today’s most influential business and public policy leaders addressing topics of global interest and importance, is designed to engage business and community professionals in an examination of the most compelling issues and challenges facing society today.

Admission to the lecture, which includes breakfast, is $35. To register and for more information, go to carey.jhu.edu/ leadersandlegends.

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pacious apartment living set in a prestigious hi-rise building. Adjacent to Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus and minutes from downtown Baltimore. Amenities include an on-site restaurant, salon and convenience store.

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10 THE GAZETTE • April 26, 2010 P O S T I N G S

Job Opportunities

Homewood

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

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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

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Academic Coordinator Nurse Practitioner Administrative Coordinator Budget Specialist Sr. Program Officer Administrative Coordinator Program Officer Sr. Financial/ Contracts Analyst Research Study Office Assistant Sr. Research Nurse Research Data Analyst Financial Aid Coordinator Property Specialist Technical Writer E-Learning Coordinator, PEPFAR Sr. Biostatistician

School of Medicine

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

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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

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he 39th annual Spring Fair got off to a sunny start at noon on Friday, providing a perfect opportunity for students, faculty and staff to enjoy their lunch outdoors. Among the first fair-goers were Mike Freeman, Kristos Mosos, Rong Feng, Andrew Buller, Anna Vagstad, Dominic Lambert, Nicole Guadelli, Desirae Leipply and Min Kim. Carnival rides, craft vendors, children’s activities, a beer garden and a Friday-night outdoor concert were expected to draw thousands of Baltimoreans to the Homewood campus for the three-day, student-run festival.

Baker Continued from page 1 injuries a priority—and a newly defined field of inquiry—in public health research and policy, and has worked to raise the visibility and stress the urgency of injury control. Her research played an integral role in the creation of child passenger protection laws and graduated driver licensing; as a result of her work, all states now require child safety seats, and virtually all states have graduated driver licensing laws. Her B U L L E T I N

Notices Donations Needed for Druid Hill Family Center Y — Do you have new or gently

• Private parking available • University Parkway at West 39th St.

ESL Summer Intensive — Registration

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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• Large airy rooms • Hardwood Floors • Private balcony or terrace • Beautiful garden setting

2 & 3 bedroom apartments located in a private park setting. Adjacent to Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus and minutes from downtown Baltimore.

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used toys or games that you can donate to the Druid Hill Family Center Y? Your donation of a wish list item will help the Y stretch its financial resources and provide healthy and enriching experiences for our community’s youth. For information about what kinds of items are appropriate, and for drop-off sites, call the Office of Work, Life and Engagement at 443-997-7000.

Not able to donate an item? Do you have three hours that you can give to help with the revitalization of the Druid Hill Y and surrounding neighborhood? This event is taking place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, April 28 and 29.

For more information, go to http://ymaryland .org/pages/events/a-tribute-to-dr.-king/ druid-hill-revitalization.php or call Work, Life and Engagement at 443-997-7000. The Druid Hill revitalization effort is not eligible for Johns Hopkins Takes Time for Schools service hours. (For information regarding JHTTFS eligibility and program requirements, call Work, Life and Engagement.)

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is now open for the Intensive English Language Program, scheduled for July 6 through Aug. 6. Open to students and professionals from Hopkins and around the world, the IELP offers language learners core reading, writing, listening and speaking classes at intermediate, advanced and advanced plus levels, and electives in TOEFL preparation, medical English and American culture. Reg-

additional areas of focus include fatalities related to aviation, motorcycles and heavy trucks; carbon monoxide poisoning; the relationship between alcohol and homicide; the use of drugs in adolescent suicide; drownings; childhood asphyxiation; house fires; falls in the elderly; and fatal occupational injuries.

Baker will accept the Calderone Prize on May 6 and give a major address at the Mailman School. She will then be joined

by Thomas Farley, New York City commissioner of health, and Linda Fried, dean of the Mailman School, in a panel discussion on the practical applications of her pathbreaking work. G B O A R D

istrants may select the full program of three classes with 23 hours of language instruction, or the single class option. Social and recreational activities provide additional language practice.

For Hopkins employees and postdocs, tuition remission may apply. For course descriptions and placement information, go to www.cledu.jhu.edu/esl, e-mail esl@jhu .edu or call 410-516-5431.

Development Workshop — A free

workshop titled “Your Research Career” is being offered this summer by the Professional Development Office. Aimed at JHMI students, graduate students and fellows, the workshop consists of five sessions, scheduled to take place from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., from Monday, July 19, through Thursday, July 22, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, July 23.

Registration is required. To sign up for any or all of the sessions, complete the registration form at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pdo.

Tri-School Day of Service — As part of National Volunteer Week, the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health, in conjunction with SOURCE, are sponsoring a day of service for students, faculty and staff.

Most projects require no special skills or knowledge. For more details on the projects, go to www.jhsph.edu/source. Registration is required. To sign up, e-mail source@jhsph .edu with your name, e-mail address, phone number and your top three project choices.

Projects will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Other sponsors for the day of service are the Interaction Council at SoM, the Student Government Association of SoN and the JHSPH Student Assembly’s Community Affairs Committee.

April 26, 2010 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Baltimore County, 3BR TH, lg kitchen, fin’d bsmt, hdwd flrs, front and back yds, prkng, pet OK, 15-20 mins to Hopkins. hope_L_ johnson@hotmail.com.

Bayview, 2BR house w/fin’d bsmt, W/D, backyd prkng pad, no pets. Elaine, 410-633-4750.

Bayview, 2-3BR apt, 1st flr. $700/mo + sec dep. 443-243-1651.

Bolton Hill, 2BR luxury brownstone apt, CAC, sun deck, prkng pad, perfect for grad student. 517-933-3341.

Canton, gorgeous, remodeled 2BR, 2.5BA RH. $1,800/mo + utils. tarynzlatin@hotmail .com (for pics/info).

M A R K E T P L A C E

Mt Vernon, spacious 1BR apt in cultural district, 780 sq ft, pet-friendly, rooftop pool. $930/mo. 314-402-5672 or elizabehcmerrill@ gmail.com.

Mt Washington, stunning house avail for short-term rent, mid-May to mid-July, baby grand piano, AC, hdwd flrs, wireless Internet, patios. $2,200/mo. 718-915-3180.

Owings Mills, 2BR, 2BA condo, W/D, walk-in closets, storage, prkng, pool/tennis court privileges, backs to woods, conv to metro, walk to grocery, sm pets negotiable ($250 nonrefundable deposit), 1-yr lease, pics avail. $1,250/mo.

410-336-7952 or ljohnsto@mail.roanoke.edu.

Perry Hall, luxury TH in sought-after Honeygo Village community, 3BRs, 2 full BAs, 1 half BA, 2-car garage, upgraded master, nr shopping/95. 443-653-2689.

Canton, 2BR, 2.5BA waterfront TH, furn’d, luxury amenities, 2-car garage. $3,000/mo.

Sonny, 443-955-2040.

Rehoboth Beach, 3BR TH available, 15-min walk to boardwalk, JHU discounts on summer wks. galeeena@yahoo.com.

Carlyle Apts, sublet beginning May 26. $340/ mo. http://picasaweb.google.com/li.cdlimo/ CarlyleApartment# (for pics).

St Michaels, MD, cottage available downtown for romantic, affordable wknd. vrbo .com/296266.

Cedonia, quiet 1BR apt w/new kitchen and flrs, W/D, deck, landscaped/fenced yd, free prkng, pets welcome, nr JHH/Morgan State/ JHU. $710/mo + utils. 410-493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com.

Wyman Park, 3BR TH, 1 blk to JHU, W/D, dw, security, cable, deck, prkng, fenced yd; Craigslist #1694651183 (photos). $1,650/mo + utils. fullcirc1@verizon.net.

Charles Village, 1BR apt nr Hopkins shuttle. $700/mo incl water, heat. 410-369-6034 or stonefresh@gmail.com.

2BR apt in nice neighborhood, fin’d attic, hdwd flrs, driveway, backyd, pets OK. $1,000/ mo incl heat. 443-857-6895 or cedric@ cedriccarter.com.

Charles Village, spacious 3-story RH, hdwd flrs, W/D, 3rd-flr deck, rear yd, easy prkng, no smokers/no pets, short walk to 26th St shuttle. akhan960@gmail.com.

Lg, luxury 1BR high-rise condo, nr JHU/ Homewood/Guilford, CAC/heat, W/D, doorman, security, pool, exercise rm, all utils. 757773-7830.

Charles Village, 1BR in immaculate bldg, no pets/no smoking, across from Homewood campus/BMA, conv to JHU shuttle/MARC train, minimum 1-yr lease, application req’d, tenant history/income refs req’d. 410-366-5232.

Renov’d 2BR waterfront cottage w/pier and boat slip, wraparound deck, W/D, dw, avail mid-May, conv to JHH/downtown/Bayview/ JHU. $1,575/mo + utils + sec dep. 410-7906597 or sohare@verizon.net (pics/details).

Columbia, 2BR condo, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, hdwd flrs, great area, nr Rts 29/175 and I-95. $920/mo incl heat. 301-854-9839 or rukawa110@gmail.com.

Temporary housing, lg BR, full kitchen, front porch, prkng, month-to-month lease, credit check req’d. $850/mo incl heat, elec and sec dep ($100). adecker001@yahoo.com.

Cross Keys Village, 1BR condo, hdwd flrs, CAC/heat, 24-hr security, swimming pool, free prkng. $900/mo + utils (water incl’d).

646-284-2279 or tamrirev@yahoo.com.

Beautiful, spacious 2BR apt at the Ambassador, excel neighborhood, closet space, solarium, walk to Homewood campus, avail June. $1,400/ mo incl heat, water. 443-854-0498.

East Baltimore, 3BR, 1BA TH, 2 mi to JHH, no pets, refs req’d. $950/mo + utils + sec dep.

Anita, 410-675-5951 or amt2813@gmail.com.

Eastwood (6904 Eastbrook Ave), beautiful, renov’d 2BR, 1.5BA house nr Bayview, avail July 1. $1,250/mo. 443-570-5492 or dave918@ gmail.com.

Fullerton, newly renov’d 2-3BR apt, CAC, private entry, nr bus line. $900/mo + sec dep ($900). 410-592-5780, 410-967-2839 or cwags57@msn.com.

Gunpowder Falls bike trail (Baltimore County), registered historic carriage house w/3BRs, 1.5BAs, faculty/grad students only. $1,200/mo.

410-472-4241.

Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410-3782393.

Mt Vernon, historic 1BR terrace apt, blks to Peabody/JHU shuttle, newly renov’d, courtyd entry, avail 6/1. $1,250/mo. 443-310-8165.

BUTCHERS HILL - 2 blocks from JHMI, 3-story, 2BD, 1BA, new W/D, IKEA cabinets, Brinks alarm, det. 500 sq ft office or studio w/BA, e-z park.

$1150 MO. CALL 321-544-0012

jamesleary@att.net

Johns Hopkins / Hampden WYMAN COURT APTS. (BEECH AVE.) Effic from $570, 1 BD Apt. from $675, 2 BD from $775 HICKORY HEIGHTS APTS. (HICKORY AVE.) 2 BD units from $750 Shown by Appointment 410-764-7776

www.brooksmanagementcompany.com

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HOUSES FOR SALE Bolton Hill TH in immaculate condition, 2 big BRs converted from 3BRs, 2.5BAs, new roof/ windows, French doors, cathedral ceilings, skylight, granite, hdwd flrs, all appliances recent. $299,000. 410-383-7055.

Cedarcroft, charming 1830s Victorian farmhouse, 2BRs, 1.5BAs, living rm, dining rm, den, office, kitchen, W/D, marble fps, hdwd flrs, lg yd, patio, shed, off-street prkng. $259,000. szandhb1@hotmail.com.

Charles Village (Carrollton Condos), lg 2BR, 2BA condo, CAC/heat, 24-hr front desk, prkng spot. $150,000. emmakcontact@yahoo.com.

Cross Keys Village, renov’d 2BR, 1.5BA condo, sleek kitchen w/ceramic flr, granite counters, stainless steel appliances, nr I-83, mins to JHH/ JHU, steps to shops/restaurants. $218,000. 443742-3520.

Guilford, 4BR, 2.5BA house, remodeled kitchen, newly refinished hdwd flrs, 2-car garage, 5-min walk to JHU campus/JHH shuttle. $399,000.

443-798-8705 or lymcgirt@gmail.com.

Harborview, charming, updated single-family house, 2BRs, 1BA, off-street prkng, view of city skyline; must see. $164,900. 443-604-2797 or lexisweetheart@yahoo.com.

2 1/2 story English Cottage w/ Solarium entry on Blackburn Ln., in Cedarcroft, 10 min. to JHU. 4 BR, 3rd flr suite, 3 2/2 BA, CAC, fin. LL, updated Kitch. & Butlers Pantry, FR onto rear 2-Tier Deck, 2 FP, beautifully landscaped w/ lots of spring color, 2 car-det.garage, fenced b-yard. $489K, 410-982-7930 ML # BA7299642

Mt Washington, 2BR penthouse condo, 2 full BAs, loft for 3rd BR or family rm/office, cathedral ceilings, assigned prkng, nr 695/I-83. $215,000. 410-371-1560.

Towson, 3BR house w/2 new BAs, new kitchen and appliances, hdwd flrs, new siding, new windows, fenced yd, flower garden, great schools, 20 mins to JHU. $325,000. 410-404-7355.

Wyman Park, sunny 2BR apt, hdwd flrs, AC, laundry in bldg, nr Homewood/JHMI shuttle. $134,900. 443-615-5190.

ROOMMATES WANTED 1BR and own BA in 3BR RH in Charles Village/Guilford area, share w/2 JHU grad students, living rm, full kitchen, dw, W/D, AC, porch, nr JHMI shuttle stop. $620/mo + utils.

410-375-7633.

pool, filter pump, ladder, cleaning supplies, more; cheap. wreisig@verizon.net.

Printer, tripods, 3-step ladder, chair, microwave, table w/shelves, computer, digital piano, reciprocating saw. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@ verizon.net.

Ikea dining rm table w/4 chairs and computer desk, like new; open to any reasonable offer.

772-979-4647 or j.skvarch@gmail.com.

Fundamentals of US Regulatory Affairs, 6th edition, for AAP course Introduction to Regulatory Affairs (410.649.81), mint cond. $120.

410-710-8485 or lindaxu66@yahoo.com.

Phi Beta Sigma greeting cards and bookmark, 9 notes and cards. $8. Lori, 410-917-7774.

Custom-made sofa/couch and loveseat, beige primary color, burgundy, red, beige, navy throw pillows; cash and carry. $450/best offer.

410-935-4762 or kimhoppe@msn.com.

Furn’d rm just across from JHMI. $350/mo + share of utils. happyhut4u@yahoo.com.

Rms avail in Patterson Park house, renters can share entire house. $450/mo. 410-327-2670.

F wanted to share 2BR, 1BA RH in Hampden (Chestnut Ave), beautiful, spacious house w/priv backyd, 1 house-trained rabbit and 2 finches, start June 1. 919-264-7421 or amanda .kirkhart@gmail.com (for pics/details).

M wanted to share 2BR Charles Village apt for summer, Internet, cable, gym, 1 blk to Homewood campus and free JHMI shuttle to JHH. $570/mo. 917-693-7668 or danarampulla@ gmail.com.

1 or 2 nonsmokers wanted to share 3BR TH 1 blk from Homewood campus (Cresmont Ave), share w/M grad student, all common areas furn’d. $500/mo (smaller rm), $700/mo (larger rm) or $1,200/mo (both rms) + utils.

410-493-2993 or brian@bcoi.net.

Summer sublet (E University Pkwy): lg rm and BA on private 3rd flr, shared kitchen, laundry facilities, avail May 15-August 15. $499/mo + utils. anne.flannery@gmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE ’83 Mercedes 300SD turbodiesel, automatic, converted to run on regular diesel/B100 biodiesel, fully restored exterior, new 17" rims, highperformance tires, 30MPG, 270K mi. $3,300/ best offer. 443-379-2611 or dtsautomotive@ yahoo.com. ’00 Mazda 626 LX, automatic, V4, power doors/windows, CD, great on gas, cheap maintenance, 115K mi. 732-986-8459 or bhavyasri8@yahoo.com. ’96 Audi A6 Quattro wagon, automatic, V6, heated power leather seats, power doors/locks, CD, moonroof, towing pkg, 226K mi. $4,179.

406-838-6780.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED Seeking mature nanny/sitter for girls 2 and 4 yrs old, PT, after school wkdays and some wknds, Silver Spring area; college student OK, references req’d. 202-498-3209 (after 6pm).

Bay Meadow Farm accepting new students for horseback riding lessons, located in Bel Air, conv to Baltimore, Towson, White Marsh, private/semi-private. $35/wk. 410-458-1517 or www.baymeadowfarm.net.

Need to rent party equipment for parties/major events? Reasonable prices. Lis, 443-857-0044.

Certified nursing asst w/15 yrs’ experience, CPR, will provide great care for your loved ones; has asst if needed. Rena, 443-467-2833.

Experienced nanny avail from June 1 for FT job caring for infants/young children/twins and engaging them in play (indoors/outside), trained in CPR, will do household laundry, care for pets, light housework, hrs flexible, references from JHU faculty. Mary, 410-736-0253.

Prof’l Japanese language tutor available, learn about Japanese culture while learning how to speak, read, write the language. itutorjapanese@ gmail.com.

Great Mother’s Day gift! Bodywork massage services; gift certificates available. www .bodyworkmobilemassage.com or 443-9837987.

Great photos! Headshots for interviews/auditions/family pics, production shots, events.

Edward S Davis photography and videography.

443-695-9988 or eddaviswrite@comcast.net.

Spring is here! Interior/exterior painting, home/deck power washing, leaf removal, bush trimming, general maintenance; licensed, insured, free estimates, affordable. 410-3351284 or randy6506vfw@yahoo.com.

’01 Mazda Protege LX 2.0, 4-cyl, automatic, AM/FM and CD, 91K mi. $3,500/best offer.

410-929-6630.

Licensed landscaper avail for routine lawn maintenance, mulching, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@ comcast.net.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Affordable landscaper/horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens; also designing, planting, masonry; free consultations. David, 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com.

Baltimore Symphony tickets, 1 seat only for April 30, 8pm; May 9, 3pm; and June 6, 3pm, orchestra center. $20/ea. 410-444-1273.

Felt “twin” cruiser bicycle, green, 1-spd, beautiful bike, nearly new, perfect for campus. $300. 919-259-2495.

Olympic weight bench plus bar, additional weights, leg attachment, excel cond. $175/ best offer. 410-377-7354.

Pool supplies for above-ground inflatable ring

LCSW-C providing psychotherapy, JHUaffiliated, experience w/treating depression, anxiety, sexual orientation and gender identity concerns, couples. 410-235-9200 (voicemail #6) or shane.grant.lcswc@gmail.com.

Loving and trustworthy dog walker avail day and evening, overnight sitting w/complimentary house-sitting services, impeccable references. alwayshomepc@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 Tues., April 27, and Wed., April 28, 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. JHU/American Red Cross

blood drive. For more information, go to www.membersforlife .org/rccm/mobilesch/login.php? sponsorcode=1008, or call 443997-6060. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

COLLO Q U I A

“Alien Ocean: Life at Sea,” an Anthropology colloquium with Stefan Helmreich, MIT. 400 Macaulay. HW

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“Understanding and Modeling Noncovalent Interactions,” a Chemistry colloquium with C. David Sherrill, Georgia Institute of Technology. 233 Remsen. HW “Making Sense of Others’ Actions: Psychological Reasoning in Infancy,” a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Renée Baillargeon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 234 Ames. HW

Wed., April 28, 4 p.m.

Thurs., April 29, 3 p.m. “Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income and Wealth,” a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland, College Park. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW Thurs., April 29, 4:30 p.m.

“Mexico’s Border Regions and National History in the 19th Century,” a Program in Latin American Studies colloquium with Martin Gonzalez de la Vara, Colegio de Michoacan, Mexico.

400 Macaulay. HW “Science, Nonfiction and Religion,” an Evolution, Cognition and Culture Project colloquium with Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker. 701D Dell House. HW

Mon., May 3, 3 p.m.

Shannon Young’s ‘How Does Your Garden Grow?’

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en thought-provoking installations of temporary outdoor site-specific artwork have been created for the 26-acre grounds of Evergreen Museum & Library as part of the exhibition Sculpture at Evergreen 6: Simultaneous Presence, opening with a public reception from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sun-

day, May 2.

Developed by individuals and teams of artists and architects from across the country, the interventions respond to Evergreen’s 150-year history, diverse collections, and natural and architectural environments, and connect them to current civic, national and global concerns.

“Simultaneous Presence is an embedded conversation on the intertwining of moments, meanings and place,” says Ronit Eisenbach, one of the show’s two guest curators. Eisenbach is an associate professor of architecture and chair of the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Jennie Fleming, the other curator, is a Maryland-based artist, curator, educator and cultural historian who is currently working on her doctorate in the Media, Art and Text program at Virginia Commonwealth University. “The works invite reflection on convergent and contrasting interpretations of abundance and absence, sustenance and sustainability, fantasy and pleasure, wealth and its source, and the contrasting realities of Baltimore,” she says.

Sculpture at Evergreen 6 continues through Sept. 26. Hours of the exhibition, which is free and open to the public, are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday (gates locked promptly). Walking maps and a free illustrated visitor’s guide are available in the Evergreen Museum & Library shop.

“The End of the Old World Order and Leadership to Build the New One,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with José Maria Aznar, former president of Spain. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS

Wed., April 28, noon.

DA N CE

JHU Ballet and Eclectics perform their spring dance concert. Shriver Hall. HW

Fri., April 30, 8 p.m.

Egyptian Sun Belly Dance spring concert.

Shriver Hall. HW

Sat., May 1, 8 p.m.

S.L.A.M. presents its spring dance concert.

Shriver Hall. HW

Sun., May 2, 8 p.m.

“Leading Through a Financial Crisis” by T. Rowe Price chairman Brian Rogers. (See story, p. 7.)

Sponsored by the Carey Business School. Legg Mason Tower, Harbor East.

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B LOOD DR I V E

G RA N D ROU N D S

LECTURE S Mon.,

April

26,

5:15

p.m.

“Magic and Tragedy: Balzac Seen

by E.R. Curtius,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago. Co-sponsored by the Centre Louis Marin.

101A Dell House. HW Tu e s . , A p r i l 2 7 , 4 : 3 0 p . m .

Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown,” a SAIS Finance Career Club discussion with Simon Johnson, MIT. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS

The Passano Lecture—“From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway” by David Julius, University of California, San Francisco. Sponsored by Molecular Biology and Genetics. WBSB Auditorium. EB

I N F OR M AT I O N SESSIONS

Tues., April 27, 5 p.m.

Mon., April 26, 4:30 p.m. “Firm Exports and Multinational Activity Under Credit Constraints,” a SAIS International Economics Program discussion with Kalina Manova, Stanford University. 714 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS

Thurs., April 29. Online information session on the Live Near Your Work program. For details, call 443-997-7000, go to www .hopkinsworklife.org/lnyw or go to www.hopkinsworklife.org and click on the link “News and Events.”

D I S CU S S I O N / TAL K S Mon., April 26, noon. “The Wall

Wed., April 28, 5:30 p.m. The 2010 ANSHE Lecture—“ReExcavating Nippur: The Temple of Inanna, Queen of Heaven”

by Richard Zettler, University of Pennsylvania. Sponsored by Near Eastern Studies and GRO. 205 Krieger. HW Thurs.,

April

29,

4:15

p.m.

Philological Society Lecture— “Hoofprints: Tracking Animal Agency in Late 19th-Century Writing” by Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana University. Sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures. 201C Dell House. HW Thurs., April 29, 5:30 p.m. The Allan L. Berman Lecture—“All Commercial Real Estate Is Not Alike: The First Washington Realty Story” by William Wolfe, president and CEO of First Washington Realty. (See story, p. 6.) Sponsored

by Carey Business School. Downtown Center.

Mon., May 3, 4 p.m. The Francis D. Carlson Lecture in Biophysics—“Dear Bones and Ferrous Wheels: When Is Nature’s Technology Worth Copying?”

by Steven Vogel, Duke University. Sponsored by Biophysics. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

MUSIC

The Peabody Concert Orchestra, Peabody Singers and the Peabody-Hopkins Chorus perform music by Bizet, de Falla and Haydn. Sponsored by the Douglas S. and Hilda P. Goodwin Fund at the Peabody Conservatory. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody Fri., April 30, 8 p.m.

The Peabody Camerata performs. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sat., May 1, 7:30 p.m.

Sun., May 2, 3 p.m. The Peabody Children’s Chorus performs.

Friedberg Hall. Peabody

S E M I N AR S

“The Role of the Laboratory in the Diagnosis and Management of Bacteremia: Best Practices and Future Directions,” Pathology grand rounds with Stefan Riedel, Bayview. Hurd Hall. EB

Mon., April 26, 8:30 a.m.

.

The Jerome Frank Lecture—“Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death” by Irvin Yalom, Stanford University (emeritus).

Sponsored by Psychiatry. Hurd Hall. EB

Wed., April 28, 7:30 a.m. The Leaders and Legends Lecture—

Mon.,

April

26,

10:30

a.m.

Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2033 SPH. EB Mon., April 26, 12:15 p.m.

“TRP Channels: From Sensory Signaling to Neurodegenerative Disease,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Craig Montell, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., April 26, 12:15 p.m.

“From Eugenics to the ‘New’ Genetics: The Play’s the Thing,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Karen Rothenberg, University of Maryland School of Law. W3008 SPH. EB Mon.,

April

26,

1:30

p.m.

“Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Approaches for Probing Ovarian Cancer,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Paul Campagnola, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Connecticut Health Center.

110 Clark. HW (Videoteleconferenced to 709 Traylor. EB ) “The Genetic-Epigenetic Two-Hit Tag Team Knockout Punch in Prostate Cancer,” a Computational Genomics seminar with Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, SoM. 517 PCTB. EB

Mon., April 26, 2:30 p.m.

The David Bodian Seminar— “Restoring the Sixth Sense in 3D: Progress Toward a Bionic Vestibular Labyrinth” with Charley Della Santina, SoM. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 26, 4 p.m.

Mon., April 26, 4 p.m. “Base Opening and Structural Energetics in Nucleic Acids,” a Biophysics seminar with Irina Russu, Wesleyan University. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

“Causal Inference in Graphical Models: Identification and Dormant Independence,” a Biostatistics seminar with Ilya Shpitser, Harvard School of Public Health. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., April 26, 4 p.m.

Tues.,

April

27,

9:30

a.m.

“Decoding Signaling Networks Using Microfluidics: NF-kappaß Dynamics Reveal Digital Responses to Inflammatory Signals,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry special seminar with Savas Tay, Stanford University. 517 PCTB. EB

“Evaluation of UN Population Forecasts and Effect of Urbanization on Forecast Accuracy,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Fengmin Zhao. E4611 SPH. EB

Tues., April 27, noon. “Building a Legacy: The $2.5B Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project,” a Civil Engineering seminar with Michael Baker, URS Corporation. B17 CSEB. HW

Mon., April 26, noon. “GapJunction Coupling and Insulin Secretion: Live-Cell Imaging in the Islet of Langerhans,” a Physiology faculty candidate seminar with Richard Benninger, Vanderbilt University. 203 Physiology. EB

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Mon., April 26, noon. “Common Denominators of Down Syndrome as Therapeutic Targets,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Roger Reeves, SoM. W1020 SPH. EB Mon.,

April

26,

12:10

p.m.

“Injury-Related Movement Disabilities,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Mitch Loeb, National Center for Health Statistics. Sponsored by

Calendar

Key

APL BRB CRB CSEB

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

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building Computational Science and

Engineering Building EB East Baltimore HW Homewood KSAS 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