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John Ashcroft opens foreign affairs series

First in space

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he annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium at The Johns Hopkins University returns on Tuesday, Feb. 28, when former Attorney General John Ashcroft will be the first of six prominent speakers to visit the Homewood campus during the spring Symposium semester. will bring six Ashcroft’s talk, at 8 p.m. in Shriver Hall Auditorium, prominent begins the series of topical lectures speakers to and a panel discussion under the 2012 Homewood theme, The Paradox of Progress: Chasing Advancement Amidst Global Crisis. Ashcroft served as attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, overseeing a historic era of safety and security in the wake of 9/11. The next event, at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6, also in Shriver Hall Auditorium, will be a panel discussion about the Occupy Wall Street movement. It will feature representatives from Occupy sites across North America and has been planned in tandem with Occupy Baltimore and its affiliate organization, B-HEARD. Other speakers making on-campus appearances this spring are columnist and author David Frum (Thursday, March 15, at 8 p.m. in Shriver Hall Auditorium); Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (Wednesday, March 28, at 8 p.m. in Mason Hall); former CIA operations officer and author Valerie Plame (Tuesday, April 3, at 8 p.m. in Shriver Hall Auditorium), whose visit is sponsored by the President’s Office; Wall Street Journal senior economics writer and editorial board member Stephen Moore (Thursday, April 12, at 8 p.m. in the Glass Pavilion); and the series’ keynote speaker, Robert Gibbs, former White House press secretary and longtime adviser to President Barack Obama (Tuesday, April 17, at 8 p.m. in Shriver Hall Auditorium).

Jessica Noviello is Student No. 1 in a space science and engineering minor co-directed by Joseph Katz, left, and Charles L. Bennett. In the case is a model of NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe spacecraft, a mission for which Bennett serves as principal investigator.

New interdisciplinary minor is open to all Homewood undergrads By Lisa De Nike

Homewood

ike most people her age, Jessica Noviello uses Facebook to announce exciting developments in her life. So when the 19-yearold sophomore from Smithtown, N.Y., learned that she had become the first student approved for a new minor course of study at The Johns Hopkins University, she proclaimed it via social media.

“I’m now a space minor!” read her excited status update a few weeks ago. “I’ve gotten lots of questions from my fellow students since I announced it on Facebook,” said Noviello, who is double majoring in physics and in Earth and planetary sciences. Continued on page 3

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Cell energy sensor mechanism is discovered By Vanessa McMains

Johns Hopkins Medicine

esearchers at Johns Hopkins and National Taiwan universities have discovered more details about how an energy-sensing “thermostat” protein determines whether cells will store or use their energy reserves. In a report in the Feb. 9 edition of Nature, the scientists showed that a chemical modi-

In Brief

Emergency alert system expands; summer PURA applications; Commemoration Day

fication on the thermostat protein changes how it’s controlled. Without the modification, cells use stored energy; with it, they default to stockpiling resources. When cells don’t properly allocate their energy supply, they can die off or become cancerous. The Johns Hopkins team focused especially on enzymes that add or remove so-called acetyl groups from protein molecules. “Understanding how cells are affected by adding acetyl groups to proteins, particularly those involved in energy use, is important

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because there is increasing use of drugs that block acetyl-removing enzymes for treatment of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases,” said Jef Boeke, a professor of molecular biology, genetics and oncology, and director of the High Throughput Biology Center, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Blocking acetyl-removing enzymes turns on anti-cancer genes that help fight cancer; however, it is not known what other Continued on page 4

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University’s emergency text message alert system expands

he university’s emergency text message alert system has expanded to cover 12 campuses and other facilities throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Johns Hopkins Emergency Alerts system is now active from Johns Hopkins Bayview in Baltimore south and west to the Montgomery County Campus and the university’s Washington, D.C., buildings near Dupont Circle. Individual JHEA subscriptions are also available for the four north Baltimore campuses—Homewood, Eastern, Mount Washington and Keswick—that previously were considered one entity for JHEA purposes. University security or emergency managers can use JHEA to send a text message warning directly to your mobile device if a shooting, fire, tornado or other emergency on or near campus threatens your safety. Students, faculty members and staff should sign up now if they are not already subscribed, or add new locations to their subscription if they work or study at multiple Johns Hopkins campuses, said Daniel G. Ennis, senior vice president for finance and administration, and Jonathan Links, chair of the university’s Committee on Crisis Management. Even if you are already enrolled and plan no changes, you should check to make sure your current subscription is correct, Ennis and Links said. “When an actual emergency occurs, it’s too late,” they wrote in an email message to the university community. “Please act immediately, and help us to help you.” To subscribe, go to tinyurl.com/jheasubscribe. You will need to sign in with your JHED ID and password.

Deadline for summer PURA applications is March 7

pplications are now being accepted for the 2012 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards, which provide up to $2,500 or academic credit to students to work on original research projects with Johns Hopkins faculty. The deadline for work to be conducted over the summer is Friday, March 7. Proposals for fall-semester projects is Friday, March 28. To learn more about PURAs, go to www .jhu.edu/pura. For answers to questions, email pura@jhu.edu or call 410-516-8770.

Commemoration Day marked with cake and photo exhibition

n the 136th anniversary of the opening of Johns Hopkins—Feb. 22, 1876—the university marked the inauguration day of its first president,

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Daniel Coit Gilman, with a celebration on the Homewood campus. Cake was served from noon to 2 p.m. in the Glass Pavilion, where an exhibit of historical photos was on display and student a cappella groups entertained. The first 500 students who appeared in Johns Hopkins apparel were given Commemoration Day scarves.

JHH recertified as top-level perinatal referral center

he Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, an independent state agency responsible for overseeing and coordinating all emergency medical services throughout the state, has re-designated The Johns Hopkins Hospital as a Level IIIC Perinatal Referral Center for Maryland. This is the 11th time JHH has earned the certification. MIEMSS noted that JHH met or exceeded the requirements for providing excellent patient-centered care. Recertification will be effective until 2017. In fiscal year 2010, JHH received 180 neonatal transports, 528 in-hospital NICU admissions and 196 maternal transports. Some 2,000 babies were born in the hospital during that time period.

Family of Nathan Krasnopoler holds candlelight memorial

n the anniversary of the day when sophomore bicyclist Nathan Krasnopoler collided with a turning vehicle in an accident that eventually led to his death, his family and friends held a vigil to honor his memory. The Feb. 26 event began with a bike ride that finished at the accident site on University Parkway, alongside the Homewood campus, for a candle lighting and minute of silence, followed by a walk to the Charles Commons residence hall for a brief ceremony.

Jhpiego receives grant to support Rwandan HIV/AIDS efforts

hpiego has been awarded $8,430,511 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the first year of a five-year project that will directly support the Rwandan Minister of Health’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with two main goals: public health program capacity building and grants management capacity building. Program capacity building components include strengthening national health strategies, public health policies, guidelines and standard operating procedures, pre-service education and in-service training. To achieve the second goal, Jhpiego is expected to build the capacity of the Minister of Health Task Force on Decentralization to manage U.S. government grants.

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

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‘Afro-American’ newspaper digital archive project completed B y B r i a n S h i e ld s

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n online database describing the archival materials held by the Afro-American newspaper has been launched. The three-year Johns Hopkins project—administered jointly by the Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies—was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The archive’s home is morgue.afro.com/ AfroArchon. “The Afro holds an amazing collection of historical documents and images related to 20th-century African-American history,” said Moira Hinderer, who served as the project manager and is a lecturer in the Cen-

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nation and the wider world,” said Franklin W. Knight, the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History and director of the Center for Africana Studies. Mellon Foundation funding supported the work of organizing and describing the archives of the Afro. Over the course of this project, researchers and interns—including students from Johns Hopkins, Morgan State University and the University of Maryland—uncovered more than 2,000 boxes of materials filled with photographs, newspaper clippings and correspondence. The newspaper’s morgue contains more than 150,000 subject files with clippings, images and correspondence dating back to the 1920s. Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums, said, “This project provides a wonderful model for collaboration among organizations that each,

in its own way, is committed to preserving and making accessible a record of the past. It has been a special honor for us at Johns Hopkins to help make better known the remarkable history and achievements of our neighbor, the Afro newspaper. We are all very much looking forward to the next phase of this endeavor.” With the completion of the electronic archive, the Afro and Johns Hopkins are now beginning an initiative to create online exhibits of its most interesting materials. As with the earlier effort, this project will involve collaboration between staff from the Afro’s archives and Sheridan Libraries and student interns from Johns Hopkins and other area colleges. A celebration to mark the launch of the online database was held Feb. 22 in the Gilman Hall atrium on the university’s Homewood campus.

versity’s Applied Physics Laboratory or the nearby Space Telescope Science Institute), which helps them get real-world experience and develop valuable contacts in the field, according to Katz. “Students here at Johns Hopkins have always been interested in space and aerospace, and have been doing these kinds of things for quite some time, and this minor course of study is a way to formalize and recognize that and help more students take advantage of it,” Katz said. Open to all students in the Whiting School of Engineering and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the minor requires each student to submit to an adviser a proposal and a course plan that includes five classes of their choice in engineering, physics and astronomy along with an internship, all under the umbrella of an intellectual “theme” that makes sense for their interests and objective. Courses that are requirements for the student’s major may not count toward this new minor. According to Bennett, this “intellectual theme” can comprise any number of interests, from the design of space missions for remote observations of the Earth and planets to the search for life on other planets. (In fact, the minor’s student handbook, available online at physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/ acad/ugrad/minor_ss_eng, includes a long list of suggested programs.) “The idea is for the students to come to us with their custom-designed program. Then

we can sit down and together ensure that their program will get them where they want to go,” Bennett said. The minor’s keystone course, which every student must take, is Introduction to Space Science and Technology. Taught last fall by H. Warren Moos and Stephen Murray, both research professors in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, this is the course that convinced Noviello that the new space science and engineering minor was designed for her—or, rather, that she wanted to design the minor to suit her own needs. “Being part of that class made me decide I wanted to learn more. I just became so curious and had too many questions I needed to answer, and the minor will help me do that. I often joke that I’m like a 5-year-old at heart: Dinosaurs and space are my two passions, and now I am living the dream,” said Noviello, who, in her Earth and planetary

sciences major, continues to study dinosaurs. Moos, who led the faculty committee that designed the minor, said, “The goal we sought was to encourage students to utilize the rich educational resources of the university in an interdisciplinary program that would help prepare them for careers in space science and technology. It is exciting to see the first students take advantage of this new minor.” Katz said he is not surprised that there is “considerable interest” in the minor. “This is just the beginning, and yes, it will take time for students to hear about the new course of study,” he said, “but space exploration is a very exciting career, and the students know it. This is a great opportunity for our students. Johns Hopkins has always had a very strong presence in medicine, but there also has always been enormous activity in space, and we are now formalizing it and making our presence in it known. That’s a good thing.” G

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Some of her classmates were curious about the new minor’s requirements. But many more wanted to know what a “space minor” even was, and Noviello has since found herself directing interested students to the interdisciplinary program’s two co-directors—Charles L. Bennett, Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Johns Hopkins Gilman Scholar, and Joseph Katz, William F. Ward Sr. Distinguished Professor in the Whiting School of Engineering—for more information. “In a nutshell, the new space science and engineering minor is designed to prepare our students to enter careers in space science and space engineering, either directly in a professional capacity in labs and industry, or as students in graduate programs,” Bennett said. “It’s a flexible and customized course of study that allows students to shape the program to fit their own needs and interests, and gives them experience working in the kind of multidisciplinary teams that are typical in the space science and engineering fields.” Recently approved by the Homewood Academic Council, the new minor also requires students to work in a space-related internship of some kind (say, at the uni-

ter for Africana Studies. “The partnership between the Afro and Johns Hopkins makes these materials more accessible to scholars, students and the public. With photographs of everything from Tuskegee Airmen to civil rights protests to local weddings and graduations, the database has something for everyone interested in history.” Founded in 1892, the Baltimore-based Afro has been a source for local, national and international news for 120 years. During that time, the newspaper preserved a large number of historical materials, including more than 1 million photographs of African-American life in Baltimore and beyond. “This newly digitized access provides a wonderful window to an amazing resource base that will significantly enrich our knowledge and understanding not only of our local Baltimore history but also the history of our

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Cell energy Continued from page 1 genes and cellular processes may also be affected by these treatments.” To determine which enzymes remove acetyl chemical groups from which proteins, the researchers engineered human cells with reduced levels of each of 12 enzymes known to remove acetyl chemical groups. In each of these cell lines, they then turned down each of about 20,000 genes and used a DNA “chip” to identify which genes were affected by reduced levels of the acetyl-removing enzymes. The DNA chip highlighted a specific interaction between the thermostat protein—AMP-activated protein kinase, or AMPK—and one of the acetyl-removing enzymes, HDAC1. With less HDAC, AMPK was turned “off,” presumably because it retains its acetyl group, the researchers concluded. AMPK acts like an energy thermostat because when energy levels are low in the cell, AMPK kick-starts processes that use the cell’s energy reserves and cuts off reactions that store energy; on the other hand, when the cell has plenty of energy, AMPK turns off, causing energy in the form of sugar and fats to be stored for later use. Because the HDAC1 protein turned on AMPK, the researchers presumed that there would be a corresponding acetyl-adding enzyme to specifically turn off AMPK. To find this enzyme, they extracted AMPK protein from eight different cell lines, each with reduced levels of a type of acetyl-adding enzyme. They found that AMPK in cells with reduced levels of this acetyl-adding enzyme, called p300, was less acetylated than in cells containing normal amounts of p300. To confirm the idea that adding or removing acetyl groups directly affects how AMPK controls the way the cell uses energy, the researchers measured the cell’s energy stores with the help of a dye that accumulates

in the fat globules of a cell. The dye let them estimate the size of fat globules that store energy. The cells unable to add acetyl to AMPK contained less of the dye and, therefore, smaller fat globules, compared to normal human cells. Conversely, the cells unable to remove acetyl groups from AMPK contained more of the dye, indicating bigger fat globules. The research team concluded that when AMPK contains acetyl groups, the cell uses less of its energy reserves than when AMPK does not contain acetyl groups. Boeke says that the work on human cells followed similar studies on yeast energy proteins done earlier in his laboratory. Additional Johns Hopkins authors of the study are Samara Kiihl and Rafael Irizarry, both of the Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Yasir Suhail, Zheng Kuang and Joel Bader, all of the School of Medicine. The study was supported by funds from National Science Council grants, National Taiwan University Frontier and Innovative Research, National Taiwan University Excellent Translational Medicine Research Project, a National Health Research Institutes Career Development grant, the Liver Disease Prevention and Treatment Research Foundation and a National Institutes of Health Common Fund grant. G

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Simple ‘frailty’ test predicts kidney transplant outcomes By Stephanie Desmon

Johns Hopkins Medicine

simple 10-minute bedside assessment conducted prior to surgery appears to be the best method yet for predicting which kidney transplant patients will do well with their new organs, just-published Johns Hopkins research suggests. A report on the research, which appears in the February issue of the Archives of Surgery, suggests that a recently developed test of frailty, typically used to assess the physiological reserve of elderly patients, is also a useful measure for transplant candidates of all ages. “Few current measures are accurate in predicting kidney transplant success, but we think we have identified one that works incredibly well,” said study leader Dorry L. Segev, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “A few years ago, we showed that a frailty score is a simple yet powerful bedside tool to predict surgical outcomes in elderly patients, and now it seems it can do the same for younger patients with chronic diseases like kidney failure.” Frailty, Segev says, is medically best defined as a low level of physiological reserve and reduced ability to withstand stress to the body. It is measured using a five-point scale developed at Johns Hop-

kins. Patients are classified as frail if they meet three or more of the following criteria: shrinking (unintentional weight loss of 10 or more pounds in the previous year), weakness (decreased grip strength as measured by a hand-held dynamometer), exhaustion (measured by responses to questions about effort and motivation), reduced physical activity (determined by asking about leisure time and activities) and slowed walking speed (the time it takes to walk 15 feet). For the current study, Segev and his team measured frailty in 183 patients prior to kidney transplant between December 2008 and April 2010. Twenty-five percent of the patients met the criteria for frailty, a figure three times higher than in elderly adults who live at home. Kidney transplant patients classified as frail were nearly twice as likely to have early problems with their new organs, a sign that their new kidneys would be more likely to fail in the future. This increased risk of a poor outcome, Segev says, occurred regardless of the age of the transplant recipient. Segev and his team used the short-term outcome of delayed graft function—meaning a nonfunctioning organ within the first week after transplant—as a marker for risk of longer-term concerns. Although the transplanted kidney may recover and work eventually, he says, it is unlikely to work for as long as a kidney that begins working more

quickly in its new body. Researchers found delayed graft function, or DGF, in 30 percent of the patients deemed frail and in just 15 percent of those who were not. “This information tells us how long the kidney will likely last and how to best treat the patient,” he said. “Our ability to predict delayed function of a new kidney should help overcome one of the biggest barriers to improving outcomes in transplant right now.” Segev, who is director of clinical research for transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins, says that accurate predictions can help guide clinical decisions, such as ensuring that frail patients receive organs at least risk of DGF. For example, the risk of DGF increases when a kidney spends a longer time outside the body on its way from donor to recipient. Segev says that a kidney coming from across the country might not be the best kidney for a frail patient, since it would be less likely to function quickly and thereby more likely to have problems down the road. The link between frailty and chronic kidney disease may be found in certain markers typically associated with inflammation, Segev says. As some people age, such genes and proteins may be expressed at higher levels. Frailty, typically found in at least some measure in the elderly, appears to occur in younger kidney patients undergoing dialysis as well. Those who are classified as more frail, young or old, seem to also have a risk of developing inflam-

mation in the new transplanted kidney, which can lead to poor outcomes. “We have found similarities between what makes people age and what makes dialysis patients sick,” Segev said. “But what makes people frail in the first place and what part of frailty affects the kidneys are the questions we have yet to answer.” This research was supported by a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study are Jacqueline M. Garonzik Wang, Priyanka Govindan, Jack W. Grinnan, Minghao Liu, Hassan M. Ali, Anindita Chakraborty, Vaibhav Jain, Reside L. Ros, Nathan T. James, Lauren M. Kucirka, Erin C. Hall, Jonathan C. Berger, Robert A. Montgomery, Niraj M. Desai, Nabil N. Dagher and Jeremy D. Walston.

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Study: Acid reflux drug does not improve asthma in children

sthma and gastroesophageal reflux, or GER, are both common illnesses in children. GER in children often occurs without the typical symptoms of heartburn, and physicians frequently prescribe the acid reflux drug lansoprazole to supplement the standard inhaled steroid treatment for children with uncontrolled asthma regardless of GER symptoms. However, a randomized clinical trial conducted by the American Lung Association’s Asthma Clinical Group found that the addition of lansoprazole does not improve asthma symptoms or the control of asthma in children and may increase the risk for upper respiratory infections and other adverse events. Results of the study appear in the Jan. 25 issue of JAMA. Lansoprazole belongs to a class of drugs called proton pump inhibitors, which reduce acid in the stomach. Use of these drugs, including for the treatment of asthma symptoms, has risen dramatically in children over the last decade. “The data were very clear. Lansoprazole did not improve asthma symptoms in children as compared to a placebo, and there is no evidence to support prescribing these drugs to treat asthma in children,” said Janet Holbrook, corresponding author of the study and an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “In our

study, children taking lansoprazole showed an increased risk for respiratory infection, sore throats and bronchitis.” The Bloomberg School’s Center for Clinical Trials served as data coordinating center for the research team. For the study, researchers from 18 trial sites studied 306 children ages 6 to 17. All study participants had inadequately controlled asthma despite taking inhaled corti-

costeroids but did not have the typical symptoms of GER. Approximately 40 percent of participants were identified as having GER based on diagnostic testing. The participants were randomly selected to receive over a 24-week period either a daily dose of lansoprazole or a placebo pill in addition to their inhaled steroid therapy. The researchers found no significant differences in severity of asthma symptoms

or overall lung function between the group taking lansoprazole and the group receiving the placebo, including in the children positively identified as having GER. An earlier separate study of adults conducted by the same research team showed similar results. The study was funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. —Tim Parsons

Goodbye, checks: Student refunds to be issued electronically

f you’re a student due a refund from the university this spring, be advised: The check will not be in the mail. You’ll be getting it electronically. Each year, the university issues to students more than 11,000 refunds, averaging more than $3,000 each. In some cases, loan disbursements or outside scholarships may have resulted in an overpayment of a bill. In others, charges on the bill have been revised or corrected. Up to now, the refunds have been issued in check form, meaning that students or their parents have had to cash or deposit them in a bank or other financial institution, either by mail or in person. To improve the process, the university is working with a company called Higher One

to issue refunds electronically. Recipients can choose among options such as direct deposit in a bank account or application of the refund to a Higher One debit card. Daniel G. Ennis, the university’s senior vice president for finance and administration, and Sarah B. Steinberg, vice provost for student affairs, said that the new system will provide a number of advantages for students: They will have fast, secure access to their money; won’t have to make a special trip to the bank, or worry about lost, stolen or misplaced checks; will be able to receive email or text messages notifying them when their refund has been issued; and will be working with a vendor that is focused on choice, customer service, efficiency and security.

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Don’t worry, be happy, Johns Hopkins By Greg Rienzi

“I just think that for our campus, and our community, looking at things in a positive light could make all the difference in the world,” said Boswell, who describes herself as a fan of Ben-Shahar’s books. “We can look at things from two perspectives: glass half empty or glass half full. In positive psychology, it’s about training yourself to see things half full.” Every year, Psi Chi, in conjunction with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, presents the G. Stanley Hall Lecture series featuring one of today’s leaders in psychology. Hall was one of the first American psychologists and a pioneer in such fields as developmental and evolutionary psychology. He was the first president of the American Psychological Association, and founded the American Journal of Psychology. From 1882 to 1888, Hall taught at Johns Hopkins as a professor of psychology and pedagogics. He would later go on to become the first president of Clark University. Ben-Shahar, an author and lecturer, currently teaches at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He consults and lectures around the world to executives in multinational corporations, Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions and the general public. His lecture topics include leadership, education, ethics, happiness, self-esteem, resilience, goal setting and mindfulness. He is the author of the international bestsellers Happier (McGrawHill, 2007) and Being Happy (McGraw-Hill, 2010), which have been translated into 25 languages. He earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and psychology, and his doctorate in organizational behavior, from Harvard. His visit on March 6 will feature a 50-minute lecture, a workshop, reception and book signing.

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al Ben-Shahar’s Positive Psychology class at Harvard was nothing short of legend. The course, hailed as one of the most popular in the university’s history, drew nearly 900 students per semester. Students rated the class as “life changing”—not an official classification, of course, but one that 30 percent felt compelled to write in on the annual evaluations. In his lectures, the author and psychologist would offer scientifically based tools for better living—strategies to see the world in a positive light and achieve happiness. His audience doted on each life-affirming word. He was, in effect, the Bruce Springsteen of university lecturers. Well, Johns Hopkins, get ready to scream “Tal.” Ben-Shahar will share his tips on the pursuit of happiness with the JHU community next week as this year’s speaker for the G. Stanley Hall Distinguished Lecture in Clinical Research. The event, which is open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6, in Shriver Hall Auditorium on the Homewood campus. The lecture is cosponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the Office of Student Life, the JHU Counseling Center, Psi Chi and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. The happiness won’t begin and end on March 6, however. Ben-Shahar’s visit to Johns Hopkins kicks off a campuswide happiness effort that centers on the introduction of two new positivepsychology courses inspired by and modeled after Ben-Shahar’s class at Harvard and others at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. Leading up to Ben-Shahar’s appearance, more than 1,000 “smiley face” buttons will be passed out and worn on campus by students, staff and faculty. The two courses will be launched in fall 2012. Justin Halberda, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins, said that the push for Tal Ben-Shahar’s visit and the new

Happiness superstar Tal Ben-Shahar brings his expertise to the Homewood campus, where two positive-psychology courses will be launched in fall 2012.

courses came out of a grassroots effort led by students working with Clare King in the Counseling Center and the JHU chapter of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology. Halberda, faculty adviser to Psi Chi, said that the students and staff saw the benefits of positive psychology applied to a setting such as Johns Hopkins. The university previously had positive-psychology-focused courses, he said, but not to the scale and structure of Ben-Shahar’s. Positive psychology, Halberda said, focuses on a person’s strengths and what is working. The discipline offers advice, based on data from experiments, to help alleviate negativity and improve performance, whether it’s in work, sports, class or another realm. In Ben-Shahar’s course, students broke up into groups of 15 to discuss issues, and they wrote weekly papers in which they reflected on life and how they could change for the better. They were not told to reject sadness or avoid getting upset but rather to reconsider how they deal with disappointment and tragedy and to focus on the positives. Halberda said that students at Harvard clearly reacted positively to Ben-Shahar’s message. “The course gave them a different set of skills for approaching their time at the

university and excelling. The benefits were improved morale and academic success,” he said. “We want to bring this brand of positive psychology to JHU and apply it here.” The Positive Psychology course is scheduled to take place each subsequent fall after its fall premiere and will be open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences also plans on creating an advanced positive-psychology course for training facilitators. Jessica Glazer, who served as the head teaching fellow for Ben-Shahar’s class at Harvard, will help guide the development of the positive-psychology courses at Johns Hopkins and will teach the course in the fall. Glazer currently serves as the associate director of programs and education in the Career Services Office of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. “We are immensely excited that Jessica, who has taught the course with Tal at Harvard, has agreed to teach the course here at Johns Hopkins,” he said. “We hope there will be a great response and rival what we’ve witnessed at other schools.” Susan Boswell, dean of student life, said that a course like this is especially valuable in a high-pressure academic setting such as Johns Hopkins, where life can get competitive and stressful.

MIX 106.5 to kick off radio benefit for the kids at Johns Hopkins Broadcast celebrates 100th anniversary of Children’s Center, and new beginning B y E k at e r i n a P e s h e va

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he MIX 106.5 Radiothon benefiting Johns Hopkins Children’s Center will begin its 23rd annual broadcast at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 29, and conclude at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 2. The official 10 a.m. kickoff will feature the MIX 106.5 morning show team, center director George Dover, pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, patients and families, and a group of Star Wars characters. In its 22 years, the event has raised nearly $14 million for Hopkins Children’s. “Year after year, our friends at MIX bring to listeners the unforgettable stories of our patients and the doctors, nurses and staff who care for them,” Dover said. “From the baby with a mysterious seizure, to the 3-yearold battling both cancer and heart disease, to the courageous little girl who underwent multiple reconstructive surgeries for a devastating birth defect—all these patients and

MIX 106.5 DJs Reagan Warfield, left, and Jojo Girard with patient Gavin Michel-Baird.

hundreds like them have benefited in one way or another from the items and programs we have been able to provide through the generous donations of MIX listeners and the community.” This year’s broadcast marks two milestones: the 100th anniversary of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the opening of its new home.

“A century ago, Harriet Lane Johnston, who lost both her sons to rheumatic fever, bequeathed money to start a children’s hospital here at Johns Hopkins, the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children—the predecessor to today’s Johns Hopkins Children’s Center,” Dover said. “Just like her donation, [others’] donations—no matter how small or big—can help change our

patients’ worlds, whether it’s by buying books and DVDs to distract a child from the doldrums of hospital life or lifesaving equipment for our most critically ill patients.” This year also heralds the beginning of a new era for Hopkins Children’s, with the opening of The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center on April 29. “Our new home will allow us to continue to do what we do best: Change pediatrics, one child at a time,” Dover said. “And the Bloomberg Children’s Center is an example of how far generous donations can go. More than one-third of the funding for our new home came from philanthropic support.” The three-day broadcast will include interviews with patients, nurses, physicians and staff, and their stories of survival and loss, heartbreak and hope, the brave promise of science and the dramatic twists and turns of life in the hospital. The MIX 106.5 Radiothon is part of the ongoing Caring for Kids multimedia campaign to benefit the hospital’s patients and their families. Another component is the annual WMAR-TV special, which will air this year at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 2, and 7 a.m. on Saturday, March 3. To listen to the Radiothon broadcast online, go to player.radio.com/player/RadioPlayer.php? version=1.2.13507&station=102.

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Peabody Preparatory celebrates the guitar with Fret Festival B y R i c h a r d S e ld e n

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he Peabody Preparatory Guitar Department will present its third annual Fret Festival from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 4, on the Peabody Institute’s Mount Vernon campus. A daylong celebration of the guitar, the 2012 Fret Festival will offer workshops with Peabody Preparatory and Conservatory faculty members, arts and crafts activities for kids and a vendor fair featuring Kirkpatrick Guitars and local luthier David Pace. Peabody guitar alumna Martha Masters will also conduct a master class and perform in a special concert concluding the day’s events. The Illinois Times wrote that Masters “is on a swift and certain trajectory to star territory.” Her playing has been described as “seductive” (Fort Worth Star Telegram), “intelligent and natural” (Guitar Review) and “refined and elegant” (American Record Guide). She has received critical acclaim as a solo recitalist, as a chamber musician with Duo Erato and as a soloist with orchestras. Masters’ first CD, Serenade, is now in its second printing, and her Naxos recital disc sold more than 10,000 copies worldwide in the first year of its release. Her recording of Italian music was released in 2006 on the GSP label, and a recording of early-20thcentury Spanish music was released on GSP in 2009. Masters’ book, Reaching the Next Level, aimed at experienced guitar students, was published in 2010 by Mel Bay and has received critical acclaim. In addition to leading the guitar program and the LMU Guitar Festival at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Masters teaches annually at the National Guitar Workshop Classical Summit in Connecticut and on WorkshopLive.com. She also is president of the Guitar Foundation of America, which supports the instrument, its players and its music in the U.S. and throughout

Peabody alumna Martha Masters will give a master class and recital.

the world. Masters studied with Manuel Barrueco at the Peabody Conservatory, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1994 and her master’s in 1996. Her master class and recital at this year’s Fret Festival will provide a rare opportunity for hearing one of Peabody’s most distinguished guitar alumni

FAS Continued from page 1 This year’s symposium was headed by Krieger School of Arts and Sciences undergraduates Andrew Davis, a junior majoring in international studies; Eleanor Gardner, a junior majoring in political science and philosophy; and Jillian Martynec, a senior majoring in international studies. “The 2012 Foreign Affairs Symposium theme continues our tradition of encouraging dialogue and critical discussion about current pressing international issues,” Gardner said. “While technological, cultural and economic innovations help to solve many of

teaching and performing live at her alma mater. “The annual Fret Festival is a wonderful event for guitar students of all ages, their families and guitar teachers that has been highly successful in years past and is eagerly anticipated, as its popularity has grown each year,” said Carolee Stewart, dean of the Peabody Preparatory. “We look forward to welcoming guitar enthusiasts from throughout the greater Baltimore area, as well as our own students, to this exciting day.” Registration opens at 9:30 a.m., and the master class starts at 10 a.m. A variety of workshops follow mostly concurrent tracks, with classes geared for children, parents, teenagers and adult students. Preparatory faculty members teaching at the 2012 Fret Festival include Benjamin Beirs, Zane Forshee, Zoe Johnstone Stewart, Aaron Lubliner-Walters, Scott Matejicka and Steve Yankee. A special Conservatory Ensemble showcase with Conservatory faculty member and Guitar Ensemble coordinator Serap Bastepe-

Gray and Preparatory Guitar faculty member Zane Forshee will feature performances by the Conservatory’s finest young artists in the Guitar Ensemble Program, plus a guitar orchestra of Preparatory and Conservatory students. The vendor fair, and arts and crafts activities for kids, will be available until 4 p.m., with Masters’ recital at 6 p.m. ending the day. The 2012 Fret Festival is made possible in part by support from the D’Addario Music Foundation. Ticket prices range from $10 to $40, depending on whether the buyer is a current Preparatory student and whether he or she will attend classes, the recital or both. Special family rates are available. Individual participants can enjoy a full day with workshops, special performances and the guest artist recital for $30. Advance registration is encouraged; walk-in registrations will be accepted on the day of the event as space permits. For the complete schedule and a registration form, go to www.peabody.jhu.edu/ fretfestival.

the world’s problems, these same advances also pose new challenges to security, economic stability, equality and human rights. We are thrilled to host this year’s symposium and invite [everyone] to take a deeper look into the many different aspects of the paradox of progress.” “Building off a successful symposium last year, we hoped to take this year’s symposium to an entirely new level,” Davis added. “On top of bringing in speakers like John Ashcroft and Robert Gibbs, we strove to anchor our discussions of world issues right here at home. With this in mind, we spent much of the first semester working in tandem with organizations both on and off campus to produce two highly engaging events. The first of these will be a discussion with the mayor of Baltimore,

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, on reinvigorating America’s cities. The second will mark an unprecedented gathering of representatives from notable Occupy movements across the country. While here, these representatives will spend their time fielding questions from audience members, explaining the movement’s complex past and outlining their plans for Occupy’s rather uncertain future.” Each of the events, all of which are free and open to the public, is followed by a reception with the speaker (and a book signing, if applicable). The Foreign Affairs Symposium’s executive directors and staff begin their planning a year in advance, contacting possible speakers and fundraising throughout the Johns Hopkins and Baltimore communities. G

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French film festival begins its two-week run at Homewood B y A m y L u nd a y

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uesday marks the start of the third annual Tournees Festival of Contemporary French Cinema at Johns Hopkins. The free event will be held on the Homewood campus, and all films will be in French with English subtitles. The Tournees Festival was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Culture, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation and highbrow entertainment. The sponsors are Johns Hopkins’ departments of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, and Anthropology, and its Program in Film and Media Studies; and Centre Pluridisciplinaire Louis Marin. The lineup is as follows: • Tuesday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m., 50 Gilman Hall. The Illusionist (L’Illusioniste); 80 min-

utes. The festival begins with an animated film by Sylvain Chomet (director of the Academy Award–nominated The Triplets of Belleville) that tells the story of an old illusionist in decline who meets a young girl who will change his life. The film will be presented by Karen Yasinsky, an awardwinning animated filmmaker and Film and Media Studies faculty member. • Wednesday, Feb. 29, 7:30 p.m., 26 Mudd Hall. A Prophet (Un prophete); 149 minutes. Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet tells the story of Malik, a 19-year-old French Arab who enters prison as an uneducated naif and is thrust into a rigidly defined social system rife with corruption, cronyism and racism. The film will be presented by Anand Pandian of the Department of Anthropology. • Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m., 110 Hodson Hall. White Material; 101 minutes. Set in an unnamed African country during an unspecified time, Claire Denis’ White Material centers on Maria Vial, a coffee-plantation F E B .

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owner who is blindly determined to continue her business while civil war rages on around her. The film unfolds as a fever dream, casting a haunting, enigmatic look at the horrors of colonialism’s legacy. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Matt Porterfield, an award-winning director who teaches in Film and Media Studies; Anne Eakin Moss, a visiting assistant professor in the Humanities Center and in Film and Media Studies; and Laura Mason, of Film and Media Studies and the Department of History. • Friday, March 2, 7:30 p.m., Merrick Barn, The John Astin Theatre. Love Songs; 95 minutes. Love Songs, a sensuous and original musical by Christophe Honore, is set in contemporary Paris and follows the triangular love affair of Ismael, Julie and Alice. The film will be presented by faculty member and Hollywood actor John Astin. • Monday, March 5, 7:30 p.m., 50 Gilman Hall. Potiche; 103 minutes. The second week of the festival opens with Francois –

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Calendar Continued from page 12 nar with Angela Gibney, University of Georgia. Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger. HW “Cardiolipin Remodeling as a Key Regulator of Age-Related Metabolic Diseases,” a Physiology seminar with Yuguang Shi, Penn State University College of Medicine. 203 Physiology. EB

Wed., Feb. 29, noon.

The Mental Health Noon Seminar— “Broad-Scale Efforts to Narrow the Science-Service Gap in Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment” with Michael McCart, Medical University of South Carolina. B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., Feb. 29, 12:15 p.m.

“The Future of Pediatric Primary Care: Applying Life Course Theory,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health seminar with Tina Cheng, SoM. W2030 SPH. EB Wed., Feb. 29, 12:15 p.m.

“Improving the Efficiency and Equity of Deceased Donor Kidney Distribution,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Allan Massie. E9519 SPH. EB Wed., Feb. 29, 2 p.m.

“The Role of Basal Body Proteins in Context-Specific Proteasomal Degradation,” a Human Genetics Graduate Program thesis defense seminar with Yangfan Liu. Sponsored by the Institute of Genetic Medicine. G-007 Ross. EB Wed., Feb. 29, 3 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 29, 4 p.m. “Pharmacologic Induction of the Unfolded Protein Response: A Novel Role in EBV Lytic Activation,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences thesis defense seminar with Courtney Shirley. 303 WBSB. EB Thurs., March 1, 10:45 a.m.

“Computational Approaches for the DNA Sequencing Data Deluge,” a Computer Science seminar with Ben Langmead, SPH. B17 Hackerman. HW Thurs., March 1, noon. “Surviv-

ing Without Food,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Eyleen O’Rourke, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB

“Pyrazinamide: A Paradoxical and Indispensable Persister Drug That Shortens TB Therapy,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Ying Zhang, SPH. W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 1, noon.

Thurs., March 1, noon. The Bromery Seminar—“Five Thousand Years of Extreme Weather in Southern California: Linking Weather to Climate Change” with Ingrid Hendy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW Thurs., March 1, 1:30 p.m.

“Portfolio Optimization Under Transaction Costs via LinearQuadratic and Receding Horizon Methods,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with James Primbs, Stanford University. 304 Whitehead. HW “Pico watt Harvesting: From in vivo Body Chemistry to Positive Electronic Energy,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Patrick Mercier, MIT. 132 Gilman. HW Thurs., March 1, 3 p.m.

sity. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW

Fri., March 2, noon. “Examining Barriers to Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Among RacialEthnic Minorities in the United States: Opportunities for Policy Interventions,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Tanjala Purnell. W2015 SPH. EB

“Glycemia, Race and Liver Disease in the General Population,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Andrea Schneider. W2008 SPH. EB

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“Analyzing and Engineering microRNA Activity,” a Biology special seminar with Lee Lim, University of California, San Francisco. 100 Mudd. HW

“Community Risk for Antimicrobial-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Meghan Frost. W3008 SPH. EB

“Max Weinrich: A Journalist of the Yiddish Daily Forverts,” a Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies seminar with Gennady Estraikh, New York Univer-

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“Disability and Disclosure: The Public Life and Private Ailments of Mary Church Terrell,” a History seminar with Alison Parker, SUNY, Brockport. 308 Gilman. HW

directed by Christophe Honore. John Astin Theatre.

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sored by the Office of Career Services. No registration required. For information, call 410-955-3034 or go to www.jhsph.edu/careerfair. EB •

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“Preparing for the 2012 Public Health Career Fair,” pre-event workshop detailing best practices, tips and more on navigating a career fair and networking with employers during the event. W3030 SPH. Fri., March 2, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 28th Annual Public

Health Career Fair, open to all undergraduate and graduate students. The event provides a convenient location for students to meet with representatives from around the country to discuss employment opportunities, consultancies and internships, and to obtain career information in the corporate, government and nonprofit sectors. Among the employers scheduled to attend are Abt Associates, International Medical Corps, the Lewin Group, Northrop Grumman and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. E2030 SPH.

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“Hormonal Control of Energy Balance,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with William Wong, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Fri., March 2, 1:30 p.m. “Partner-Level STI Risk Factors and Perception of Partner Risk Among Adolescents,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Andrea Swartzendruber. E4611 SPH. EB

Thurs., March 1, 3 p.m. “Multirobot Coordination: From Specification to Provably Correct Execution,” a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Nora Ayanian, MIT. 210 Hodson. HW March

Fri., March 2, 1 p.m. “Reconstitution of Measles Virus Immunity After HAART Initiation in HIVInfected Zambian Children,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Kaitlin Lovett. W2030 SPH. EB

Center Seminar—“The English in Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade” with Christopher Brown, Columbia University. Sponsored by History. 308 Gilman. HW

Ozon’s brilliant period comedy Potiche— “trophy wife”—starring French screen legends Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in the story of the emancipation of a submissive 1970s housewife. The film will be presented by film specialist and social historian Laura Mason, of Film and Media Studies and the Department of History. • Thursday, March 8, 7:30 p.m., 50 Gilman Hall. Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux); 120 minutes. The festival concludes with the story of the dilemma of French Catholic monks facing the rise of fundamentalist violence in an Algerian village. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with faculty members William Egginton, chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures and author of the recent book In Defense of Religious Moderation; and Kristin Cook-Gailloud, director of the French Language Program. For more details, go to the festival website at sites.google.com/site/jhutournees.

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Potiche, directed by Francois Ozon. 50 Gilman.

Tues., Feb. 28, 8 p.m. The 2012 Foreign Affairs Symposium— The Paradox of Progress: Chasing Advancement Amidst Global Crisis—former U.S. Senator John Ashcroft. Co-sponsored by Young America’s Foundation. Shriver Hall. HW Wed., Feb. 29, 6 to 8 p.m.

Closing ceremony for Johns Hopkins Black History Month events, with an address by Lynnise Norris, caucus chair, Homewood BFSA. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m., prior to the address. After the ceremony, the winners of the Black History Month raffle will be announced. Winners must be in attendance to claim their prizes. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW Thurs., March 1, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Off-Campus Housing Fair,

information on rental properties in areas including Charles Village, Roland Park and Mount Vernon. Sponsored by Housing and Dining. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

The 2012 Tournees Festival of Contemporary French Cinema

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at JHU. Presenters include John Astin, Program in Theater; Anand Pandian, Anthropology; and Karen Yasinsky and Laura Mason, Film and Media Studies. (See story, above.) Co-sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Program in Film and Media Studies and the Centre Louis Marin, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture. Films are in French with English subtitles. HW

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The Illusionist (L’Illusioniste), directed by Sylvain Chomet. 50 Gilman. A Prophet (Un prophete), directed by Jacques Audiard. 26 Mudd.

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White Material, directed by Claire Denis. 110 Hodson. Fri., March 2, 7:30 p.m.

Love Songs (Chansons d’amour),

Neuroscience, Art and Art History—A Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute symposium bringing together researchers and artists in a conversation about aesthetics and beauty in music, architecture, art and dance, with various speakers. Co-sponsored by the Walters Art Museum. (David Linden, SoM, will give a public lecture, titled “Pleasure,” at 2 p.m. on Sun., March 4, at the Walters Art Museum.) For information, email bsmith13@jhmi.edu. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW

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“Citation and Organization,” an MSE Library workshop comparing organizational tools RefWorks, Mendelay, Zotero and Papers. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW

Wed., Feb. 29, 4:30 p.m.

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The structure of more than 70,000 proteins has been determined experimentally, and patterns extracted from this repository have been used successfully to predict the fold of new proteins, Rose said. In principle, he said, it should be possible to base successful prediction on physical principles instead of known patterns, but this goal has yet to be achieved. This is the folding research question that Rose and Kiefhaber will tackle together. Specifically, they will design experiments using the Kiefhaber group’s well-developed spectroscopic methods to test hypotheses that Rose has proposed. Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, chairman of the Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins, calls Rose’s award richly deserved. “For three decades, George has been unraveling mysteries of protein structure,” Garcia-Moreno said. “[He] has a knack for avoiding getting lost amidst the details, for peering through complexity and for recognizing simple organizing principles that elude the rest of us, even when we are staring right at them. He frequently inspects the structures of proteins not in search of answers but in search of new questions. “His papers have this wonderful quality about them,” Garcia-Moreno continued. “They trigger the ‘aha, this is important, and it is straightforward—why didn’t I think [of] it myself?’ moments. It is wonderful that a lifetime of important contributions is being recognized with the prestigious Humboldt Award, and that he will be afforded quality time to work closely with some outstanding colleagues in Germany.” The Humboldt Foundation, named after nature researcher, explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), has its headquarters in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn. Annually, it grants up to 100 Humboldt Research Awards in all branches of science. For more about Rose and his lab, go to biophysics.jhu.edu/faculty-pages/rose.html.

Five-day Conference on Health in the African Diaspora set for summer By John

Sankofa

Bloomberg School of Public Health

S PA C I O U S

B O A R D

he Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has opened registration for the International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora, which will be held July 4 to 8 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel. The theme of ICHAD 2012 is The Great Scattering: Connecting the Dots Between Slavery and Contemporary Health in the African Diaspora. Approximately 160 million black descendants of the trans-Atlantic slave trade now live throughout the Western Hemisphere, and the conference will explore how this population is faring. From Canada to Argentina, blacks share a common history of slavery, marginalization and resilience, but this group has evolved through divergent social and cultural experiences, with research showing striking commonalities and differences in their health and well-being.

In addition, a stark health divide exists between slave descendants and other groups. For example, compared to the infant mortality experience of general populations in the Western Hemisphere, black infants throughout the region are at least twice as likely to die before their first birthday. Researchers, policymakers, health advocates and other change agents from across the hemisphere will gather to explore the health status of these descendants of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and to identify multilevel actions, including international partnerships, for improving the health of this population. Presenters—whose academic disciplines include public health, sociology, medicine, economics, history, anthropology, nursing and psychology—will focus on more than a dozen countries, including Brazil, the United States, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Canada, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The conference is funded by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. To register or obtain more information, go to www .ICHAD.com, where information is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

February 27, 2012 • THE GAZETTE

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Quiet, serious Hopkins affiliate wanted for rm in 3BR, 1.5BA Butchers Hill RH, CAC, W/D, balcony, easy 10-min walk to SoM/SPH/SoN, pref nonsmoker. $500/mo + utils. Chip, 443-844-7712 or chiphawk@ gmail.com.

Brewers Hill, 2BR, 2.5BA rehab, gourmet kitchen, fin’d bsmt, deck, no pets. $1,850/ mo. 410-303-1214 or hudsonstreetrental@ hotmail.com.

2BR, 2BA TH avail, across from SoN/SPH/ SoM. work230@hotmail.com.

F wanted to share lg apt in Towson area, priv BR w/full BA,use of W/D, common areas, pool, Dish TV/Internet, quiet, upscale area. $725/mo incl all utils. 443-465-7011 or junedameron@gmail.com.

Charles Village, lg 1BR apt in the Marylander, avail for move-in until March 10, spacious, semi-furn’d, 2-min walk to JHU shuttle stop, ideal for a student looking for temporary place to stay. $450/3 wks incl utils. sumerabhojani@hotmail.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Furn’d rm in gated condo w/prkng, laundry on site, walking distance (5 mins) to JHU shuttle. $1,000/mo. lbasu@yahoo.com.

APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Charles Village, completely refurbished 2or 3BR, 2 BA apt, 1,600 sq ft, laundry, prkng. $2,000/mo. 410-383-2876. Columbia, furn’d lower-level efficiency in TH w/walkout, fp, kitchenette, full BA, W/D, nr I-95/175, sec dep req’d. $735/mo incl utils, Internet. 410-730-5146. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/ full kitchen; call for wkly/wknd rentals. 410638-9417 or jzpics@yahoo.com (for pics). Fells Point, 2BR, 1.5BA TH, remodeled kitchen, granite counters, stainless steel appls, hdwd flrs, priv brick patio, avail in June. mgood08@gmail.com or www .postlets.com/rtpb/6981560. Hamilton Ave (at Walther), 2BR, 1BA apt, 1st flr. $750/mo. 301-538-3819. Miles Ave (at 28th St), 2BR TH, completely renov’d, 1 full BA. $900/mo. 443449-4883. Ocean City (137th St), 3BR, 2BA condo, steps from beach, lg pool, 2 prkng spaces, short walk to restaurants and entertainment, call now for prime wks. 410-5442814. Ocean City (144th St), 5BR semi-detached beach house on ocean block, call for wkly rates. 410-821-6446, rme@nqgrg.com or community.webshots.com/user/easushko (for pics). Owings Mills, 2BR, 2BA TH, lg kitchen, W/D, free prkng, avail June 1, nr metro station, 30 mins to JHMI. gsimon1977@ yahoo.com. Owings Mills Newtown, spacious 3BR, 2.5BA TH w/fin’d walkout bsmt, deck/ patio, nr schools/shops/JHU metro. $1,700/ mo. 410-504-5601 or jsethi33@yahoo.com. Rehoboth Beach, 3BR TH, 15-min walk to beach, dog-friendly, wkly rentals, JHU

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1 BD, 1 BA, 2nd floor apt., in detached home, separate entrance, in quiet homeowners neighborhood, wall-to-wall carpeting, W/D on site, Perfect for relaxation and peace! $ 750 + util., available now. 301-466-5819 or dns_bgh@verizon.net.

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Gardenville, 3BR, 1.25BA RH, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, club bsmt, quiet neighborhood, 15 mins to JHH. $120,000. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com. Greenway, Manhattan-style efficiency condo in owner-occupied, elegant and secure bldg, steps from Homewood campus. $89,500 (reduced). 443-414-6282. Owings Mills New Town, 2BR condo nr metro station. www.4409silverbrook.info. House nr Bayview/JHMI, 3 fin’d levels, lg renovation, separate garage w/water, electric and priv patio, spacious kitchen w/granite counters, woodburning fp, bsmt boasts tall ceilings, fully fin’d living area, expos’d brick, hdwd flrs throughout. 410-967-4119 or prpletanzanite11@yahoo.com.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Spacious rm w/BA avail in TH, walking distance to University of Maryland at Baltimore, pref nonsmoker/no pets. 410-3301653 or xzhu9140@yahoo.com. Share 3BR home 10 mins from E Baltimore campus in Belair/Edison community, W/D. $600/mo incl utils, wireless Internet. 443226-6497 or expoblk@yahoo.com. F nonsmoker bedspacer wanted to share condo in Washington Hill (98 N Broadway) w/grad student, adjacent to Church Professional Building, walk to JHH/shuttle. $450/ mo + utils. retzcare@yahoo.com. Rm avail in Owings Mills TH, W/D, dw, Internet, quiet neighborhood, 10 mins to metro. $600/mo incl utils. 443-841-2098 or gjhoward@gmail.com. Rm in Lauraville/Hamilton, sunrm, lg kitchen, 2BAs, dw, W/D, front porch, lg backyd, on quiet street, walk to bus lines, park, grocery stores, cafes, close to JHU/JHH, short drive to Charles Village/Hampden, walk to Lake Montebello. Melissa, 443-844-4094.

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Indoor flea market, 9am-2pm on Saturday, March 3, nr Homewood/Hampden area (37th and Roland Ave), table space available for $10. 410-366-4488. Affordable and professional landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE

’00 Honda Accord LX, silver, MP3 and CD player, 167K mi (highway), in excel cond. $4,000/best offer. 410-227-9049 or yikuailiao@gmail.com.

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’98 Toyota Avalon, Gold Pkg, auto, clean record, 80.35K mi. $5,200. 217-721-8187 or buysunshinetoday@gmail.com.

Hauling/junk removal, next-day pick up, free phone estimate, 15% discount all Hopkins. 410-419-3902.

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Tai chi: Beginners classes starting in Charles Village and Towson. 410-296-4944 or www .baltimoretaichi.com.

1920s clawfoot bath tub, in very good condition. rrbalto@hotmail.com. Furnish your apt: Full-size mattress and boxspring, beautiful Chippendale-like walnut corner china cabinet, loveseat, microwave, art and dishes. $500/all (or best offer). furnishmyapt@gmail.com. Hobart M. Cable baby grand piano, ebony polish, in excellent condition, Hobart M. Cable grand bench incl’d, tuned annually. $6,320. Treva, 410-519-5879 or 443-3064005. Playboy mags (1965–2007), sold as lot or separately; exterior French doors (2); vintage water skis; Dior full-length silver fox coat; vintage Maryland maps; ceramic electrical insulators, music cassette tapes (lot of 276); fitness chair; 21" TV; 35mm cameras; office supplies. 443-824-2198 or saleschick2011@hotmail.com. Olympic pins from Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996, 10 different pins from each Olympics or mix. $20. 443-517-9029 or rgpinman@aol.com.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

We are looking for someone to care for our 2-mo-old daughter in our home for about 20 hrs per wk. 408-580-4836. Looking for computer guru to teach me how to use new Apple iMac and printer. Jim, 410-366-7191 or jwilli33@gmail.com.

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

Fells Point, 3-story TH w/lg private yd, 4 blks to JHH. $150,000. 443-750-7750.

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and loving pet-, baby- or housesitter avail, JHU employee, has experience with special needs children, cats and dogs, refs avail. 202-288-1311 or janyelle .thomas@gmail.com. Want to buy: Johns Hopkins Green Bag that was distributed a few yrs ago, contact me with your price. 410-484-1954 or 443506-2378 (cell). Experienced copy editor avail for dissertations, articles, presentations, instructional materials, technical writing, science and other academic editing, flexible schedule, fast turnaround, reasonable rates. ardens78@ gmail.com. Pet consultant service offering dog obedience training. 410-710-9191 or www .gilbertspetconsulting.webs.com. Can your writing use a good editor? Highly experienced copy editor can help, student/ prof’l work welcome, reasonable rates. Michael, 410-802-6111 or maaron1201@ gmail.com.

Tutor available: all subjects/levels; remedial, gifted; help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading. 410-337-9877 (after 8pm) or i1__@hotmail .com. Transmission repairs, rebuilt or used, 20% discount for JHU faculty, staff, students and employees, free estimate. Bob, 410-574-8822. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, great bands, no partners necessary. 410-663-0010 or www.fridaynightswing.com.

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COLLOQUIA

Tues., Feb. 28, 4:15 p.m. “Solar Wind Induced Surface Chemistry on Mercury and the Moon,” a Chemistry colloquium with Thomas Orlando, Georgia Institute of Technology. 233 Remsen. HW Wed.,

Feb.

29,

3:30

“Exploration of the Innermost Solar System Planet by the MESSENGER Spacecraft,” an STSci colloquium with Sean Solomon, Carnegie Institution, Washington D.C. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Thurs., March 1, 3 p.m.

DISCUSSION/ TALKS Tues., Feb. 28, 5 p.m. “German Foreign Policy and the East,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Stephen Szabo, executive director, German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy. Co-sponsored by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Washington Foundation for European Studies and the American Consortium on EU Studies. For information call 202663-5796 or email ntobin@jhu .edu. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS

“Brazil’s Outlook in the Context of a Global Economic Slowdown,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Otaviano Canuto, the World Bank. For information or to RSVP, call 202-663-5734 or email jzurek1@ jhu.edu. 517 Nitze Bldg. SAIS

Wed., Feb. 29, 12:45 p.m.

Fri.,

March

12:30

p.m.

“Measuring and Combating Corruption in the 21st Century,” a SAIS International Development Program discussion with Nathaniel Heller, Global Integrity. For information or to RSVP, email developmentroundtable@jhu.edu. 200 Rome Bldg. SAIS

John Irwin, Hart Crane and the Turnbull Lecture

ohn T. Irwin, Decker Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins, will deliver the Turnbull Lecture this week on the subject of his new book, Hart Crane’s Poetry (cover detail above), recently published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Now in its 121st year, the Turnbull Lecture series has run almost continually since 1891, with interruptions during the two world wars and a gap from 1984 to 1996. A partial list of the luminaries—T. S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Jacques Derrida, Marianne Moore, Richard Wilbur and Robert Frost—cannot do justice to the scope of the series, nor to the individual contributions of each invitee. In recent years, the lectures have been offered under the auspices of the Writing Seminars and have continued to bring to the Homewood campus the distinguished critics and poets of the day, including W.S. Merwin, Helen Vendler and Paul Muldoon. See Lectures. “Critique and the Thing: Benjamin and Heidegger,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Gerhard Richter, Brown University. 479 Gilman. Thurs., March 1, 5 p.m.

HW Thurs., March 1, 7 p.m. “Life After Death: An Islamic Perspective on the Hereafter,” a Johns Hopkins Muslim Association lecture by Halim Breiannis, an American convert to Islam. Charles Commons Ballroom. HW Fri.,

March

12:30

MUSIC

“Global Health Challenges and Opportunities,” a Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute lecture by Lois Quam, U.S. State Department. W1214 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 28, 8 p.m.

The Turnbull Poetry Lecture— “Building the Virgin: The Triple Female Archetype in Hart Crane’s The Bridge” by John Irwin, KSAS. (See photo, this page.) Sponsored by the Writing Seminars. Reception precedes the lecture at 6 p.m. Hodson Hall. HW

Tues., Feb. 28, 7 p.m.

Thurs.,

March

p.m.

“Socrates and Sexuality in Persius’ Fourth Satire,” a Classics lecture by Shadi Bartsch, University of Chicago. 108 Gilman. HW

p.m.

“Planets in the ‘Habitable Zones’ of White Dwarfs” by Eric Agol, University of Washington. Part of the Planets, Life and the Universe Astrobiology Lecture Series sponsored by the Space Telescope Science Institute. Bahcall Auditorium, STScI. HW

L E C T URE S Tues., Feb. 28, 4 p.m.

Confessions of a Welfare Mother. Morrison will also lead a memoirwriting workshop. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW S E M I N AR S

“Persistent Viral Infections and Clinical Outcomes in Community-Dwelling Older Adults,” a Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with George Wang. 901 Hampton House. EB

Mon., Feb. 27, 9 a.m.

Mon., Feb. 27, noon. “DNA Interstrand Crosslinks as a Driver of Mammalian Aging,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Laura Niedernhofer, University of Pittsburgh. W1020 SPH. EB

p.m.

“Lafitau and Charlevoix: Enlightenment Jesuits and Problems of American Indian Origins,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Jean-Olivier Richard, KSAS. 300 Gilman. HW

The Peabody Orchestra performs Brahms. $15 admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

The Peabody Singers perform music by Vivaldi and Rossini. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Wed., Feb. 29, 7:30 p.m.

Sat., March 3, 1 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra annual Concert for Children and Families, featuring excerpts from Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. After the performance, the audience is invited onstage to meet the musicians and see their instruments up close. Shriver Hall. HW

Peabody Preparatory faculty recital with Carol Cavey-Miles, Rachel Choe, Laura Garvin, Matt Horwitz-Lee, Irene Kim, Hanchien Lee, Andrea Picard, Samuel Springer, Michaela Trnkova, Ta-Wei Tsai and Elijah Wirth. Griswold Hall. Peabody Sun., March 4, 3 p.m.

Hopkins Symphony Orchestra performs Barber’s Piano Concerto and Stravinsky’s Petrouchka, with pianist Clipper Erickson. $10 general admission, $8 for senior citizens, students, JHU faculty, staff and alumni; free for JHU students with valid ID. Shriver Hall. HW Sun., March 4, 3 p.m.

Guitar recital by Conservatory alumna Martha Masters. Part of the Preparatory’s Fret Festival, a celebration of the guitar. (See story, p. 8.) Goodwin Recital Hall. Peabody

Sun., March 4, 6 p.m.

REA D I N G S / B OO K T A L K S Wed., Feb. 29, 6 p.m. “Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion,” a reception, book signing and reading by author Jean Baker, Goucher College. Sponsored by the Sheridan Libraries and Friends of the Libraries. To register and to RSVP, call 410-516-7943 or go to www .library.jhu.edu/friends/events/ onlineregistrationform.html. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW

Mon., Feb. 27, 12:15 p.m. “Personalized Therapy for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Lessons Learned From the Battle Trials,” a FAMRI Center of Excellence seminar with Roy Herbst, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale– New Haven. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB Mon.,

Feb.

27,

12:15

p.m.

“Pushing the Limits of Biological Fluorescence Microscopy,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Eric Betzig, Janelia Farms. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon.,

Feb.

27,

12:15

p.m.

“Encouraging Patient Autonomy: From Theory to Practice in Hospital and Clinic,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics semnar with Zackary Berger, SoM. W3008 SPH. EB Mon., Feb. 27, 3 p.m. “Nutrition and Prevention of Global Noncommunicable Diseases,” an International Health seminar with An Pan, Harvard School of Public Health. W2030 SPH. EB Mon., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“The Integrative Nature of Scene Representation” with Soojin Park, KSAS. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/ Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW Mon., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. “The King Among the Saints: Sacred Space and Political Authority in Baroque Madrid,” a History seminar with Erin Row, University of Virginia. 308 Gilman. HW Mon., Feb. 27, 4:30 p.m. “Packings of Pennies in the Plane and Their Stable Decompositions,” a Topology seminar with Fred Cohen, University of Rochester. Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger. HW

“Reading Arginine Methylation in the Germline: The Royal Family of Tudor Domain Proteins Regulates Piwi Pathway and Spermatogenesis,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Chen Chen, University of Toronto. W1020 SPH. EB

Wed., Feb. 29, 7 p.m.

Baltimore-based writer Barbara Morrison will discuss her book, Innocent:

Tues., Feb. 28, 12:10 p.m. “Epidemiologic Contributions to Aviation Safety,” a Graduate Seminar with Guohua Li, Columbia University. Sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2008 SPH. EB

Sun., March 4, 2 p.m.

“Targeting Epigenetic Changes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer,” a Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with Rosalyn Juergens. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB “Using Multiple Measure for Detecting Genetic Association and Genomewide Association Studies of Two Novel Kidney Function Biomarkers,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Adrienne Tin. W1214 SPH. EB

Tues., Feb. 28, 2 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 28, 2 p.m. “Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics as a Unique Biochemical Approach for Therapeutic Discovery,” a Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research seminar with Gary Siuzdak, Scripps Research Institute. A roundtable discussion follows the seminar at 3 p.m. 490 Rangos. EB

“Is Information the Core Language of Biology? Insights and Lessons from Analysis of Signaling Networks,” a Biomedical Engineering special seminar with Andre Levchenko, WSE. Tilghman Auditorium, Turner Concourse. EB

Tues., Feb. 28, 3 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 28, 3 p.m. M. Gordon Wolman Seminar—“Nanoscale Insights Into Grand Challenges in Energy and the Environment: Key Reactions at CO2–Brine–Mineral Interfaces During Geologic CO2 Sequestration” with Young-Shin Jun, Washington University in St. Louis. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering. 234 Ames. HW Tues., Feb. 28, 3 p.m. “Azalysine Analogs as Probes for Protein Lysine Deacetylation and Demethylation,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences thesis defense seminar with Blair Dancy. 303 WBSB. EB

“Controlling Stochastic Gene Expression in the Drosophila Retina,” a Biology special seminar with Robert Johnston, New York University. 100 Mudd. HW

Tues., Feb. 28, 4 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m. “Logic

in Descartes, the Last Scholastics and the First Cartesians,” a Philosophy seminar with Roger Ariew, University of Southern Florida. 288 Gilman. HW

Tues.,

Feb.

28,

4:30

p.m.

“Conformal Blocks and the Birational Geometry of the Moduli Space of Curves,” an Algebraic Geometry/Number Theory semi-

Tues., Feb. 28, noon.

Tues., Feb. 28, noon. “Signaling Mechanisms That Control Multiple Phases of Neural Development,” a Physiology faculty recruitment seminar with Brendan Lilley, Harvard University. 203 Physiology. EB

Baltimorebased writer and poet Clarence Brown will read from and sign copies of his new book, Needs. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Tues., Feb. 28, 12:30 p.m.

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