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or health professionals, the classroom is a familiar place; most undertake six to 11 years of postsecondary education on the path to becoming doctors, nurses, research scientists or public health practitioners. They know blood Master’s and structure, disease variables and certificate human anatomy, from the skeletal to programs the nervous system. are to begin But can they effectively teach these subjects to the next this fall generation, incorporating the latest in medical advances and field studies? This fall, Johns Hopkins will launch a new master’s-level program aimed at training health professionals to excel in the classroom as much as they do outside it. The Master of Education in the Health Professions program, a unique collaboration of five Johns Hopkins divisions, will train professional educators from schools and training programs related to the health professions. The two-year program, which will be hosted by the School of Education and enroll its first students this fall, was cocreated by the schools of Business, Education, Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. John Flynn, a member of the program’s executive planning committee and an early champion for such a degree, said that there were previous attempts to offer such a program at Johns Hopkins, but none ever got past the planning stage. Flynn, who is the William Schlott Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine and clinical director of the Division of General Internal Medicine, said that the School of Medicine had intended to launch its own program in 2009, but the scope became greater when the effort was joined by leaders at all five schools. “In developing this program, we have

Amanda Valledor, a freshman in Biomedical Engineering, and Kathleen Barros, a senior psychology major and one of the student coordinators for the food justice and poverty trip, chop tomatoes in the kitchen of the Church of the Guardian Angel during Alternative Spring Break.

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en Johns Hopkins undergraduates cooked and served dinner for area residents on Wednesday at the Church of the Guardian Angel, located in the Remington neighborhood

near the Homewood campus, as part of the university’s third annual Alternative Spring Break program. The undergraduates were filling in for the regular student volunteers (away on break) at Campus Kitchens at JHU, an organization dedicated to using surplus food to provide nutritious meals for the hungry in the Baltimore area. The Alternative Spring Break program,

sponsored by the Center for Social Concern, seeks to expose Johns Hopkins students to pressing social issues impacting Baltimore residents through a combination of volunteer opportunities, panel discussions, site visits, documentary screenings and group discussions. Continued on page 11

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New venture to put 30,000 scholarly books online Project MUSE endeavor touted as ‘signficant and transformative moment’ By Greg Rienzi

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roject MUSE, the highly successful online journals collection managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press,

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recently announced a partnership with the University Press e-book Consortium to create an extensive online collection of scholarly book content. The result of this merger, to be called the University Press Content Consortium, will launch Jan. 1, 2012, and initially will allow as many as 30,000 e-books—both new and backlisted titles—from an anticipated 60 to 70 university and nonprofit scholarly presses to be searched and used in an integrated environment with content from the nearly 500 journals currently on MUSE.

Project MUSE will host the book collections, available at discounted prices for academic institutions and libraries. “This is a great moment,” said Kathleen Keane, director of the Johns Hopkins University Press. “By bringing these two initiatives together, we have taken a major step forward to ensure the ongoing viability of university presses.” Established in 1995, Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities

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wo affiliates of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are among the 1,000 young people selected to attend the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative University later this week at the University of California, San Diego. Angela Acosta, a graduate student in the Department of International Health, and Jacqueline Sofia, a program associate with the Center for Global Health and a part-time student, will network with their peers and learn about issues such as poverty, climate change and human rights at the conference, which takes place Friday, April 1, through Sunday, April 3. The conference is hosted by former President Bill Clinton and is open to graduate or undergraduate students who want to make a difference by developing innovative, worldchanging projects. It’s free to attend, but students must apply, and in their applications they must create a Commitment to Action: a pledge to take specific action to make the world a better place. Acosta has committed to “Sustaining Participatory Behavior Change Programs,” and Sofia’s commitment is titled “Women Need Women.” Acosta and Sofia will join activists, business leaders, government figures and celebrities who are devoted to creating positive social change.

Joint Chiefs of Staff head to give Rostov Lecture at SAIS

SUMMER INSTITUTE DIRECTORS David Holtgrave, PhD Professor and Chair

dm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will give the annual Rostov Lecture on International Affairs at SAIS at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Mullen will speak about “Perspectives on the Global Security Environment.” A live webcast of the event will be accessible at www.sais-jhu.edu. Non-SAIS affiliates who would like to attend should RSVP to 202-663-5636 or saisevents@jhu.edu.

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SAIS, CIC to host conference on ‘Future of the Humanities’

daylong conference called Symposium on the Future of the Humanities will be held by SAIS and the Council of Independent Colleges from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29. Admittance is by invitation, but a webcast will be accessible at www.sais-jhu.edu. The symposium is hosted by Cultural Conversations at SAIS and CIC, the national service organization for independent colleges and universities. The event will bring together many original and thoughtful leaders in humanities scholarship and education, and aims to add to the understanding of the potential for humanities to enrich and inform people’s lives in both their civic and personal dimensions by formulating moral challenges and drawing historical lessons. Experts from academia, foundations and the arts will speak in a series of panel discussions. For the agenda, go to www.sais-jhu.edu/ bin/i/b/humanities-symposium-program.pdf.

JHU debate team, PETA VP to spar on ethics of food choice

he university’s Woodrow Wilson Debate Council will this week spar with PETA vice president Bruce Friedrich, a longtime vegan, over the ethics of eating animals. Friedrich contends that eating meat is inconsistent with the beliefs that students likely hold about sustainability, world hunger and animal rights. JHU Politik is co-sponsoring the event, which will be at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, in 110 Maryland Hall, Homewood campus.

U.S. dominates the Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50

he Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50 published last week ranks institutions in the world according to their output of primary research articles in Nature research journals in 2010. U.S. institutions occupy 33 of the top 50 positions, with Johns Hopkins coming in at No. 15. The index covers only Nature journals, so while it offers broad coverage of basic research in the life sciences and physical and chemical sciences, coverage of applied sciences, engineering and clinical medicine is relatively limited.

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he National Children’s Study, led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, celebrated its launch at the inaugural Montgomery County Children’s Health Day, held Saturday in Gaithersburg, Md. The kickoff event featured family activities to promote infant and child health, overall wellness and health education. The research project, housed at the university’s Montgomery County Campus in Rockville, Md., is part of the largest and most detailed study on children’s health and development in the United States. The study will examine the effects of the

environment and genetics on the growth, development and health of children across the U.S. and will follow participants from gestation until 21 years of age. Data will contribute to the research of conditions such as pre-term birth and chronic health conditions such as asthma, obesity and diabetes, as well as other health and behavior outcomes. Montgomery County is one of 105 jurisdictions across the country selected to participate.

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New interface launched for searching JHU libraries collection By Brian Shields

Sheridan Libraries

tudents and faculty returning from spring break will notice something different when they get back into the swing of their research. Catalyst, a new search interface, was launched on March 18. The tool, several years in the making, is an open source project and was developed at Johns Hopkins by programmers and librarians from across the university and in collaboration with several other major research libraries. “Talking to faculty and students over the past few years affirmed our theory that it was time to create a more intuitive interface for the university’s library catalog,” said Stephen Sears, electronic resources librarian at the Mason Library at SAIS. “Hopkins

has, literally, millions of print and online resources, and they must be easily accessible. Our goal with Catalyst is simple: to enable you to find on-target information for your research as efficiently as possible.” The new tool, which can be found at catalyst.library.jhu.edu, is not replacing the old catalog just yet. “We plan to let users test this out and give us their feedback for the next several months,” said David Kennedy, head of systems for the Sheridan Libraries. “We’ll be conducting user tests and inviting users across the university to tell us what and where they see room for improvement. We will eventually phase out the current search tool that users see when they first log on to their library’s home page, but we want to give our users some time to acclimate themselves to Catalyst first.” Features of Catalyst include:

• Simplicity: A clean, uncluttered first screen has a simple keyword search box that searches all fields (title, author, subject, call numbers, etc.). • Relevance-ranked results: Search results are returned with the most-relevant items at the top of the list. Alternatively, users can sort by year (newest to oldest), author or title. There is also a date slider that allows a user to refine results to a particular span of years. • Intuitive searching: Searches can be refined using suggested limits that ensure accuracy without requiring knowledge of the Library of Congress subject headings, as is currently the case with the online catalog. In addition, search-results screens show the terms used to arrive at that result and allow a user to easily remove specific criteria. In addition, Catalyst will allow users to more easily find electronic books and other

nonprint materials than the current catalog. Likewise, researchers can manage their accounts via the tool, including requesting and renewing materials, accessing saved searches and adding titles to a “bookmarked” list. Users also can get citation suggestions in MLA or APA style for results and can email or text the book information for saving and using later. To ease the transition and provide some tips for using the new tool, the libraries are creating brief instructional videos, which will be shared via social media. “The name Catalyst refers to the interplay between the researcher and the catalog,” said Sean Hannan, senior Web developer for the Sheridan Libraries. “You start with a query, the system responds with possibilities that help refine your search, and it goes from there. The goal is not just anything but truly meaningful results.”

Potassium levels may be key to racial disparity in type 2 diabetes Johns Hopkins researchers find mineral deficiency increases disease risk By Stephanie Desmon

Johns Hopkins Medicine

ower potassium levels in the blood may help explain why African-Americans are twice as likely as whites to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. The findings, if confirmed, suggest that part of diabetes prevention may someday prove as easy as taking a cheap potassium supplement. “This research doesn’t mean people should run out and start taking potassium supplements,” said Hsin-Chieh “Jessica” Yeh, an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an author of the study, which appears in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “But we now know lower serum potassium is an independent risk factor for diabetes and that African-Americans have, on average, lower potassium levels than whites. What remains to be seen is if increasing potassium levels through diet or supplementation can prevent the most common form of diabetes.” Yeh and her colleagues analyzed data from more than 12,000 participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, information collected from 1987 and 1996. The more than 2,000 African-Americans in the study had lower average serum potassium levels than the more than 9,000 whites in the study, and they were twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The incidence of diabetes among study participants went up as potassium levels went down. Type 2 diabetes affects more than 8 per-

cent of Americans, or 23.6 million people, and the burden of the disease falls disproportionately on African-Americans. Many factors are thought to contribute to the greater prevalence of diabetes in AfricanAmericans, including differences in socioeconomic status, diet, obesity and genetics. But researchers say that these do not account for the entire disparity. Serum potassium, Yeh and her colleagues found, appears to be a novel risk factor for the disorder that may explain some of the racial disparity in diabetes risk, and one that may be as important as obesity. A recent study found that the racial disparity in diabetes prevalence has widened the most in normal weight and overweight people rather

than in the obese, suggesting that factors other than weight contribute to the risk. Yeh notes that low potassium levels have been linked in healthy people to higher insulin and higher glucose levels, two hallmarks of diabetes. Previous studies have shown that AfricanAmericans get less potassium in their diets than whites in the United States, on average just half the government-recommended 4,700 milligrams per day. Potassium comes from many sources, such as bananas, melons, lentils and yogurt. Determining whether a patient is potassium-deficient would be simple to do, Yeh says, as part of a basic set of metabolic tests routinely ordered by primary care doctors.

Yeh says that she would like to see clinical trials developed to examine whether manipulating potassium levels—either through diet changes or the addition of supplements—would reduce diabetes risk for some groups. “That is to be determined,” Yeh said. But, she added, “if this works, this would be a very low-cost, practical way to prevent diabetes.” In addition to Yeh, Johns Hopkins researchers who contributed to this study are Tariq Shafi, Cheryl Anderson, Edgar R. Miller, David Levine, Elizabeth Selvin and Frederick L. Brancati. Lead author Ranee Chatterjee is a former fellow at Johns Hopkins and is now at Duke University.

New tuition fees set; undergrad aid to increase By Dennis O’Shea

Homewood

uition for full-time undergraduates at The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus will increase 3.9 percent this fall, the third consecutive increase below 4 percent. The increase, amounting to $1,600, will bring tuition to $42,280 for the nearly 5,000 full-time undergraduates in the university’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering. The three straight increases under 4 percent for those two schools—3.9 percent this coming fall, 3.9 percent for 2010–2011 and 3.8 percent for the prior year—are the three smallest in percentage terms in 37 years, since the 1974–1975 academic year. While holding down tuition, the university continues to build its financial aid bud-

get, allowing it to charge considerably less than the so-called “sticker price” to students with modest financial resources. The aid budget for undergraduates in the Krieger and Whiting schools will, for the second straight year, receive a double-digit percentage boost. On the heels of an 11 percent increase, the university expects this fall to increase aid for undergraduates in the Krieger and Whiting schools by approximately 10 percent, to a total of just over $67 million. This year, about 41 percent of Homewood undergraduates are receiving needbased grants from the university, averaging $25,595 per student. Next year’s grants are expected to average about $29,000. Room and board charges for the upcoming year for Krieger and Whiting students at the Homewood campus will increase 3.6 percent, from $7,150 to $7,408 for a typical residence hall double and from $5,360 to $5,554 for the “anytime dining” meal plan.

A 3.9 percent increase will also apply to tuition for the more than 300 undergraduate musicians studying full time at the university’s Peabody Conservatory in Mount Vernon. Their 2011–2012 tuition will be $37,000, an increase of $1,400. The School of Nursing, with more than 400 full-time undergrads studying on the East Baltimore campus, will increase tuition by 3 percent. Nursing students in the twoyear traditional track will pay $34,176 for the year, an increase of $1,011. Tuition for the 13-month accelerated track will be $64,080 for the entire program, an increase of $1,857. Tuition increases for next year in other Johns Hopkins programs vary widely, ranging from no increase to up to 21.2 percent. For a complete listing of 2011– 2012 Johns Hopkins undergraduate and graduate tuition rates, go to tinyurl.com/ JHUtuition.

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broken down the university silos like nothing that has gone before to make something uniquely Johns Hopkins,” Flynn said. “We are very proud of that, and it’s a sign of what can be accomplished when we work together.” Emphasizing problem solving, innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, the MEHP is designed to prepare health professionals for teaching roles through evidence-based scholarship and practice to navigate a rapidly evolving educational landscape. The program will target educators and educational researchers in the health professions who want a high-quality, part-time learning experience with direct application to their work environment. The initial cohort of 40 students will primarily be faculty and researchers at the Johns Hopkins schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health and other local universities. The courses will be team taught, cofacilitated by an expert in education and one in the health professions. The program will be offered in two segments: an 18-credit graduate certificate, which can be taken as a stand-alone curriculum, and a master’s-degree track that builds on the certificate’s foundation. The one-year graduate certificate will focus on preparing health professionals to teach effectively. The six courses are Adult Learning, Evidence-Based Teaching, Assessment and Feedback, Curriculum Development and Instructional Strategies I and II.

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For participants choosing to pursue a full master’s degree, the second segment of 15 additional credits offers two tracks, one in educational leadership and one in educational research, with room for customization through electives. In each concentration, participants will work for a year with a mentor or adviser to develop, implement and write about a capstone project applying knowledge, skills and dispositions acquired throughout the program. In its first year, the MEHP program will be offered in a face-to-face format with classes held in the evening on the East Baltimore campus. In the second year of delivery and beyond, the certificate and full master’s degree will be offered in an online format, with residential requirements, to attract a national and international audience. The enrollment will double to 80 students. Both the certificate and the master’s degree will be conferred jointly by the School of Education and one of three schools: Medicine, Nursing or Public Health, depending on the participant’s professional field, if applicable. The School of Education’s Toni Ungaretti, MEHP program director, said that the need for such a degree arose from rapid curricular changes occurring in many health professions schools, the recent expansion of schools and training programs intended to address health care workforce shortages and the fact that health professionals are increasingly recognizing the importance of the educator career path. “Many are already excellent educators, but they recognize the need to be formally trained to advance both their expertise and the scholarship of teaching and learning in their respective fields,” said Ungaretti, an assistant professor and assistant dean for assessment at the School of Education. “These are people who like to be the best at what they do. The integration of the expertise of five Hopkins schools will uniquely position this program to achieve that end.” The program will be priced competitively and will accommodate Johns Hopkins participants by permitting tuition remission

benefits to be applied. It will be singular in its focus on evidence-based teaching and skill-building in educational scholarship. Lisa Heiser, assistant dean for faculty development in the School of Medicine, said that in order to be promoted as educators, some faculty need more support in developing skills for conducting educational research. “They need and want to produce original scholarship related to teaching, and that is something this program will help them become adept and confident at,” Heiser said. Anne Belcher, director of the Office of Teaching Excellence at the School of Nursing, said that Nursing’s primary audience for the MEHP program will be part-time faculty. “I think they will be intrigued by the interdisciplinary experience that this new program offers,” said Belcher, an associate professor in the Department of Acute and Chronic Care, who co-chaired the MEHP curriculum committee. “They might know the content but not how to teach it efficiently. With this program, they can better understand evidence-based teaching strategies. Also, being an educator is more than being a teacher; it’s accepting a leadership role.” Flynn said that in the past some Johns Hopkins faculty had sought out health education degree programs at schools such as the University of Cincinnati, University of Illinois and University of Southern California. Faculty could also seek pieces of education training at Johns Hopkins schools, such as courses on quantitative analysis at the Bloomberg School, leadership programs at the Carey Business School and yearlong training at the Faculty Development Program offered by the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. “It was a bit like a jigsaw puzzle,” Flynn said. “This new program will bring together all these pieces and offer them in one place and for all health professionals.” Applications for the program are now being solicited. For more information, go to education.jhu.edu/MEHP. G

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March 28, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Hopkins-wide research project addresses climate change By Michael Buckley

Applied Physics Laboratory

he Applied Physics Laboratory is leading an ambitious Johns Hopkins– wide program to study and address the potential impacts of climate change on human activity. Called the Global Assimilation of Information for Action, or GAIA, the APL-funded initiative draws expertise from within the Lab and several university divisions to provide tools and information that decision-makers can use to consider the effects of a changing climate on their segments of society. “Our planet is changing,” said APL Space Department head John Sommerer, whose department’s expertise in virtual observatories, knowledge sharing and collaboration are all key elements of the program. “Those changes will have potentially huge implications for human welfare, international relations and our own nation’s security. The federal government’s investment is mostly focused on measuring the degree of change, not on managing consequences,” he said. “We need to focus attention on that translational

aspect of the issue, and Hopkins is a great place to do that, given the diverse strengths represented in its various divisions.” GAIA stems from a challenge issued to APL staff by then Director Rich Roca to come up with a Lab-wide research and development project that addresses a nationally important issue. GAIA principal investigator Larry Paxton said that climate change was an obvious target, given its enormous impact on an array of decision-makers who could range from sewage treatment designers and managers; to farmers coaxing viable crops; to urban planners; to first responders, doctors and public health officials; to government agencies and funding entities. Since the program launched in November 2010, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, SAIS, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering have joined, and GAIA’s organizers welcome other partners. “Although APL is leading this particular effort, there will be other related initiatives to bring together the divisions to focus on the health of planet Earth,” Sommerer said.

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K.T. Ramesh named to WSE’s Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair

.T. Ramesh, a professor of mechanical engineering, has been named to the Whiting School of Engineering’s Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering, effective March 1. A dedication ceremony is planned for April 8. “K.T. is a brilliant scholar who has also been an extremely effective leader in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, not only as chair but also as a driving force in the department’s growth,” said Nick Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School, in announcing Ramesh’s appointment. “He has garnered international acclaim for research that spans a wide range of subject matter, including nanostructured materials, high strain rate behavior and dynamic failure of materials, the dynamics of human tissues and planetary impact problems,” Jones said. “The common thread in all of K.T.’s research is his interest in dynamic problems with applications on scales that range from asteroid hazard mitigation to understanding and mitigating traumatic brain injury and developing strong, lightweight structural materials for personnel and vehicular protection.” Ramesh received his doctorate from Brown University in 1987. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, he joined the Johns Hopkins Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1988, becoming department chair in 1999.

He is director of the university’s Center for Advanced Metallic and Ceramic Systems, a role he has held since founding the center in 2001. Ramesh serves on the governing boards of the American Academy of Mechanics and the Society of Engineering Science, and has played a significant role in blue-ribbon groups suggesting research and development directions for the U.S. Army and the National Academies. In addition to more than 130 peer-reviewed technical articles, he is the author of Nanomaterials: Mechanics and Mechanisms (Springer, 2009). The Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering was established by Alonzo G. Decker Jr., a university trustee for more than 30 years and national chair of the Hopkins Hundreds Campaign in the 1970s, during which time he gave generously to the university, including the establishment of this endowed professorship. As chief executive officer of Black & Decker, he helped lead the manufacturing company to international prominence, devising some of its most successful products. With his wife, Virginia, he actively supported educational institutions in Maryland. He died in 2002, and his wife in 2008. In 2007, the Homewood campus’s lower quad was dedicated as the Alonzo G. and Virginia Decker Quadrangle in honor of their legacy.

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define a community of interest, examine the current knowledge in the field and define a path for future work. Collaborators Cindy Parker and Luke McDonald, both of the School of Public Health, are already building a virtual community dedicated to mitigating and adapting to climate change, and examining its wide range of impacts on the environment. “We don’t have perfect data, but the objective of GAIA is not to create new data,” said Paxton, who specializes in upper atmospheric research. “Our challenge is figuring out the questions people have, determining the knowledge and models available, and applying [what we find] to the problems facing our many decision-makers.” Faculty, staff and students should register for the Climate Change and Public Health workshop by April 1; go to gaia.jhuapl.edu for more information. The GAIA “collaboratory” website is open to all researchers. Margaret Simon of the Space Department contributed to this article.

Report: Number of ‘dropout factory’ high schools continues to decline

he United States continues to make progress in its efforts to keep students in school, according to a new report co-authored by Robert Balfanz, a senior research scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center. In Updating Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, a report released March 22, Balfanz and his colleagues at America’s Promise Alliance and Civic Enterprises found that the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or less of their students on time decreased by 112 between 2008 and 2009, the most current data available.

These schools—often identified as “lowest performing” or “dropout factories”— totaled 1,634 in 2009. This is down from 1,746 in 2008 and a high of 2,007 in 2002. As a result, 183,701 fewer students attended “dropout factories” in 2009 than in 2008. “Our data and case studies show that improvement is continuing and even accelerating in some areas,” Balfanz said in a statement. “This means that real progress is possible when school districts and community partners confront this crisis strategically and commit themselves to solving it.” The report, sponsored by AT&T, is an update to one released in November 2010.

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Spacecraft data confirm orbit of Messenger around Mercury B y P a u l e t t e C a m pb e l l

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ata from its first three days in orbit about Mercury confirmed the initial assessment of the spacecraft team that Messenger is in its intended orbit and operating nominally. “The team is relieved that things have gone so well, but they remain busy as they continue to configure the spacecraft for orbital operations and monitor its health and safety in the new environment,” said Messenger project manager Peter Bedini, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. On March 21, the navigation team delivered an orbit determination that will span Messenger’s first four weeks in orbit. Starting on March 23, the team began commissioning the science instruments. That day the Energetic Particle and Plasma Spectrometer, Magnetometer, Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer, Mercury Laser Altimeter, Neutron Spectrometer and X-Ray Spectrometer were turned on. On March 29, the Mercury Dual Imaging System will be powered on and will take its first images. The yearlong science observation cam-

paign will begin on April 4. “We are about to embark on the first essentially continuous observations of Mercury by an orbiting spacecraft,” said Messenger principal investigator Sean Solomon, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. “It will be a shared adventure long anticipated and much to be relished.” Those interested in following Messenger’s journey in its orbit about Mercury can visit the newly revised Where is Messenger? website feature, which offers simulated views of the spacecraft’s current orbit and what the planet looks like from its current perspective. The Solar System Simulator offers another option for portraying Mercury from the perspective of the Messenger spacecraft at any time during the remainder of the mission. Simulated views of nearby Mercury or distant Earth from Messenger may be created for a variety of fields of view. Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) is the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the sun. APL built and operates the spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA. For complete information on the spacecraft’s orbital operations, go to messenger.jhuapl.edu/ mer_orbit.html.

BME prof wins Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering faculty member who helps students become medical device inventors and business leaders has been named one of the three 2011 winners in the Olympus Innovation Awards Program. The Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award was given to Soumyadipta Acharya, an assistant research professor and graduate program director for the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, affiliated with both the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. The award, one of three sponsored annually by Olympus Corporation of the Americas, in partnership with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, recognizes individuals who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education. The other two Olympus awards were given to Amy Smith, director of D-Lab at MIT, and Ashok Gadgil, the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The honors were given out last week at

the NCIIA’s 15th Annual Conference in Alexandria, Va. Acharya, a physician and biomedical engineer, was recognized for his successful record in developing and implementing educational programs in health care innovation and entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design. Technologies from CBID have resulted in several patents, grants, awards and studentdriven start-up companies. A notable success is the Ante-Natal screening kit, an inexpensive suite of diagnostic tests that CBID students have developed, with the aim of providing routine screening for some of the highest-risk conditions of pregnancy in developing countries. At a cost of one-third of a cent each, these tests can be easily administered and interpreted by community health workers in rural Africa and Asia, potentially helping to prevent many unnecessary deaths during pregnancy. “The Olympus Innovation Award provides recognition for the quality and caliber of this program,” Acharya said, “and we are grateful that it recognizes that Johns Hopkins University is leading the way in innovation.”

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he Johns Hopkins University has awarded approximately $20,000 in grants to students and faculty to stimulate new courses in the arts and other arts-related efforts on the Homewood campus, said Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums. The Arts Innovation Program, initiated in 2006, offers funding to faculty to create new courses in the arts for undergraduates, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and cross-divisional courses. The program also supports the artistic efforts of students, both those currently engaged in arts activities and those wishing to create a new venture, with an emphasis on making connections between Johns Hopkins students and the Baltimore community. Two student-proposed arts initiatives will benefit from the funding. Senior Writing Seminars major Stephanie Delman and junior Daniel Litwin, an economics major, will receive a grant to publish an issue of The Bohemian Monthly Magazine, a bimonthly arts and culture print publication that documents and celebrates the arts both within the Johns Hopkins student community and throughout Baltimore City. (To learn more about The Bohemian, go to www .bohemian-monthly.com.) Junior Writing Seminars major Jonah Furman will use the funds to develop the Baltimore Curators Series of performances and artist lectures focused on Baltimore’s music scene. The curated musical exhi-

bitions will be held on the Homewood campus, free of charge, with the aim of further integrating the Homewood and Baltimore arts communities. The funding will be used to organize the first two events, planned for spring and fall 2011. Additionally, two new courses will receive support. In Sound on Film, student filmmakers from the Krieger School’s Film and Media Studies Program will collaborate with Peabody Conservatory students in the Recording Arts and Sciences Program to design soundtracks for film, from composition and scoring to recording and sound syncing. The final soundtracks will be mastered for DVD and online formats. This lecture and lab course will be taught in fall 2011 by Scott Metcalfe, director of the Recording Arts and Sciences Program, with assistance from Krieger School and Peabody faculty and a range of industry professionals, including Johns Hopkins alumnus Walter Murch ’65, a three-time Academy Award winner for sound and film editing. Also sponsored by the Film and Media Studies Program is Baltimore Live: The Cinematic Arts Through the Lens of Baltimore Filmmakers, to be taught in spring 2012 by film and video artist Jimmy Roche. The course will bring local practicing filmmakers into the classroom to share their experiences and teach students how to make films and videos that utilize the unique locations, stories and people of Baltimore. Baltimore Live will be open to any student who has completed a beginning-level film production course at either Johns Hopkins or the Maryland Institute College of Art.

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he 14th annual student-run Johns Hopkins Film Fest returns to the Homewood campus on Thursday, March 31, with a special panel discussion, “Film Fest Forum: Baltimore, Film and the Arts,” with Film and Media Studies lecturer and filmmaker Matthew Porterfield, film and video artist Jimmy Joe Roche, multimedia artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrom, musician/photographer Andrew Laumann and multimedia artist, filmmaker and writer Stephanie Barber, who will moderate the panel. It will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Gilman Hall’s Marjorie M. Fisher Hall, Room 50. The festival, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Film Society, continues through Sunday, April 3, with a showcase of student films, five 35 mm feature film screenings and two programs of short films from across the country and around the world, all in Shriver Hall Auditorium. This year’s festival theme is Intersecting Arts, a concept allowing audiences to explore what it means for film, paint, sculpture, sound, creative writing, graffiti, fashion and all genres in between to coexist. The student organizers say that the theme reflects Baltimore’s arts scene and recognizes

the importance of artists of various media uniting to form one true community. On Friday, April 1, the festival features the young filmmakers’ showcase of student films at 6 p.m., followed by Beautiful Losers (2008) at 8 p.m. and the Academy Award– nominated Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) at 10 p.m. The events on Saturday, April 2, begin at 1 p.m. with a screening of the film Turkey Bowl (2011), followed by shorts programs at 3 and 5 p.m. The 3 p.m. program will feature the work of nationally known filmmakers Vin Grabill, Cathy Cook, Fred Worden and Eric Dyer, all media art faculty members at the UMBC Department of Visual Arts. The evening ends with the Jean-Luc Godard film Pierrot Le Fou (1965) at 7:30 p.m. The festival wraps on Sunday, April 3, with a Film Programmer’s Showcase at 1 p.m. and The Wizard of Oz (1939) at 4 p.m. As a teaser to the festival, the film society is presenting Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, in Shriver Hall Auditorium. Admission is free for JHU students and affiliates with proper ID. For the public, screening passes are $5, day passes $10 and festival passes $20. All tickets can be bought at any show. For more information and a complete schedule of films, go to the group’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/event .php?eid=192635210776779.

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Labor statistics: Counting the volunteers the world counts on By Mimi Bilzor

Institute for Policy Studies

he International Labour Organization and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies announced last week the release of a new manual to help statistical agencies around the world track the amount, type and value of volunteer work in their countries. The manual, drafted by the Center for Civil Society Studies in cooperation with the ILO and an international Technical Experts Group, and with the support of the United Nations Volunteers, provides the first-ever internationally sanctioned guidance to statistical agencies for generating reliable, official data on volunteer work using a common definition and approach. “Volunteer work is an enormous renewable resource for social, economic and environmental problem solving throughout the world, as we are sure to discover again in

the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. But the lack of solid data on volunteering has left it undervalued and its full potential unrealized,” said Lester M. Salamon, director of the Center for Civil Society Studies. “This manual promises to change this fundamentally. The challenge now is to secure government commitments to implement it.” Previous work by the Johns Hopkins center has shown that, even conservatively estimated, the value of volunteer work in countries throughout the world is roughly double the value of contributions of cash or other valuables by individuals, corporations and foundations together. “The ILO is pleased to be a partner in this effort to bring volunteer work into official labor statistics around the world,” said Rafael Diez de Medina, director of ILO’s Department of Statistics, which guides the gathering and reporting of labor statistics around the world. “We see this as an integral part of ILO’s commitment to the concept of

‘decent work’—that is, work that promotes human rights, social protection and solid social dialogue,” he said. Completion of the manual coincides with the 10th anniversary of the 2001 United Nations International Year of the Volunteer, which called on governments to improve their measurement of volunteer work. “This manual responds to a key mandate established by the U.N. General Assembly at the conclusion of the International Year of the Volunteer in 2001,” said Flavia Pansieri, executive coordinator of the United Nations Volunteers, the U.N. agency charged with encouraging volunteer work and a major supporter of the ILO–Johns Hopkins Volunteer Measurement Project. “In the process, it will boost the visibility of volunteer work, encourage more volunteer involvement, provide a basis for gauging the effectiveness of volunteer promotion efforts and create a more enabling policy environment for volunteer activity, all of which will allow volunteers to expand the

already notable contributions they make to improving health, expanding educational opportunities, promoting economic growth and responding to disasters throughout the world,” she said. The new ILO manual provides a consensus definition of volunteer work and a costeffective way to measure its overall scale and economic value using existing statistical systems. The manual was approved in concept at the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in November 2008 convened by the ILO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, and a final draft was cleared by an international Technical Experts Group in October 2010. The ILO expects to issue a printed version of the manual in several months. The final approved pre-publication version of the Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work is available online on the Center for Civil Society Studies website at www.ccss .jhu.edu.

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urgical items such as sponges and small instruments left in the bodies of children who undergo surgery are quite uncommon and rarely fatal but decidedly dangerous and expensive mistakes, according to a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study published in the November issue of JAMA–Archives of Surgery. Such errors added eight days, on average, to a young patient’s hospital stay and nearly $36,000 in extra hospital charges, both stemming from complications and the need

for follow-up surgery to retrieve the forgotten objects. Analyzing more than 1.9 million records over 17 years detailing surgeries performed on children nationwide, the researchers identified 413 cases, or 0.02 percent, of items left behind—an uncommon but costly and preventable error that can cause complications and require expensive repeat surgeries, the investigators say. The retrospective study examined patient records after the fact and did not directly analyze factors such as operating room conditions and surgical routines that increased the chance of leaving items inside a patient. Yet the researchers noted that teenage patients

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Ignition Grants create sparks at Applied Physics Lab event two weeks before the close of competition, some of the top vote-getters set up displays and answered questions from other APL staffers. David Porter described how he got the idea that led to the creation of iBuoy, a small, inexpensive buoy built from existing components that can provide real-time sea state information to U.S. Navy vessels via satellite. “I saw an ad for a tablet computer that mentioned it had a gyroscope, and I said to my wife, ‘That’s a tiny gyroscope,’” Porter said. “I came to work and talked about it with Kevin Fleagle, and we started thinking about buoys.” The iBuoy was born; it was the No. 1 choice of APL staffers midway in the competition. Chris Brown, a robotics engineer, brought his working prototype for a pocket-size personal surveillance robot. About the size of a pack of cards, with four rounded legs that spin and propel the robot in a loping, bouncing gait, the camera- and microphoneequipped device was guided across a table by Brown using his BlackBerry’s track pad. “This robot,” he explained, “is designed for the last 100 meters”—the dangerous area that a special operations soldier might not be able to get to in order to complete his mission. “He can toss this in front of him and guide it with his smartphone.” It’s also thought that the robot could be dropped by a canine unit, or even placed on a building by a small unmanned aerial vehicle. And while the prototype is relatively tiny, Brown’s team’s goal is to build one the size of a matchbox, using existing off-the-shelf parts. While Porter’s and Brown’s inventions were drawing crowds, another concept in the top vote-getters had no impressive prototypes or technological components, just the appeal of a good idea: a distributed library at APL. “I had posted on the [APL internal] discussion boards about the possibility of creating a way for APLers to share their technical books,” said Vina Nguyen, “and

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or David L. Porter, an oceanographer at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, his idea for the iBuoy came from an ad for a tablet computer. For robotics scientist Chris Brown, his inspiration for a miniature robot was based on the needs of special operations troops. And for Vina Nguyen, Kalman Hazins and Christina Pikas, it was discovering that they all shared an idea about how to better distribute the many technical publications that line most APL staffers’ bookshelves. APL’s campus in Laurel, Md., is a place where staffers are encouraged to constantly come up with creative solutions and new concepts, not all of which are directly related to the tasks at hand. To keep those ideas from fading away, the Lab recently announced the creation of Ignition Grants, a structured and funded program for any APL employee to propose a new idea that could potentially become a reality. APL Director Ralph Semmel first discussed Ignition Grants during his inaugural State of the Lab presentation on Feb. 17. The grants are a new quarterly initiative designed to draw on the creativity and ingenuity of APL staffers—and it is those same APL staffers who will pick the finalists for review by senior management. (Each staff member gets to vote for 10 proposals.) “This is an experiment,” Semmel told his audience. “We’re going to rely on our community to identify and select the winners.” The top proposals—three to eight in the first cycle—will get $10,000 to $20,000 to develop and grow their idea. Then, Semmel added, “later, as we think about the best ideas, that’s when management will get engaged and decide which projects we want to pursue even further.” At a lunchtime “Ignition Grants Meet-Up”

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Kalman [Hazins] replied to my post because he had a similar idea. We asked Christina [Pikas] to join us a few days later. That was a week before the Ignition Grants were announced.” The three are from different departments at APL and hadn’t known each other until they discovered they shared an idea for creating a distributed library. “There’s a huge gap in digitized books for this type of technical publication,” said Pikas, “but [the actual books are] available here at the Lab, in people’s offices. Even better, you can benefit

from meeting a person who’s read the book, and can offer advice about it.” Hazins agreed, adding that “it’s a strong attempt to break ‘stovepiping’ at the Lab,” he said, referring to the unwanted and unplanned compartmentalization of information within APL. Voting on the initial Ignition Grant proposals began March 1 and closes March 30, with winners to be announced March 31. The program is run by the Science and Technology Business Area of the Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center at APL.

To improve safety, health care needs to look at the aviation industry

n a commentary published March 2 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a leading patient safety expert argues that failure to integrate new electronic equipment in modern hospital operating rooms and intensive care units results in diagnostic mistakes, failures to identify deteriorating patients, communication errors and inefficient work. Clinicians are presented with an ever-increasing amount of raw data about patients, but with no single smart system to integrate that information, safety is not improving, say Peter Pronovost, a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Simon C. Mathews, a medical student at the university. Pronovost says that hospitals need to collaborate with industry to create better systems that will meet clinicians’ needs, improve safety and reduce costs of care. He uses the example of “alarm fatigue,” the understanding that clinicians routinely ignore alarms due to noise overload and their perceived

nuisance. Instead of equipment vendors working together to solve this problem, they make louder and more annoying alarms to ensure that theirs get attention. “As is frequently the case, the health care industry can learn from the experience of the aviation industry,” Pronovost and Mathews write. “When a major airline wants an aircraft for its fleet, it does not painstakingly assemble it by deciding which seats, control systems, engines, communications systems, oxygen masks and other components to use. The airline does not try to determine the best way for these and hundreds of other components to fit together; rather, it relies on an industry integrator (such as Boeing) to build a low-cost, high-quality aircraft that is safe and meets the needs of its end users. The result is a lower-cost, higher-quality airplane with components that work together. Health care needs a similar systems-integration approach.” —Stephanie Desmon To read the JAMA commentary, “The Need for Systems Integration in Health Care,” go to jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/9/934.short.

March 28, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Checklist cuts lethal ventilatorassociated lung infections Team finds ‘dramatic and unprecedented reduction’ in most-lethal infection By Stephanie Desmon

Johns Hopkins Medicine

ases of ventilator-associated pneumonia—the most lethal and among the most common of all hospitalassociated infections—dropped by more than 70 percent in Michigan hospitals where medical staff used a simple checklist designed by Johns Hopkins researchers. Such pneumonias kill an estimated 36,000 Americans each year. The findings, published online in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, show how a relatively simple series of steps, coupled with an education program and a culture that promotes patient safety, can save tens of thousands of lives and millions of dollars in health care costs. “Far too many patients continue to suffer preventable harm from these respiratorlinked pneumonias,” said study lead author Sean M. Berenholtz, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Health care organizations need to be held accountable for ensuring that

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patients get safe and effective treatments to prevent these infections. Broad use of this intervention could prevent the vast majority of those 36,000 deaths.” Severely ill or injured intensive-care patients who can’t breathe on their own need ventilators, but they’re at serious risk for infections such as ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP, which afflicts an estimated 250,000 patients each year. The risk of VAP increases about 1 percent to 3 percent for every day on a ventilator, Berenholtz says. For the new study, caregivers in 127 intensive care units at 82 hospitals in Michigan were instructed to use a group of evidence-based therapies for the prevention of VAP and other ventilator-related complications. The therapies, known as the ventilator bundle, became a checklist for caregivers to follow for patients on breathing machines. The five therapies include elevating the head of the bed more than 30 degrees to keep bacteria from migrating into the lungs, giving antacids or proton pump inhibitors to prevent stomach ulcers, giving anticoagulants to prevent blood clots, lessening sedation to allow patients to follow commands and daily assessment of readiness to remove the breathing tube. While only the first intervention specifically addresses bacteria

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that can cause pneumonia, all are designed to shorten the length of time on the ventilator, a key to reducing risk of infection, the researchers say. “If we evaluate patients every day with objective tests to see how well they are breathing on their own, patients will come off ventilators sooner,” Berenholtz said. “And the less time they spend on the ventilator, the lower their risk of developing an infection.” Checklists, the Johns Hopkins patient safety team cautions, do not tell the whole story. As part of the VAP reduction program, staff members also were trained to use teamwork and better communication to ensure that the bundle was being properly administered and that the focus was on getting patients off respirators as early as possible. A program was put in place to allow caregivers to learn from their mistakes. Another strategy in developing a “culture of safety” involved educating patients’ families about the therapies and encouraging them to ask questions to ensure that their loved ones were getting the appropriate care, a measure that can help keep caregivers on their toes, Berenholtz says. The study encompassed data from 112 ICUs at 72 Michigan hospitals from October 2003 through September 2005 and then for up to 30 months after the checklist implementation period. At the beginning of the study, the percentage of ventilator days on which patients received all five therapies was 32 percent. At 16 to 18 months post-implementation, the proportion rose to 75 percent, and it was 84 percent at 28 to 30 months post-implementation. Those figures coincide with what Berenholtz calls a “dramatic and unprecedented reduction” in ventilator-associated pneumonia in Michigan, with rates falling up to 71 percent and more than half of ICUs reporting no infections within months after the checklist implementation period. Those reductions were sustained for up to two and a half years. Berenholtz’s VAP research was conducted as part of the Keystone ICU Project, which also found that a cockpit-style checklist could virtually eliminate catheter-associated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive care units throughout the state of Michigan, saving many lives and many millions of dollars. The results from that intervention have received widespread attention and are being replicated in hospitals across the country as more and more states adopt the Johns Hopkins program. “We hope that we can replicate these results nationally, reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia just as we have reduced bloodstream infections,” said Peter J. Pronovost, a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the VAP study’s senior author. The study was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and conducted in partnership with the Michigan Health and Hospital Association. Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study are Julius C. Pham, David A. Thompson, Dale M. Needham, Lisa H. Lubomski, Sara E. Cosgrove, Elizabeth Colantuoni and Christine A. Goeschel.

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Calendar Continued from page 16 Anna Maria Ortese’s Journeys,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University. 479 Gilman. HW Thurs., March 31, 5:30 p.m. The 2011 Rostov Lecture on International Affairs—“Perspectives on the Global Security Environment” by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Sponsored by the SAIS Office of the Dean and the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. For more information and to RSVP, e-mail saisevents@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5636. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS

MUSIC

“Last Autumn,” a recital by alto saxophonist Gary Louie with Daniel Gaisford, violoncello. Part of the Sylvia Adalman Artist Recital Series. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Tues., March 29, 8 p.m.

Peabody Wed., March 30, 7 p.m. Recital by Nobuko Imai, viola, performing music by Mozart, Britten, Bridge and Brahms. Griswold Hall. Peabody Fri., April 1, 5:45 p.m. The Peabody at Homewood Concert Series presents the Vinca Quartet performing string quartets by Beethoven and Bartok. $15 general admission, $12 for Homewood Museum members, $8 for full-time students with valid IDs. Seating is limited; advance purchase recommended. 410-5165589. Homewood Museum. HW Sun., April 3, 3 p.m. The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra presents a chamber concert with guest artists Iraida Poberezhnaya, harp, and Marika Bournaki, piano. $8 general admission, $6 for senior citizens, JHU affiliates and non-JHU students; free for JHU students. SDS Room, Mattin Center. HW

READ I N G S / B OO K TA L K S Thurs., March 31, 6 p.m. Poetry

reading by Joshua Clover. Sponsored by English. 26 Mudd. HW

S E M I N AR S Mon., March 28, 12:15 p.m.

“Quality Control on the Ribosome During Translation,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Rachel Green, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., March 28, 12:15 p.m.

“Private Assets, Public Mission: The Ethics/Politics of University Tech Transfer,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with David

Winickoff, University of California, Berkeley. W3030 SPH. EB Mon., March 28, 1:30 p.m. “PET and Optical Molecular Imaging Probe Development,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Xiaoyuan Shawn Chen, NIBIB/ NIH. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW )

“Eigenvalues of Collapsing Domains and Drift Laplacian,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Zhiqin Lu, University of California, Irvine. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

Mon., March 28, 3 p.m.

An M. Gordon Wolman Special Seminar—“Quantifying the Coupled Geomorphic and Geochemical Evolution of Eroding Landscapes” with Simon Mudd, University of Edinburgh. 234 Ames. HW

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The David Bodian Seminar— “Representing Information in Neuronal Cell Assemblies: Persistent Activity in the Dentate Gyrus Mediated by Semilunar Granule Cells” with Ben Strowbridge, Case Western Reserve University. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/ Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW “Regulation of EGFR Traffic and Stability by Sterol Pathway Proteins SC4MOL and NSDHL,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Igor Astsaturov, Fox Chase Cancer Center. 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., March 29, noon.

The Hopkins Undergraduate Bioethics Society’s first Bioethics Day .

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12:30 p.m.

7 p.m. “How Much Should We Spend on Health Care?” with Jonathan Leider, SPH. 50 Gilman. HW

“Current Issues in Bioethics” with Valerie Bonham, executive director, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. W1020 SPH. EB

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Social Computation: Connecting Individual Decision-Making Rules to Collective Patterns Through Adaptive Causal Circuit Construction,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Jessica Flack, Santa Fe Institute. B17 Hackerman. HW Tues., March 29, 4:30 p.m.

“The Power, Promise and Turmoil—Water Challenges in South Asia,” a Johns Hopkins Global Water Program seminar with Winston Yu, World Bank. Co-sponsored by the Sommer Scholars and the Environmental Health Sciences Student Organization. E2030 SPH. EB Wed., March 30, noon. “Encoding and Decoding Signaling Information in Transcription Factor Translocation Dynamics,” a Biophysics seminar with Erin O’Shea, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Harvard University. 111 Mergenthaler. HW Wed., March 30, 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday Noon Seminar— “The Role of Compliance With American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines for Well Child Care in the Early Detection of Autistic Disorder” with Amy Daniels. Sponsored by Mental Health. B14B Hampton House. EB Wed., March 30, 2 p.m. “Histone Modifications and Epigenetics,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Sean Taverna, SoM. Tilghman Auditorium. EB

“3D Patterned Hydrogels for Guided Cell Growth,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto. 110 Maryland. HW

Tues., March 29, 3 p.m. The M. Gordon Wolman Seminar— “Death and Dying in the Era of Climate Change: Perspectives From Riparian Bangladesh” with Naveeda Khan, KSAS. 234 Ames. HW Tues., March 29, 4:30 p.m.

“Conformal Blocks and Rational Normal Curves,” an Algebraic Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Noah Giansiracusa, Brown University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW Tues., March 29, 4:30 p.m.

“Toward a Theory of Collective

Base of Contention: Kyrgyzstan, Russia and the United States in Central Asia,” a SAIS Russian and Eurasian Studies Program thesis defense seminar with Alisher Khamidov. 812 Rome Bldg. SAIS Thurs.,

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“Chromosomal Abnormalities and Genetic Relatedness: From Pedigrees to Populations,” a Biology seminar with Jonathan Pevsner, SoM and Kennedy Krieger Institute. 100 Mudd. HW Thurs., March 31, 4 to 6 p.m., and Fri., April 1, 8:30 a.m. to noon. The Futures Seminar—

Department of the History of Art, with Christiane Gruber, Indiana University; Jacqueline Jung, Yale University; Molly Warnock, University of Chicago; Richard Neer, University of Chicago; and Todd Cronan, Emory University. Mason Hall Auditorium (Thursday) and Salon C, Charles Commons (Friday). HW

Fri., April 1, noon. “Glycoproteomic Analysis of Changes to the Liver Membrane,” a Biological Chemistry special seminar with Albert Lee, NYU. 612 Physiology. EB Fri., April 1, 1 p.m. “Estimating the Factors Associated With Health Status and Access to Care Among Iraqis Displaced in Jordan and Syria Using Population Assessment Data,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with James Cope. 461 Hampton House. EB

“The Emotional Life of Urban Space,” an Anthropology seminar with Christine Hentschel, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin. Co-sponsored by Political Science. 368 Mergenthaler. HW

Fri., April 1, 4 p.m.

Wed., March 30, 4 p.m. “Structural Basis of EGFR/ErbB Signaling and ErbB-Targeted Therapies,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Daniel Leahy, SoM. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Mon., April 4, noon. “Control of Stem Cells by Diet and Systemic Factors in the Drosophila Ovary,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Daniela Drummond-Barbosa. W1020 SPH. EB

Wed., March 30, 4 p.m. “Single-Index Signal Regression,” a Biostatistics seminar with Brian Marx, Louisiana State University. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., April 4, noon. “Structural Basis of Voltage Sensor Function and Pharmacology,” a Biophysics seminar with Kenton Swartz, NIH. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

“Building Suburban Power: Roland Park, 1891–1918,” an American History seminar with Paige Glotzer, KSAS. 308 Gilman. HW

Mon., April 4, 12:15 p.m.

Tues., March 29, 1:30 p.m.

“Breaking the Rules: An Examination of the Development of Melanopsin Expressing Retinal Ganglion Cells,” a Biology thesis defense seminar with Catherine Sheely. 107 Jenkins. HW

Wed., March 30, 3 p.m.

Wed., March 30, 4 p.m.

Thurs., March 31, 10:45 a.m.

“Protein Structure Determination From Sparse/Low Resolution Experimental Data,” a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Jens Meiler, Vanderbilt University. 301 Shaffer. HW The Bromery Seminar—“A Glacial Divide Between Ediacaran Extinction and the Cambrian Explosion of Animals” with Alan Jay Kaufman, University of Maryland. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. 305 Olin. HW

Thurs., March 31, noon.

“Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Regulating the Invasion of Epithelial Tissues,” a Cell Biology seminar with Andrew Ewald, SoM. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., March 31, noon.

Thurs., March 31, 2 p.m.

“The

“Epigenetic Regulation of T Cell Differentiation,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Keji Zhao, NHLBI/NIH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Mon., April 4, 3 p.m. “The Significance of Wealth in Understanding Associations Between Race and the Risk of Low Birth Weight,” a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Adam Allston. W2017 SPH. EB

S P EC I A L E V E N T S

“Le Style Malmaison,” a discussion by design historian Emily Evans Eerdmans of the interior decoration of Malmaison, influential country house of Napoleon’s consort Josephine. Part of The House Beautiful lecture series, sponsored by JHU Museums. $20 general admission, $15 for museum members and students. Advance registra-

Wed., March 30, 6:30 p.m.

tion recommended; call 410-5160341 or www.brownpapertickets .com/event/157384. Bakst Theatre, Evergreen Museum & Library. S a t . , A p r i l 2 , 9 a . m . “Live Near Your Work on Wheels,” a bus tour of the LNYW areas in Baltimore. Learn about the neighborhoods, tour featured homes and enjoy treats from Di Pasquale’s Italian Marketplace. Sponsored by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement. Bus will leave from the Eastern High School parking lot. Sat., April 2, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., April 3, 3 p.m. Live Gui-

tars, Percussion and a Dash of HipHop, seven works choreographed by Peabody Dance artistic director Carol Bartlett and faculty members Meredity Rainey and Laura Dolid, and performed by Peabody Dance students, the dance department of Peabody Prep and guest artists. (See story, p. 16.) Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for children under 18 and students with ID. For tickets, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-234-4800. Friedberg Hall.

Peabody Mon., April 4, 3 to 5:30 p.m.

Community Action Poverty Simulation, an invitation to students in the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health to experience what it means to live one month in the inner city as a low-income resident, featuring opening remarks by Dean Katherine Newman. Part of National Public Health Week. Sponsored by the JHU Alumni Association, the SoN Department of Community Public Health, BGSA and the Anna Baetjer Society. Open to students only. To sign up, e-mail source@jhsph.edu. E2030 SPH. EB THEATER Fri., April 1 and Sat., April 2, 8 p.m.; Sun., April 3, 3 p.m.

Witness Theater presents original student-written one-act plays. $10 general admission, $8 for senior citizens, non-JHU students and JHU faculty, staff, alumni; free for JHU students with valid ID. Arellano Theater, Levering. HW W OR K S HO P S Tues., March 29, 12:15 p.m.

“Acing an Interview,” a Career Services Office workshop on preparing for and landing the interview, perfecting interview technique. W2008 SPH. EB Tues., March 29, 4:30 p.m.

“Refworks,” an MSE Library workshop on the Web-based citation manager and bibliography creator. For information or to register, go to http://guides.library.jhu.edu/ refworks. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW Thurs.,

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“Introduction to Facebook,” a Bits & Bytes workshop, providing an introduction to this teaching tool. To register, go to www.cer .jhu.edu/events.html. The training is open to Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs; staff are also welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

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t’s official: Harvey the Cardiopulmonary Simulator has checked in for an extended stay at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Harvey is the latest addition to the school’s upgraded simulation laboratories and the newest member of the “Sim Fam.” These lifelike practice manikins, including Sim Man, Vital Sim Man, Noelle with newborn, Vital Sim Child and Sim Baby, give nursing students hands-on experience without the anxiety of working with actual human beings. For almost 40 years, Harvey, developed in cooperation between Laerdal Medical Corp. and Miami University Miller School of Medicine, has been a proven simulation system teaching bedside cardiac assessment skills that transfer to real patients, and remains the longest continuous universitybased simulation project in medical education. “The addition of Harvey adds the next level in simulation education,” said Dianne Aschenbrenner, faculty coordinator for the simulation and nursing practice laboratories at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. “Now our undergraduate and graduate nurse

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and social science periodicals content. Its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public and school libraries worldwide. MUSE is the sole source of complete, full-text versions of journal titles from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies, with more than 100 publishers currently participating. Dean Smith, director of Project MUSE, said that this new partnership has “enormous potential” for scholarly publishers and allows for the complete reinvention of Project MUSE. “Our user community will benefit greatly from the integrated research opportunities presented by putting university press book content alongside journal collections,” Smith said. “Publishers and authors will see their books exposed to MUSE’s installed base of several million scholars, researchers and students across the globe. This represents the widest dissemination of this content to date at very affordable prices for users.” The University Press e-book Consortium emerged in 2009 to explore the feasibility of a university press–based e-book initiative. The consortium, supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is led by representatives of some of the nation’s largest university presses: New York University Press, Temple University Press, Rutgers University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press and University of Nebraska Press. Representatives of UPeC worked closely with librarians over the past two years to develop a scholarly e-book model that benefits both libraries and presses. The consortium late last year launched an RFP process

practitioner students can assess a wide range of cardiac conditions, from the simplistic to the complex.” Harvey realistically simulates nearly any cardiac disease at the touch of a button, with varying blood pressure, pulses, heart sounds and murmurs. The software installed in the simulator allows users to track history, bedside findings, lab data, and medical and surgical treatment. Sim Man and Vital Sim Man were the first “patients” to join the school, in 2004, with a Vital Sim Child added in 2005 and an additional Sim Man arriving in 2008. Sim Man, Vital Sim Man and Vital Sim Child can be used to assess blood pressure and radial, carotid and femoral pulse readings, as well as basic heart, respiratory and abdominal sounds. Sim Man also has more-advanced features that allow his use in role-playing scenarios; speakers, for example, allow the “patient” to “talk” to students. He can also be given CPR, defibrillated and intubated in emergency situations. Sim Baby, introduced to the school in 2005, performs many of the same functions as Sim Man. Noelle with newborn is a “pregnant” manikin received in 2006 and is used to practice Leopold maneuvers, normal vaginal and instrumented delivery, breech delivery, C-section and postpartum hemorrhaging, among other functions.

to find a business partner that could serve as an online content provider. Project MUSE was one of five finalists selected. “The creation of UPCC signals a new era of interuniversity press collaboration,” said Alex Holzman, director of Temple University Press and one of the founding directors of UPeC. “In these challenging times, presses need to acknowledge one of their key strengths—excellent scholarship—and work together to be able to disseminate this scholarship as widely as possible.” Keane agrees. “This is a significant and transformative moment in the world of scholarly publishing,” she said. “It bodes well for the future of university presses.” This new initiative will supplant MUSE’s previously announced Project MUSE Editions e-book program, similar in intent but more modest in scale. MUSE Editions would have hosted e-books from Johns Hopkins University Press and another half-dozen university presses. Books in the University Press Content Consortium collections will be fully integrated on the MUSE platform. Institutions will pay an annual tier-structured fee, based on the size of the host institution, to access the material. Users will be able to search across combined book and journal content, or limit searches by subject type. The peer-reviewed e-books will be in PDF format and searchable and retrievable to the chapter level. Each e-book will be released simultaneously with the print version. A beta platform, including sample book content and a new integrated search interface, will launch this summer. The beta will run in parallel to the current MUSE site, for review and feedback, until the full launch of the UPCC collections in January. G For more information on Project MUSE, go to muse.jhu.edu.

March 28, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Butchers Hill, 3BR, 3BA house, avail May 1, walking distance to JHMI, rent entire house or per rm. $2,200/mo. 443-851-0887 or schaudry@coastallendinggroup.biz. Canton, lg 2- or 3BR, 2BA house, pets negotiable. $1,700/mo. 410-598-7337. Charles Village, spacious, bright 3BR apt available in secure bldg. $1,350/mo. 443253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com. Cedarcroft, 3BR, 2.5BA house, eat-in kitchen, stainless steel appls, granite counters, sunrm, fin’d bsmt, W/D, CAC, hdwd flrs, lg front yd, fenced backyd w/deck. $3,000/ mo + utils (negotiable). 443-414-6834, tramandalex@gmail.com or https:// picasaweb.google.com/tramandalex (pics). Churchton, unique 2BR, 1BA house, CAC, W/D, wraparound porch, carport, spacious waterfront lot, avail April $1,500/mo. lesliedegnan@gmail.com. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/ full kitchen, call for wkly/wknd rentals, pics avail at jzpics@yahoo.com. 410-638-9417. East Monument St, 2BR, 2.5BA apt, stainless steel appls. $1,050/mo. erasmocha@ yahoo.com. Elrino St, spacious, bright 1BR, 1BA apt in EOG TH, 2nd flr, living rm, kitchen. $600/ mo + utils. 443-386-8471, 443-386-9146 or lcmbfan@yahoo.com. Fells Point, fully furn’d efficiency, has bed, full-size BA, lg closet, lg TV, desk, dishes, flatware, pots, pans, expos’d brick, hdwd flrs, lots of windows, rooftop deck; just move in, utils incl’d. 410-802-9918. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, nr lt rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410-378-2393. Historic Baltimore, upscale, modern, fully furn’d studio apt, separate gourmet kitchen, all appls, satellite TV, free WiFi, more. $1,100/mo + elec. 443-988-3137, richardson1886@gmail.com or http:// therichardsonhouse.vflyer.com/home/flyer/ home/3200019. Mt Vernon, 1BR loft apt, W/D in unit, grocery store next door, 10-min walk to harbor, perf for prof’ls. $995/mo + elec (approx $70/ mo) + prkng. 410-456-7606. Oakenshawe, 5BR, 2.5BA house in familyfriendly neighborhood, 3 stories, hdwd flrs, bsmt, CAC/heat, back BR w/balcony, front porch, garden, great for kids, pets OK, walk to Homewood campus/JHU shuttle, shops, dining, pref long-term, avail June. $2,300/ mo. 202-294-7571 or ccenzmann@web.de. Ocean City, Md, 3BR, 2BA condo (137th St), ocean block, steps from beach, offstreet prkng (2 spaces), lg swimming pool, walk to restaurants/entertainment, weeks are going fast. 410-544-2814. Patterson Park, newly rehabbed 2BR, 1BA TH, CAC, W/D, fenced yd, 1 blk to bus lines, great neighborhood and neighbors. $995/mo. Gene, 410-975-5761. Pikesville, 3- or 4BR house w/full kitchen, bsmt, alarm system, in quiet area nr shopping center/Summit Park Elementary, ideal for family at Hopkins. 410-236-1503. Rodgers Forge, 3BR TH w/new kitchen, AC, W/D, deck, no pets/no smoking, available July 1. $1,650/mo. mtrblsd@gmail.com.

M A R K E T P L A C E

Roland Park, furn’d 2BR, 2BA condo, furn’d, W/D, walk-in closet, swimming pool, cardio equipment, .5 mi to Homewood, secure area. $1,600/mo. 410-218-3547 or khassani@ gmail.com. Rosedale, 3BR, 1BA EOG RH in quiet neighborhood, CAC, deck, above-ground pool. $1,200/mo. 410-236-3596. Towson/Rodgers Forge, 3BR, 1.5BA TH, W/D, renov’d kitchen, CAC, deck, prkng pad, no smoking/no pets, avail April 1. $1,650/mo. wwang1268@yahoo.com. Wyman Park, lg, furn’d 2BR apt avail from April to May while occupants travel. $900/ mo. 443-691-4516. Wyman Park, sunny 2BR apt, AC, laundry in bldg, easy walk to Homewood campus/ JHMI shuttle, avail May 15. $1,150/mo. 443-615-5190. 4BR, 3.5BA house w/deck, lg backyd, 2-car garage, nr Hopkins/light rail/shopping, avail from July 1, ideal for family at Hopkins. $2,600/mo + utils. Archna, 443-466-6487 or archnatuli@yahoo.com (for pics). Beautiful 3BR, 2BA condo w/garage, spacious, great location, walk to Homewood campus. $1,800/mo. 443-848-6392 or sue .rzep2@verizon.net. 3BR RH w/2 full BAs, hdwd flrs, lg kitchen, fin’d courtyd, walking distance to JHH/KKI/ Fells Point and Harbor East, avail mid-June. $1,900/mo. 410-718-6134. 2BR, 1BA apt, 900 sq ft, newly fin’d, new appls. $1,100/mo. George, 410-529-9644. Storage and car garages, less than 1 mi from JHH. Jon, 410-294-2793.

3402 Mt Pleasant Ave, craftsmanship and location, nr JHU, nicely priced. Pitina, 410-900-7436.

ROOMMATES WANTED

F wanted to share 2BR, 1BA apt in Charles Village, fully equipped kitchen, living rm, dw, free laundry, heat/AC, nr JHU. 443799-7748.

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt w/cedar closet, maintenancefree yd, carport, mins to JHH. $139,500. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com. Locust Point, 1BR Silo Point condo, game rm, fitness center, Sky Lounge, right off I-95. $269,900. 410-377-7489 or silopointcondo420@gmail.com. Mt Washington, affordable 3BR, 2.5BA house, CAC, sunrm, fin’d bsmt, yd, nr blueribbon Mt Washington Elementary. $265,000. 410-979-3833 or aLb457@gmail.com. Rodgers Forge, 3BR, 1.5BA EOG RH, on cul-de-sac, walk to great schools. $289,900. 410-339-5373 or lorijordan53@hotmail.com. Violetville, totally rehabbed RH, 2 spacious BRs, 2BAs, hdwd flrs, new appls, fin’d lower level, fenced yd, quiet neighborhood, 15 mins to JHH. $130,000. Jan, 410-456-2565 or janetmargaret@verizon.net. Waverly, 3BR, 2BA TH, EOG unit, fin’d bsmt, wooden deck, fenced yd. $125,000. Randy, 410-456-3775 or randy@ homeownershipworks.com. Luxury 1BR condo in high-rise, secure bldg w/doorman, W/D, CAC/heat, swimming pool, exercise rm, nr Guilford/JHU. $179,000. 757-773-7830 or norva04@gmail .com.

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2 BD from $795

w/Balcony - $785!

Shown by appointment - 410-764-7776 www.BrooksManagementCompany.com

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

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

Looking for stay-at-home mom to care for my infant son in Fells Point area, must be smoke-free, loving, energetic, familiar w/ area child-friendly activities. jrbowman@ hotmail.com.

Furn’d rm nr Patterson Park, walking distance to JHH. 951-941-0384 or arcroshani@ hotmail.com.

Entrepreneurial volunteers needed for ambitious ecology project involving social networks. Mark, 410-464-9274.

Share fully furn’d Mt Vernon apt. $600/mo incl utils. 425-890-1327 (call or text).

Free: Baldwin Arcsonic piano and bench, to anyone who can pick it up from my Columbia home, excel cond. 410-207-4475.

Rm available in 3BR, 1.5BA Nottingham house, W/D, swimming pool on same street, 20-min drive to JHU, owner of home is 32-yrold F prof’l. $500/mo. kwojo2@yahoo.com. 1BR and common areas of furn’d 3BR, 1.5BA house in Original Northwood, renov’d BA, steam rm, 46” TV, back and front yds, patio, ample street prkng, direct bus to JHMI/JHU. $600/mo + utils. cjouny@gmail.com. F looking for 1 or 2 people to share a 2BR apt (#1003) at University One, 5-min walk to Homewood campus. 650-867-1278.

CARS FOR SALE

’04 VW Golf, silver w/black interior, 43K mi, good mileage. $7,600. annenatk@yahoo .com. ‘02 VW GTI, gray 2-dr hatchback, 5-spd manual transmission, new tires, state insp’d, in excel cond, 109K mi. $6,500. pico .niner@gmail.com (info/pics). ‘98 Honda Accord LX coupe, 6-cyl, 2-dr, green, excel shape, 115K mi. $4,500/best offer. 240-755-4954 or 443-942-0857.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Gardens of Guilford, lg, newly renov’d 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant setting, easy walk to Homewood campus. 410-366-1066.

Reciprocating saw, printer, dresser w/shelves, sand beach chairs (2), digital piano, amplifier. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. Green chandeliers (2), still in boxes. $100/ best offer. lynnnona84@gmail.com.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Sleep sofa and matching loveseat, in good cond, $100/best offer; swivel tube chair, in good cond, $25. 410-964-5783. Canon GL1 camcorder w/Opteka fisheye lens, battery, bag, cables, lots of extras. $800. 443-520-2639. Modern-style fabric sofa, upholstered in blue fabric w/green trim; buyer must pick up. $100. http://bit.ly/gn3Fex. Antique captain’s chair, spindle/leather/ brass trim, $60; Hoover upright Legacy II, $35; Singer zig-zag, old but seldom used, $35. johannecoll@hotmail.com. Stylish women’s suits, dresses, beaver fur coat, hats, pocketbooks, boy’s clothes sizes 12-18 months. Best offers. 410-866-2348 or ralpvon@verizon.net. Gorgeous, like-new furniture and furnishings incl futon, dining rm set, buffet, bed, recliner, stereo, artwork. 410-235-2190 or csokolom1989@yahoo.com. Conn alto saxophone, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond. 410-488-1886.

Looking for subjects for research paper interviews on cybersecurity, copyright, pref subjects from Russia, Ukraine, mainland China, Arabic-speaking countries. $20 per interview. 443-471-6121 or jchris1@umbc.edu. Unified Voices concert at First Charity Baptist Church, 611 N Aisquith St, 3:30pm on April 3; $10 over 13, $5 under. 410-7320076. Learn Chinese. 717-623-3512 or yingyuanyy@ gmail.com. Masterpiece Landscaping: knowledgeable, experienced individual, on-site consultation, transplanting, bed preparation, installation, sm tree and shrub shaping; licensed. Terry, 410-652-3446. Resident assistants needed, July 23-29, to supervise 120 high school students for 1-wk camp at Homewood campus. Shanna, skh9701@gmail.com. Hopkins retiree provides fast and accurate transcription services. 410-323-0899. Affordable, professional mobile auto detailing; we come to you. Erik, 443-934-3750. Licensed landscaper avail for lawn maintenance, yd cleanup, fall/winter leaf and snow removal, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@ comcast.net. Mobile detailing and mobile power-wash service. Jason, 443-421-3659. 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. Great photos! Headshots for interviews or auditions, family pictures, production, weddings, other events. Edward S Davis photography/videography. 443-695-9988 or esdavisimaging@gmail.com. Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free, confidential consultation. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@ aol.com. Free standard size pool table, if you can move it, you can have it; located just off Homewood campus. 410-243-5890. Mama, do you want your body back? Eightwk weight loss and fitness program, proven results. beata@strollerstrides.net.

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for Transatlantic Relations panel discussion with Franco Frattini, Italian minister of foreign affairs; Daniel Hamilton, SAIS; Ruth Hanau Santini, Brookings Institution and SAIS; and Federiga Bindi, SAIS. Co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution. To RSVP, go to http://transatlantic.sais-jhu .edu/events/2011/frattini_brookings .htm. Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC.

CO L L O Q U I A Tues., March 29, 4:15 p.m.

“Structural, Spectroscopic and Mechanistic Investigations of Dehaloperoxidase B From Amphitrite ornata,” a Chemistry colloquium with Reza Ghiladi, North Carolina State University. 233 Remsen. HW

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“Early Science From SOFIA,” an STSci colloquium with Erick Young, NASA-Ames Research Center. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Wed., March 30, 4 p.m. “Lifespan,

Mindspan and the Aging Brain,” a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Peter Rapp, NIH/NIA. 234 Ames. HW

MARTIN O’CONNOR

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Wed., March 30, 4:30 p.m.

“Rescuing Ariadne,” a Peabody DMA Musicology colloquium with Wendy Heller, Princeton University. 308 Conservatory Bldg. Wed., March 30, 5 p.m.

Peabody

“ ‘Dazzled to the Point of Confusion?’ Anatomy and Midwifery in 18thCentury Italy,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Lucia Dacome, University of Toronto. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Thurs., March 31, 3 p.m.

Thurs., March 31, 3 p.m. “Critical Dipoles and Singular Potentials,” a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with David Griffiths, Reed College. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW Thurs., March 31, 3:45 p.m.

“Modes of Phonological Judgment,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Shigeto Kawahara, Rutgers University. 134A Krieger. HW “Quality and Safety in Patient Care,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Peter Pronovost, SoM. Parsons Auditorium. APL

Fri., April 1, 2 p.m.

CO N F ERE N CE S Sat., April 2, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Commemorations, an

Anthropology Graduate Student conference with keynote speaker Hoenik Kwon, London School of Economics. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW D I S CU S S I O N / TA L K S Tues., March 29, 12:15 p.m.

“Unrest in the Middle East: Italy’s Perspective,” a SAIS Center

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“Deepening Strategic Ties: The U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) Alliance in the Lead-up to 2012,” a U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS roundtable discussion with U.S.ROK alliance experts. Co-sponsored by the SAIS Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. For information or to RSVP, go to http://uskoreainstitute.org/ events/?event_id=86. National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington DC.

Wed., March 30, 3:30 p.m.

“Pornography, Medicines and the Making of Masculine Bodies: Everyday Life in the Bus Terminals of Dhaka City, Bangladesh,” an Anthropology colloquium with Sabina Rashid, BRAC University, Bangladesh. Co-sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality. 113 Greenhouse. HW

Meredith Rainey

Peabody Dance presents ‘Live Guitars, Percussion and a Dash of Hip-Hop’ By Richard Selden

Peabody Institute

even works choreographed by Peabody Dance artistic director Carol Bartlett and faculty members Meredith Rainey and Laura Dolid will be premiered on April 2 and 3 at Peabody Dance’s 2011 Choreography Showcase, Live Guitars, Percussion and a Dash of Hip-Hop. Seventeen of the most accomplished students from Peabody Dance, the time-honored dance department of the Peabody Preparatory, will perform with guest artists Christine Buttorff, a former member of the Nashville Ballet, and Rainey, a former Pennsylvania Ballet soloist who directs his own Philadelphia-based company, Carbon Dance Theatre. Rainey’s major new work for this year’s Choreography Showcase, set to Michael Nyman’s String Quartet No. 2, is a four-movement contemporary ballet in which he and Buttorff perform a pas de deux. With Dolid, he has choreographed a suite of dances set to three solo piano movements by Francis Poulenc. His third work is a restaging of a solo dance, Caged, which Buttorff will perform. The four new works by Bartlett, who produces the annual Choreography Showcase, maximize the musical resources and unique opportunities for collaboration offered by the Peabody Conservatory. Student percussionists Kei Maeda, Terrence Sweeney and Georgi Videnov will perform for Mantra, choreographed to Avalokitesvara’s Hand, a composition written by Grammy nominee Angel Lam, a Peabody Conservatory alumna. “Mantra is the focal point for creative partnership in this year’s showcase,” Bartlett said. “Angel’s piece creates a musical tai chi for the percussionists’ hands, and the choreography is inspired by this icon of compassion and the contemplative atmosphere in which mantras are intoned.” In complete contrast, Bartlett has reached out to the conservatory’s renowned Classical Guitar Department to present a new arrangement of Wayne Siegal’s East L.A. Phase, a minimalist piece containing sections of improvisation. Five guitar students—Eric McCullough, Christopher Moy, Krystin O’Mara, Cassidy Payne and Young Ik Jang—will create a “cityscape” atmosphere for Bartlett’s choreography, danced by four students. Bartlett’s third work will feature hip-hop virtuoso Logan Paschall, a second-year student in the Estelle Dennis/Peabody Dance Training Program for Boys and a freshman at the Baltimore School for the Arts, and Irina Randrianarivelo, a student at the Bryn Mawr School. The theme, in an experimental juxtaposition of genres, is “ballet meets hiphop.” The smorgasbord of contemporary styles will be rounded off with a dance by Bartlett set to reggae music. The two performances of Live Guitars, Percussion and a Dash of Hip-Hop will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 3, in Peabody’s Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for children under 18 and students with ID. For tickets, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-234-4800. Now in its 97th year, Peabody Dance is believed to be the oldest dance training program in the United States. For more information about the Choreography Showcase and the performers, go to www.peabody.jhu.edu/danceshowcase.

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“Korea’s New Security Paradigm,” a SAIS Strategic Studies Program discussion with Chung Mong Joon, Korean National Assembly, and chair of the U.S.-Korea Interparliamentary Council. Co-sponsored by the SAIS Global Theory and History Program. For information or to RSVP, e-mail starr.lee@jhu .edu or phone 202-663-5714. Rome Auditorium. SAIS Tues.,

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“Wireless Democracy: Innovation in Africa,” a SAIS African Studies Program panel discussion with Matthias Chika Mordi, CEO, Accender Africa; Wayan Vota, Inveneo; Sean McDonald, Frontline SMS; Paul Lubeck, University of California, Santa Cruz; and Katie Dowd, U.S. Department of State. For information, e-mail itolber1@jhu.edu or call 202-6635676. 203 Rome Bldg. SAIS Wed., March 30, 12:30 p.m.

“State Building in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Theory and Practice,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Francis Fukuyama, SAIS; Olivier Nomellini, Stanford University; and Severine Autesserre, Barnard College and author of The Trouble With the Congo. For information, email itolber1@jhu.edu or call 202-6635676. 736 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS Thurs., March 31, 8:30 a.m.

“American Foreign Policy and Africa,” a SAIS Center on Politics and Foreign Relations discussion with Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia). For information and to RSVP, e-mail rguttman@jhu .edu or call 202-974-6341. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS Thurs., March 31, 12:15 p.m.

“Career Ethics,” a Career Services discussion on job search, interview and workplace ethics. W2008 SPH. EB Fri., April 1, 12:30 p.m. “Nonviolent Struggle: Lessons From Serbia Applied in North Africa,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations panel discussion with Srda Popovic, founder, OTPOR (Resistance) movement in Serbia; Veddran Dzihic, SAIS; and Daniel Serwer (moderator), SAIS. For information and to RSVP, e-mail transatlanticrsvp@jhu.edu or call

202-663-5880. 812 Rome Bldg. SAIS

F I L M / V I DEO Thurs., March 31, through Sun., April 3. The 14th Annual

Johns Hopkins Film Fest titled Intersecting Arts. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Film Society. (See story, p. 8.) Admission is free to JHU students and affiliates with proper ID. For locations and a complete schedule of films, go to www.facebook.com/event .php?eid=192635210776779. HW L ECTURE S Mon., March 28, 12:15 p.m.

“The Hatam Sofer on Jacob and Esau: Brotherhood and Jewish Emancipation,” a Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies lecture by Malachi Hacohen, Duke University. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW Mon., March 28, 4 p.m. The Fourth Billig-Croft Lecture— “Electrochemistry and the Future of the Automobile” by Frederick Wagner, General Motors. Reception follows. Sponsored by the Whiting School of Engineering. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW

The Dean’s Lecture IV—“Epigenetic Marks as Detectors, Targets and Predictors in Breast Cancer” by Saraswati Sukumar, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB

Mon., March 28, 4 p.m.

The Monroe Martin Lectures

by Satyan Devadoss, Williams College. Sponsored by Mathematics. HW •

Mon., March 28, 4:30 p.m. “Topology of Particle

Collisions.” 304 Krieger. •

Tues., March 29, 4:30 p.m.

“Combinatorics of Surface Deformations.” 300 Krieger.

Tues., March 29, 12:30 p.m.

Special School of Nursing Dean’s Lecture—“Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged” by Katherine Newman, KSAS dean. 140 Anne M. Pinkard Bldg. EB Thurs., March 31, 5:15 p.m.

“On Clouds, With Respect to Goethe,” a German and Romance and Literatures lecture by Marianne Schuller, University of Hamburg. 288 Gilman. HW Thurs., March 31, 5:15 p.m.

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

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 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