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wenty months ago, Johns Hopkins launched a revamped and incentive-laden Live Near Your Work program that touted a lofty goal of distributing to employees nearly $5 million of home-buying grant money over the next four years. Despite a depressed Live Near overall housing market and a white winYour Work ter that kept people on track to indoors, the program performance has been steady, with give out home sales transacting every month. $5 million Since the relaunch, 108 grants have been given to employees to purchase houses in select Baltimore City neighborhoods. Fifty-six grants have been awarded this current fiscal year alone, and more sales are pending as the weather warms and home-buying season kicks into high gear. Johns Hopkins originally launched its Live Near Your Work program in 1997 in collaboration with Baltimore City and the state of Maryland. Grants of up to $2,500 were provided to help with down payments and closing costs. Under the revised program guidelines, greatly expanded grants were offered for home purchases made within two Baltimore City program areas that include the Homewood, Johns Hopkins@Eastern, Peabody, East Baltimore and Bayview campuses. Within these footprints, grant amounts vary according to the neighborhoods in which the homes are purchased. For example, purchases in a Homewood area that includes portions of the Harwood, Barclay and Greenmount West neighborhoods are eligible for $17,000 grants; for houses in the Remington and Better Waverly communities, as well as a section of Abell, $10,000 grants will be awarded. The minimum grant level is $2,500. Houses can be either new or existing. The additional home-buying support was made possible by a $2.5 million Continued on page 5
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icholas P. “Nick” Jones hails from the bridgebuilding tradition of engineers—and he’s proud of it. Yet as dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, Jones has led an explosion of some nontraditional fields such as nanobiotechnology and robotics. Jones is a firm believer in collaboration and says it’s vital that the Whiting School builds upon its tradition of interdisciplinary work. The school, founded in 1912, continues to draw upon and contribute to the university’s many strengths and renown in fields ranging from medicine and public health to the physical sciences and humanities. A native of New Zealand, Jones received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Auckland in 1980 and traveled to the United States to earn his master’s and Continued on page 4
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ents tell them about their participation, nor do they feel they are genuinely involved in the choice of whether to take part. The study, led by Yoram Unguru, an associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, is published online today, March 29, in the journal Pediatrics. While an estimated 70 percent of young cancer patients participate in clinical trials during their treatment, more than half of the 37 children who were interviewed for the study did not know or recall that their treatment was considered experimental or part of research, the investigators report.
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And out of a subset of 22 children, 19 of them did not understand their doctors’ explanation at the time they agreed to take part in the clinical trial. In addition, irrespective of age, every child interviewed with a 69-part questionnaire said he wanted to be involved in decision making about his care and participation in research. Permission to participate in Unguru’s study was sought first from the parents and adult caretakers, and then from the children. Continued on page 8
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gift of $1.2 million in honor of departing Krieger School Dean Adam Falk will fund restoration of the clock tower in historic Gilman Hall, the literal and metaphorical high point of the Homewood campus. The gift is from 44 friends and admirers of Falk, including trustees, present or past Krieger School advisory board members and several Krieger Dean’s Office and Development staff members. It was announced at a reception last week by trustees Charles I. Clarvit and James L. Winter, who led the fund-raising effort in Falk’s honor with fellow trustee Jeffrey H. Aronson. Falk, who will become president of Williams College on April 1, has been Krieger’s James B. Knapp Dean since January 2005. One of his major projects has been the $73 million renovation of Gilman Hall, Homewood’s 95-year-old landmark building. Falk laid out the vision for the project as an initiative to restore Gilman’s historic role as a national model for innovative teaching and scholarship in the humanities. He led the fund raising and has overseen construction, which began in 2007 and will be completed this summer. Though Falk is a physicist, Clarvit said, “only a true humanist, with a real passion for the humanities, could have devoted the effort you did.” Falk, clearly moved by the tribute and an ovation from several hundred people at the reception, said he had grown up professionally in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Krieger School and the university and would always love Johns Hopkins. “To be a dean here at Hopkins is to have an extraordinary privilege,” he said. For information on the Gilman clock tower and how it has been restored, go to http:// gazette.jhu.edu/2009/08/17/gilman-halls -iconic-tower-shines-again.
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he Office of Work, Life and Engagement will offer an online FastFacts session about the new Johns Hopkins Takes Time for Schools program at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 1. This 45-minute session, which you can attend at your desk using a computer and telephone, will provide an overview of the service partnership aimed at providing support and assistance to Baltimore City public schools while matching the talents of faculty and staff with onsite community service opportunities. Through this partnership, university staff members may be eligible for up to two paid days per fiscal year to pursue service opportunities in city schools. Registration for this live presentation, hosted by Michelle Carlstrom, senior direc-
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tor of the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, is limited to 125 people. The session also will be recorded and posted online shortly after the event. To register and for more information, go to http://hopkinsworklife.org and look under News and Events.
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eventeen local nonprofit organizations have received financial support from the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund in the form of 2010 grants totaling almost $170,000. More than 60 organizations applied in December for funding, with requests totaling more than $1.1 million for projects that address the needs of communities around Johns Hopkins campuses in the areas of public safety, health, employment, education and community revitalization. The Neighborhood Fund was created to support nonprofit organizations that serve communities in close proximity to Johns Hopkins campuses and that are associated with Hopkins through institutional involvement or affiliation with faculty, staff, retirees or students. Donations to the fund are accepted through the annual Johns Hopkins United Way campaign. “The fact that 64 organizations submitted applications during the last allocation cycle is a testament to the needs of the community,” said Mark Furst, president and CEO of United Way of Central Maryland. “The
Neighborhood Fund is making a difference in and around Johns Hopkins’ facilities.” Grant applications were reviewed by the fund’s Allocation Committee, which comprises a cross section of Johns Hopkins employees and is chaired by Frank Bossle, executive director of JHI Internal Audits. “It is inspiring to see the generosity of Hopkins faculty, staff and retirees who not only contribute to the Neighborhood Fund but also volunteer their time and talent with local nonprofit organizations,” Bossle said. “Each grant application is signed by a Hopkins affiliate to show their commitment and involvement to the betterment of our communities.” Since its inception in 2007, the Neighborhood Fund has awarded 40 grants totaling more than $330,000 to support a variety of efforts. The recipients and their funded programs for 2010 are as follows: • Baltimore Fitness Academy: bMOREfit Childhood Obesity Project, to introduce urban youth to fitness, health choices and sustainable careers in the wellness industry. • Baltimore Reads: Neighborhood-Based Portable Classroom Program, to offer adult literacy classes.
• Catholic Charities: My Sister’s Place Women’s Center, to purchase a professional stove and support a cook for the shelter. • Episcopal Community Services of Maryland: The Club at Collington Square, an after-school and summer camp program for youth, to develop citizenship, leadership and opportunities. • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp. (GEDCO): Neighbor Helping Neighbor Program, a time-bank model of service exchange for seniors at Stadium Place, to provide services for other community members. • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake: New construction and renovation of homes in East Baltimore. • Health Care for the Homeless: Addiction treatment for individuals experiencing homelessness. • Humanim: Occupational training to equip low-income adults with skills to obtain employment in the health care industry. • Jubilee Baltimore: Revitalization of Greenmount West area to provide a strong and diverse housing market. • Julie Community Center: Youth Program, to provide an entrepreneurial experience in business and marketing as well as a mural art project at a local school. • Learning Is For Tomorrow (LIFT): Construction expenses to allow adult liter-
acy school to move into a permanent space. • Living Classrooms Foundation: Safe Streets, public health campaign to reduce shootings and homicides in several East Baltimore communities. • Marian House: Educational Advancement and Employment Assistance Project, to help Marian House residents qualify for and secure quality jobs. • Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland: Purchase of thermal bags, to ensure that nutritious meals delivered to homebound individuals are kept at safe temperatures. • Operation P.U.L.S.E. (People United to Live in a Safe Environment): Going Back on the Right Track, safe-school initiative to teach school-aged children about safety, gang prevention and health. • Tommy Polley Foundation: Television Production/Broadcast Journalism Program, to offer college and career preparatory classes for credit in collaboration with Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. • Village Learning Place: Books2Go program, which provides early literacy exposure to more than 800 Baltimore City public school children. For more information about the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund, go to http://web.jhu .edu/uw/NeighborhoodFund.html or contact the Office of Work, Life and Engagement at 443997-6060.
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he Carey Business School is offering an intensive three-week program this June for undergraduate nonbusiness students who want to broaden their knowledge and their career prospects by learning the skills and problem-solving techniques of the business world. The noncredit program, titled ABACUS (for Accelerated Business Awareness Certificate for Undergraduate Students), begins June 7 at the university’s Downtown Center, 10 N. Charles St. “Success in virtually every career involves understanding and applying the principles of effective business management,” said Anne McCarthy, associate dean of professional programs at the Carey School. Participants in ABACUS, she added, can expect to “learn what it takes to be successful in any business organization and boost their ability to succeed in the job market and on the job.” Through a variety of lectures, case studies, workshops and group projects, students will learn business concepts and how to apply them to real-world situations. Topics will include accounting, finance, marketing,
information systems, ethics and strategic management. In addition, students will take part in a professional development series called “Bookbags to Briefcases.” Among the topics to be covered are marketing oneself as a brand, making effective presentations and managing personal finances. Group projects will involve research outside of class, but no exams will be required. While computer labs will be available, students may bring their personal laptops. Members of the Carey faculty will teach in the program. Nonbusiness majors with 60 or more credit hours are eligible to apply, as are recent college graduates. Students with backgrounds in the liberal arts, engineering, public health or science are likely candidates for the program. No minimum GPA is required, though scholastic achievement will be considered, along with a short application essay and a résumé. The application deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, May 14. Students who enroll before May 1 will receive a discounted rate. The program will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, for the three weeks starting June 7. To learn more about ABACUS, go to http://carey.jhu.edu/our_programs/abacus.
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Engineering Continued from page 1 doctoral degrees from the California Institute of Technology. He joined Johns Hopkins in 1986 as a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering and in 1999 became its chair. In 2002, Jones left to head the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He returned to Johns Hopkins in 2004 to serve as fourth dean of the Whiting School. His research interests include various aspects of structural dynamics, flow-induced vibration and wind engineering. Jones has received numerous awards for both teaching and research and serves on a number of national committees, including currently as president of the American Association for Wind Engineering. The Gazette recently sat down with Jones to discuss the school and where it’s headed. We learned that the dean loves a good metaphor, an early morning run and some old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll. Q: How do you view your role as dean?
A: The metaphor I like to use, and I use several, is that I’m an offensive lineman. Basically, I run interference for my faculty. At the end of the day, it’s the faculty who are on the field, trying to get stuff done and put together creative ideas. My job is to facilitate and make that happen. I have to get out in front and clear the path so that they can do what they do. I help get any impediments out of the way, such as administrative ones, and bring resources to the table to help make their aspirations come true. More broadly, the metaphor that I’ve always used is that I think of the Whiting School as being a boat—let’s call it a yacht—and I function as the skipper. I have my hands on the tiller, and I have a great crew. They are down there on the deck, below the deck and up on the sails doing what they need to be doing, and doing it really well. My job in the Dean’s Office is to keep the entire boat pointed in the direction we want it to be going. I need to keep a lookout at the competition, and for high winds and squalls that could get in the way. And if we need to change course, I can’t turn the tiller too hard or too quickly so that anyone or everyone gets thrown overboard [laughs]. I have to do it slowly and carefully, just steer the school in the direction it wants to go. Q: Is there a destination for this yacht? Can there be one?
A: A lot of the initiatives we have are obviously intimately connected to the Whiting School, but they have a degree of independence. I have to be careful when I steer. I need to be aware of what the other boats are doing. I don’t want to collide with them. I need to spend a lot of time making sure that everyone understands what we’re doing— where we’re headed and what it’s going to take to get there. That is not always easy. Q: What would be your New Year’s resolution as dean?
A: Well, let me back up and say that I think the school is in a pretty good position now, having navigated our way through this financial crisis. My feeling is that a lot of indicators look really positive. So, in a sense, it’s hard to have a resolution for one year as we run the operation strategically. Everything is about multiyear visions. In terms of the strategic investments that we have made over the past four or five years, we are now able to be in a position of financial stability. And with the right constellation of faculty and the right administrative structure to support them, I’m very excited about taking some careful steps to vector the school to a place we probably didn’t even think possible a decade ago. We’re poised to make some really important contributions to the betterment of society, both directly and indirectly, in the near and long term.
Q: Can we discuss the school’s strategic plan you launched in 2006: first, its focus on collaboration and innovation.
A: That is what we do very well in the Whiting School. We are just so massively interconnected. Many of our greatest successes have been through collaborative ventures. We have a lot of very long-standing relationships with other divisions of the university, and not a week goes by when another opportunity doesn’t present itself, both internally and externally. Collaboration and innovation are really core to our being. It’s what people are about here, and it’s what we do. Q: Bioengineering was also a prominent feature of the plan. Why?
A: There are many things going on in this school that are great and really exciting, but one of our truly greatest strengths, and a place where we are recognized as being world-class, is bioengineering. In part, that is through the reputation of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. But beyond that, there have been many opportunities that we have seized upon to really advance the integration of engineering and medicine. Some good examples are the Institute for Computational Medicine, the Institute for NanoBioTechnology and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics. Q: Another area of the plan centers on education for leadership.
A: I think it’s very important. We are not just educating future engineers and teachers but the future leaders for the engineering and scientific and research communities. We are really focused on that through a number of programs, including enhanced master’s offerings and our ongoing commitment to including undergraduates in research. Q: Lastly, you also focused on strategic partnerships.
A: We have many collaborations that are internal to the school, but one of the keys to our success relies on our ability to reach out beyond the walls of the Whiting School and make partnerships with others, be they academic institutions, foundations or businesses. There are many, many opportunities for us beyond Johns Hopkins. When I came on board as dean, I was surprised how relatively little we did in this area, so we slowly and carefully built a strong relationship structure that’s external to the school. Q: How has the strategic plan manifested itself so far?
A: Well, it’s been three and a half years of living and breathing the plan. I would say we are now in the position of revision, since some things have changed, many of our goals have been realized, some are halfway done, and some remain purely aspiration. Maybe there are greater opportunities out there, and we need to look at those. Q: Would you like to mention some breakthroughs and realized goals?
A: With that plan as a backdrop, we have launched many initiatives. I can point to three major areas where we have rolled up our sleeves and we are working really hard. They are cancer, water and systems. Of course, this is not all that we’re doing, but these three areas are really exciting, and we’re focusing much attention on them. Cancer, of course, falls under the general bioengineering priority. When we set up the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, roughly four years ago, the leadership of that effort worked with us here in my office and the other deans’ offices to pull together this group of people who were motivated by these opportunities that they saw coming down the pike to bring nanobiotechnology to medicine—cancer medicine, specifically. They felt that by using these new technologies, they could make a huge difference and believed that funding was out there. It was. For example, just six months ago researchers at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology were awarded a $15 million five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to
launch the new Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center. We envision other big opportunities in the future. The center will be housed here [in the New Engineering Building]. I’m moving this summer over to the Wyman Park Building to free up more space in the building to accommodate this phenomenal growth in this research area. Something has to give, and this is an incredible opportunity. Q: What are we working on in terms of water and systems?
A: We are in the process of developing a number of new initiatives to support the efforts of the school and university in these areas. We have a Global Water Program, primarily with [the School of] Public Health; the Environment, Sustainability and Health Institute, with the Krieger [School of Arts and Sciences] and the Bloomberg School; and a Systems Institute, with APL and other schools. These are all exciting new crossdisciplinary efforts that enable the university to take full advantage of its many strengths. Q: There has been tremendous physical growth in the school the past five to six years. What is fueling this?
A: A lot of our growth is a result of our focus on collaboration and our successes in research. When we do it, we do it well and are tremendously successful. The Engineering in Oncology Center is a good example of that. Who would have thought 10 years ago that you would have such a thing: a cancer center that is based on the principles of engineering and physics rather than the traditional focus of cancer research, which is more clinical and biologically based. Now, we are building that even further and looking to develop with the School of Medicine an even broader institutionwide effort in cancer research. We have partners down in East Baltimore who have been in the cancer business far longer than we have, but engineering is absolutely at the table to respond to this great human challenge. I think a decade from now people will see Johns Hopkins Engineering in a new light. They will say that they are the group that, through their collaboration with Medicine, blew the lid off the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. One of the most gratifying things for me is that there has always been a good relationship between Engineering and Medicine, but I really think we have taken that relationship to a new level. Q: We’re talking a lot about bioengineering and computational sciences. Is there still room, and jobs out there, for the traditional engineers?
A: Absolutely! My home department is Civil Engineering. I’m the bridge guy, and I’m proud of it. So the quick answer is yes. But what is interesting here is our approach to civil engineering, which, while driven by practical problems and challenges, is fundamental and rooted in mechanics and mathematics. There is generally a focus here from a fundamental and science-based perspective. In that way, people here in Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical and Computer Engineering can find a common language. There are many interesting challenges out there that are at their core multidisciplinary and complex. So our focus is on facilitating and teaching people to understand how you approach those sorts of problems. Q: There has been a big national push for alternative energy approaches. Are we responding to that?
A: Yes. The Whiting School this January organized a symposium at Johns Hopkins around energy. We are taking the lead in putting together a group of people working in energy and in related areas to determine what Johns Hopkins as an institution can contribute to this field, and what role Engineering can play. I would add that we are taking the long, not the short, view. Being “green” is hot right now, but who knows what will be in four or five years. As always, we will give our faculty the backing and flexibility, the
freedom if you will, to figure out what they think will be next big thing. Q: You mentioned the school’s size. Is that fixed, or do you see us growing much more?
A: The undergraduate population is reasonably stable, and that is through an agreement with my counterpart in Arts and Sciences. We are interconnected. It’s not just what is best for Engineering; we need to support the School of Arts and Sciences so that it can be the best school it can be. It’s mutually beneficial. Moving forward, the number of students might change, but I don’t see us ever being a large school of engineering by national standards by the nature of the type of experiences that we want to offer to our students. For example, we believe that it’s very important that our undergraduates have opportunities to conduct research and take part in internships while they’re here. We can manage that pretty well at our current size. We have no aspirations to double the size of our program because it could compromise our ability to provide these kinds of experiences. With that said, I do think there are opportunities to grow the size of the school when it comes to graduate study. In the next five to 10 years, we do expect to see a dramatic change at the master’s level in both our part-time and full-time programs. To do this, we will need to build on the strengths and resources we have now. We currently have the nation’s largest part-time graduate [master’s] program, and we have planned for further growth as we continue to meet the needs of industry, organizations and the federal government, particularly in our Master of Science in Systems Engineering program. We are also encouraging undergraduates to stay for a fifth year and do a concurrent bachelor’s/master’s program. We anticipate a growing percentage of undergraduates will, in fact, do that. To help make this possible, as of this year, Johns Hopkins undergraduate students and alumni pursuing a full-time engineering master’s degree here receive a 50 percent tuition grant during their fifth year of study. That is us putting our money where our mouth is. Q: Are more women coming to engineering?
A: I think currently we have a little over 30 percent in our undergraduate population and just under 30 [percent] in terms of graduate students. The national average for women in engineering schools is about 19 percent, so we are doing much better than that. There’s more for us to do here. The types of programs that we have here, and the way we operate, are by themselves more appealing to a more diverse undergraduate student body. I think we are making good headway there. We also have just about doubled the number of women on our faculty in the past decade. Q: I’ve heard there’s been some level of concern about the general low level of interest in science on the gradeschool level. Is that still accurate?
A: True. Our Engineering Innovation Program is focused on this pipeline issue. We realize, as do a lot of people around the country, the need to support STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] education. Engineering Innovation is all about STEM education, reaching out to high schools and middle schools in doing our part to get more people in the pipeline who will go on to study at the college level. Q: Totally off topic, how do you blow off steam?
A: Run. I tend to do it on the treadmill, as I run early in the morning. When the weather gets nice, I like to get outside. I like to bike as well. Q: What are you reading now?
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eople whose “bad” cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report published in the March 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Johns Hopkins and in Sweden say that an experimental drug called eprotirome lowered cholesterol up to 32 percent in those patients already on statins, an effect equal to that expected from doubling the statin drug doses, without harmful side effects. The researchers caution that the results don’t suggest that eprotirome will or should replace statins, which are the current gold standard for treating high-LDL cholesterol. However, the results of their small trial on 168 patients do suggest that eprotirome may eventually be a promising addition to statin therapy, a substitute for statins in people who can’t tolerate their side effects or a novel treatment for mixed dyslipidemia, a condition in which people have high levels of lipids other than cholesterol, such as triglycerides or apolipoprotein B, or apo B. The researchers found that eprotirome lowered blood lipids that are little affected by statin therapy but are known to increase
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tirome, a thyroid hormone mimetic developed by Swedish pharmaceutical company Karo Bio, on 168 patients at 15 sites in Sweden and Norway. All the patients had been treated with statins for at least three months prior to the study start but still had an LDL cholesterol higher than recommended, 116 mg/deciliter, with a mean level of 141 mg/ deciliter. (An optimal LDL measurement is considered less than 100 mg/deciliter.) The volunteers started the study with a four-week lead-in on a diet developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health to reduce cholesterol. Continuing this diet for the next 12 weeks, the patients took a placebo or 25, 50 or 100 mg of eprotirome in addition to whatever statin they had already been taking. The researchers then analyzed the patients’ levels of LDL cholesterol, HDL (or “good”) cholesterol, triglycerides, apo B and Lp(a). The researchers found that the patients taking the 25, 50 or 100 mg doses of eprotirome reduced their LDL cholesterol levels by 22 percent, 28 percent and 32 percent, respectively, compared to only 6.5 percent in those taking placebo. In addition, they remarkably found similar dose-related reductions in triglycerides, apo B and Lp(a). They also found modest reductions in HDL cholesterol of approximately 3 percent. Low HDL has been associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk, since HDL levels reflect how much artery-blocking choles-
terol is being ferried away from blood vessels and back to the liver. However, Ladenson says that he and his colleagues believe that this small decrease could reflect the livers’ increased processing of cholesterol in general, which could actually lower cardiovascular disease risk. When the researchers evaluated study subjects for the harmful side effects that can accompany increased thyroid hormone, they found no indications of increased heartbeat abnormalities, increased bone turnover or other symptoms of thyroid hormone excess. Ladenson adds that though previous studies have shown that high levels of Lp(a) are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, no drug existed to lower this lipid. “Although we’ve long known a high Lp(a) is strongly associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular disease, we’ve had no idea if lowering Lp(a) actually diminishes cardiovascular disease risk,” he said. “We can finally address this question with this drug.”
Greenmount West neighborhoods. Eight homes were sold in this area, which is located just southeast of Charles Village. “That is exactly how we wanted the program to work—to go out from a historically strong neighborhood and keep moving out to make a difference in emerging neighborhoods where home sales were flat,” she said. Carlstrom said that indicators are also promising in the area just north of the medical campus, the site of the East Baltimore Development Inc.’s $1.8 billion revitalization project. Since the relaunch, five homes have been sold in an area only partially built out. “We have a lot of brand-new housing going in there. That area has the potential to outperform all others,” she said. “Right now, all the signs are positive.” Darlene Foster, an Environmental Services staff member at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, purchased one of these new East Baltimore homes last April. Foster said she loves her new row house in the Preston Place development, a purchase made possible by a $17,000 grant. “I am so happy that they had this program and money available,” she said. “I needed to move, and this allowed me to do so, and stay so close to work.” Live Near Your Work is designed to help university and medical system employees become homeowners in Baltimore City and to live closer to a Johns Hopkins campus. Carlstrom said that the program allows employees to cut commuting costs, build home equity and contribute to the vibrancy of the city by strengthening neighborhoods and being in sync with the region’s “smart growth” strategy. The program is open to most full-time, benefits-eligible employees of the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System. Eligible employees at campuses in other cities, such as the Montgomery County Campus in Rockville, Md., and the School of Advanced International Stud-
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the risk for cardiovascular disease, including triglycerides and lipoprotein A, also known as Lp(a). “This drug represents a new class of medications that might offer hope to those at risk of future cardiovascular disease whose lipid profiles are not effectively altered with statin therapy, and perhaps for about a quarter of those who have tried statins but cannot tolerate their side effects,” said study leader Paul W. Ladenson, professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Ladenson is a consultant to Karo Bio, maker of eprotirome. Researchers have long known that thyroid hormones, produced by the butterfly-shaped thyroid gland in the neck, act on numerous tissues in the body. One organ affected profoundly by thyroid hormones is the liver, which processes lipids, including cholesterol. Ladenson says that previous research has shown that when people have abnormally high levels of thyroid hormones owing to a diseased thyroid gland, they tend to have low levels of bad, or LDL, cholesterol. However, high levels of a person’s natural thyroid hormones also come with potentially dangerous side effects, including increased heart rate and irregular heart rhythms, loss of bone mass and other troubling symptoms. Seeking to seize upon thyroid hormones’ benefits while avoiding these side effects, Ladenson and his colleagues tested epro-
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For 15 years after his residency, Seidel split his time between private practice and his academic interests at Johns Hopkins. In addition to his appointments in the School of Medicine and at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he became a faculty member at the School of Public Health in 1969. “Henry was the best that Hopkins could be,” says Edward D. Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. “All you had to do was to look into his eyes, listen to his voice and know that you were in the presence of a wonderful person who just happened to be a doctor. He inspired medical students, house staff and faculty to be their very best, and to do it with humility. I will miss seeing him walking the halls of Hopkins.” Describing pediatrics as his vocation and his avocation, Seidel prized community pediatrics, the kind practiced on the front lines. His interest in it, he said, was ignited by the family pediatrician he saw as a child.
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Remembering him in a 2002 essay in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Seidel wrote, “After poking me a bit and looking into my ears and throat, he would pull a leather case from his bag. It was in my child’s mind’s eye huge. When opened, it presented a double row of small bottles filled with variegated pills.” Only years later did Seidel realize that his doctor, the renowned poet William Carlos Williams, had been offering his young patient sugar pills. Years later, Williams penned a letter of recommendation for Seidel to go to medical school, describing him as “a boy of intelligence, industry and excellent character.” During his 13 years—1977 to 1990—as dean of student affairs at the School of Medicine, Seidel guided future physicians not only through the labyrinth of their medical training but also through personal crises. Former students recall that in counseling them, Seidel would sometimes use the same techniques he normally reserved for his pediatric patients. “It worked, but I was chuckling inside that this technique he’d perfected for children worked just as well on a medical student who thought he was a grown-up,” said School of Medicine alumnus Edward “Ted” Trimble in a 2008 interview for Hopkins Medicine magazine. “Henry was my teacher, mentor, role model, friend,” recalls John M. Freeman, professor emeritus of pediatrics and neurology in the School of Medicine and former chief of Pediatric Neurology and Pediatric Epilepsy at Hopkins Children’s. “He was the model of the compassionate physician and left his mark on generations of students, house staff and even faculty. He taught me to listen, to care more deeply and to be more
compassionate. When in need, he was the one I could turn to. He cannot be replaced and is sorely missed.” Seidel endeared himself to class after class of students during the angst-ridden process of national Match Day, a single day in which all medical school graduates in the United States learn where they will pursue residency training. Historically, matches would be posted for all to see, leaving a few students at risk of being embarrassed at not receiving a match. Seidel ordered individual envelopes for each student, affording more privacy. In the days leading up to Match Day, he consulted hospitals around the country to find places for students who had not beem matched. Getting to know a student’s personal history, Seidel said, was just as important as getting to know a patient’s medical history before making a diagnosis. Explaining his approach in a 2001 essay for Hopkins Medicine, Seidel said that whether dealing with a 10-year-old with an unexplained fever or a 22-year-old struggling with pathology course work, he would invariably start out with a personal “tell me about you.” Robert Chessin, a pediatrician in Fairfield, Conn., who graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1973, recalls Seidel’s formative influence. “Henry Seidel was one of the most important influences on me in medical school, a true role model,” Chessin says. “He truly was the pediatrician for all of us medical students. He cared for all of us and cared about all of us. I always hoped I could live up to the type of physician and human being he was.” “As if it were no more complicated than breathing, Henry Seidel allowed everyone Continued on page 9
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New program to train next leaders in urban health, primary care By Greg Rienzi
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efore he came to Johns Hopkins to study medicine, Paul Doherty worked for a number of years in an HIV/AIDS clinic in Washington, D.C. There, Doherty regularly met people without reliable access to health care, with no stable income or, in some cases, no home to return to. “The work there is very challenging, and can be disheartening at times,” said Doherty, a fourth-year student at the School of Medicine who worked at the clinic first in legal services and later on a medical research study. “But for people who have HIV, or other illnesses, there is so much good work to be done. I learned there that I wanted to dedicate myself to addressing urban health issues.” Johns Hopkins offered Doherty an opportunity to do just that, and he leapt at the chance. Doherty is one of four medical students chosen for the recently launched Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine–Pediatrics Urban Health Residency Program, believed to be the first of its kind. He learned the news of his placement on March 18, the National Residency Matching Program’s Match Day 2010. The combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program is designed to create physician leaders of urban primary care on a local, state and national level. The program’s founders want to train “change agents” who can provide comprehensive, coordinated and person-focused care for inner-city patients of all ages. “We want to activate people who love primary care medicine and want to fulfill its central role in delivering care, particularly in an urban, low-income setting,” said Leonard Feldman, the program’s director and an assistant professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine. “The people who go through this innovative new program might go on to run a health center, be a city health commissioner, start a new health care clinic for the homeless. We want to produce primary-care leaders.” In addition to Doherty, the inaugural class of residents includes two students graduating from Yale University and one from Harvard. All four—who were chosen from an appli-
On Match Day, Paul Doherty, center, celebrates his acceptance as one of the four inaugural members of the Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine–Pediatrics Urban Health Residency Program. With him are Leonard Feldman, the program’s director, and Rosalyn Stewart, its associate director.
cant pool of 160 medical students from the United States and Canada—will receive six years of specialized training. Starting July 1, they will learn how to care comprehensively for patients throughout the entire life cycle, and how to manage the health problems—from high blood pressure and diabetes to alcoholism, AIDS and domestic violence—that plague the inner-city poor. The traditional internal medicine and pediatrics curriculum will be coupled with enhanced outpatient care and urban health experiences related to the needs and problems prevalent in urban settings. Rosalyn Stewart, associate director of the program and an assistant professor in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, said that people in underserved areas often deal with a myriad of obstacles that get in the way of effective and regular health care. “They might be victims of domestic violence, have drug abuse issues and have either no insurance or incomplete coverage, such as no prescription coverage. Financially, they might be really struggling,” Stewart said. “In order to better serve this population, you need to understand these problems.” Stewart said that she and Feldman were
pleasantly surprised at the high number of applications. “I think the fact that this many applied to a residency in primary care in an urban setting bodes well for the future of primary care,” she said. “There’s certainly a rising interest in global health these days, and in serving vulnerable populations abroad, but we have some serious health care issues in our own backyard, and that’s what we’re hoping to address here.” Training will include 24 months in pediatrics and 24 months in internal medicine and will be completed over the first four years of the program. Residents will switch departments every three months. To launch the program, the departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics partnered with the School of Nursing, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Baltimore City Health Department and Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. The program received financial support from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and the Osler Center for Clinical Excellence at Johns Hopkins.
Residents will spend one month at the Baltimore City Health Department, learning about the scope of clinical services, observing and participating in programs and contributing to policy and program development. In conjunction with the School of Nursing, residents will perform domestic violence/sexual assault evaluations of children and adults, analyze the impact of domestic violence in Baltimore City and provide medical care at the House of Ruth school. The centerpiece of the outpatient experience will be work done at a new Johns Hopkins–run urban health clinic at the East Baltimore Medical Center, located in one of the most underserved and disadvantaged communities in the city. The program also features rotations in prison health, HIV and community health care. To improve their effectiveness as urban primary care physicians, resident doctors will receive essential training in cultural competency, including communication skills. After four years, the residents will be board-eligible in both pediatrics and internal medicine and be placed as an attending primary care physician in a Baltimore innercity practice. The participants also can receive full tuition to support an advanced degree such as an MBA, MPH, master of education or master of behavioral health. Four new residents will be added each year, for a maximum number of 24 at any given time. Feldman said that the inaugural class is made up of four “exceptional and wonderful” people who displayed an enthusiasm and commitment to primary care in an urban setting. “We recruited people who believe in our mission. These four certainly share our vision,” he said. Feldman said that the recent passage of comprehensive health care legislation in the United States makes the program’s goal all the more vital. “There is so much work that already needs to be done, and with the passage of the bill, there will be potentially millions more people who will need primary care physicians,” he said. “We have to figure out a way to deliver health care to urban populations in a more effective manner, and these residents will be at the heart of that.”
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he Sheridan Libraries have announced the winners of the yrBLCspace design competition—an opportunity for students to provide their vision of an ideal group study room in the Homewood campus’s future Brody Learning Commons. The contest, sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries, was open to all students using any medium, from cocktail napkin to Google SketchUp. Entries were judged on creativity, sustainability, effectiveness and the flexibility of the space. The four-story building, which is named to honor the university’s 13th president, William R. Brody, and his wife, Wendy, is being built for technology-driven, collaborative learning and will sit directly to the south of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. Construction is to begin in June and is scheduled to be completed in July 2012. “I’m really thrilled by the strength and variety of the submissions we received,” said Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums. “This kind of contest is not only fun, but it gives us very useful insights into what students at Hopkins need and want to make their studying more effective.” Tabb chaired the panel of judges, which
In her winning entry, Diane Hwang proposed a nontraditionally shaped room that offers both work and rest areas.
included Paula Burger, dean of undergraduate education and vice provost; Joseph Rondinelli, senior associate at Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott, the building’s architects; and two members of the Libraries Student Advisory Committee, senior Zachary Epstein-Peterson and graduate student Fabian Bauwens. First prize, which includes $250 and a plaque marking the room inspired by the winning design, went to Diane Hwang,
a sophomore neuroscience major in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The judges said they admired Hwang’s decision to go with a nontraditional room shape, and liked the way she made efficient use of space with a kind of “compartmentalization” that offered both work and rest areas. Second place and the $100 prize was awarded to Carolyn Rossinsky, also a sophomore in the Krieger School, who is double majoring in biology and neuroscience.
Rossinsky’s design was chosen for her attention to detail and the care with which she selected the materials and features for the room, including movable furniture and several lighting options. The third-place prize of $50 went to brothers Shijit and Rohit Dasgupta. Shijit is a freshman and Rohit a sophomore, majoring in mechanical and biomedical engineering, respectively, in the Whiting School of Engineering. The judges said they appreciated the design’s attentiveness to the increasing importance that presentations play in student assignments. The inclusion of a boardroom-style table and digital podium indicated the designers’ desire to provide students with an atmosphere that felt “professional.” “Everyone recognizes that the Eisenhower Library is simply not big enough to meet our students’ needs,” Tabb said. “But we have also increasingly seen that it is not flexible enough to provide the array of study spaces our students deserve. While we look forward to seeing how Ms. Hwang’s design will inform at least one of the study rooms in the new building, I suspect that some element of each of the submissions—not just those that won—will be reflected in some way as we move forward with the design of study spaces on all levels of the Brody Learning Commons.” To see the students’ winning designs, go to http://elibris.jhu.edu?p=2577.
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Causes found for ‘stiff skin’ syndrome affecting young adults By Audrey Huang
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y studying the genetics of a rare inherited disorder called stiff skin syndrome, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have learned more about scleroderma, a condition affecting about one in 5,000 people that leads to hardening of the skin as well as other debilitating and often life-threatening problems. The findings, which appeared last week in Science Translational Medicine, open doors to testing new treatments. “Scleroderma is a common and often devastating condition, yet its cause remains mysterious. My greatest hope is that this work will facilitate the development of new and better treatments,” said Harry C. Dietz, the Victor A. McKusick Professor of Genetics and director of the Johns Hopkins William S. Smilow Center for Marfan Syndrome Research.
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Also known as systemic sclerosis, scleroderma generally affects previously healthy young adults, causing scarring of skin and internal organs that can lead to heart and lung failure. “Most often individuals with scleroderma do not have other affected family members, precluding use of genetic techniques to map the underlying genes. Instead we turned to a rare but inherited form of isolated skin fibrosis called stiff skin syndrome, hoping to gain a foothold regarding cellular mechanisms that might prove relevant to both conditions,” Dietz said. A number of clues led Dietz and his team to strongly suspect a role for the connective tissue protein fibrillin-1 in these skin conditions. First, excess collagen is a hallmark of both stiff skin syndrome and scleroderma. While studying Marfan syndrome, a condition caused by a deficiency of fibrillin-1, the researchers discovered that fibrillin-1 regulates the activity of TGFbeta, a molecule that induces cells to make more
collagen. Second, other researchers have shown that duplication of a segment within the fibrillin-1 gene is associated with skin fibrosis in mice. And third, Dietz treated a patient at Johns Hopkins who had both stiff skin syndrome and eye problems associated with Marfan syndrome. “This seemed too much of a coincidence,” he said. So Dietz’s team examined patients with stiff skin syndrome and found them to have excessive amounts of fibrillin-1 in the skin. The researchers then sequenced the fibrillin-1 gene in these patients and found all the stiff skin syndrome mutations clustered in a single region of the fibrillin-1 protein known to interact with neighboring cells. Further examination showed that these mutations prevent fibrillin-1 from interacting with neighboring cells and lead to increased amounts and activity of TGFbeta, which causes excessive collagen outside cells. The researchers then examined biopsies from patients with scleroderma and found
all of the abnormalities seen in stiff skin syndrome. “It appears that fibriillin-1 helps to inform cells about the quality of their surroundings and also provides a mechanism—by concentrating TGFbeta—to induce extracellular matrix production if the cell senses a deficiency,” Dietz said. “A breakdown in signaling coupled with excessive fibrillin-1 and TGFbeta leads to a perfect storm for skin fibrosis in stiff skin syndrome.” While it remains unknown what triggers similar molecular events in scleroderma, these findings do suggest a number of potential treatment strategies, Dietz said. This study was funded by the Scleroderma Research Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Smilow Center for Marfan Syndrome Research, National Marfan Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Shriners Hospital for Children. Authors on the paper from Johns Hopkins are B.L. Loeys, E.E. Gerber, D.P. Judge, F. Wigley and Dietz.
their affirmative agreement” to participate in research “whenever possible.” Meanwhile, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics states that doctors should ascertain that children comprehend information they are given about their treatments. In conjunction with the Belmont Report—a core historical document that lays out ethical principles and guidelines—Unguru says that the onus is on physician-investigators to verify that childhood patients understand. However, it turns out that little rigorous research has been done to determine just how much minors with cancer actually understand about the treatment trials, Unguru says. When doctors diagnose a child with cancer, he says, they often know about clini-
cal research projects that hold promise for treatment and ask their patients and parents if they would like to participate. Typically, physician-investigators first ask the adult decision-maker, then turn to the child. Unguru says that some doctors are very thorough in this process, while others aren’t. “Rather than going through the assent process as it was meant to be done, oftentimes the child signs a piece of paper, and all it represents is an empty signature,” Unguru said. “The child may not know what he or she is signing because the parents often just say, ‘Sign here.’” The study is the result of face-to-face interviews with cancer patients ages 7 to 18 years and is believed to be the first examination of children’s understanding of—and preference for—involvement in research. Unguru says that past studies on children’s comprehension of research participation have relied largely on hypothetical cases based on surveys of healthy, older adolescents. Unguru acknowledged that age—or perhaps even the young patients’ health, or
state of shock and confusion in the face of a cancer diagnosis—might have made it impossible for some of them to fully grasp the concepts of clinical research. But, he insists, that doesn’t mean doctors shouldn’t at least try to do better. “I argue that we have to do better because if we do agree that assent is an important process and an important ideal, then we have no other choice,” Unguru said. “The notion of assent is that you’re respecting the child’s developing sense of autonomy, dignity and future decision-making potential.” Given the relatively few number of children in the United States who are diagnosed with cancer every year (12,500), Unguru says that the results of the small sample size were consistent and useful as a pilot study and basis for further research. The study’s co-authors, both at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., are Anne Sill, in the Office of Biostatistics and Informatics, and Naynesh Kamani, medical director of the Office for the Protection of Human Subjects. G
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he Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality and the Department of English at Johns Hopkins will present a series of lectures in early April by Leo Bersani, a professor emeritus in the Department of French at the University of California, Berkeley. Bersani, who is recognized as having defined the fields of lesbian and gay studies, will give three lectures, each from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. They will take place on Friday, April 2; Tuesday, April 6; and Friday, April 9, in room 162 of the Mattin Center, on the Homewood campus. Leo Bersani The lectures—titled, respectively, “Father Knows Best,” “Ardent Masturbation (Descartes, Freud et al)” and “Illegitimacy”—will be presented as part of Bersani’s two-week appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, within the Department of English. Bersani’s appointment is made possible by the generous support of Deans Adam Falk and Steven David of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Through the continuing support of the Krieger School, the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality is annually able to bring scholars of world renown to the Homewood campus for a lively and
productive exchange of ideas. “Professor Bersani’s visit allows students and faculty at Johns Hopkins University the opportunity for sustained dialogue with a scholar whose pathbreaking thought is of great interest and importance to academics working in a wide range of fields,” said Aaron Goodfellow, associate director of Women, Gender and Sexuality, and a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. “His lectures will provoke and enliven the intellectual environment found across campus.” Bersani’s career spans more than 40 years. He is considered a founder of queer theory and is known for producing works that blur the disciplinary boundaries of modern French literature, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, art history, film theory, aesthetics and sexuality studies. Among his many books are Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays, Intimacies(with A. Phillips), Homos, The Culture of Redemption, The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art, The Death of Stéphane Mallarmé, Baudelaire and Freud, A Future for Astyanax, Balzac to Beckett and Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art. Bersani has also written several collaborations with Ulysse Dutoit, a lecturer in the French Department at Berkeley, including Caravaggio’s Secrets; Caravaggio; Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity; Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais; and The Forms of Violence.
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Calendar Continued from page 12 University of Lausanne. Olin Hall Auditorium. HW “Filming Art, the Art of Filming,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by filmmaker/director Teri Wehn-Damisch. 101A Dell House. HW Mon., April 5, 5:15 p.m.
M USIC Tues., March 30, 5:30 p.m.
The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents a talk by Peabody’s Ray Sprenkle, noted composer, historian and lecturer. Reservations required; call 410-516-7164 or go to www.shriverconcerts.org. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW READI N GS / B OO K TAL K S
Christopher Meyer, visiting professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will discuss his book Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue, the Inside Story of British Diplomacy. Sponsored by the SAIS European Studies Program. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS
Thurs., April 1, 5 p.m.
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The Randolph Bromery Seminar—“A Process of Inter-Ocean Exchange in Relation to the Ocean-Climate Meridional Overturning Circulation of the South Atlantic” with Sheekela Baker-Yeboah, MIT. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. 304 Olin. HW
Mon., March 29, noon.
Mon., March 29, noon. “Design-
ing Biological Systems,” a Bio-
chemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School. W1020 SPH. EB
Mon., March 29, 1:30 p.m.
“How Blood Vessels Leave Home and Form New Networks,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Victoria Bautch, University of North Carolina, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, NC Cancer Hospital. 110 Clark. HW (Videoteleconferenced to 709 Traylor. EB) The David Bodian Seminar—“How Actions Alter Sensory Processing: Active Sensation in the Vestibular System” with Kathleen Cullen, McGill University. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., March 29, 4 p.m.
Mon., March 29, 4 p.m. “tRNA Diversity Is Required for Uniformity,” a Biophysics seminar with Olke Uhlenbeck, Northwestern University. 107 Jenkins. HW
“Adhesion Dependent Kaiso-Mediated Transcriptional Regulation of the MTA Family in Mammary Epithelial Cells,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar with Abigail Witt. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Tues., March 30, noon.
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“Enzyme-Inhibitor-Like Tuning of Ca2+ Channel Connectivity With Calmodulin,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with David Yue, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB
“Dynamic Finite-State Transducer Composition With Look-Ahead for Very-Large-Scale Speech Recognition,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Mike Riley, Google Research. B17 CSEB. HW
Tues., March 30, 4:30 p.m.
“Integer Ratios of Factorial and Some Related Problems,” an Algebraic Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Jonathan Bober, IAS. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW “Impact Cratering,” an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Olivier Barnouin, APL. 304 Olin. HW Wed., March 31, noon.
“Photodefined Nanostructured Polymer Composites: The Enabling Technology for Commercially Viable Holographic Data Storage,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with William Wilson, WSE. 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., March 31, 3 p.m.
Wed., March 31, 4 p.m. “Bayesian Clustering With Regression,” a Biostatistics seminar with Peter Müller, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. W2030 SPH. EB
“Phosphoinositide Regulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton,” a Cell Biology seminar with Helen Yin, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., April 1, noon.
“Introduction to Construction Engineering and Management,” a Civil Engineering seminar with Edward Joffe, Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. B17 CSEB. HW
“Role of Retinoic Acid and TLR Signals in Gut Dendritic Cell Differentiation,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Jorge Rodrigo Mora, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. W1020 SPH. EB
Tues., March 30, 4:30 p.m.
Thurs., April 1, 12:15 p.m.
Tues., March 30, noon.
Seidel Continued from page 6 he came in contact with to feel that he cared for them as an individual,” says David Nichols, vice dean for education at the School of Medicine and professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of pediatrics. “It is for that reason that generations of pediatricians and students learned the ideal embodiment of the physician, because they had seen it in Henry Seidel.” Like all good clinicians, Seidel knew that medicine is not an exact science. He taught his students that the human condition is marked by variability. He warned students of the perils of being too exact or too mechanical in their diagnosis and treatment, advising them to acknowledge uncertainty. He urged young doctors not to be afraid to share that uncertainty with their patients and instead to “enlist the patient as an ally in the pursuit of solutions,” he wrote in a 2007 essay for JAMA. Taking a patient history and doing a physical exam, Seidel believed, should always involve “the story of a person, unique in time, not just a patient with a chief complaint.” According to longtime colleagues, Seidel believed that a doctor’s mission was not only to treat the sick but also to better the system
Thurs., April 1, noon.
that sometimes failed those who needed it most. A true humanist, he believed empathy to be at least as important a skill for a doctor as clinical expertise and scientific knowledge. Among his many contributions to medical education was co-authorship of a now-classic textbook, Principles of Pediatrics: Health Care of the Young. With his colleague Leon Gordis, Seidel developed a course for the Johns Hopkins curriculum that focused on social, economic and policy aspects of medical care. “Henry was a nearly daily presence at resident and student conferences, and his comments and questions always forced us to think beyond the medical issues of a patient being discussed,” says Julia McMillan, director of Residency Training at Hopkins Children’s. “His questions reminded us that each child belonged to a society, a culture and a family that both influenced the illness and would be influenced by it.” As dean of students, Seidel believed in a socially diverse student body recruited from all walks of life. Fearing that H.L. Mencken’s view of medicine as a rich man’s sport might be all too prophetic, Seidel argued for and encouraged careful and controlled distribution of scholarship funds. Seidel encouraged his fellow physicians to educate lawyers, judges and legislators about children’s rights. He was an expert on the special needs of adopted children and their parents, and in the 1970s he sat on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ task force
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“What About Mom? Women and Families in the Inner City,” an Urban Health Institute seminar with Peg Ensminger, SPH. Part of the series “The Wire as a Lens Into Public Health in Urban America,” co-sponsored by Health, Behavior and Society and Epidemiology. B14B Hampton House. EB
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Fri., April 2, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. “Brain Freeze,” snow
Thurs., April 1, 1 p.m. “Synaptic Signaling of Retinoic Acid,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Lu Chen, University of California, Berkeley. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB Thurs., April 1, 4 p.m. “Current Investigations at the Tel-Aviv University Biophotonics Laboratory,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Israel Gannot, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. 100 Shaffer. HW
“The Role of Legal Institutions in Access to Credit and Loan Recovery: Analysis From Orissa, India,” a SAIS thesis defense seminar with Saurabh Garg. 736 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS
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“Green Jobs Can Be Safe Jobs,” a JHU Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health seminar with Christine Branche, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. W3008 SPH. EB
sponsored by Nu Rho Psi, the JHU undergraduate neuroscience honor society. HW • Mon., March 29, 6 to 8 p.m. “Sleep Deprivation 101,” a panel discussion with Linda Gorman, KSAS; Samer Hattar, KSAS; and Richard Allen, SoM. 101 Remsen. Brain Awareness Week,
Tues., March 30—
Awareness Day, an opportunity to learn about neurological issues. Levering Courtyard. 6 p.m. “NeuroAIDS,” a lecture by Roger Pomerantz, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
for the care and evaluation of thousands of Vietnamese orphans. In 1990, at the age of 68, Seidel retired to emeritus status, but the thought of a leisurely life lacking intellectual challenges left him so anxious that he approached the director of Pediatrics to request a continuing role in the department in exchange for office space, a parking spot and a part-time secretary, but no salary. The deal was sealed. Seidel spent the next 17 years at Johns Hopkins attending lectures, teaching students, sitting in on case conferences, seeing patients and continuing to learn. “Any age, certainly 68, is too young to stop learning,” he wrote. Despite his vast knowledge and experience, Seidel said that he had as much to learn from his younger colleagues as they did from him. “The learning by this older pediatrician has had to be deliberate, often difficult, paced and earnest,” Seidel wrote, thanking his younger colleagues for the daily challenges they offered him as “a delicious justification just for being in it with them.” Seidel was also an attending physician at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore between 1953 and 1968 and part-time instructor in pediatrics at the University of Maryland. In 1969, then Hopkins Hospital President Robert Heyssel asked Seidel to pioneer an early version of a health maintenance organization in the new town of Columbia, Md., that came to be known as the Columbia Medical Plan. He was instrumental in start-
“Music and the Mind,” a concert by the Hopkins Symphony and surgeon Anthony Cicoria who became a pianist after being struck by lightning (featured on the NOVA episode “Musical Minds”), Chenango Memorial Hospital and SUNY Upstate Medical School. SDS Room, Mattin Center.
cones and brain facts. Breezeway (between Ames and Krieger halls).
Performance by the Center for Africana Studies artist-in-residence the American Studio Orchestra, directed by Larry Williams. (See story, p. 12.) Co-sponsored by External Affairs, KSAS. Baltimore Museum of Art.
Sat., April 3, 7 p.m.
Mon., April 5. Triennial Faculty Exhibition of works by Homewood Art Workshops faculty. The exhibition continues through Sun., May 2. Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center. HW
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Tues., March 30, 10:30 a.m., and Wed., March 31, 4:30 p.m. “RefWorks,” sponsored by
Research Services. M-Level, Electronic Resource Center. HW Wed., March 31, 12:15 p.m.
“Acing an Interview,” a Career Services workshop. W2008 SPH. EB Thurs., April 1, 1 p.m. “Introduction to Google SketchUp” a Bits & Bytes workshop, designed for faculty and TAs. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. To register, go to www .cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW
ing Howard County General Hospital and served on its board until his death. He also was on the board of Outer Cape Health Services on Cape Cod. Seidel served in the U.S. Army from 1948 to 1950. In 1966 he did a tour of duty aboard the S.S. Hope when the famed hospital ship sailed on a teaching and treatment mission to Nicaragua. In 1971 he did a similar tour in Jamaica. Seidel also worked for the international humanitarian Project HOPE on a Navajo reservation in Arizona. Seidel authored or co-authored more than 70 papers and numerous books and book chapters. He was the lead author of the acclaimed Mosby’s Guide to Physical Examination for more than two decades. The seventh edition was published shortly before his death. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award of the Maryland Association for Higher Education. For many years, Seidel and his wife, May Ruth, divided their time between Columbia and Cape Cod. In addition to his wife, Seidel is survived by three sons, Robert, Stuart and Steven; two daughters-in-law, Mary Seidel and Adria Steinberg; and two grandsons, Samuel Seidel and Adam Seidel. A celebration of Henry Seidel’s life was held on Sunday at the Vantage House in Columbia. A memorial service will be held at Johns Hopkins sometime this spring, family members said.
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Classifieds APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT
Bolton Hill, beautiful, totally rehabbed 1BR, 1BA, wood-burning fp, sunny, shared yd, walk to JH shuttle/metro/light rail. gbaranoski@covad.net. Canton, 2BR, 2.5BA waterfront TH, furn’d, CAC, W/D, dw, stainless steel appliances, granite counters, marble flrs, balcony, 2-car garage, home entertainment system, plasma TV. 443-955-2040. Cedonia, quiet 1BR apt w/new kitchen and flrs, W/D, landscaped fenced yd, deck, free prkng, pets welcome, nr JHH/Homewood/ public transportation. $695/mo + utils. 410493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com. Charles Village, 1BR unit in immaculate prof’l bldg across from Homewood campus and BMA, no pets/no smoking, 1-yr lease minimum, application/tenant history/ income refs req’d. 410-366-5232.
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South Patterson Park, 3BR, 1.5BA, gorgeous rehab, unfurn’d, nr shuttle stops, 1-yr lease minimum, pets welcome. $1,600/mo + utils + sec dep. travelocity11@yahoo.com. West Towson, 4BR, 2.5BA colonial house 15 mins to JHU, CAC, newly renov’d kitchen, garage, nr excel schools; option to buy. $1,950/mo. argye.hillis@gmail.com. Wyman Park, immaculate 3BR TH, W/D, dw, security, cable, deck, prkng, trees, 1 blk to JHU; Craigslist #1640680824. $1,650/mo + utils. fullcirc1@verizon.net. Wyman Park, 2BR apt avail mid-April, short walk to Homewood campus/JHMI shuttle. $1,100/mo. 443-615-5190. Big 1BR, 1BA condo, 9th flr, excellent view, hdwd flrs, appls, balcony, pool, sauna, gym, reserved garage prkng, nr campus/shuttle. $1,400/mo incl utils. 410-889-0446. Fully renovd 3BR house w/2 full BAs, CAC, new appliances, walk to restaurants/shops, walk to Homewood campus. 410-227-9605 or paarrul@yahoo.com.
Charles Village/Guilford, 1BR, 1BA apt w/ spacious living rm, full kitchen, patio, private entry, across from JHMI shuttle stop; also commercially zoned. $975/mo + elec. 443-858-9118.
Renov’d 3BR waterfront w/pier, wraparound deck, W/D, dw, conv to JHH/JHU, available mid-April. $1,650/mo + utils + sec dep. 410790-6597 or sohare@verizon.net.
Fells Point area, 4-rm carriage house, walking distance to Patterson Park, downtown, Broadway Market, pets OK, backyd. $800/ mo. Joe, 410-382-5833. Guilford, charming, spacious 4BR, 2BA TH in safe, friendly community, bsmt, yd, 2-car prkng pad, 20-min walk to Homewood campus. $1,600/mo + utils. baltimore.guilford@ gmail.com. Hampden (41st St), 3BR apt w/new BA, new paint, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, pantry, dw, W/D, garage. $1,350/mo incl utils. 443-474-1492 or www.steverutz.com/ apt.htm (for pics). Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410378-2393. Homewood/Guilford, lg, luxury 1BR highrise condo nr JHU, CAC/heat, W/D, doorman, security, pool, exercise rm, all utils. anthony8066@gmail.com. Little Italy, new 2BR, 2BA condo, hdwd flrs, W/D, garage, nr JHH. $1,600/mo. 301379-8605 or ada921@hotmail.com. Mt Washington, 5BR, 3.5BA house w/2-car garage. $2,200/mo + utils. 443-939-6027 or qzzhao@gmail.com. Owings Mills, 2BR, 2BA condo, W/D, walk-in closets, storage, prkng, pool/tennis court privileges, backs to woods, conv to metro, walk to grocery, sm pets negotiable ($250 nonrefundable deposit), 1-yr lease. $1,250/mo. 410-336-7952 or ljohnsto@ mail.roanoke.edu.
Temporary housing, lg BR, full kitchen, front porch, prkng, month-to-month lease, credit check req’d. $850/mo incl heat, elec and sec dep ($100). adecker001@yahoo.com.
HOUSES FOR SALE
Bolton, beautiful brick house, 2 big BRs converted from 3BRs, 2.5BAs, new roof/windows, hdwd flrs, recent appls, 2 prkng spaces, immaculate cond. $313,000. 410-383-7055. Butchers Hill (10 S Patterson Park Ave), renov’d 4BR, 4BA house, CAC, hdwd flrs, granite, fin’d bsmt, roof deck, prkng. $425,000. 443-468-9311. Cedarcroft, charming 1830s Victorian farmhouse, 2BRs, 1.5BAs, living rm, dining rm, den, office, kitchen, W/D, marble fps, hdwd flrs, lg yd, patio, shed, off-street prkng. $289,000. szandhb1@hotmail.com. Charles Village (Carrollton Condo), lg 2BR, 2BA condo w/24-hr front desk, CAC/heat, prkng. $150,000. emmakcontact@yahoo.com. Forest Hill, immaculate 2BR, 2BA condo in beautiful area, patio, walkout, nr shopping, move-in cond. 410-879-7254. Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, quiet neighborhood 15 mins to JHH. $139,999. 443610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com. Harborview, 2BR, 1BA all on 1 flr, hdwd flrs throughout, great location, conv to all Hopkins campuses. $164,900 (negotiable). 443604-2797 or lexisweetheart@yahoo.com. Ocean View, Delaware, great year-round house 2 mi from Bethany Beach. $269,000. 302-537-7297 or kvpattheocean@verizon .net.
Seton Hill area, 5BR, 3.5BA TH, total rehab, 4 levels, hdwd flrs, ceramic tile BAs, 4 fps, nr bus line and light rail, pets OK on
Patterson Park, completely renov’d TH, new kitchen, expos’d brick wall, redwood hdwd flrs, fin’d bsmt,new windows, move-in cond. $159,900. cwags57@msn.com.
Fabulous 3BD Charles Village
Johns Hopkins / Hampden
home on Abell Ave, 1.5 bath, laundry, deck, yard, porch, A/C. Pets OK,
Avail. May $1600/mo. Call Jon-727-252-6511 or 443-850-1218 info@trilogyguidance.com
Cozy 3BR Cape Cod in the city, approx 7 mi to Hopkins, new appliances, hot tub on gorgeous flagstone patio. $325,000/best offer. 305-898-3871 (for appt) or for pics, go to www.zillow.com and enter 725 Hollen Rd, Baltimore, MD 21212.
case-by-case basis. $2,500/mo. Val, 443-9948938 or yankybrit@hotmail.com.
Charles Village, bright, spacious 1BR, 1BA condo, CAC/heat, across from Homewood campus. $1,145/mo incl utils. 410-466-1698 or marionmalcolm@comcast.net.
East Baltimore, 3BR, 1BA TH, 2 mi to Johns Hopkins, refs required, no pets. $950/ mo + utils + sec dep. Anita, 410-675-5951 or amt2813@gmail.com.
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WYMAN COURT APTS. (BEECH AVE.) Effic from $570, 1 BD Apt. from $675, 2 BD from $775 HICKORY HEIGHTS APTS. (HICKORY AVE.) 2 BD units from $750 Shown by Appointment 410-764-7776
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ROOMMATES WANTED
F wanted for 1BR in beautiful 2BR, 1BA apt in Bolton Hill, lease through February 2011. $600/mo + 1/2 utils, cable, Internet. 202-658-8610. 1BR, priv BA in beautifuly renov’d TH, share w/2 grad students, sec sys, W/D, prkng, panoramic views from roof deck, 1 blk to Patterson Park, walk/bike to school, avail April 1. $700/mo. Sharon, 443-695-9073. F wanted for private BR in Charles Village, share lg house, kitchen, living rm, dining rm, porch, deck, elliptical, hot tub, garden, high-speed Internet; respect, privacy, some vegan. 419-963-8741. Share all new refurbished TH at 924 N Broadway w/other medical students, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com.
CARS FOR SALE
’07 PT Cruiser touring edition, AC, disc CD w/aux input, 2 new tires, insp’d, excel cond, 37K mi. $7,000. Derek, 410-366-1175. ’97 Toyota Camry LE, green, automatic, all power, new tires, in very good cond, 116K mi. $3,699/best offer. 410-337-5124 or nonu444@gmail.com.
ITEMS FOR SALE
Air Climber exerciser w/accessories, owner’s manual, workout DVD containing all workouts, literature pack, body cord. 443-4636861, wifemomdiva@cavtel.net or www .airclimbertrial.com (for pics). Hospital bed, $150; vinyl recliner chair w/ side trays, $75; wheelchair, $75; potty chair, $25; shower chair, $10; walker, $10. 410254-2714. Dining rm set, 42" round table w/collapsible leaves, pine finish, 2 matching chairs, excel cond. $100. 410-235-2190. Thule bike rack and wind screen, locks 2 bikes on top of car. $200. bstiver@comcast.net. JCP Chamberlain bedroom dresser w/mirror and nightstand. $400. 443-528-3637. 3-step ladder, computer, reciprocating saw, chair, microwave, table w/shelves, printer, tripods, digital piano. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. Queen-size mattress and boxspring, comfortable, in good shape; pick up from 3501 St Paul St. $70. 443-220-3393.
SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED
Mature, experienced nanny wanted PT to care for infant in our home, begin in May, Tuesdays. 347-523-3843 or vinotinto23@ gmail.com.
Looking for volunteer English tutor/conversation partner for patient in JHH, pref student fluent in Spanish and English. sopojomo@yahoo.com or shmee@iupui.edu. Chinese piano tutor now provides free lessons, tons of experience to all levels of schoolchildren; requires pick up and drop off. 443-253-6909 or susansong@sohu.com. Experienced babysitter needed for our 17-moold daughter in Charles Village, wknds and eves. 202-870-0234 or jrbowman@ hotmail.com. Seeking mature nanny/sitter for girls 2 and 4 yrs old, PT, after school wkdays, some wknds, Silver Spring area; college student OK, references req’d. 202-498-3209 (after 6pm). Seeking responsible individual to housesit from mid-June through mid-August in Canton, nr JHH/Bayview, prkng incl’d. annemiller6@comcast.net. Wanted: experienced sailor to race. 410878-2340. Summer nanny needed (June, July and August), for 1- and 4-yr-old, 3 days/wk. $10-$15/hr. Erin, 410-746-3921. Looking for mature, experienced nanny to care for infant in my home, FT, begin Sept 10. 410-889-3354 or sbrinkley@mac.com. Private caretaker for children, certified nursing asst for elderly client, in the home, dependable, will provide wonderful care for your loved ones. Mrs Shantie, 443-418-8663. Loving and trustworthy dog walker avail day and evening, overnight sitting w/complimentary house-sitting services, impeccable references. alwayshomepc@gmail.com. Piano and music appreciation lessons taught by master’s student at Peabody. 425-8901327 (for free placement interview). Spring is right around the corner! Interior/ exterior painting, home/deck power washing, general maintenance; licensed, insured, free estimates, affordable. 410-335-1284 or randy6506vfw@yahoo.com. Tutor available: All subjects/levels; remedial, gifted and talented; also college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design and programming. 410-337-9877 or i1__@hotmail.com. With a great headshot you’ll make things happen made to order. Edward S Davis photography and videography. 443-6959988, eddaviswrite@comcast.net or www .edwardsdavis.com. Licensed landscaper available for leaf and snow removal, trash hauling, lawn maintenance spring/summer; help also wanted, Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, no partners necessary. 410-583-7337 or www.fridaynightswing.com. How about tennis in the sun or going on a fun run? Seeking practice partner and/or running buddy. Lagom335@hotmail.com. Help wanted for spring cleanup yard work. $12.50/hr. Jim, 443-904-4399, 410-3667191 or jwiLLi33@gmail.com. Piano lessons w/experienced teacher, Peabody doctorate, patient instruction. 410662-7951.
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presents “‘Netizens’ in Iran and the Greater Middle East: A Discussion on the Fate of Iranian Reporters,” a panel discussion with Azar Nafisi, SAIS; Nikahang Kowsar, cartoonist and syndicated New York Times editor; and Mona Eltahawy, syndicated columnist. Rescheduled from Feb. 9. Co-sponsored by Reporters Without Borders. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS
The George Kempf Lectures by Dan Freed, University of Texas. Sponsored by Mathematics. 202 Maryland. HW • Wed., March 31, 4:30 p.m. “Dirac Operators and Differential K-Theory.” • Thurs., April 1, 4:30 p.m. “Loop Groups and Twisted K-Theory.”
The Rostov Lecture on International Affairs—“The Court and Foreign Law” by Stephen Breyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Sponsored by the Office of the Dean. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building.
Wed., March 31, 5:30 p.m.
F IL M / V IDEO Tournées Festival of Contemporary French Cinema, continues through April 1. HW
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The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d’Agnès), directed by Agnès Varda. 26 Mudd. Lady Chatterley, director’s cut, directed by Pascale Ferran. 101 Remsen.
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he Center for Africana Studies is continuing its artist in residence series with a free performance by the American Studio Orchestra at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 3, in the Meyerhoff Auditorium at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In the first concert of its spring 2010 residency, the orchestra will perform “Pangea,” described as “a multimedia celebration of the global human experience.” The program will feature award-winning film composer Jacob Yoffee’s Synergy Suite, a multimedia work composed for the orchestra’s inaugural performance in the artist in residence series. Also on the program is music by Astor Piazolla, Karl Jenkins and legendary film composer Ennio Morricone, and a presentation of original soundtrack music while showing three, short independent films: Words, written and directed by Max Strebel; New York Connection, written and directed by Rob Bianco; and Strangeland, written and directed by Harry Teitelman and Andrew Jerez. As part of the concert, there will be a panel discussion with the orchestra’s founder and artistic director, Larry Williams, who studied at the Peabody
Conservatory; several members of the orchestra; Franklin Knight, interim director of the Center for Africana Studies; and Leslie King-Hammond, a Johns Hopkins alumna and chair of the artist in residence committee. The concert will be presented without an intermission. Due to both limited available seating and the technical aspects of the show, seating will not be permitted once the performance begins. Guests are asked to arrive early to reserve seats. The American Studio Orchestra is the third artist in residence that the Center for Africana Studies has brought to Homewood since spring 2009, when the series began with contemporary artist Renee Stout; photographer Hank Willis Thomas was on campus in fall 2009. Originally planned as a twoartist series, the program is continuing this spring due to the generosity of all those involved, including donor and alumna Christina Mattin; all three artists in residence; partners at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Office of Student Affairs and the Digital Media Center; and the commitment and support of Paula Burger, dean of undergraduate education and vice provost.
Mon., March 29, 8:30 a.m. “Gastrointestinal Mesenchymal Tumors Other Than GIST,” Pathology grand rounds with Markku Miettinen, AFIP. Hurd Hall. EB Fri., April 2, 12:15 p.m. “Update
on Service-Oriented Architectures in Health Care,” Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Ken Rubin, EDS and DOD Health Care Portfolio. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
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Online information session for the MS in Bioinformatics program. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP to http:// advanced.jhu.edu/rsvp/index .cfm?ContentID=2076. Information necessary to participate in the online sessions will be provided after RSVP. LECTURES
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“Drawing Together: Materials, Gestures, Lines,” an Anthropology colloquium with Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen. 400 Macaulay. HW
Ladybirds Dance Team spring performance. Shriver Hall Auditorium.
Tues., March 30, 4 p.m.
Wed., March 31, 4:15 p.m.
“The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday,” an ELH colloquium with William Galperin, Rutgers University. Sponsored by English. 201C Dell House. HW Thurs., April 1, 3 p.m. “Coperni-
cus and the Astrologers of Cracow and Bologna,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Robert Westman, University of California, San Diego. Room 102, 3505 N. Charles St. HW
Fri., April 2, 2 p.m. “Will North Korea Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons?” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Joel Wit, SAIS. Parsons Auditorium. APL
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Jaywalk and JOSH spring dance performance. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW Fri., April 2, 8 p.m.
Modern Dance spring performance. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW
Sat., April 3, 8 p.m.
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“Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China,” a SAIS China Studies Program discussion with Mark Frazier, University of Oklahoma. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS
Mon., March 29, noon.
Tues., March 30, 4:30 p.m.
“Tax Reform, the Informal Economy and Bank Financing of Capital Formation,” a SAIS International Economics Program discussion
with Andrew Feltenstein, National Science Foundation. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS “The United States and Europe in the Age of Obama,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Klaus Larres, University of Ulster. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS
Tues., March 30, 5 p.m.
Wed., March 31, 12:30 p.m.
“Solar Power: Policy Prospects and Challenges,” a SAIS Global Energy and Environmental Initiative discussion with Rob Gillette, CEO, FirstSolar. 500 BernsteinOffit Building. SAIS Wed., March 31, 12:30 p.m.
“Using Business Tools to Tackle Poverty,” a SAIS International Development Program discussion with Paul Tierney Jr., chairman, TechnoServe. 200 Rome Building. SAIS The SAIS Cultural Conversations Series
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Dean’s Lecture III—“Patient-Physician Relationships and Solving the Health Disparities Conundrum” by Lisa Cooper, SoM. Hurd Hall.
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“Magic and Tragedy: Balzac Seen by E.R. Curtius,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago. 101A Dell House. HW The Darcy Lecture—“Beyond the Black Box: Integrating Advanced Characterization of Microbial Processes With Subsurface Reactive Transport Models” by Tim Scheibe, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. 234 Ames. HW Tues., March 30, 3 p.m.
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Leaders & Legends Lecture— “Current Issues Facing the Global Economy” by William “Bill” Sullivan, president and CEO, Agilent Technologies. (See story, p. 3.) Legg Mason Tower, Harbor East.
SAIS Wed., March 31, 6:30 p.m. “Cultural Dermatology: An Anthropological View of Cutaneous Modifications in the Tropics,” the Tropical Medicine Dinner Club of Baltimore with dermatologist Scott Norton. Sponsored by Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. Reservations required by March 29; e-mail mksmith@jhsph.edu. Eisenhower Room, Johns Hopkins Club. HW Thurs., April 1, 4 p.m. The 2010 David Robinson Lecture in Biomedical Engineering—“Eye Movements and the Problem of Spatial Accuracy” by Michael Goldberg, Columbia University. Sponsored by Biomedical Engineering. West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB Thurs., April 1, 4:30 p.m. “Madness and Migration in the New Millennium,” a Center for Africana Studies lecture by Kelly Josephs, CUNY, York College. Suite 100, 3003 N. Charles St. HW Thurs., April 1, 5:15 p.m. “On Medea’s Presence in Early Modern Literature,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Juliette Cherbuliez, University of Minnesota. 101A Dell House. HW Fri., April 2, 4:30 p.m. WGS Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture—“Father Knows Best” by Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley. (See story, p. 8.) Sponsored by English and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. 162 Mattin Center. HW Mon., April 5, 4 p.m. The 2010 Ernst Cloos Memorial Lecture— “A 3-D Journey Through the Patagonian Torres del Paine Magmatic Chamber and Its Contact Aureole” by Lukas Baumgartner,
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Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building Computational Science and Engineering Building EB East Baltimore HW Homewood KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of Engineering