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he Johns Hopkins University’s Computational Science and Engineering Building will be named Hackerman Hall in recognition of a lifetime of philanthropic support of the university and its Whiting School of Engineering by Recognition alumnus Willard Hackerman. The building, a honors 1938 headquarters for advanced interdisalum who ciplinary research crossing the boris longtime ders of engineering, computer science, supporter mathematics and medicine, will be dedicated and the name will become official at a ceremony Sept. 15. The honor was conferred by the executive committee of the university’s board of trustees. Hackerman, president and chief executive officer of Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner Contracting, is a 1938 civil engineering graduate of the university and a former trustee. He led the effort to re-establish the university’s stand-alone School of Engineering in 1979 and was instrumental in securing the schoolnaming gift in honor of his mentor, G.W.C. Whiting. “Willard played an absolutely critical role in the re-establishment of a separate school of engineering at Johns Hopkins,” said Nick Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School. “Beyond that, his dedication, leadership and ongoing commitment to the school have been instrumental in achieving our educational and research mission. We are so fortunate to count him as one of our alumni.” The building soon to be known as Hackerman Hall opened in 2008 on the new Decker Quadrangle at the southern end of the university’s Homewood campus. It houses some of the Whiting School’s most innovative research programs, including the Institute for

Maya Harary, a member of the student orientation team, leads a group of arriving freshmen across the Homewood campus to pick up their residence keys, J-cards and other Johns Hopkins necessities.

The Class of 2014 arrives at Homewood, classes begin today By Greg Rienzi

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ars, trucks and vans, all stuffed with cargo, lined up in caravan fashion on the Homewood campus last Wednesday and Thursday as the Class of 2014 moved into Johns Hopkins residence halls. A large contingent of upperclassmen volunteers helped parents unload the vehicles as students checked into their housing and took

in new surroundings. President Ron Daniels, decked out in a “Bleed Blue” Johns Hopkins University T-shirt, was on hand on Wednesday to meet and greet the students and families during the annual rite of passage. The big move-in kicked off a whirlwind five-day period for the 1,249 new students, Continued on page 9

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astrophysicists at The Johns Hopkins University as among the most important astrophysics investments in the next decade. Titled “New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics,” the recently issued report represents the consensus position of hundreds of astronomers and astrophysicists nationwide who participated in the process of prioritizing projects. Topping the list in the space missions category is the Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope, which is aimed at learning more about the accelerating expansion of our uni-

verse, searching for planets outside our solar system and exploring how galaxies form and evolve over time. WFIRST is partially based on research led by Adam Riess, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences astrophysicist whose team reported in 1998 that the expansion of the universe was accelerating, due to a still mysterious force known as “dark energy.” The WFIRST mission’s hardware design has its roots in the Joint Dark Energy Mis-

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‘U.S. News & World Report’ releases Best Colleges rankings

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n the Best Colleges 2011 rankings released this month by U.S. News & World Report, Johns Hopkins is tied at the 13th spot for National Universities, up from 14th last year. In the rankings for best undergraduate engineering programs among schools whose highest degree is a PhD, Johns Hopkins also comes in tied at 13th, up from a tie at 14th. In specialty rankings Johns Hopkins again captured the No. 1 spot for Biomedical/ Biomedical Engineering programs. Other categories in which Johns Hopkins is ranked are Great Schools at Great Prices (19th among national universities) and Valuing Economic Differences Too (13th). New this year is a separate ranking of colleges and universities by high school guidance counselors. In this list, Johns Hopkins is tied at sixth. For complete listings, go to http:// colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/ best-colleges.

JHU Museums will increase admission fees starting Sept. 1

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ffective Wednesday, Sept. 1, Johns Hopkins’ two historic house museums, Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library, will increase their admission prices by $2. “This modest increase in our admissions fees, which we have avoided for over 10 years, is a necessary step to meet the challenges created by the rising costs of preserving these historic structures for future generations,” said Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums. “Ultimately, our goal is to maintain the quality of our visitor experience and collections care.” Admission prices will increase to $8 for adults (ages 18–64), $7 for senior citizens (65+) and $5 for students, children (6–17) and Johns Hopkins alumni and retirees. The fee for individuals who are part of group tours of 15 or more people will increase from $5 to $6. Museum members; Johns Hopkins faculty, staff and students; and children 5 and under will continue to receive free admission. Museum membership prices are unchanged.

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arnes & Noble Johns Hopkins kicks off the fall season with visits from two Baltimore notables: author Laura Lippman and filmmaker John Waters. Lippman, who has won virtually every major award given to U.S. crime writings, will discuss and sign copies of her latest book, I’d Know You Anywhere, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7. The title comes from a letter received by suburbanite Eliza Benedict from convicted rapist and killer Walter Bow-

man, who had kidnapped her when she was 15. It was written by Bowman after he saw her photo in a magazine. Waters’ visit is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11. Though best known for his cult films, including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos and Cecil B. Demented, Waters has also penned a number of books. In his latest, Role Models, he presents portraits of subjects ranging from pornographers to famous playwrights, from atheist leaders to imprisoned former Manson Family members.

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ive doctoral students from China’s Peking Union Medical College will be studying at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing this fall, making up the fourth cohort in a doctoral program partnership that in 2008 resulted in the first nurse PhD graduate from a Chinese University. “In addition to advancing their dissertation work, the students engage in many clinical and teaching observations that allow them to compare the U.S. and Chinese health care systems and higher education in nursing,” said associate professor Marie Nolan, director of the JHUSON-PUMC Program Partnership and chair of the school’s Department of Acute and Chronic Care. The collaboration also affords the Chinese students an opportunity to develop relationships with faculty mentors that often evolve into collaborative research after they graduate. The program, funded by the China Medical Board of New York, was established in 2004 with the goal of bringing China and its health care system an internationally recognized, doctoral-level model for Chinese nursing education. To date, 18 students have participated.

Elderhostel programs take a new name: Road Scholar

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or almost three decades, the Peabody Institute has been the site of one of the United States’ largest educational and travel programs for older adults. Elderhostel has brought thousands of senior citizens to Baltimore for weeklong “study vacations” that feature musical classes and daily performances by Peabody students and faculty. The program is held in the Peabody Inn. Although the learning experiences will be branded as Road Scholar programs, the organization will still carry the Elderhostel name.

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NCI to break ground on JHU Montgomery County Campus By Tracey A. Reeves

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ohns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley are among dozens of dignitaries who will gather on Wednesday, Sept. 1, to celebrate the start of construction on a $200 million facility for the National Cancer Institute on the grounds of the university’s Montgomery County Campus in Rockville. Daniels will lead the list of speakers— which also includes U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland; Harold Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute; and Montgomery County Executive Isiah “Ike” Leggett—in a program meant to recognize the alliance of government, business and academia that resulted in the cancer institute’s decision to move to Johns Hopkins’

Montgomery site. The ceremonial groundbreaking, scheduled for 1 p.m., is expected to attract more than 200 people. “This building is a concrete embodiment of the partnerships we are forging,” Daniels says. “It brings together federal, state and local governments with business and academic interests in a collaborative effort to advance science.” The National Cancer Institute’s new facility will consist of twin seven-story buildings totaling 575,000 square feet of space on nine acres. The buildings are scheduled to be completed and occupied in about two years. The space, which will house about 2,100 researchers and support staff, will also include a parking structure and retail space. The environmentally friendly facility was designed by HOK architects and will be built by James G. Davis Construction Corp. It will be registered with the U.S. Green Building Coun-

cil and is anticipated to achieve LEED Gold certification. “This new facility represents a collective investment in the talents, skills, creativity and education of our people,” O’Malley says. “In these tough times, it will create much-needed jobs for our families during construction, and its sustainable design will help our environment. When it is complete, the vital research and innovation that will happen here will improve our health and biosciences sectors and help us to secure a better, stronger and healthier future for generations to come.” The decision to locate NCI, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, at Johns Hopkins was announced earlier this year by the General Services Administration, the federal agency responsible for the bidding process and selection. The JBG Companies will lease the land from Johns Hopkins, build the NCI center, and own and manage it after completion.

“In our view, [this life sciences center] is a blend of health care, biotech and IT interests that signals a vital future business destination, one that will employ thousands of excellent minds and imaginations,” Leggett says. “We are determined, however, that it grows carefully into a model environmental community that will be a desirable place to live.” The Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus opened in 1988 and serves about 4,000 students, mostly working professionals studying part-time for master’s degrees. Four Johns Hopkins divisions offer more than 50 degree and certificate programs on the campus, which also hosts research facilities and business tenants whose interests mesh with the university’s and county’s focus on the life sciences. To watch a live videocast of the NCI groundbreaking ceremony, go to www.cancer.gov/ aboutnci/ncishadygrove-groundbreaking.

APL-led team demonstrates space weather observation system By Michael Buckley

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he Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, with help from Boeing Co. and Iridium Communications, has successfully implemented a new system to monitor Earth’s space environment. Known as the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment, or AMPERE, the system provides real-time magnetic field measurements using commercial satellites as part of a new observation network to forecast weather in space. This is the first step in developing a system that enables 24-hour tracking of Earth’s response to supersonic blasts of plasma ejected from the sun, at collection rates fast enough to make it possible for forecasters to one day predict space weather effects. “This milestone brings us one step closer to accurate space weather forecasts around the Earth,” said APL’s Brian J. Anderson, principal investigator and the scientist who spearheads the program. “Solar storms can disrupt satellite service and damage tele-

communications networks, cause power grid blackouts and even endanger high-altitude aircraft. The next wave of solar storms will occur over the next three to five years, and recent solar activity is just the beginning of a long, stormy space weather ‘season.’ The timing for AMPERE is just right because we need this system both to help us understand how solar storms disturb the space environment and to develop reliable monitoring and forecasts of major space weather storms,” he said. The Boeing engineering team and scientists at APL have proved that the program yields continuous real-time measurements of the magnetic field over the entire Earth simultaneously, with up to 100 times greater sampling density than previously possible. “The electric currents linking Earth’s uppermost atmosphere with space—those same currents that generate the aurora borealis—also produce magnetic signatures that can only be sensed from space,” Anderson said. “This achievement by the AMPERE team is a quantum advance in science that allows the first continuous global observation of space weather.” The AMPERE program is funded by a $4

million grant from the National Science Foundation to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. APL, working with Boeing, partnered with Iridium to introduce this new capability by using Iridium’s commercial satellite constellation. “NSF is proud and thrilled to be the catalyst for this breakthrough project,” said Therese Jorgensen, program director in NSF’s division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which sponsors AMPERE. “AMPERE is a hugely exciting and novel project that brings the best of university scientists together with commercial space assets and industry engineering expertise to open a new window on our home planet’s response to solar activity.” Boeing presently handles data collection, processing and packaging from the Iridium satellite fleet for AMPERE and transfers the magnetic field samples to the Science Data Center at APL, where the data are processed to yield globally integrated views of Earth’s space environment. Leveraging more than nine years of operations and maintenance support to the Iridium satellite fleet, Boeing was able to create a new data pathway for transferring magnetic field samples from the satellites to the ground station—providing

the data in real time and up to 100 times more frequently than before. Based on this innovation, AMPERE provides data every two to 20 seconds from each Iridium satellite, and the data are available within minutes for analysis. Previously, data were sampled only once every three minutes and were available for analysis only the following day. Steve Oswald, vice president and general manager of Boeing Intelligence and Security Systems, said, “This program provides a model of a successful public-private partnership between the scientific and academic communities and industry. Together this team will answer critical scientific questions about our home planet,” he said. AMPERE uses Iridium’s network of 66 low-Earth orbiting, or LEO, communication satellites, the only system capable of providing a fully global view. The next step for the APL scientists will be to develop the analytical tools to evaluate and forecast severe geomagnetic storms in space. This phase of the project is on schedule, and the first release of AMPERE space weather products to the scientific community is planned for the fourth quarter of 2010.

HIV prevention campaign could save thousands in Tanzania B y A n n L o L o r do

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Jhpiego-supported HIV prevention campaign provided circumcision services to more than 10,000 men in Tanzania in just six weeks, far exceeding its goal and potentially averting 2,000 new HIV infections. Jhpiego worked with regional health officials to carry out the campaign to meet the high demand for this HIV prevention intervention among adolescents and men between the ages of 10 and 49. The campaign ended July 31. The results show that rapid scale-up of circumcision services can be done safely and as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention package. During the campaign, 99 percent of clients were counseled and tested for HIV and provided with key information about HIV prevention; the men also were screened for sexually transmitted infections and provided with condoms. The public health impact of a campaign such as the one in Iringa province is measurable: Experts estimate that for every 10,000 men circumcised in Iringa, more than 2,000 new HIV infections will be averted. In Africa today, medical circumcision is being performed as part of an everexpanding HIV prevention strategy that

includes testing and counseling, screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and distribution of condoms. Male circumcision has been recommended by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS as one of the key interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS. Scientific studies have shown that men who are circumcised are about 60 percent less likely to be infected with HIV during heterosexual sex than men who are uncircumcised. That’s the reason why some African health officials are looking for innovative ways to increase access to medical circumcision in eastern and southern Africa—the more men who are circumcised, the greater the chance of preventing new infections and of halting the spread of the disease. With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, Jhpiego worked with regional medical officials to design the public health campaign in Tanzania’s Iringa province, where the organization has been working for eight years. The province has the highest prevalence of HIV of any region in the country—16 percent of adults are living with HIV—and one of the lowest circumcision rates. Working in conjunction with health authorities and several other partners, Jhpiego trained 100 doctors, nurses and HIV counselors for the project, developed client education and counseling materials, and set

up high-volume male circumcision sites in five facilities: two public hospitals, a Catholic mission hospital, a public health center and a Unilever-sponsored health clinic on a tea estate. The campaign got under way in June, after school let out and when plantation work was slow. The original goal was 6,000 circumcisions over six weeks; however, overwhelming demand from the surrounding communities resulted in more than 10,000 men receiving services. A series of radio ads, posters and fliers produced with input from community groups and local health officials helped generate public interest. The campaign kickoff included traditional African dances performed to a chant promoting medical circumcision. “On the first day, there were long lines outside health clinic doors,” said Kelly Curran, Jhpiego’s director of HIV and Infectious Diseases. Yusuf Sasamalo, one of the physicians who performed the circumcisions, said, “This campaign has allowed the clients to have more than one service at the same time—health education, HIV testing and circumcision. Through this, clients can benefit from different angles. I think it has been quite successful.” Majudi Maligita, a 30-year-old security guard, said he learned about the free services through a radio ad. Circumcision is not customary in Iringa region, and some uncircum-

cised men find they are not always in similar company. “I had to go for training in the army and we went to bathe as a group. It was very stressful because I was not circumcised and others would talk about that,” Maligita said. “I thought of doing circumcision since I was very young, but my father passed away and my mother could not take me,’’ he said. “In 1999, I had an STI [sexually transmitted infection], and when I went for treatment, I was advised to be circumcised so as to decrease my chances of getting sick.” But Maligita said he couldn’t afford the cost of a circumcision. The Iringa campaign’s free service made it easy for him to participate. He said he would encourage co-workers to have the procedure. Hally Mahler, Male Circumcision Program director for Jhpiego, said that the Iringa campaign shows “there is extremely high demand—and unmet need—for male circumcision in areas of Tanzania that do not traditionally circumcise.” “The leadership of regional and district health authorities, incentives for providers and the cooperation of the local facility managers all made this a success,” she said. “This pilot project shows that circumcising several million Tanzanians over the next five years is achievable with the right program. That’s what it will take to protect Tanzanians at risk for HIV with this intervention.”

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Overweight American children, adolescents becoming fatter B y N a t a l i e W ood - W r i g h t

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verweight American children and adolescents have become fatter over the last decade, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Institute on Aging. Examining adiposity shifts across sociodemographic groups over time, they found that U.S. children and adolescents had significantly increased adiposity measures such as body mass index, waist circumference and triceps skinfold thickness. The increases in adiposity were more pronounced in some sex-ethnic groups, such as black girls. In addition, these groups gained

more abdominal fat over time, which was indicated by waist size and which posed greater health risks than elevated BMI. The researchers’ results are featured in the August issue of the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. “Our analysis shows that the increase in adiposity among U.S. children and adolescents was unequally distributed across sociodemographic groups and across the spectrum of BMI, waist circumference and triceps skinfold thickness measures,” said Youfa Wang, senior author of the study and an associate professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of International Health. “Heavier children and adolescents gained more adiposity, especially waist size, and these findings were most significant among children ages 6 to 11. “Ethnic disparities in mean BMI have

also increased substantially when comparing black girls with their white counterparts for all ages combined,” he said. “Solely examining the changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity based on fixed BMI cut points could not gain such important insights regarding shifts in the obesity epidemic.” To examine these changes over time, researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis of nationally representative survey data collected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey since the late 1980s. They examined the changes in American boys and girls ages 2 to 19, as well as by ethnic groups at the population level. “Our research suggests that U.S. young people may be at greater obesity-related risks than what was revealed by increases in BMI, as waist circumference is a better predictor of

future health risks, such as for type 2 diabetes and heart disease in adults,” said May A. Beydoun, a staff scientist with the National Institute on Aging’s Intramural Research Program and a former postdoctoral fellow in the Bloomberg School’s Department of International Health. “More vigorous efforts should be made to understand the underlying causes. Moving forward, this could help guide future population-based interventions, including those focusing on the total population and those targeting vulnerable or genetically susceptible groups,” she said. The study was written by Beydoun and Wang. The research was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and by the National Institute on Aging.

JHU-built online universe wins AAAS educational award By Lisa De Nike

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website that brings the universe into the homes and onto the computer screens of professional and amateur astronomers alike has won a Science Prize for Online Resources in Education, known as SPORE, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Built by a Johns Hopkins University team led by astrophysicist and computer scientist Alexander Szalay, the SkyServer search tool of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s database makes more than 350 million stars and galaxies available to students, teachers and the public. SkyServer’s Mapquest-like interface allows them to pan through the sky, zoom in and out, and click on stars and galaxies for more information. “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has made its entire dataset available through this online portal for public use in education,” said Szalay, the Alumni Centennial Professor in the Krieger School’s Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy. “This is a unique opportunity for students, teachers and the public to learn about astronomy. Basically, anyone with Internet access can now interact with the data in the same way that professional scientists do.” The most ambitious astronomical survey

ever taken, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey— which began in 1991 and involved hundreds of scientists around the world—is sometimes described as astronomy’s equivalent of the Human Genome Project. When complete, it will provide detailed optical images covering more than a quarter of the sky, as well as a three-dimensional map of millions of galaxies and quasars. The development of SkyServer, in particular, benefited greatly from Szalay’s collaboration with Jim Gray of Microsoft Research, who worked with the Johns Hopkins team on that and several other large-scale, high-performance scientific databases. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) gives browsers access to a three-dimensional map of the entire universe, including the brightest 1 million stars and quasars. This data is fed into the website by a dedicated 2.5 meter diameter SDSS telescope that uses a 120 megapixel camera in New Mexico to image the entire night sky, 1.5 square degrees of sky at a time (about eight times the area of the full moon). The goal of the survey is to address fundamental questions about the universe by looking at large-scale patterns of the galaxies. Astrophysicists have many theories about how the universe came into being and evolved, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is aimed at telling scientists which theories are correct, or whether they must come up with completely new ones.

Using the SkyServer search tool, users can visually explore the heavens and sort through the reams of data available on the SDSS site, Szalay said. “SkyServer users can pan through the sky, zoom in and out, and click on stars and galaxies for more information, such as the galaxy’s brightness or its position in the sky,” Szalay said. “There also are tools that let any user examine SDSS data on any object. It’s truly amazing.” SkyServer also provides middle school, high school and college students with a series of suggested science projects, complete with Excel spreadsheet templates to make data analysis easier. Topics of the projects include understanding why stars have different colors, classifying stellar spectra and examining the expansion of the universe. These projects were designed by Johns Hopkins team member Jordan Raddick, who wrote about the educational value of the website in the Aug. 27 issue of Science, which announced the award. “SkyServer provides an opportunity for teachers, students and the public to learn about astronomy interactively, which we know from education research is extremely effective and important,” Raddick said. “This website and its tools allow anyone with Internet access to interact with the SDSS data in the way real scientists do, which is remarkable.”

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esearchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that using specific drugs can protect nerve cells in mice from the lethal effects of Parkinson’s disease. The researchers’ findings are published in the Aug. 22 issue of Nature Medicine. The newly discovered drugs block a protein that, when altered in people, leads to Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease causes deterioration of the nervous system that leads to tremors and problems with muscle movement and coordination. There is no proven protective treatment yet. Only recently have scientists identified genetic causes of Parkinson’s disease that have the potential to be used for developing targeted therapies for patients with the disease. The protein LRRK2 (pronounced like lark 2) is overactive in some Parkinson’s disease patients and causes nerve cells to shrivel up and die. Why exactly overactive LRRK2 is toxic and leads to Parkinson’s disease is still unknown. Since overactive LRRK2 is deadly, researchers speculated that blocking LRRK2 from acting might protect nerve cells. The research team tested drugs that were commercially available and known to prevent proteins such as LRRK2 from acting and adding chemical phosphates to other proteins. Out of 70 drugs tested, eight were found to block LRRK2 from working.

Two of these eight previously were shown by others to be able to cross the blood-brain barrier. So the researchers injected these two drugs twice daily into mice engineered to carry Parkinson’s-causing LRRK2 changes in their brain. After three weeks, they examined the mouse brains to see if nerve cells had died. One drug provided almost complete protection against nerve cell death, and another had about 80 percent fewer dead cells than in mock treated mice. A third drug, which does not inhibit LRRK2, was not effective. “This data suggests that if you were to develop a safe drug, then you could potentially have a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease patients with LRRK2 mutations,” said Ted Dawson, professor of neurology and physiology and scientific director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering. The two drugs that blocked LRRK2 and prevented death of nerve cells in mice with Parkinson’s disease had similar chemical structures. “One could envision generating compounds around that core structure to develop a relatively selective and potent inhibitor of LRRK2,” Dawson said. Dawson is collaborating with researchers at Southern Methodist University to design more-specific inhibitors of LRRK2, and the group plans to license this technology. Once promising candidate drugs are identified,

they will have to be tested for toxic side effects. The drugs’ approval by the FDA for use in humans may still be many years away. Dawson said that treatments developed specifically against LRRK2 may even be able to treat other forms of Parkinson’s disease— those not caused by LRRK2 alterations—as there may be several alterations in different proteins that can lead to the disease. “We’re curing Parkinson’s disease in a mouse, and now we have to discover drugs that actually work in human neurons. Then we’ll hopefully be able to make the leap forward to get a treatment to work in humans,” Dawson said. Other authors on the study were Byoung Lee, Joo-Ho Shin, Andrew West, HanSeok Ko, Yun-Il Lee and co-investigator Valina Dawson, all of Johns Hopkins Medicine; Jackalina VanKampen and Leonard Petrucelli, both of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss and Howard Federoff, both of the Georgetown University Medical Center; and William Bowers, of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Funding for this research was provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Army Medical Research and Material Command, the Mayo Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. —Vanessa McMains

Over the last six years, the SDSS has been named several times as being among the most-used astronomy database facilities in the world, based upon an analysis of astronomy journal citations presented yearly at the meetings of the American Astronomical Society. “The bottom line is that this is the way astronomy is being done in the 21st century. Scientists don’t have to compete for time on expensive telescopes—they simply dial up the sky on their computers,” Szalay said. “It’s wonderful to be recognized for our work on the SkyServer, but in truth this award reflects the amazing work of hundreds of astrophysicists and astronomers and computer scientists over the last two decades.”

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John Russell-Wood, 70, noted historian with eclectic interests By Tracey A. Reeves

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Hackerman Continued from page 1 Computational Medicine, the Center for Speech and Language Processing, the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, and the Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. It includes nearly 80,000 square feet of labs, classrooms, offices and collaboration space. Hackerman, 91, and his wife, Lillian Patz Hackerman, 90, have been ardent

in 2007, John Russell-Wood, the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History, meets with his Shipwreck and Empire class.

Cooke Professor of Chinese History and chair of the History Department, called Russell-Wood the “solid backbone of Hopkins’ History Department for many decades.” “John was the one colleague you could always count on for help, or turn to for advice,” Rowe said. “He graciously mentored me ever since my own arrival here, as he has so many others thereafter. It is no exaggeration to say that he was loved by us all.” Russell-Wood served as director of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Program in Latin American Studies and twice as chair of the History Department. He also contributed significantly to the Center for Africana Studies and served on the Homewood campus’s Academic Council. He won tenure in 1976 and in 2001 was named to the endowed Herbert Baxter Adams Professorship in History. Michela Gallagher, interim dean of the

Johns Hopkins supporters. In 2005, they established the Hackerman Polytechnic Scholarships, a program providing four-year undergraduate scholarships for graduates of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Hackerman’s high school alma mater. They funded the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Radiation Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, construction of the Hackerman-Patz Patient and Family Pavilion, and the Hackerman Research Laboratories at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. They also provided major support for the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building at the Wilmer Eye Institute. The Hackermans have been leaders in Baltimore and Maryland civic life and devoted patrons of the arts. Willard Hackerman served on the state’s first Commission on Economic Development and on the Maryland Higher Education Commission. He is a member of the boards of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Maryland Science Center and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He has also served on the board of the Maryland Health and Higher Education Facilities Authority. He received an honorary doctorate from Johns Hopkins in 1990 and has honorary degrees from four other educational institutions. “The contributions of Willard and Lillian Hackerman to this university, the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland simply cannot be overstated,” said Ronald J. Daniels, president of the university. “Johns Hopkins is delighted and proud that Hackerman Hall will stand on the Homewood campus as a permanent and prominent testament to their dedication, generosity and legacy.” G

School of Arts and Sciences, said, “John was held in great affection by his colleagues, students and staff, and he was known for his compassion and his generosity, as well as his wry sense of humor. He will be deeply missed.” In describing why he chose to become a historian, Russell-Wood wrote in his curriculum vitae that his interest in the discipline was not a case of “love at first sight.” Rather, he said, it was “derived from the gradual realization that many of the sources I was reading on medieval Portugal or the chronicles of the Portuguese in Asia, from the perspective of a student of literature or because of their philological content, possessed a strong historical component which I found irresistible.” “I am a firm believer in how the study and writing and teaching of history can be highly enjoyable and fun,” he wrote. Russell-Wood was born in Wales and raised in northwest England’s Lancashire area, where both his mother and father were educators. He earned his bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford. He also held a diploma in Portuguese studies from Coimbra University. Russell-Wood possessed an unrelenting curiosity, a trait he satisfied through con-

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nthony John R. Russell-Wood, the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University and a widely published expert in the history and culture of pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America, died Aug. 13 at his Lutherville home after a brief illness. A faculty member at Johns Hopkins since 1971, Russell-Wood, 70, was a prolific author and one of the world’s foremost historians of Brazil and the Portuguese seaborne empire. His voracious appetite for knowledge and the impressive breadth of his interests were reflected in his many publications on administrative and urban history, history of art, technology, public health, women, race, slavery and historiography. He wrote or edited 10 books, most recently Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil (2002), and contributed to more than 80 scholarly articles. His eclectic interests led to a teaching portfolio that was just as diverse; he taught graduate seminars on Brazil and colonial Latin America, and undergraduate courses such as The Age of Exploration, The African Diaspora, Shipwreck and Empire, and Gold and Society. His stature within his field of work often led to participation in video and film documentaries shown on National Public Television and the History Channel. Anthony John Russell-Wood, who was known as John, delighted in teaching and nurturing his students and in guiding graduate-level candidates through their dissertations. Students praised his even-handedness and availability to answer questions or offer support. But he went beyond the classroom, often holding “refugee parties” at his home, inviting students who stayed in town over the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays to dine and mingle with his family. His charisma, one family member said, brought both grace and charm to any conversation in which he was a part. William T. Rowe, the John and Diane

stant exploration of the world and people around him. He spent his youth traveling to the far corners of Europe, often relying on his intrinsic good fortune and the benevolence of others to accommodate him. Pursuing his studies, completing academic research and supporting local charitable trusts for indigent education, he spent more than six years living in Brazil. In raising his sons, Christopher and Karsten, Russell-Wood fostered cultural awareness, strong ethics and a firm command of oneself in all situations that life presents. He took them on trips to his native Wales and encouraged them to expand their horizons by visiting other faraway places. It was while on these trips, as well as at home, that Russell-Wood would instill in his sons the importance of hard work and the value of a strong education. His love of Johns Hopkins contributed to the decision of both sons to pursue undergraduate and graduate experiences at the institution. Outside the office, Russell-Wood treasured the time he spent with his family and his dog, Abby, a stray pit bull that his wife, Hannelore, had adopted. His interests included cycling, sailing, hiking and bird watching. An avid squash player, he had represented both Oxford University and the United Kingdom in international competitions. Russell-Wood was also a passionate community volunteer. As chair of the Maryland Committee for the Humanities, he was asked in 1981 to serve on the Maryland Heritage Committee to organize and coordinate Baltimore County’s celebration of the state’s 350th anniversary. In 1983, he received gubernatorial and mayoral citations for public service. Russell-Wood was awarded numerous honors during his career, including the Portuguese National Order of Knighthood, Commander of the Order of Dom Henrique, presented to him by the president of Portugal; the title of Benemerito, accorded to him by the Santa Casa da Misericordia of Bahia for his contribution to scholarship; Commander of the International Order of Merit of the Misericordias; Officer of the Order of Rio Branco; and honorary citizenship in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Anthony John R. Russell-Wood is survived by his wife of 37 years, Hannelore; his sons, Christopher and Karsten, and their wives; and four grandchildren, Karrigan, Elisabeth, Isabelle and Haviland.

A RINGING ENDORSEMENT. The Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering student team that won the $20,000 grand prize in the 2010 Wharton Business Plan Competition at the University of Pennsylvania received another honor for its invention last week: the opportunity to preside over the NASDAQ Closing Bell. The Cortical Concepts team, which developed a spinal surgery device that increases the strength of fixation in osteoporotic bone, visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Time Square on Aug. 23. The team was formed in the yearlong master’s degree program offered through Johns Hopkins’ Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design. Its project was sponsored by A. Jay Khanna, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who also attended the NASDAQ ceremony.

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Astrophysics Continued from page 1 sion, on which Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has served in various capacities. Bennett, who recently won the Shaw Prize in astronomy for his groundbreaking work in determining the age, shape and composition of the universe, served as cochair of the JDEM Science Definition Team, was a member of the JDEM Science Coordination Group and led a team that designed a detailed mission approach. In fact, the hardware design recommended by the National Academy of Sciences report closely resembles the Bennett team’s mission design, which was the result of collaboration between scientists at Johns Hopkins and other universities, and scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “We designed a mission that could conduct a wide-field infrared survey of the sky while also measuring the three-dimensional position in space of 200 million galaxies to learn about their evolution, and to trace the history of the accelerated expansion of the universe,� said Bennett, a professor in the Krieger School’s Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy. “We are very pleased that our approach was adopted by the JDEM Project Office at Goddard, and was strongly endorsed by the entire community through this very influential consensus report.� Warren Moos, also a professor in Physics and Astronomy and a member of Bennett’s JDEM design team, co-chairs the JDEM Interim Science Working Group, which was formed in December 2009 to guide NASA. First place among the ground-based observatories in the new report was the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a wide-field survey instrument to be located on the El Penon peak of Cerro Pachon in northeast Chile and on which construction will begin this year. Johns Hopkins is currently a partner on this developing project, which will rapidly survey large swaths of the sky repeatedly over time. In fact, Johns Hopkins astronomers are already involved in a precursor effort called Pan-STARRS, which is observing the sky in a similar manner from Hawaii. LSST promises to take PanSTARRS science to a new level. Both WFIRST and LSST promise to produce immense amounts of data that will be mined for information, according to Alexander Szalay, director of Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science. “WFIRST and LSST are exemplars of the emerging field of data-intensive science that is made possible by the rapid growth of computer power, and are part of a movement that is transforming the very essence of how

New year Continued from page 1 who begin classes today. After settling in, they took part in a string of orientation events, including campus tours, movie nights, an ice cream social, open houses, Playfair and welcome receptions. A Deans Assembly for the entire class was held on Friday, a busy day for the new class that ended with a semiformal Blue Jay Ball underneath a tent on the Decker Quad. The weekend featured even more festivities, including a crab feast, HorrorFest, comedy show and Beach BBQ Party, culminating in the new-student convocation. The midweek move-in, a change from years past, was precipitated by the new academic calendar for the Homewood schools,

scientific discovery and engineering research are being done and will happen now and in the future,� Szalay said. “Researchers can now do science directly within databases, teasing out relationships that are not evident at first glance.� Ranked second in the space category of the National Academy of Sciences report is an expansion of NASA’s Explorer line of missions. Bennett is the leader of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Explorer mission, and Moos led the earlier Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission. “We are delighted to hear about the proposed expansion of the Explorer program,� Moos said. “Johns Hopkins has the demonstrated capability to compete in this mission category, so this is great news for us.� Ranked second in the report’s ground-based astronomy category was midscale instrument development, which is good news for the Johns Hopkins scientific initiatives that make use of the Instrument Development Group. The IDG designs hardware for a variety of aerospace and ground-based projects. The “New Worlds, New Horizons� report, which also strongly endorsed the groundbased search for cosmic microwave background signals from the universe’s earliest moments, called for an increase in investments in this research area. In March, Bennett was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to build an instrument designed to probe what happened during the universe’s first trillionth of a second, when it suddenly grew from submicroscopic to astronomical size in far less time than it takes to blink an eye. Called the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor, or CLASS, the instrument is expected to require five years to build and will have the capability to measure the “cosmic microwave background radiation� over large swaths of the sky. Johns Hopkins astronomers also are eagerly awaiting the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, sometimes referred to as the “next generation Hubble Space Telescope.� The instrument’s science center will be headquartered at the Space Telescope Science Institute, located on Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus. According to Bennett, the James Webb’s very deep and narrow view will complement the wide and shallow infrared focus of WFIRST, providing a very powerful scientific “one-two punch.� Katherine S. Newman, who assumes her post as dean of the Krieger School on Sept. 1, said she is enthusiastic about the National Academy report’s acknowledgment of the work being done in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. “I am delighted that the National Academy survey recognizes the outstanding research program of my colleagues in Physics and Astronomy,� Newman said. “Johns Hopkins is fortunate to have such remarkable leadership. They are national treasures in this critical field.� G

which now begins on a Monday because the majority of their courses are held in either a Monday/Wednesday/Friday or Tuesday/ Thursday format. With full support from the department chairs and faculty, the change to a Monday start for the fall semester allowed the university to maintain the natural rhythm of the new schedule, restore fall break and eliminate a “hanging� Monday during the last week of classes. The freshman class was culled from a record applicant pool of 18,458 high school seniors. The group, which is 52 percent male and 48 percent female, had a mean SAT combined score of 1402 and a high school GPA of 3.72. Among the class of 2014 are nine Baltimore Scholars, graduates of Baltimore City public schools accepted into the university’s undergraduate programs who receive fulltuition scholarships. G More photos are online at gazette.jhu.edu.

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Baltimore City, updated 1BR condo in secure gated community, assigned prkng, swimming, tennis, nr hospital and university; option to own ($135,000). $1,200/mo incl utils. 410-951-4750. Baltimore City (Old Pimlico Rd), spacious, furn’d 2BR, 2BA condo in secure community, nr light rail and Summit Park ES, free prkng, swimming, tennis. $950/mo incl utils. Tinghuai, 443-846-8750 or tinghwu@ gmail.com. Bayview, 2-3BR apt, 1st flr. $700/mo + sec dep. 443-243-1651. Canton, 2BR, 1.5BA TH, CAC/heat, hdwd flrs, W/D, steps to waterfront, 10 mins to JHMI/Bayview. $1,300/mo + utils. 443-6687603. Cedonia, 1BR apt w/new kitchen and BA, walk-in closet, W/D, priv entrance, deck, landscaped fenced yd, free prkng, nr JHH/ Homewood/Morgan State and public transportation, pets welcome. $710/mo + utils. 410-493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com. Charles Village, spacious 1BR apt, close to Homewood/JHMI shuttle, avail Oct 1. $782/mo + utils. 410-484-4224. Charles Village/Guilford, 1BR, 1BA apt w/ patio and priv entry, spacious living rm, full kitchen, dining area, safe neighborhood. $900/mo + elec. 410-529-3343. Columbia, furn’d bsmt BR w/priv BA in single-family home of JH employee, private entry, no smoking/no pets. $850/mo incl all utils. beachlovr63@yahoo.com. E Belvedere Ave, 2BR, 1.5BA apt, hdwd flrs, fp, kitchen, powder rm, living and dining areas, W/D in bsmt, 5-min walk to Belvedere Square. $875/mo + utils. 410-435-6417 or ankumar1120@yahoo.com.

M A R K E T P L A C E

Charming 3BR, 2BA condo, separate garage, walking distance to university, great buy, low $200s. 443-848-6392 or sue.rzep2@verizon .net.

$1,000/mo incl utils, prkng. jill.kearney@ gmail.com.

Beautiful craftsmanship can be yours, very close to all JH campuses. $199,900. 302-9816947 or www.3402mountpleasantavenue .canbyours.com.

Mt Washington, 2BR, 1BA avail for sublet, avail Sept 1 to Oct 31 (lease can be renewed), nr MTA bus to Homewood campus. $875/mo. b_efremova@yahoo.com.

3BR, 2BA Victorian shingle-style house, office, fp, AC, garage, nr Eddie’s (Roland Park), schools; buyer’s agent fine. 443-5620595.

Ocean City, MD (137th St), 3BR, 2BA condo w/lg pool, 2 assigned prkng spaces, on ocean block, very short walk to restaurants and entertainment. 410-544-2814.

ROOMMATES WANTED

Owings Mills, 2BR, 2BA condo, W/D, walkin closets, storage, prkng, pool/tennis court privileges, backs to woods, conv to metro, walk to grocery, sm pets negotiable ($250 nonrefundable deposit), pics avail, 1-yr lease. $1,100/mo. 410-336-7952 or ljohnsto@mail .roanoke.edu. Roland Park, spacious, furn’d 2BR, 2BA condo in secure area, W/D, walk-in closet, pool, cardio equipment, .5 mi to Homewood campus. $1,650/mo. 410-218-3547 or khassani@ gmail.com. Roland Park/Village of Cross Keys, totally renov’d 2BR, 1.5BA apt in secure gated community, W/D in unit, stainless steel appls, 2 garage prkng spots, swimming pool, tennis, 15 mins to JHH/JHU. $1,650/mo incl utils. Serge, 410-580-1960 or 443-824-0190. Union Square, 1BR suite, in historic district, furn’d, refin’d hdwd flrs, W/D, dw, microwave, satellite TV, wireless DSL, 1-yr lease. $750/wk. 410-988-3137, richardson1886@ gmail.com or http://therichardsonhouse .vflyer.com/home/flyer/home/1931153. Upper Fells Point (Wolfe St), 3BR, 2.5BA RH, renov’d kitchen w/all appls, W/D, CAC, loft space, balcony, walk to JHMI. $1,800/ mo. anantmurthy@yahoo.com. 2907 St Paul St, studio apt in great neighborhood, 2nd flr, safe and quiet. $750/mo incl heat, water (off-street prkng avail w/additional fee). murilo_silvia@hotmail.com.

Elkridge, 3BR, 2BA TH w/fin’d bsmt, fantastic garden, great schools. $1,800/mo. 443854-5760 or lithiumrun@yahoo.com.

Rm in new TH, 3-min walk to Biomedical Research Center, no smoking/no pets. 301717-4217 or jiez@jayzhang.com.

Federal Hill, charming 2BR RH in great location. $1,600/mo. Becky, 301-4665277 or http://baltimore.craigslist.org/apa/ 1877585717.html.

Rm in new TH, 1-min walk to Human Resources (JHMI), no smoking/no pets. 410456-1708 or amswaf@gmail.com.

Guilford, wonderful, safe 1BR, 1BA condo on 9th flr of elevator bldg, 24-hr security, CAC, hdwd flrs, pool, gym, sauna, great views, 5- to 8-min walk to JHU/shuttle. $1,400/mo incl utils and underground prkng. 410-889-0446. Hampden, 4BR, 1BA TH, 3 blks to the Avenue, walk to JHU, 2-car prkng pad. $1,600/mo. 410-303-2630. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410-3782393. Hampden/Medfield, efficiency bsmt apt, walk to Cold Spring light rail. $650/mo incl utils. 443-600-7330. Little Italy, 3BR, 2.5BA house. $2,000/ mo. Marlena, rigatomarlena@gmail.com or www.postlets.com/rts/4252578. Mays Chapel/Timonium, 3- or 4BR EOG TH, 3.5BAs, family rm, deck, patio, fenced yd, nr good schools, pleasant green area great for walking/jogging, 5 mins to 695 via I-83. $1,600/mo + utils. 410-321-8889. Mt Washington, furn’d 1BR apt in owneroccupied house, avail short- or long-term. Johns Hopkins / Hampden WYMAN COURT APTS. (BEECH AVE.) Effic from $570, 1 BD Apt. from $675, 2 BD from $775 HICKORY HEIGHTS APTS. (HICKORY AVE.) 2 BD units from $750 Shown by Appointment 410-764-7776

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2BR luxury sublet in historic bldg, furn’d, 5 mins to Homewood campus, avail Oct 1 to July 31. $1,450/mo incl all utils. imonette@ hotmail.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Arcadia/Beverly Hills (3019 Iona Terrace), spacious, renov’d 4BR, 2.5BA detached house in beautiful neighborhood, open kitchen/dining area, deck, landscaped, mins to Homewood campus. $229,500. 410-294-9220. Canton area TH. .715miltonave.com.

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Charles Village (28th and Barclay), 2-3BR, 2.5BA house, renov’d in 2008; must see. $97,500 (reduced). 410-258-3932. Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt w/cedar closet, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, 15 mins to JHH. $142,000. 443-610-0236 or tziporachai@ juno.com. Roland Park/Medfield area, lg detached house w/inlaw apt, 3 lots of land incl’d. $375,000. adecker001@yahoo.com. Buying, Selling or Renting? “Leave all your worries to me.” Maria E. Avellaneda Realtor & MD Certified Interpreter

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Share newly remodeled Mt Washington house, mostly furn’d, full use of house and shed. $1,000/mo incl all utils, Internet. lasasha16@gmail.com. Rm avail in 3BR TH in Hampden/Medfield area, share w/2 M (student and prof’l), CAC, Internet. $600/mo incl utils. apmacleod@ gmail.com. F wanted to share 3BR Towson TH w/faculty member, lg furn’d BR, priv BA. $500/ mo + 1/3 utils. 410-321-0185. F prof’l/student wanted for furn’d rm, monthto-month, shared use of 3BR TH, laundry, kitchen, living rm, BA, cable, plenty of prkng, 2 mi to Bayview. $600/mo. 443-8755338 or tinasandwich01@hotmail.com. Clean, respectable and fun student wanted for 2BR, 2BA apt in the Park Charles, furn’d, no smoking, lease starts Sept 1 for school yr or longer. Split $1,375/mo + utils. tinkerbelinda@gmail.com. F grad student/young prof’l wanted for furn’d 2nd-flr loft apt, nr University of Maryland/ JHU/UB, amenities incl 24-hr security, gym, laundry, nr JHU shuttle or metro, walk to Inner Harbor, Camden Yards, Hippodrome, pref nonsmoker. $850/mo. jessani@email.unc .edu. M wanted to share 2BR, 1BA apt w/balcony nr Wyman Park. $420/mo + 1/2 utils (less than $50). 443-255-0069. F wanted for furn’d rm w/priv BA, TV and Internet, 1-min walk to JHH/SPH/SoN. $600/mo + utils. 571-345-5059 or irajk100@ yahoo.com. F nonsmoker wanted for 1BR in 2BR apt at 505 W University Pkwy, AC, heat, hot water and gas incl’d, no pets, starting in September. $515/mo + 1/2 elec. gwxts5@ gmail.com. Rm in Canton (S Streeper St), great area, lots to do, share w/1 respectful roommate. $675/mo + utils. 970-576-5476 or navitatl@ hotmail.com. Share new, refurbished TH w/other medical students, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI (924 N Broadway). gretrieval@aol.com. F nonsmoker wanted to share spacious new 4BR, 4.5BA TH in Canton, prking space provided, no pets. $660/mo + 1/2 utils. mdodds687@gmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE

’10 Toyota Corolla LE, clean title, 1 owner, cruise control, MP3, in great cond, 11.4K

mi. $12,500. 405-762-2567 or vigneshm@ gmail.com. ’86 Mercedes 560 SL convertible, beige, garage-kept, soft and hard tops and cover, no rust, in excel cond, runs well. 443-676-1046 or Lafram1@verizon.net. ’03 Ford Taurus, gray, runs great, 180K mi. $2,500. 504-344-1834 or likitkererat@ hotmail.com. ’97 Lincoln Town Car, loaded, garage-kept, nice and clean. $3,900. 410-980-0686. ’99 Toyota Camry LE, 4-cyl, automatic, in good cond, insp’d, 135K mi. $3,300. 410916-5858.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Furniture sale: sofa, like new, $250; bookshelf, $10; computer w/monitor, $100; multipurpose tool set, $20; 27" TV w/lg entertainment center, $100. 410-337-5124 or silwak7@gmail.com. 1991 Kawasaki jet-ski, blue/white, 2-cyl, 650cc, 2-seater, clear title, has no trailer, runs well, looks good. $999 (cash only). 443-392-8621. 2006 Wildwood camper, 27', sleeps 8, AC, in great cond. susanb1985@gmail.com. Sofa, brown tweed, 89" long, fruitwood legs, in great cond, Mt Washington area. $150. Chris, 443-812-8221 or crussell216@gmail .com. Women’s Harley-Davidson ankle-high riding boots, black leather, new, never worn, still in box; photo available on request. $90. asilul@yahoo.com. Girl’s clothing, variety of sizes (5T-10), sweaters, coats, jackets, shorts, jeans, dresses, tops, blouses, etc. 410-485-4949 or 410-302-9517. 2008 Yamaha YZFR6 motorcycle, custom body work, 2K mi, helmet incl’d. 410-3208106. Full-size solid oak futon w/brown velvet mattress w/4 pillows, $210; wood oval dining table w/4 chairs, $110; wood rectangular table, $40; pics available. 443-257-5136 or pakshree@hotmail.com. Loveseat. 410-628-1364 or rnslib@yahoo .com (pics/info). 3-pc full-size bedroom set, headboard w/drawers, bedframe, dresser w/mirror, chest; mattress not incl’d. $150. balt.furniture4sale@ hotmail.com. Werner aluminum ladders: $133 for 40' or $56 for 24'; Craftsman 10" radial arm saw, model# 22010, $300. 410-207-5467. Kawai upright piano, made of pecan wood, excel tone. $1,100. 410-235-2522. REI Novara bikes (2), 26", w/helmets, water holders and bottles, $150/ea; desk chairs (3), $25/ea. Marie, 410-825-8349. Old cabinet Singer sewing machines (2); new JVC VCR, never used; HP computer, monitor and printer w/Windows XP; children’s hamper and toy chest; Baby Einstein Exersaucer; blue Bumbo baby seat w/tray; baby bouncer; best offers accepted. Chris, 443-326-7717. Desk lamp, $10; iron, $13; tabletop ironing Continued on page 10

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Calendar dence, Regulation and Clinical Practice,� a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Harry Marks, SoM. W2030 SPH. EB

I N FOR M AT I O N SESSIONS

Tour of MSE Library and Introduction to Research, a guide to locating journals, books and DVDs; generating quick bibliographies; accessing databases and journals from off-campus; and other timesaving strategies. Electronic Resource Center, M-level, MSE Library. HW

Wed., Sept. 1, 4:30 p.m.

“Transduction of Virulence Factors by Alphaviruses in Vertebrate and Invertebrate Models of Infection,� a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with John Randall Clayton. W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Sept. 2, 2 p.m.

“State Policy Change and Health Coverage for Low-Income Adults,� a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Christina Moylan. W2029 SPH.

Fri., Sept. 3, 9:30 a.m.

LE C TURE S

“Will Alien Life Resemble Us (and How Could We Possibly Know)? Astrobiology, Evolution and the Amino Acids,� an Astrobiology lecture by Stephen Freeland, University of Hawaii. Sponsored by STScI, the Space Studies Initiative, JHU Biology and the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Bahcall Auditorium, STScI. HW

Fri., Sept. 3, noon.

REA D I N G S

Baltimore author Laura Lippman will read from and sign copies of her latest book, I’d Know You Anywhere. (See “In Brief,� p. 2.) Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW Tues., Sept. 7, 7 p.m.

Memorial Hall’s stained glass windows are a highlight of Gilman Hall’s three-year renovation, which will be celebrated tonight with a Grand Reopening. See Special Events.

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“Heads in the Cloud: Bringing Artificial Intelligence Into the Real World,� a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Jeffrey Bigham, University of Rochester. B17 CSEB. HW Wed., Sept. 1, 8:30 a.m. “The Many Lessons of Avandia: Evi-

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S P E C I AL E V E N T S Mon., Aug. 30, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

SAIS welcoming reception, with Dean Jessica Einhorn. Sponsored by the Office of Student Life. For information and to RSVP, call 202663-5705 or e-mail lisa.kahn@jhu .edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Mon., Aug. 30, 6 to 8 p.m.

Grand Reopening of Gilman Hall, with remarks by President Ronald J. Daniels and Katherine Newman, dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; a tour of Gilman Hall and exhibits on the building’s past and present, and seminars by KSAS faculty and the renovation architect. Gilman Hall. HW Fri., Sept. 3, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“Antiretroviral Therapy Availability and Gender, Stigma and HIV Serostatus Disclosure in Rakai, Uganda,� a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Sabina Haberlen. W2030 SPH. EB Fri., Sept. 3, 2 p.m.

“Interstrand Cross-links Are Repaired in a Distortion-Dependent Manner,� a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar with Michael Smeaton. W1214 SPH. EB

Fri., Sept. 3, 2 p.m.

Student Job Fair, with employers from the Homewood and JH medical campuses and representatives from community service organizations. Sponsored by Homewood Student Affairs. For more information, go to the Student Employment Services website at www.jhu .edu/stujob. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW Fri., Sept. 3, 2 to 4:30 p.m.

Student Activities Fair, an opportunity to learn about 226 student groups. O’Connor Recreation Center. HW

W OR K S HO P S The Center for Educational Resources presents a series of

information sessions on the Blackboard 9.1 interface. The training is open to anyone who will be accessing a Blackboard site as an administrator or TA. To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW •

Mon., Aug. 30, Wed., Sept. 1, Fri., Sept. 3, and Tues., Sept. 7, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. “Getting Started

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Tues., Aug. 31, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. “Blackboard

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Calendar Key

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

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JHU graduate students are automatically approved with completed application. John Hopkins employees receive $0 app. fee & $0 security deposit with qualified application.

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