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July 5, 2011 the newspaper of the Johns hopkins university Volume 40 No. 39

Job Opportunities

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celebratiNg staff

Events across the university

recognize employees with mile-

stone anniversaries, page 6

tWeet talKiNg

Chitchat gives computer

scientists a way to track public

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JHM International names new chair; Africana

Studies summer institute; JH-U-Turn results

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O students, where art thou? S U M M E R T I M E

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Newly planted flowers and shrubs pop and bloom around Balti-more’s Washington Monument

and nearby green space, thanks in part to a seed grant from the Johns Hopkins University’s President’s Office and Pea-

body Institute. Johns Hopkins is also lending its support to help jump-start a push to fully make over the rest of the Mount Ver-non Place envi-rons in time for the monument’s

200th anniversary in 2015. In February, the Baltimore City Com-mission for Historical and Architectural Preservation conditionally approved a new master plan for Mount Vernon Place, the plus sign–shaped public park system that has the Washington Monu-ment at its center. The area is bound by Madison Street to the north, Centre Street to the south, St. Paul Street to the east and Cathedral Street to the west. The Peabody Institute sits right below Mount Vernon Place’s east park. The Mount Vernon Place Conser-vancy sponsored the area’s new mas-ter plan, which was prepared by the Olin Partnership, a leading U.S. urban landscape design and preservation firm. The conservancy—founded by engaged citizens from the Mount Vernon–Belvedere Association and Friends of Mount Vernon Place—seeks to reverse years of decline by improving the area’s landscaping and maintenance and, long term, securing funds for the park’s phased restoration, including the repair and reopening of the Washington Mon-ument to the public. The conservancy, in partnership with Baltimore City, began raising funds this spring. In response, Peabody and the university issued a $15,000 challenge grant, conditional upon nine nearby property owners contributing to the

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This summer, some Johns Hopkins students are packing the sunblock and flip-flops and taking a deserved rest from studies and exams, but others are using the warm-weather months to sample the real world and put what they learned in the classroom to use. Here’s a look at what five are up to this summer. Their stories are a mixture of high-octane thrills, hands-on learning and adventures in foreign lands.

Nursing student Jamie hatcher, left, is in abu Dhabi, learning about labor and delivery. Mechani-

cal engineering major andrew Kelly, above, is in Philadelphia, working on antique sports cars.

aNDreW KellyPiston-powered work in Philly

Rule No. 1 of working in an antique sports car museum: Don’t get roman-tically attached to things on four

wheels. Andrew Kelly, a junior mechanical engineering major and an unabashed gear-head, learned this valuable lesson early on in his summer apprenticeship at the Simeone Foundation Museum, located minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport. Assembled by renowned neurosurgeon Frederick Simeone over a 50-year span, the museum collection contains more than 60 of the rarest and most significant racing and sports cars ever built. Among those housed

in an old former engine remanufactur-ing plant are a 1909 American Under-slung with its classic 40-inch, thin white wheels; a 1933 Alfa Romeo Monza; an iconic 1970 Porsche 917 LH like the one Steve McQueen drove in the 1971 film Le Mans; and an original 1964 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe valued at more than $7 million. Kelly fell head over wheels with a car not yet in the permanent collection, a 1954 white Austin Healey 100-4 with red interior that Simeone bought at an auction and planned to drive himself. “It’s just a gorgeous car, a British clas-

Landau named vice provost for faculty affairs A D M I N I S T R A T I O N

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Goal of refocused positionis to further support and enhance faculty excellence

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University Administration

Barbara Landau, the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive Science in

the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed vice provost for faculty affairs. She succeeds Michela Gallagher, for-mer chair of Psychological and Brain Sci-ences in the Krieger School, who stepped down as vice provost for academic affairs to return to her research. As vice provost for faculty affairs, Landau will work closely with the vice deans for fac-ulty in the respective schools and with faculty across the university to advance and promote their work and to improve the quality of fac-ulty life. She assumed her new role on July 1.

“Barbara is a proven scholar and aca-demic leader,” said Lloyd Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. “She is ideally suited to fill this important role, which has been refocused to address the most pressing issues of one our most important resources—our faculty. Barbara will be a wonderful addition to the Office of the Provost,” Minor said. Landau, whose research focuses on the nature, acquisition and development of

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