In Brief

WSE's Rachel Karchin earns National Science Foundation
CAREER award
The National Science Foundation has awarded a Faculty
Early Career Development program award to Rachel Karchin,
an assistant professor in the Whiting School's
Department of Biomedical Engineering. The award is
worth more than $500,000 over a period of five years to
support Karchin's work in modeling missense mutations.
The work will contribute to computational research in
public health (genetic components of
disease), agriculture and ecology (plant and animal
susceptibility to pathogens and parasites,
resistance to herbicides and insecticides, response to
fertilizers).
As part of her CAREER plan Karchin will introduce high
school students from groups underrepresented in science,
particularly disadvantaged young women, to computational
biology. A unique approach to this activity is a molecular
evolution computer game designed by Karchin for high
school students. "The game is an agent-based model to
evolve a highly fit population of toy proteins in
a virtual environment," she said.

No increase in monthly parking charges at Homewood
campus
In recognition of the current economic environment and
the several measures the university is
taking to stabilize and lower costs, the
Homewood Parking
and Transportation Office is announcing
today that it has taken steps to keep costs down and will
hold monthly parking rates at the current
level for another fiscal year. Therefore, rates will not
increase on July 1, 2009. Current rate and
registration information can be found at
www.parking.jhu.edu.

WMAR-TV to air one-hour special about Hopkins
Children's
In partnership with
Johns Hopkins
Children's Center, ABC2, WMAR-TV will broadcast a
one-hour special that takes a rare glimpse into the
achievements inside the world-renowned pediatric
hospital.
In the one-hour special, Johns Hopkins Children's
Center: Where Miracles Happen, news anchors
Mary Beth Marsden, Terry Owens, Kelly Swoope, Jamie
Costello and Megan Pringle introduce viewers
to patients whose survival stories showcase the work of the
hospital's faculty and staff.
The show premieres at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, with
an encore presentation at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb.
28.For the third year in a row, ABC2 has donated the
airtime to help raise awareness of the hospital's work.
Scheduled to air the same weekend as the 20th annual
Radiothon on MIX 106.5., viewers of the television special
will be encouraged to make a donation by calling
410-823-1065 or by logging on to:
www.hopkinschildrens.org.

Carey Business School completes downtown Baltimore
move
The Carey Business
School's downtown Baltimore coalition is now
complete.
On Feb. 9, the Dean's Office of the school relocated
to the third floor of the Downtown Center, located at
10N. Charles St. At the same time, the Office of External
Affairs, composed of the Office of Development and the
Office of Marketing, Communications and Public
Affairs,moved into its new quarters at 100 N. Charles
St.,7th floor. Both areas were previously located at
Shaffer Hall on the Homewood campus.
These moves have brought together the administrative
offices of the school alongside its
flagship downtown location. Classes and additional services
will continue to be offered at the school's Columbia,
Md., and Washington, D.C., centers and at the Montgomery
County (Rockville) Campus in Rockville, Md., as well.
Contact information, including phone and fax numbers
and e-mail, remain the same for all relocated
parties.

Summer Day Sports Camp sets change in campers'
ages
The JHU Summer Day Sports Camp — opened 43 years
ago to provide a service to the faculty, staff, alumni and
neighbors of the university — will open for the
season on June 15.
Camp director Robert Babb said a decision has been
made to raise the age of the campers this year. The
youngest who will be accepted must be born on or before
June 1, 2002, and campers will be admitted until the age
of 15.
The hours of the camp, which operates from Monday to
Friday at Homewood, are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., but
campersmaybe dropped off as early as 8:15 a.m. and
picked up as late as 5:10 p.m.
Campers are guaranteed a spot if registered with a
nonrefundable deposit by May 1. For more
information, go to:
hopkinssports.cstv.com/camps/jhop-camps.html.

Burn experts from Bayview assist in Nairobi after explosion
Three
Johns Hopkins Burn Center experts recently traveled to
Nairobi to provide expertise and assistance to local
medical personnel and victims after a tanker explosion
left more than 100 dead and dozens severely burned and
injured.
Stephen Milner, chief of the Burn Division; Lester
Young, a burn fellow; and Rowena Orosco, burn unit
charge nurse, volunteered their time and represented Johns
Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
The James R. Jordan Foundation had contacted the Burn
Center and asked for assistance in caring for patients
and teaching the staff about burn
care.

Public Health group joins city Fire, Health departments in
outreach effort
On Wednesday morning at the Oldtown Fire Station, the
Baltimore City Fire and Health departments and the
Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health came together to
teach families how to reduce their risk of injury from
home fires. More than 1,500 house fires occur each year in
Baltimore, and the majority of these fires are
preventable.
The event, part of the Health Department's Prevention
Wednesday public education campaign, marked the first time
the three groups have partnered to provide fire
prevention education to the
community.
Eileen McDonald, associate scientist with the Center
for Injury Research and Policy and director of The Johns
Hopkins Children's Safety Center, noted that people who
rent their home should be aware of their rights related to
smoke alarms. "In a
rental situation," she said, "the landlord is legally
responsible for providing tenants with smoke alarms. It
is up to the renter, however, to be sure the alarms are in
good working order."
Research conducted by McDonald and colleagues at the
center found that while 90 percent of homes have smoke
alarms, 50 percent of them did not function properly.
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