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Faculty, staff and students, take note: the university’s Blackboard service will be unavailable from 3 p.m. Friday, May 20, until 3 p.m. Saturday, May 21, while Information Technology performs an upgrade.

Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, director of Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected chairman of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) board of directors.

Timothy Moore, John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics and chair of the Department of Classics in Arts & Sciences, recently delivered a lecture titled “Greek Tragedy after Ferguson” at Butler University in Indianapolis.

A campus memorial service for James W. Davis, professor emeritus of political science in Arts & Sciences, will be held at 4 p.m. June 6 in Graham Chapel. Davis died April 27.

Question: Which campus building includes a public display of fossils from creatures that lived long ago, including a 12-foot crocodile?

Washington University Information Technology has extended the WUSM Secure wireless network to enable better collaboration and access. Medical school faculty, staff and students now can connect to the encrypted WUSM Secure wireless network when visiting the Danforth Campus.

Leaders of the Women’s Society of Washington University announced the winners of the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarship during the group’s annual membership meeting April 19.

A memorial service for Robert Charles Strunk, MD, a pediatric allergist at the School of Medicine, will be held from 6:30-9 p.m. Saturday, May 21, in the Living World at the Saint Louis Zoo. Strunk died April 28.

The Washington University Crew Club will host free “learn to row” classes on May 14 and 21, both Saturdays, at Creve Coeur Lake.

Catherine Keane, associate professor and director of graduate studies of classics in Arts & Sciences, recently presented a discussion, “The Frank, the Friendly, and the Fictional: Speech in the Fragments of Lucilius’ Satires” at Williams College in Massachusetts.