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Ensuring that the elderly have access to transportation while preventing age-related driving impairments will be the focus of the eighth annual Friedman Conference on Aging, “Are We Licensed for Life? Transportation and Driving Issues in an Aging Society.”

A memorial service for adventurer Steve Fossett, a member of Washington University’s Board of Trustees and a 1968 MBA graduate of the university’s Olin Business School, will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Graham Chapel.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have gained the first detailed insight into the way circadian rhythms govern global gene expression in Cyanothece, a type of cyanobacterium (blue-green algae) known to cycle between photosynthesis during the day and nitrogen fixation at night.

Citing his creative experimental investigations of false memory and underlying processes that have led to a new understanding of human memory, the Society of Experimental Psychologists has awarded its highest honor to WUSTL psychology professor Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III.

You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock, but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. Over the past five years, this powerhouse ensemble — comprising a five-piece band, a string quartet and two outstanding vocalists — has created electric, hard-hitting arrangements of many of opera’s “greatest hits.” At 8 p.m. May […]

The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute of Washington University School of Law announced a two-year project to study the international law regarding crimes against humanity and to draft a multilateral treaty condemning and prohibiting such crimes. Leila Sadat, J.D., the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and director of the Harris Institute, recently convened the first meeting of the project’s steering committee.

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A memorial service for adventurer Steve Fossett, a member of the University’s Board of Trustees and a 1968 MBA graduate of the Olin Business School, will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Graham Chapel.

Salvatore P. Sutera, Ph.D., senior professor of biomedical engineering, has been named interim dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, effective July 1, 2008, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Richard J. Parvis, professor emeritus at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and leader in the area of international social development, died Sunday, Feb. 24. He was 92. A memorial service is scheduled for April 26, 2008, at 1:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge.