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Yixin Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received the Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Chen will use his three-year, $298,421 award to develop numerical computation software that can solve large-scale computational problems, such as those arising from ultra-high-speed networks and genetic regulatory networks. … Joy Weese Moll, reference and Web services librarian, recently presented her workshop “Social Software in Libraries” at four locations: the Lewis & Clark Library System headquarters in Edwardsville, Ill.; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; the Southern Illinois Learning Resources Cooperative Retreat at Rend Lake, Ill.; and the Kirkwood (Mo.) Public Library.

The following incidents were reported to University Police March 8-20. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. March 9 4:52 p.m. — A call was received from Millbrook #4 regarding a suspicious male who had entered a student’s apartment at this location. The student asked the subject to leave and he did so. he student described the subject as an African-American male, 5’6″, between 20-25 years old, wearing a black puffy coat, black hat and black pants. The subject was apprehended just east of the Millbrook overpass. Nothing was taken from apartment. March 13 3:30 a.m. — A caller reported a fire in a large trashcan outside McMillen Lab. Clayton Fire Department responded to extinguish the fire. Four suspects were seen fleeing from the fire. March 14 10:12 a.m. — A complainant reported damage to a door in Anheuser-Busch Hall that occurred sometime within the past three years. University Police also responded to three lost articles, false fire alarm, two assaults, two auto accidents and one report each of burglary and drug violation.

The Washington University Opera will present Kirke Mechem’s highly acclaimed 1980 adaptation of Molière’s comedy “Tartuffe” at 8 p.m. March 23-24 at Edison Theatre.

Joseph A. RosenBig George BrockLegendary blues vocalist and harmonica player Big George Brock will perform at Washington University March 29. Raised on a plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, Brock has shared the stage with figures such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Howlin’ Wolf and operated a series of popular St. Louis blues clubs, including the 1,000-seat Club Caravan. In recent years he has released three critically acclaimed albums: Front Door Man, Club Caravan and Round Two.

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, associate professor of religious studies at Stanford University, will present the 2007 Adam Cherrick Lecture in Jewish Studies, “Making a Home in the Diaspora: Judaism and the Neighborhood” at 7 p.m. March 21 in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Rm. 204 on the Danforth Campus.

Investigators at the Silvio Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders at the School of Medicine are recruiting schizophrenia patients and their siblings for a study to determine whether subtle differences in brain structure can predict who is at risk for developing the illness.

Chris HartmanMaryse PearceIn 2002, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks began writing one play each day for an entire year. The resulting cycle, called “365 Plays/365 Days,” is now receiving its premiere as part of a yearlong grassroots festival that has enlisted more than 600 theater companies, arts organizations and universities from across the nation. In St. Louis, 15 students from Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present a week’s worth of the cycle April 2 to 8.

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Ryotaro Kato, M.D., has been named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a medical degree from the University of Tokyo, which is one of 16 leading Asian universities partnered with Washington University in St. Louis in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, along with two leading research institutions in Israel and two in Turkey.

Entrepreneurs with good business instincts and a sense of social responsibility will take their plans to the people this week at the second annual Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (SEIC). On Thursday, March 22nd at 6 p.m. sixteen semi-finalists will present their ideas for new social ventures in an “elevator pitch” first to a panel of judges and then to an audience of community members and students. Audience members will then vote on which pitch should win. The event takes place in the Lab Sciences auditorium on Washington University’s Danforth Campus, and is free and open to the public.