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Parking fees for most Danforth Campus WUSTL employees and students will increase this year. As parking grows more scarce, employees are urged to try carpooling, Metro, cycling or another alternative transportation program. Alternative transportation coordinator Andrew Heaslet offers personal transportation consultations.

Mary Langston Parker, MD, a dedicated physician, researcher and director of student health services at Washington University, died Saturday, May 24, 2014, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Parker was an associate professor emeritus of preventive medicine and a mother of five.

Robert Schreiber, PhD, delivered the Stanley J. Korsmeyer Memorial Lecture in May. The annual lecture honors a beloved former Washington University medical oncologist and researcher whose groundbreaking discoveries opened new doors to understanding and treating cancer.

This article lists WUSTL employees recognized in 2014 for 10 or more years of service to the university.

Parkview Place will close July 7 for up to 24 months due to construction of the new north campus tower on the old Jewish Hospital site. Patients receiving care in the Center for Advanced Medicine will not be able to use Parkview to access the CAM and the North Garage.

Faculty and staff at Washington University School of Medicine are invited to a WUSTLnomics forum and brown-bag lunch from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27. The forum, the focus of which will be the university’s efficiency efforts, will be in Moore Auditorium, on the first floor of the North Building.

Brian Nussenbaum, MD, the Christy J. and Richard S. Hawes III Professor of Otolaryngology, is a surgeon dedicated to caring for patients with life-threatening head and neck cancers. Passions for teaching, research and patient safety have steered his career.

WUSTL faculty and staff are urged to donate to Our Washington, Together We Make a Difference. Among other things, the campaign helps fund scholarships, support academic initiatives and build new facilities across the Danforth and Medical campuses. Longtime donor Michael Kass, MD, established a scholarship fund to ease the financial burden of medical school.

All School of Medicine faculty and staff are invited to a brown-bag lunch WUSTLnomics forum on the university’s efficiency efforts. It will be held from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, in Moore Auditorium, on the North Building’s first floor.

Project ARK, with support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s new media project, will mark National Prevention Week with a screening of the documentary “You Are Not Alone” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at the Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell Blvd., in Forest Park.