Stanford headlines for the week of October 24, 2007

Light flickered within the brains of mice reveals insights into sleep-wake cycle
How to think like a lawyer without changing career paths
Promises of motorcycles, cell phones for suicide bombers
Interdisciplinary event examines ‘Life in Motion’
Memorial service to be held Nov. 6 for Ronald Bracewell
New York firm selected to design campus performing arts center
Honors & Awards
Slave-trade abolition focus of lecture
Leaders launch major wellness campaign
Democratic reform demands parallel social, economic changes in Latin America
Meyer Library to be razed; meeting set for Nov. 28
Alga reveals rich trove of data about common ancestry of plants and animals
Historian’s memoirs of Yugoslavian childhood focus of talk
Acclaimed one-woman play on Rwandan genocide to be performed on campus
Faculty Senate to hear report on intercollegiate athletics
Conference looks at how diversity shaping modern America
FRESH-Thinking project aims to identify fixes for healthcare system
Youth, elder share drive to push research frontiers
Testing the hearts of athletes to protect their lives
People of all ages needed for flu vaccine study
BCATS conference Oct. 27 on biomedical computing
Media monitor
Researchers find disease genes hidden in discarded data
Bert Kopell, former chair and professor emeritus of psychiatry, dies at 76
Medical center people
Ph.D. Orals
Housing
Habermas to give Rorty memorial lecture
Cardinal Chronicle
Open Enrollment for health, life insurance plans begins Friday
Some harassment prevention training sessions remain open