Featured Speaker: Pascale Michelon, Ph.D., Owner and Director, The Memory Practice; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis

Our population is aging, one in every eight Americans is 65 or older-- Alzheimer's disease is discussed almost daily in the media, and the number of brain fitness products keeps growing. Cognitive scientist, Dr. Pascale Michelon, talks about the impact of lifestyle on the functions of our aging brains and how to keep our brains healthy. You’ll learn about the brain and memory and how they work and age; explore what a brain healthy lifestyle is: balanced nutrition, stress management, physical and mental exercises; and hear about tools and techniques you can use to keep your brain sharp in this fascinating talk on preserving the health of our aging brains.

To be held at:
Kirkwood OASIS - Kirkwood Community Center
111 South Geyer Road, St. Louis, MO 63122

FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited.

To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp@academyofsciencestl.org

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Featured Speaker: Brian D. Carpenter, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis

What does it mean to be creative in later life? How does aging influence an artist’s creativity? Does remaining creative influence an artist’s experience of growing older?

Join us for a discussion of these questions and the methods scientists have used to study creativity in older adults. The Science (and Art) of Later Life Creativity features results from a recent research project here in St. Louis that includes professional visual artists over age 70. Following the lecture, you’re invited to visit an exhibition of these later life artists’ current work, Maturity and Its Muse, on display at The Sheldon Art Galleries.

Seminar: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Artists Exhibition following from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

To be held at:
The Sheldon Concert Hall
3648 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63108

FREE and OPEN to ALL

To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp@academyofsciencestl.org

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The Science (and Art) of Later Life Creativity and Maturity and Its Muse are supported in part by the Department of Psychology and the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, The Delmar Gardens Family, The Hallmark Creve Coeur, Brookdale Senior Living, and the Missouri Arts Council.

Featured Speaker: Shari Dunn-Norman, Ph.D., Head of Program and Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology

How are oil and gas wells drilled offshore? And how does that oil get into my gas tank? What happened to cause the BP well to blowout? Join Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman for an overview of how oil and gas wells are developed offshore, both in relatively shallow and very deep water. Learn what the Gulf of Mexico looks like with the water removed and how many subsea wells and pipelines are used to move oil and gas to market for use. Dr. Norman provides a framework for understanding the drilling and development risks oil and gas companies face in very deep water, and helps explain what may have gone wrong for BP.

Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman teaches offshore oil technology within the Petroleum Engineering program at Missouri S&T. She spent eight years working for Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), and is the author of a book and many papers on well construction methods.

To be held at:
Forest Park OASIS - Dennis and Judith Jones Visitor Center
5595 Grand Drive, St. Louis, MO 63112

FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited.

To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp@academyofsciencestl.org

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Featured Speaker: Rich Heuermann, Administrative Officer, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and campus Outreach Program Coordinator, NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium, Washington University in St. Louis

Want to really get away from it all? Not just a few hundred miles up to the International Space Station, or a few decades into the future for a trip to an orbiting hotel-- take the long distance, long-range view and plan a vacation to the Moon! Your own giant leap will place you in a world of deep craters and lava plains, where the Earth always sparkles, day and night, in a jet-black sky. Robot explorers will give way to human crews in permanent moon bases. At first they will be scientific outposts and experimental factories, but lunar resorts and moonlight cruises will surely follow. Climb some lunar mountains or trek winding canyons, carved by streams of lava rather than flowing water. Gather moon rocks from a crater wall. NASA images from the lunar surface and from orbiting spacecraft are featured in A Tourist’s Guide To the Moon.

To be held at:
OASIS at The Willows at Brooking Park
211 South Woods Mill Road, Chesterfield, MO 63017-3416

FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited.

To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp@academyofsciencestl.org

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Featured Speaker: Rich Heuermann, Administrative Officer, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and campus Outreach Program Coordinator, NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium, Washington University in St. Louis

The exotic vacation destination in only a century or so may be – the Red Planet, Mars! Where will tourists go, and what will they see? Prime real estate is available just about anywhere, as our robot explorers are discovering. More than six years after their arrival, two roving laboratories still inch along the dusty hills and plains of the Red Planet. Overhead three orbiting spacecraft probe the Martian surface. Eventually, scientists will follow the robot scouts. And where science blazes a trail, travel agents are almost sure to follow with vacation packages-- Possibly a climb down a crater wall; perhaps a hike up a volcano larger than the entire state of Arizona; maybe a trip along a canyon over 2,500 miles long, up to 300 miles wide, and, in places, four miles deep. NASA images from the Martian surface and from the Martian sky are featured in A Tourist’s Guide To Mars.

To be held at:
OASIS at Breeze Park
600 Breeze Park Drive, St. Charles, MO 63304

FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited.

To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp@academyofsciencestl.org

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Seminar and book signing

Featured Speaker: Mark McDaniel, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis and author, Prospective Memory and Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging

A forgotten telephone number, a familiar face and a name you can’t recall, remembering to pay a due bill, or pick up bread on the way home, remembering the way home-- do I remember the way home? Memory is central to our daily lives. Lapses in memory can be distressing, and some-- potentially alarming. Do all adults experience memory difficulties as they age? What is the difference between normal memory change and the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease? Is it possible to stem, or even reverse memory decline? Washington University psychologist and memory expert, Dr. Mark McDaniel provides insight into what the scientific research suggests will happen to our memory capabilities as we age, explores the memory challenges we all face as we grow older, and offers the layperson suggestions and strategies for improving memory.

Don’t forget to join us for a fascinating look at memory and aging!
Copies of Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging, are available.

To be held at:
OASIS at the Center of Clayton
50 Gay Avenue, Clayton, MO 63105

FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited.

To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp@academyofsciencestl.org

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Featured Speaker: Hal Harris, Ph.D., 2010 Science Educator Award Recipient, Academy of Science – St. Louis; Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri – St. Louis

One of the architects behind the founding of The Academy of Science - St. Louis, James B. Eads, is also the architect and engineer behind the building of one of St. Louis’ most iconic landmarks-- the Eads Bridge. Familiar to all St. Louisans, the bridge is a marvel worthy of awe, even 135 years after it was opened. Besides working under the constraints of engineering goals designed to be impossible to meet, Mr. Eads, had to deal with the challenges of excavating under the Mississippi to bedrock 100 feet below the river surface. His workers labored by torchlight in caissons Eads had designed, at pressures above 60 psi (pounds per square inch). Fourteen men died and more than one hundred were affected by “the bends,” whose scientific investigation began with Eads’ first (and last) bridge. Don’t miss this captivating tale of the science in the building of the world’s first alloy steel bridge.

To be held at:
Forest Park OASIS - Dennis and Judith Jones Visitor Center
5595 Grand Drive, St. Louis, MO 63112

FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited.

To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp@academyofsciencestl.org

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