I'm sorry. I've gone under the wave of a conference. I have been off line since Saturday. Every waking second for the past four days have been devoted to making sure things went perfectly. Things didn't go perfectly but things went pretty well. Over 240 people attended the What's Hot in Aging Research at USC conference--a whirl wind tour of the best of the best of cutting edge research. You can check out the webcast of the conference at www.usc.edu/gero/USCAgingResearch. It started out being an internal conference where researchers could learn more about what was going on across campus. It ended up attracting not only researchers, but product developers, service providers and even a few media types. All in all it was a great day. Today was just a recovery day. I've ignored everything including myself for the last ten days or so.
The man who is widely considered the father of gerontology, Jim Birren, attended with his wife Betty. Jim was born in 1918 and is the founding Dean of the school that I work for. He is amazing. You can check Jim out on Wikipedia by googling him. His most recent passion is guided autobiography. We offeer a guided autobiography course developed and sometimes taught by Jim but I have never had time to take it. I wonder how much it is like blogging.
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