Lake County briefs

Nobel Prize Laureate to speak:Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, will be the commencement speaker at this year's Rosalind Franklin University graduation. Prusiner is the 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the prion. The graduation ceremony will be held at the Chicago Civic Opera House Friday, June 4, at 10 a.m. Prusiner announced in 1982 the discovery of an unprecedented class of pathogens called prions, which are infectious proteins that cause neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals. The more common neurogenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's have been suggested over the past two decades to be like the prion diseases, disorders of protein processing. He is the editor of 12 books and author of over 450 research articles.Spring cleaning in Antioch:The Village of Antioch will have it's annual Spring Cleaning Day on Saturday, May 22 from 10 a.m. to noon. Meet at the band shell on Skidmore Avenue and dress to get dirty. There will be coffee, doughnuts and a brief explanation of what to do. For more details call Shawn Roby at (847) 838-4032 or email at sroby@antioch.il.gov.Evening of Jazz:The Mundelein High School main gym will be transformed into a casual "supper club" atmosphere on Saturday evening, May 15, for the 2010 Evening of Jazz set to begin at 5:30 p.m. Guests will hear performances by the MHS Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab featuring a variety of music from Gerry Mulligan and Horace Silver to James Brown and Ray Charles. In addition to the music, the evening will also include a silent auction and several prize and 50/50 raffles. "Mocktails" will also be available at the concession stand. Admission is free. Adam Gohr and Matt Farmer direct the instrumental groups. The high school is located at 1350 W. Hawley St. in Mundelein.