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News and Announcements
- A memorial service remembering Dr. Ignacio J. Ocasio, the Teagle Professor of Chemistry at Case – better known as Doc Oc – will take place this Saturday, October 8, 2005, in Amasa Stone Chapel at 10 am. There will also be a student concert tonight – the “Rock for Doc” musical tribute - and a memorial fund has been established in Doc Oc’s name. For more information, or to register for Saturday’s memorial service, visit http://www.case.edu/events/dococ/.
- The first Ernest B. Yeager Frontiers in Electrochemical Science and Electrochemical Technology event will take place next week - October 12-14, 2005 - at Squire Valleevue Farm. This international gathering will be held every two years at Case and will include plenary invited talks and a poster session. The event is being hosted by The Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences (YCES) and will pay tribute to Professor Ernest B. Yeager and his contributions to electrochemistry during his career as a researcher and educator at Case. For a full list of speakers and to register, visit http://yces.case.edu/.
- Just a reminder that the inaugural Samuel M. Savin SAGES lecture is set for next Friday, October 14, 2005, at 2:30 p.m. in Amasa Stone Chapel. Edward G. Lawry, the Samuel M. Savin SAGES Fellow for Fall 2005 and professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University, will give the talk “Liberal Education and the Knowledge Most Worth Having.” This annual lecture is presented in honor of Samuel M. Savin, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, whose leadership and vision were critical to the development of SAGES. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/dean/SavinLawry.html.
- Daniel Goldmark’s (music) new book Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (University of California Press, 2005) has just been released. The work is the first book-length study of the use of music in classic Hollywood animation. Tunes for ‘Toons examines cartoon music during its heyday from the 1930s to the 1950s when film companies like MGM, Paramount and Warner Bros., had their own animation studios, and some - like Warner Bros. - had full-time orchestras. For more on the book, visit http://www.case.edu/news/2005/9-05/toons.htm.
- Do you have news to share on a recent achievement or upcoming event? If so, send your news to Cathy Varga at ctv1@case.edu.
Arts and Sciences Events
Below is a list of talks, seminars and other events taking place next week in Arts and Sciences. For more information on these and other events, visit http://connection.case.edu/cas/content/eventList.cfm.
Opened Tuesday, 9/7/2005, on the first floor of MSASS - Photography exhibit: Features the indigenous Afro-Colombian people of El Chocó
Friday, 10/7/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “Policies for Job Training” by Marcus Stanley, Assistant Professor of Economics at Case
Friday, 10/7/2005 at 3 pm in Yost Hall room 300 - Department of Mathematics Colloquium and Seminars: "Lagrange's Theorem for Moufang Loops" by Professor S. Gagola III, department of mathematics at Case
Friday, 10/7/2005 at 4:30 pm in the SAGES Cafe - Arts and Sciences Faculty T.G.I.F.
Friday, 10/7/2005 at 7:30 p.m. in Clark Hall room 309 - “Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial, Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as Staged by Terrorists of the GIA” a dramatic reading of a play by Alek Toumi, associate professor of French and Francophone studies, U. of Wisconsin
Tuesday, 10/11/2005 at 11:45 am in Clark Hall room 206 - Case Conversations on Children in Research and Policy – “Involving Children with Life-Shortening Illnesses in Medical Decisions” by Myra Bluebond-Langner, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University-Camden, Visiting Scholar, BNC
Tuesday, 10/11/2005 at 6 pm at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Kulas Auditorium - "Male Desire: Cruising Art History," by Jonathan Weinberg, Independent Scholar
October 12-14, 2005 at Squire Valleevue Farm - First Ernest B. Yeager Frontiers in Electrochemical Science and Electrochemical Technology meeting
Wednesday, 10/12/2005 at 4:30 pm in De Grace Hall room 312 - "Brain Evolution and Primate Natural Histories" by Chet Sherwood, Ph.D.
Thursday, 10/13/2005 at 4:15 pm in Rockefeller Hall room 301 - “Einstein's 1905 papers” by John Rigden, Washington University - part of the Physics Colloquium Series
Thursday, 10/13/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 - "Synthesis and Reactivity of Os3(CO)10(diphosphine) Clusters: Ligand Isomerization, Orthometalation, and Benzyne Formation in Os3(CO)10(P-P) Clusters" by Michael Richmond, U. North Texas
Thursday, 10/13/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clark Hall room 206 - “Between Jazz and the ‘Great American Songbook’”: Work in Progress talk by Dana Gooley (Music)
Friday, 10/14/2005 at 10 am in Clark Hall room 206 - “Acoustic Ecology of Cetaceans” by Dr. Douglas Nowacek, Ph.D., MIT - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, 1999
Friday, 10/14/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “The Decline of Science in the United States” by George W. Collins II, emeritus Professor of Astronomy at Case
Friday, 10/14/2005 at 2:30 pm in Amasa Stone Chapel - Samuel M. Savin SAGES lecture: “Liberal Education and the Knowledge Most Worth Having” by Edward G. Lawry, Samuel M. Savin SAGES Fellow, Fall 2005; Professor of Philosophy, Oklahoma State University
Saturday, 10/15/2005 at 7:30 pm in Harkness Chapel - Case Choral Showcase
Sunday, 10/16/2005 at 4 pm in Severance Hall - Wind Ensemble/Symphonic Winds/Hillcrest Concert Band
Monday, 10/17/2005 at 4 pm in the Millis Science Center, room 123 - "Embryonic Stem Cells for Tissue Engineering" by Horst von Recum, Ph.D, biomedical engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Wednesday, 10/19/2005 at 4 pm in the Rockefeller Building room 301 - STEP Seminar: Carol Latham, founder of Thermagon
Thursday, 10/20/2005 – talks at 4 pm and 7:30 pm - Ngugi Wa Thiongo, internationally acclaimed Kenyan essayist, novelist, playwright, and Human Rights advocator
Thursday, 10/20/2005 at 4 pm in Mather Memorial room 201 - Volunteering in Poorer Countries: Empowerment or Exploitation? by Judith Justice, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Anthropology and Health Policy at the University of California at San Francisco
Thursday, 10/20/2005 at 4:15 pm in Rockefeller Hall room 301 - “Dark Matter” by Vera Rubin, DTM; Carnegie Institute of Washington - part of the Physics Colloquium Series
Thursday, 10/20/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 - “Nanowire Arrays for Thermoelectric Refrigerators” by Angelica Stacy, University of California – Berkley
Thursday, 10/20/2005 at 8 pm in The Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Murch Auditorium, 1 Wade Oval - Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series – Mercury and the MESSENGER Mission” by Steven Hauck, department of geological sciences at Case
Friday, 10/21/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Guilford House Lounge (note location change) - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “The Supreme Court and Abortion” by Jessie Hill, Assistant Professor of Law at Case
Friday, 10/21/2005 at 8 pm in Severance Hall (Reinberger Auditorium) - Yo Soy Minerva (theatrical performance)
Saturday, 10/22/2005 from 8:30 am to 5 pm - JASON Expedition introduction 2005-06
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