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News and Announcements
- This weekend is Alumni Weekend and Homecoming at Case and Arts and Sciences is hosting many events, including tours; theater, music and dance productions; and a SAGES showcase. For more on Arts and Sciences events, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci and for complete Alumni Weekend event information and registration, visit http://www.case.edu/alumni/weekend.
- The College of Arts and Sciences has recently created the Codrington-SAGES Partnership, an initiative that will strengthen the relationship between SAGES—Case’s signature undergraduate program—and affiliated institutions in University Circle and greater Cleveland. This Partnership is being funded by the George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation, which supports programs in higher education, the arts, social services, and other significant nonprofit efforts in Greater Cleveland. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/sages/Codrington.htm.
- Five faculty members from Arts and Sciences were recently honored for their teaching efforts by the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (NOCHE). Christopher Cullis (biology), Ken Ledford, Jonathan Sadowsky (history), Mano Singham (physics), and Lee Thompson (psychology) are among 56 area educators who were selected for the 2005 NOCHE Awards from 9,000 full- and part-time faculty members in the region's 24 colleges and universities. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/news/2005/10-05/noche.htm.
- Kenyan novelist, poet and political activist Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will participate in a panel discussion and give a public lecture on Thursday October 20. He will lead a panel discussion on African drama and politics at 4:30 pm in Clark Hall room 309 and will give the talk “The Power of Words: Literature, Politics and Facts” at 7:30 pm in the Schmitt Lecture Hall. Ngugi is the Distinguished Professor, English & Comparative Literature, and the Director of the International Center for Writing & Translation at the University of California at Irvine. The events are sponsored by the ethnic studies program in Arts and Sciences and co-sponsored by the Hallinan Project and the College Scholars Program. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/ethnic/events.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, 10/14/2005 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
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, 10/16/2006 from 3-5 pm in the Mather Dance Center - Dance Movement Therapy Study Group: “Evolution, Revolution, Devolution”
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
Wednesday, 10/19/2005 at 4:15 p.m. in Yost Hall room 321B - Analysis Seminar: “Schur multipliers and de Branges-Rovnyak spaces in the multiscale setting” by Dan Volok, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Thursday, 10/20/2005 – talks at 4 pm and 7:30 pm - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, 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 O - 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
Thursday, 10/27/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 - “Lipid Flip-Flop in Phospholipid Bilayhers: New Insights into Membrane Dynamics” by John Conboy, Utah
Thursday, 10/27/2005 at 4:30 p.m. in Ford Auditorium, Allen Memorial Medical Library - “The Artist studies the Doctor: A Millennium of Observation” by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine and the 2005 Silver Scholar-in-Residence, The Temple-Tifereth Israel, Cleveland
Friday, 10/28/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “What’s Next for the European Union?” by Andreas Sobisch, Director of the Center for Global Education and Associate Professor of Political Science, John Carroll University
Friday, 10/28/2005 at 3 pm in Yost Hall room 300 - Colloquium: “Numerical methods for the QCD overlap operator” by Professor Jasper van den ESHOF, Winner of the “Householder prize,” ABN Amro Bank, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Friday to Sunday, October 28-30, 2005 in Gund Hall room 158 - “Autism and Representation: Writing, Cognition, Disability”: A Working Conference of the Society for Critical Exchange
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