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Feast Your Eyes and Feed Your Soul
Meet Barney Taxel, a Cleveland food photographer and Case Western Reserve University alumnus, and Noelle Celeste, creator of Edible Cleveland, in Kelvin Smith Library’s O’Neill Reading Room on Friday, Oct. 12, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Taxel has chronicled Cleveland’s food scene for decades as a food…
Case Western Reserve Researchers to Examine the Role of Skin Prions in Fatal Neurodegenerative Human Prion Disease
Wenquan Zou, MD, PhD Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that can debilitate or kill their victims. The most common form of prion disease affecting humans is sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD). There are about 350 cases of the disease…
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Improvement in international rankings reflects initiative to raise Case Western Reserve University’s global footprint
A new campuswide international rankings initiative has yielded improvements this year in each of the four major measures of colleges and universities across the world. The significant early progress shows that even modest efforts can make a major difference in how global audiences see Case Western…
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Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens screening
The Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals AIDS Clinical Trials Unit will host a free screening of Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens, a 90-minute documentary filmed in Columbus, Ohio. The film follows eight performers in the city’s drag scene and examines the concept of gender. The…
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Exploradio Origins
WKSU, Kent State University’s award-winning radio station, will partner with the Institute for the Science of Origins on Exploradio Origins, a new segment airing Thursdays from 4 to 6 p.m. during local broadcasts of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Exploradio Origins is a weekly…
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Undergraduate students: Apply to be in Social Justice Scholars study group
The Social Justice Institute invites first-years, sophomores and juniors to apply for the Social Justice Scholars study group. Accepted applicants will receive a $500 stipend for their full participation. Over the course of spring semester 2019, accepted applicants will gather with Social Justice…
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CWRU, Engine Biosciences sign exclusive option license for university-based technology to treat debilitating neurodegenerative diseases
Case Western Reserve University and Engine Biosciences Pte Ltd have signed an exclusive license option in which the drug discovery company will evaluate university-generated technology to treat debilitating neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal…
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Watch a livestream of today’s Career Fair
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community can watch a livestream of today’s Career Fair to get a look at the event and see interviews with employers and students. The Career Fair will be held today (Oct. 4) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic…
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Power of Diversity Lecture Series—“‘Why Does this Class Spend So Much Time on Race?’ My Answer”
Jonathan Sadowsky Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect a change in location. The event will be held in Tinkham Veale University Center, Senior Classroom. The fall 2018 Power of Diversity Lecture Series, sponsored by the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity,…
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“Israel’s Changing Story: How History Has Been Revised”
Brian Amkraut, executive director of the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, will host “Israel’s Changing Story: How History Has Been Revised,” Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. About the lecture The nature of the relationship between the Jewish…