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March 13, 2018
The Social Justice Institute has extended the deadline to April 2 for graduate and undergraduate students interested in scholarships to attend the 2018 Left Forum, the largest gathering of leftist scholars in North America. The conference has a history that extends back to the 1960s. This year,…
March 13, 2018
On Monday, March 5, a select sample of Case Western Reserve University students, faculty and staff received an email from Associate Provost and University Librarian Arnold Hirshon with an invitation to participate in the Kelvin Smith Library User Satisfaction Survey. The survey is designed to…
March 13, 2018
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Case Western Reserve University an additional $500,000 grant for a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty researchers advance and commercialize their innovations. The new round of funding follows an initial award of $500,000 in 2016,…
March 12, 2018
Diagnostic and treatment advances are helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—one of nine major types of muscular dystrophy that affects males—live into their 30s and beyond, raising challenges in such areas as education, vocation, levels of independence, personal relationships, emotional…
March 12, 2018
Case Western Reserve’s next provost and executive vice president will be Ben Vinson III, an accomplished historian of Latin America now serving as dean of George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. “Ben Vinson III will bring an exemplary record of leadership,…
March 12, 2018
This year, Case Western Reserve welcomed its first group of Posse Scholars from New Orleans. Join Case Western Reserve Posse students and members of the CWRU community for the spring PossePlus Retreat. The retreat is open to all faculty, staff and students of Case Western Reserve and will be held…
March 12, 2018
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Program in Italian and the Department of Physical Education and Athletics, in collaboration with the CWRU Film Society and Spartan Baseball, will host "Celebration of Italian American Baseball" Wednesday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Strosacker…
March 12, 2018
As part of the Cleveland Humanities Festival, Maggie Vinter, assistant professor of English, will discuss the arts of dying, a genre of medieval and renaissance conduct manuals advising their readers on how to die well. Vinter's talk will explore such questions as: What does it mean to…
March 12, 2018
Kelvin Smith Library now offers free subscription to The New York Times, a mapping tool that can help locate books quickly and more than 130,000 books on the library’s lower level. Full online access to The New York Times Faculty, staff and students now have full access to The New York Times…
March 12, 2018
On March 15, six startups—each with at least one current Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) student or recent alum—will pitch professional investors for $50,000 in prizes in the first-ever “demo day” of the Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition. Register for a free ticket to this on-campus…