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February 16, 2016
Obama may meet Zika head on in Cuba
The New York Times: James Kazura, director of the Center for Global Health and Diseases, explained how “it’s only a matter of time” before the Zika virus spreads to countries where the dengue virus is endemic, including Cuba, where President Barack Obama plans to…
February 16, 2016
Scalia's death undercuts conservative hopes on unions, abortion
Bloomberg: After the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, explained that cases that already were argued and put to a private vote are preliminary results. "Any of…
February 16, 2016
A free screening of Touched with Fire, which depicts life with bipolar disorder, will be held Wed., Feb. 17, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. A New York Times Critics’ pick, the film is “a love story between two bipolar poets,” produced by Spike Lee and directed by Paul Dalio, who…
February 16, 2016
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will hold a panel discussion for undergraduate students Monday, Feb. 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. The Humanities@Work event will feature panelists explaining how their background in humanities impacted their eventual careers in law. The panel…
February 16, 2016
This spring, Educational Services for Students (ESS) will offer a fee-based seminar for international graduate students to improve their spoken English skills. The five-week, 10-hour seminar will begin during the week of March 14. The schedule of the class will be determined based on students'…
February 16, 2016
Halfway into the semester is a good time to take stock of how your course is going. First of all, you've had enough time to get a sense of what your students are like, and they've gotten a sense of you. But more importantly, it still leaves you with time to make the kinds of crucial course…
February 16, 2016
The Schubert Center for Child Studies will host Michelle Martin, the Augusta Baker Chair and professor in childhood literacy at the University of South Carolina, for a lecture, titled “Brown Gold: African-American Children’s Literature as a Genre of Resistance.” Martin will present her talk…
February 16, 2016
Funding establishes campus-based Center of Excellence with university and corporate partners The State of Ohio’s Federal Research Network (FRN) awarded Case Western Reserve University $1.65 million over two years to research and develop energy storage resources for the defense and aerospace…
February 16, 2016
The Cripple of Inishmaan will open at Eldred Theater this week, with performances scheduled for Feb. 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 21 and 28 at 3 p.m. The play, written by Martin McDonagh, is about a Hollywood movie crew searching for talent in rural Ireland and follows the story of…
February 16, 2016
The Ethics Table brown bag lunch series will continue Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 11:30 a.m. in Thwing Center’s Cleveland Room. Chris Haufe, assistant professor of philosophy, will speak on testing normative theories, or to what extent ethical theory ought to be tested as to its assumptions and…