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The Frontiers of Astronomy series will continue Thursday, Nov. 12, from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Jennifer Johnson, professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, will give a presentation titled “The History of the Milky Way Written in the Stars.” She will discuss…

Ed Caner vividly remembers the first time he took the stage with Smokey Robinson. It was 1990, and Caner was playing violin for Robinson’s fans on a floating stage in the Cuyahoga River. The crowd, Caner recalled, was “overwhelmingly supercharged.” After that first night, Caner was hooked. Since…

Reproduction, birth and women’s health in the 19th century shaped the practice of obstetrics today. One of the biggest changes with wide-reaching consequences has to do with anesthesia, and the use of ether and chloroform to kill pain but also to render the laboring mother unconscious. Why has the…

Over the past year, Jennifer Madden (CWR ’93; MNO ’95; GRS ’15, management), adjunct professor in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, successfully wrote more than $8.7 million in funded grants for local nonprofit organizations in Cleveland and Youngstown.…

The Copenhagen Business School will award Kalle Lyytinen, chair and professor of design and innovation, an honorary doctorate in March 2016. Lyytinen’s research in information technology helps define how digital innovations shape organizations. This research also helps organizations know how to…

The Case Western Reserve University’s Model United Nations Team recently competed at the National Collegiate Security Conference hosted by Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. This competitive conference serves as a forum for detailed debate on the world’s most serious crises. The following…

A Case Western Reserve University team won first prize and $150,000 in the Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare for their project, Hemechip. Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student, led the team. The Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare is a…

In 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Western Reserve University to speak to the School of Law. At the time, he was running for democratic vice president alongside James Cox. While Warren G. Harding won the presidency that year, Roosevelt went on to become president in 1933. In his talk at WRU,…

The Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative (UDC) will host the second Critical Conversation Monday, Nov. 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Thwing Center’s Bellflower Lounge. Critical Conversations serve as a continuation of the “We Belong Here” discussion that took place this past academic year. Organizers…

The Church of the Covenant will offer free brunch for all students—from undergraduate to post-docs—Sunday, Nov. 8, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Student Community at Covenant sponsors this event. Students can get to the brunch by heading downstairs once they enter the church, which is located…