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March 23, 2015
A free tobacco cessation program will be offered for faculty, staff and students from April 1 through May 20. During the program, participants will: Assess their readiness to end tobacco use Identify personal motivations and obstacles Develop awareness of techniques to avoid possible…
March 23, 2015
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation at Amasa Stone Chapel, on Tuesday, March 24, from 4:30 to 6:15 p.m. The service will begin with a simple opening prayer and gospel reading at 4:30 p.m., but guests may come at any time before 6:15 p.m. for…
March 23, 2015
The Schubert Center for Child Studies and the School of Medicine/University Hospitals Case Medical Center Psychiatry Grand Rounds will present a lecture titled "Assessing and Responding to Violence Risk in Juveniles." The lecture will feature Charles Scott, professor of clinical psychiatry and…
March 23, 2015
A discussion on the ethics of debt will continue at the next meeting of the Ethics Table, held Wednesday, March 25, at 11:30 a.m. in the Cleveland Room of Thwing Center. Anne Van Leuuwen, lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, presented on the topic at the last meeting, which brought up many…
March 23, 2015
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host a presentation on “How to Retract an Article in the Humanities,” by Chris Haufe, assistant professor of philosophy, on Wednesday, March 25, at noon in Clark Hall, Room 206. There are significant differences between the kind of support humanists and…
March 23, 2015
Nutrition and weight-loss research in adults with disabling conditions is still in its formative stages Matthew Plow A review of nutrition and weight-loss interventions for people with impaired mobility found strategies are sorely lacking for people with neurological disabilities, according to a…
March 20, 2015
Big data is a big deal at Case Western Reserve University, and today it takes center stage at the Wolstein Research Center Auditorium during Information Technology Services (ITS) first annual “Cyberinfrastructure Day.” From data processing and visualization to supercomputers and cloud computing,…
March 20, 2015
Early in life, senior Stephanie Hippo’s parents gave her sound advice: “You can complain about something, but until you do something about it, you’re just part of the problem.” Two years ago, Hippo encountered a problem—the lack of women in computer science—and decided to do something about…
March 20, 2015
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Women’s and Gender Studies Program will present the third installment of the Research and Relaxation Speaker Series. Megan Jewell, instructor in English, will discuss the gender politics behind the bibliography on Susan Howe’s poem “Melville’s…
March 20, 2015
The Distributed Little Red Hen Lab, co-directed by Mark Turner, Institute Professor and professor of cognitive science, has won a Google Summer of Code 2015 grant to fund student coders working in the Red Hen Lab on computational and statistical tools for the study of multimodal communication. The…