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March 20, 2015
Camp Kesem will host its first “Make the Magic” benefit dinner on Saturday, March 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center. Camp Kesem is a free, weeklong summer camp hosted by college undergraduates for children whose parents have or have had cancer. Given that it is free for…
March 19, 2015
Half a century ago, a concentrated global effort nearly wiped a disfiguring tropical disease from the face of the earth. Now, says Case Western Reserve’s James W. Kazura, MD, it’s time to complete the work. In a perspective column in the Feb.19 New England Journal of Medicine, Kazura responded to…
March 19, 2015
The Public Affairs Discussion Group will host Peter J. Haas, the Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, at its upcoming meeting for a discussion on the recent election in Israel. The discussion will take place Friday, March 20, from 12:30 to…
March 19, 2015
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will host a carnival in celebration of Women's History Month on Monday, March 23, from 2 to 5 p.m. in Thwing Center's atrium. The entire campus community is invited to join the center for games, food and prizes.
March 19, 2015
As a precursor to the showing of the documentary Ken Burns Presents: Cancer—The Emperor of All Maladies, ideastream (90.3 WCPN, WVIZ/PBS and bewell.ideastream.org) has embarked on a project to cover regional cancer stories from a range of perspectives. Within this series, the Case Comprehensive…
March 19, 2015
Callahan Distinguished Lecture presents Sherry Turkle on how technology is shaping our relationships
With personal communication dominated by texts, tweets and online posts, some wonder if social technology has hollowed out what it means to be social—that we are losing the art of conversation with disturbing consequences. Sherry Turkle, a professor, author and licensed clinical psychologist, has…
March 19, 2015
The Commencement Office will host its second Doctoral Fitting Day Friday, March 20, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building. The event offers new PhD, JD, MD, DNP, DMD, DM and DMA graduates the chance to get everything they need for commencement…
March 19, 2015
Undergraduate students are invited to meet with faculty, current students and alumni to learn more about career options in social work and nonprofit management and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences' programs at an open house on Saturday, March 21, from 10 a.m. to…
March 19, 2015
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, Moms Offering Moms Support and the Department of Sociology will host a luncheon and discussion with authors and associate professors of sociology Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black to discuss their newly released book, On Being a Teen Mom: Life Before…
March 19, 2015
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Speakers Committee of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the Program of Women’s and Gender Studies will present “Identity, Authority, and Authenticity in Language Policy: Reflections from the Peruvian Andes,” a talk by Virginia…