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Procter & Gamble engineer to speak at today’s WISER general body meeting
The Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable, WISER, will host its second general body meeting on Thursday, Oct. 2, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Senior Classroom in the Tinkham Veale University Center. The meeting will be headlined by a presentation from Kristen Holvey, a chemical engineer at…
Friday's Public Affairs Discussion Group to cover developing economies
Silvia Prina, associate professor of economics, will lead the next Public Affairs Discussion Group titled, “Encouraging Savings by the Poor in Developing Countries.” The discussion will take place Friday, Oct. 3, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Mather House, Room 100. Since the Grameen Bank of…
Author, sociologist James Russell to examine national retirement crisis in free lecture
Author and sociology professor James W. Russell will offer insight into what he considers a national retirement calamity in a presentation, “How Good is Your Retirement Plan? 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis,” on Monday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m. at Wolstein Research Building's auditorium. The event is…
Next Master of Engineering and Management program open house Oct. 9
The Master of Engineering and Management (MEM) program will host an open house on Thursday, Oct. 9, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A. Laura Marshall, senior director of business development and industry engagement, will present her talk, “Experiential Learning…
Learn how diversity and international efforts can better align at upcoming webinar
The Center for International Affairs and the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity will sponsor a webinar examining senior international officer (SIO) and chief diversity officer (CDO) partnerships. The featured guests will be Harvey Charles, president of the Association of…
Share your thoughts on academic policy as a part of Undergraduate Student Government focus group
Undergraduate Student Government's (USG) academic affairs committee is looking for undergraduate students and alumni to participate in a focus group aimed at compiling, summarizing and creating visuals for the most pertinent academic policies. This is part of USG's Academic Policy Accessibility…
Michelson and Morley to offer new prix fixe menu beginning Oct. 4
Michelson and Morley restaurant, located in the Tinkham Veale University Center, will debut a prix fixe menu on Saturday, Oct. 4. The four-course dinner menu will be available prior to each Cleveland Orchestra evening performance and after each mid-afternoon performance at Severance Hall, including…
Transgender advocate, Emmy nominee Laverne Cox to present at CWRU
This post has been updated to note that tickets already are sold out. Laverne Cox, transgender advocate and Emmy nominee for the critically acclaimed Netflix series Orange is the New Black, will present the lecture, “Ain’t I a Woman: My Journey to Womanhood,” on Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Kelvin and…
Psychology's Julie Exline discusses ways to avoid people-pleasing
People pleasing: Short-term benefits and long-term costsPsychology Today: Julie Exline, associate professor of psychology, blogged about the downside of people-pleasing and gave tips to help avoid falling into these tendencies. “In the long run, then, challenging some of those people-pleasing…
New research led by psychology's Brooke Macnamara qualifies the 10,000-hours rule
Practice does not make perfectSlate.com: A meta-analysis by assistant professor of psychology Brooke Macnamara and her colleagues debunked, or at least qualified, the famous 10,000-hours rule, which states that 10,000 hours of practice are needed to master a skill.