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October 11, 2012
Legendary Cleveland underground comic book author Harvey Pekar’s complicated relationship with his religion, Judaism, will be examined as part of a free, public event Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in Thwing Center ballroom. Pekar’s illustrator, JT Waldman, will introduce Pekar’s posthumously published…
October 11, 2012
Construction will begin soon on the East 105th Street/Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Traffic Circle and Roadway Reconfiguration Project. The Cuyahoga County Department of Public Works’ will hold an open house meeting tonight (Oct. 11) on this project, which will include displays that depict…
October 11, 2012
The African American Society will hold a Night at the Apollo event tonight (Oct. 11) at 7 p.m. in The Spot. All students are invited to showcase any hidden talents or to simply sing karaoke and have fun. To sign up, email cme23@case.edu.
October 10, 2012
The Kelvin Smith Library and the Rowfant Club will jointly present an exhibition and memorial of the work of master bookbinder Jan Bohuslav Sobota on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library. Sobota’s vision for the art of the book and the living…
October 10, 2012
The Case Western Reserve University chapter of Kids Against Hunger is hosting a competition to see who can "raise the most rice" through a contest on freerice.com. On the website, individuals can answer trivia questions; for every correct answer, Freerice donates 10 grains of rice through the…
October 10, 2012
Susie Gharib, a 1972 graduate of Case Western Reserve who went on to a highly distinguished career as a business journalist, will receive the New York Financial Writers’ Elliott V. Bell Award in honor of her exemplary contributions to the field as a print reporter and broadcast anchor. Now the…
October 10, 2012
The Employee Wellness Program will offer two free activity classes on muscle conditioning. The classes entail a resistance-training workout using weights, bands, exercise balls and tubing to improve muscle endurance and tone the entire body. The classes will be held Monday, Oct. 15, and Friday,…
October 10, 2012
Beginning at noon on Friday, Oct. 12, Case Western Reserve University’s Nurse Midwifery Education Program will celebrate National Midwifery Week by giving away 1,000 pink and blue frosted baby cupcakes—one for every 10 births each year in Ohio. Statewide, 10,000 babies are born each year with the…
October 10, 2012
Armed with a new $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, dermatology researcher Nicole Ward, assistant professor of dermatology and neurosciences at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, will lead a study examining the link between…
October 09, 2012
As the next installment in Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ Revolution Film Series, The Battle of Algiers will be shown on Monday, Oct. 15. This film, commissioned by the Algerian government, is a classic film of war, it illustrates the Algerian revolution’s impact on a wide spectrum of social…