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March 29, 2012
Last year, the Peter B. Lewis Building was lit up in blue for autism awareness. Photo by Susan Griffith. Join Case Western Reserve University’s chapter of Autism Speaks U April 2 for “Light It Up Blue,” an event held on National Autism Awareness Day. This year’s event at Case Western Reserve will…
March 29, 2012
University Hospitals’ Connor Integrative Medicine Network offers yoga classes to Case Western Reserve University employees at a discounted rate of $40 per four-week series. Two floor yoga series are available: Tuesdays, April 3-24, from 6 to 7 p.m. in University Hospitals Case Medical Center…
March 29, 2012
On Monday, April 9, Case Western Reserve University will host The Road To Recovery Mental Health Forum, “Black Pain: It Only Looks Like We’re Not Hurting.” Organizers of the event hope to address the impact of undiagnosed and untreated mental illness within the African-American community and help…
March 29, 2012
A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 3.4 million-year-old partial foot from the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia. The fossil foot did not belong to a member of “Lucy’s” species, Australopithecus afarensis, the famous early human ancestor. Research on this new…
March 28, 2012
Mark Carl Rom, associate professor of government and public policy at Georgetown University, will visit Case Western Reserve University and lead Friday’s Public Affairs Discussion Group. The talk, titled “Just Do It or Just Say No? The Politics of Sex Education,” will be held March 30 from 12:30 to…
March 28, 2012
The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law will hold a two-day event on “New Technologies, New Challenges: Women & Prenatal Genetic Testing in the 21st Century.” The event, co-sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic Center for Ethics, Humanities and Spiritual Care and…
March 28, 2012
Nine super healing spices WKYC: Mary Beth Kavanagh, instructor of nutrition, discusses nine spices that have “super-healing powers,” from cinnamon to saffron.
March 28, 2012
A struggle to define ‘death’ for organ donors NPR: A new method of obtaining organs for transplant procedures is raising ethical questions, including whether the donor is technically “dead.” “You could say, well, they’re almost dead, or they’re close to dead or they’re dead enough,” said Stuart J.…
March 28, 2012
A Bush-era victory in culture wars: faith-based initiatives The Christian Science Monitor: Despite federal budget cuts, faith-based initiatives continue on, although in many cases it hasn’t changed how faith-based organizations provide services. “They’re already able to do a certain level of…
March 28, 2012
A faculty workshop, “Polishing Your Curriculum Vitae,” will be presented Thursday, April 5, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Spartan Room at Thwing Center. Learn tips on keeping a CV updated, what to include in a P&T package, what to say about teaching and research, how to most effectively…