Business, Law + Politics

On Friday, April 20, Mistletoe Residential College will sponsor Case for Kids Day, a half-day college visit for fifth graders in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The objective of this day is to expose the CMSD students to college life. Current research posits that students make the decis...

by Diana Bilimoria Leadership is About engaging and energizing people, and inspiring them to give their best, to stretch, to achieve, and to excel. We’ve all been in places where leaders have served as role models and examples of the behaviors we want to emulate—where they’ve sought our input in ma...

Awful literacy stats make the case for Jackson's school reform plan The Plain Dealer: According to research from the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, only 43.8 percent of Cuyahoga County residents over the age of 16 meet “Level 3” literacy standards—those that are necessary to rea...

Elina Gertsman, assistant professor of medieval art, will present “Breaking Flesh: Performance, Anatomy, Memory” as part of the Faculty Work in Progress series. Her talk will be held April 5 at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall 206. A reception will begin at 4:15 p.m. In his Christmas sermon Puer natus est n...

Left behind ideastream: Robert Ronis, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, joined The Sound of Ideas to discuss the effects of suicide on those left behind to deal with the grief, guilt and stigma....

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner says new business startups are at the lowest levels in 30 years PolitiFact: With conflicting reports out about the rate of business startups, Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, helped explain how the studies could be so at odd...

The Employee Wellness Program will host its monthly free cooking demonstration March 27, noon-1 p.m., in Nord Hall 310. This month, the topic is “Simple 600,” during which Bon Appetit chefs will discuss ways to keep food delicious while keeping calories, fat and sodium levels down. Plus, the chefs w...

Beginning March 27, Alma R. Sealine, director of housing at Case Western Reserve University and president of ACUHO-I (Association of College and University Housing – International), will travel to South Africa to serve as a faculty member at the second annual Student Housing Training Institute (SHTI...

The Ethnic Studies Program will present the lecture “Arab Culture and Mental Health” with Jamal Samani, a psychiatrist at Taif Mental Health Hospital in Taif, Saudi Arabia. He received his medical degree and his specialization in psychiatry from the University of Damascus in Syria. Samani’s talk wi...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to attend an exhibit, program and reception announcing the special collections of Kelvin Smith Library as the new home of the Cleveland Play House archives. The event will be held March 26 at 4 p.m. in O’Neill Reading Room at the ...