Events
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 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…
October 09, 2012
The Cintas Mobile Hard Drive Disposal truck on will be on campus Monday, Oct. 22. The Cintas service shreds hard drives' cases and platters and provides documentation of destruction in a manner compliant with the CWRU Media Sanitizing Operating Procedure. Any hard drives that need to be disposed…
October 09, 2012
In this Friday’s Public Affairs Discussion Group, George Kikano, chair of the Department of Family Medicine, will discuss the intricacies of the state of primary care today. Kikano will seek to elaborate on the primary care aspect of the medical world and to explain the reasons for the current…
October 09, 2012
The Global Ethical Leaders Society (GELS) invites all students, staff and faculty to attend a student-led panel on "The Ethics of International Development" Friday, Oct. 12, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence (in the basement of Crawford Hall). The panel will…
October 09, 2012
An information session for all spring break and spring 2 programs will take place Friday, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m. in Tomlinson Hall’s large conference room. Case Western Reserve University offers a number of short-term study abroad, three-credit courses that are open to all undergraduate and graduate…
October 09, 2012
The Undergraduate Indian Students Association will hold its annual fall event, Navratri Garba, on Oct. 13. This campuswide cultural celebration comprises various Indian dance styles such as garba, raas, bhangra and Bollywood fusion. All students are invited to come dance and enjoy free Indian food…
October 09, 2012
What makes some ideas “stick” in people’s minds long after they have heard them, while other things seem to fade? A book called Made to Stick: Why some ideas survive and others die, by Chip and Dan Heath, explores this phenomenon and the factors that help to make ideas stay vividly and indelibly in…
October 08, 2012
The 2012 Department of Anthropology Kassen Lecture, titled “The Alzheimer Enigma Amidst Global Aging,” will feature Margaret Lock, the Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in Social Studies in Medicine and professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. The lecture will…