Events

Case Western Reserve University will be upgrading the Human Capital Management (HCM) enterprise human resources system to version 9.1 from Thursday, Sept. 27, at 6 p.m. to Monday, Oct. 1, at 8 a.m. The system will be unavailable during that time. Exception time entry will not be available during…

UCITE will hold a session on promotion and tenure Sept. 27, led by Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack, Deputy Provost Lynn Singer and Lois Langell, special assistant to the provost. The typical criteria for tenure and promotion are scholarship, teaching and service. All universities subscribe to this but…

The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences will host a talk on “Discovering Today’s Poland” Sept. 27 from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in the Mandel School Room 320A. Led by Kathleen Farkas, associate professor at the Mandel School, and Richard Romaniuk, adjunct instructor, “Discovering Today’s Poland” will…

Adolescents' transitions to high school can be marked by both an increase in risky health behaviors as well as potential changes in family interaction. Using data collected from more than 8,000 8th and 9th grade students in Cuyahoga County in 2010-11, Erika Trapl, associate director of the…

United Protestant Campus Ministries (UPCAM) will hold a discussion on faith and politics Sept. 28 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Interfaith Center, located in Church of the Covenant. In the session titled “God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It,” attendees will…

Interested in learning more about mental health? Want to help spread information and erase the stigma on your campus? Come check out Active Minds at Case Western Reserve, a local chapter of the national organization. The chapter meets every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Guilford Lounge. Questions? Stop…

Case Western Reserve University has joined institutions such as Cornell University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Stanford University in leading a program to encourage women to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and…

Information Technology Services (ITS) and Youngstown company Turning Technologies will host a Learning Forum Sept. 28 highlighting the work of Harvard University’s Eric Mazur. The three-hour seminar, beginning at 12:30 p.m. in AW Smith 329, will provide an overview of Mazur’s teaching method,…

The 2011 uprisings in the Middle East were more than just political events; they were cultural and artistic productions, whether graffiti, poetry, songs or humor.  How did cultural and artistic products figure in the revolts, and how have artists, in turn, been affected by the political changes…

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will continue its Faculty Work-in-Progress series Sept. 27 with a talk on “Fruitfulness” by Chris Haufe. Haufe, an assistant professor of philosophy, works on problems in the history and philosophy of science, particularly biology. In his talk, he’ll…