Events

Sports are a pastime for billions of people worldwide. On March 28, fans can learn about the bright and dark sides of sports—on and off the playing fields—when Andrei Markovits, co-author of Gaming the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture, speaks at Case Western Reserve Univer...

The Employee Wellness Program’s free activity class this month will be Muscle Conditioning. All employees can choose from four sessions, all held at 121 Fitness. 121’s muscle conditioning classes are a resistance training workout using weights, bands, exercise balls and tubing to improve muscle end...

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering will present the 36th Van Horn Distinguished Lectures March 20-22 in Glennan Building 421. Each year, the Van Horn Distinguished Lecture Series features a distinguish professor to campus. This year, Michael Finnis, professor of the theory and simu...

While job loss can have financial, social and health consequences for displaced workers, there is very little data on how parental job loss affects children. In an upcoming Schubert Center for Child Studies lecture, Mark Votruba, associate professor of economics, will discuss his research on the cau...

Join the Social Justice Institute, The Baha’i Communities of Greater Cleveland, Amnesty International and the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence for a screening of the documentary Education Under Fire. The film, produced by Social Justice Institute Director Rhonda Y. Williams, documents a 30-y...

The deadline to attend a keynote speech by Connie Dieken, author of Talk Less, Say More: 3 Habits to Influence Others & Make Things Happen, has been extended to March 29. The Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative alumnae will host the event featuring Dieken, who also is founder and chief exp...

The Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) and the Institute for Health Informatics and Comparative Effectiveness Research will cohost “Informatics: Driving Discovery, Improving Health (IDD 2012)” April 6. The aim of this symposium is to enlighten and update the clinical research c...

From left: Sharon Milligan, associate dean of student affairs at Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences; Dick Blake, teacher, choreographer and event sponsor; Linda Gilmore; and Grover C. Gilmore, Mandel School dean. Milligan and Gilmore will dance the fox trot in the competition. Photo by Kevin S...

Stephen J. Rapp, ambassador at large for war crimes issues in the U.S. Department of State, will lead the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center’s Lecture on Global Justice March 20 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the City Club of Cleveland. Rapp’s lecture is titled “The Reach and the Grasp of Interna...

Jerome Groopman and his wife, Pamela Hartzband, will make a personal house call to Case Western Reserve University as keynote speakers for the 2012 F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture at 5:30 p.m., Monday, March 19, in Severance Hall. They will give the free, public talk, "What’s Missing in Med...