Events

Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor of Political Science, will lead this week’s Public Affairs Discussion Group on “Election 2012: Twenty Years After the ‘Year of the Woman.’” The 1992 U.S. national election was called by some “the year of the woman,” as 24 women were newly elected to…

The topic of this month’s Science Café Cleveland will be “Remembrance of Things Past: Reversing the Causes of Memory Loss That Characterizes Alzheimer’s Disease.” Neurosciences and neurology professor Gary Landreth and doctoral candidate Paige Cramer will discuss the discovery of a new class of…

The Office of Sustainability and the Staff Advisory Council’s Environment & Climate Work Committee will host a “Green Your Food Event” April 13. The event will comprise a local food panel and discussion with Jenita McGowan, the City of Cleveland’s chief of sustainability, on “2012: The Year of…

The Cleveland Orchestra is offering faculty and staff $15 tickets for a performance by Mitsuko Uchida April 6 at 2 p.m. Uchida’s collaboration with The Cleveland Orchestra was recognized with a 2011 Grammy Award. This Friday, she returns to perform and record live two of Mozart’s most magnificent…

Following a record-breaking telethon in 2011, campus radio station WRUW-FM looks to raise more money for the station during its weeklong telethon fundraiser April 9-15. This year marks the 45th year of WRUW on the airwaves. Donations help fund the purchase and maintenance of music and technical…

As hundreds of prospective undergraduates arrive Friday for admissions open houses, Case Western Reserve also will host another special guest named MARV. MARV, which stands for Mobile Automated Research Vehicle, is a retrofitted 1970s RV that tours the country, gaining insight into colleges and…

Two events from Case Western Reserve University coincide with the exhibit about Rembrandt van Rijn currently at the Cleveland Museum of Art. “A Conversation with Mariët Westermann and Svetlana Alpers,” historians of with the master’s works, will take place from 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, April 15. “Fresh…

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…

The School of Law’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution will present the Elmer F. and Ellen Laws Burwig Lecture, “How Rejection Affects People.” Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at Florida State University, will lead the free, public lecture April 5 from…

Last summer The Huffington Post named Case Western Reserve one of the nation’s nine “trendiest” colleges. This winter the site reported we were among the top 15 universities where “geek is chic.” Now that it’s spring, it seems that those seeds are starting to bloom—in the form of legions of…