Events

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…

The campus community is invited to attend a Cleveland Indians game April 7 as they face the Toronto Blue Jays. This event is sponsored by Weatherhead Graduate Student Affairs at the Weatherhead School of Management and is a part of the Case Western Reserve University’s Graduate and Professional…

The University Counseling Service will present a series of 45-minute resiliency workshops on Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. in Tomlinson Library. Students can drop in for all or part of any of the workshops geared toward bouncing back from setbacks and stressors. This Wednesday, April 4, at 12:15 p.m.,…

Award-winning scholar Ezra Vogel will speak on the legacy of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping on April 10. The lecture, titled “Deng Xiaoping and the Opening of China,” will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Mandel Center Room 108. Vogel argues than no person in the 20th century affected more people or had…

The Women in Science & Engineering Roundtable’s (WISER) annual SEVA benefit dinner will be held April 4 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Nord Hall 310. The dinner is an annual fundraiser for WISER’s adopted and underprivileged public school in Bangalore, India, through a non-profit organization called…

Universities are often assumed to be bastions of progressiveness and inclusion. But even if they are more welcoming and tolerant of differences than society at large, research shows that one-third of undergraduate students across the country have experienced anti-LGBT harassment in the past year…