Events
January 31, 2012
Vanderbilt University Law School Professor Michael A. Newton will be on campus Feb. 3 for his lecture, “The Kurdish Genocide Trials: An Insider’s Legal and Historical Perspective.” From a jurisprudential perspective the Kurdish genocides produced some of the most complex cases in world history, and ...
January 31, 2012
Educational Services for Students (ESS) is conducting a series of workshops to enhance students’ academic skills. By attending these workshops, students will learn ways to be more effective, efficient learners. Upcoming workshops include: “Understanding the Learning Process to Achieve Academic Succe...
January 31, 2012
This Friday’s Public Affairs Discussion Group will cover “Taxing Fracking: If Ohio Will Have a New Energy Boom, Shouldn’t It Have New Energy Taxes?”
Policy Matters Ohio recently issued a report about the case for taxing fracking, otherwise known as hydraulic fracturing. The public policy concerns r...
January 31, 2012
Promoting Health Across Boundaries presents “Boundary Spanning: Lessons from Within a Changing Health Care System” with Laura Calamos Nasira researcher in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The talk will be held Feb. 6 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the BioEnterprise Building’s downstairs...
January 30, 2012
Case Western Reserve University’s Social Justice Institute, WVIZ ideastream, KeyBank and Children’s Defense Fund–Ohio are sponsoring a sneak preview of the PBS documentary Slavery By Another Name Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Karamu House (2355 E. 89th St.). The documentary, which will air Feb. 13 at 9 p.m...
January 30, 2012
The national director of Design for America will visit campus Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m., for a kickoff workshop in the Peter B. Lewis Building Room 06. Design for America is a nationwide network of interdisciplinary student teams and community members who use design to have a local, social impact.
The club...
January 26, 2012
That time of year is here: University Program Board’s annual Gluttony Gauntlet will be held Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Jolly Scholar.
Teams will compete in a five-round food-eating contest for gift cards to Jolly Scholar and Qdoba. The first 20 teams of five participants will be accepted.
Registratio...
January 26, 2012
Looking for a night on the town, 1920s style? The Case Western Reserve University Swing Club will host three of the best swing bands in the country as part of its annual event, SparX. Glenn Crytzer and his Syncopators from Seattle will play from 9 p.m. to midnight Feb. 3, and on Feb. 4, the Boilerma...
January 26, 2012
The Connor Integrative Medicine Network will offer a four-week Meditation 101 course at a discounted rate to Case Western Reserve University employees ($40 for employees; $60 for non-employees). Wednesday classes will be held Feb. 8-29 and March 7-28, from 5 to 6 p.m. in University Hospitals Case Me...
January 26, 2012
Author Mary Helen Stefaniak will read from and talk about her Anisfield-Wolf-award-winning novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, when she comes to campus Feb. 1. The discussion will be held at 6 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building Auditorium.
Stefaniak will alternate readings from the novel w...