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Four free muscle conditioning classes offered by Employee Wellness Program
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…
36th Van Horn Distinguished Lecture Series to be held March 20-22
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…
March 20 panel to discuss effects of parental job loss on children
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…
Medical students to host Taste of Peru charity gala March 31
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine will host the Taste of Peru charity benefit March 31. Proceeds from the event benefit the Peru Health Outreach Project (formerly the Lamay Clinic Project), a grassroots organization led by the…
Documentary screening, panel discussion on Iran’s education policies to be held March 22
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…
Women staff: Deadline extended to register for keynote, panel discussion
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…
Informatics symposium to focus on application, impact of IT on health research
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…
Dancing with the CWRU Stars to be held March 24 to raise money for pediatric cancer patients
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…
Leading biomedical engineer to discuss cutting-edge cancer treatment technology
Katherine Whittaker Ferrara, professor of biomedical engineering at University of California, Davis, will present the Angelmarie Adamczyk Lecture Series March 19 at 4 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building. As the Adamczyk Lecturer, Ferrara will discuss “Image-guided Nanodelivery.” A…
War crimes ambassador to lead lecture on international criminal justice
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…