Events

This spring break, a group of 16 students, staff and alumni will travel to Nicaragua with the Center for Civic Engagement & Learning’s alternative spring break trip. In preparation for their departure, participants are organizing a supply drive to collect school supplies, sports equipment and…

Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, associate professor of general medical sciences and epidemiology and biostatistics, will lead the next Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Seminar, titled “Population stratification effects in cancer genetic epidemiology.” The seminar will be held March 7…

Science Café Cleveland presents “Our Radioactive World: Putting Fukushima in Perspective.” The talk will be held March 12—just more than a year after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake produced a tsunami that hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and caused nuclear meltdowns and release of radioactive…

Stanford Law School’s Hank Greely will be on campus March 7 for his lecture, “The Revolution in Neuroscience and its Revolutionary Social Consequences.” During his free, public talk, Greely will discuss how we are in the middle of a revolution in our understanding of how the human brain…

The Department of Bioethics and the Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law (CGREAL) will host “Community Voices: A Perspective of Health and Genetics Through Photo Documentation” March 7 from 10 a.m. to noon. The free, public event, to be held at Cleveland Public Library’s Martin Luther King…

La Alianza, a Latino cultural group at Case Western Reserve University, will sell quesadillas March 5-6 from 9 to 11 p.m. in Wade Pioneer Room. Stop by the fundraiser and enjoy a quesadilla while preparing for midterms.

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will welcome Leo Braudy, university professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature at University of Southern California, to campus for his lecture, “The Hollywood Sign: How a Temporary Commercial Sign Became a Permanent International…

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Omega Chapter will host “To Know Me is to Love Me,” a program on sexual assault awareness with the Rape Crisis Center. The program will be held March 8 at 8:08 p.m. in Thwing Center’s Spartan Room. Business casual attire is encouraged. Additionally, the sorority is…

Player's Theatre Group will present The Borrowers by Mary Norton, adapted for the stage by Charles Way, March 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and March 4 at 2:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Eldred Black Box Theater, located on the Case Quad. The entrance to the theater is downstairs through the red…

The Program in Ethnic Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host a reading of slam poetry by French author Patrice Aba. All members of the campus community are invited to this event March 5, beginning at 3 p.m. in the Guilford House Parlor (first floor). Aba is an…