Events

Kenneth F. Ledford, associate professor of history and law, will lead this week’s Public Affairs Discussion Group on the topic “Germany and the European Union.” The discussion will be held March 9 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library’s Dampeer Room. For more information and a list of…

The Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative alumnae will host “Talk Less, Say More: 3 Habits to Influence Others & Make Things Happen” with keynote speaker Connie Dieken. Dieken is the founder and chief experience officer of onPoint Communication, a former Emmy award-winning TV news…

Interested in building an international career? Come learn more March 8 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences 323. During the event, three local speakers will discuss their international experiences. Confirmed speakers are: Portia Brown: social development…

Information Technology Services (ITS) will present online training on Google Calendar on Thursday, March 15, at 11:30 a.m. This session will cover how to use Google Calendar to meet your personal and organizational scheduling needs using calendar sharing, available Google customizations and…

The Commencement Office will host two Doctoral Fitting Days: Wednesday, March 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Gund Hall, and Friday March 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building. These events offer new PhD, JD, MD, DNP, DMD, DM and DMA graduates the chance to…

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…