Events

This month’s Case Downtown Lecture Series will feature Sharona Hoffman, professor and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at the School of Law. Hoffman will lecture on “E-Health Hazards: Provider Liability & Electronic Health Records.” The event will take place Nov. 16 at the City Club of Clevel...

The Power of Diversity Lecture Series continues Nov. 17 with Sana Loue, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the director of the Center for Minority Public Health of the School of Medicine. Loue’s lecture, which will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Thwing Center’s 1914 Lo...

The Center for Civic Engagement & Learning and the Office of Greek Life are teaming up to coordinate the Saturday of Service on Nov. 12. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to volunteer as individuals or in groups at one of more than 25 different service projects throughout Cleveland. Tr...

A group of Case Western Reserve University nursing students will host an informational session about student health care benefits Nov. 10 at 9 a.m. in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing building’s first floor lounge. A speaker will break down student options for health coverage and discuss w...

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host Peruvian poet and social activist Roger Santiváñez Nov. 11 at 1:30 p.m. in Clark Hall Room 206. Santiváñez’s lecture is titled “Violence and Literature in Contemporary Peru.” One of the best-known ...

The campus community is invited to “Guantanamo Tribunal on Trial: A Screening and Panel Discussion of The Response” Nov. 8 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in School of Law Room 157. The Response is an award-winning courtroom drama based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals, starri...

Science Café Cleveland presents “Prions: From Cannibalism to Mad Cows and New Mechanism of Brain Diseases” on Nov. 14, discussing the interesting and controversial prion diseases—a group of diverse brain-wasting disorders that includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Fatal Familial Insomnia in humans,...

In the upcoming Anton and Rose Zverina lecture, “Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Strange History of Aristotle’s Masterpiece,” Mary E. Fissel, professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, explores the history of one of the most important popular medical ...

Take part in the CWRU Free Wellness Seminar on diabetes Nov. 7 from noon to 1 p.m. in Adelbert Hall’s Toepfer Room. Join Laurie Sadler, MD, FACP, to learn how to prevent diabetes and stay healthy if you or a loved one has the condition. She will also answer any questions. Register for the event no...

On Nov. 8, Case Western Pro-Life will host a lecture with Clement Persaud, former professor of medical microbiology and biotechnology at Canadore College in Northern Ontario. Persaud’s lecture, “The Humanity of the Embryo,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. A question and answer sess...