Events

T. Kenny Fountain, assistant professor of Case Western Reserve University’s Department of English, will kick off this year’s Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ Faculty Work in Progress series with the talk “Affective Circuits: Networks of Feeling in the Flesh of New Media.” He addresses the…

Habitat for Humanity will host its annual “Let’s Shack Up!” event on Friday, Sept. 16, on Freiberger Field. The event seeks to drive awareness about substandard housing issues, as teams of students build cardboard structures to sleep in over night. The most creative teams will win prizes. Students…

Blackboard Learn version 9.1 has made course management easier and implemented some new features. At the next UCITE session, Sept. 15, Jennifer Loudiana from Information Technology Services will give an overview and tour of its features, updates and the support tools available. This session will…

This year’s George B. & Elsa Golden Memorial Lecture will be “Israelis and Palestinians: The Possibilities for Peace,” featuring David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and Ghaith Al-Omari, executive director of…

For those not taking part in the Case for Community Day events, you can still get involved by donating blood for the American Red Cross of Greater Cleveland at Thwing Center’s 1914 Lounge, Nord Hall 310 or 121 Fitness Center. All volunteers must register online before donating blood. Appointments…

This year’s Constitution Day Forum, held Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in the School of Law Moot Courtroom, will discuss “Same-sex Marriage and the Constitution.” The program will feature Mark Strasser, Trustees Professor of Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, and George W. Dent Jr.,…

GradLink, a graduate student support group, will hold its first meeting of the semester Tuesday, Sept. 13, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Spartan Room at Thwing Center. Come eat pizza and share your thoughts and experiences about being a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University. Connect…

September’s Science Café Cleveland event will be centered around “Combustion: from candle, rocket to wildfire.” From ancient time to the present, combustion has been used to provide heating and energy conversion to work. Combustion can also emit pollutants and be a fire hazard. The mechanisms of…

Find out how to find undergraduate research positions—on- and off-campus—during two information sessions: Sept. 14 at 9:30 a.m. and Sept. 19 at 4 p.m. Both meetings will be held in the Toepfer Room, on the second floor of Adelbert Hall. Register and find more information and session dates at…

The Center for Civic Engagement and Learning (CCEL) will hold Project STEP-UP training Sept. 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Project STEP-UP is CCEL’s award-winning tutoring and mentoring program. Case Western Reserve University students are paired with local schools and after-school programs to tutor…