Events

The #MeToo movement has shined light on the pervasiveness of sexual violence and created a demand for prevention models that actually work. In collaboration with the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will host a free film screening of The Bystander…

All women seeking doctorates are invited to attend the next Women in Science and Humanities Earning Doctorates (WISHED) general body meeting Monday, April 15, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Suite 248. After the meeting portion of the event, attendees will de-stress with…

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and rates remain stubbornly high among low-income smokers. While low-income smokers attempt to quit, their success rate is lower than those of a higher social economic status. During the next Prevention Research Center…

Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences invites the community to talk about current affairs in the nonprofit sector with one of Cleveland’s most esteemed philanthropic leaders: Steven Minter (SAS ’63, HON ’89), former president…

Global Medical Brigades will host its BBB Benefit Dinner, featuring food from Barrio and Buffalo Wild Wings and bubble tea. The benefit dinner will be held Friday, April 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Thwing Center atrium. Jessica Cooke Bailey, assistant professor in the Department of Population and…

Sexual Assault and Violence Educators (SAVE) will host Take Back the Night Wednesday, April 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women (Tinkham Veale University Center, Suite 248). Take Back the Night is a speak-out event against intimate partner violence on our campus and in…

Annual event finals are Wednesday, April 10; six teams present ideas in health care, renewable energy storage to “help improve daily life” Update: The winning team in the Saint -Gobain competition April 10 was "Polyp Retrieval System," comprised of Jasmine Sondhi, Rajiv Trehan, Doe Choi, Chao-yi…

LINK (Local InterNational Konnection), a student group at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will host a panel presentation titled “Social Work Practice in China: Aging and Mental Health.” The panel discussion will be held Tuesday, April 9, from 12:50 to 1:50…

The Think Forum series will conclude with a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War scholar Viet Thanh Nguyen Thursday, April 11, at 6 p.m. at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple–Tifereth Israel. Nguyen will present “Refugee Stories and American Greatness” as…

While people know that you use “the dictionary” to find out what words mean, rather few know how dictionaries make their decisions. Indeed, the very idea of “the dictionary”—as if there is a single one that perfectly reflects the reality of language—exemplifies this problem. In reality,…