Events

The 2015 – 2016 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series continues with acclaimed artist and author Roz Chast on Tuesday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center’s Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation Grand Ballroom. Roz Chast’s brilliant cartoons have graced the pages of…

This year’s ACES + Distinguished lecturer will be Mary Romero, professor of justice studies and social inquiry at Arizona State University. She will participate in three panel discussions April 7-8. "So You Want to be an Academic?" Thursday, April 7  11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tinkham Veale University…

While not Berkeley or Columbia, Case Western Reserve University became a visible part of American campus unrest in May 1970 when students blocked traffic on Euclid Avenue in the wake of the shootings at nearby Kent State University. This incident and the student strike that followed serve as the…

Kelvin Smith Library will celebrate the newly redesigned Freedman Center Thursday, April 7, at 11 a.m. with remarks by President Barbara R. Snyder and other guest speakers, followed by a light lunch reception. All Case Western Reserve University students, faculty and staff are invited to…

Envision a green future, where solar cells are ubiquitous, integrated into everything from backpacks to roofing materials. This vision could become a reality with printable plastic solar cells, where organic semiconductors are used to convert sunlight into electricity. The next Science Café…

Tickets are available for the Graduate Student Appreciation Week Masquerade Ball, which will be held Saturday, April 9, from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Great Lakes Science Center. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience all of the science center’s exhibits, take pictures against a green…

Medical Instruments for Nations Under Development (MIND) will host a workshop Friday, April 8, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Sears think[ box ]. Attendees will repair automated external defibrillators (AED). Once repaired, the devices will be shipped to developing countries around the world through…

The 2016 Edward S. and Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines will be held Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in Bellflower Hall, Room 102. Greg Barnhisel, professor and chair of the Department of English at Duquesne University, will present “Norman Holmes Pearson: Rewriting America…

The Student-Run Free Clinic till host its third annual Break Out of the Bubble 5K run/walk Sunday, April 10, at Forest Hill Park (2370 Lee Blvd.). Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. followed by the walk, which will start at 8:30 a.m., and the run, which begins at 9 .m. The Bubble Run aims to…

Kelvin Smith Library will host 2015 Freedman Fellow and Associate Professor of History Gillian Weiss for a talk on her project “The Jewish View on CWRU: Campus Activism, 1967-1973.” During her talk, held Wednesday, April 6, at noon in the library’s Freedman Center, she will discuss how her project…