Events
February 18, 2016
The third annual Graduate Student Council Professional Development Conference will be held Saturday, Feb. 27, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Tinkham Veale University Center, ballrooms B and C. The conference will feature workshops in career development, leadership and management, professionalism,…
February 18, 2016
The 2015-16 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will continue with a talk by Kathryn Johnston, chair and professor of astronomy at Columbia University. Johnston will present “Galactic Cannibalism” Thursday, March 3, at 8 p.m. in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Murch Auditorium. Images…
February 17, 2016
The SCUBA Club will hold a general body meeting Friday, Feb. 19, at 12:30 p.m. in Thwing Center’s Bellflower Lounge. The group will discuss the Spring Break trip itinerary and the movie night this Saturday. While the film to be shown is undecided, students are invited to stop by the great room in…
February 17, 2016
The Dittrick Medical History Center & Museum will continue its Conversations series next month with a talk titled “It Runs like Clockwork—Automatons, Artificial Hearts and Machines of Medicine.” Held Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the talk will address early…
February 17, 2016
Case Western Reserve University recently launched an Emeriti Academy to foster closer continuing relationships with emeriti faculty after they retire from full-time employment. Sara Berry, Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus of History at Johns Hopkins University, will speak at an inaugural…
February 16, 2016
A free screening of Touched with Fire, which depicts life with bipolar disorder, will be held Wed., Feb. 17, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. A New York Times Critics’ pick, the film is “a love story between two bipolar poets,” produced by Spike Lee and directed by Paul Dalio, who…
February 16, 2016
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will hold a panel discussion for undergraduate students Monday, Feb. 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. The Humanities@Work event will feature panelists explaining how their background in humanities impacted their eventual careers in law. The panel…
February 16, 2016
Halfway into the semester is a good time to take stock of how your course is going. First of all, you've had enough time to get a sense of what your students are like, and they've gotten a sense of you. But more importantly, it still leaves you with time to make the kinds of crucial course…
February 16, 2016
The Schubert Center for Child Studies will host Michelle Martin, the Augusta Baker Chair and professor in childhood literacy at the University of South Carolina, for a lecture, titled “Brown Gold: African-American Children’s Literature as a Genre of Resistance.” Martin will present her talk…
February 16, 2016
The Cripple of Inishmaan will open at Eldred Theater this week, with performances scheduled for Feb. 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 21 and 28 at 3 p.m. The play, written by Martin McDonagh, is about a Hollywood movie crew searching for talent in rural Ireland and follows the story of…