Events

The Power Up! 2015 Student and Youth Leadership Conference, hosted by the Social Justice Institute at Case Western Reserve University, will be held Saturday, April 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University Circle United Methodist Church. The full-day conference will feature Opal Tometi,…

The Cleveland Hillel Foundation will host an Israeli Cultural Night on Thursday, April 9, at 7 p.m. The event will feature Asi Azar, a prominent Israeli entertainment personality, TV host and screenplay writer, who uses his stage to fight for LGBT equal rights. OUT Magazine voted Azar one of the…

The Holistic Health Club will hold an event in collaboration with Weatherhead Wellness Initiative Saturday, April 11, on the lawn of the Weatherhead School of Management. The event will feature professionally led yoga practice with music from 11 a.m. to noon, followed by a vegetarian picnic lunch…

Kevin Mumford, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present "Neither Straight nor White: Remaking Black Gay History from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis" on Friday, April 10, at 12:30 p.m. in Mather House 100. Drawing from his forthcoming book,…

Deanna Day, a historian, writer and postdoctoral fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, will present the Percy Skuy Lecture April 9 at 6 p.m. in Ford Auditorium, located in the Allen Memorial Medical Library. Day will present a talk titled “Reinventing the Safe Period: The…

In honor of Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, the Graduate Student Senate Professional Development Committee and the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University will host a Networking Night on Wednesday, April 8, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University…

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The Center for Civic Engagement and Learning (CCEL) Fellows are organizing a "Journey to the Metroparks" on Saturday, April 11, from 1 to 5:30 p.m. at the Ohio and Erie Canal Reservation. This is an opportunity to learn about Cleveland, explore nature, and tour the Cleveland Metroparks, including…

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will host this year’s Glennan Fellows Program on Thursday, April 9, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Herrick Room of the Allen Memorial Medical Library Building. At this session, the five faculty members who were selected in 2013 for…

The next topic in the Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center Seminar Series will be “Modeling Human Liver Diseases in Zebrafish” on Wednesday April 8, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Cleveland Clinic’s Education Wing, Room NA1-142. Takuya Sakaguchi, assistant professor of molecular medicine…