Faculty & Staff
June 25, 2014
The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library will host its annual Digital Scholarship Colloquium November 6-7. This year's colloquium will focus on digital research pedagogy and practices in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Proposals for panels, papers and…
June 24, 2014
Given the rapid growth in knowledge, it is inevitable that the amount of information that we expect students to learn in courses has also grown, unless instructors are very vigilant in limiting it. This tends to place a premium on quick reading of texts in order to get at the most salient…
June 23, 2014
The Leonard Gelfand STEM Center still has openings for Shipwreck Camp 2014, which is open to 12- to 15-year-old students. The two-week camp runs weekdays, July 14 -25, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. As part of the program, campers meet expert shipwreck researchers and the lone survivor of the SS…
June 18, 2014
Bon Appétit Management Co. chef Mark Cameron will present a free cooking demo to teach faculty and staff how to make Fourth of July appetizers. The hints and tips provided will get you ahead of the game as this holiday approaches. The demo takes place Thursday, June 19, in Nord Hall, room 356,…
June 17, 2014
There are many factors that go into teaching a successful course, but sometimes we put our greatest efforts into areas that may not provide the biggest payoff and neglect those aspects that may require less effort but give huge benefits to both you and your students. As the fall semester…
June 13, 2014
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at Case Western Reserve University will sponsor the Ohio Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH) Training Course June 16-19 at Case Western Reserve. As with the first course offered last year, 35 local and state public health department…
June 13, 2014
Case Western Reserve University is looking for faculty and staff volunteers for its Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) to prepare employees to help themselves and each other—and to supplement the work of first responders—in the event of a campus crisis. Up to 50 faculty and staff volunteers…
June 11, 2014
A class period is highly valuable time for scholarly discussion—yet very often it becomes an occasion for the mere transmission of information instead. This often occurs because faculty members feel that such deep discussions are not possible because students do not have the knowledge and…
June 11, 2014
In partnership with the Leonard Gelfand STEM Center, TECH CORPS is offering two open enrollment programming camps at Case Western Reserve University this summer. Techie Camp is a full-day, weeklong program designed to engage elementary and middle school students in hands-on, interactive…
June 10, 2014
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at Case Western Reserve University will host “Wearable computing and sensor technology: What's all the fuss?” Amy Sheon, executive director of the Urban Health Initiative, will lead the talk as part of the PRCHN Seminar Series. The…