Faculty & Staff

Leaders of this week’s UCITE lunchtime session will discuss “How to Teach Public Speaking,” offering suggestions, tips and guidelines for teaching students how to prepare and deliver oral presentations. Sarah de Swart, the associate director of UCITE, will lead the session, along with Bill Doll, th...

The Employee Wellness Program will bring a local cooking celebrity to campus July 19 for a special demonstration. Vel Scott, of Vel’s Purple Oasis, will be the guest chef at the event, held July 19 from noon to 1 p.m. in Nord Hall 310, where she’ll teach how to cook healthy soul food. Samples will b...

The LGBT Center, Human Resources and The Office of Inclusion, Diversity & Equal Opportunity will offer an interest session for CWRU employees who identify as part of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community. The session will be held July 18 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Thwing Center’s Cleveland R...

The Employee Wellness Program will host a free health seminar on first aid and safety July 12 from noon to 1 p.m. in Nord Hall 310. Attendees will learn basic first aid and safety tips to prepare them to be ready to assist when needed. They also will be introduced to the automatic external defibril...

Faculty members are invited to apply to participate in the fourth Mentor Fellows program, to be conducted by UCITE during the fall semester. This series of seminars is designed to engage faculty in thoughtful discussions with other faculty on mentoring and on how to improve the quality of mentoring ...

Tenured women faculty members are invited to apply for a program targeted to mid-career women who are considering administrative leadership positions or other career paths within academia. The three-session program will be held Oct. 29, Jan. 28 and March 25, 9 a.m.–1:30 p.m. The objectives of the p...

Arthur Blum, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor Emeritus in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, died June 21 in Ann Arbor, Mich., from complications of cancer. He was 86. A native of Cleveland, Blum earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Western Reserve University. He tau...

Faculty members are invited to apply to participate in the fourth Mentor Fellows program, to be conducted by UCITE during the fall semester. This series of seminars is designed to engage faculty in thoughtful discussions with other faculty on mentoring and on how to improve the quality of mentoring...

The Connor Integrative Medicine Network with host two four-week hatha yoga series in July. The classes are offered to Case Western Reserve University employees at a discounted rate. The first hatha yoga course, held Tuesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. from July 10–31, focuses on building strength and flexibi...

Women faculty members and postdoctoral scholars in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are encouraged to attend a “REACH for Commercialization” workshop at Ohio State University in Columbus, Sept. 23-25. The workshop is intended to give women faculty members and postdocs in STEM an int...