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The #MeToo movement has shined light on the pervasiveness of sexual violence and created a demand for prevention models that actually work. In collaboration with the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will host a free film screening of The Bystander…

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and rates remain stubbornly high among low-income smokers. While low-income smokers attempt to quit, their success rate is lower than those of a higher social economic status. During the next Prevention Research Center…

Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences invites the community to talk about current affairs in the nonprofit sector with one of Cleveland’s most esteemed philanthropic leaders: Steven Minter (SAS ’63, HON ’89), former president…

Sexual Assault and Violence Educators (SAVE) will host Take Back the Night Wednesday, April 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women (Tinkham Veale University Center, Suite 248). Take Back the Night is a speak-out event against intimate partner violence on our campus and in…

LINK (Local InterNational Konnection), a student group at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will host a panel presentation titled “Social Work Practice in China: Aging and Mental Health.” The panel discussion will be held Tuesday, April 9, from 12:50 to 1:50…

The Think Forum series will conclude with a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War scholar Viet Thanh Nguyen Thursday, April 11, at 6 p.m. at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple–Tifereth Israel. Nguyen will present “Refugee Stories and American Greatness” as…

While people know that you use “the dictionary” to find out what words mean, rather few know how dictionaries make their decisions. Indeed, the very idea of “the dictionary”—as if there is a single one that perfectly reflects the reality of language—exemplifies this problem. In reality,…

The Department of English will host a workshop for members of the Case Western Reserve University community who want to learn more about writing science fiction. Science fiction authors Charles Oberndorf and Marie Vibbert will present “Realms and Dominions: Worldbuilding in Science Fiction”…

Students in the Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences have worked to apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired through their academic coursework to a problem involving the health of our communities. The results of their work will be showcased during the Public…

Autism Speaks U of Case Western Reserve University will hold its annual spring fundraiser, the Light It Up Blue Luncheon, April 13 from noon to 2 p.m. in the Thwing Center ballroom. At the event, speakers will share their experiences with individuals on the spectrum and research in the field.…