campuswide
March 14, 2019
Linda Ehrlich, associate professor emerita of modern languages
and literatures, will return to Cleveland to introduce and answer questions
after a screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku). The screening will be held Monday, March 25, at 6:45 p.m. at
the Cleveland…
March 13, 2019
The National Academy of Science and Engineering and funding agencies (National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation) recognize many PhD graduates are not well trained in skills beyond the laboratory. They have called upon graduate programs to implement competency-based curricula to…
March 13, 2019
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a Tolerance Means Dialogues event titled “Religious Liberty and the Culture Wars over LGBT Rights: Can University Students Make a Difference?” Wednesday, March 27, from noon to 1 p.m. in the School of Law Moot Courtroom.…
March 12, 2019
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are
invited to hear from Mouin Rabbani, senior fellow with the Institute for
Palestine Studies, during a talk Tuesday, March 19. Rabbani will present “Israel, Zionism, and Anti-Semitism” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Jack, Joseph and Morton…
March 12, 2019
Join the University Program Board for a night of laughter
with Ken Jeong and Michelle Wolf Friday, March 22, at 7 p.m. in Severance Hall. Tickets are open to all Case Western Reserve University
affiliates with a valid CWRU ID. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and
staff can purchase…
March 12, 2019
The next Prevention Research Center for Healthy
Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar will focus on digital interventions and
African-American tobacco smokers. Monica Webb Hooper, director of the Office of Cancer Disparities Research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present “Digital…
March 12, 2019
Kelvin Smith Library and the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library
will welcome Travis McDade, the curator of law rare books and associate
professor of library service at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana,
to campus for a talk. McDade is the country’s foremost expert on crimes against
rare…
March 12, 2019
Years ago, Bill McKibben suggested climate change would be the
end of nature. More recently, Elizabeth Kolbert has argued the “Sixth
Extinction” means the end of nature as we know it. Yet other scholars have
argued that the term “nature” is not helpful—humans have always been modifying
the world in…
March 11, 2019
The
Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will host a lecture by Elisabeta Zelinka, a
professor from the social work program at the West University of Timisoara,
Romania. Zelinka
will discuss the migration of Romanian women to other European Union countries
for work and the implications it has had…
March 11, 2019
The
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Cleveland Humanities Festival event
featuring Allen Thompson, president of the International Society for
Environmental Ethics. Thompson will discuss his experience co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics as
well as changes in the…