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The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will host Kelly Ward, professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership, Sport Studies and Emotional/Counseling Psychology at Washington State University, for two discussions Thursday, Nov. 12. The first session is geared toward faculty, while…

At the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar, Patty Marshall, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Center for Genetics Research Ethics and Law, and Aaron Goldenberg, associate professor of bioethics and associate director of the Center for Genetic…

Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Association (IDEA) will host a Biomimicry Lunch 'n’ Learn panel on Thursday, Nov. 12, from noon to 1 p.m. in Peter B. Lewis, Room 201. The event will feature two speakers, each with their own biomimetic tech startups: Emily Kennedy is CEO of Hedgemon LLC,…

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Mansfield Frazier Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Frazier, community activist and entrepreneur, leads The Vineyards and BioCellar of Château Hough, an urban vineyard located in Cleveland at the intersection of…

The Ethics Table Brown Bag Lunch series will continue Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 11:30 a.m. in Thwing Center’s Cleveland Room. This meeting will cover Stephen Gardiner’s call for a global constitutional convention to protect the rights of future generations. Gardiner is professor of philosophy and the…

On Wednesday, Nov. 11, the Case Western Reserve University community will join colleges and universities across the United States to honor military veterans by participating in the Veterans Day Commemoration and National Roll Call event, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. outside of Adelbert…

The CWRU Social Justice Institute in the process of updating its website and wants to see your vision of social justice. Send a photo and caption (50 words or less) that explains why your photograph exemplifies social justice in action or social transformation. The Social Justice Institute will…

The Case Western Reserve University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa national honorary society will hold a meeting Monday, Nov. 16, from 2 to 3 p.m. in Mather House, Room 100. All members of Phi Beta Kappa among the faculty, staff, graduate and professional students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as…

The Frontiers of Astronomy series will continue Thursday, Nov. 12, from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Jennifer Johnson, professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, will give a presentation titled “The History of the Milky Way Written in the Stars.” She will discuss…

Reproduction, birth and women’s health in the 19th century shaped the practice of obstetrics today. One of the biggest changes with wide-reaching consequences has to do with anesthesia, and the use of ether and chloroform to kill pain but also to render the laboring mother unconscious. Why has the…