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February 02, 2015
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will present an event titled “Animating the War: The First World War and the History of Animation,” led by Donna Kornhaber, assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Charlie Chaplin, Director. This lecture will take…
January 30, 2015
Free tickets available for Town Hall of Cleveland lecture by best-selling author, cultural historian
Best-selling author and cultural historian Sarah Lewis will give the next Town Hall of Cleveland lecture on Monday, Feb. 2, at 6 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center. Free tickets are available on the University Center's website. Lewis has served on President Barack Obama’s Arts Policy…
January 29, 2015
Imagine only knowing your life as starting at Chapter 2—the moment you met your adoptive family—with no access to critical family medical health information and maybe even your nationality, time and place of your birth or the names of your birth parents. Since 1964, this has been the experience of…
January 29, 2015
Silvia Prina, associate professor of economics, will lead the next Public Affairs Discussion Group, addressing the topic “Encouraging Savings by the Poor in Developing Countries.” In the uncertainty of poverty in poor countries, saving is not easy. Banking systems in poor countries tend to be…
January 29, 2015
The Cell Biology Program and the Department of Physics will hold an event titled “The 2014 Science Nobel Prizes: What were they given for?” today at 4:15 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall, Room 301. Three faculty members will share insights on the winners in different categories: Walter Lambrecht,…
January 28, 2015
It is not too late to sign up for SpartanTHON’s Dance Marathon, which will be held Saturday, Feb. 7, from noon to midnight in the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center. All proceeds will benefit University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital. Last year, the event raised…
January 28, 2015
All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a talk with Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish Thursday, Jan. 29, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 108. Budish took office Jan. 1. As the highest elected official for Cuyahoga…
January 26, 2015
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Women's and Gender Studies program will host the Research and Relaxation Speaker Series on Wednesday, Jan. 28, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Michelson and Morley at the Tinkham Veale University Center. Justine Howe, assistant professor in the Department of…
January 23, 2015
Due to construction activities, East 115th Street between Finnegan Way and Wade Park will be closed Jan. 26-30, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
January 23, 2015
A draft of Kelvin Smith Library’s new “KSL Strategic Plan: 2015-2018” is now available for comment. The draft includes a brief summary of the library’s accomplishments under the previous “KSL Strategic Plan: 2011-2014” upon which the new plan builds, an overview of the knowledge ecosystem that…