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“Salsa for Water” is Engineers Without Borders' annual awareness event to educate the Case Western Reserve University community about the lack of clean water resources in Latin America. Join Engineers Without Borders on Saturday, Nov. 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Veale Convocation, Recreation and…

The Case Western Reserve University Early Music Singers will present Chapelle et Chateau: French Music from 1200-1600. The performance will take place on Friday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. The group will be under the direction of Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of…

Rhonda Williams, associate professor of history and director of the Social Justice Institute, and Noura Erakat, assistant professor at George Mason University, will present “From Gaza to Ferguson: Human Rights and the Question of Palestine.” The discussion will take place Thursday, Nov. 20, at 8…

Steven Vogel, the Brickman - Shannon Professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Denison University, will present “Thinking Like a Mall” on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. The talk will cover the critical evolution of Aldo Leopold's land ethic, which encourages…

The campus community is invited to attend a free screening of award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m. at Strosacker Auditorium. The film tells the history of World War II's 92nd Buffalo Division, the first African-American combat unit—a segregated unit that fought…

Film director Olayinka Hassan will present her 11-minute short film, The Antidote of Life, on Friday, Nov. 21, at 12:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 309. Originally a chemist, Hassan decided to return to school to pursue her graduate studies in directing. Hassan’s film combines her two passions,…

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will present a videoconference discussion with Werewere Liking, acclaimed novelist and playwright and founder of the Pan-African Center for the Arts in Abidjan, Cote-d'Ivoire. The discussion will be in French and will be held Tuesday, Nov. 18,…

Delta Gamma, Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Epsilon will sponsor American Red Cross blood drives Wednesday, Nov. 19, and Thursday, Nov. 20, in the Thwing Center ballroom from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Approximately 900 pints of blood are needed daily to meet the need of Northeast Ohio hospitals…

The next meeting of the Ethics Table group will be on Wednesday, Nov. 19, and will continue with the discussion on ethical decision-making, on the topic, “Can the university promote ethical decision-making?” The discussion will focus on a piece by John Frye, a former Ethics Table Fellow (2013-14),…

Suzanne Rivera The history of human subjects research protocols goes back at least to 1900, when Walter Reed had volunteers sign permission forms for his yellow fever research in Cuba. A series of studies that became public in the 1960s led to new Public Health Service informed-consent procedures.…