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The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will host a lunch panel discussion with alumna Barbara “Dusty” Roads on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at noon at the Center for Women, TVUC 248. Roads is a former stewardess and union leader who led a landmark sex discrimination case in the airline industry, along…

The idea behind Cosmic Inflation is that the universe underwent a very early period of "hyperexpansion". This idea provides the only explanation to date of several basic things about the universe that otherwise we might have to attribute to pure coincidence. In March of this year, the Bicep2 team…

The Farm Food Program at the Case Western Reserve University Farm is accepting shareholders for the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. In a CSA, community members purchase shares in a farm and, in turn, receive farm-fresh produce. This fall, the farm will offer a six-week, “mini” CSA…

William Marling, professor of English, will lead this week’s Public Affairs Discussion on his new book Gatekeepers: How World Literature Circulates. We take the fact that we read authors from other countries for granted. But how does that work? How do some works become part of the public sphere of…

The First Thursdays at the Farm series will continue today, Thursday, Sept. 4 , with a free event at the University Farm, from 5 to 8 p.m. The farm is at 8 Valley Ridge Dr. in Hunting Valley. The event, presented by Constantino’s Market and University Farm, will feature wine and appetizer samples,…

The campus community is invited to a Lunch and Learn Session on Elsevier’s Reaxys, an online workflow solution for research chemists. The session, facilitated by Elsevier representative Theresa Buiel, will take place Friday, Sept. 12, from noon to 1 p.m. in Clapp Hall 405. Reaxys is based on the…

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will present a screening of The Square, an Oscar nominee for “Best Documentary.” Pete Moore, associate professor of political science and a specialist in the politics of the Middle East, will introduce showing of the film at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in the…

Members of the Case Western Reserve community are invited to attend a memorial service Friday for the four undergraduates who died last week in a plane crash outside Cleveland. Classmates, student leaders and university officials will remember second-year students W. Michael Felten, 19, of…

Homecoming 2014 is quickly approaching. The Office of Student Activities is in the midst of planning the Homecoming Parade and looking for individuals in the community with convertibles or vintage vehicles to participate. The parade is Saturday, Oct. 18, at 10:30 a.m. Those interested can email…

Members of the campus community are invited to take part in the fall session of Mini Med School, presented by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Mini Med School is medical school “for the rest of us”—those not seeking a…