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On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will welcome author Kevin Powers to campus for a reading and discussion of his book, The Yellow Birds. The Yellow Birds won the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction. It focuses on the last weeks of friendship between 18-year-old...

Registration is now open for Case for Community Day, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 4, from noon to 5 p.m. All members of the campus community are encouraged to take part in a variety of volunteer activities throughout Greater Cleveland. Volunteer opportunities include: painting, landscaping, wo...

As Oct. 1 nears—the date when health insurance “exchanges” open across the country—this week’s Public Affairs Discussion Group meeting will focus on implementing health care reform. J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Healthcare Finance at the Weatherhead School of M...

All members of the campus community are invited to attend a welcome reception for underrepresented minority faculty, staff and students. The reception will take place Friday, Sept. 13, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the George S. Dively Building’s first floor pavilion. The reception—hosted by the President...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods at Case Western Reserve University will continue its seminar series with a presentation by Susan Flocke, associate professor in the Departments of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Flocke’s presentation, titled “Study design an...

The first meeting of the 2013-14 Ethics Table brown bag lunches is Wednesday, Sept. 4, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Thwing Center Meeting Room A (second floor). The topic for this week will be: “Student loan debt, take 2: Challenging the value of a private college education.” Coffee and cookie...

The Cleveland Hillel will host events to celebrate the upcoming High Holy Days. On Wednesday, Sept. 4, Rosh Hashanah will be celebrated with a dinner (with reservations) at 6 p.m., followed by Erev Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat Services at 7 p.m. Next, an all-day celebration will take place on Thursda...

Case for Community Day—an afternoon of volunteer service for the campus community to participate in a variety of projects—will be held Friday, Oct. 4, from noon to 4 p.m. Volunteer opportunities include: Blood drive Back to school supplies drive Arts and crafts Outdoor painting Landscaping Ga...

The Case Western Reserve University community is invited to attend the fall 2013 Ford Distinguished Lecture featuring Karl Deisseroth, the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry at Stanford University. He will present his lecture, “Optical Deconstruction of Fully Assembled Biological ...

This is the last week for the Case Western Reserve University community to experience Uptown Thursdays at the arts and entertainment district located in the heart of University Circle near the corner of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road. Join Cleveland Yoga for a free yoga demonstration with their Ma...