community activities

La Alianza is working with the Red Cross for two upcoming community events. Volunteers are needed to serve as translators in a predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhood during these events. The events will be held on two upcoming Saturdays: April 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and May 4 from 10…

Cleveland Hillel will celebrate women in STEM during an event Sunday, April 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Geller Hillel Building. There will be a panel of speakers, networking opportunities, STEM-themed activities, and food and refreshments. Register to attend.

The Department of Anthropology will host Christina Wasson from the University of North Texas for the 2024 Applying Anthropology to Real World Problems Lecture. Wasson will present “The Participatory Design of Indigenous Heritage Archives” Thursday, April 18, at 4 p.m. in Mather Memorial…

Students enrolled in the Master of Science in Biomedical and Health Informatics program at Case Western Reserve University study and work with faculty members who are distinguished leaders in the fields of medicine, engineering and business. Leveraging their proficiency in informatics, research…

Lead exposure and poisoning from toxic paint remains endemic in low-income U.S. neighborhoods and threatens children’s health. Perhaps unsurprisingly, caregiving for lead exposure often falls on mothers. To broaden understanding of this gendered form of environmental injustice, the SAGES Program…

Emery Brown Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a neural prosthesis seminar and reception with distinguished speaker Emery Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a mobile food pantry event featuring free produce Tuesday, April 16, at 1:30 p.m. on Kelvin Smith Library Oval. In addition to fresh produce, there also will be information about on- and off-campus food pantries, SNAP, Swipe…

The Dittrick Museum of Medical History will host the annual Percy Skuy Lecture Thursday, April 18, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Zverina Room. Katherine Dugan Katherine Dugan, associate professor of religious studies at Springfield College in Western…

Kids Against Hunger will host its semesterly packing event during the Spring Saturday of Service April 13. Each semester, the organization packs thousands of nutritious meals to be distributed to the Cleveland community.  Shifts are available in 1.5 hour increments, and all activities will take…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a CWRU Entrepreneurship Speaker Series for a roundtable discussion with Jeffrey Krilla, vice president for global public policy and government affairs at Kosmos Energy. Krilla will present “The ‘Legal Rebel's’ Perspective”…