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Kelvin Smith Library will offer extended hours for finals through May 5. The hours are: April 28–29:  8 a.m.–2 a.m.April 30: 9 a.m.–2 a.m.May 1: noon–2 a.m.May 2–4: 8 a.m.–2 a.m.May 5: 8 a.m.–5 p.m. (early close, finals end). View information about regular hours.

The annual Legacy Week Tailgate, an outdoor event on Kelvin Smith Library Oval, will be held today (April 22), from 12:30 to 2 p.m. All members of the campus community are invited to celebrate CWRU’s history and Earth Day with throwback music, a pep band performance, and flower planting. Attendees…

Kelvin Smith Library will host a "Wellness Break" event Wednesday, April 27, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Dampeer Room on the second floor of the library. All CWRU undergraduate, graduate and professional students are invited to color, paint rocks, mold Play-Doh and relax. Snacks will be…

Kelvin Smith Library hosted an awards reception and pop-up exhibit for its annual book collecting contest on Wednesday, April 13, in the library’s Dampeer Room. To enter, contestants wrote essays describing the theme of their collection and provided an annotated bibliography and explanation of how…

Kelvin Smith Library has announced the winners and honored participants of the 2022 Art of Stem Competition, an exhibit competition for all members of the CWRU, Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cuyahoga County High School communities. This annual contest asks participants to submit digital images…

Join Kelvin Smith Library for presentations by the 2021–22 Freedman Fellows recipients during its annual forum Tuesday, April 19, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Freedman Center's Collaboration Commons.  The event will include seven- to 10-minute presentations by the student and faculty fellows, with…

The Freedman Student Fellowship program will provide undergraduate and graduate students the ability to partake in an internship or grant track. Applications will be accepted now through September 9, 2022 Learn more and submit an application!

Kelvin Smith Library invites all members of the campus community to a trivia night Thursday, April 7, from 7 to 9 p.m., in Kelvin Smith Library, Room 215. The library has planned twice the number of trivia questions for a super-sized game night. The winning team will get $10 Amazon gift cards.…

The Freedman Fellows Program supports and funds full-time, board-appointed, tenured or tenure-track faculty, and clinical research faculty, at the rank of Assistant Professor with planning and developing digital scholarship projects and instruction. Freedman Fellows partner with the Freedman Center…