Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
March 06, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program’s March course offerings will range in topic from Harry S. Truman to George Orwell’s classic 1984. Each class will last several weeks. Courses beginning in March are: Machiavelli: Prince or Scoundrel? (Sundays beginning March 18) Harry S. Truman…
February 21, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a course on Israeli author David Grossman’s latest novel, A Horse Walks Into a Bar, which won the Man Booker Prize for International Fiction. The course will be held Thursday, March 1, and Thursday, March 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Mayfield Branch…
February 13, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Center will host the next event in the Northeast Ohio Public Policy Forums series Thursday, March 8, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Lakewood Public Library Main Branch (15425 Detroit Ave., Lakewood). The topic of the event will be “Consumer Scams: How to Spot, Avoid and…
February 09, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program and the Institute for the Science of Origins will offer the Origins Science Scholars program this spring. During this program, community members engage with one another and leading scholars to investigate rapidly developing areas of origins science. Each…
February 02, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Center will host a panel discussion concerning the effects of the Opportunity Corridor project, which began construction last summer. “Opportunity Corridor—Will the opportunity be realized?” will be held Wednesday, Feb. 21, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale…
January 12, 2018
Alanna Cooper, director of Jewish Lifelong Learning with the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, wrote about her experience attending a burial to mark the end of a synagogue’s congregation in Pennsylvania. Facing dwindling numbers, the congregation at the Temple Hadar Israel in New Castle recently…
January 05, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer several courses on a variety of topics—ranging from the 1960s to the Booker Prize winners—beginning in January. Each course will last for eight weeks. Courses beginning in January are: Contemporary Feminine Voices (Sundays beginning Jan. 7) A…
November 29, 2017
Darin Croft, professor of anatomy, will present a talk as a part of the Origins Science Scholars lecture series. His talk, titled “Global Climate Change: Past and Present,” will take place Tuesday, Dec. 5, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Talk details Are humans…
November 16, 2017
Michael Lewicki, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Ken Loparo, the Nord Professor of Engineering, will give the next Origins Science Scholars lecture. They will present “The Mind-Body Connection Part I: Is the Evolution of Perception Computational?” Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 5:30 p.m.…
November 13, 2017
Morris Moscovitch, the Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging in the Department of Psychology at University of Toronto, will present at the next Origin Science Scholars program event. His lecture, titled “The Mind-Body Connection Part III—Memory: How the brain maps memories in…