Events
January 31, 2012
Promoting Health Across Boundaries presents “Boundary Spanning: Lessons from Within a Changing Health Care System” with Laura Calamos Nasira researcher in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The talk will be held Feb. 6 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the BioEnterprise Building’s…
January 30, 2012
Women faculty members: Join your colleagues from across campus for an informal lunch where you can network, chat, find new resources and be part of a campus community of women. The next Women Faculty Connect luncheon, sponsored by the Women Faculty Leadership Development Initiative of the Flora…
January 30, 2012
APP’s Social Justice Institute, WVIZ ideastream, KeyBank and Children’s Defense Fund–Ohio are sponsoring a sneak preview of the PBS documentary Slavery By Another Name Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Karamu House (2355 E. 89th St.). The documentary, which will air Feb. 13 at 9…
January 30, 2012
The national director of Design for America will visit campus Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m., for a kickoff workshop in the Peter B. Lewis Building Room 06. Design for America is a nationwide network of interdisciplinary student teams and community members who use design to have a local, social impact. The…
January 27, 2012
Barbara Reiterer, a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, will speak about her research into the life and work of Elsa Leichter, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who came to the United States on the eve of World War II, receiving a degree in social work in 1949 from what would become Case…
January 26, 2012
That time of year is here: University Program Board’s annual Gluttony Gauntlet will be held Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Jolly Scholar. Teams will compete in a five-round food-eating contest for gift cards to Jolly Scholar and Qdoba. The first 20 teams of five participants will be…
January 26, 2012
Looking for a night on the town, 1920s style? The APP Swing Club will host three of the best swing bands in the country as part of its annual event, SparX. Glenn Crytzer and his Syncopators from Seattle will play from 9 p.m. to midnight Feb. 3, and on Feb. 4, the…
January 26, 2012
The Connor Integrative Medicine Network will offer a four-week Meditation 101 course at a discounted rate to APP employees ($40 for employees; $60 for non-employees). Wednesday classes will be held Feb. 8-29 and March 7-28, from 5 to 6 p.m. in University Hospitals Case…
January 26, 2012
Author Mary Helen Stefaniak will read from and talk about her Anisfield-Wolf-award-winning novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, when she comes to campus Feb. 1. The discussion will be held at 6 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building Auditorium. Stefaniak will alternate readings from the novel…
January 25, 2012
The Program in Ethnic Studies, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Department of Philosophy will welcome a pioneer of African philosophy and feminism to campus Jan. 30. Tanella Boni, professor of philosophy at the University of Abidjan (Côte-d’Ivoire) and distinguished…