Turkey through a Modern Lens with Barbara Snyder, President

June 16 – 24, 2012
Price: $4,950.00 per person ($1,200 single supplement)
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Hosts: Barbara Snyder, President and John Grabowski, Krieger – Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History

Barbara Snyder, president of Case Western Reserve University, is pleased to announce that she is offering, in collaboration with John Grabowski, associate professor of applied history, a unique adventure to Turkey, June 16 – 24, 2012, with an optional sailing extension along the Turquoise Coast, June 24 – 29, 2012. 

International Programs at MSASS

Take an educational holiday overseas during Winter Break or Spring Break. Engage in cross-cultural studies of social policies and practices for health and human services. Several three-credit travel-abroad courses are available for all students from all majors and programs as well as working professionals in health and human services. Groups are traveling to Bangladesh, Ecuador, The Netherlands, Guatemala and Poland in 2011/2012.

For more information contact Debby Jacobson, Ph.D, director of International Education Programs.

An Intellectual Adventure brought to you by the Institute for the Science of Origins: UK-The World of Newton and Darwin

May 9 – 17, 2012
Prices: $4,950.00 per person ($1200.00 single supplement), includes all accommodations and excursions.
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Hosts: Glenn Starkman, Director of the Institute for the Science of Origins and
Patricia Princehouse, Ph.D, Lecturer in Philosophy and Evolutionary Biology

Connect with the lives of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin -2 extraordinary people who revolutionized science and culture, in this exceptional one-of-a-kind travel experience to the UK. Walk in their footsteps as we visit the places that helped guide these men's intellectual adventures. Conducted by uniquely qualified scientific experts, we begin in Edinburgh –home to the Scottish Enlightenment, then move to Darwin's birthplace and environs on the Welsh border and continue on to Newton's birthplace Woolsthorpe, where we'll see the famous apple tree! We explore their brilliance and their eccentricities in Cambridge and settle in London to seek out the impact of these scientists on modern culture. Science has a continental history beginning with the Greeks, but it was England who gave us the towering genius. Newton produced the first ever modern scientific paper. His theories did not just account for data; they predicted phenomena via general laws. Darwin followed in the footsteps of Newton – building on the work of great English scientists including Priestly, Herschel, Lyell, and others. He gave the first truly scientific basis for understanding the processes, patterns and diversity of life on earth. In doing so, Darwin brought biology, the last major hold-out, into the realm of science –thereby completing the scientific revolution. Includes an excursion to Stonehenge and Avesbury, including a lecture on Archeoastronomy.

For more information contact Glenn Starkman at gds6@po.cwru.edu.

Learn more about the Institute for the Science of Origins.

Museums of London—Art, History, Medicine

October 5-14, 2012
Prices: $3,085. Airfare to London is separate.
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Hosts: Jim Edmonson, Chief Curator, Dittrick Medical History Center
Catherine Scallen, Chair, Department of Art History and Art

We invite you to join Jim Edmonson, Curator of the Dittrick Museum on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, and Catherine Scallen, Chair of the Art History department, for this custom designed tour of key museums of London, England. Jim's contact with fellow curators and museum directors opens doors and provides the group with unique insights into their collections and aspects not normally open to the general public. Catherine's experience teaching and researching the masters of European Art from 1400 to 1900 will provide historical depth that makes the art museums' collections come alive.

The tour, billed as “Museums of London—Art, History, Medicine,” runs from Oct. 5-14, 2012, and is open to just 20 individuals.

Tour stops include the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, Guys Hospital, the Old Operating Theater Museum, Wellcome Library and Collection, Tate Modern Museum, Hunterian Museum (Royal College of Surgeons of England), Sir John Soane’s Museum, The Foundling Museum, Science Museum, and Victoria & Albert Museum. The tour will also host a reception for CWRU alumni in the UK at the Florence Nightingale Museum.

The eight-night trip, arranged by Professional Travel Inc., includes accommodations in a first-class hotel, meals, transportation for the trip’s organized sightseeing, museum tour guides and curators, baggage handling and hotel taxes and charges. The cost is $3,085. Airfare to London is separate.

If interested, call Professional Travel at 800.247.0600, or visit the Dittrick website to download a tour brochure: cwru.edu/artsci/dittrick/museum