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News and Announcements
- The recipients of the W.P Jones Presidential Faculty Development Fund for fall semester have been named. The fund makes available small grants (usually up to $4,000) to support the scholarly activities of untenured tenure-track faculty members in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For a full list of winners and their projects, visit http://connection.case.edu/cas/.
- Harvey Buchanan, professor emeritus in the department of art history and art, recently received accolades as one of the winners of the Joseph D. Pigott Leadership Award from University Circle Incorporated. Buchanan was honored for his work with the John and Mildred Putnam Sculpture Collection, his 53 years of leadership as an art historian at Case, and as former provost of humanities and art. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/news/2005/11-05/buchanan.htm.
- The team of Cyrus Taylor (physics), Ramani Pilla and Catherine Loader (statistics) recently created innovative statistical techniques that improve the chances of detecting a signal in large data sets. Their new technique can not only search for the “needle in the haystack” in particle physics, but also has applications in discovering new galaxies, monitoring transactions for fraud and security risk, identifying the carrier of a virulent disease among millions of people, or detecting cancerous tissues in a mammogram. The researchers reported their findings in the article, "A New Technique for Finding Needles in Haystacks: A Geometric Approach to Distinguishing between a New Source and Random Fluctuations,” in the December 2 Physical Review Letters. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/news/2005/12-05/haystack.htm.
- The next “News and Events” e-mail will be sent on Friday, January 20, 2006. Enjoy the winter break and have a safe and happy holiday season!
Arts and Sciences Events
Below is a list of talks, seminars and other events taking place next week in Arts and Sciences. For more information on these and other events, visit http://connection.case.edu/cas/content/eventList.cfm.
November 1 through December 20 at the Allen Memorial Medical Library - “Changing the Face of Medicine” - an exhibit
Friday, 12/9/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “Zionism and its Discontents: by Gideon Shimoni, Professor and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Rosenthal Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Case, Fall 2005
Friday, 12/9/2005 in the SAGES Cafe at 4:30 pm - Arts and Sciences Faculty T.G.I.F.
Sunday, 12/11/2005 at 3 pm in the Mather Dance Center - Dance/Movement Therapy Study Group Meeting
Monday 12/12/2005 through Friday 12/16/2005 - Semester in Review by the students in the Art Studio Department
Monday, 12/12/2005 at 4 pm in the Millis Science Center, room 123 - "The Effects of Gentamycin on Marrow-derived Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells" by Yuhan Chang, M.D., Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University
Thursday, 12/15/2005 at 8 pm in The Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Murch Auditorium, 1 Wade Oval - Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series – “The Teenage Universe: Distant Quasars and the State of the Universe Soon After the Big Bang” by Michael Strauss, Princeton University
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