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News and Announcements
- The university will observe the Thanksgiving holiday next week on Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25. University offices will be closed and no classes will be in session.
- Ernestine Schlant Bradley, visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School for Social Research in New York and Professor Emerita of German and comparative literature at Montclair State University, will give the talk “Reflections on a German Past and American Present in Life and Literature” on December 1 at 5 pm in the Dampeer Room, Kelvin Smith Library. Bradley's talk will cover topics that range from her childhood experiences in Germany to life in the public eye in America as the wife of a prominent professional basketball star and later United States Senator and presidential candidate, Bill Bradley. The talk is sponsored by the German Studies program at Case. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/grmn/events.html.
- The Sages Café has opened on the first floor of Crawford Hall. The new Café serves as the gateway to SAGES Central, the headquarters for Case's major undergraduate initiative. For information on the background of the Café, visit http://www.case.edu/news/2005/11-05/sages.htm.
- The Common Reading Selection Committee is seeking recommendations for a common reading assignment for incoming first-year students. The selected reading will be distributed to new undergraduate students during the summer and will serve as a basis for programs and discussion beginning at Orientation 2006 and continuing through the fall semester. Recommendations for the Common Reading must be made by Friday, November 25. To make a suggestion, or for more information, visit http://studentaffairs.case.edu/orientation/reading/.
- Do you have news to share on a recent achievement or upcoming event? If so, send your news to Cathy Varga at ctv1@case.edu.
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
Various performance times beginning November 9 - Theater Repetory Productions with third year MFA students - "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Triumph of Love"
November 11, 12, 17, 19 and 20 at 8 pm and November 13 at 2 pm in the Mather Dance Center - Melange (dance works)
November 11,12,13 and 17,18,19, and 20 at The Eldred Theatre - Six Characters In Search Of An Author by Luigi Pirandello (theater production)
Friday, 11/18/2005 at 12:30 pm in Mather House room 100 - “Mal d'Archive?: The Changing Relationship Between Archives and Historical Scholarship in the US,” by John Grabowski, history professor at Case
Friday, 11/18/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Spartan Room, Thwing Center - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “Treating HIV/AIDS in Uganda” by Janet McGrath, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Friday, 11/18/2005 at 3 pm in Yost Hall room 300 - Mathematics Colloquium: “Solution of Shannon’s Problem on the Monotonicity of Entropy” by Professor Shiri Artstein, Princeton University
Saturday, 11/19/2005 from noon to 5 pm in Eldred Hall at Case - The CITY Dionysia: 15-Minute Classical Play Competition
Saturday, 11/19/2005 at 7:30 pm in Harkness Chapel - Case Concert Choir Fall Concert
Sunday, 11/20/2005 at 3 pm in Harkness Chapel - Percussion Ensemble Concert
Monday, 11/21/2005 at 4 pm in Yost Hall room 321B - Applied Mathematics Seminar: "High-order, high frequency methods or waver scattering III" by Christophe Geuzaine, Case department of mathematics
Monday, 11/21/2005 at 4 pm in the Millis Science Center, room 123 - “Analysis of ADAMTS4 Enzyme-Substrate Specificity Using Mutagenized Recombinant Aggrecan" by Thomas M. Hering, Ph.D, orthopaedics, Case Western Reserve University
Monday, 11/21/2005 at 7:30 pm in Harkness Chapel - Collegium Musicum Concert
Wednesday, 11/23/2005 at 3 pm in Yost Hall room 300 - "Comparison with Measurements and Unresolved Issues" by Marvin Goldstein, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Chief Scientist, NASA Glenn, member National Academy of Engineering
Monday, 11/28/205 at noon in Nord Hall room 310B - “An Auditory Scene Analysis Approach to Speech Segregation and Restoration” by Prof. D. Wang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
Monday, 11/28/2005 at 4 pm in Yost Hall room 321B - Applied Mathematics Seminar " Reduced order modeling I" by Michiel Hochstenbach, Case department of mathematics
Tuesday 11/29/2005 at 4:30 pm in the Spartan Room, Thwing - Poet Joseph Campana will read from The Book of Faces
Wednesday, 11/30/2005 at 4 pm at John Carroll University, Math Commons Room - Dolan Center E-244 - JCU Algebra Seminar: “Title TBA” by Professor Leah Gold, Cleveland State University
Wednesday, 11/30/2005 at 12:30 p.m. in Mather House room 100 - "Slavery in Mauritania Today" by Professor Boubacar N'Diaye, College of Wooster
Thursday, 12/1/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 - “Threshold Collision-Induced Dissociation: From Dynamics to DNA Bases” by Mary Rogers, Wayne State University (Frontiers in Chemistry lecture)
Thursday, 12/1/2005 at 5 pm in the Dampeer Room, Kelvin Smith Library - "Reflections on a German Past and American Present in Life and Literature” by Ernestine Schlant Bradley, the New School for Social Research. New York
Friday, 12/2/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall -Public Affairs Discussion Group: “Building Community, Staging a Republic: Political Architectures in a Medieval City” by Charles Burroughs, Professor and Chair, Art History at Case
Friday, 12/2/2005 at 8 pm in Ford Auditorium - Amigas (theatrical performance)
Friday, 12/2/2005 at 7:30 pm in Thwing Ballroom - Windi and Jazzi XVII - Symphonic Winds & Jazz Ensembles
Monday, 12/5/2005 at 4 pm in the Millis Science Center, room 123 - "Cartilage Engineering for Laryngotracheal Reconstruction" by James H. Henderson, Ph.D., Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University
Tuesday, 12/6/2005 at 11:45 am in Clark Hall room 206 - Case Conversations on Children in Research and Policy – “Pre-Adoption Stress and Its Association with Adoption Outcomes from a Global Perspective” by Victor Groza, LISW, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Doctoral Program, MSASS
December 6 & 7, 2005 from 4:30 to 8 pm - JASON Expedition introduction 2005-06
Thursday, 12/8/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clark Hall room 206 - “Exquisite Images: Eyeing Beauty as Beheld by the Human Brain”: Work in Progress talk by Sara Waller (Philosophy)
Thursday, 12/8/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 - “Chemical Tools for Unraveling Signaling Pathways” by Kavita Shah, Rice University (Frontiers in Chemistry lecture)
Thursday, 12/8/2005 at 1 pm in the Dampeer Room, Kelvin Smith Library - “Framing Latin American Portraiture” by Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Friday, 12/9/2005 in the SAGES Cafe at 4:30 pm - Arts and Sciences Faculty T.G.I.F.
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
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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