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News and Announcements
- Two Arts and Sciences faculty were featured in national media outlets this week. First, Ted Gup (English) appeared Monday on National Public Radio’s “This I Believe”– a show based on the 1950s program of the same name that allows Americans from all walks of life to “share personal philosophies and core values that shape their everyday lives.” Click here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4837776) to listen to Gup’s “In Praise of the 'Wobblies’” from the Monday broadcast.
Also this week, Ted Steinberg (history) was featured in several media outlets in coverage of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. An environmental historian and author of “Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters,” Steinberg was quoted in several reports, including stories in The Washington Post and The Houston Chronicle, and he submitted the opinion piece, “A Natural Disaster, a Man-Made Catastrophe, and a Human Tragedy,” to The Chronicle of Higher Education, which you can read here (http://chronicle.com/free/2005/09/2005090906n.htm).
- A memorial service remembering Dr. Ignacio J. Ocasio, the Teagle Professor of Chemistry at Case – better known as Doc Oc – has been set for October 8, 2005 in Amasa Stone Chapel at 10 am. Those wishing to attend the service can register on-line at http://www.case.edu/events/dococ/.
- The new SAGES Café will open in SAGES Central - the first floor of Crawford Hall – on Tuesday next week (September 20). Faculty and staff are encouraged to stop by for Peet’s coffee and tea, as well as sandwiches, salads, and baked goods, during the café’s limited operating hours from 8 am to 2 pm Monday through Friday. The SAGES Café will begin full hours of operation – 8 am to 9 pm five days a week - on October 1. For more information on the café and SAGES Central, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/newsletter/artsci-pg11.html.
- The Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture is being held Wednesday next week (September 21) at 4:30 p.m. in the Thwing Ballroom. Architect Robert P. Madison, FAIA, will discuss “Architecture and Public Policy: The Decline of Cities and the Human Spirit.” Madison has received honorary degrees from Case, Howard University, Kent State University, and Cleveland State University. For more information, visit the Arts and Sciences event listing page at http://connection.case.edu/cas/content/eventList.cfm.
- 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.P
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.
Opened Tuesday, 9/7/2005, on the first floor of MSASS - Photography exhibit: Features the indigenous Afro-Colombian people of El Chocó
Friday, 9/16/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “The Federalist Society” by George W. Dent, Jr., Schott-van den Eyden Professor of Law at Case
Friday, 9/16/2005 at 2:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 405 - “The Global Carbon Cycle and the Duke Forest Free Air CO2 Enrichment Experiment” by William Schlesinger, Professor of Biogeochemistry and Dean of the Nicholas School, Duke University
Friday, 9/16/2005 at 3 pm in Yost Hall room 300 - “The application of Sampling Theory to Fan Beam Tomography" by Professor Steve IZEN, Case department of mathematics
Friday, 9/16/2005 at 4 pm in Clark Hall, room 206 - Music & Culture Lecture Series: "In the Beginning: Creation Scenarios from Mozart to Schubert" by Maynard Solomon, biographer
Saturday, 9/17/2005 at 10 am in Clapp Hall, room 108 - Screening of Gosho's "The Izu Dancer"
Saturday, 9/17/2005 at 7 pm in the Cleveland Cinematheque at The Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 E - Film Screening: Gosho’s "Where Chimneys are Seen,” preceded by an intro, "Living Life to the Fullest," by Professor Arthur Nolletti, Jr., Framingham State University
Sunday, 9/18/2005 at 3 pm in the Mather Dance Center - Dance/Movement Therapy Study Group Meeting
Sunday, 9//18/2005 at 7:30 pm in Harkness Chapel - Lisa Rainsong: Faculty Composition Recital
Monday, 9/19/2005 at 4 pm in the Millis Science Center, room 123 - "Smart Matrix for Wound Healing" by Richard A. Clark, M.D., director, Center of Tissue Engineering, State University of New York
Wednesday, 9/21/2005 at 4:30 p.m. in the Thwing Ballroom - “Architecture and Public Policy: The Decline of Cities and the Human Spirit” by Robert P. Madison, FAIA, architect (The Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture + Sculpture)
Wednesday, 9/21/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clark Hall room 309 - "Somatic Signing: A Semiotic Exploration of Michelangelo's Jacob-Joseph Lunette in the Sistine Ceiling” by William M. Jensen, Professor of Art History, Baylor University
Wednesday 9/21/2005 at 7:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 (Millis Science Center) - “Merchants of Death: Militarism, Racism and Materialism” by Jocelyn Selene Perry, War Resisters League
Thursday, 9/22/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 - "Direct Observation of Cholesterol Efflux from a Single Foam Cell using an Enzyme Modified Microelectrode" by James Burgess, Case
Thursday, 9/22/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clark Hall room 206 - “The Demise of the Welfare State in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Rewriting the Contract Between Citizens and Government”: Work-in-Progress Talk: Kelly McMann, Political Science at Case
Friday, 9/23/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “Food, Religion, and Politics” by Peter J. Haas, Professor and Chair of Religion; Alan Rocke, Professor and Chair of History; and Joe White, Professor and Chair of Political Science at Case
Saturday, 9/24/2005 from 8:30 am to 5 pm - JASON Expedition introduction 2005-06
Saturday, 9/24/2005 at 1 pm in Harkness Chapel - DMA Lecture Recital - Philip Low (music)
Monday, 9/26/2005 at 4 pm in the Millis Science Center, room 123 - "Dermal Fibroblast Support for Dermal Wound Repair" by J. Michael Sorrell, Ph.D., Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University
Monday, 9/26/2005 at 4:30 pm in Thwing Center - "The Paradox of Equality" by Deborah Stone, Ph.D.
Wednesday, 9/28/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clark Hall room 309 - "Rights to the Land of Israel: Claims and Compromises" by Gideon Shimoni, Rosenthal Visiting Fellow
Thursday, 9/29/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 - ”Where's the probe? Exploring Interactions of Vanadium Oxometalates with Interfaces in Reverse Micelles" by Nancy E. Levinger, Colorado State
Thursday, 9/29/2005 at 7:30 pm, Schmitt Lecture Hall in the Agnar Pytte Science Center - “The Smell of Money: The Africanization of New York City” by Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology, West Chester University, Philadelphia
Friday, 9/30/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “Iraq as a War Economy” b y Peter W. Moore, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Case
Friday, 9/30/2005 at 3 pm in Yost Hall room 300 - Colloquium title TBA by Professor Alexander LITVAK, University of Alberta, Canada, department of mathematics
Sunday, 10/2/2005 at 3 pm in Harkness Chapel - Joan Terr Ronis Prize Recital (music)
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