Events

SWEAT

By Lynn Nottage

Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Pulitzer prize-winning SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

Learn ways to position yourself as a researcher and scholar. Registration requested.

The Center for the Study of Ethics in Society is hosting a book club on journalist Harriet A Washington’s award-winning Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.

Learn how to use Overleaf, a free online tool, to format mathematical equations for papers and thesis/dissertation chapters. Registration requested.

Solo sailor, coach and entrepreneur

Ricardo Diniz has sailed the equivalent of nearly four times around the world, with more than 100,000 miles logged. He has become a weather router and expedition manager for climbers, rowers and sailors. In addition to his sailing and other related skills, Diniz is an author and entrepreneur.

SWEAT

By Lynn Nottage

Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Pulitzer prize-winning SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

This course focuses on the relationship between Macro and Micro Social Work. Participants will learn how to connect the Macro practices of Administration, Policy and Advocacy to their social work practice. Participants will develop skills to help them navigate macro systems, as well as advocate for Macro changes needed for their client, service, or program. CE's Offered: 2 Social work CEUs

Dinner will be held on Friday, November 5 in the brand new Aviation Education Center at the College of Aviation campus located on the Battle Creek Executive Airport at Kellogg Field. A social period with a cash bar will be available beginning at 5:30, dinner starting at 6:15. Registration includes entrance and dinner.

SWEAT

By Lynn Nottage

Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Pulitzer prize-winning SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

Grammy-nominated vocal supergroup säje has been named Western Michigan University’s 2021 Jazz Masters Artist. The residency,  beginning on Nov. 1st, culminates in a concert on Friday, Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. featuring collaborations with Advanced Jazz Ensemble, Gold Company and the Western Jazz Collective. 

SWEAT

By Lynn Nottage

Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Pulitzer prize-winning SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

November is National Diabetes Month

Learning how to live with diabetes is one thing… learning how to THRIVE with diabetes is another.  This workshop will focus on how healthy eating and exercising not only helps you manage your diabetes but can also help you feel empowered about the choices you’re making and help you to live your best life. 

Facilitator: Gretchen Kauth, Registered Dietitian

Presented by Dr. Jun Li, Chair and Professor of the Academic and Research Cluster of Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies of Western University Faculty of Education. Registration requested

Learn to use the free reference management software Zotero to save your references and create bibliographies for your papers and articles. Registration requested.

Hosted in part by the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Ph.D. Program, this session will discuss the impact of health misinformation and share ways we can confront health misinformation by helping individuals, families, and communities better identify and limit its spread. We will also highlight a number of ways institutions and organizations can approach this issue.

How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In "A Century of Votes for Women," Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades.

Make your academic life easier! Advanced skills and new tools can take your student game to the next level. Join us Nov. 15-19 for Library Skills Week, a free workshop series that will help you develop research skills to be the best student you can be. 

Stop by Waldo Library between now and Dec. 15 and check out the display cases on the 2nd floor in the rotunda to get the first glimpse of materials from the David Small and Sarah Stewart Archive. 

Join the Office of Research and Innovation for information on the IRB process and sponsored projects as well as proposals to the Department of Energy.

Make your academic life easier! Advanced skills and new tools can take your student game to the next level. Join us Nov. 15-19 for Library Skills Week, a free workshop series that will help you develop research skills to be the best student you can be.