College of Arts and Sciences

Videos from Life, the Universe & Hot Dogs Co-sponsored by the Happy Dog Bar! For upcoming talks, click: https://origins.case.edu/2020/03/26/origins-goes-online/ Apr 2: Glenn Starkman “What’s Hot in Cosmology Right Now?” https://youtu.be/QxKq-y21VsU April 18 Janet McGrath COVID-19 in Africa    March 31:  Jurgen Bosch  Coronavirus Update: How the Virus Ticks and What we are Doing to Stop...

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Origins has moved its public programs online! Join us on Zoom for... Life, the Universe and Hot Dogs Thursdays, 7:30pm. Origins Science Scholars Tuesdays, 6pm (through 11/17) Check our FaceBook page frequently for updates on the LUH Happy Dog talks https://www.facebook.com/iso.origins Current Schedule (subject to change, so check back frequently! Videos will be posted below) Origins Online Mar 24...

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ISO Fellows Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Curator of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Beverly Saylor, Professor in CWRU's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science are the lead authors respectively on two papers appearing in the August 28, 2019 issue of the world's most prestigious science...

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The Big Bang… Life on other planets… The origin of life on Earth… Dark matter… The evolution of the human mind… How we ask big questions matters. So does how we answer them.  And that is changing. We need people who can think across the artificial boundaries of traditional departments and...

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STUDENTS: sign up to attend a free Origins dinner lecture, click here! Our Triceratops sticker will welcome new students to campus, grace laptops of Origins enthusiasts of all ages, and make appearances throughout the semester! Students: Please click on the "For Students" tab at the top of this page to learn...

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The living laboratory of Turkana, Kenya! OPEN TO EVERY MAJOR! Fall Semester, 2021 No pre-reqs Earn 15 credits grad or undergrad About the same cost as a semester in Cleveland!* Join Patricia Princehouse, Isaiah Nengo and other top scientists, and a terrific group of students from CWRU, and American and Kenyan universities for this unique opportunity...

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Join us for the Origins tour of CERN and the cave art, culture and landscapes of the Pyrenees, with a view of the entire chain of the Pyrenees from the observatory high atop Pic du Midi! This June 4-16, 2019, enjoy historic and cultural sites, the nature and landscape, the food and...

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In one of the first documented cases of a neutrino experiment coming to visit ISO scientists (instead of the other way around), the ICARUS experiment arrived July 5th in the Port of Cleveland, having set sail from Antwerp, Belgium, aboard the Spliethoff container ship, Frieda. It’s on its way to Fermilab in Batavia, IL, where it will become part of a three-detector suite searching for a hypothesized 4th type of neutrino that interacts only with gravity, which could rewrite physicists’ understanding of the particles making up our universe.

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