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Nic Stone has dedicated her life to writing stories she needed when she was younger; the stories that make us feel seen, represented, and ready to connect with others. She did not read about characters who looked like her or who came from a world like hers in those childhood books. Because of this,…

Cleveland Clinic is offering scholarships to increase representation of students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in medicine. Scholarship recipients will participate in a four-week clinical rotation to learn firsthand what it is like to be a resident at Cleveland Clinic and to learn…

The Begun Center tackles one of the nation’s most vexing issues Most days, Dan Flannery, PhD, takes an objective, evidence-based approach to reducing gun violence. That’s his job as director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel…

You better watch out: Praying mantises may be hiding in your Christmas treeNew York Post: Mark Willis, professor of biology, cautioned people to keep an eye out for praying mantises that may be living inside their Christmas trees. “The females will lay their eggs on any kind of plant,” he said.…

Cuyahoga County tops 200 homicides for the third consecutive year, for first time in 40 yearscleveland.com: Dan Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, said firearm deaths are increasing partly because guns are easily accessible—and those guns are…

Primary Care Progress (PCP) is an inter-professional student group dedicated to promoting health in our community, and we are hosting Cleveland’s own Just Walk, a Walk with a Doc program. This program is a free monthly walk with community members, healthcare providers, and health professional…

Fraud in the ValleyForbes: Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor of law, discussed the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was charged with fraud, and the need for reforms in the digital money and crypto-currency space. “There is no doubt that there is a need for clarity and a new framework…

The 10 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2022The Week: Paul Tesar, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics at the School of Medicine, discussed an experiment that marked a leap in the study of how stem cells form various organs, and how mutations result in…

Alan Rocke’s 22-year friendship with Christine Cano began with a single question. Then a first-year faculty member at Case Western Reserve, Cano had approached the endowed professor of history after a research presentation. Her “penetrating” query was posed “with such intellectual intensity,”…

Sponsored by the Minority Access To Research Careers (MARC) Branch of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is designed to support recent diverse college graduates who are…