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Applications are now open for Nord Grants, financial awards made to individual full-time faculty members or faculty members in collaboration with others, for the purpose of developing innovative teaching and research projects that directly benefit student learning. Such projects could include (but…

The IRS has announced the dollar limitations for qualified retirement plans and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for 2022: The contribution limit for retirement plans has increased to $20,500.The catch-up contribution limit on the retirement plans for employees aged 50 and over remains the same at…

The Lake Effect: Changing climate is changing our Great Lake Spectrum News: Peter Whiting, professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, discussed a new climate report that noted the increase of lake-effect snow, attributing it to warming in the Midwest. “A warmer…

Biden’s new trade plan echoes Trump’s NTD News: Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Law, discussed President Joe Biden’s plans to keep Trump-era trade policies in place to rein in China’s unfair trade practices.

Scholarship makes law school more available to women Spectrum News: Michael Scharf, co-dean of the School of Law, discussed a new law school scholarship honoring CWRU alumna Jodi Littman Tomaszewski, who died in June. “When Jodi began her legal career, almost all the partners and all the law firms…

For Bianca Smith, the time is now to pursue her goal of getting to Major League Baseball as a manager cleveland.com: Alumna Bianca Smith (MGT ‘17, LAW ‘17), who was on campus recently as a guest speaker for the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship’s inaugural Sports Entrepreneurship Conference,…

Why it took decades to make a malaria vaccine that works The Daily Beast: Brian Grimberg, associate professor of pathology, discussed Mosquirix, the new malaria vaccine that could save the lives of hundreds of thousands around the world.

Parents file lawsuits against 4 Northeast Ohio school districts regarding mask mandates WEWS: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, discussed several lawsuits filed by parents on behalf of their children, each one objecting to the mask…

Under Ohio House bill, millions could opt out of vaccine mandates WKRC: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, discussed a bil in the Ohio legislature, that— if passed—would negate COVID-19 vaccine mandates for millions of people.

Long drives, fake drugs: For some women, Texas’s new abortion law is status quo Who What Why: Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, discussed the new restrictions on abortion in Texas and how other cases may be used as a springboard to reverse the landmark abortion-rights decision…