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Cleveland Italian Film Festival 2021 to be held Aug. 26 - Sept. 9
The Cleveland Italian Film Festival 2021 will be held Aug. 26 - Sept. 9. It will feature great award-winning films from Italy with English subtitles All films will be shown on Thursdays at 7:30 at Cedar Lee Theater, Atlas Cinemas Eastgate. Tickets are on sale now; purchase your tickets.
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“A Relational Approach to Evaluate Food Environments Finds That the Proximate Food Environment Matters for Those Who Use It”
Join the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health for an August seminar featuring Alannah Glickman, a PhD candidate at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University. Glickman will present “A Relational Approach to Evaluate Food Environments Finds That the Proximate…
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Open yourself to new ideas at Reflection Point this fall
Interested in connecting to other faculty and staff members? Want to think about diverse perspectives and new ways of seeing things you thought you understood? If so, consider joining Reflection Point (the new name for Books@Work). Reflection Point guides groups through facilitated discussions of…
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National emergency communications test anticipated Wednesday
A nationwide test of the emergency alert system and wireless emergency alert (WEA) system is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 11, at 2:20 p.m.  At this time, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Federal Communications Commission will test Wireless Emergency Alerts, sending them to consumer…
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Beyond living the dream
Sociologist Cassi Pittman Claytor provides a nuanced portrayal of the Black middle class Cassi Pittman Claytor, the Climo Junior Professor in Case Western Reserve University's Department of Sociology, is an increasingly influential scholar of contemporary African American life. She conducted her…
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Case Western Reserve University researchers discover interior organization of the nucleolus
The nucleolus—a conspicuous but obscure organelle within the cell nucleus—is normally too compact to be studied in detail. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University just learned how to simplify its structure in living cells and discovered how its interior is organized. The research team, led…
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Law's Sharona Hoffman explains why employers have the right to require vaccines
UCHealth, Denver Health, Banner Health to require vaccinations for all employees KCDO: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said that employers have the right to require vaccines. "There is another law, the Americans with Disabilities Act,…
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History's Jonathan Sadowsky discusses his book examining modern view of depression
The new book The Empire of Depression examines how the western concept of depression has colonized the world WKSU: Jonathan Sadowsky, the Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History in the Department of History, discussed his new book The Empire of Depression, in which he examines how our…
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Law's Jonathan Adler discusses constitutionality of CDC potentially extending eviction moratorium
"The CDC has the power to extend the eviction moratorium.” PolitiFact: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, provided his perspective on the constitutionality of whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could extend an expiring eviction moratorium instituted…
Near-atomic look at three ways to thwart SARS-CoV-2 variants points to therapeutic possibilities
SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies—microscopic molecules developed at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine that neutralize the virus in animals—are remarkably active against mutations found in variants, including Delta, according to new research by Pitt and Case Western Reserve…