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Governor DeWine Reappoints Professor Robertson to Prestigious National Commission
On June 30, 2021, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that he has reappointed Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Cassandra Burke Robertson to a three-year term as Commissioner on the Uniform Law Commission. Established in 1893, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) provides states…
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“The Effects of COVID-19 on Women in the Academy”
The School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusive Excellence will host the 2021 Summer Virtual Inclusive Talks and Lecture Series (VITALS) with presentations this summer. The series will examine health disparities and the effects of COVID-19. Each talk will last for 45 minutes with 15…
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CWRU LaunchNET Summer Book Club
CWRU LaunchNET will host a virtual summer book club through which participants will read It’s About Damn Time by Arlan Hamilton. There will be two book club meetings. Participants will discuss parts one through three Tuesday, July 20, from 6 to 7 p.m. The second meeting will cover parts four…
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2021 Food Systems Change Fellowship Showcase of Opportunities
The Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health will host the 2021 Food Systems Change Fellowship Showcase of Opportunities Wednesday, July 28, from 10:30 a.m. to noon via Zoom. Launched in early 2021, the Food Systems Change Fellowship serves as a “test kitchen” for incubating ideas related…
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Apply update to Windows to address PrintNightmare vulnerability
University Technology ([U]Tech) strongly advises Case Western Reserve University Windows users to apply recent Windows updates, including (CVE-2021-34527), to address the PrintNightmare vulnerability (a critical flaw in the Windows Print Spooler service). Get additional information. Faculty and…
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Unraveling the origins of Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers find new hints that could explain how the disease spreads in human brains Case Western Reserve University researchers studying human prions—misfolded proteins that cause lethal and incurable diseases—have, for the first time, identified surface features responsible for the replication…
Universal Health Aid of Cleveland hosts roundtable discussion on racial and economic health disparities
In the spring 2021 semester, Universal Health Aid of Cleveland, an organization based at Case Western Reserve University, hosted a virtual roundtable discussion focused on exploring racial and economic health disparities through the lens of COVID-19, with specific focuses on the following…
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Art history's Henry Adams weighs in on John Steuart Curry’s 1929 painting ‘Tornado Over Kansas’
Peril, present and pending The Wall Street Journal: Henry Adams, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, weighed in on John Steuart Curry’s 1929 painting ‘Tornado Over Kansas,’ depicting the threat of a natural disaster and serving as a powerful…
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Provost Ben Vinson explains significance of Karamu House's archives gift
Karamu House’s treasure trove of archives to be preserved, made available for public view at CWRU library cleveland.com: Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III explained the significance of the historic Karamu House gifting its archives to the Kelvin Smith Library as a special…
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Nursing's Linzy Davenport discusses challenges, rewarding experiences in her career
2021 Women Who Mean Business honoree: Linzy Davenport with Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Business Journal: Linzy Davenport, the Coldiron Senior Nurse Executive Fellow at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, discussed the most challenging and rewarding experiences of her career.