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June 11, 2021
HUD awards $35 million to demolish, redevelop decades-old public housing complex in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood cleveland.com: Debbie Wilber, assistant director and research associate for the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School…
June 11, 2021
From University Hospitals: The University Hospitals (UH) Urology Institute is the first in Northeast Ohio to use a new technique to diagnose prostate cancer. The method allows the urologist to obtain a prostate biopsy with a much lower risk of introducing bacteria than the traditional transrectal…
June 11, 2021
The Writing Resource Center is open for the summer. At the center, members of the Case Western Reserve University community can get help with summer coursework, application materials, theses/dissertations, grants and publications. Go to wrc.case.edu to make an appointment, or email questions to…
June 11, 2021
KISS—“Keep It Simple, Stupid!”—is a common acronym used in engineering (and elsewhere) to instruct the designer to design simple systems. The main reason: Complex systems are more prone to failure. Implanted devices in the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system have many exciting…
June 11, 2021
Michael Lederman, the Scott R. Inkley Professor of Medicine, offered thoughts on several of the key issues facing Ohioans, in a piece titled “Ohio is a failed state” that was published by cleveland.com. Lederman described issues like politics, public health and trust in government. Read his…
June 11, 2021
Engineering’s Dhruv Seshadri writes about promising progress made in measuring core body temperature
Dhruv Seshadri, research engineer at the Case School of Engineering, described advances made in helping prevent heat stroke by noninvasive testing of core body temperature in a letter published by cleveland.com. Seshadri’s piece, titled “Promising advances in measuring core body temperature to…
June 11, 2021
Rachel Lovell, a research assistant professor with the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Mendel Singer, associate professor at the School of Medicine, teamed up to write a piece for…
June 11, 2021
Michael Scharf, co-dean of the School of Law and the Joseph C. Hostetler—BakerHostetler Professor of Law, co-authored a piece published in The Diplomat titled “Why the US should recognize the Rohingya Genocide.” Scharf opined that the Biden administration has a chance to reassert the United…
June 11, 2021
Michael W. Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities in the Department of English, wrote an opinion piece titled “Are Humanities Professors Moral Experts?” that was published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Clune explored how humanities professors are split between…
June 11, 2021
Alex Welsh, now a rising fifth-year majoring in chemical engineering, had never put much thought into participating in the university’s Cooperative Education Program, which allows students to gain real-world, paid experiences. Though she knew it to be a valuable opportunity, she was certain she…