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Spartans Step Up: "How Technology Is Impacting Access to the Stock Market and Leveling the Playing Field"
The Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University will continues Spartans Step Up, a series of webcasts focusing on topical issues. The newest installment, titled “How Technology Is Impacting Access to the Stock Market and Leveling the Playing Field,” will be presented Wednesday, April 14,…
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Siegal Lifelong Learning Program offers "American Bloomsbury: The Writers of America's First Literary Community"
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program is offering a remote course titled “American Bloomsbury: The Writers of America's First Literary Community”. The class will be held remotely from May to June. In three wooden houses in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1850s, an American literary movement was…
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Applications open for Program Rewarding Innovation in STEM Entrepreneurship (PRISE)
Applications for PRISE (Program Rewarding Innovation in STEM Entrepreneurship) are now open. PRISE is a cohort-based program for undergraduate women-aligned people who are interested in entrepreneurship and creating STEM-based solutions to a problem that they identify. Students who are selected…
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Budgeting workshop
No matter what your personal financial situation is, knowing how to create and use a budget is important. PNC Bank will present about budgeting on Tuesday, April 16, from noon to 1 p.m. Participants will learn skills that help them manage money and improve overall understanding of financial…
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Law's Ayesha Bell Hardaway discusses Ohio's "stand your grand law"
Ohio's 'stand your ground' law takes effect Tuesday WEWS: Ayesha Bell Hardaway, assistant professor of law and co-director of the Social Justice Institute, discussed Ohio’s “stand your ground law,” passed by Republicans in December, that takes away the legal requirement that people try to retreat…
Colorectal cancer relapse predicted by immune cell infiltration
From Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute: A research team led by Stephanie Schmit, PhD, MPH, Genomic Medicine Institute, has found that immune cell infiltration of colorectal cancer (CRC) tumors can predict disease relapse in patients who undergo surgery with curative intent. Published in…
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Environmental Law Expert Jim Chen (LAW ’91) to deliver Law School Graduation Ceremony Address
Environmental law expert Jim Chen, a 1991 graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, will be its 2021 graduation ceremony speaker. This year’s commencement will take place in-person from 1-2:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 16, two weeks before the University’s convocation. “Jim Chen has had…
CWRU students and faculty file submission to UN related to excessive force by U.S. police
On March 30, 2021, the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, together with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), submitted a letter to United Nations experts concerning attacks by federal and local police on medics during the racial justice and anti-police brutality protests over the summer of…
Robust immune biomarker predicting survival in HPV-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma identified
From University Hospitals: Quintin Pan, PhD and colleagues at University Hospitals (UH) Seidman Cancer Center have identified biomarker immunoglobulin J polypeptide (IGJ), uniquely expressed in plasma cells, predicts early disease-specific mortality among HPV-positive patients with HNSCC. The team…
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Arts and Sciences' Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Bruce Latimer, Beverly Saylor, and Denise Su is recognized for discovery of early ancestor remains
The bone hunter: Anthropologist searches the globe to understand the human family tree Freshwater Cleveland: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, adjunct professor of anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, was recognized for his research on a well-preserved 3.8-million-year-old skull of an early…