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Feds start leveling rare civil disorder charges against demonstrators for alleged violence at Portland protests The Oregonian: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, said that property destruction and violence against others at protests on city streets “should be prosecuted…

Cleveland author Thrity Umrigar releases new children’s book Binny’s Diwali cleveland.com: Thrity Umrigar, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, was featured for writing a new children’s book that tells the tale of a young girl who…

Maintaining a perfect lawn in a world turned upside-down CBS Sunday Morning: Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, spoke about the uptick in lawn manicuring during the pandemic. “You could argue that the perfect lawn is the…

JumpStart to step in for BioEnterprise in many areas Crain’s Cleveland Business: Pamela Davis, The Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin Research Professor in the School of Medicine, spoke about the future of local business incubator BioEnterprise.

COVID-19 can cause strange, unpredictable health problems that linger for months Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Robert Salata, a professor at the School of Medicine, weighed in on the phenomenon of “long-haulers”―COVID-19 survivors who struggle with symptoms many weeks or months after getting sick.…

Murder-suicides involving family members often share characteristics and risk factors, experts say cleveland.com: Susan Hatters-Friedman, a professor in the School of Medicine, spoke about familicide, saying surviving family members are often left shocked and searching for answers, particularly if…

As of Sept. 1, 2020, CWRU Law School's Scholarly Commons has had over 2.85 million downloads worldwide. Launched five years ago, Scholarly Commons features 12 electronic collections ranging from faculty publications and student-edited journals to multidisciplinary journals, including the recently…

Three free Sunday afternoon concerts of carillon music will fill the air over University Circle this month. The concerts will be co-sponsored by the Friends of the McGaffin Carillon and the Church of the Covenant with support from the Cleveland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. The…

Have you completed your second University Seminar? Have you thought about submitting your SAGES portfolio? Want to learn more and get a start on putting it together? Come to a remote (Zoom) workshop Friday, Sept. 11, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. led by Portfolio Coordinator Kristine Kelly to learn how to…

About 75% of all novel infections are zoonotic—that is, they are transferred between animal species and humans. We are currently in the midst of a pandemic that originally began as an animal virus, and has now spread among humans. However, this isn't our first zoonotic pandemic; likely every…