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July 27, 2020
Laura Voith, PhD, assistant professor and faculty affiliate of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, and Meghan Salas Atwell, PhD, senior research associate at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, were recently awarded a grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human…
July 27, 2020
Case Western Reserve University faculty member, Dr. Sandra Russ, PhD, and her graduate student, Alexis Lee, MA, in the Department of Psychological Sciences are seeking pre-adolescents and adolescents to take part in a research initiative looking at aspects of creativity. WHO? Young people in…
July 27, 2020
As faculty and staff prepare to welcome students back to campus this fall, an initiative is underway to provide a look at classrooms in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are committed to preparing for a strong fall semester,” said Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III. “And…
July 27, 2020
Science is most productive when people with diverse experiences work together to solve complex problems, yet science careers are plagued with representation issues. Rise Up: Northeast Ohio is a science outreach group passionate about equal opportunity and education. We bring real world,…
July 27, 2020
Kelvin Smith Library reopens today (July 27) to the Case Western Reserve University community. The library adheres strictly to all state and university public health guidelines regarding physical distancing, wearing masks, frequent handwashing, sanitizing and disinfecting workspaces and equipment,…
July 27, 2020
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a remote course with SAGES Teaching Fellow Anthony Wexler titled “Representing the Holocaust: From Night to Maus.” Wexler will delve into two powerful, and very different, works of Holocaust literature: Elie Wiesel’s iconic first-person testimony,…
July 27, 2020
Cancer researchers Alex Huang, Reshmi Parameswaran and Yamilet Huerta have been awarded $315,000 in grants from the St. Baldrick's Foundation to conduct research of new immunotherapy treatments for pediatric cancers. Alex Huang Huang, professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University…
July 24, 2020
Amid dollar store moratorium, focus turns to Cleveland's corner stores ideastream: Morgan Taggart, director of the Healthy Food Access Initiatives at the university’s Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, weighed in on the recently passed moratorium on building permits for new…
July 24, 2020
Why isn’t FirstEnergy charged (yet) in the Ohio nuclear bailout bribery case? cleveland.com: Michael Benza, senior instructor at the School of Law, discussed some possible reasons why an alleged co-conspirator of a crime hasn’t been charged yet, after Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was…
July 24, 2020
A sign of things to come? Bahamas welcomed, then shut out U.S. travelers CNBC: Mark Cameron, an associate professor in the School of Medicine, discussed whether the Bahamas closing to Americans is a one-off incident or a sign of things to come, adding that the U.S. is in uncharted territory in…