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July 10, 2020
Following Medicaid Expansion Individuals with Low-Income Less Likely to be Diagnosed with Advanced Cancers A new study published in CANCER (Kim, CANCER, 2020) indicates the expansion of Medicaid led to earlier detection of cancer in individuals with low-income. Their findings suggest Medicaid…
July 10, 2020
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently awarded a new five-year $3.7M grant to Ge Jin, PhD and Bingcheng Wang, PhD, as co-principal investigators, to explore why those living with HIV have a higher risk for certain kinds of cancers, such as lung cancer. Drs. Jin and Wang are members of the…
July 10, 2020
Effective July 1, Leland Metheny, MD will serve as Chair of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center's Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee (PRMC) and Shilpa Gupta, MD will serve as Co-Chair. The PRMC reviews all new cancer-related trials conducted at the institutions affiliated with the Case CCC…
July 10, 2020
CWRU Law alumna Capricia Penavic Marshall ('90) will speak at The City Club of Cleveland 's Authors in Conversation Series online forum on July 24 at 12:30 p.m. A first-generation American of Mexican and Croatian descent, Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall has spent two decades laying the…
July 10, 2020
Photo taken prior to social distancing guidelines. Elizabeth Meckes and Elisabeth Werner, professors in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, were selected as 2020 Simons Fellows. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year,…
July 10, 2020
Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, assistant professor of pathology, was selected as one of the 10 fellows in the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Public Policy Fellows Program for the year 2020-21. Fellows will attend a two-day Capitol Hill Day in Washington, D.C. They take part in a training…
July 10, 2020
Marie Lathers, the Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, was appointed the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Visiting Professor in Humanities for 2020-21 at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. At CWRU,…
July 10, 2020
Fire safety in spacecraft has been a concern ever since astronauts started flying inside of them. There have been several “fire events” and a couple of real fires in NASA’s history, and those have paved the way for improvements in fire prevention and fire response equipment and procedures. How can…
July 10, 2020
In the final years of the suffrage struggle, Ohio women’s efforts to gain the vote took place within a national movement that accepted the regional disenfranchisement of African Americans as part of a bargain to overcome Southern resistance. Yet in Ohio, the opposition from organized liquor…
July 10, 2020
Join the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship for a Case Western Reserve University Entrepreneurship Speaker Series roundtable discussion with Felipe Gomez del Campo (CWR ‘16), founder and CEO of FGC Plasma Solutions, on Aug. 4 at 1 p.m. via Zoom. He will discuss founding a startup while at CWRU…