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CWRU Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Chad Zimmerman, COO and co-founder, MAHA
Join the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship for a Case Western Reserve University Entrepreneurship Speaker Series roundtable discussion with Chad Zimmerman, COO and co-founder of MAHA Global, on June 30 at 1 p.m. via Zoom. He will join us to discuss the purpose economy, his experience as an…
Under Siege
This weekend, we heard the projected impact of COVID on the University’s finances from President Snyder. The COVID sickness must be countered, and the remedies the University have crafted are significant reductions in operating budgets, suspension of retirement contributions for faculty and…
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With yearlong grant in hand, Classics’ Maddalena Rumor explores how ancient cultures shared medical knowledge
Receiving a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Maddalena Rumor will work on a manuscript for a book currently titled Dreckapotheke in Ancient Mesopotamia and the Graeco-Roman World.  Rumor is the only scholar…
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Graduate Education Seminar Series—“Reassess - Realign - Reimagine: Pivoting to Remote Research Mentoring”
Developing new strategies to mentor research trainees in remote working environments will help to keep their academic and research careers on track as well as support their research productivity during the COVID-19 era. In collaboration with the National Directors of Graduate Studies, the School…
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Science Café Cleveland—“Good Vibrations: The Interplay of Music and Physics”
Scholars and musicians, from the ancient Greeks to those in modern times, have asked questions about music: Why do we find the combination of certain pitches pleasing? Why do two different instruments playing the same note sound different? The answers to these questions arise from the profound…
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Siegal Lifelong Learning Program offers course on Hamilton
When it arrived on Broadway in 2015, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical was an instant success, selling out months in advance. With a national tour to follow, the show quickly captured the imaginations of history buffs and theater aficionados across the country. Even so, Hamilton…
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Living in a COVID-free bubble at the bottom of the world: CWRU Physics PhD student Allen Foster on living at the South Pole during a global pandemic
When fourth-year PhD physics student Allen Foster arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica in early January for a 10-month research assignment, he had no idea that the rest of the world soon would be hit by a global pandemic. With no flights in or out since early February, the…