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AIM2Flourish: An Agent of World Benefit' Published in AI Practitioner Journal August 2019
Fowler Center Director, Megan Buchter, published an article in the AI Practitioner Journal's Voices from the Field blog featuring the Fowler Center's AIM2Flourish program and how the program uses Appreciative Inquiry to help fuel students' discovery of business as an Agent of World Benefit.
KL2 alum helps shed light on vitamin D supplementation and prevention of type 2 diabetes
Sangeeta Kashyap, MD, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Cleveland Clinic, and CTSC KL2 scholar alum, was part of a large, multi-institution study to determine whether vitamin D supplementation lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes. Their results have been published in the New…
A New Pathway: Researchers Identify Potential Treatment Target for Crohn’s Disease
There is no cure for the more than 1.6 million people in the United States living with Crohn’s disease (CD) and its symptoms, including abdominal pain, intestinal distress and severe weight-loss. CD is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in which the body’s own immune system attacks the…
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Fourth-year dental student Richard McGuire passes away
Editor's note: This article has been updated to include the date and time of the service for McGuire. Richard McGuire, who was set to begin his fourth year as a student at the School of Dental Medicine, passed away this week from complications of sickle cell disease. He was 27. A native of…
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Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center to change offerings; poster and printing requests will no longer be serviced
Kelvin Smith Library’s Digital Learning and Scholarship Team recently completed an evaluation of the services of the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship in light of the team’s mission to partner with faculty and students to advance the application of digital scholarship at Case Western Reserve…
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Science Café Cleveland—“Rocks in Motion: Earthquakes and Tectonic Plates”
The Earth is a very dynamic place. Geologic change occurs very slowly and progressively, but it can also happen episodically (i.e. abruptly) in “punctuated” events. Every day, sand moves imperceptibly along a beach by longshore drift. It also moves suddenly by the erosive energy of summer…
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Wade Oval Wednesdays
Wade Oval Wednesdays continue today (Aug. 7) with R&B, blues and jazz music by HUBBS GROOVE and a screening of Captain Marvel. The event will begin at 6 p.m. in Wade Oval. During this week’s event, Cleveland Indians hot dog mascots will race around Wade Oval, the Cleveland Cavaliers All For…
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Participate in a Books@Work group this fall
New sessions of the Books@Work program will be offered in fall. This program helps employees connect through literature during faculty member-led sessions. One spring 2019 participant shared: “[Books@Work] helped me feel more connected to the workplace and meet new people. Also, it let me…
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CWRU portal to Lynda.com to be unavailable Aug. 8 during site’s transition to LinkedIn Learning
The Case Western Reserve University portal to Lynda.com will be unavailable during its transition to LinkedIn Learning Thursday, Aug. 8. Registered users will receive a welcome email from LinkedIn Learning when the site opens. CWRU community members will continue to have the same unlimited access…
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Using ionic liquid capsules to capture carbon dioxide from air
Case Western Reserve researcher takes next step toward helping NASA with future, longer-distance space travel If humans are going to successfully make longer-distance space trips, it will depend on discovering and engineering new materials for continuous fresh air supply—and doing it in…