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Nominations are open to recognize CWRU graduate students at the Graduate Awards Ceremony in May. The School of Graduate Studies is accepting nominations from department chairs and faculty for several awards. Departments can also submit their own departmental award winners. Submit award nomination…

Staff from University Technology’s ([U]Tech) Teaching + Learning Technologies team will host one-hour workshops on Turnitin this spring. Turnitin is Case Western Reserve University’s digital plagiarism detection tool. Accessed through Canvas, the tool helps ensure student academic writing…

The Case Western Reserve University Muslim Student Association and Interreligious Council will host a candlelight vigil to mourn the lives lost during the attack on two mosques in New Zealand. The vigil will take place Thursday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at the oval in front of Kelvin Smith Library.

The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship is now accepting applications for the 2019 Freedman Fellows Program. This annual award is given to full-time CWRU faculty and staff whose current scholarly research projects involve the use of digital tools and processes that are of scholarly…

To fight climate change, NYC may expand Lower Manhattan into East River Gothamist: Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History, discussed the history of adding land on to New York City after planning documents revealed the city is considering doing so once again.

Do dating and politics mix? Cleveland native says yes, creates DonaldDaters dating app Fox 8 Cleveland: Jane Timmons-Mitchell, senior research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, weighed in on how humans have a tendency to develop relationships with those…

Hoarding a defense for tax evasion? Ocean GOP boss George Gilmore makes case Asbury Park Press: Michael Benza, senior instructor in law, explained the challenges a New Jersey politician charged with tax evasion and his attorney will face in mounting a defense based on a hoarding disorder.

1 big thing: For struggling Americans, nowhere to go Axios: Daniel Shoag, visiting associate professor of economics, explained how migration in the United States is likely based mostly on housing markets.

Andrew Wheeler, who continued environmental rollbacks, is confirmed to lead E.P.A. The New York Times: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, weighed in on the confirmation of Andrew Wheeler (CWR ’87) to lead the…

Life in the cold, thin air Global Press Journal: Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor, the Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet, discussed how populations that live at high altitudes have adapted to thin air and the effects of…