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January 18, 2019
The following is a message from Director Stan Gerson, MD and Associate Director for Basic Research Ruth Keri, PhD. The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center would like to thank Bingcheng Wang, PhD and Alex Almasan, PhD for their hard work in leading the Alex…
January 18, 2019
A small car made of K’NEX pieces lit up—first in blue, then red and finally green. Then it zipped along a driveway, moving left, right, forward and backward—all controlled by Austin Wilson’s voice and Alexa, the virtual assistant developed by Amazon. Though he was only 16 years old, Wilson’s…
January 18, 2019
The Social Justice Institute is accepting proposals from undergraduate and graduate students for a fellowship opportunity to support work during the 2019-20 academic year. The funding can be used to carry out research or implement projects related to social justice in any discipline. Social…
January 18, 2019
The Spoken English Language Partners (SELP) program offers free spoken English tutoring for all undergraduate, graduate and professional students. Students can book appointments with a tutor through Tutor Trac. During a tutoring session, students can work on pronunciation, fluency, presentation,…
January 18, 2019
Kelvin Smith Library’s new Safari Books Online platform is live. The new platform offers more content and greater functionality, including: No user limits (an unlimited number of people can use a resource at the same time); 40,000 new books and videos; and A mobile app, available at the…
January 18, 2019
Case Western Reserve University will be closed Monday, Jan. 21, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Normal operations will resume Tuesday, Jan. 22. View schedule for university holidays and closures.
January 18, 2019
Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning Alanna E. Cooper wrote about a synagogue in New Castle, Pennsylvania, which closed its doors after its congregation became too small to sustain it. The article, titled “Saying Kaddish for a Rust Belt congregation,” traces the history of Temple Hadar Israel and…
January 18, 2019
An article written by Vice President for University Technology and Chief Information Officer Sue Workman was among the top 10 most-read EDUCAUSE Review articles of 2018. The article, titled “Mixed Reality: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Teaching and Learning,” discussed the HoloAnatomy curriculum…
January 18, 2019
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to volunteer for the Leonard Gelfand STEM Center’s Elementary Science Olympiad, which will be held Saturday, March 2, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on campus. Geared toward students in fourth to sixth grades, the olympiad is composed of…
January 18, 2019
Local author, attorney and historian James Robenalt will discuss the roots of the violent uprisings in Cleveland in the late 1960s, including the Hough Riot (1966) and Glenville Shootout (1968), and their political aftermath. His talk, titled “Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban…