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Applications are now live for 2018-2019 Graduate Staff positions in the Office of Residence Life! We are currently recruiting for both the 2018-2019 Academic Year Assistant Residential College/Community Director (ARCD) positions and the Summer 2018 Assistant Residential Community Director (ARCD)…

People aren’t having babies because the rent is too damn high Fast Company: Daniel Shoag, visiting associate professor of economics, weighed in on a study he co-authored that found that restricted housing supply and high living costs have caused more people to delay starting families.

Creator of 3-D printed sea slug robots works to organize nascent organismal engineering field 3DPrint.com: Vickie Webster-Wood, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was the lead author on a paper detailing the importance of creating consistency in…

The people and projects that inspired me in 2017 LinkedIn: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella listed Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic’s collaboration on Microsoft HoloLens as an inspiring example of “democratizing mixed reality.” In a post that featured a video of the "Imagined Odyssey"…

Tech startups use $1M in funding to attract $24M in venture capital Newsday: Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, explained how when states decide to fund a biotech innovation, venture capitalists are more encouraged to invest as well. “The private sector…

Possible U: The role of universities WKYC: Lisa Camp, associate dean for strategic initiatives at Case School of Engineering, discussed how more students are studying data science and computer science, and how many are taking their ideas and translating them at Sears think[box].

Case Western Reserve researchers receive National Institutes of Health funding to study autism, responses to chemical threats Crain’s Cleveland Business: Two School of Medicine researchers recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health. Tony Wynshaw-Boris, the James H. Jewell MD…

The fascinating reason why clowns paint their faces on eggs BBC: Aaron Perzanowski, professor of law, co-wrote an article about the trip he and fellow legal researcher Dave Fagundes took to England, where they discovered that the practice of painting clowns’ faces on eggs is more of a historical…

CVS merger with Aetna: Health care cure or curse? The Conversation: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and a professor of bioethics, wrote about the proposed purchase of Aetna by CVS—explaining the ins and outs, and pros and cons. Republished by Salon, Chicago Tribune and Lee…

Cleveland Museum of Art embarks on radical reconstruction of Cambodian Krishna statue The Plain Dealer: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s seventh-century statue of the Hindu god Krishna is about to be dismantled and reconstructed to re-create its correct pose—thanks to a digital scanning and 3-D…