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Euclid Avenue lanes to close during daytime hours Dec. 4-5
As part of the ongoing sewer project, both westbound lanes on Euclid Avenue between Adelbert Road and East Boulevard will be closed from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. today (Dec. 4) and tomorrow (Dec. 5). Eastbound and westbound traffic will be maintained in the two eastbound lanes. Police will be on site…
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Discussions research journal taking submissions
Interested in getting research published or know of someone who is? Discussions, Case Western Reserve University’s undergraduate research journal, is taking submissions until Jan. 19. Contact discussionsjournal@gmail.com with any questions. Submit research online. Download the flier (.jpg).
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Academic Job Search Series: STEM—“The Academic Interview”
The School of Graduate Studies’ Professional Development Center will host the second session of Academic Job Search Series: STEM, titled “The Academic Interview.” In this session, held Friday, Dec. 8, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in the Biomedical Research Building, Room 105, a panel of faculty members…
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AIDS Awareness Day
The LGBT Center, Case Western Reserve University AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and Planned Parenthood will table from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 8 in the Tinkham Veale University Center for AIDS Awareness Day. The groups will educate the community about AIDS and HIV, prevention, prevalence and more. In…
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WISER Gingerbread House Competition
Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable's annual Gingerbread House Competition celebrates the end of the semester and the beginning of the holidays. The competition will take place Thursday, Dec. 7, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at the Tinkham Veale…
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Join CWRU Symphonic Winds
Photo by Roger Mastroianni Play an instrument? Interested in a chance to perform in the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at the Temple–Tifereth Israel? Consider joining the Case Western Reserve University Symphonic Winds. Next semester, it will feature winners of the Concerto…
AACI Rejects Administration's Proposal to Cut Reimbursement to Cancer Hospitals
AACI recently released a message in opposition to CMS' proposal to cut hospital reimbursement, outlining how this decision will most negatively impact patients.  The Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) opposes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)' Medicare…
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Medicine's Theodore Parran comments on pain clinics that ignore opioid misuse indicators
When doctors ignore drug tests for opioid patterns Bloomberg: Theodore Parran, the Carter and Isabel Wong Professor of Medical Education, commented on recent widespread health care fraud, specifically where pain clinics screen urine and ignore opioid misuse indicators to profit off Medicare…
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Medicine's Wen-Quan Zou makes finding about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Abnormal proteins discovered in skin of patients with rare brain disease The New York Times: Wen-Quan Zou, associate professor for the School of Medicine, discussed his recent findings about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which suggests that skin samples could be used to detect the disorder, as…
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Law's Jonathan Adler weighs in on debate surrounding the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Cordray vs Trump: Making sense of this dispute cleveland.com: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, weighed in on the debate surrounding who should be the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the implications the outcome could have.