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Track your commute this month for chance to win prizes
Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), the regional air quality and transportation planning agency, recently unveiled a new commuting tool: Gohio Commute. Users can calculate their transportation carbon footprint, discover potential savings, find carpool and bikepool buddies, link to…
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History's John Broich writes on the rise—and fall—of Germany's gay rights movement of the 1930s
How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement The Conversation: John Broich, associate professor of history, wrote about how Germany and much of Europe came close to “liberating [their] LGBTQ people before violently reversing that trend under new authoritarian regimes” in the 1930s.…
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Law Professor Andrew Pollis on companies' aggressive approach to retaining customers
When it’s time to take your business elsewhere, here’s the right way to exit The Huffington Post: Law Professor Andrew Pollis discussed the reasoning behind the aggressive approaches companies often take to keep customers. “That interaction provides an opportunity to rescue business from an…
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Medicine's Alexander Rodriguez-Palacios talks to Reader's Digest about high-fat diet findings
The science is in: One simple diet change can help calm Crohn’s disease Reader’s Digest: A new School of Medicine study found that a diet rich in healthy fats and oils may lead to specific changes in gut bacteria that could fight harmful inflammation. The results, according to assistant professor…
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Professor Kathryn Lavelle named associate editor of The International Studies Encyclopedia
Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs in the Department of Political Science, recently was named an associate editor of The International Studies Encyclopedia, a project of the International Studies Association (ISA). Now in conjunction with Oxford University Press,…
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Leadership positions open for QGrad, the LGBTQA+ graduate/professional student organization
QGrad, the LGBTQA+ Graduate and Professional Student Association, is looking for a secretary as well as chairs of the education, professional development and public relations committees to join its 2017-18 Board. Graduate and professional students interested in a position can learn more and fill…
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Sociology’s Brian Gran elected to lead American Sociological Association’s human rights section
Brian K. Gran, associate professor of sociology, was chosen as chair elect of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Human Rights. The section “seeks to promote and support critical, interdisciplinary, and international engagement with human rights scholarship, teaching and practice,…
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5 questions with…retiring University Health Service Director Nell Davidson
Eleanor “Nell” Davidson came to Cleveland in 1983 as a nephrology fellow at University Hospitals, where she expected to spend the next three years honing her specialty in treating kidney disease. But after working a few hours a week in Case Western Reserve’s University Health Service, she soon…
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Mather Quad sundial has long history on campus
The original clue from Monday's issue of The Daily. Nearly all respondents correctly identified the zodiac sign featured in Monday’s issue of The Daily as part of the sundial on Mather Quad. The sundial, just off the walkway that connects Clark Hall, Haydn Hall and Guilford House (pictured in…
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Weatherhead School’s Michael Goldberg invited to judge MIT innovation challenge
Michael Goldberg, assistant professor of design and innovation at Weatherhead School of Management, was asked to be a judge for MIT’s Inclusive Innovation Challenge, which awards more than $1 million to organizations around the world that are “using technology to solve a grand challenge of our…