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Local VA researcher honored for prosthetic work with 'Star Wars' touch The Plain Dealer: Paul Marasco, a principal investigator at the Advanced Platform Technology Center of Excellence at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, discussed his work in restoring a sense of feeling…

Kasich suspends presidential campaign ideastream: Following Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s decision to drop out of the race, Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, discussed the challenges Republican candidate Donald Trump will face in winning…

The Human Capital Management (HCM) system was upgraded successfully to version 9.2 and is available at case.edu/hcm. The upgrade enables Case Western Reserve University to continue receiving vendor support, and makes it possible for the system to receive future updates as required by tax laws. In…

The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity will host four upcoming open Diversity 360 sessions for faculty and staff. Diversity 360 is a campuswide, comprehensive diversity education program, created to to enhance the campus climate and increase interactions among individuals of…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Center will host Robert Watson, a professor, author, media commentator and community activist, for two lectures May 22-23 at the Siegal facility in Beachwood (26500 Shaker Blvd.). Drawing from more than 40 published books and hundreds of scholarly articles, book…

The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University has selected Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International and pioneer of the global fight against corruption, for the 2016 Inamori Ethics Prize. Case Western Reserve has awarded the Inamori Ethics…

Case Western Reserve University receives more than $2.5 million in federal grants Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription only): Five Case Western Reserve University faculty members received National Science Foundation CAREER grants to support work already underway in their labs. The grants…

The missing piece that could hold back equity crowdfunding Wall Street Journal: Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, commented on a proposed plan that would help bring a secondary market to equity crowdfunding by making analysts available through the…

Advance in human embryo research rekindles ethical debate NPR: After scientists discovered a way to keep human embryos alive in the laboratory about a week longer than ever before, Insoo Hyun, associate professor of bioethics and philosophy, weighed in on the "14-day rule," which says human…

In an effort to move to the next stage of genomic research big data, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has established a new genomic data commons: https://gds.nih.gov/.  All investigators can access this site to query genomics data across large populations. This will take you beyond The Cancer…