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May 05, 2016
Graduate Student Council will host a trip for graduate students to Cedar Point Saturday, May 7. A limited number of tickets are available for $25—discounted from the $65 gate price. Free bus transportation also will be available for those who need it. When purchasing tickets, students must…
May 05, 2016
The Teaching and Learning Technologies team of the Division of Information Technology Services (ITS) continues to lead an exploration of Blackboard and other learning management systems for Case Western Reserve University. The team invites faculty members to attend hands-on demonstrations of two…
May 05, 2016
The 2015–2016 Ethics Table Fellows will lead a series of public discussions for a program called “Practicing Community at CWRU: A Workshop” Thursday, May 12, beginning at 1 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. The event, which will continue into early evening, will feature presentations and reflection…
May 05, 2016
John Ruhl, the Connecticut Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has won a 2016 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring—despite that he says he doesn’t consciously mentor. “We train graduate students using an apprenticeship model—we work side by side for a long time,”…
May 05, 2016
A doctoral student struggling with personal issues and stress from the workload had neglected his research and missed self-imposed deadlines for six weeks last summer when he got a text from his advisor, asking to meet. The PhD student arrived at Ronald Hickman Jr.’s office begrudgingly, expecting…
May 04, 2016
Ohio dentist and educator has a lengthy “Gratitude List”
Dentist’s Money Digest: Mario Pavicic (DEN ’92), adjunct assistant professor in the School of Dental Medicine, talked about his background in dentistry and how he teaches students in the classroom. “I teach the third-year dental students…
May 04, 2016
Mixed pay bag for local CEOs
Toledo Blade: Simon Peck, associate professor of design and innovation, discussed the trend toward CEOs receiving stock-based compensation awards. “By loading up executives with a lot of stock, you’re in theory asking them to behave like they’re the owners of the…
May 04, 2016
Bioethicists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and The Hastings Center, working with a research administrator at The Rockefeller University, are proposing a reexamination of an internationally recognized rule limiting in vitro research on human embryos to 14 days…
May 04, 2016
Five Case Western Reserve University junior faculty members have been awarded National Science Foundation CAREER grants, bringing more than $2.5 million for research to campus. The five-year grants support the scientists as they delve into how nanopartical organization controls properties of…
May 04, 2016
Research may offer clue into biologic role of these genes in tumor progression Little is known about the molecular basis of aberrant protein glycosylation, a complex enzymatic process that is a hallmark of many human cancers—including colorectal cancers (CRC). Yet in a recent study published in…