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What consequences will Trump face if he simply ignores the courts? Probably nothing, experts say cleveland.com (subscription required): Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law, warned that President Trump’s potential defiance of court rulings could undermine an orderly…

In Chicago, cognitive behavioral therapy shows promise curbing youth violence NPR: Daniel Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences,…

In its war with Ukraine, Russia has targeted the environment as its most insidious means of warfare. It has blown up dams, flooded coal mines, burned down national forests, and even targeted the black sea dolphins that inhabit the waters off Ukraine’s coast. With an effort to obtain a peace…

Richard Romaniuk, a lecturer at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, served as a task force member on the latest Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Military and Veteran Social Work. The guide was published by the CSWE Press and released on Veterans Day in…

Graphyne is a crystalline form of carbon that is distinct from both diamond and graphite. Unlike diamond, where each atom possesses four immediate neighbors, or graphite, where each atom has three, graphyne's structure combines two-coordinate and three-coordinate carbons. Computational models…

Monitoring cellular adhesion in blood samples is of fundamental importance, but conventional approaches may not capture the full physiological complexity of microscale flow in living contexts. Umut Gurkan, the Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering, led a team of researchers to study this…

Jonathan Tan, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor of Catholic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, was a guest on Vox’s “Today, Explained” podcast in September. Tan spoke with podcast host Noel King in an episode titled “The Pope's Big Bet on China,” which is available on…

The origin of neutrino masses is one of the most pressing issues in particle physics. After the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers learned how the charged fermions and massive gauge bosons acquire their masses through the Higgs mechanism. However, the origin of…

Daniel Lacks, vice provost for interdisciplinary and international initiatives and the C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering, co-authored an article published recently in Nature’s “News and Views” section. Titled “The secrets of static electricity are finally being revealed,” the…

The CWRU Vis Moot Court Team recently competed at the Harvard Law School Vis Pre-Moot Competition in preparation for the most recognized moot competition in the world, the Willem C. Vis Moot.  After competing against the University of Hamburg, Bucerius Law School, the University of Turku, Aarhus…