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February 26, 2016
Case Western Reserve University is home to the nation’s first free, open-access community computer system, which began in 1986. The late Thomas M. Grundner, a former School of Medicine faculty member, launched the system, named Cleveland Free-Net. The system grew from a project Grundner and his…
February 25, 2016
This week’s Faculty Friday event for students will feature a casual discussion on cartoons Feb. 26 from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Nord Hall, Room 356. Daniel Goldmark, professor of music, head of popular music and director of the Center for Popular Music Studies, will present "Animated Cartoons: The…
February 25, 2016
Educational Services for Students (ESS) will offer a free Culture and Communication Seminar for international graduate students this March. The six-week seminar will meet Fridays from 3 to 4 p.m. beginning March 18. Students will have the opportunity to discuss several interesting aspects of…
February 25, 2016
Kelvin Smith Library will run a variety of programs during midterms week, Feb. 29-March 4, to help alleviate stress and add some fun to student workloads. These resources will be available in addition to the Ask A Librarian service, which can be found at library.case.edu/ask.
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February 25, 2016
The next English Colloquium Series event will feature a roundtable discussion on living forms Friday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m. in the Guilford House parlor. The premise of the living forms workshop and roundtable is to show how several research areas in the humanities intersect by way of the question of…
February 25, 2016
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will hold the next Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture Thursday, March 3, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Damaris Punales-Alpizar, assistant professor of Spanish, will give a talk titled “From Translation and its Aftermath: The Soviet Legacy in…
February 25, 2016
By Pierre-Yves Beaudouin (Own work) [GFDL (gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsA painted medallion depicting turbaned slaves in chains at the feet of Louis XIV adorns a ceiling at the Palace of Versailles, likely noticed—or its…
February 24, 2016
Cleveland's biotech industry attracted $200 million in 2015, report says
The Plain Dealer: Michael Goldberg, assistant professor of design and innovation, talked about Cleveland’s standing in the biotech industry. "The question is, will there be capital to fund the next pipeline of companies," he…
February 24, 2016
Initiatives funded by America Makes lead to commercialization
The Business Journal: Jim McGuffin-Cawley, chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and John Lewandowski, the Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering II, discussed their projects funded through the America Makes…
February 24, 2016
What to do if you have the flu
CNN: Arthur Lavin, clinical associate professor of pediatrics, explained some signs that a child’s illness could be serious, including troubled breathing or the feeling that something just isn’t "right."