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July 27, 2015
E!'s Caitlyn Jenner series using top transgender consultants
The Hollywood Reporter: Stephen Levine, clinical professor of psychiatry, weighed in on whether he thinks E!’s new series about Caitlyn Jenner, I Am Cait, will accurately depict the lives of transgender individuals. “The real story of…
July 27, 2015
Why cops are different
ideastream: Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, discussed some reasons why cases of police officers who use lethal force are handled differently than others. “I think part of some of the bad reactions over the last two years have come from a frustration where the system…
July 27, 2015
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations—and it comes from Case Western Reserve University. Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant…
July 27, 2015
Incoming first-year students are invited to apply for the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) to jumpstart their college experience. ELP is a 10-week program that aims to give students the confidence, knowledge, connections and skills necessary to thrive as leaders both inside and outside the…
July 24, 2015
The teacher: Cassi Pittman
Cleveland Scene: Cassi Pittman, assistant professor of sociology, was one of 30 people featured in Scene’s third annual “People Issue.” In her profile, she reflected on her background growing up in East Cleveland and its current status. Scene's writer said of Pittman:…
July 24, 2015
Food stamps use on the rise at farmers markets
ideastream: Darcy Freedman, director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, discussed the growth of food assistance dollars being spent at farmers' markets in the area. “So there's been a big push at the public health level as…
July 24, 2015
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently presented on ethical issues in the medical field. At the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics’ Health Law Professors Conference in St. Louis on June 6, Hoffman…
July 24, 2015
Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published and presented on the intersection of law and medicine. He contributed a chapter titled “Captain American and Iron Man:…
July 24, 2015
Brad Ricca, lecturer of English, participated in two panels at San Diego Comic-Con, discussing different aspects of comics. The first, titled "Scholar #1," was about the first academic scholarship on comics. The second, "The Twisted Roots of the Comics Industry," included Batman movie producer…
July 24, 2015
Marilyn S. Mobley, vice president of the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, and David Fleshler, associate provost for International Affairs, co-authored an article for the June 2015 edition of Insight Into Diversity. The article focuses on the importance of collaboration…