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July 24, 2015
Many were able to recognize this week’s Connect photo as the outside of Kent Hale Smith Building. The Kent Hale Smith Building, built in 1993, houses the Macromolecular Science and Engineering program and The Center for Layered Polymeric Systems. The Adelbert Road building is named in honor of…
July 24, 2015
International students who have not yet arrived in the area or have not obtained a local bank account should check out peerTransfer, Case Western Reserve University’s partner for online transfer of international funds, to pay their tuition bills. Learn how to use the peerTransfer system online at…
July 24, 2015
In an effort to positively influence the privacy culture of Case Western Reserve University, the University Compliance Office will form the Privacy Ambassadors Network (PAN). Made up of staff and faculty from around campus, PAN will meet periodically for privacy-related training and dialogue.…
July 24, 2015
Join the Case Western Reserve University LGBT Center at the rescheduled Cleveland Pride Parade Saturday, Aug. 8, at noon. All staff, faculty, students, alumni, friends and family are invited to join the march. Those who would like to attend can register online. The parade will be held in Downtown…
July 24, 2015
Case Western Reserve University faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the 3rd annual Ken Klika Veterans, Military, Friends and Family Appreciation Day Reception on Wednesday, Aug. 19, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Nord Hall atrium. During the event, attendees can connect with veterans,…
July 24, 2015
Last month, Lynn Ulatowski joined students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country on Capitol Hill as part of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Hill Day. There, they explained the impact of their work to legislators—and urged them to vote in favor of…
July 23, 2015
Marilyn S. Mobley, vice president for inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity and professor of English, recently served as moderator of a panel discussion during the conference “Black Portraiture(s) III: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories,” held in Florence, Italy, May 28-31. The…
July 23, 2015
A plan for young adults aging out of foster care
ideastream: Robert L. Fischer, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty, discussed a CWRU study that showed children who were in the foster care are more likely to become homeless during their lifetime.
July 23, 2015
Prenatal cocaine exposure linked to starting sex early
Yahoo News: In a recent study, Meeyoung Min, research assistant professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, found that teenagers whose mothers used cocaine while pregnant were more likely to have engaged…
July 23, 2015
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations — and it comes from Case Western Reserve. 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 results. Cancer…