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May 21, 2015
Great Lake of power: Can Erie overcome uncertainty?
Power Technology: In an attempt to try to build an offshore wind energy industry in Northeast Ohio, LEEDCo developed its Icebreaker project. David Zeng, chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, will lead a university team to conduct lab tests…
May 21, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University researcher has won a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to create tiny sensors capable of detecting insecticides in Lake Erie or determining subtypes of human cancers. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Mt. Sinai…
May 21, 2015
International Student Services will offer walk-in hours weekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. throughout the summer. The office will be closed in observance of Memorial Day on Monday, May 25. Staff members are available to students in-person and by phone only during walk-in hours; otherwise an…
May 21, 2015
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will host "Act III: Taking Control of Your Life in Retirement" Thursday, June 4, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Suite 248. Sarah Parran, founder of Senior Care Connections, will facilitate the discussion. She will address questions…
May 21, 2015
Kelvin Smith Library began operating on a revised summer schedule on May 7. Normal hours will resume in the fall. The library will be closed for Memorial Day (Monday, May 25) and for Independence Day (Friday, July 3, and Saturday, July 4). The following schedule will apply throughout the…
May 21, 2015
Megan Holmes Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have begun studying 1,700 children from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) database to understand how mothers and siblings can protect abused children who have witnessed family violence. “I want to focus on…
May 20, 2015
Scaling education to the community: How libraries can leverage MOOCs
Class Central: Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation, wrote a piece on the benefits of having local meetups for massive open online courses. His article was cited in a piece for Class…
May 20, 2015
Why do parents kill their children? Hard questions, hard answers
The Times-Picayune: Phillip Resnick, professor of psychiatry, listed potential reasons why parents kill their children, citing depression, psychosis, hidden pregnancy, abuse and revenge as causes. Resnick has been studying the murder…
May 20, 2015
Another beginning for cystic fibrosis therapy
The New England Journal of Medicine: Pamela B. Davis, dean of the School of Medicine and senior vice president for medical affairs, penned an editorial about potential new therapeutic treatments for cystic fibrosis patients.
May 20, 2015
Researchers hope to improve dental health by changing caregiver behavior Studies have long associated low-income areas with poor oral health. But dental researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University of Washington sensed that other factors related to income may be at work—in…