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May 13, 2015
Small, local businesses jump on the sustainability bandwagon
Crain’s Cleveland Business: For small businesses, sustainability is becoming a key component of success. Roger Saillant, executive director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, talked about the importance of…
May 13, 2015
Spacecraft crashes into Mercury at insane speed
National Geographic: NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft crashed into Mercury in April. But before that, MESSENGER made a number of discoveries, including hollows on the planet’s surface near craters. “The hollows are one of the most viscerally interesting…
May 13, 2015
Bawdy Bard: Shakespeare play's lost lines reveal sexual mocking
Live Science: Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, explained a commonly misunderstood line of Shakespeare’s Love's Labour's Lost. "Moth's solitary word [‘Concolinel’] has generally been taken as representing a song,…
May 13, 2015
View the work of art education master’s students at the opening reception of their thesis show. The reception, which is free and open to the public, will be held Friday, May 15, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Art Studio (2215 Adelbert Road). Works from Jeremy Tugeau, Brandi McCormick, Katelyn…
May 13, 2015
The Leonard Gelfand STEM Center is teaming with TECH CORPS to offer TECHie Camps on campus again this summer. TECHie Camps are full-day, weeklong programs designed to engage elementary and middle school students in hands-on, interactive STEM-related activities. Students will take a deep dive into…
May 13, 2015
Graduate students, faculty and staff are invited to enroll in “Writing Workshop for Researchers” (ENGL 186), a two-credit-hour individualized writing workshop/tutorial. The seminar meets on Tuesday from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. and individual tutorials will be held for participants for 50 minutes per…
May 13, 2015
“Great mentors don’t just belong to people who do great things,” wrote a Case Western Reserve University alum and former student of Gillian Weiss. “They are also there for the people who stumble across the finish line.” With that resounding endorsement, her former student nominated the associate…
May 13, 2015
In the corner of his office, Paul Barnhart keeps a 33-year-old photo of himself when he was a Case Western Reserve University undergrad to remind him to think what it was like to be a student—and to show students he was once like them. “As a college senior, I was a different person in many ways,”…
May 12, 2015
A biology instructor who believes books and lectures aren’t enough has won a 2015 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Rebecca Benard, who came to Case Western Reserve University in 2009, distinguished herself by helping students develop skills and hold themselves to…
May 12, 2015
Newman Catholic Campus Ministry invites all degree recipients who are Catholic and their families to attend the annual Baccalaureate Mass on Saturday, May 16, at 7 p.m. at Holy Rosary Church. Each graduate will receive a small gift from the Diocese of Cleveland. To attend, RSVP to Sharon…