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Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis to launch another round of his MOOC
The 14 best free online courses starting in May Business Insider: Richard Boyatzis, Distinguished University Professor and the H.R. Horvitz Professor of Family Business, is once again teaching his massive open online course (MOOC) titled, “Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence.” The…
Nursing's Kathy Wright talks about her study showing benefits of housecleaning for older adults
House cleaning keeps the elderly healthy Yahoo: A recent study led by Kathy Wright, a postdoctoral KL2 Scholar in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, revealed that older adults who completed housework and maintained their property felt better emotionally and physically. "House cleaning kept…
Summer housing information now available
Students planning to stay in Cleveland over the summer are invited to live in CWRU summer student housing. Accommodations will be available for all students in Taft and Taplin Houses in the North Residential Village, and for upper-class students in Houses 6 & 7 in The Village at 115. More…
Attend 38th annual Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium on May 8
The Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium—an annual student-organized symposium showcasing the outstanding research of graduate students from the School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine—will take place Friday, May 8, from 8 a.m. to…
Nominations for Hartwell Foundation postdoctoral fellowship due May 15
Case Western Reserve University will receive a Hartwell Fellowship to fund one postdoctoral candidate of its choice who exemplifies the values of the foundation. Each Hartwell Fellowship will provide support for two years at $50,000 direct cost. Each fellowship must be used to fund one…
Learn more about living in Greater University Circle at May 13 home tour
Case Western Reserve University faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to the University Circle Inc./Greater Circle Living home tour for Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals employees on Wednesday, May 13, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., 4 to 6 p.m. or 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., with pick-up…
Karen Potter's support for students earns her Diekhoff mentoring award
Karen Potter, chair of the Department of Dance in the College of Arts and Sciences, read the message five times before she realized it was a fact: She won a John S. Diekhoff Award for Mentoring. “It’s an honor to be nominated, but I never expected to win,” said the dancer, choreographer and…
School of Medicine’s Goutham Narla earns John S. Diekhoff Award for Mentoring
Goutham Narla, an assistant professor of medicine and the Pardee-Gerstacker Professor in Cancer Research, attributes much of his early success and interest in medicine to his undergraduate mentors at Santa Clara University, Professors Eddy Rubin and Kelly Frazer. An economics major, Narla had…
Social Justice Institute's Rhonda Y. Williams discusses how protesters confront marginalization
1968 and the invention of the American police state City Lab: Rhonda Y. Williams, founder and director of the Social Justice Institute and associate professor of history, discussed how protesters in Baltimore now and in the city's 1968 Holy Week Uprising have confronted marginalization.…
Psychological Sciences' Lisa Damour writes about benefits of gap year before college
Getting in to college doesn’t mean students are ready to go The New York Times: Lisa Damour, clinical instructor of psychological sciences, wrote about how some teenagers aren’t always ready for college directly out of high school, and how sending them before they’re ready can often have poor…