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May 05, 2015
Educational Services for Students and Spoken English Language Programs will offer a Spoken English Seminar for international graduate and professional students in May and June. Research scholars and fellows are also welcome to register for this seminar. The deadline to register is Friday, May 8.…
May 05, 2015
Practicing meditation regularly can help reduce stress, improve focus and concentration, and improve general wellness—leading to greater workplace productivity. To introduce participants to the art and to practice basic meditations, the Case Western Reserve University Wellness Program will offer a…
May 05, 2015
The Organizational Development & Learning Unit of the Department of Human Resources will continue its brown bag series on implicit bias Tuesday, May 12, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Crawford Hall, Room 209. Janetta Hammock, diversity program manager, and Elizabeth Roccoforte, director of the LGBT…
May 05, 2015
The Graduate Student Senate Health & Wellness Committee will hold a summer self-defense program for all graduate students, post-doctorates and staff. The program’s purpose is to teach participants how protect themselves using jiu-jitsu and to boost their self-confidence. Those interested in…
May 05, 2015
Gillian Marshall Can neighborhood factors influence whether older residents have access to cancer screening information and testing? Gillian Marshall, assistant professor of social work at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, plans to…
May 05, 2015
Kathy D. Wright Older adults who keep a clean and orderly home—because of the exercise it takes to get the job done—tend to feel emotionally and physically better after tackling house chores, according to new findings by a Case Western Reserve University nursing school researcher. “House cleaning…
May 04, 2015
Law's Sharona Hoffman talks about the legality of using fake doctors' notes to call off work, school
‘Very disturbing': Websites selling doctored notes, fake hospital wristbands
FOX 8: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Jurisprudence and
co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, talked about the legality of using fake doctors’ notes to call off work or school and whether it might be…
May 04, 2015
The brain tumor is benign, but threats remain
The New York Times: Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, associate director for bioinformatics at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, discussed what some believe are potential causes of benign tumors, which can become dangerous if undetected. “There’s been a lot of…
May 04, 2015
Case Western Reserve University’s Ebersbach Academic Center for Flight Nursing will bring air medical transport responders from around the world to campus for the inaugural Ebersbach Flight Nursing Summit. The daylong event is Tuesday, May 5, in the first floor lounge in the nursing…
May 04, 2015
Xiaoyang Zhao, a mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student specializing in fire safety, died unexpectedly Wednesday evening. He was 26. An international student from China, Zhao enrolled at Case Western Reserve in 2011. He had earned his undergraduate degree that same year from the…