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Apply for Office of Residence Life summer position
The Office of Residence Life is seeking applicants for its assistant coordinator for summer programs position, a 14-week position that works with the summer residential program. Applicants must have their bachelor's degrees by Monday, May 18, and be available to work from May 11 until August…
Graduate student Jen Rokoski discussed state of women in art industry
Breaking through the art world's glass ceiling ideastream: Jen Rokoski, a graduate student studying art history and assistant curator of the Cleveland Institute of Art’s “Women to Watch—Ohio” exhibition, discussed the state of women in the art industry. "None of the artists are really dealing…
Dermatology's Jeremy Bordeaux discussed a study showing decrease in melanoma in children
Fewer U.S. children getting melanoma: study U.S. News & World Report: Jeremy Bordeaux, associate professor of dermatology, discussed a study showing a decrease in melanoma in children. “Although it is encouraging to observe decreasing melanoma incidence overall, it is concerning that this…
Celebrate appointment of Modern Languages and Literatures’ Yasuhiro Shirai to endowed professorship
The campus community is invited to celebrate the appointment of Yasuhiro Shirai, professor and chair in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, as the Eirik Borve Professor of Modern Languages, on Tuesday, May 5, at 4 p.m. at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies…
Cambridge University scholar to present on Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius
Sachiko Kusukawa, a leading Vesalius scholar from Cambridge University, will present the Cleveland Medical Library Association Special Lecture on Thursday, April 16, at 6 p.m. in Ford Auditorium of Allen Memorial Medical Library. Kusukawa's lecture will focus on the 500th anniversary of Andreas…
CWRU researchers find possible trigger to skin fibrosis
Radhika Atit When her father was diagnosed with lung-scarring pulmonary fibrosis, Radhika Atit, an associate professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University, began digging into every detail about the disease. The cause of fibrosis, the aberrant hardening of organ tissues, is often unknown,…
Researchers uncover obstacles that prevent people with RHD in Uganda from receiving life-saving penicillin
Penicillin has nearly eradicated rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in the United States. But 15 million people still suffer from the disease worldwide, and 1.4 million die each year, according to the World Heart Federation. Access to penicillin can prevent deaths from RHD. Researchers from Case…
Apply to intern for 2015 Engineering Education Summer Outreach program
The Center for Civic Engagement and Learning will recruit six undergraduate students to serve in full-time, paid summer internships through the 2015 Engineering Education Summer Outreach program, with support from the Leonard Gelfand STEM Center. This nine-week summer program (June 1 to July 31)…
Health policy reformer to discuss American medical care at April 28 talk
The American Medical Student Association and Students for a National Health Program will welcome health policy reformer and patient advocate Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic, for a talk Tuesday, April 28, from noon to 1 p.m. in Biomedical Research Building,…
Learn more about skeletal muscle loss in liver disease at today’s seminar
The Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center Seminar Series will continue with a presentation from Srinivasan Dasarathy from the Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Pathobiology at Cleveland Clinic today (April 15) from noon to 1 p.m. in the Cleveland Clinic Education Wing,…