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February 03, 2015
The Organizational Development & Learning Unit of the Department of Human Resources will continue its brown bag series on implicit bias Tuesday, Feb. 10, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Crawford Hall, Room 209. The series on implicit bias comprises 15 individual sessions, based on the Implicit…
February 03, 2015
Craig Nard, director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and Art at the School of Law, will address "Opportunities in Intellectual Property Law” Friday, Feb. 6, from 12:30 to 1:45 in Sears 356. He will discuss how IP law meshes with engineering. The session is an initiative of the…
February 03, 2015
Kelvin Smith Library will host presentations by the 2014 Freedman Fellows: Melvyn Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet, and Justin Gallagher, assistant professor of economics. The fellows will discuss their research and…
February 03, 2015
Case Western Reserve University policy requires that all faculty and other researchers who contribute to scientific development disclose their outside interests at least annually to ensure its faculty an open and productive environment in which to conduct teaching and research. The institution's…
February 02, 2015
Teen hears with her brain, not ears
wkyc.com: Maggie Gleason, who was born deaf, heard sound for the first time when hearing specialists at University Hospitals Case Medical Center turned on an innovative electronic device called an auditory brainstem implant. “For someone who has never heard, the…
February 02, 2015
Online banking's upswing leads FirstMerit to close branches in four states
wksu.org: William Mahnic, associate professor of banking and finance, discussed the reason for the closing of bank branches. “As we as consumers become more willing to do our financial transactions online, and as banks…
February 02, 2015
Case Western Reserve’s chemical compound aimed at restoring spinal cord function may have an additional purpose: stopping potentially fatal arrhythmias after heart attack. Case Western Reserve neurosciences professor Jerry Silver, PhD, long has believed that lessons learned over decades from…
February 02, 2015
The Case Western Reserve University Hacker Society will host its spring hackathon—hackCWRU—this weekend, Feb. 6-8. Students from Case Western Reserve and other schools from all over the country will work in teams of one to four to work on any project they can imagine for 36 hours. After the…
February 02, 2015
Recruitment for Phi Delta Epsilon—the International Medical Fraternity—will take place from Tuesday, Feb. 3 to Sunday, Feb. 15. Pre-medical students are invited to attend a Meet & Greet Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 6 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall 301 for an opportunity to learn more about the chapter and to…
February 02, 2015
Oregon scientists use same peptide supplied by Case Western Reserve scientist that reconnected nerves in spinal cord-injured animals Jerry Silver Case Western Reserve’s chemical compound aimed at restoring spinal cord function may have an additional purpose: stopping potentially fatal…