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Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's figures used to show foreclosure rates in Slavic Village
As the foreclosure crisis ebbs, Cleveland picks up the piecesBillMoyers.com: Figures from Case Western Reserve University’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development were used to demonstrate the foreclosure rate in Slavic Villiage since 2006. The center found that about 30 percent of…
Law's Aaron Perzanowski talks about intellectual property of tattoo artists
Athletes' tattoo artists file copyright suits, leaving indelible markThe Wall Street Journal: Aaron Perzanowski, associate professor of law, talked about original artwork and how that works with custom tattoos in terms of intellectual property.
Periodontics professor’s research paper on mobile bacteria tops reading for dentists
The idea that bacteria in your mouth could prove problematic for the rest of your body proved nearly irresistible for readers of the Journal of Dental Research. The concept, from Yiping Han, professor of periodontics, earned the American Association of Dental Research’s distinction as a research…
CWRU engineer to grow replacement tissue for torn rotator cuffs
Coaxing adult stem cells to grow tendons A Case Western Reserve University engineer won a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to grow replacement rotator cuffs and other large tendon groups to help heal injured soldiers and athletes, accident victims and an aging population that…
Online information sessions for incoming students continue this week
Departments within the College of Arts and Sciences will conduct online information sessions for incoming students this week. Students who miss live sessions can access session archives via the “First-Year Registration” item on the New Student Checklist. The following sessions will be held this…
UCITE to host session on close reading
Given the rapid growth in knowledge, it is inevitable that the amount of information that we expect students to learn in courses has also grown, unless instructors are very vigilant in limiting it. This tends to place a premium on quick reading of texts in order to get at the most salient…
Improve public speaking skills with Toastmasters Club
Toastmasters is a one of the few global leaders in public speaking, communication and leadership development. Currently, the organization consists of 280,000 members, with 13,500 branches in 116 countries. The CWRU Toastmasters chapter has meetings every other week on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. in the…
Long Non-coding RNAs Can Encode Proteins After All
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine scientists have made an extraordinary double discovery. First, they have identified thousands of novel long non-coding ribonucleic acid (lncRNA) transcripts. Second, they have learned that some of them defy conventional wisdom regarding lncRNA transcripts,…
Researcher Margaret Baughman-Sladky talks about successful Cuyahoga County Drug Court Program
The Cuyahoga County Drug Court is saving lives and families: Phillip MorrisThe Plain Dealer: Margaret Baughman-Sladky, a senior research associate, talks about Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge David T. Matia’s successful Cuyahoga County Drug Court Program. In the ongoing study, Case Western…
Case Western Reserve University's thinkbox program announced at White House
Case Western Reserve University to break ground on first phase of 'innovation hub'Crain’s Cleveland Business: Case Western Reserve University will break ground this fall on the $30 million thinkbox program. President Barack Obama highlighted the program on National Maker Day at the White House.