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June 19, 2014
For the second year in a row, Case Western Reserve Tuesday set all-time records for both total donors and amount raised in a single 24-hour period. The university’s 2014 Day of Giving attracted 869 contributors, a figure 9 percent higher than last year. They gave $264,203—35 percent and $68,458…
June 19, 2014
James Zull remembers when a single chain separated Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. The chain was a futile effort to create an illusion of separation. People often stepped right over it to visit someone at the other university, showing that, from the outset, the two…
June 19, 2014
The Monday, June 16, connect image was taken at the Pink Pig. The cottage once served as a pig sty at Squire Valleevue Farm and was transformed into a meeting space by the Flora Stone Mather College. Today, many features of the pig sty are still in tact, including the pig featured in the image…
June 19, 2014
Doctoral students Devin Burke, from the music department, and Sarah Koopman-Gonzalez, from the anthropology department, received the Richard A. Zdanis Fellowships of $5,000 to complete their dissertations. Burke, who will graduate in December with a degree in historical musicology, will use his…
June 19, 2014
As one of the goals of the university-wide Diversity Strategic Action Plan (DSAP) in the Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, and in partnership with Human Resources and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Center, the university will launch the African American Campus…
June 19, 2014
Direct deposit is available for student refunds in the Bursar’s Office. This option eliminates the need for paper checks and allows refund payments to be conveniently deposited directly into students’ bank accounts. All students who expect to receive a refund from an overpayment of their tuition…
June 19, 2014
Jaesung Lee, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), won the Best Student Paper Competition at the 2014 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IEEE IFCS 2014), for presenting his paper, “Atomically-Thin MoS2 Resonators for Pressure Sensing.”…
June 19, 2014
Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, who is long known as an authority on historical tuning systems, has been spending his 2013-14 sabbatical in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Near the end of his time in the UK, he was honored by requests to coach two of the top choirs in the world,…
June 19, 2014
Biomedical engineering’s Anant Madabhushi and team awarded V Foundation Translational Research Grant
Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a grant from The V Foundation for Cancer Research for $41,727. Their submission was titled "Use of PET and MR Imaging Biomarkers to Predict Response of Renal Cell Carcinoma to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor…
June 19, 2014
Peter de Blank, assistant professor of pediatrics, was named one of two winners of the inaugural Francis S. Collins Scholars Program in Neurofibromatosis Clinical and Translational Research, sponsored by the Neurofibromatosis Therapeutic Acceleration Program at Johns Hopkins University. The…