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The Office of Graduate Education in the School of Medicine announced the annual Doctoral Excellence Award winners. Eleven PhD graduates were selected to receive this outstanding research and scholarship award. The Doctoral Excellence Awards were established to recognize PhD students throughout the…

Students: You can now breathe a collective sigh of relief. Final exams are over, and the semester is complete. We gauged your confidence on Monday—and most of you were feeling good about how finals had gone so far. Midway through exams, 14 percent thought finals were going great, while 43 percent…

Katia Almeida delights in how her students represent various majors and interests—medicine, business, engineering, the arts and more. Because, she believes, the study of anthropology is relevant and applicable, no matter the discipline. “It enables you to see the world from a different…

When first given the opportunity to teach at the university level eight years ago, Lisa Nielson stopped to consider what kind of instructor she wanted to be. She’d sat through countless hours of lectures on the path to a PhD. Her parents are university professors, so she had plenty of perspective…

Microsoft released an update for the Windows 8.1 operating system of which all members of the Case Western Reserve community should be aware. This update must be installed by August 2014 and is required to ensure Windows 8.1 systems receive future security updates from Microsoft. This update does…

Students are encouraged to attend the Spoken English Seminar—a five-week course for graduate and professional students to help develop spoken English skills. The seminar meets twice a week for a total of 10 class sessions. During sessions, students will practice pronunciation, intonation, rhythm,…

The Office of Research and Technology Management is accepting internal applications for The Hartwell Foundation’s Individual Biomedical Research Awards. The internal deadline for letters of intent is June 9, the internal application is due July 11, and the full application is due to the sponsor…

The 37th annual Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium will be held Friday, May 9, featuring poster presentations and distinguished oral talks by graduate students within the School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western…

There is a word Yoram Daon uses to quickly sum up his role as a mentor to his Case Western Reserve University students. He will tell you the word “mentor” doesn’t express the task nearly well enough. Instead, he strives to be a moreh (מוֹרֶה) for each of his students. Sometimes, he explained,…

Educational Services for Students (ESS) and the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will collaborate to deliver a summer University 400C Future Faculty Certificate Program, which is series of six sessions for graduate and professional students envisaging careers as…