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The Writing Resource Center will kick off its spring series of workshops Feb. 14 with a look at "Thesis Statements and Claims: Process and Purpose." While geared primarily toward SAGES University Seminar writers, all interested students staff, and faculty from across the university are welcome to…

Experiment adds sense of touch to artificial hand The Associated Press: A new European study has made strides in giving the sensation of touch to prosthetic limbs. Dustin Tyler, an associate professor of biomedical engineering who has conducted similar experiments, weighed in on the new research.…

Engineering Week draws Microsoft exec back to CWRU The Plain Dealer: Alumnus Bob Herbold, former chief operating officer of Microsoft, will give the keynote address at the Engineers Week banquet Feb. 20. Herbold will discuss blending engineering and entrepreneurship skills.

Student Community@Covenant will host its monthly student brunch this Sunday, Feb. 9, from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Church of the Covenant, located next to Thwing Center (enter the door under the tower, facing Euclid Avenue). All students are invited to attend the free, home-cooked brunch. For…

The next Science Café Cleveland event will feature a talk titled "Moving as with one mind: Mathematical models for collective animal behavior" by Alethea Barbaro, assistant professor of mathematics. If you have ever watched a flock of birds in the night sky or a school of fish in the ocean, you…

Last month, the Ohio College Personnel Association chose Luke Ahrens, second-year coordinator for residence life, as the recipient of the 2014 Mark G. Noffsinger New Professional Award. The award is presented annually at the association's conference to an individual with three years or less of…

A record number of essays were received for the 2014 MLK Essay Contest, which invited students, faculty and staff to write essays reflecting on the application of Martin Luther King Jr.'s values and vision to contemporary social, political and economic issues. This year, 122 entries were…

All faculty, staff and alumni are invited to attend the LGBT Winter Gathering, a happy hour with free appetizers and cash bar, on Thursday, Feb. 13, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the CWRU Alumni House. This networking and social event is sponsored by CWRU Pride and the LGBTA Committee at CWRU. Employees and…

Kalle Lyytinen, associate dean for research at the Weatherhead School of Management and an expert widely known for his work to digitally transform organizations, has earned the prestigious 2013 LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems, the top honor from the Association…

The Autism Research Seminar Series will continue next week with a talk by Nenad Sestan, professor of neurobiology at Yale University, titled “Neocortical Projection Systems in Autism and Intellectual Disability.” David Katz, professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve, will host the event…