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June 21, 2013
The American Red Cross will host a summer blood drive on Friday, June 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Blood Mobile will be parked on the Case Quad near Nord Hall and the Sears Building. Walk-ins are welcome, but those with appointments made on the American Red Cross website will be accepted…
June 21, 2013
Lynn T. Singer, deputy provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, has appointed Shannon B. Lundeen as Case Western Reserve’s new director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Lundeen succeeds Dorothy Miller, who is retiring June 30. “Shannon is a very dynamic individual,” Singer said.…
June 21, 2013
President Barbara R. Snyder presented three staff members with the 2013 President’s Award for Distinguished Service at the Staff Service Awards brunch June 12. The annual award, created in memory of staff member Roseanne Shaerban, recognizes employees whose outstanding contributions to the campus…
June 20, 2013
Richard Gordon, professor of law, had two chapters, "Losing the War Against Dirty Money" and "Anti-Money Laundering Policies: Legal, Political, and Economic Issues," published in Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Finance: Past and Current Challenges. (Navin Beerarry, ed, 2013). George Dent…
June 20, 2013
Mark Singer, the Leonard W. Mayo Professor in Family and Child Welfare, presented at a U.S. Department of Justice seminar designed for experienced criminal assistant U.S. attorneys who handle violent crimes. Attendees learned the basic spectrum of social consequences that result from violence…
June 20, 2013
California bill poised to lift restrictions on egg donation Nature.com: Insoo Hyun, associate professor of bioethics, talked about coercion concerns in the process of human egg donation. He noted that the new bill mandates oversight by institutional review boards, which routinely consider whether…
June 20, 2013
Will Myriad ruling stifle innovation? Many still see plenty of incentives for genetics companies Med City News: Craig A. Nard, the Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law, discussed the Supreme Court’s ruling on Myriad Genetics and how it may spell bad news for the future innovation. “The…
June 20, 2013
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report When Case Western Reserve University officials conceived this week’s Day of Giving, the goal of 618 donors seemed a large leap of faith. Since the concept was entirely untested on this campus, no precedent existed to guide them. Would the…
June 20, 2013
A budding anthropologist, Frank Manzella first took an interest in Brazilian culture and the Portuguese language when he worked for an immunodermatologist in a clinic frequented by Brazilian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While reading for his master’s degree at the University of Oxford,…
June 19, 2013
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