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May 10, 2013
Last year, a group of Case Western Reserve University students made headlines with Hole Patch, their innovative approach to fixing potholes using a bag filled with a secret recipe of non-Newtonian fluid. As a co-founder of the award-winning startup, junior Mayank Saksena played a major role in the…
May 10, 2013
Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III announced today that he has appointed Louis W. Stark as Case Western Reserve’s new vice president for student affairs. Stark, a veteran of more than three decades’ service to young people in higher education, will start his position July 1, pending approval from the…
May 09, 2013
At the Intersections: SOURCE Symposium and Poster Session April 19, 17 students were honored for their oral and poster presentations. Those awarded were: Humanities Oral Presentations 1st: Anthony Castellaneta, “Philosophy of Mathematics in Ancient Indian Philosophies.” Faculty mentor: Deepak…
May 09, 2013
Winners of the Frances Payne Bolton Nurses Week photo contest were announced last week. The top six photos were awarded $50 gift cards for Amazon.com and made into web banners for the school's home page for Nurses Week, May 6–12. All entries also were entered into a drawing for a $25 Amazon.com…
May 09, 2013
Asha Singanamalli, a biomedical engineering student, received runner up for best student paper at SPIE Medical Imaging 2013. SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics. She beat out 40 other student papers and 7 other finalists with her paper, titled "Identifying in Vivo Dce MRI…
May 09, 2013
Moving soon? Consider donating your usable furniture and household items to international students who will arrive at Case Western Reserve University in August. These students arrive with limited housewares and sometimes have limited knowledge of where to get necessary items. Campus Bible…
May 09, 2013
The Laura & Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University’s Summer in the Country will offer instruction on gardening and beekeeping. The classes, at Case Western Reserve’s Squire Valleevue Farm, 37521 Fairmount Blvd., in Hunting Valley, are Saturdays, from 1 to 3…
May 09, 2013
University Circle Inc. will hold the first EucFest block party Friday, May 10, from 5-9 p.m. on Euclid Avenue, in Toby’s Plaza and Uptown Alley. The entertainment schedule is as follows: 5-7 p.m. - Parade the Circle Stilt Walkers
5-6:30 p.m. - Indian/Latin/Bollywood dance performances (Uptown…
May 08, 2013
Corporations find a friend in the Supreme Court The New York Times: The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has been generalized as pro-business. Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, is wary of such generalizations of the Roberts court, saying it was “not…
May 08, 2013
Physicists, mathematicians turn to blackboards to answer universal questions The Columbus Dispatch: Steven Izen, professor of mathematics, and Harsh Mathur, associate professor of physics, provide insight into the importance of the blackboard and pen and paper in mapping out mathematical problems.…