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Matt, Savannah go chasing waterfalls...on a swing NBC: On an episode of the Today show, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie tried out a waterfall swing art installation that think[box] operations manager Ian Charnas helped create. Charnas attended the taping of the show—even sporting his CWRU gear.

Launching a better mousetrap ideastream: Bob Sopko, director of CWRU’s Blackstone LaunchPad, and student entrepreneurs Nicholas Barron and Jean Zhao joined a panel on The Sound of Ideas to discuss the launch of Blackstone LaunchPad, a joint project to help turn student ideas into business…

Chinese deluge U.S. master's programs The Wall Street Journal: Recently, specialized master's degrees in accounting, finance and other disciplines have seen a dramatic increase in interest from Chinese students. More than 85 percent of applicants to Weatherhead School of Management’s finance…

American Greetings' Weiss family aims to take the company private again, via an $878 million offer for outstanding shares The Plain Dealer: American Greetings Corp.’s board of directors agreed to a transaction that would take the publicly held company private. Going private could give the company…

RNA: The genome's rising stars Nature: Saba Valadkhan, assistant professor of biochemistry, is part of the budding field of researchers studying long non-coding RNA. “We are part of a very fast-moving field,” she said. “You start projects and you have no idea what to expect. It's that kind of…

Money and banks in the American political system Wilson Center: On an episode of Dialogue, Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs, discussed her newest book, Money and Banks in the American Political System.

When Jim Edmonson accepted the position as curator of the Dittrick Museum of Medical History, he thought his stint would be short-lived—two years, tops. That was 1981. Today, Edmonson still reigns over the museum, which he’s helped grow from a doctors’ museum to a more universal health and…

Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering and director of the newly created Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, recently published an article titled "Spectral Embedding Based Active Contour (SEAC) for Lesion Segmentation on Breast Dynamic Contract…

Juliet Kostritsky, the Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Professor of Contract Law, recently had a book chapter published. The chapter, titled “Contract interpretation: judicial rule, not party choice,” appears in Commercial Contract Law.

Natalie Reiss, psychologist/psychometrician in University Counseling Services, and colleagues published “The assessment and management of the violent patient in critical hospital settings.” The article appears in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry. Written in collaboration with Carl L.…