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All employees participating in the Health Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) are provided with a Benny prepaid benefits debit card. The cards are pre-loaded with the annual contribution amounts elected for 2012 by participating employees. Health care FSA participants during 2010 or 2011 will not ...

Information Technology Services (ITS), in partnership with the Center for International Affairs, has launched a new site to assist faculty, staff and students who are preparing to travel internationally. The site includes helpful information and tips to prepare you for computing and communicating wh...

The Case Western Reserve University Phi Beta Kappa chapter meeting will be held Thursday, Jan. 19, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Mather House 100. All members of Phi Beta Kappa among the faculty, staff, graduate and professional students, and postdoctoral fellows, as well as those undergraduates elected in...

Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researchers found the human body is better at fighting gum disease when fat cells, which trigger inflammation, disappear. The findings come from a pilot study of 31 obese people with gum disease. Half of the group with an average body mass i...

Resolutions abound at this time of year, but not everyone’s making them: According to the completely unofficial Case Western Reserve University poll, those who didn’t make a resolution tied for first place with those who made health-related ones. The next-highest vote-getters were money-related goal...

America’s prettiest neighborhoods Forbes: Case Western Reserve University’s home, University Circle, is named one of America’s 10 prettiest neighborhoods. “With a symphony orchestra, an art museum, a natural history museum and planetarium, and a botanical garden, Cleveland’s University Circle offer...

Jury selection to begin in Ohio corruption case NPR: The public corruption case of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora began this week. Lewis Katz, John C. Hutchins Professor of law, said the amount of money involved isn’t what’s shocking about the case. “The depth of the corruption in...

Ohio, neighboring states, eagerly wait for decision on ethane “cracker” Ideastream: Ohio is competing to be the home of Shell Oil Co.’s petrochemical refinery, or “cracker.” Geology associate professor Beverly Saylor explains the chemical process called cracking and why it’s gaining prominence. “A ...

Michael Scharf, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, participated in the World Legal Forum's Expert Meeting, A Self-Regulatory Initiative to Facilitate International Standardization and Dispute Resolution for Multina...

Carrie Basas, visiting associate professor of law, attended the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Specialization in Austin, Texas, Dec. 3, and was recently appointed to the Standing Committee for a three-year term. Basas is also one of the drafters of the ABA’s current resolution on ...