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Faculty: Use free, online CourseSmart to help decide on spring textbooks
Faculty members thinking about what textbooks to use in spring classes should consider using CourseSmart, which enables you to review and use textbooks without possessing a hard copy. CourseSmart is the world’s largest provider of textbooks in eTextbook format, and all Case Western Reserve Universi...
ITS, Dell provide CWRU police with six laptops for use in police cruisers
Information Technology Services (ITS) and technology partner Dell Inc. recently worked together to provide the Case Western Reserve University Police Department with six new laptops for use in police cruisers. ITS purchased three of the laptops, and Dell donated three. The laptops have “made our o...
Mother Nature’s oral antibiotics research gets $2.25 million help from NIH
Research from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine to study an isolated agent from common oral bacteria may hold the answer as to how human beta defensins (HBDs)—nature’s way of keeping oral microbes from entering the body and wreaking havoc on our health—can be used to create n...
Walking tour shows campus through the accomplishments of Michelson and Morley
You may have trekked all over campus going to and from classes and heading in and out of meetings, but Alan Rocke, Bourne Professor of History and acting chair in the Department of History, has a new route that will show you campus in a way you’ve never seen it before—and you’ll probably even learn ...
Crime down on and around campus, but community must stay vigilant
Crime is down markedly on and around campus this fall compared to last, especially serious crimes against people, according to recent statistics. The university tracks crime on campus as well as select off-campus areas in six-month increments—Jan. 1-June 30 (spring) and July 1-Dec. 31 (fall). Thoug...
Case Footlighters present Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” Nov. 3-5
The Case Footlighters will perform Stephen Sondheim’s Company in Carlton Commons Nov. 3 (8:30 p.m.), 4 (8 p.m.) and 5 (8 p.m. and 11:59 p.m.) Company is the story of a bachelor named Bobby, who on the eve of his 35th birthday is evaluating the significance of marriage through the lives of his marri...
Safe Zone holding two open session workshops for new members
The Safe Zone Program will hold two open session workshops for those interested in becoming members: Nov. 7, 9 a.m.-noon or 1-4 p.m. Participants only need to attend one session to become a Safe Zone Member. Both sessions will be held in Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences 320 B/C. RSVPs are r...
Library to host two-day discussion on “Building a Culture for Digital Scholarship”
Join presenters from the National Science Foundation, Columbia, Harvard, Texas A&M and Case Western Reserve universities, and more at Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center Colloquium on Building a Culture for Digital Scholarship. Presenters at the event—held the afternoon of Nov. 7 and morning of N...
Law’s Michael Scharf keynotes law school conference, speaks on terrorism
Michael Scharf, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, delivered a speech at the Cleveland City Club titled, “Is Terrorism Worth Defining?” on Oct. 26. Then on Oct. 28, he gave the keynote address at the Central States La...
School of Law dean Lawrence Mitchell lectures on “The End of Capitalism”
Lawrence Mitchell, dean of the School of Law and Joseph C. Hostetler - Baker Hostetler Professor of Law, gave a lecture at the University of Montreal titled, “Financialism: The End of Capitalism.” His lecture was the introduction to a conference on “Risk, The Financial Crisis, and Corporate Governan...