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July 19, 2012
Genetic aberrations seen as path to stop colon cancer The New York Times: Sanford Markowitz, the Dr. Sanford Markowitz/Frances Wragg Ingalls Professor of Cancer Genetics, is an author on a new study that found genetic vulnerabilities that could lead to new treatments for colon cancer. Though…
July 19, 2012
'Batman' ready for box office battle The Detroit News: The third and final film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, opens Friday and is expected to pull in big money at the box office. The movie does well because it represents “the perfect teenage male fantasy,” said…
July 19, 2012
Weatherhead School of Management’s Chris Laszlo recently presented the keynote address at the Seminarium Congreso in Chile, a conference with more than 200 business executives and thought leaders. The associate professor of organizational behavior presented at the July 4 event alongside Peter…
July 19, 2012
School of Law Professor Robert Strassfeld’s article, titled “Special Topic Introduction: Minerva at the Departure Gate,” has been accepted for publication. The article will appear in the forthcoming issue of Health Matrix. In addition, Strassfeld presented earlier this year at the City Club on…
July 19, 2012
Yuri Linetsky, a senior instructor in law, recently presented on “Business Entities and the Lawsuit.” His presentation, given July 13 to judges, acting judges and magistrates, was part of a program on business entities in municipal and county courts for the Supreme Court of Ohio Judicial College.
July 19, 2012
Case Western Reserve physicists are part of a science project with the potential to be at least as huge as this month’s Higgs boson discovery—if not even greater. First described more than four decades ago, the Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that gives other particles mass. But that’s not…
July 18, 2012
The Digital Content Management Selection Committee invites the campus community to attend presentations of four web content management vendor finalists. Demonstrations of their products will take place in Adelbert Hall’s Toepfer Room from 1 to 4 p.m. on the following dates: Tuesday, July 24:…
July 18, 2012
A grant from Case Western Reserve’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) has catalyzed the second major improvement in the university’s Safe Ride program in the past three months. The university’s police department recently launched RideCell, an online dispatch and tracking service that allows…
July 18, 2012
Ga. switching to single-drug method for executions Associated Press: Georgia is switching to a single-drug execution method from a three-drug combination—a change that makes sense, according to Howard Nearman, chairman of the anesthesiology department at the School of Medicine. "They're going to…
July 18, 2012
Study: Children now are more imaginative Education Week: Students may have less time for free play, but psychology professor Sandra W. Russ found in recent research that their imaginations have actually sharpened compared with those of children two decades ago. (Subscription required.)