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School of Law ranks No. 38 on list of most-cited law faculties
Law professor superlatives: most-cited law faculties The Wall Street Journal: The University of St. Thomas School of Law published a study measuring the scholarly impact of law faculties. Case Western Reserve University School of Law came in at No. 38 on the list.
Employee Wellness Program to offer two free Zumba classes next week
The Employee Wellness Program will offer two free Zumba classes July 25, noon–1 p.m., and July 29, 12:30–1:30 p.m. Both classes will be held at 121 Fitness Center. Participants will have full access to shower, sauna, locker and vanity area facilities at 121. Zumba classes fuse Latin music with…
Students in Trio Upward Bound Program to hold summer concert July 20
Participants in the Trio Upward Bound Program, which prepares low-income and potential first-generation college high school students for successful post-secondary studies, will hold a summer concert July 20 from 5 to 7 p.m. in Amasa Stone Chapel. The campus community is invited to join Trio staff,…
Psychiatry's Phillip Resnick discusses crime of filicide
Crime of parents killing their kids is not so uncommon Minneapolis Star-Tribune: A Wisconsin father is being accused of killing his three daughters, a crime called filicide. In many cases, the parents who commit these crimes are not mentally unstable, said Phillip Resnick, professor of psychiatry.…
Law's Jonathan Adler says one missing word could take down Affordable Care Act
Could one word take down Obamacare? The Washington Post: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon wrote in a new paper that a section of the Affordable Care Act is incorrectly worded to allow the federal government to set up exchanges in…
ITS adds Adobe CS6 to Software Center, offers free download for students, employees
Information Technology Services (ITS) has added the Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) Design & Web Premium and Production Premium collections to the Software Center.  The two collections are available as free downloads to Case Western Reserve University students, faculty and staff for Windows and…
CWRU forms partnership to increase number of minority STEM researchers
Case Western Reserve University is the new academic home of a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of underrepresented minority scientists and researchers at the doctoral level in science, engineering and medicine. The university forged this relationship with the…
Upcoming UCITE session to cover “How to Teach Public Speaking”
Leaders of this week’s UCITE lunchtime session will discuss “How to Teach Public Speaking,” offering suggestions, tips and guidelines for teaching students how to prepare and deliver oral presentations. Sarah de Swart, the associate director of UCITE, will lead the session, along with Bill Doll,…
Physics' Tom Shutt talks dark matter detector going underground
Dark-matter detector has new home in South Dakota The Associated Press: The Large Underground Xenon detector is now a mile underground in a former gold mine; when it starts collecting data on dark matter later this year, scientists say it could find Higgs boson-level results. “Dark matter presents…
Anatomy's Scott Simpson discusses recent human-ancestor fossil finds
Surprise human-ancestor find—key fossils hidden in lab rock National Geographic: Last month, researchers found 2 million-year-old human-ancestor fossils trapped in a rock that had been sitting in their lab for years. The findings could resolve unanswered questions. For example, "It's unclear how…