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The Case Western Reserve University LGBT Faculty Welcome Reception will be held Sept. 12 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the LGBT Center at Thwing Center. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres will be provided. Significant others and LGBT allies are welcome. RSVP to lgbt@case.edu, or for more information, contact Li...

A limited submission funding opportunity is available for the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE). PIRE supports international activities across all NSF-supported disciplines. The primary goal of PIRE is to support high-quality projects in whic...

The next Employee Wellness Seminar, to be held Sept. 7 from noon to 1 p.m. in Nord Hall 310, will discuss “Exercise & Aging: Quality of Life at All Ages.” During the session, Davon Jones, 121 Fitness Center’s intern and a master’s in exercise physiology student at Cleveland State University, will d...

Learn about participating in the three-credit course/service learning opportunity to Costa Rica over winter break during the information meetings Sept. 6 and 9. Information meetings will be held in Thwing Center from 12:50 to 1:10 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, in meeting room A, and Friday, Sept. 9, in ...

for Case for Community Day closes Sept. 9, and volunteer opportunities are filling up quickly. Case for Community Day will be held Sept. 16 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. More than 450 volunteers are needed; each volunteer will receive two tickets to a Cleveland Indians game. Projects include teaching tec...

The Software Center has updated SAS 9.2 MR 2 with the 2011-2012 license. SAS is available as a free download to students and faculty; the cost for staff is $56 per license. SAS 9.2 MR 2—a scalable, integrated software environment specially designed for data access, transformation and reporting—incl...

New materials for stronger wind turbines UPI: Marcio Loos, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and colleagues have built a lighter, stronger wind turbine blade that will allow larger turbines to capture more wind energy. It’s the world’s first pol...

For many Americans, caregiving a long-distance burden U.S. News & World Report: Long-distance caregiving is becoming more common, but it brings added stress. “We found that long-distance caregivers were much more anxious than local caregivers, who could see what was happening [on a more frequent ba...

Ian Wong and freshbag aim to bring fresh food to urban communities The Huffington Post: School of Medicine student Ian Wong launched freshbag, a local food-delivery service, to help improve the area’s health. “As part of our schooling, we were sent into the [Cleveland] community to identify the big...

Self-employed struggle as U.S. recovery offers few opportunities Bloomberg Businessweek: Because small companies employ about half of the private-sector labor force, it’s difficult for jobless rates to improve when they’re “not doing well, because they are too big a part of the economy,” said Scott...