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June 24, 2012
Students: What’s helped you be successful throughout your Case Western Reserve University career? Educational Services for Students is looking for students to offers tips and strategies from their experiences as CWRU students for its publication Just InCASE: Study Tips for Students by…
June 23, 2012
Human Resources must receive tuition waiver applications for summer 2012 no later than July 1. Tuition waivers will be posted to student accounts beginning in early July and will continue to be posted throughout the month. Remember to pay any portion of a student bill not covered by the tuition…
June 22, 2012
Beyond Higgs: on Supersymmetry (or lack thereof) Scientific American: Glenn Starkman, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, wrote a guest post on supersymmetry, a theory that posits that for every known particle…
June 22, 2012
How to make U.S. healthcare even worse Los Angeles Times: When it comes to the future of healthcare reform, Political Science Chair Joseph White said although the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling is critical, the real future will be decided by the November elections. “If the Republicans win the…
June 22, 2012
Jerry Sandusky trial to head to jury without testimony from the accused The Christian Science Monitor: Closing arguments were held Thursday in the trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who did not take the stand. “They must have had some serious concerns about putting…
June 22, 2012
Downtown living ideastream: On an episode of The Sound of Ideas, Ramses Clement, a graduate student at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, explained the benefits of living in downtown Cleveland—from the thriving dining scene to the convenience to campus.
June 22, 2012
The test of the university’s energy-reduction capabilities, originally scheduled for Monday, June 25, has been postponed. The university community will be informed if or when the test is rescheduled. The test was intended to see how much the university’s demand would be reduced by in the event of…
June 22, 2012
Case Western Reserve University President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that Robert E. Widing II, dean of the Macquarie School of Management in Sydney, Australia, will become dean of the Weatherhead School of Management, effective Oct. 15. The appointment represents a homecoming for Widing, a…
June 22, 2012
When the Upward Bound program at Case Western Reserve University started in 1966, it was part of a group of federal programs designed to help low-income and potential first-generation college students get through high school and prepare them for success in higher education. Now, 46 years later,…
June 21, 2012
Pop’s fictional fathers run gamut from heroic to horrible Daily Gazette: In honor of Father’s Day, the newspaper takes a look at fathers in pop culture, from Herman Munster to Cliff Huxtable and even comic book dads. “In superhero comics, many of the best fathers are actually absent ones,” said…