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July 14, 2011
Stephanie McClure, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, supervised by assistant professor Eileen Anderson-Fye, has been awarded two highly competitive and prestigious fellowships for the 2011-12 academic year: the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the Spencer Foundation Di...
July 14, 2011
By Vanessa Mavec
President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that her office will once again fund the two child care assistance programs launched in 2009: temporary and back-up child care and travel support. These two initiatives grew out of the work of the President’s Committee on Child Care Optio...
July 13, 2011
Cleveland researchers use experimental nerve 'bridge' to restore breathing in rats with spinal cord injuries
The Plain Dealer: Jerry Silver, professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the School of Medicine, led a research project that restored normal or near-normal breathing in nine of 11 tes...
July 13, 2011
New cancers in the family may merit extra screening
Reuters: A recent study found that family history should be updated every five or 10 years to determine a patient’s risk of cancer. But how much family history matters when personalizing cancer risks is not clear, Louise S. Acheson, professor of f...
July 13, 2011
This month’s free activity class from the Employee Wellness Program is a Pilates reformer class, taking place at 121 Fitness Center. Up to five people will be in each private course, which is appropriate for all ages, fitness levels and physical conditions. Pilates reformer classes can transform how...
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July 13, 2011
Roger Quinn, Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering, and Hillel Chiel, professor of biology, neurosciences and biomedical engineering, received a National Science Foundation award with an intended amount of nearly $1.1 million (more than $270,000 has been awarded to date). The project, “RI: Me...
July 13, 2011
CLEVELAND - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine bridged a spinal cord injury and biologically regenerated lost nerve connections to the diaphragm, restoring breathing in an adult rodent model of spinal cord injury. The work, which restored 80 to more than 100 percent of...
July 13, 2011
Statistics play out unfinished 1994 MLB season.
Could the 1994 Cleveland Indians have brought home that long-awaited World Series title?
We'll never know, of course, because the season was cut short by the 232-day baseball strike that left 655 games unplayed and resulted in the first cancellatio...
July 13, 2011
By Kyle Smith for the SAGES Seminar, Reading and Writing Science
If a person climbed a towering redwood and took a sample from the top and bottom of the tree, a comparison would show that the DNA from each sample within the tree is different. This is the basis of biology chair Christopher A. Cullis...
July 12, 2011
Flash crowds and curfews
WCPN: On The Sound of Ideas, Dan Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discusses recent incidents of flash crowds of teens gathered in public places, which is causing major public concern....