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June 29, 2012
On Monday, we showed you the #CWRUpicaday of the “Elephant Stairs”—the massive steps that connect the lower and upper levels of the South Residential Village—and asked when they were built. Guesses ranged from 1938 to 1999, but the answer lies somewhere in the middle of the two and was guessed…
June 29, 2012
J.B. Silvers, John R. Mannix/Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Management, has agreed to serve as interim dean of the Weatherhead School of Management during the next three-and-a-half months, until Dean-Elect Rob Widing starts Oct. 15. He starts his new position Sunday. “J.B. brings…
June 29, 2012
When Cyrus Taylor became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2006, he quickly learned that his free time—those hours in which he loved to run and spend time outdoors—was going to take a hit. But in 2009, he decided to make a change, and he got back into action. By 2010, he was running 25-…
June 28, 2012
The Connor Integrative Medicine Network at University Hospitals Case Medical Center will offer a discounted rate on its meditation classes for Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals employees. In the four-week series Meditation 102: The Next Step, participants can continue their…
June 28, 2012
Marilyn Sanders Mobley, vice president for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity and professor of English, has a book review published in the spring/summer issue of Ms. magazine. Mobley, who is a Toni Morrison scholar, reviewed Morrison’s latest novel Home.
June 28, 2012
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, took part in a symposium hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Penn Program on Regulation. The five-part series featured scholars of regulation and administrative…
June 28, 2012
Adding to the growing Uptown development, Chipotle is now open for business. Located at 11452 Euclid Ave., Chipotle is open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Advance orders can be placed online at order.chipotle.com/. Chipotle is the latest spot to open in Uptown, after Barnes & Noble, Verizon…
June 27, 2012
Why Facebook swapped your email address to YourName@facebook.com (and how to switch it back) The Plain Dealer: Over the weekend, Facebook changed the email address on everyone’s profiles to @facebook.com addresses. One side result of this is that if you’re used to getting email via Facebook at…
June 27, 2012
If ObamaCare survives, legal battle has just begun USA Today: In a column for the newspaper, School of Law Professor Jonathan Adler wrote that, related to the Affordable Care Act, the IRS will impose a tax of up to $3,000 per worker on employers whom Congress has not authorized a tax. If the IRS…
June 27, 2012
School of Law Professor Kathryn Mercer recently co-presented a workshop with Professor Jonathan Gordon on “Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: Motivating Students to Accept Responsibility for their Own Education.” Their talk took place at the Global Legal Skills Conference in San Jose, Costa…