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The School of Law’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution will present the Elmer F. and Ellen Laws Burwig Lecture, “How Rejection Affects People.” Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at Florida State University, will lead the free, public lecture April 5 from…

Last summer The Huffington Post named Case Western Reserve one of the nation’s nine “trendiest” colleges. This winter the site reported we were among the top 15 universities where “geek is chic.” Now that it’s spring, it seems that those seeds are starting to bloom—in the form of legions of…

College commencement season is near The Plain Dealer: Most Northeast Ohio colleges have announced their commencement speakers, including Case Western Reserve University, which will welcome Gmail creator and alumnus Paul Buchheit (CWR ’98; GRS ’98, computer engineering) to campus May 20.

Check out Fox 8’s board on Pinterest Fox 8 Cleveland: Local news station Fox 8 is now on Pinterest, a social-photo site that launched in 2010 but took off recently and is currently the fastest-growing site of all time. “Sometimes things take off immediately, but more often than not, it takes a…

On March 2, Emeritus Professor of Law Robert P. Lawry made a CLE presentation in Columbus titled “Living a Professional Life: Lessons from History, Fiction and the Nitty-Gritty.” Lawry, who also is the director of the Center for Professional Ethics, gave his talk at the International Council of…

Sharona Hoffman, professor of law and bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, presented at the 2012 Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Bridging the Gap, which was held in Baltimore, Md., March 13. Her talk was titled “Meaningful Use and Certification of Health…

Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor and S. Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, will give the Pearl Memorial Lecture at the 37th Annual Meetings of the Human Biology Association at Portland, Ore., on April 11. Her lecture will be titled “Fifty years of research on high-altitude…

The Center for Civic Engagement & Learning will hire two AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associates to build capacity for the local food movement and community gardening in Cleveland. These positions are funded through the Ohio Campus Compact’s Summer Associate Program and will allow two students to…

The campus community is invited to attend a Cleveland Indians game April 7 as they face the Toronto Blue Jays. This event is sponsored by Weatherhead Graduate Student Affairs at the Weatherhead School of Management and is a part of the Case Western Reserve University’s Graduate and Professional…

by Diana Bilimoria Leadership is About engaging and energizing people, and inspiring them to give their best, to stretch, to achieve, and to excel. We’ve all been in places where leaders have served as role models and examples of the behaviors we want to emulate—where they’ve sought our input in…