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March 15, 2012
Congo warlord convicted of using child soldiers Associated Press: While Joseph Kony remains one of the world’s most-wanted fugitives, the International Criminal Court Congolese found warlord Thomas Lubanga guilty of using child soldiers. “A guilty verdict in the case will send a powerful signal to…
March 14, 2012
Pothole fixes? They're in the bag, according to CWRU students The Plain Dealer: A team of Case Western Reserve students—Mayank Saksena, Nich Barron, Noah Gostout, Curtis Obert and Chimadika Okeye—invented a new way to temporarily patch potholes: a “non-Newtonian fluid that behaves as a liquid but…
March 14, 2012
The Commencement Office will host one more Doctoral Fitting Day to help new PhD, JD, MD, DNP, DMD, DM and DMA graduates get ready for commencement. The last Doctoral Fitting Day will be Friday, March 16, at the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Students can be…
March 14, 2012
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods of Case Western Reserve University recently released new health data from Cleveland neighborhood groups on three of the most pressing public health concerns: obesity, hypertension and diabetes. The three data briefs—statistical public health…
March 14, 2012
Case Western Reserve University faculty members are invited to learn how this year’s Freedman Fellows Award can help them implement multimedia technologies into their teaching and classroom experiences through a series of online profiles available online at…
March 14, 2012
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering will present the 36th Van Horn Distinguished Lectures March 20-22 in Glennan Building 421. Each year, the Van Horn Distinguished Lecture Series features a distinguish professor to campus. This year, Michael Finnis, professor of the theory and…
March 14, 2012
While job loss can have financial, social and health consequences for displaced workers, there is very little data on how parental job loss affects children. In an upcoming Schubert Center for Child Studies lecture, Mark Votruba, associate professor of economics, will discuss his research on the…
March 14, 2012
University gets archives of Cleveland Play House The Plain Dealer: Manuscripts, posters and other materials from Cleveland Play House’s archives have a new home at Kelvin Smith Library. More than 1,000 boxes of materials have arrived on campus, reflecting the history of the Play House since its…
March 13, 2012
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine will host the Taste of Peru charity benefit March 31. Proceeds from the event benefit the Peru Health Outreach Project (formerly the Lamay Clinic Project), a grassroots organization led by the…
March 13, 2012
Join the Social Justice Institute, The Baha’i Communities of Greater Cleveland, Amnesty International and the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence for a screening of the documentary Education Under Fire. The film, produced by Social Justice Institute Director Rhonda Y. Williams, documents a…