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This spring break, a group of 16 students, staff and alumni will travel to Nicaragua with the Center for Civic Engagement & Learning’s alternative spring break trip. In preparation for their departure, participants are organizing a supply drive to collect school supplies, sports equipment and…

Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, associate professor of general medical sciences and epidemiology and biostatistics, will lead the next Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Seminar, titled “Population stratification effects in cancer genetic epidemiology.” The seminar will be held March 7…

Christine Somosi has been named director of marketing and communications for the National Center for Regenerative Medicine and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Somosi previously worked in the university’s enrollment management division, where she developed and implemented recruitment marketing…

Ohio Gov. John Kasich reappointed Kenneth L. Kutina, PhD, to a new eight-year term on the Ohio Higher Educational Facility Commission. Kutina serves as a member and secretary of the commission, which issues tax-exempt bonds for private, non-profit colleges, universities and hospitals in Ohio,…

The Residence Hall Association (RHA) general body recently elected its executive board members. Appointees are: Executive president: Mara Gallagher VP of internal development: Katherine Kleinberg VP of residential relations: Ryan Stroud VP of external communications: Jeffrey Sommer VP of…

The Connor Integrative Medicine Network offers a discounted rate for four-week sessions of floor yoga and chair yoga at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. Employees pay $40 for the four-week series. Floor yoga classes will be offered in two four-week series: Tuesday evenings, March 6-27…

Science Café Cleveland presents “Our Radioactive World: Putting Fukushima in Perspective.” The talk will be held March 12—just more than a year after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake produced a tsunami that hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and caused nuclear meltdowns and release of radioactive…

More than 250,000 children go into foster care each year to leave unsafe home situations. But, asks researcher David Crampton, is removing children from their homes always the best solution? Crampton, associate professor of social work at Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, contributed to a…

Information Technology Services (ITS) offers Identity Finder version 5.0.1 for Macintosh on the Software Center. Identity Finder is software that will search your machine for sensitive/restricted data, and prompt you to secure or destroy it. By provost mandate, it must be installed and run on all…

A study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of East London UK, and Swansea University UK, is the first to show the effects of the drug ecstasy on fetal and infant development. Ecstasy is a stimulant and hallucinogen, and is one of the…