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February 17, 2012
First-year Case Western Reserve University nursing student Darren Ting moves his bow across the cello’s strings to play “Sarabande” from Bach’s Cello Suite #1. When he finishes, eight students from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing help eighth graders in Mark Bair’s music class at Miles at…
February 17, 2012
Flowers, chocolates, dinners at upscale restaurants—the standard Valentine’s Day staples aren’t necessarily standards around Case Western Reserve University. In fact, most people said they didn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day at all this year. The next highest vote-getters—in a very close second…
February 16, 2012
President Barbara R. Snyder invites the campus community to nominate a non-faculty staff member for the President's Award for Distinguished Service. This annual award honors staff members whose outstanding contributions to campus culture have a transformational effect on university colleagues,…
February 16, 2012
The Career Center has shared the most recent First Destination Survey Report. This report captures the post-graduation plans for the undergraduate class of 2011. Findings are presented in the aggregate and then broken out by school and by major. View the report at…
February 16, 2012
The Case Western Reserve University Department of History will sponsor a talk with Faye Dudden, professor of history and a presidential scholar at Colgate University. Dudden will speak on “Feminists Behaving Badly: A Reinterpretation of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in…
February 16, 2012
Do ex-daughter-in-law's allegations change Jerry Sandusky case? The Christian Science Monitor: A judge ruled that former Penn State University coach Jerry Sandusky can receive visits from most of his grandchildren, but his former daughter-in-law said he molested one of her children. Her statement…
February 16, 2012
Dia Frampton, ‘Rembrandt in America’ and ‘The Interrupters’ WCPN: Catherine Scallen, chair of the Department of Art History and Art, joined Dee Perry’s Around Noon to preview the Cleveland Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship.”
February 16, 2012
Obama seeks 1.5% rise for basic research, emphasizing economic benefits The Chronicle of Higher Education: Though President Obama’s proposed budget calls for a 1.5-percent increase in federal spending on basic scientific research, it holds the National Institutes of Health’s budget steady. Joseph…
February 16, 2012
Science Cafe: Science on the fly WCPN: On a recent episode of The Sound of Ideas, Helen Salz, professor of genetics, and Jocelyn McDonald, assistant professor of molecular medicine and genetics, discussed how fruit flies tell us so much about ourselves.
February 16, 2012
‘Slavery by Another Name,’ Fashion Week and Opera in Cleveland WCPN: Mary Davis, chair of the Department of Music, joined Around Noon to talk New York Fashion Week and the acclaimed film Bill Cunningham New York.