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March 28, 2012
The Office of the Provost joins the School of Graduate Studies, the Graduate/Professional Student Experience Committee (GPSEC), the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) and the Graduate/Professional Council (GPC) in recognizing graduate and professional students’ intellectual, teaching and cultural…
March 28, 2012
Meet author and Case Western Reserve University professor Thrity Umrigar during a book signing April 3, 6-7 p.m., at the new University Bookstore. Umrigar, a professor of fiction, non-fiction, journalism and American literature, will be signing her new book, The World We Found. The University…
March 28, 2012
BibliFact roundup #1: Visions, vomit and phony eco-theology The Huffington Post: Timothy Beal, the Florence K. Harkness Professor of Religious Studies, debuted a new blog called BibliFact, where he fact checks the way politicians quote the Bible on the campaign trail.
March 28, 2012
Expanding pool of donor corneas is focus of CWRU and UH study The Plain Dealer: School of Medicine researchers began a study this month that could double the time donated corneas are accepted as viable for transplant—potentially increasing the transplant pool by at least 20 percent. “If we can…
March 28, 2012
Two Case Western law professors agree to disagree about health care act NewsNet5: School of Law professors Jonathan Adler and Jessie Hill shared their vastly different opinions on the constitutionality on the Affordable Care Act.
March 28, 2012
Left behind ideastream: Robert Ronis, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, joined The Sound of Ideas to discuss the effects of suicide on those left behind to deal with the grief, guilt and stigma.
March 28, 2012
Rep. Marcy Kaptur says that the poorest in America are women PolitiFact: Rep. Marcy Kaptur recently said that the poorest people in the country are women—a statement proven true by U.S. Census data and a National Women’s Law Center report. In addition, Claudia Coulton, co-director of the Center…
March 28, 2012
Parents most likely perpetrators in child killings The Washington Examiner: A string of child death cases around Washington, D.C., highlights the reality that parents or caregivers are more likely to kill their children than strangers. “Parents have the motive,” said psychiatry professor Phillip…
March 27, 2012
What can people on Earth learn about climate change from the long lost seas of Mars or the climate of Saturn? David Grinspoon, the award-winning author of Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life and Venus Revealed, will help answer this and other questions during the talk, “Climate…
March 27, 2012
The University Counseling Service will present a series of 45-minute resiliency workshops on Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. in Tomlinson Library. Students can drop in for all or part of any of the workshops geared toward bouncing back from setbacks and stressors. This Wednesday, March 28, at 12:15 p.m.,…