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January 18, 2012
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at Glenville High School preserved on little-known recording The Plain Dealer: After an art teacher and student found a reel-to-reel recording of Martin Luther King’s visit to Glenville High School in 1967, the student and his mentor brought it to the Freedman…
January 18, 2012
Thinking about yoga? Make sure to think the right thoughts The Huffington Post: Though yoga has been in the news lately as a way to harm one’s body, Deepak Sarma, associate professor of South Asian religions and philosophy, writes that the real danger of yoga comes when thinking of the wrong…
January 18, 2012
The payroll office announced that 2011 W-2s have been placed in the mail. In addition to the hard copy you will receive in the mail, you may also access your W-2 online through self-service in HCM (after Thursday).
January 17, 2012
The documentary My So-Called Enemy will be screened Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. The documentary is the story of six Israeli and Palestinian teenage girls who traveled to the U.S. in 2002 to participate in a women’s leadership program, Building Bridges for Peace. The film discusses…
January 17, 2012
The CWRU Employee Wellness Program will host a free health seminar on spine health Jan. 20, noon to 1 p.m., in Adelbert Hall’s Toepfer Room. David Hart, associate professor of neurological surgery and director of the Spinal Neurosurgery Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, will…
January 17, 2012
If there is one thing college faculty all agree on, it is the value of teaching students to think critically. That unanimity disappears, however, as soon as one probes a little deeper to ask how to recognize critical thinking—surely a pre-requisite for assessing it so that one can know if one's…
January 17, 2012
Kelvin Smith Library starts the spring semester by integrating research and borrowing services at the main service desk. Main service desk staff will receive enhanced training to allow them to better answer routine, frequently asked questions; questions that cannot be answered by the main service…
January 17, 2012
Graduate Student Senate will host the first-ever Graduate Student Research Symposium April 4 at 3:30 p.m. during Grad Student Appreciation Week. Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to submit their research abstracts. Several winners will be selected and will have the opportunity to…
January 17, 2012
An insect’s internal chemicals can be converted to electricity, potentially providing power for sensors, recording devices or to control the bug, a group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University report. The finding is yet another in a growing list from universities across the country that…
January 17, 2012
Fantasy goes dark The Christian Science Monitor: Hollywood is trying to find the next big young adult franchise, and the lineup is much darker than previous movies. “Harry Potter primed its audience for these new types of movies. [Studios are] trying to get at the now older Harry Potter audience,…