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Faculty: Apply for the 2012 Freedman Fellows Award Program
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…
36th Van Horn Distinguished Lecture Series to be held March 20-22
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 20 panel to discuss effects of parental job loss on children
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…
Kelvin Smith Library welcomes Cleveland Play House archives
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…
Medical students to host Taste of Peru charity gala March 31
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…
Documentary screening, panel discussion on Iran’s education policies to be held March 22
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…
From mouse to man: Circadian nitrogen balance impacts survival, disease susceptibility
By Anisha Garg for the SAGES Seminar, Reading and Writing Science Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrated that nitrogen balance, the process of utilizing amino acids and disposing of their toxic byproducts, occurs with a precise 24-hour rhythm—also known as…
Women staff: Deadline extended to register for keynote, panel discussion
The deadline to attend a keynote speech by Connie Dieken, author of Talk Less, Say More: 3 Habits to Influence Others & Make Things Happen, has been extended to March 29. The Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative alumnae will host the event featuring Dieken, who also is founder and…
University Farm seeks student volunteers for 2012 growing season
University Farm horticulturist Chris Bond is looking for student volunteers to help at the farm weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Help is needed for greenhouse work, maintenance tasks and harvesting produce. In 2011, nearly 300 volunteers donated more than 1,000 hours of their time. This was 25…
Scott Shane writes that entrepreneurs don't employ as many as they hope
Entrepreneurs’ job creation: expectations versus reality Small Business Trends: Though 17 percent of Americans founding a company expect to have 20 or more employees within the next five years, only 2 percent actually reach that number, explained Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of…