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January 06, 2012
The Conner Integrative Medicine Network will offer a four-week series of Meditation 101 courses at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. The ongoing class is open to everyone for $60 but is offered to Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals employees at a discounted rate…
January 06, 2012
All employees participating in the Health Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) are provided with a Benny prepaid benefits debit card. The cards are pre-loaded with the annual contribution amounts elected for 2012 by participating employees. Health care FSA participants during 2010 or 2011 will not…
January 06, 2012
Information Technology Services (ITS), in partnership with the Center for International Affairs, has launched a new site to assist faculty, staff and students who are preparing to travel internationally. The site includes helpful information and tips to prepare you for computing and communicating…
January 06, 2012
The Case Western Reserve University Phi Beta Kappa chapter meeting will be held Thursday, Jan. 19, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Mather House 100. All members of Phi Beta Kappa among the faculty, staff, graduate and professional students, and postdoctoral fellows, as well as those undergraduates elected…
January 06, 2012
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researchers found the human body is better at fighting gum disease when fat cells, which trigger inflammation, disappear. The findings come from a pilot study of 31 obese people with gum disease. Half of the group with an average body mass…
January 06, 2012
Resolutions abound at this time of year, but not everyone’s making them: According to the completely unofficial Case Western Reserve University poll, those who didn’t make a resolution tied for first place with those who made health-related ones. The next-highest vote-getters were money-related…
January 05, 2012
America’s prettiest neighborhoods Forbes: Case Western Reserve University’s home, University Circle, is named one of America’s 10 prettiest neighborhoods. “With a symphony orchestra, an art museum, a natural history museum and planetarium, and a botanical garden, Cleveland’s University Circle…
January 05, 2012
Jury selection to begin in Ohio corruption case NPR: The public corruption case of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora began this week. Lewis Katz, John C. Hutchins Professor of law, said the amount of money involved isn’t what’s shocking about the case. “The depth of the corruption…
January 05, 2012
Ohio, neighboring states, eagerly wait for decision on ethane “cracker” Ideastream: Ohio is competing to be the home of Shell Oil Co.’s petrochemical refinery, or “cracker.” Geology associate professor Beverly Saylor explains the chemical process called cracking and why it’s gaining prominence. “A…
January 05, 2012
Michael Scharf, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, participated in the World Legal Forum's Expert Meeting, A Self-Regulatory Initiative to Facilitate International Standardization and Dispute Resolution for…