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Planned outage of QuikPay on June 20
There will be an interruption of services for QuikPAY on June 20 from 2 to 4 a.m. to allow Information Technology Services (ITS) and the QuikPAY vendor to conduct scheduled maintenance. QuikPay is the system used by students to pay tuition and process credit card payments. If you have further…
Three students win Turning Designs into Business competition
Weatherhead School of Management and Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) hosted the second annual Turning Designs into Businesses competition this spring, in which students from the two schools create a business plan for a new product. The winning team, composed of Tim Anderson (MGT ’11), Cara Gilmore…
UCITE session on understanding Blackboard’s new plagiarism detection software
Blackboard’s new feature, Safe Assign, allows instructors to check to see the extent to which any document has been plagiarized. At the next UCITE discussion, Megan Linos of Information Technology Services will show how to use Safe Assign and give examples of writing samples at varying levels of…
SAC accepting nominations for representatives until June 24
The Staff Advisory Council is accepting nominations for representatives through June 24. All regular, full- or part-time, exempt and non-exempt, non-faculty employees with at least six months of service with the university are eligible. Representatives will be elected for a two-year term; find out…
President’s Award presented to three outstanding staff members
Three staff members were honored with the 2011 President’s Award for Distinguished Service at the Staff Service Awards brunch June 8. This annual award honors up to three staff members whose outstanding contributions to campus culture have a transformational effect on university colleagues,…
LabVIEW updated on Software Center
The Software Center has updated LabVIEW to the Spring 2011 edition for Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff. Students may use the software on university-owned computers in a lab environment. LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used primarily in the science and engineering…
Researchers Track Exercise Patterns
Study offers insights on how nurse practitioners can help patients develop healthy habits. Headlines about the country’s expanding waistlines are nothing new, but a recent study of exercise habits in overweight and obese individuals is shedding light on how health professionals can help patients…
A bumpy road
BP Magazine: Understanding why bipolar relapse occurs is unclear, but there may be changes at the cellular level, said Joseph R. Calabrese, director of the Mood Disorders Program at the School of Medicine.
To create more jobs, go where the jobs are
The Wall Street Journal: Scott Shane, A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, penned an article on how start-ups aren’t the answer to spurring job growth.
Savvy researchers see the light
Crain’s Cleveland Business: Roger French, F. Alex Nason Professor of Material Science, is heading up a $7.5 million effort to transform part of the White Building into a testing ground for solar panels.