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February 03, 2012
School of Law professor Jessie Hill’s guest column, “Health Law: A New Era for Abortion Restrictions” appears in the February issue of Virtual Mentor, a medical resident-focused publication. Additionally, she presented Jan. 28 on “What is the Meaning of Health?” at Boston University’s symposium on…
February 03, 2012
The Career Center will sponsor a virtual talk, “Big Dreams. Bold Career Moves: Finding Success Before 30,” with Tim Besse (MGT ’03). Besse will discuss how he went from accounting major to co-founder of Glassdoor.com before the age of 30. Along the way, Besse served as director of product…
February 03, 2012
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine recently announced a new Center for Metabolomics and Isotopomics (CMI), to be directed by Henri Brunengraber, MD, PhD. The CMI is located on the ninth floor of the Biomedical Research Building, across from the Center for Proteomics and…
February 03, 2012
The Case Western Reserve University Police Department will offer a Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) class for female faculty and staff members and students starting Wednesday, Feb. 15. The class is run by certified RAD instructors and teaches women self-defense strategies and basic self-defense…
February 03, 2012
Pull out your purple clothing for the Relay For Life Power of Purple celebration Friday, Feb. 10. Power of Purple is a chance to energize the campus around the 2012 Relay For Life and update the Case Western Reserve University community on the progress made so far. The day will kick off with a…
February 03, 2012
The numbers of female students and PhD recipients in science, technology, engineering and math has grown in recent years, as the National Science Foundation has encouraged efforts to attract more women to enter the STEM fields. Still, the advancement of women faculty in these areas hasn’t increased…
February 03, 2012
CLEVELAND - Neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have made a dramatic breakthrough in their efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers’ findings, published in the journal Science, show that use of a drug in mice appears to quickly reverse the…
February 02, 2012
Photo by Austin Sting. Case Western Reserve University has made headlines this year for its students’ major commitment to service, from reaching No. 7 on Washington Monthly’s list of top universities in the country to recently ranking 10th in small schools with alumni in the Peace Corps. Senior…
February 02, 2012
Joseph White, chair of the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for Policy Studies, will present the lecture “Why the Democrats Passed an Unpopular Health Care Law” Feb. 8 from noon to 1 p.m. in the School of Law Moot Courtroom (A59). The lecture is sponsored by the Elena and…
February 02, 2012
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods presents “The Ties that Bind: What We Know about the Mechanisms Through Which Social Networks Influence Health Behaviors” Feb. 9 at 12:15 p.m. in the Bioenterprise Building ground floor conference room. Melinda Forthofer, associate professor…