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July 19, 2011
Choose Ohio First will provide scholarships to the School of Medicine Systems Biology and Bioinformatics MS and PhD graduate students from 2012-2017, under the Ohio Board of Regents Choose Ohio First Scholarship Programs of Innovation. The Systems Biology and Bioinformatics graduate program is the…
July 19, 2011
Researcher links anorexia to early-onset osteoporosis in women. Anorexia can have devastating health consequences, including putting women at risk for early-onset osteoporosis. According to Kathryn Teng, a personal health expert at Cast Western Reserve University School of Medicine and director…
July 19, 2011
Noticed some new faces on campus lately? Say hello to the Class of 2015. Nearly 600 incoming first-year students, plus their parents, have been on campus this past week for the two Orientation Summer Sessions scheduled in July. (The rest of the new class will attend their Summer Session in…
July 18, 2011
Kalighat paintings at Cleveland Museum of Art illuminate 19th century life in India The Plain Dealer: Deepak Sarma, associate professor of religious studies, explains the Kalighat paintings exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Sarma curated the exhibit of Indian paintings, which is described as…
July 18, 2011
Lawyer who claims he’s mentally incompetent continued to handle guardianship case Akron Beacon Journal: A Norton attorney claimed he was incompetent to stand trial on public indecency charges but continued to represent at least one client. “I don’t see how he could [continue] with a straight…
July 18, 2011
In old Maine farmhouse, the real Christina's World Associated Press: The farmhouse in Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Christina’s World” was declared a National Historic Landmark. The painting is well known and highly regarded by experts. “That whole quality of mankind's loneliness in the universe has…
July 18, 2011
County Executive Ed FitzGerald named J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix/Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Management, to the board of trustees of the MetroHealth System. Silvers also is a professor and chair of the Department of Banking and Finance at Weatherhead School of Management…
July 18, 2011
Faculty members: Do you wish you could read your students’ documents for content rather than grammar? The GSS Peer Review and Editing program can help. Have your graduate and post-doctoral students send their documents to us before they send them to you. They will get a critiqued version of their…
July 18, 2011
As previously announced, the Common Reading selection for 2011 is Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by nationally renowned scholar and author Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard. Sandel will be the keynote speaker at the University Fall Convocation…
July 18, 2011
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine recently made a breakthrough that holds promise for the nearly 1.2 million people with upper spinal cord injuries: They bridged a spinal cord injury and biologically regenerated lost nerve connections to the diaphragm, restoring…