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June 22, 2011
Join us for a special online event on Thursday, June 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Case Western Reserve University experts will be standing by to answer questions on a variety of skin conditions—from psoriasis to melanoma. Questions can be submitted anonymously during the event or in advance at…
June 22, 2011
Swarup Bhunia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant worth nearly $462,000. The award is given to an investigator to pursue research in an emerging area, which Bhunia will…
June 22, 2011
Weight Watchers at Work has a second meeting for university employees, held every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. Each week, a dedicated group of weight conscious folks meets for a meeting, led by Mary Alice Grassa from Weight Watchers. If you can't make your…
June 22, 2011
Business strategist and investor Charles H. Phipps of Dallas has made a $2 million commitment to the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. The Phipps Endowment Fund will support the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “Charles Phipps continues the…
June 22, 2011
The Institute of Navigation announced that Case Western Reserve University won top prize at the 8th Annual 2011 Robotic Lawn Mower Competition June 2-4 at Siebenthaler’s Beaver Valley Garden Center in Dayton. Sponsored by the Institute of Navigation Satellite Division and the Air Force Research…
June 21, 2011
New York Times: Ilke Sipahi, an assistant professor, says that implantation of a biventricular pacemaker has significant risks. Sipahi is the lead author in a study published online last week in The Archives of Internal Medicine in which researchers reviewed five randomized controlled trials of…
June 21, 2011
Irene Nga Wing Lee, associate professor of chemistry, has been selected to become the executive editor of BBA’s section on proteins and proteomics. As executive editor, she will be an ambassador of the journal and is encouraged to publish her own quality papers in the journal. She will select…
June 21, 2011
Women faculty members are invited to join their colleagues for a lunchtime networking event on Tuesday, June 28, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Cleveland Room at Thwing Center. RSVP to Susan Freimark. The Women Faculty Development Institute of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women sponsors the…
June 21, 2011
While in college, Deepak Sarma struggled through one of the classic texts in Indian philosophical thought: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s and Charles A. Moore’s A Source Book in Indian Philosophy. Once he found himself teaching the subject as an associate professor of religious studies, Sarma saw his…
June 20, 2011
The Plain Dealer: NorTech, a regional nonprofit, economic development group, has been working for months with more than 30 companies, NASA Glenn Research Center, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Akron to create a game plan - a roadmap to growth based on the region's…