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Simon Peck says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac execs' salaries are "going rate"
Fannie, Freddie executives say they need big paychecks to protect taxpayer money International Business Times: Top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac defended their lucrative pay during a House of Representatives panel. In 2009 and 2010, the top six officers were given a total of more than…
Planned outage of QuickPay Nov. 21, 5–10 a.m.
QuikPay services will be intermittently unavailable on Monday, Nov. 21, from 5 to 10 a.m. This outage will allow Information Technology Services (ITS) and the QuikPay vendor to conduct scheduled maintenance. QuikPay is the system used by students and other authorized users for tuition bill…
Free flu shots available to faculty/staff Nov. 21, 22 and 29 on limited basis
The Department of Human Resources will offer free flu shots to faculty and staff in Crawford Hall Room 209 on the following days and times: Nov. 21, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.; Nov. 22, 3–4 p.m.; and Nov. 29, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. No appointments are necessary. Interested faculty and staff must complete a consent…
CWRU’s Max Kade Center for German Studies presents “The Berlin Wall After 50 Years”
Fifty years ago on Aug. 13, 1961, East Germany sealed the border between East and West Berlin and began to build what became known as the Berlin Wall. The wall symbolized the global Cold War conflict and the repression of communism, and its peaceful fall on Nov. 9, 1989, signaled the end of the…
Department of Bioethics to co-host Nov. 18 photo exhibit with work by Cleveland youth
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Department of Bioethics and Esperanza Inc. are hosting a photo exhibit of images taken by Cleveland youth on the topics of health disparities and genetics. The exhibit will be held at the 78th Street Studios in Gordon Square Arts District on Nov.…
Leadership Journey Series continues Nov. 21 with look at leadership, civic engagement
The Leadership Journey Series will continue Nov. 21, with Janice Eatman Williams, assistant director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning and director of Project STEP-UP, a tutoring and mentoring program serving at-risk youth in Cleveland Public Schools. Eatman Williams will address how…
Ethics Dialogue Award contest winners to be announced Nov. 17
The Inamori International Center for Ethics & Excellence at Case Western Reserve University will honor 25 groups of students that have risen to the top of the inaugural Ethics Dialogue Award contest. The ceremony, co-sponsored by the CWRU Ethics Alliance, Center for International Affairs, Greek…
PRCHN seeks faculty members to partner with community leaders for research
The Prevention Research Center for Health Neighborhoods (PRCHN) received a National Institutes of Health award to launch the Partners in Education, Evaluation and Research (PEER) Training Program, an 18-month mentored training program to increase research capacity in community organizations and…
Updated LabVIEW now available on Software Center
Information Technology Services (ITS) has updated LabVIEW to the Fall 2011 version on the Software Center. It is available to CWRU faculty and staff as a free download.  Students may use the software on CWRU-owned computers in a lab setting. Media sets are available for a two-week loan period at no…
Nursing student aims to build Costa Rica’s pool of nurse scientists
The nation of Costa Rica has only one nurse-scientist with a PhD conducting research in the field—but Ana Laura Solano Lopez is hoping to change that. A student in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing’s bachelor’s-to-doctorate program, Salano, of Turrialba, Costa Rica, is one of four…