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Managing infection risk and privacy, ShareTrace gives people security to return to work and social life
As America and the world take steps to get back to work and resume social activities, a team of researchers, developers, designers, and students continue to refine ShareTrace, an open source project that originated originally started from Hack-from-Home, a virtual, global hackathon, held in early Ap...
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Statement of Co-Deans Berg and Scharf on justice and reform in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd
We write as co-deans of the law school. Last Monday, we watched with horror as George Floyd, unarmed and handcuffed, pled for his life. "I can't breathe." Floyd, a black man, had his life extinguished by the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, while three other officers watc...
2020 Flourish Prizes Virtual Celebration Announcement
Thank you for your patience this semester as we have worked through our Flourish Prizing process. The Flourish Prizes are one of our favorite ways to engage with our global AIM2Flourish community and we are excited to finally be ready to announce our 2020 Flourish Prize honorees. We invite you to ...
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Students Give Back During Pandemic Through Internship at Greater Cleveland Food Bank
As the unemployment rate in Cleveland, Ohio skyrocketed amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Weatherhead School of Management students had the unique opportunity to intern for the Greater Cleveland Food Bank during their spring semester. Denise Sun, Yang Shi, Polly He, Kairui Huang and Lucy Gu, students in ...
How Can Workplaces Create a "New Normal"?
David Cooperrider discusses the "New Normal” in a recent Thrive Global article....
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Professor Jessie Hill coauthors study on Ohio abortion access in American Journal of Public Health
On May 21, a study examining eight years of abortion access in Ohio was released by the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network, or OPEN, which includes scientists from Ohio State, the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Case Western Reserve University. Jessie Hill, CWRU professor o...
Cleveland Rising Update (2)
Cleveland Rising groups use Zoom meeting to update public on bold ideas for transforming Cleveland....
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CWRU Law Dean to offer summer Pandemic Law course to incoming law students
Many entering first-year law students were planning to travel or work during the summer before beginning law school. For most, such plans had to be shelved when the coronavirus struck. The pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we live, with travel restrictions, business closures, social dista...
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Law school developing first compendium of the laws governing the Great Lakes
Until now, the question of what laws govern the Great Lakes was not so easy to answer. Stephen J. Petras, Jr., director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and the U.S. National Director of the Canada - United States Law Institute, is leading an effort to develop a comprehensive compe...