Business, Law + Politics

121 Fitness Center, owned and operated by Case Western Reserve University, will celebrate Get Active America Week by offering free access to the facility all week, May 7-13. The week will kick off with an open house May 7 from noon to 2 p.m., featuring free food from Bon Appetit, information on Bon...

Thirty musicians from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music will perform 15 works by the late artist John Cage in “A Cage Musicircus.” The performance, presented by the CWRU Percussion Ensemble and the CIM/CWRU Cage Players, will be held April 29 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m...

Case Western Reserve University has joined a nationwide effort to pilot new technology designed to advance scientific research and reduce higher education costs. As part of the initiative, researchers will be able to send data 10 times faster than previously—at the rate of 100 Gigabits per second—wh...

Creating generation anxiety Psychology Today: In her blog, Amy Przeworski, assistant professor of psychology, writes about how pressure to succeed—often brought on at a very early age—may induce anxiety in kids....

Earth Day: Recycling benefits beyond the environment WKYC: Cuyahoga County residents recycled nearly as much as they threw away in 2010. Stephanie Corbett, director of sustainability, said one of the most common misconceptions about recycling is that the items are not actually processed and that it...

The Italian program at Case Western Reserve University, together with Italian Film Festivals USA and the CWRU Film Society, will host the local premiere of Fughe e approdi April 24 at 7 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. The screening, the final film of the Italian Film Festival at Case Western Reserve ...

Kandice Kottke-Marchant, chair of the Department of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and adjunct professor of biomedical engineering, was a featured panelist at Smart Business's Perspectives '12: Women Who Excel event April 13. Kottke-Marcha...

Information Technology Services (ITS) has added Matlab R2012a to the Software Center. It is available as a free download on Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers. The faculty/staff license is concurrent and requires a CWRU network connection. The student version can be used without a network connec...

Yohannes Haile-Selassie has been making worldwide news recently, thanks to his latest fossil discovery that showed the famous early human ancestor “Lucy” had a close cousin—another pre-human species that existed at the same time and in the same region as Lucy but with a different method of locomotio...

Join faculty, staff and students from across campus for Friday’s Public Affairs Discussion Group, titled “SARKOBAMA: Two Presidential Elections in a Time of Crisis.” Joseph White, chair of the Department of Political Science, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, professor of epidemiology an...