Business, Law + Politics

The Staff Advisory Council Community Service Committee is collecting back to school supplies for Michael R. White and Mary Bethune schools in Cleveland, to be delivered Sept. 16 in conjunction with Case for Community Day. Those donating supplies will receive a raffle ticket to win prizes. All suppl...

The Software Center has updated SPSS to version 20 for the 2011-12 license period. It is available to all CWRU students, faculty and staff. The student license costs $63; faculty and staff licenses cost $64, or $81 when bundled with Amos 20. See the Software Center for details. A license renewal for...

Why most men’s ring fingers are so long National Geographic: A recent study tested the hypothesis that hormones directly cause fingers to grow differently in males and females—generally, a longer ring finger than index finger in men; the opposite for women. “This isn't just an interesting curiosity...

Research published in the August issue of the American Economic Review finds that small businesses have been overpaying for health insurance. The collaborative research paper “Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance” highlights difficulties that sma...

Rockwell Automation named senior Stephen Hatch one of its three Student Associate Innovation Award winners. Hatch, a computer engineering major, is doing a co-op at Rockwell Automation, during which he developed an automated way to compare icons for several hundred devices against a known baseline. ...

Cold-weather Cleveland to test no-furnace concept Associated Press: The Cleveland Museum of Natural History built the PNC SmartHome Cleveland, a $500,000 environmentally friendly house in University Circle without a furnace or air conditioner. In October, the house will be sold as a private residen...

To coincide with students’ return to campus, Cramelot will reopen the week of Aug. 22. It will be open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the week of Aug. 22. After classes begin, Sunday hours will run 2-9 p.m. Take a look around the new spaces at the l...

Shooting deaths in Cleveland stall, but gun violence still takes a toll The Plain Dealer: The pace of shooting deaths in the area has stalled, and many illegal guns have been confiscated, but there are still hordes of cheap, illegal guns on the streets, especially those carried by teenagers. Daniel...

A Decade of Social Work Today Social Work Today: There are top trends and then there are 10 that have influenced social work culture over the last decade. M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad Jr., the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, explains why globaliz...

The Information Technology Services (ITS) Software Center has updated WebDrive to version 10. It is available as a free download to all students, faculty and staff for Windows in 32 and 64 bit versions. WebDrive allows you to access and edit files on a web server in the same way that you interact wi...