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The Staff Mentoring Program Steering Committee is gathering data to launch a pilot Mentoring Circle and needs staff members’ input to gauge interest levels and find out what mentor qualities, circle topics and meeting format would be helpful. The mentoring circle model involves one mentor working wi...

The eduStyle Higher-ed Web Awards nominees have been posted, and Case Western Reserve's The Bigger Picture is in contention for best annual report. To vote, visit http://bit.ly/ix5nXa, sign in, scroll to the bottom (or click on the best annual/community report anchor link at the top) and vote for T...

Could a multimillion-dollar prize spur the next big innovation in sustainable climate technology? School of Law professor Jonathan H. Adler thinks so. He recommends that some of the dollars earmarked for alternative energy research be shifted to prizes. Adler believes a clear need exists for new t...

Due to the increased use of cell phones, the need for land-line phones in student housing has significantly decreased in the last few years. In fact, fewer than 3 percent of Case Western Reserve students have activated their voicemail accounts in their residence hall rooms. Land-line phones have the...

After the Employee Wellness Program/ThinkFit launched its Facebook page last week, it made us realize that there likely are a plethora of unknown Facebook fan pages and groups out there that members of the university community would like to join. We compiled a list, but it’s surely not a comprehensi...

LaShanda Korley, Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Case School of Engineering, was one of 18 faculty members from around the world to become part of the 43rd class of DuPont Young Professors. The DuPont Young Professor program provides start-up assistance to promising young and untenured...

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 re...

Numbers from the Case Western Reserve University Greek community’s 365 Days of Service Campaign have been tallied, and the chapters reported 12,680 hours of service in all. Additionally, they collected $42,886.50 in donations and 15,771 cans of food. This is a slight increase in the number of hours...

The Software Center has updated LabVIEW to the Spring 2011 edition for Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff. Students may use the software on university-owned computers in a lab environment. LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used primarily in the science and engineering fie...

Susan Grimm, a staff member in the Department of English, has a poetry book available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. The book, Roughed Up by the Sun’s Mothering Tongue, “teaches us a new sort of glory with its everyday—but never ordinary—moments of splendor and intrigue, havoc and desire,”...