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Joseph B. Richey II and A. Malachi Mixon III have made a $5 million gift to name a Richey-Mixon Building at the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. The two longtime business collaborators built the Elyria, Ohio-based Invacare Corp. into the world’s top manufacturer of home...

After 9/11, Case Western Reserve students, faculty and staff created three Peace by Piece quilts to help express their thoughts; the quilts were displayed at various locations around campus in the winter of 2001-02. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, each of the three quilts are on dis...

Issue 3’s reach is too wide, foes say The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio’s ballot measure to cancel out the federal health-care law is written so poorly that it would threaten many health-care-related laws, such as child support and workers’ compensation, according to research done by Innovation Ohio and ...

Smoking ban linked to reduction in heart attacks Toledo Blade: A new study has found that shortly after Ohio enacted its indoor smoking ban, the number of apparent heart attacks dramatically dropped. Although the drop can’t be definitively tied to the ban, “it really is kind of remarkable to see th...

Play by the rules: There is a right way to make objections ABA Journal: Jim McElhaney, Baker and Hostetler Distinguished Scholar in Trial Practice at the School of Law, penned an article describing how to make a proper objection in the courtroom....

The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence will award its 2011 Inamori Ethics Prize on Wednesday, Sept. 7, to human rights attorney Beatrice Mtetwa. Mtetwa will be recognized for her efforts to fight injustice in her home country of Zimbabwe. The celebration begins with an academic ...

Fall registration for three-credit fall travel courses to Bangladesh and Ecuador ends Sept. 9. Meeting dates for more information are Sept. 6, 7 and 9 from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in the Mandel School of Applied Social Science Room 112. The courses are registered for fall, travel during winter break, hav...

This month’s Employee Wellness Free Cooking Demo, held Sept. 12 from noon to 1 p.m. in Nord Hall 310, will be “Farm to Fork, from Bon Appetit & the University Farm.” Bon Appetit Chef Robbie Washington, along with Chris Bond, horticulturist from the University Farm, will discuss the benefits of buyin...

Students: Instantly connect with an alumnus on the CWRU Alumni Facebook page. Get your questions answered about school, post-graduation, career—just about anything! Visit alumnet.case.edu/questions to submit....

On Friday, Sept. 9, President Barbara R. Snyder will hold an open forum with the Case Western Reserve University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The meeting will take place in Clark Hall’s Baker-Nord Center Room 206 at 12:30 p.m. This meeting is open to all facul...