Campus + Community

In the next discussion session, to be held Sept. 1, UCITE tackles the issue of getting to know students personally. Apart from the technical issue of how best to do it, especially in larger classes, there are tricky issues that need to be navigated: how to cultivate a cordial relationship without l...

Want a CWRU mascot to participate in your on-campus event? The Spartan team is taking requests to appear at university department and student organization events. Having the Spartan or Spartie, a new addition to the mascot team, at your event is free of charge. Requests should be made at least two w...

The Software Center has updated Endnote for Windows to version X5. There are 20 concurrent-use licenses available to faculty, staff and students for $62 each. License and renewal policies for EndNote have changed; for details, please see the Software Center. Endnote X5 contains new features, includi...

Case Theater Society invites all faculty, staff and students to come see the play Tape for free in the Eldred Theater Black Box Sept. 1-3 at 8:30 p.m. It's a show to welcome—and welcome back—all Case Western Reserve University students as well as showcase the talents of the CWRU Theater Department. ...

Cuyahoga County Council OKs absentee ballot mailing; Husted drops plan to block ballot applications The Plain Dealer: Secretary of State Jon Husted dropped his proposal to block absentee voting by using ballot applications sent at the taxpayers’ expense in Cuyahoga County. Husted said all voters sh...

Americana BBC: The handwritten letter has become a “sentimental inconvenience” around the world, especially in America, so Americana themes its episode around the postal service. Bill Marling, professor of American literature, modernism, popular culture and globalization, discusses James N. Cain’s ...

College rankings that aren’t ridiculous: Washington Monthly The Huffington Post: Case Western Reserve University ranked No. 7 in Washington Monthly’s annual rankings, the top 13 of which are listed here....

'Bridesmaids,' 'The Help' draw women audiences – and big box-office numbers The Christian Science Monitor: Female-driven films have been huge hits at the box office this summer, such as The Help and Bridesmaids. The success of Bridesmaids, said SAGES Fellow Brad Ricca, was partly due to the fact th...

Doctor shortage threatens U.S. and Ohio: The Changing Face of Medicine The Plain Dealer: A doctor shortage across the U.S. and in Northeast Ohio is occurring. To combat this, medical schools have agreed to grow enrollment by 30 percent by 2015—a difficult task for the schools, as classrooms and lab...

All interested students are encouraged to consider applying to the Emergency Medicine Research Division (EMRD) during the Fall 2011 recruitment drive. EMRD is a volunteer group dedicated to learning about research, doing research and publishing research, all centered around emergency medicine. This ...