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5 questions with...Laila Michel, Haitian national team swimmer and first-year student
By Eddie Kerekes, Class of 2020 When first-year swimmer Laila Michel’s father first told her the news, she thought he was joking. Michel, then in high school, could not believe she would be going to the Haitian embassy in Washington, D.C., to secure dual citizenship in Haiti and the United…
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David Hall receives prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Article provided by CWRU Athletics. Read the original on their website. Senior David Hall, a member of the men's cross country team, has been selected as a fall recipient of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, awarded to student-athletes across all three NCAA divisions who excel academically and…
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Layoffs lead to higher rates of violent offenses and property crimes: Study
Displaced workers experienced a 20% increase in criminal charges the year after a downsizing Everyone knows that losing your job hurts, but the negative effects are not solely experienced by the displaced worker. Newly published research by a Case Western Reserve University economist finds that…
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Scientists successfully test new way to deliver gene therapy
Case Western Reserve University researchers use lipids to safely deliver gene therapy to the eye, successfully holding off advance of rare, inherited eye disorder Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have used a unique method to safely deliver gene therapy to fight a rare, but…
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Computer scientist and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier visits campus March 4
Jaron Lanier, the computer scientist and virtual reality pioneer whose book, You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto; Who Owns The Future?, has been at the center of conversations about the digital future since its release in 2010, will speak on campus Wednesday, March 4, at 6 p.m. as part of the…
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2020 Cleveland Humanities Festival: TRUTH
This spring, the fifth Cleveland Humanities Festival continues its annual exploration of some of society’s most pressing issues and concerns—through the lens of a single topic This March and April, the 2020 Cleveland Humanities Festival will probe one of the most objective and subjective subjects…
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What the doctor ordered
Ted Parran is re-educating physicians who may have helped fuel the opioid epidemic For as long as the opioid crisis has dominated headlines, the question of who's to blame has festered. Ted Parran Jr., the Isabel and Carter Wang Professor and chair in medical education at Case Western Reserve's…
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Cancer Center Director Stan Gerson to lead School of Medicine as interim dean and senior VP for medical affairs
President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that they have appointed Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Stan Gerson to serve as interim dean for the medical school and interim senior vice president for medical affairs. Both appointments are effective July…
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Two-factor authentication added to Google applications
In an effort to increase security and better protect the data Case Western Reserve University users are storing and sharing via Google’s G Suite applications, everyone in the campus community who has registered for two-factor authentication with DUO will be required to use it to access any G Suite…
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Remembering Marian Shaughnessy, double alumna, visionary and benefactor of Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing leadership academy that bears her name
From her own experience as a nurse, spanning bedside to boardroom, Marian Shaughnessy saw firsthand how nurses could help reform and redesign health care to make treating people more patient-centered, cost-effective and accessible—if empowered to do so. Marian Shaughnessy It was while completing…