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Students in novel three-nation Global MBA program examine American business
Weatherhead School of Management class brings together 60 students from India, China and United States After semesters in China and India, 60 Global MBA students from management schools in the two countries and Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management are now in Cleveland, ...
At Wyant Athletic and Wellness Center dedication, namesake commits $5 million more to CWRU
Commitment includes $2 million for an addition to the soon-to-open Wyant Center, plus $3 million to think[ box ] innovation center The man who had to be persuaded to come to a cross country practice more than 50 years ago returned to campus Thursday to celebrate the opening of a new athletic facil...
Daniel Goldmark named new director of CWRU’s Center for Popular Music Studies
Will discuss and perform “Rust Belt Alley”-era tunes at Happy Dog Cleveland on Oct. 14 Daniel Goldmark, the new director of Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Popular Music Studies, will step out of the lecture hall and onto the Happy Dog Cleveland stage with ukulele in hand. On Tuesday, ...
Climate change appears a mixed bag for a common frog
Researcher finds effects of earlier breeding and weather Scientists have found amphibians worldwide are breeding earlier due to climate change, but how that affects species is just now being answered. After warmer winters, wood frogs breed earlier and produce fewer eggs, a Case Western Reserve Univ...
Amputees discern familiar sensations across prosthetic hand
System providing sensation for more than two years Even before he lost his right hand to an industrial accident four years ago, Igor Spetic had family open his medicine bottles. Cotton balls give him goose bumps. Now, blindfolded during an experiment, he feels his arm hairs raise when a researche...
Law students file suit in federal court on behalf of 11 homeless people in Akron
When Rebecca Sremack was a third-year student last year in Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic, the Akron native found a way to link her dedication to important causes in her hometown with the Kramer Clinic’s mission. Sremack, who graduated last spring with a...
Burton D. Morgan Foundation commits to CWRU’s IP Venture Clinic, Blackstone LaunchPad
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation committed $679,400 to expand Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s intellectual property (IP) center, among the more than $2.5 million in grants recently approved by trustees of the Hudson, Ohio-based private foundation. In addition, the foundation pledged ...
Inaugural poet Richard Blanco to speak on campus Oct. 15
Richard Blanco was just the fifth person to hold the title of inaugural poet when he read at President Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013. Yet he was a first in many ways: He was the first Latino, immigrant or gay person to serve in such a role—as well as the youngest, at age 44. Blanco fol...
Dads of newborn twins shorted almost as much sleep as moms, study finds
Mothers of twins struggle to get sufficient, uninterrupted sleep, what with double feedings and all. But a new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s nursing school finds that fathers don’t fare much better. “Both mothers and fathers are coming up short on the recommended eight h...
Weatherhead School’s Boyatzis again makes list of influential international thinkers
Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis of Case Western Reserve University has again emerged as one of the 10 most influential international thinkers in a recently released 2014 HR Magazine survey of more than 11,000 human resources directors worldwide. Boyatzis, a New York Times bestse...