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5 questions with…law professor, avid skier Maxwell Mehlman
For Maxwell Mehlman, everything happens for a reason. Take, for example, his entire career. “Everything that has happened to me was part of a sequence of fortuitous events,” Mehlman said. When Mehlman graduated from law school at Yale University, he headed to Washington, D.C., to practice. He took...
Case School of Engineering offers new master’s programs to meet industry needs
Case Western Reserve University’s School of Engineering has launched three new master’s degree programs that respond to shifts in industry and workforce demand. The advanced degrees are aimed at professionals and recent graduates who seek specific training in wireless health, fire science and engin...
”Quiet: The Power of Introverts" is CWRU’s 2013 Common Reading choice
Extroverts may win “most popular,” but author Susan Cain says that their quieter counterparts deserve a second look. The talents of introverts may be less pronounced, but can be just as valuable at home, work and across society. Cain explains her perspective in the bestseller Quiet: The Power of In...
Flora Stone Mather Center for Women’s Dorothy Miller to retire
After 11 years at Case Western Reserve University, Dorothy Miller, director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, will retire at the end of this semester. Miller came to Case Western Reserve in 2002, after she was recruited from Wichita State University to establish the new women’s center at ...
White House invites CWRU’s Dan Flannery to address school violence prevention
When the White House assembled a panel of experts for today’s discussion about preventing school violence, Vice President Joseph Biden made sure Dan Flannery was on it. Flannery, director of Case Western Reserve University’s Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and ...
MOND used to predict key property in Andromeda’s satellites
Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property measured in faint dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda. The predicted property in this study is the velocity ...
Multiple testing methods needed to better detect, treat infection in low birth-weight newborns
New research by Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine finds that cultures commonly used to detect bacterial infections in low birth-weight newborns with early onset sepsis may actually overlook some germs. The research done at Case Western ...
Case Western Reserve collaborates to offer spring break camps
The President’s Committee on Child Care Options (PCCCO) is sponsoring two spring break camps this year for children of Case Western Reserve faculty, staff and students. One weeklong program will take place on the university campus through a partnership with The Music Settlement, while the other will...
CWRU research on analytic vs. empathetic thinking takes center stage in panel with top execs
Update Monday, Feb. 25: The panel now can be viewed online. An idea emerging from research at Case Western Reserve University will be pulled from the ivory tower and placed squarely among executives from IDEO, Google and Udacity at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco today. Anthony Jack, as...
Psychology’s Lee Thompson named top educator of first-year students in the U.S.
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report Professor Lee Thompson takes an unusual approach to teaching her course “Life of the Mind,” a First Seminar in SAGES (the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship) at Case Western Reserve University. Thompson, chair of the Depart...