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Cleveland's urban scene gets a boost from young adults moving in The Plain Dealer: Richey Piiparinen, a researcher in the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, recently released a paper on where Northeast Ohio’s young adults are moving and found they’re moving, in large numbers, into…

Delay in crowdfunding rules hurts foreign entrepreneurs Entrepreneur: Michael Goldberg, an adjunct professor of banking and finance, penned an op-ed on crowdfunding investments for businesses around the world.

Cleveland's law schools venture into cyber classes The Plain Dealer: The School of Law is one Cleveland law school testing out online programs, planning to put its entire LLM program online in the fall. "I don't think there's any sacrifice in the quality of education at all," said Dean Lawrence…

Modern lessons from arranged marriages The New York Times: Religious studies professor Deepak Sarma is profiled in an article on the importance of parents’ involvement in choosing marriage partners.

Pros, cons of President Obama's gun proposal for gun owners WKYC: School of Law professor Jonathan Entin discussed the pros and cons of President Barack Obama's new gun control proposal that would require universal background checks on gun purchases.

Smartphone apps can fall short in detecting skin cancer, study finds ABC News Radio: Relying on unregulated smartphone apps to detect skin cancer can postpone diagnosis and cause harm, a study found. However, the FDA has announced plans to regulate these apps and, given their accessibility, they…

Live on Lakeside: Weight-loss supplements WKYC: Nutrition’s Mary Beth Kavanagh discusses the consequences of diet pills, from fat-burning pills to laxatives. She sites the potentially acute dangers of taking such substances, many of which have yet to be properly researched.

Live on Lakeside: Sports enhancing drugs debate WKYC: School of Law professor Maxwell Mehlman and head football coach Greg Debeljak weighed in on the debate surrounding performance enhancing substances in sports, examining the pressures that face the athletes as well as the shaky distinctions…

The future of MOOCs Campus Technology: Lev Gonick, chief information officer and vice president of Information Technology Services, discussed how he would like to see the phenomenon of MOOCs—or massive open online courses—evolve.

Astronaut on ice: A search for Antarctic meteorites Space.com: Associate professor of geological sciences Ralph Harvey leads the Antarctic Search for Meteorites, an operation that heads to a remote region of Antarctica to search for conspicuous dark rocks that might be extraterrestrial.