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Cleveland’s gun violence: What type of weapons are used in the city’s crimes and why cleveland.com: Dan Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, explained how data indicates gun violence—including mass shootings—will continue, and how more will need to…

Supreme Court news: Roberts and Kavanaugh emerge as the court's most pivotal votes Washington Examiner: Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker Hostetler Professor of Law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics, and Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of…

Symposium commemorates Berger’s Lifetime Achievement Award Cleveland Jewish News: Nathan Berger, the Hanna-Payne MD Professor of Experimental Medicine and former head of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, reflected on his career at Case Western Reserve after winning a lifetime achievement award…

Don’t swallow that ocean water—there’s probably poop in it SELF: Onema Adojoh, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Environment and Planetary Sciences, explained the importance of paying closer attention to the quality of the seawater you swim in—and, whenever possible,…

Bipolar disorder: A history of demons, humors and stigma Psycom: Jonathan Sadowsky, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine and the Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History, addressed the early history of bipolar disorder. “The humoral theory of…

Earth's core is wilder than you can imagine Mashable: James Van Orman, professor of geochemistry and mineral physics at the College of Arts and Sciences, said the innermost part of our planet, Earth's core, has a profound impact on our lives—even if we can’t get a glimpse of this impossibly…

Biden has a Plan B for student loan forgiveness: Here’s what we know cleveland.com (subscription required): Eric Chaffee, the Peter M. Gerhart Distinguished Research Scholar and associate director of the Center for Business Law, and Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law,…

After Householder and Borges sentences, what—or who—comes next? Cleveland Scene: Miranda Leppla, director of the Environmental Law Clinic at the School of Law, discussed the sentencing of disgraced former House Speaker Larry Householder—at the high end of the government’s requested 16- to 20-year…

Sound of Ideas ideastream: Megan Holmes, associate professor and founding director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed the effort to transform the City of Cleveland’s 22 recreation centers into places that provide…

Patient versus algorithm The Regulatory Review: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, and Andy Podgurski, professor of computer and data sciences, wrote about the potential for unintentional discrimination from AI tools in healthcare…