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Black History Month: How Cleveland and St. John's Episcopal Church became 'Station Hope' on the Underground RailroadWKYC: Noël Voltz, assistant professor of history at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed Ohio City's St. John's Episcopal Church—recognized as the oldest consecrated church…

‘Why is it still going up?’—Utility costs increasing, Ohio consumers looking for answersWEWS: Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor of law, discussed a new proposed bill advocating transparency in billing, as Ohians see rising utility bills—even for those using less energy. “One party has more…

In wake of spy balloon, concerns swirl about China and RussiaKNX Los Angeles: Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Law, outlined growing concerns about China’s relationship with Russia, in the wake of the U.S. discovering what the federal government has identified as a Chinese…

Zoom fatigue is (still) real: How virtual commute time can helpMedium: Jennifer King, assistant professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, said meaningful breaks between meetings can make all the…

Supreme Court weighs Biden's student debt cancellation planCBS Evening News: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, outlined the Supreme Court’s deliberations—both for and against—regarding President Biden's student debt cancellation plan. 

In between brain-popping classes, is Case Western Reserve becoming a basketball school?cleveland.com (subscription required): The CWRU men’s basketball team is heading to the NCAA Division III tournament for the second-straight season. Columnist Terry Pluto detailed the team’s rise, noting Head…

Foreign policy experts discuss U.S. involvement in Afghanistanideastream: In the latest episode of "Talking Foreign Policy," Michael Scharf, co-dean of the School of Law, and Shannon French, Inamori Professor in Ethics, director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence and an…

CWRU awarded $3M grant to advance MRI scan, software technology for brain tumorsCrain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Dan Ma, assistant professor at the School of Medicine, and Chaitra Badve, associate professor at the School of Medicine, discussed a new grant to research MRI scans. 

Should workers of a certain age be required to undergo competency testing?Spectrum News: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, weighed in on a controversial idea in politics: requiring mandatory competency testing for politicians over the…

Cleveland looks to an unlikely savior: a long-neglected riverBloomberg: John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, described the “dirty” history of the Cuyahoga River: jobs and pollution. “We lost that which made the city great but polluted it,” Grabowski says.