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CWRU offers new award for graduates of minority serving institutions, HBCUs Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Ben Vinson III, provost and executive vice president, discussed the university’s new scholarship program involving nine Historically Black Colleges and Universities…

Case Western Reserve University receives $16 million federal grant for new research center on substance use and HIV cleveland.com: Alan Levine, professor of molecular biology and microbiology at the School of Medicine, discussed a new $16 million, five-year federal grant to launch a…

Should people with natural immunity be exempt from vaccine mandates? New bill argues yes. Health experts say no. Orlando Sentinel: Mark Cameron, associate professor at the School of Medicine, said there is significant evidence that immunity from the vaccine is similar to immunity from actually…

6 sneaky signs you're experiencing ongoing trauma from the pandemic HuffPost: 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, discussed the trauma center’s recent research suggesting…

The type of gun used in most US homicides is not an AR-15 ABC News: Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, noted that of the 10,258 gun murders in the U.S. in 2019, handguns were used in 6,368 of them, but added that these numbers may not be…

Cuyahoga County is betting on microgrids to power the area's business future WKSU-NPR Kent: Grant Goodrich, director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve, provided detail on how microgrids work, using the Hawaii islands as an example to help understand that microgrids are…

EY-Innovation Hub at Nottingham Spirk wants to do innovation differently Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Michael Goldberg, associate professor of design and innovation at Weatherhead School of Management and executive director of the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship,…

Pixar lamp and Mystique inspire novel approaches to shapeshifting materials ArsTechnica: Charles Rosenblatt, the Ohio Eminent Scholar and professor of physics, talked about a new “shapeshifting” technique he and collaborators have accomplished using liquid crystal. The team includes a physicist…

Not their jam—dozens of people protest Smuckers vaccine mandate WEWS: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said that employers are within their rights to have a vaccine mandate, noting a federal order requiring large employers with 100 or…

CDC allows J&J, Moderna, mixing boosters, but it’s too little, too late, say some Central Florida residents Orlando Sentinel: Mark Cameron, associate professor at the School of Medicine, said that unanswered questions about COVID-19 shouldn’t undermine trust in science. “You start with a…