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CWRU to serve as home for new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Nick Barendt, executive director of the Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems, explained how CWRU will lead a new U.S. Department of Energy-funded Smart Manufacturing…

Booster shot or not? Mixed messaging creates distrust during COVID-19 pandemic cleveland.com (subscription required): Scott Frank, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, said that the effect of all rapidly changing health directives and conflicting…

AARP faces accusations of hostile workplace, discrimination in Black woman’s lawsuit: Case claims racism derailed promising career Pacer Monitor: Ayesha Bell Hardaway, associate professor of law and co-director of the Social Justice Institute, commented on a lawsuit filed against AARP for alleged…

Why AI is watching workers Lifewire: Raymond Ku, professor of law and the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar, discussed privacy—or the lack thereof—involving artificial intelligence systems monitoring Amazon delivery trucks, part of a growing trend of companies using tech to monitor…

Cleveland City Council candidate accuses Kevin Kelley-controlled PAC of violating campaign finance laws cleveland.com: Jonathan L. Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, weighed in on claims that a political action committee controlled by…

Retiring Gund Foundation president David Abbott is getting a new role at CWRU's School of Law Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): School of Law co-deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf discussed the new Distinguished Jurist in Residence at the law school, David Abbott, who along…

COVID-19 summer surge may have hit highest point, but will numbers continue to drop in the fall? cleveland.com (subscription required): Keith Armitage, professor of medicine, and Mark Cameron, associate professor at the School of Medicine, discussed falling COVID-19 case rates, suggesting that the…

Cleveland marks 35 years since 1.5 million balloons fell on city in disastrous balloonfest WFLA: John Grabowski, Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, discussed a Cleveland balloon launch that quickly turned disastrous, causing multiple accidents and hampering the search for two missing…

Vaccine mandates: How sincere is a ‘sincerely held belief’? Christian Science Monitor: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said the new federal vaccine requirements will now “give employers some cover” in the national effort for workplace…

How to beat the next pandemic? Start educating kids now. Mashable: Jennifer King, an 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 issues facing children coping with the emotional…