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5-year-old boy dies from gunshot wound in Maple Heights WKYC: Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, provided his expertise on Ohio gun laws for a story about a 5-year-old boy in Maple Heights who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Specifically, he commented on whether parents can be…

Research roundup: How prions replicate and more BioSpace: Research led by Jiri Safar, professor of pathology, neurology and neurosciences at the School of Medicine, was featured in BioSpace. Safar and his colleagues for the first time identified surface features of human prions that allows them to…

Pandemic tied to spike in diabetes in children; type of immune response lasts months after Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Reuters: Akina Tamaki, assistant professor at the School of Medicine, discussed her new research showing that the risk of Bell's palsy was nearly seven times higher in those with…

Report of lease deal and possible minority owner investment would be big boost to Indians and city WOIO: Michael Goldberg, associate professor of design and innovation at Weatherhead School of Management and executive director of the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, discussed the economic…

The weapon that eradicates cities by creating 'radioactive tsunamis' Interesting Engineering: Physics professor Harsh Mathur discussed the development of a new Russian nuclear weapon and the opportunity average citizens have to contact their representatives asking for the U.S. and Russia to…

Supreme Court shifts slowly to the right in first term with expanded conservative majority CBS News: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, offered his perspective on a news report about U.S. Supreme Court decisions that may not have been as conservatively driven as…

Former police officer Derek Chauvin sentenced to more than 22 years for murder of George Floyd CBC News: Ayesha Bell Hardaway, assistant professor of law and co-director of the Social Justice Institute, discussed the sentencing of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and the impact of…

What infrastructure really means The Atlantic: Following President Joe Biden’s release of an infrastructure plan in March, Peter Shulman, associate professor of history, provided historical context to the term “infrastructure” and described its shifting meaning over time.

Green leaf or gold medal? Politico: Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor and the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, posited that including marijuana in the list of banned substances for athletes hearkens back to the U.S. War on Drugs in the late 1960s and should be revised.

Continued disparity for receiving COVID-19 vaccine between Black and white Cuyahoga County residents is from hesitancy, knowledge, access barriers cleveland.com: David Miller, an associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, offered his perspective on…