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Sports practice accounts for just 18 percent of differences in performance The Huffington Post: Brooke Macnamara, assistant professor of psychological sciences, explained the results of her study, which found that practice only accounts for about 1 percent of why some athletes are better than…

Meet Bob Sopko, startup guru extraordinaire: StartupScaleup The Plain Dealer: Bob Sopko, director of CWRU Blackstone LaunchPad, will share his wisdom at the Startup Scaleup event June 28. The daylong event brings together entrepreneurs and resources from Northeast Ohio to help small business owners.

Meet Virginia Raggi, the first female mayor of Rome New York Magazine: Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, talked about Rome’s first female mayor. “[T]hat women now govern two major cities is impressive, and that one of these is…

Paging Trump! Convention host committee chairs tied to offshore-happy corp Talking Points Memo: Susan Helper, the Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics, and Mark Votruba, associate professor of economics, discuss the link between three of four Republican National Convention co-chairs’ and…

How to reverse a bad first impression The Plain Dealer: Jennifer Bulter, lecturer in the Department of Psychological Sciences, gave some tips on how you can recover from making a bad first impression.

CWRU med school course targets overprescribing Cleveland 19 News: Ted Parran, associate professor of medicine, discussed the difficulty of denying patients addictive medications when necessary. He’s offering a course to medical students to help them learn to say “no.”

Cleveland's struggle to curb violence brings new approach The Plain Dealer: Daniel Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, explained the challenge of reducing violence when resources are scattered.

The teenager with one foot out the door The New York Times: Lisa Damour, clinical instructor of psychology, wrote about the tension that often exists in the home after teenagers have graduated from high school and have their sights set on moving out.

Human trafficking expected to increase during the Republican National Convention Cleveland 19 News: Maureen Kenny, professor of lawyering skills, discussed the problem Ohio has with sex trafficking, which is expected to increase with the Republican National Convention.

The brains of Flint’s children, imperiled by lead, could still escape damage Scientific American: Robert Fischer, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, explained why the association between low levels of lead in the blood and cognitive deficits might not be…