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Top colleges put thousands of applicants in wait-list limbo, and some won’t admit any The Washington Post: Rick Bischoff, vice president for enrollment management, explained the importance of a wait list in the admissions process, and why about 10 percent of each class is filled with qualified…

Could HoloLens’ augmented reality change how we study the human body? Ed Tech Magazine: Mark Griswold, professor of radiology, discussed the far-reaching applications Microsoft’s HoloLens could have in education. "The practical benefits of Microsoft HoloLens’ mixed-reality technology for higher…

Can Ohio delegation help Cleveland rock for Kasich? Associated Press: After the Republican party has talked about an alternative candidate to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, commented on the implications…

United Nations human rights chief condemns ‘ugly’ tone of U.S. election Time: Case Western Reserve University School of Law recently hosted Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations high commissioner for human rights, for a talk, in which he condemned the rhetoric of Republican presidential contender…

Focus on chief justice as Supreme Court hears immigration challenge New York Times: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, discussed reasons Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts might dismiss a case on immigration by saying the state didn’t have the standing to sue. “Ways of…

A hot research area: Integrated circuits that work well above the melting temperature of lead Design World: Mehran Mehregany, the Veale Professor of Engineering Innovation, and Srihari Rajgopal, a research associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, wrote a guest…

Proposal for $15 minimum wage in Cleveland WKYC: Bill Mahnic, associate professor of banking and finance, explained why raising Cleveland’s minimum wage could be detrimental to the city’s economy. “It’s a job killer,” he said. “The Congressional Budget Office, which is not political, took a look at…

The future of solar power and a renovated celebrezze building ideastream: Geneviève Sauvé, the Frank Hovorka Associate Professor in Chemistry, and Roger French, director of the Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension Center at CWRU, discussed how solar energy can be harnessed and the potential it…

How to build a better knee Men’s Journal: Bruce Latimer, professor of anthropology, anatomy and cognitive science and director of the Center for Human Origins, talked about how evolution left our knees weak. "We took a chimpanzee-like knee and turned it into a biped's," he said. "But evolution…

Case Western Reserve University reminds others to recycle with emotional signage News Net 5: John Brogan, a senior studying cognitive science, discussed a new initiative he launched at Case Western Reserve University increase recycling. By posting more descriptive and emotional signs on recycling…