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If Obamacare is overturned, a Case Western Reserve law professor gets the credit The Plain Dealer: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, discovered a significant flaw in the Affordable Care Act, which has led to pending cases in federal court. “I'm a firm believer that the la...

Preschool ABC’s ideastream: Robert L. Fischer, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed his recent study that reported that pre-school can pay big dividends in preparing young people to le...

Man claiming to have bedbug is ejected from Newark council meeting The Columbus Dispatch: Jessica Berg, professor of law and bioethics, weighed in on a recent situation in which a man was asked to leave a city council meeting after stating he had bed bugs. Anybody can be asked to leave a public mee...

Universities in Pennsylvania cutting programs and faculty: Higher education roundup The Plain Dealer: Daniel Lacks, the C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering, and about a dozen master’s degree students will travel Yangon Technological University in Myanmar to teach an intensive two-wee...

Sweet and sour: Two flavors of "thank you" Psychology Today: Julie Exline, associate professor of psychology, blogged about the importance of showing gratitude and how being grateful can enrich ones life in her most recent edition of “Light and Shadow.”...

Can three Northeast Ohio health care heavyweights tame big data? Crain’s Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic, UH and the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have joined to launch the Institute of Computational Biology, which will allow them to take advantage of the hulking amount of clinical inform...

Do you need a doula? Fit Pregnancy: John H. Kennell, professor emeritus of pediatrics, recently discussed the positive impact of presence of a doula for a pregnant woman. A doula is not trained to deliver babies, but rather lends support to women and their families. “We think that anxiety can slow...

Public universities in some states asked to limit number of out-of-state students: Higher education roundup Plain Dealer: A chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has been started at Case Western Reserve University. The university has historic ties with th...

Marin Alsop, Jared Bendis and Jason Lawhead Ideastream: Jared Bendis, creative new media officer at Kelvin Smith Library, shared ideas on technology toys for the holiday season on a recent episode of “The Sound of Applause.”...

Younger people with HIV may face more stress, isolation: Study Huffington Post: Researchers found that people younger than age 50 with HIV feel more disconnected from their support group, largely because of stigma they felt because of their disease. “The younger, newly diagnosed individual may not ...