Media
February 06, 2015
Case Western Reserve basketball off to historic start, ready for big weekend The Plain Dealer: The action for the unbeaten-at-home men’s basketball team continues this weekend, with tonight’s game vs. Chicago and Sunday’s faceoff with No. 12 Washington University in St. Louis. "The players…
February 06, 2015
Barriers to more healthcare reform are numerous MedPage Today: Joseph White, director of the Center for Policy Studies, discussed some of the barriers to getting health care policy to work. "I think it's fair to say that the people who would be most necessary to cooperate, to overcome the power of…
February 06, 2015
Could mixed-income housing be hurting poor boys? HuffPost Live: Mark Joseph, director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at the Poverty Center at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, joined the discussion on a new study about mixed-income…
February 04, 2015
Successful strawberry frog dads die young BBC: A study shows having a lot of offspring is linked to a shorter lifespan—in males and females—in the strawberry poison frog. “This study confirmed that [reproductive] care is costly to females, but surprisingly revealed that reproduction is similarly…
February 04, 2015
Congress mulls fast track for trade agreements
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Juscelino Colares, professor of law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, warned against relying on specific trade statistics in the debate on whether President Barack Obama should have…
February 04, 2015
Diversion program effective with juvenile offenders with mental health disorders, substance abuse Social Work Today: Jeff M. Kretschmar, research assistant professor, led researchers from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences' Begun Center for Violence Prevention…
February 04, 2015
CWRU, Cornell doctors receive nearly $700,000 to fight prematurity-related disorders Plain Dealer: Jonathan Sears, associate professor of ophthalmology, discussed the grant he and a researcher from Cornell University received from the Hartwell Foundation that will help them research blindness and…
February 02, 2015
Teen hears with her brain, not ears
wkyc.com: Maggie Gleason, who was born deaf, heard sound for the first time when hearing specialists at University Hospitals Case Medical Center turned on an innovative electronic device called an auditory brainstem implant. “For someone who has never heard, the…
February 02, 2015
Online banking's upswing leads FirstMerit to close branches in four states
wksu.org: William Mahnic, associate professor of banking and finance, discussed the reason for the closing of bank branches. “As we as consumers become more willing to do our financial transactions online, and as banks…
January 30, 2015
Prehistoric skull a key 'piece of the puzzle' in story of humanity Reuters: A partial skull found in a cave in Northern Israel suggests the individual was closely related to the first Homo sapiens populations that later colonized Europe. “It is the first direct fossil evidence that modern humans…