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Shooting to kill: Why police are trained to fire fatal shots The Plain Dealer: Michael Benza, senior instructor in law, discussed the difficulties of legislating perceived danger. “It's not one of those things that we can give officers guidelines for,” he said. “We recognize that they can…

Felice Urban Cafe, Bill Hixson Florist, Tech Guru Jared & Fabric Artist, Karen Mulier Ideastream: On today's episode of Applause, Jared Bendis, the creative new media officer at Kelvin Smith Library, will preview some of the hottest new tech toys for the holiday season.

Weatherhead 100 shows that innovation can brighten old industries: the Mix The Plain Dealer: Last week, winners of this year’s Weatherhead 100 were announced. The annual rankings are based on five years of revenue growth.

The new leadership challenge Educause Review: Michael Kubit, interim chief operations officer for Information Technology Services, wrote about the changing landscape of information technology (IT) leadership. “IT leaders must develop a new set of skills," he wrote. "Emotional and social…

Everything we know about the Tamir Rice shooting investigation Buzzfeed.com: Lewis Katz, the John C. Hutchins Professor at the School of Law, discussed the ongoing Tamir Rice shooting investigation. “I think you have a strong possibility for indictment here,” he said. “Everything happened so…

How Brazil plans to teach a million people English before the Rio Olympics Wired: David Clingingsmith, associate professor of economics, explained how efforts to teach English in India had a big impact on the country, and whether it could do the same for Brazil. “In India, English has played a big…

CWRU leads multicenter research on sudden epilepsy deaths; project awarded $27.3 million grant The Plain Dealer: Professors Samden Lhatoo and GQ Zhang discussed the National Institutes of Health grant to identify the causes of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy. Lhatoo shared that the phenomenon…

Police and the black community ideasteam: Undergraduate student Eva Barrett was a panelist on The Sound of Ideas to discuss recent events involving police and the black community. Barrett is a member of CWRU's New Abolitionist Association.

Drug can repair spinal cord injuries, study shows BBC.com: Jerry Silver, professor of neurosciences, discussed his team’s discovery of a drug that allows for nerves in the spinal cord to grow and repair injuries. "What we could see was really remarkable,” he said. “Some (nerves) recovered to a…

Famed “Lucy” fossils discovered in Ethiopia, 40 years ago History.com: Forty years ago, then associate professor of anthropology Donald Johanson discovered the now famous remains of “Lucy”—a 3.2 million-year-old “Australopithecus afarensis” and one of mankind’s earliest ancestors. The find…