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Law schools are bulking up from need for health care specialists Crain’s Cleveland Business: The Affordable Care Act has increased demand for attorneys specializing in health care, like that taught at the Law-Medicine Center. “As you can imagine, given all the developments in changes and medicine a...

In Turkey, a strange dance between government and entrepreneurs Entrepreneur: Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor in the Weatherhead School’s new Department of Design and Innovation, penned an article about the state of entrepreneurship in Turkey, where he spent the summer teaching....

Chaste ascetic? A letter details Mahler’s love life The New York Times: Stephen Hefling, professor of musicology, talked about a recently discovered letter written about the love life of Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler. “The letter is a fairly complete account of love affairs with qu...

Heat wave risks to your wallet and sanity Mainstreet.com: Mingguo Hong, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, discussed why the possibility for energy failures is more prevalent in the summer months....

Motor City breakdown ideastream: Robin Dubin, professor of economics, talked about what led Detroit into bankruptcy and what cities such as Cleveland can learn from the matter....

As Obama talks, Washington barrels toward budget showdown CBS News: Joseph White, the Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, discussed President Obama’s recent speech concerning the budget. The latest speech, White noted, focused solely on government investments rather than about deficit redu...

Could a private university have made a difference in Detroit? The Atlantic: After Detroit filed for bankruptcy, some asked what might have happened if a private university had existed there, citing Case Western Reserve’s impact on Cleveland....

In Cleveland, killings show social costs of deterioration The New York Times: Robert L. Fischer, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, talked about the decline of East Cleveland, explaining it lost 40 percent of its population from 1990 to 2011....

Man charged in deaths of three Ohio women CNN: Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, talked about some of the factors that may be contributing to the spike in major violent crime in Cleveland....

Cleveland hospitals see promise for intraoperative radiation therapy in breast cancer patients The Plain Dealer: Janice Lyons, associate professor of radiation oncology, discussed the circumstances in which intraoperative radiation therapy—a procedure where a patient receives radiation immediately ...