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Peter Lewis to speak at CWRU commencement Cleveland Jewish News: Philanthropist Peter B. Lewis will speak at CWRU’s 2013 commencement ceremony, where he also will be awarded an honorary degree. “Peter B. Lewis exemplifies many of the qualities we seek to instill in our students,” said President Bar...

Affirmation model may help in weight management Family Practice News: Shirley Moore, professor of nursing, discusses appreciative inquiry and its use by families to engage in their adolescents’ weight-management efforts. "My experience is the energy that comes from it is so amazing in terms of movi...

Case Western Reserve launches program to encourage student entrepreneurship Ideastream: Bob Sopko, director of Blackstone LaunchPad talks about the new program and student entrepreneurship. “The intent is to open the doors of allowing students to explore entrepreneurship to maybe create their ow...

Mapping the human brain ideastream: President Obama plans to allocate $100 million from the 2014 federal budget to jumpstart a project to comprehensively map the brain. This proposition is so intriguing, according to Robert Miller, vice president of research, because there is little known about the...

Case Western Reserve University professor wins Gates grant for preterm prevention work The Plain Dealer: In an effort to combat preterm birth, the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth launched an international research funding initiative. A research proposal from Sam Mesiano, assoc...

Cleveland: Is there a Chechen connection to Boston bombing? The Plain Dealer: Associate professor of political science Kelly McMann and associate dean of global legal studies Michael Scharf shared their thoughts on the Chechen connection the Boston bombing....

Ohio approves money for collaboration in medical research The Plain Dealer: Case Western Reserve will receive $2 million from the Industrial Technology and Enterprise Advisory Council for the Ohio Clinical Trials Collaborative. The statewide collaborative medical research effort will increase the c...

Being brown after the Boston bomb blast The Huffington Post: In the wake of last week’s tragic Boston marathon bombing, Deepak Sarma, professor of South Asian religions and philosophy, blogged about the rumors “that automatically point the finger at (an) international terrorist(s), who, is/are in t...

New moms more likely to seek help for depression if it's online CNET: A new study finds that women with postpartum depression don’t seek counseling because of the stigma attached to depression and because they don’t have the time—but they would use online counseling. "An online intervention is avai...

Ask the experts: If I could make one policy change to fix the federal deficit, I would… Card Hub: Joseph White, chair of the Department of Political Science, provided insight as to what policy change he would recommend the government make: “having a real public option for health insurance within th...