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Cleveland Museum of Art, MetroHealth to host screening, discussion of documentary 'The Waiting Room' The Plain Dealer: J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Healthcare Finance, will be part of a panel discussion following a screening of The Waiting Room, a documentary...

Strangers in a strange land Inside Higher Ed: As the number of international students at U.S. colleges rises, there are increasing concerns about how well they’re being integrated into campus life. Case Western Reserve University started offering training to help professors better serve internation...

Why would mothers want to kill their children? LoHud.com: A mother recently killed her child and then herself—years after her sister committed a similar act. In cases such as this, “What seems like cruelty to the lay observer is not really in that mother’s mind,” said Philip Resnick, professor of p...

In pursuit of warm fuzzies: Turning to faith for comfort Psychology Today: Julie Exline, associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, examines the complex correlation between comfort and faith—as well as its potential pitfalls....

Academic Minute: Urbanization and the detective novel Inside Higher Ed: William Marling, professor of American literature, modernism, popular culture and globalization, traces the roots of the detective novel to the process of urbanization and the subsequent fears stemming from “the urban unknown.”...

Sequestration cuts will shortchange students, universities say The Columbus Dispatch: After federal officials failed to reach a deal to avoid across-the-board spending cuts, university administrators noted it will heavily affect students, operations and research. In the long term, the cuts will dec...

Fewer Ohioans starting own businesses Hamilton Journal-News: The number of self-employed Ohioans is at the lowest level since 2001. “It’s not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing, it’s just the nature of the Ohio economy is people on average are less likely to be self-employed than in some other...

Cosmic fuggedaboudit: dark matter may not exist at all Time: Though dark matter is widely accepted, the underdog theory of Modified Newtonian Dynamics, or MOND, recently got a boost from research conducted by astronomy professor Stacy McGaugh. Like many, McGaugh initially wrote the theory off. But ...

New test could determine if a child is at risk for diabetes WOIO: Researchers are conducting a clinical trial to determine if biochemical markers in the skin may predict which individuals are at high risk for the development of diabetes complications. "Diabetes is becoming a global epidemic, and we...

Truth in labeling: trans fats The Dr. Oz Show: Fourth-year medical student Eric Brandt writes about his findings on the “zero trans fats myth” as a medical researcher for The Dr. Oz Show. Specifically, Brandt found that if there is less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving, a company can label i...