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Siegal Lifelong Learning presents lecture series Cleveland Jewish News: The Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will present “A Day at the University,” a daylong series of educational lectures on Sunday, April 6. The program allows community members of all ages to learn from renowned…

Ohio aims to curb chronic diseases The Columbus Dispatch: Health officials released a plan to prevent and reduce chronic disease across the state, developed with input from more than 40 organizations. The initiative gives public-health professionals metrics to meet and monitor together, said Suri…

The rent is, in fact, too damn high The Street: Though the Case-Shiller Housing Index shows a slight drop in housing prices, rents actually are up. "The single family home market, which is what Case-Shiller indexes, is still soft following the foreclosure crisis and tight credit situation,”…

Second-generation bias: A subtle but powerful presence Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers: To combat gender bias in the workplace, Kathleen Buse, adjunct professor at the Weatherhead School of Management, suggests changing women’s perspective of themselves, beginning at a young age. She…

2 Cleveland researchers get ASH Bridge Grants to continue hematology work amid funding cuts The Plain Dealer: Alvin Schmaier, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, and Keith McCrae, professor of molecular medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, are among 15 researchers…

Cleveland partnership aims to more than double the children in preschool within two years The Plain Dealer: According to research from the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, 1,200 of Cleveland’s 5,400 4-year-olds attend a quality pre-school program—a number a new joint effort seeks…

The envelope, please: Students open letters about their future Fox 8 Cleveland: Last Friday was “Match Day” at the School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and at medical schools around the country as graduating students found out where they would begin their residencies.

Eavesdropping deep within the brain Scientific American: Cameron McIntyre, associate professor of biomedical engineering, commented on recent Parkinson’s treatments that are based on the notion that many neuropsychiatric conditions are the result of “network dysfunctions” in the brain.

Dragonflies lack 'smell center,' but can still smell Science: A recent discovery that dragonflies use their smell exclusively to hunt prey, not to actually smell, may redefine how olfactory structures are organized, according to Joshua Martin, research associate in the Department of Biology.

Brains of kids with autism are "noisier" than typical brains, CWRU imaging research shows: Discoveries The Plain Dealer: The brains of children with autism produce significantly more static-like background noise at rest than those of children without the disorder, according to a recent study by…