Media
October 17, 2012
Cleveland's Main Avenue Bridge awaits emergency repairs to aging steel supports
The Plain Dealer: Over the summer, officials banned large trucks and buses on the Main Avenue Bridge in Cleveland. The bridge will require about $500,000 in emergency repairs before trucks can return. It suffers from lag...
October 17, 2012
Nashville developers abandon plans for a medical mart; Cleveland site to open in July 2013
The Plain Dealer: Developers abandoned plans for a Medical Trade Center in Nashville, Tenn., leaving Cleveland’s medical mart as the final project in the works. While it’s good for Cleveland, it doesn’t guaran...
October 17, 2012
A century of the Beverly Hills Hotel
American Public Media: This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel. The hotel helped create the luxury of Beverly Hills, where home sales had been slow prior to the hotel’s opening. Now, the glamour of the city bolsters the hotel’s ...
October 17, 2012
100 years ago, Maillard taught us why our food tastes better cooked
NPR: In 1912, Louis-Camille Maillard discovered the chemical reaction that occurs when food is cooked—and that explains why cooked food tastes better. Before, people just made educated guesses about how cooking worked. His initial a...
October 17, 2012
The vertigo of new vision
Axiom News: David Cooperrider, the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, has long focused on designing a new process for celebrating and learning from businesses that are agents of world benefit. In a Q&A, Cooperrider explains how he got the idea—and how ...
October 17, 2012
Harvey Pekar's Jewish roots discussed in free CWRU program
Sun News: On Oct. 17, Case Western Reserve University will host a talk looking at the late underground comic book author Harvey Pekar’s complicated relationship with Judaism. In “Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me,” Pekar’s widow, Joyce B...
October 17, 2012
Why small businesses won’t stop underpaying taxes
Bloomberg Businessweek: In a commentary piece, Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, writes that Congress could lower the federal budget deficit by 16 percent by taking one action: getting small business owners t...
October 17, 2012
Siegal classes begin this week
Cleveland Jewish News: Several classes begin this week as part of the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University. Courses range from “Contemporary Spirituality” to “The Stakes: How This Election Could Shape Health Care and the F...
October 17, 2012
Local university inks exchange student plan
Fox 8 Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine signed an agreement for an exchange program with the Rambam Health Care Center in Israel. “Our institutions are both very high quality and they both will offer students [a] very pos...
October 17, 2012
2012 ROI rankings: college education value compared
PayScale: In its annual rankings of more than 1,248 colleges by their tuition return on investment— what you pay to attend versus what you get back in lifetime earnings—PayScale ranks Case Western Reserve University No. 37. In terms of private univ...