Media
February 20, 2012
Microchip implanted to deliver drug shows promise in trial
The New York Times: Scientists at Case Western Reserve University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created an implantable microchip that can deliver a drug used to treat osteoporosis....
February 16, 2012
Dia Frampton, ‘Rembrandt in America’ and ‘The Interrupters’
WCPN: Catherine Scallen, chair of the Department of Art History and Art, joined Dee Perry’s Around Noon to preview the Cleveland Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship.”...
February 16, 2012
Science Cafe: Science on the fly
WCPN: On a recent episode of The Sound of Ideas, Helen Salz, professor of genetics, and Jocelyn McDonald, assistant professor of molecular medicine and genetics, discussed how fruit flies tell us so much about ourselves....
February 16, 2012
‘Slavery by Another Name,’ Fashion Week and Opera in Cleveland
WCPN: Mary Davis, chair of the Department of Music, joined Around Noon to talk New York Fashion Week and the acclaimed film Bill Cunningham New York....
February 13, 2012
President Obama compromises on contraception
American Public Media: President Obama announced an accommodation on contraception for religious employers, where employees share the premium for contraception. J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, wei...
February 10, 2012
New attack on Alzheimer’s
The Wall Street Journal: School of Medicine researchers used a drug typically used to treat skin cancer to reverse Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The method will is to “help Mother Nature do what she normally does” in clearing amyloid fragments from the brain, said Gary Land...
February 10, 2012
Cleveland's literary elite publish fresh works of fiction in the digital age
Fresh Water Cleveland: Thrity Umrigar, associate professor in the Department of English, is featured in an article on successful Cleveland authors and their latest books—including hers, The World We Found. “I’ve often talk...
February 10, 2012
World’s innovative creators and their masterpieces
EyesIn: A book by Jenifer Neils, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, is highlighted for its “fresh look at visual representations of women in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome.”...
February 08, 2012
Powell driven by revenge in killing sons, himself?
MSNBC: Josh Powell took his own life and that of his two sons in a house fire. Phillip Resnick, professor of psychiatry and director of the division of forensic psychiatry, said revenge against his wife’s parents could have been his motivator. “The...
February 08, 2012
Case Western Reserve University's Recovery House a haven for students who are clean and sober
The Plain Dealer: Case Western Reserve University opened Recovery House in 2004 and is one of only a few colleges in the country that offers a place for students in recovery to live together. Many universi...