Publications + Presentations

Two student startups do well in competition: Higher Education Roundup The Plain Dealer: Student startup Carbon Origins took third place and a $10,000 prize in the first Blackstone LaunchPad Demo Day in New York City. Other CWRU projects—Everykey and SensID—also competed.

It was a dark and chilling night in 2006 when Michele Hanks, a Case Western Reserve University anthropologist and SAGES Fellow, waited for a ghost to appear. She sat, knees to her chin, with a half-dozen people in the lightless upstairs room of the haunted Golden Fleece, a pub in York, England, on…

Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, wrote three works that recently were published. “Super Soldiers (Part 1): What is Military Enhancement?” and “Super Soldiers (Part 2): The Ethical, Legal, and Operational…

Kathryn Mercer, professor of lawyering skills in the School of Law, has presented around the world in recent months. In May, she co-presented with Law Professor Jonathan Gordon at Global Legal Skills Conference IX in Verona, Italy. The title of their talk was “A Multi-Cultural Perspective on…

Senior computer science major John Billingsley and his teammates from the University of Southern California presented their video game, “Close Your,” at an independent game festival in Los Angeles known as IndieCade. Along with presenting, the game was nominated for and won the "Developer's Choice…

Ahmad Khalil, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at the School of Medicine, has been selected to speak at the 16th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium. The symposium, co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy…

Students in the gross anatomy lab stand with trepidation before their human cadavers, uneasy about making that first cut, writes T. Kenny Fountain in his new book, Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab (Routledge, 2014). The associate professor of…

Earlier this month, more than 30 members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, also informally known as Case Hacker Society) traveled to the University of Michigan to attend MHacks, one of the largest student-run hackathons in the country. Hackathons are marathon coding gatherings where…

Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently had her work, “Citizen Science: The Law and Ethics of Public Access to Medical Big Data” accepted for publication in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Rhonda Williams, associate professor of history and founder/director of the Social Justice Institute, will be a featured panelist on a plenary titled, “Cities In Revolt: Detroit, Chicago, Jackson-Mississippi, & Beyond,” Sept. 25-28 at Kalamazoo College. The panelists will examine resistance…