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Dan Flannery shares suggestions for preventing gun violence in OpEd for "Crain’s Cleveland Business"
Dan Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Research and Education, wrote a comprehensive public health approach to curbing gun violence in America, based on scientific evidence and his decades of researching the issue.   Crain’s…
Leadership Program Provides the Right Conditions for Women to Grow
“Where do I want to go from here?” In 2016, Tammy Noxon was beginning to think more seriously about her future.  At the time she managed credit and collections at Trumpf, an international manufacturer of industrial machinery.  Her children were recently grown, and she finally had time to pursue…
COVID-19 associated with increase in new diagnoses of type 1 diabetes in youth, by as much as 72%
Children who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to a new study that analyzed electronic health records of more than 1 million patients ages 18 and younger. In a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers at…
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COVID-19 associated with increase in new diagnoses of type 1 diabetes in youth, by as much as 72%
Children who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to a new study that analyzed electronic health records of more than 1 million patients ages 18 and younger. In a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers at…
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Applying AI to prevent the next pandemic
Case Western Reserve University to lead team including Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland State in exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to better predict pandemic risks Case Western Reserve University is leading a local team of scientists and medical professionals to determine how to apply…
Mentorship and Coaching Help Transform Women Leaders
For Audrey Turley, Weatherhead Executive Education’s Leadership Institute for Women in STEM and Manufacturing (LIW) reinforced a principle that she had always intuitively known: relationships are essential for development and flourishing.  Audrey is a senior biocompatibility expert at Nelson…
Personal View: Helping middle market companies 'clean out the closet'
It can be difficult for leaders of successful middle market businesses to know what to keep from the company's founding days and what to let go to enable the business to grow to its full potential.
Peer Coaching Offers Unexpected Benefits in Women’s Leadership Program
We all have a tendency to gravitate toward what is comfortable.  In fact, the more volatile and uncertain our world becomes, the stronger our instinct grows to seek solace in the familiar. But sometimes the things that provide us comfort also block us from making the changes we desire in life. No…
A place to call home: Cleveland's Black community is hit hardest in affordable housing search
Freshwater Cleveland: Amy T. Khare, research assistant professor and research director for the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, discussed the ongoing need to address continued concentrated poverty and racial segregation on Cleveland’s East Side, weighing in on the ​​HUD-funded…
New study reveals mechanism for how disease-spreading prions can jump from one species to another
Finding suggests transmission between species may be possible In a new study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the structure of protein fibrils linked to a hereditary form of human prion disease.   This insight, they say, reveals the mechanism…