Science + Tech

CWRU Student-Run Free Clinic to open this fall Cleveland Jewish News: The Case Western Reserve University Student-Run Free Clinic, an inter-professional program in which medical and nursing students work hand in hand. Lauren Rotman, chair of development for the clinic, and David Lawrence, a second-...

Staff members are invited to take the Procurement Services annual customer service survey. Participant responses will help the department provide better service. Participants will be entered to win a Flip video camera. Click here to take the survey....

The fine art of YouTube Chicago Tribune: Forty-eight hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, most of is of questionable quality. “Some reflect that when the typewriter was invented, there was no boom in great literature," said Jared Bendis, creative director of new media at The Freedma...

Michigan ban on affirmative action may get 2nd look Associated Press: Michigan’s attorney general plans to ask an entire federal appeals court to suspend and re-examine the decision that overturned the state’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions. “This is a fascinating case. It’s a clos...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a computer modeling method to accurately predict how a peripheral nerve axon responds to electrical stimuli, slashing the complex work from an inhibitory weeks-long process to just a few seconds. The method, which enables efficient ev...

Preemies can catch up in vocabulary by teen years Reuters: A new study says that by the age of 16, children born very prematurely can catch up to children born at full term in their ability to identify names of things. H. Gerry Taylor, a professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine who was not...

There’s no doubt about it: Case Western Reserve University students, faculty and staff are connected in this world. But while social networks are obviously gaining prevalence, most of you feel there is no replacement for good ole face-to-face conversation, which won our poll. Inching close to a win...

Genine Apidone, career development manager in the Case Western Reserve University Career Center, facilitated a roundtable discussion on Career Counseling Program best practices at the National Career Development Association annual conference in San Antonio on July 1. Her discussion centered around t...

Lawyer who claims he’s mentally incompetent continued to handle guardianship case Akron Beacon Journal: A Norton attorney claimed he was incompetent to stand trial on public indecency charges but continued to represent at least one client. “I don’t see how he could [continue] with a straight face,”...

As previously announced, the Common Reading selection for 2011 is Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by nationally renowned scholar and author Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard. Sandel will be the keynote speaker at the University Fall Convocation ...