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Spangenberg Family Foundation to endow Intellectual Property Law Center at School of Law
The Spangenberg Family Foundation, a Dallas-based philanthropic organization established by the family of Case Western Reserve University School of Law alumnus Erich Spangenberg, committed $3 million to endow the university’s Intellectual Property (IP) Center. The newly endowed Spangenberg Center f...
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History's John Grabowski discusses Labor Day's first supporters
John Patterson Green, father of Labor Day in Ohio, and his enduring legacy (with photo gallery)The Plain Dealer: John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Associate Professor in Applied History, discussed the reason for state Rep. John Patterson Green’s push to make Labor Day a state holiday in the late 1...
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Law's Peter Carfagna to teach MOOC on working as a sports agent
Case Western Reserve sets a course to train future sports agentsCrain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Peter Carfagna, Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence and co-director of the Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Law Academy, will teach “Representing the Professional Athlete,” a fre...
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First-year students: Vote for your class representatives Sept. 3-4
First-year students can vote for representatives in the Undergraduate Student Government, Residence Hall Association and Class Officer Collective Sept. 3-4. Links to voting will be sent to students’ emails....
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Undergraduate Julia Bianco writes about working as an extra in Hollywood films
Extra, extra! How to get your face on screenHuffington Post: Third-year undergraduate Julia Bianco writes about how anyone can be a part of the movies as an extra, and how one can find those opportunities....
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Welcome new students to campus at annual AfroAm freshman mixer Sept. 4
Students are invited to the Annual Freshman Mixer Thursday, Sept. 4, from 6 to 8 p.m., in the Wade Pioneer Room. Join AfroAm as the campus community welcomes incoming students to campus....
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Learn about graduate nursing programs at Sept. 6 open house
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will host a Graduate Nursing Open House, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., on Saturday, Sept. 6. The open house will include information about the Graduate Entry Nursing Program and Master's of Nursing for prospective students with a non-nursing undergraduate degree...
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Voices: A Women of Color Collaborative hosts kickoff Sept. 2
Voices: A Women of Color Collaborative will host its kickoff on Tuesday, Sept. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Suite 248. The campus community is welcome to join Voices for an evening of fun, food and networking to gear up for t...
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Chinese-American filmmaker Lee Mun Wah opens CWRU’s Power of Diversity Lecture Series Sept. 4
Internationally renowned, award-winning diversity filmmaker Lee Mun Wah will open Case Western Reserve University’s 2014-15 Power of Diversity Lecture Series with his talk, “The World is All Around Us.” The event is Thursday, Sept. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in the second-floor ballroom of the new Tinkham Veal...
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James Kazura’s accomplishments earn him CWRU’s top award
Former Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Dean Frederick Robbins greatly influenced James W. Kazura—an up-and-coming medical house officer in the 1970s—to pursue global health as a career. At the time, Kazura was surrounded by Robbins and other physicians and scientists devoted to i...