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Blackstone LaunchPad to host Case Startup Weekend for prospective entrepreneurs
Blackstone LaunchPad—a program that supports entrepreneurship at Case Western Reserve University—will host Case Startup Weekend from Aug. 30 to Sept 1. Students interested in starting businesses are encouraged to learn about the world of entrepreneurship while meeting new people during the three-da...
Jonathan Adler talks market vs. government regulation of environment
Friday Interview: Seeking the best type of environmental protection Carolina Journal Online: Jonathan Adler, School of Law professor and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, discusses the benefits of market processes over government regulation when it comes to environmental prote...
New strain of salmonella fights off antibiotics, sayd Robert Bonomo
New strains of bacteria fight off antibiotics The Columbus Dispatch: Heidelberg is the strain of salmonella linked to the widespread outbreak, and it’s one of several that have evolved to fight off many antibiotics. “If a patient’s immune system is compromised or the disease becomes more than diarr...
Researchers discover two new rodents in Bolivia
Case Western researchers discover two new Rodents of Unusual Size The Columbus Dispatch: Researchers from the School of Medicine and Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías who were working in southern Bolivia discovered two new rodent fossils: Mesoprocta hypsodus, which probably looked like a guinea pig ...
Small businesses may not be seeking loans; Scott Shane weighs in
Small firms hunger for sales, not credit The Wall Street Journal: An alternate view of the lack of small-business lending has emerged, suggesting that small businesses don’t want additional loans. But Scott Shane, A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, said that demand for loans...
Anthony Sowell to speak to court; Lewis Katz doubts it will have much effect
Anthony Sowell expected to talk in court -- something Ohio allows people facing the death penalty The Plain Dealer: Anthony Sowell was expected to address jurors Friday about why he should be spared the death penalty. But because of the overwhelming evidence against him, Lewis Katz, John C. Hutchin...
The Onion's A.V. Club tours Superman house with SAGES fellows Ricca, Sangiacomo
Cleveland: The Superman house The Onion’s A.V. Club: In an episode of Pop Pilgrims, SAGES fellows Brad Ricca and Michael Sangiacomo, who both teach courses on comics, explain the origins of Superman and take a tour of the Cleveland home where the famed comic originated....
Ukulele grows in popularity; music's Daniel Goldmark explains why
Ukulele: The little guitar that could The Christian Science Monitor: Ukulele sales are skyrocketing, and we’re in the midst of the third wave of popularity of the small guitar. “People see the ukulele and think it's simple but there's far more going on there,” said Daniel Goldmark, associate profes...
Law professor Michael Scharf gives his advice for Mubarak trial
A history of political trials PRI’s The World: Michael Scharf, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and director of the Frederick K. Cox Center for International Law, provides advice to those trying Hosni Mubarak, based on lessons he learned while assisting with the Saddam Hussein ...
Planned outage of QuikPay scheduled for Aug 7-8
QuikPay services will be down from Sunday, Aug. 7, at 11 a.m. to Monday, Aug. 8, at 7 a.m. This outage will allow Information Technology Services (ITS) and the QuikPay vendor to conduct scheduled maintenance. QuikPay is the system used by students to pay tuition with a credit card. For further que...