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ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the Board of Trustees has approved the appointments of Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf as deans of the School of Law. The two have led the school on a temporary basis since the fall of 2013; since then, the school has made…

The 2014-15 annual report on promotions and emeritus status is now available. This report lists faculty who were appointed to emeritus status since last year’s report or who were promoted to associate professor or professor or awarded tenure on July 1. Download the list.

Peter Gerhart, professor of law and former dean of the School of Law, was selected as the interim president of Lake Erie College. He began his yearlong term Aug. 1, but still will teach a seminar this fall. He will return to ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ next June. Gerhart served as law school dean from…

Michael Weiss, the Cowan-Blum Professor of Cancer Research and professor of biochemistry and medicine, was elected to the national Board of Trustees of the Summer Science Program and to the national Board of Trustees of the Presidential Scholars Foundation. The National Science Foundation began…

Results of the 2015 Staff Advisory Council elections are in. The two-year terms for newly elected representatives begin in September 2015. The following university staff members have either been elected or reelected: University Administration Exempt: Timothy Eppich Richard Kramer Jing Li James…

Jill Korbin, the Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor, director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as president-elect (2015-2017) and president (2017-2019) of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Korbin’s research focuses…

Nora L. Nock, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, was appointed to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study Section for Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30,…

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ Director of Athletics Amy Backus recently announced the hiring of Danny Song as the Head Coach of the Spartans’ Wrestling team. "The wrestling program at CWRU has a long and storied history of success. I am thrilled to announce that Danny Song will be our next head…

Deputy Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Lynn Singer assumed presidency of the Developmental Neurotoxicology Society (DNTS) on June 2, at the annual meeting in Montreal. The meeting was held jointly with the International Neurotoxicology Association. DNTS is focused on studies of the…

Ronald Hickman, associate professor of nursing at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a national honor awarded for his contributions to the profession. No one was as surprised as the young…