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School of Law plays essential role in advocating for bail reform in Cuyahoga County courts
ӰƵ, along with Cleveland Marshall College of Law and the Metropolitan Bar Association, provides legal expertise in county’s Bail Task Force, which recently released its much-anticipated report Money shouldn’t be the only reason defendants are detained during bail hearing...
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"Step therapy" approach to lowering health care costs raises concerns, writes ӰƵ law professor
Law journal article raises the strategy’s legal, ethical implications To keep rising health care costs in check, many health insurers have adopted a strategy known as “step therapy,” a policy requiring patients to try cheaper drugs first—and find them to be ineffective—before approving pricier medic...
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What will the future be like? Student-created board games take a crack
New games—now on display at MOCA—explore what's next in health care, transportation and finance From left: Professor Youngjin Yoo; Manoj Malhotra, dean of the Weatherhead School of Management; and artist Simon Denny at the opening of The Founder's Paradox Just as playing Monopoly helps illustrate ...
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Battling human trafficking
ӰƵ symposium on March 2 to explore solutions for a crime growing nationally and in Ohio At this moment, there are more than an estimated 30 million enslaved people around the world. Ohio is indicative of the problem: The state ranks fourth in the number of sex-trafficki...
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How will the U.S. economy fare in 2018?
Considering potential changes to the tax code, interest rates and federal policy, the annual David A. Bowers Economic Forecast looks at the financial year ahead One of the most significant influences on the future of the U.S. economy is still taking shape—or may not come to fruition at all—as legisl...
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ӰƵ law school students file federal Civil Rights complaint against Ohio prison officials
Rastafarian inmate says prison officials forcibly cut his dreadlocks, kept as part of religious practices An Ohio inmate who practices Rastafarianism has sued the director of the state prison system and five others, claiming they violated his Civil Rights by forcibly cutting his dreadlocks and preve...
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New federal planning grant to help manufacturers, workforce on Cleveland’s West Side adapt to “Internet of Things” connectivity
“Smart” technologies and connected systems—enabled by “the Internet of Things” (IoT)—are profoundly changing how people live and work. To support research that helps communities understand and adapt to that transformational change, the National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated a Smart & Connected...
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CWRU will use Department of Energy grant to drive private investment in energy innovations
Two professors will create a new investment product to manage risk and catalyze funding for promising energy technologies at critical stages With a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), researchers at ӰƵ will develop a new financial product to attract a broader...
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Study: After Hurricane Katrina, personal debt fell for those worst hit—but at a cost
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans a dozen years ago, there was a sharp and immediate drop in personal debt among residents living in city’s most flooded blocks, according to a new ӰƵ study. Yet, the main driver of this debt reduction—using flood insurance t...
Post-Doc Q&A: In Pursuit of Nursing Research
In Pursuit of Nursing Research By Shelly Koski The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is known for educating the most innovative nurse scientists in the nation. Forefront asked to four of the school’s post-doctoral fellows what inspired them to become a nurse scientist and what advice they wou...