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April 07, 2013
Vaccinations are critical to good health, but to be effective, the vaccines must be refrigerated. In developing countries with little access to electricity to keep the vaccines cold or automobiles to quickly transport them, simply getting vaccines to individuals in need can be a major challenge. Tha...
April 05, 2013
When Jim Edmonson accepted the position as curator of the Dittrick Museum of Medical History, he thought his stint would be short-lived—two years, tops.
That was 1981. Today, Edmonson still reigns over the museum, which he’s helped grow from a doctors’ museum to a more universal health and medicine...
April 04, 2013
They delved into human anatomy and learned CPR. They explored the engineering that goes into rebuilding a historic bridge. And they got a sense of the long, challenging path to becoming an entrepreneur.
Since last fall, 30 high school students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District made mo...
April 02, 2013
It’s been 150 years since Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in southern states, but some would argue the cycles of oppression slavery created still exist today. To better understand how the U.S. can learn from and deal with its past, we should turn to Germany—as well as Steven...
April 02, 2013
ӰƵ historian Marixa Lasso received two prestigious fellowships—from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Humanities Center—to write a book about the forgotten history of the Panamanian towns that dotted the Canal Zone until a 1912 executive o...
April 02, 2013
Student entrepreneurs will enter the finals of two contests offering big payoffs this week: the Clean Energy Challenge in Chicago and the Saint-Gobain Student Design Competition on campus.
Two teams from ӰƵ are vying for $150,000 in prize money and a chance to win more ...
April 01, 2013
Athletes will drop in on Cleveland this summer for the 2013 National Senior Games, defying widely accepted age limitations on the mind and body.
But growing older doesn’t necessitate breaking down physically and growing stagnant mentally—a lesson ӰƵ’s 20th Annual Floren...
April 01, 2013
One of only 200 experts in the country, Marco Rouman has seen the horrific side of what happens when the elderly go without dental care.
Rouman, who is launching and directing geriatric-focused graduate and predoctoral training programs at ӰƵ’s School of Dental Medicine...
March 29, 2013
When people hear the term “cancer research,” they might think cures, genes or even prevention. Mary Step’s studies take a different route.
As an assistant professor of family medicine and community health, she studies the communication between cancer patients and their physicians. And as the honora...
March 27, 2013
Margaret A. Wheatley, assistant professor of nursing and minority fellow at the ӰƵ Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, died March 24. She was 67.
Wheatley earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1989 and later her master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nurs...