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University Circle to come alive with music this summer for ”Play Me, I’m Yours”
Here’s your chance to live out your dream of performing in public. The Cleveland International Piano Competition and ӰƵ will make your dream possible by bringing to Cleveland “Play Me, I’m Yours,” a public art installation of 21 working pianos to be placed—ready for spo...
Answers to a mystery revealed in an unsung architect’s story in Dedication
Anthony “Chip” Valleriano was 7 years old when a 3-by-4-inch, black and white photo from the early 1900s of the elaborate interior of Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church in Ashtabula first captured his fascination. It was the church his family attended and where he would later be an altar server. But...
Bestselling author of ”The Other Wes Moore” to headline annual unity banquet
Two young men who shared the same name and lived in similar Baltimore-area neighborhoods wound up on opposite sides of prison bars. One Wes Moore became a Rhodes Scholar and bestselling author; the other is serving a life sentence in a Maryland prison. The story of how they both found trouble befor...
Development leader Susan Lewis passes away
Susan Lewis, executive director of development and external relations at the College of Arts and Sciences, passed away Friday, March 15. She was 49. Lewis began this role in 2008, working to strengthen programs in the arts, humanities, mathematics and social, physical and biological sciences throug...
New MRI method fingerprints tissues and diseases, leading to earlier, quicker diagnoses
A new method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could provide early identification of specific cancers, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and other maladies, researchers at ӰƵ and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center write in the journal Nature. Each body tiss...
5 questions with...law professor Juscelino Colares
By the time he was 16, Juscelino Colares knew he wanted to be a lawyer when he grew up. The only difference between Colares and many other teenagers with the same dreams? He actually started law school then. Colares grew up in Brazil, where he started college at the age of 16. Law is an undergradua...
CWRU receives Helmsley Trust grant to develop new glucose-sensitive insulin
ӰƵ’s School of Medicine has received a nearly $1 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Type 1 diabetes program. The three-year award will support research on a rapid-acting, glucose-responsive insulin by biochemistry professor Michael ...
Professor finds complex mathematics theorem can be proved more simply
Fermat’s Last Theorem was unsolved for nearly 350 years until Oxford Mathematician Andrew Wiles created a proof in 1995. ӰƵ’s Colin McLarty has shown the theorem can be proved more simply. The theorem is called Pierre de Fermat’s last because it was the last and longest...
Researcher’s $1.2 million grant funds efforts to reduce prevalence of preterm birth
A scientist at ӰƵ School of Medicine has been awarded a $1.2 million grant to develop a therapy to reduce the prevalence of premature births, which today affect more than 15 million newborns worldwide each year. Sam Mesiano, associate professor of reproductive biology, ...
Nearly 200 students head abroad during spring break
By Jack Behrend It’s day two of spring break, which means many ӰƵ students already are enjoying vacation destinations, home or just a stress-free week on campus. Nearly 200 ӰƵ students have decided to take a different route, however, choosing to enroll...