Media
September 01, 2011
Self-employed struggle as U.S. recovery offers few opportunities
Bloomberg Businessweek: Because small companies employ about half of the private-sector labor force, it’s difficult for jobless rates to improve when they’re “not doing well, because they are too big a part of the economy,” said Scott...
August 30, 2011
Cuyahoga County Council OKs absentee ballot mailing; Husted drops plan to block ballot applications
The Plain Dealer: Secretary of State Jon Husted dropped his proposal to block absentee voting by using ballot applications sent at the taxpayers’ expense in Cuyahoga County. Husted said all voters sh...
August 30, 2011
Americana
BBC: The handwritten letter has become a “sentimental inconvenience” around the world, especially in America, so Americana themes its episode around the postal service. Bill Marling, professor of American literature, modernism, popular culture and globalization, discusses James N. Cain’s ...
August 30, 2011
College rankings that aren’t ridiculous: Washington Monthly
The Huffington Post: ӰƵ ranked No. 7 in Washington Monthly’s annual rankings, the top 13 of which are listed here....
August 30, 2011
'Bridesmaids,' 'The Help' draw women audiences – and big box-office numbers
The Christian Science Monitor: Female-driven films have been huge hits at the box office this summer, such as The Help and Bridesmaids. The success of Bridesmaids, said SAGES Fellow Brad Ricca, was partly due to the fact th...
August 30, 2011
Doctor shortage threatens U.S. and Ohio: The Changing Face of Medicine
The Plain Dealer: A doctor shortage across the U.S. and in Northeast Ohio is occurring. To combat this, medical schools have agreed to grow enrollment by 30 percent by 2015—a difficult task for the schools, as classrooms and lab...
August 26, 2011
Biomarker spinoff from ӰƵ gets $300K federal grant
MedCity News: NeoProteomics, a spinoff from ӰƵ that was co-founded by the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics’ director Mark Chance, received a $300,000 grant from the National Institutes of Healt...
August 26, 2011
Experts: Child homicides emotional, but not a trend in Boulder County
Longmont Times-Shield: In Boulder County, Colo., four children have been killed by their parents since 2009. Though shocking, there is no community profile to explain the problem, said Sara West, assistant professor of psychiatry...
August 26, 2011
New Jersey high court ruling on eyewitness identification could spur reforms nationwide
The Plain Dealer: New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent ruling allows criminal defendants to more easily contest eyewitness identification, and this ruling could spur other states to adopt similar reform because New...
August 25, 2011
What if Republicans closed the E.P.A.?
The New York Times: The 2012 field of Republican presidential candidates oppose the Environmental Protection Agency, which a Republican president, Richard Nixon, began in 1970. School of Law professor Jonathan Adler wrote an essay, “Fixing, Not Ending, Environ...