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5 questions with...Master of Public Health program founder, faculty member Scott Frank
When ӰƵ looked to launch a Master of Public Health program two decades ago, the School of Medicine found its first leader in Scott Frank, then on the medical school faculty, director of health for the City of Shaker Heights and a family physician at University Hospitals....
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Remembering Marian Shaughnessy, double alumna, visionary and benefactor of Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing leadership academy that bears her name
From her own experience as a nurse, spanning bedside to boardroom, Marian Shaughnessy saw firsthand how nurses could help reform and redesign health care to make treating people more patient-centered, cost-effective and accessible—if empowered to do so. Marian Shaughnessy It was while completing ...
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Remembering 15-year staff member Darlene Barnes
Throughout her 15-year career at ӰƵ, Darlene Barnes was known for her humor, dedication and thoughtfulness—qualities that impacted not just her colleagues but youth from across Cleveland, as she worked as the department assistant for the university’s FOCUS Group’s TRIO U...
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School of Medicine student selected as a 2020 Gates Cambridge Scholar
Nikhil Krishnan describes his educational journey as a mix of math and medicine. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from ӰƵ, he went on to pursue a medical degree at the School of Medicine. “I’ve been fascinated with math since grade school,” he said, “and was...
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VP for Research and Technology Management Suzanne Rivera named Macalester College president
ӰƵ research leader Suzanne M. Rivera will become Macalester College’s 17th president in June, its board chair announced Monday. “Dr. Rivera has distinguished herself through her work as an ethicist; her record of advancing the values of service, internationalism, and multicultural...
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Memorial tomorrow for alumnus and longtime university supporter, Phillip "Phil" Ranney
Tomorrow the campus community is invited to remember law school alumnus Phillip “Phil” Ranney, whose exceptional philanthropic service made him one of a select group to receive the President’s Award for Visionary Achievement (PAVA). “Phil’s sincerity and fundamental decency inspired me from our ver...
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5 questions with… Charley Knox, associate astronomer in the Department of Astronomy and co-founder of the Science Fiction Marathon
Photo credit: Daniel Milner It’s showtime for Charley Knox. Associate astronomer in the Department of Astronomy and a fixture at ӰƵ for nearly 50 years, Knox (CIT ’74, astronomy; GRS ’78, physics) will spend this weekend inside the projection booth at Strosacker Auditor...
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Joy Ward named new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of an accomplished scientist and academic leader as the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Joy K. Ward, an associate dean for research and dean’s professor at the University of Kansas (KU), will begin...
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Undergraduate student Jonathan Arms passes away
Jonathan Arms had an insatiable thirst for knowledge. When he was 9, he asked his mom to purchase Minecraft—not so he could play it, like other kids his age, but so he could use it to teach himself programming. He taught himself Russian in high school—a language he continued studying as a Case Weste...
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5 questions with… law student, Yemen Accountability Project Executive Director Laura Graham
When Laura Graham applied last year to serve as a student officer with the Yemen Accountability Project at ӰƵ School of Law, she wasn’t planning to lead the effort. But that’s exactly what James Johnson, director of the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office, had...