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Dr. Tarabichi’s Data Obsession Shines in the Clinical Space  This article is a part of our Health Disparities Researcher Feature series. Yasir Tarabichi, MD, pulmonary, sleep, and critical care physician at MetroHealth Medical Center, has always been a self-proclaimed “tech and data geek”.…

Geneva B. Johnson (MSSA '57) was the special guest on the first episode of the Mandel School's new podcast, Change Leaders. Johnson led a long and distinguished career in social work and nonprofit management. Starting as program director with the YWCA in Houston, Texas, she became a successful…

Christine Duval investigating novel methods for separating elements for wind turbines, electric vehicles, smart phones, nuclear power �Ӱ���Ƶ scientist Christine Duval will investigate novel and more environmentally safe methods to separate so-called “rare-earth elements”…

Paul Berg, PhD [GRS'52], Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in the field of genetic engineering, who earned his PhD in biochemistry from Western Reserve University in 1952, died last month. Berg became the university’s first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1980 when he was awarded the prize “for his…

In only their second year of participating in the Ohio Contractors Association Student Estimating Competition, the team from �Ӱ���Ƶ’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering took home the top prize. Teams from 12 universities—totaling 72 students—participated.…

In a paper published in Genes & Development, investigators identified the protein WRD5 as a promising way to turn off cancer “stemness” at a molecular level, clearing the way for treatment like chemotherapy to kill glioblastoma cells. Cancer stem cells, like regular stem cells, can inherently…

Directly across the hall was the office of one of his favorite professors, Joe Prahl, and he’s teaching Machine Dynamics in the same classroom where he learned it from former Dean Tom Kicher, whom he can see like it was yesterday. “Sometimes I get emotional,” Rashidi said. “I feel that I have come…

�Ӱ���Ƶ and the Weatherhead School of Management will celebrate Employee Appreciation Day this year on Friday, March 10. In honor of the day, Weatherhead is recognizing staff members throughout the month of March from a number of offices in the school.  Department Assistant…

Last month, Cleveland’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) section named Xiong (Bill) Yu, chair of �Ӱ���Ƶ’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, its Civil Engineer of the Year for his contributions to education, research, service and leadership. Yu’s nominators…

�Ӱ���Ƶ scientist PhD student applies new calculations to reveal downsizing and chunky details about species from Devonian Period About 360 million years ago, in the shallow subtropical waters above what is now the city of Cleveland, an armor-plated fish many believed to be…