University News
March 28, 2017
Event will explore global health issues of importance ӰƵ, including the School of Medicine, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, Brazil, will be holding a three-day…
March 23, 2017
Three ӰƵ junior faculty members have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants, totaling nearly $1.7 million. The five-year grants support research into: Movements of nanoparticles through confined spaces, with…
March 17, 2017
While military ethics have been studied for more than 2,000 years, the field has lacked a common entry point for professional training—until now. ӰƵ has established the nation’s first graduate program in the field. Shannon French, leader of the new degree program and…
March 16, 2017
A Washington Post profile of Marian Wright Edelman describes a scene from 1967 in which she, as a 27-year-old civil rights attorney, leads Sen. Robert F. Kennedy through the Mississippi Delta to meet sharecroppers. She wanted him to see their dire conditions first-hand—especially the starving…
March 14, 2017
CWRU places two of top three finishers in national student startup competition at South by Southwest
Having two of the nation’s top eight qualifiers for the final round of South by Southwest’s (SXSW) “Student Startup Madness” competition was already impressive. To have both student entrepreneurial teams from ӰƵ finish among the top three in the country this week was…
March 14, 2017
Thanks to gains in research and admissions, ӰƵ’s School of Medicine maintained its top-25 position in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings. For several other programs, improvements in individual categories weren’t enough to avoid slight dips in their…
March 14, 2017
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) is hosting three days of activities at multiple University Circle institutions this month as part of its programming for children of members of the ӰƵ community. Titled “Museum Hopping,” the programs for children in kindergarten…
March 09, 2017
Passersby pause and watch or stick their heads into the tucked-away nook for a better view. Some snap photos. Natalie Lanese This week, the two-story white wall—actually 29 feet wide by nearly 28 feet tall—behind the Grand Staircase at the center of the Tinkham Veale University Center is…
March 08, 2017
Second annual festival unites 25 cultural institutions for artistic and educational events from March 15 to April 24, including a presentation by Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico. The history and contemporary shape of immigration in Northeast Ohio—itself a rich fabric of diverse…
March 07, 2017
The running joke in Alex Huang’s pediatric oncology immunotherapy lab is that, to become a member of the research team, you have to shave your head. While that’s not really the case, many do so anyway—for a good cause. The researchers in Huang’s lab will “brave the shave” once again at the 2017…