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Learn the lingo: A reference guide to CWRU
Editor’s note: This article originally ran in 2016, but to help the university’s new students acclimate to ӰƵ—and because of its popularity each year—it's appearing in The Daily again—with a few updates. Arriving on campus for the first time, in a brand-new city and…
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Tuition Exchange to continue at CWRU permanently, but changes coming to process
Information sessions for faculty and staff to be held this month After completing a four-year pilot with a program that provides tuition assistance to dependents of university employees enrolled elsewhere, campus leaders have elected to continue the partnership on a permanent basis. In 2012, the…
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Inamori Center to present Transparency International founder Peter Eigen with Inamori Ethics Prize
Lecture and panel discussion free and open to the public, Sept. 8 and 9 Each year, the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at ӰƵ gathers the community to honor an international exemplar of ethical leadership with the Inamori Ethics Prize as part of…
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Vision researcher Krzysztof Palczewski receives Distinguished University Professorship
Krzysztof Palczewski, one of the world’s leading vision researchers and recipient of numerous international awards and universal peer respect, has been awarded the permanent title of ӰƵ Distinguished University Professor. Palczewski, the John H. Hord Professor and…
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Department of Chemistry Chair Mary Barkley awarded Distinguished University Professorship
As chair of ӰƵ’s Department of Chemistry, Mary D. Barkley guides others to academic success by blending leadership, research and life skills. The M. Roger Clapp University Professor of Arts and Sciences was recognized for that guidance by being chosen a Distinguished…
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Weatherhead School of Management’s David Cooperrider recognized with Distinguished University Professorship
Photo by Dan Milner. ӰƵ has honored David L. Cooperrider, a global expert on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and a faculty member at Weatherhead School of Management, as a Distinguished University Professor, a title that acknowledges the outstanding contributions of…
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Welcome to the 2016-2017 school year
To the ӰƵ community: First-year move-in day epitomizes the spirit of community on our campus. The lines of families unloading vehicles, the welcoming smiles of students, staff and faculty, the energy of orientation leaders guiding their groups—they all combine to create a rich…
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5 questions with… LGBT Center Director Liz Roccoforte
Liz Roccoforte remembers being a sensitive kid. “I was easily upset by seeing others in pain, so much so that I was sometimes teased for being ‘oversensitive,’” she said. This sensitivity, however, remains at the core of her work. “I have a personal stake in the LGBTQ community,” said…
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A glimpse of Cleveland: First-year students explore their new home before orientation
Editor’s Note: To get an up-close perspective of some of the first-year students’ introduction to their new home, the editor of The Daily, Katie Laux, joined students on the Creates Adventure, watching them experience different parts of Cleveland for the first time and witnessing the early start of…
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New law students hear from men freed by Ohio Innocence Project
Two men sat on stools in a ballroom at Tinkham Veale University Center earlier this week, passing a microphone back and forth as they fielded questions from 160 students entering their first year at the ӰƵ School of Law. It was Day One of orientation, and the “1L’s,”…