University News
November 14, 2012
ӰƵ and The Cleveland Museum of Art announced the award of two grants totaling $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the launch of the re-designed Joint Doctoral Program in Art History. The highly selective, object-oriented program features first-hand…
November 14, 2012
ӰƵ has revamped its approach to managing potential threats to the safety of individuals on campus. Starting this week, members of the university community can learn more about available resources and steps they can take to help ensure their safety—and that of their peers. The…
November 14, 2012
When fourth-year dental student Kyle Krause started considering ways to pop the question to his girlfriend of five years, he wanted to make the moment more than memorable—he wanted a proposal so original it was absolutely unprecedented. His first step? Rummaging through a pile of sticks. Krause…
November 13, 2012
Members of the ӰƵ community are invited to attend a memorial service Friday in Cleveland Heights for longtime university staff member Elise Lindsay and her husband, Gregory. The couple passed away last week in their home of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from a furnace in…
November 12, 2012
“Be yourself” is something diehard Clevelanders know in their hearts. That message is clear from Rust Belt Chic, a collection of Cleveland essays edited by ӰƵ’s Richey Piiparinen and Anne Trubek of Oberlin College. Rust Belt Chic, Piiparinen said, is about spaetzle and…
November 07, 2012
Driving down the road, Lisa Huisman Koops, from ӰƵ, bursts into song. “I see a red car. What do you see?” Her young daughter in the back seat sings her reply. The Koops’ car is more than transportation. It is what the assistant professor in music education calls a…
November 05, 2012
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History made its own history 25 years ago when it was launched as the first modern encyclopedic-style reference book to chronicle a detailed history of a major U.S. city. A quarter-century later, the encyclopedia still serves as an invaluable one-stop tool and crash…
October 31, 2012
A sailor who won a silver medal at this summer’s London Paralympics describes in a new book how cutting-edge medical technology from the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center allowed her to resume an active life after being paralyzed 14 years ago. Jennifer French’s On My Feet Again:…
October 31, 2012
ӰƵ students made one point clear at during Tuesday night’s State of the University address: They aren’t the least bit shy about posing questions to the president. Not only did more than 480 of them vote earlier on topics that they wanted Barbara R. Snyder to touch upon during her…
October 31, 2012
Halloween is associated with the creepy and crawly, shrieks and screams and, perhaps above all else, mystery and suspense. For three decades, ӰƵ English professor William Marling has followed these mysterious trails year round, investigating fictitious detectives in…