University News
February 29, 2012
ӰƵ takes campus safety seriously, and as part of continuous efforts to improve security, the university has partnered with a new company to deliver emergency alerts to the campus community.
Beginning next week, Rave Mobile Safety will replace CaseWARN as the university’...
February 29, 2012
Recent findings from ӰƵ—including breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s disease research and the development of a polymer that fixes scratches in a flash—showcase the innovation of members of the university community. With the selection of this year’s common reading book and the ...
February 27, 2012
The "Talking Foreign Policy" panelists—from left: Mike Newton, Paul Williams, Milena Sterio and Michael Scharf—prepare for their pilot episode.
It’s been a few years since his time as a student disc jockey at Duke University, but School of Law Professor Michael Scharf will hit the airwave...
February 27, 2012
A $5 million commitment to ӰƵ’s Think[Box] program is among more than $11 million in gifts for the Case School of Engineering announced during this weekend’s Board of Trustees meeting.
Trustee Larry Sears and his wife, Sally Zlotnick Sears, made their $5 million pledge ...
February 20, 2012
ӰƵ and Siegal College will combine their highly regarded adult education programs into a new initiative to launch this fall: the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at ӰƵ.
“This partnership draws on the strengths of each of our ...
February 17, 2012
First-year ӰƵ nursing student Darren Ting moves his bow across the cello’s strings to play “Sarabande” from Bach’s Cello Suite #1. When he finishes, eight students from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing help eighth graders in Mark Bair’s music class at Miles at ...
February 14, 2012
The study abroad experience will have an added dimension for a handful of ӰƵ students—a third dimension, to be precise.
This summer, three to five classics students will spend a month in Rome, where they will create a virtual 3-D reconstruction of an ancient Roman archa...
February 14, 2012
Alexander P. Lamis, associate professor of political science, died Feb. 10 after a seven-month battle to overcome a reaction to medications. He was 65.
Born May 10, 1946, in Charleston, S.C., Lamis earned his undergraduate degree in history from the College of Charleston, He went on to earn a Ph.D...
February 10, 2012
Who would have thought trans fats could sneak into your diet? That dentists could dig up the dirt on evolution? Or that bicyclists could boost the local economy? The innovative researchers, thought leaders and status-quo challengers of ӰƵ did.
From discovering that ultr...
February 08, 2012
One person can make a big difference. Erika Cheung, a senior at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, found that out on the Alaskan tundra far from the bustling urban crowds at ӰƵ and her suburban hometown in Massachusetts.
Just a few short weeks into her senior p...