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Students use engineering skills to help aid a village in Senegal
The students and faculty members meet with residents of Ngohe, Senegal. Just days before the start of spring semester, as many students were already back on campus or packing up in their hometowns, five seniors were halfway across the world in Africa, learning how residents of a remote village live...
Political science faculty member examines European finance during Fulbright experience
Photo by Lynn Saville. Long before the epicenter of the financial crisis shifted to the European Union (EU), ӰƵ political scientist Elliot Posner had been studying the region’s financial arrangements and their international effects. This year, as an EU Affairs Fulbright...
Law school, Shaker LaunchHouse build foundation for intellectual property clinic
School of Law student Joel Simon stands outside Shaker LaunchHouse, where he meets with local entrepreneurs. Photo by Susan Griffth. ӰƵ law student Joel Simon has been working closely with some of Northeast Ohio’s most determined entrepreneurs. At Shaker LaunchHouse, a ...
SAGES fellow wins poetry award, book publication
Brad Ricca, a SAGES Fellow at ӰƵ who teaches classes on comic books and biography, is earning accolades for a more traditional form of literature: poetry. Among those accolades is the honor of having Garrison Keillor personally select his poem “The Beautiful Sandwich” t...
Freedman Center helps unearth recording of MLK visit to Cleveland
Employees in Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center are used to preserving major life moments, as people regularly bring in home video footage or audio reels to be converted to today’s listening and viewing formats. But when a Glenville High School student brought in a reel-to-reel audio recording h...
Origins scholars to be featured on new PBS series
The expanding universe. The developing mind. Emerging life. Advancing medicine. At first glance these wide-ranging topics seem unconnected. They are, in fact, encompassed in the science of origins, the spectrum of diverse scientific disciplines that seeks to understand how complex systems emerge an...
CWRU, CSU law professors help prosecute piracy in the Indian Ocean
Milena Sterio and Michael Scharf ӰƵ Law Professor Michael Scharf and Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Professor Milena Sterio traveled halfway around the world to the Seychelles Islands. They weren't there for the sun and surf, though; they w...
Survey says: CWRU students some of the smartest in the land
As the end of the year nears, “best of” lists and rankings compilations make their way onto nearly every news site—not to mention your Facebook news feed. Lately, word has spread quickly via social media about ӰƵ’s high rankings on the college-search site CollegeProwler....
CWRU football gains affiliate membership in Presidents’ Athletic Conference
The 2011 Spartan football team went 9-1 and won the Academic Bowl. Photo by Chip Valleriano. ӰƵ’s football team will join the Presidents’ Athletic Conference as an affiliate member at the start of the 2014 season. While the program will maintain its affiliation with the...
Keeping up shop: Staff-led initiative promotes safety in campus shops
Facilities manager Dave Conger (third from left) shows the new machine work to Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Chair Iwan Alexander, Case School of Engineering Dean Norman S. Tien and engineering’s associate dean of finance and administration Laura Bulgarelli. At Case Western Res...