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University responds to campus community’s Bright Ideas
Members of the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ community have offered more than 100 Bright Ideas since the university launched its online suggestion box last month. From composting to co-ops, energy-saving measures to equipment updates, the responses show that people at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ really d...
Female WWII pilot gives $2 million to flight nursing program
Dorothy Ebersbach applied to the Women Airforce Service Pilots in 1943, when this photograph was taken. A pioneering female aviator who served her country during World War II has made a gift to ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµâ€™s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing—a gift that combines her love of...
Art history professor writes introduction to book on CWRU-connected photographer
American art historian and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ art history professor Henry Adams has written extensively about painters like Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Eakins, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth and Grant Wood. Now he turns his attention to photographer Abe Frajndlich, whose images of major p...
Prominent professor, gerontology expert Robert Binstock passes away
Well-known faculty member and academic Robert Binstock, PhD, passed away Monday evening. Binstock was the professor of Aging, Health and Society but served in a variety of roles across the university. He held primary appointments in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the School of Med...
Blackstone LaunchPad to grow entrepreneurship at CWRU, around Northeast Ohio
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ is one of four area higher education institutions to be named part of Blackstone LaunchPad, an initiative to give university students, faculty and alumni the skills, knowledge and guidance they need to start new companies. The Blackstone Charitable Foundation and The ...
Nursing student aims to build Costa Rica’s pool of nurse scientists
The nation of Costa Rica has only one nurse-scientist with a PhD conducting research in the field—but Ana Laura Solano Lopez is hoping to change that. A student in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing’s bachelor’s-to-doctorate program, Salano, of Turrialba, Costa Rica, is one of four graduate...
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History gets a new, contemporary look
History is constantly changing, and now The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History is updating itself as well. Launched in 1998 as an online publication after more than 10 years in print, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History added many new articles but kept a similar look over the years. That all chan...
Nursing student working to create mobile health care clinic in Haiti
Monique Balthazar has a dream for her relatives in Haiti. As part of her dual doctorate program, the second-year graduate student at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ wants to create a mobile health clinic to reach inhabitants of the remote, mountainous ar...
New professorship to teach innovative, patient-centered approach to cancer treatment
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine today announced gifts to establish the inaugural Parker Hannifin – Helen Moss Cancer Research Foundation Professorship in Integrative Oncology. This professorship will establish the School of Medicine and its affiliate hospitals as national leaders ...
New book on Kokoon Klub tells history of modern art's emergence in Cleveland
At times shocking, fun and outrageous, a group of local artists who formed the Kokoon Klub and started hosting Bal Masques in 1911 did more than bring out vice squads or orders from Cleveland mayors to cancel one of the hottest events in the city. They introduced modern art to Cleveland. The Bal Ma...