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Ninth annual Case for Community Day to be held Sept. 16
This year’s Case for Community Day will take place Friday, Sept. 16, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The annual event—in its ninth year—is a campuswide day of service to the Cleveland area. Projects include teaching senior citizens the basics of new technology, reading to elementary students, painting houses...
Alumni, friends help university break all-time fundraising records
ӰƵ’s alumni and friends contributed $126.2 million in cash and pledges in fiscal year 2010-2011, a total that breaks the previous all-time fundraising record by nearly $3 million. The amount raised in the past 12 months also exceeds the 2009-2010 figure by more than $10 ...
Students spend summer at Cleveland farms to promote sustainability, nutrition
Summer jobs for college students often take place in retail stores, business offices or city pools. But two ӰƵ students are spending their summer farming in the city to promote sustainable, healthy eating in Cleveland. Rising senior nursing major Clare Fagerholm and ris...
Leutner Commons named best college dining concept in U.S.
Fresh on the heels of being named the best medium-sized residential dining concept in the National Association of College and University Food Services’ (NACUFS) Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards, Leutner Commons earned the grand prize for all residential dining concepts, beating out University of Michig...
CWRU film buffs name their summer movie picks
As temperatures spike, it might be time to cool off with a good movie. Some of ӰƵ’s movie buffs—Robert Spadoni film professor in the English department, Bradley Ricca from the SAGES program, and Louis Giannetti, an emeritus professor of film—offered their top summer vie...
Diversity office launches required training to lessen bias in faculty searches
A faculty search committee has the difficult task of finding and agreeing upon the ideal candidate for a job opening, which can be tricky, given that everyone has his or her own opinions on what exactly constitutes “ideal.” Enter: The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity’s new traini...
Worrying can impact interpersonal relationships, study finds
Most people worry from time to time. A new research study, led by a ӰƵ faculty member in psychology, also shows that worrying can be so intrusive and obsessive that it interferes in the person’s life and endangers the health of social relationships. These people suffer...
CWRU leads national effort to develop ultra high-speed networks
This morning, ӰƵ joined more than 20 universities and communities across the country in the launch of Gig.U, The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project. Gig.U, which is modeled after the Case Connection Zone, aims to deploy ultra-high-speed networks to l...
Weatherhead dean to return to faculty full time in 2012
Weatherhead School of Management Dean N. Mohan Reddy announced today that he will return to the school’s faculty full time when his administrative term expires June 30, 2012. “It has been a privilege to lead the school that has been my academic home for more than 25 years,” said Reddy, the Albert J...
New book looks at U.S. luxury hotels’ emergence, effect on cities
Luxury hotels had a prominent place in America’s 19th-century urban landscape. In Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929 (Johns Hopkins University Press), Molly Berger, associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and a history instructor, tells how luxury ...