Case Western Reserve Leads RecycleMania Category Two Weeks in a Row
For the second week in a row, Case Western Reserve University earned first place among University Athletic Association schools participating in RecycleMania's Waste Minimization category.
"We're doing a great job! Please keep encouraging your colleagues, friends, students and faculty to get into the game," said Linda Robson, campus planning and operations fellow.
Case Western Reserve ranked No. 1 for Week 5 with a cumulative average of 22.79 pounds per person. In the Waste Minimization category, schools compete to see which produce the least amount of municipal solid waste (including recyclables and trash) per person. Case Western Reserve's numbers were better than Carnegie Mellon University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Brandeis and Emory universities. Read more.
Campus News
The Department of Pharmacology announces to the scientific community a new state-of-the-art X-ray Crystallography Facility. To learn more, go online or contact Chris Dealwis at 368-1652.
Volunteers are needed for the Saturday Tutoring Program at the Church of the Covenant. The program, which provides free tutoring for elementary, middle and high school students in the Greater Cleveland area, meets from 10 a.m. to noon. Materials, training, supervision, and free parking are provided. To volunteer, send an e-mail to the program or call (216) 421-0482 x281.
Case Western Reserve is encouraging all faculty, staff and students to sign up for the university's emergency notification system, called CaseWARN. Users go to a web page and enter a cell phone number for text messages and/or a telephone number for voice calls in the event of an emergency.
For Faculty and Staff
The Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) announces a quarterly competition for pilot funding of up to $10,000 which will be made available to support studies conducted through any of the CTSC core facilities. This program is being supported by Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland and MetroHealth Medical Center, and investigators based at these sites are eligible for this competition. There are several cycles, with the next applications due April 1 and July 1. Learn more.
For Students
Abstracts are being accepted through Friday, March 13, for the Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top student talks and posters. The symposium, scheduled for Friday, May 8, will feature keynote speaker Louis J. Ptacek from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, San Francisco.
Events
Astrophysicist Carlos Frenk will speak on the topic of "The Great Cosmic Gamble: Making Galaxies from Nothing" at 8 p.m., Thursday, March 12, at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Part of the 2008-2009 Frontiers of Astronomy Series. Co-sponsored by the Department of Astronomy.
The views and opinions of those invited to speak on campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community.
