Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Receives $3.7 Million in Stimulus Funds
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB) was recently awarded $3.7 million in six stimulus grants from various federal offices to fund innovative research and academic programs.
Funded projects include establishing a new center of excellence on end-of-life science; expanding the Self-Management Advancement through Research and Translation (SMART) Center with a program to involve more disabled persons in the subject side of research activities; developing new electronic tools to reduce health disparities; testing the effects of early therapeutic mobility among hospital patients; combating the nursing faculty shortage through a forgivable loan program for graduate students; and providing opportunities to disadvantaged students.
"The stimulus awards represent the hard work of our dynamic faculty and staff is unique, relevant, and, most of all, needed," says May L. Wykle, the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor and Dean of the nursing school. Read more.
Interim Law School Dean to Continue Until June, 2011
Provost W.A. "Bud" Baeslack III announced today that Robert H. Rawson Jr. has agreed to serve as Interim Dean of the School of Law through June, 2011.
"Bob has done an outstanding job since arriving last fall," Provost Baeslack said. "We are very pleased that he will be here to build on the significant progress already achieved."
Over the past several months, the law school community has come together to draft a new strategic plan and take steps toward realizing its goals. Rawson has worked extensively with faculty on those efforts, and on raising the school's profile in the region and nationwide.
"Bob is a wise and compassionate leader who inspires respect and admiration in nearly every person he meets," President Barbara R. Snyder said. "We are grateful to him for his dedication to helping the law school realize more of its immense potential." Read more.
Campus News
Members of the Case Western Reserve community considered to be higher-risk can receive H1N1 nasal spray vaccinations during the following fall campus clinics: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the Biomedical Research Building Frohring Auditorium (BRB 105); Thursday, Oct. 29, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Adelbert Gym; Thursday, Oct. 29, 4:30 to 8 p.m. in the Veale Center Lobby; Monday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Thwing Center 1914 Lounge; Monday, Nov. 2, 4:30 to 8 p.m. in the Thwing Center Ballroom; and Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 3 to 6:30 p.m. in Wade Commons.
The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations will host an open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5, at its building. Employees can take advantage of the university's tuition waiver benefit for the master's degree. Attendees will learn more about the nonprofit management programs. Refreshments will be served.Call 368-6025 or go to the program's Web site for information.
The campus community is invited to celebrate the establishment of The Jeffrey L. Ponsky, M.D. Professorship in Surgical Education and the appointment of Conor P. Delaney, M.D., Ph.D. as the inaugural Jeffrey L. Ponsky, M.D. Professor of Surgical Education. The chair dedication ceremony will be held at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building. RSVP to Crystal Daprile.
For Faculty and Staff
Special announcement for Retirement Plan B participants: Federal law requires annual notification to plan participants that includes important funding information about the plan. The notice for the plan year beginning July 1, 2008 and ending June 30, 2009, is being provided through electronic means (view it online). The notice contains instructions for obtaining additional information. Contact Benefits Administration at 368-6781 or by e-mail at benefits@case.edu with questions.
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) is hosting a discussion about the Blackboard course management system from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29, in the Allen Memorial Medical Library's Herrick Room. Genevieve Mathieson from ITAC will explain some of the main features of the system including its assessment tools and the new Grade Center. She also will answer questions about its features. Pizza and beverages will be served. RSVP by e-mail to UCITE.
For Students
Applications are being accepted for the international travel/study courses sponsored by the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. The program is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, alumni, and interested professionals. Spring break destinations include Guatemala, Israel, the Netherlands and Ecuador. Learn more from noon to 2 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the Mandel School Room 108, and Friday, Nov., 6, in the Thwing Center atrium. Contact Deborah Jacobson for information.
Educational Services for Students (ESS) is conducting a series of workshops to help students enhance their presentation skills. All workshops will be held from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Sears 462. Register online to reserve a spot. Contact workshop leaders Rhonda Moore or Van Bray, or call ESS at 368-5230 for information.
Events
The Great Lakes Energy Institute (GLEI), the Cleveland Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Kelvin Smith Library will host "Innovations in Energy Storage" from 1:45 to 4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 6, in Wolstein Auditorium. The event will feature GLEI's Iwan Alexander, faculty director and Cady Staley Professor of Engineering, and John Miller, principal researcher and president of JME, Inc. Register online.
The Office of Continuing Education will host a brown bag lunch and discussion on Issue 2 at noon, Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the College Club, 2348 Overlook, Cleveland Heights. The discussion will be led by Mary K. Holmes, a SAGES instructor.
Contemporary French author Léonora Miano will speak at 12:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 6, in Clark Hall 309. She has published several novels and short story collections, and has won several literary awards. Free, open to the public. Sponsored by the Ethnic Studies and French and Francophone Studies programs.
The opening reception for Pondering Patterns—a collaborative project of Case Western Reserve, the Cleveland Foundation and the Cleveland Institute of Art—is from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Cleveland Foundation, 1422 Euclid Ave., Suite 1300. Christina Larson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Art, is the exhibit's curator.
The next Art Talk lecture, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Anxieties (Cold War And Otherwise) in George Tooker's Cornice," begins at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the Cleveland Museum of Art Lecture Hall. The museum's Mark Cole will speak. Free. Sponsored by the Department of Art History and Art.
The next Frontiers in Biological Sciences seminar will focus on the topic "Good News About Autism" with Martin Raff of the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the School of Medicine E501.
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.
In Memoriam
Neil S. Cherniack, former School of Medicine dean, died last week. He was 78.
Cherniack was a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of the New Jersey Medical School.
He joined Case Western Reserve as professor of medicine in 1977, and was appointed dean in 1990. During his tenure as dean, the school's research budget was doubled and its National Institute of Health (NIH) research funding rank rose from 16th to 12th.
He served in many capacities at Case Western Reserve, including dean and vice president; vice chair of the Department of Medicine; associate dean, Division of General Medical Sciences; and professor of academic program development. He was awarded more than $20 million in NIH funding during his tenure.
Campus community members who would like to make donations to the Neil S. Cherniack, M.D., Lecture Fund should contact Michael Seeley via e-mail or by phone at 368-6883.
Et al
Ronald Triolo, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently had his research, "Envisioning the Six Million Dollar Man," on display at the Military Health Research Forum Conference. Triolo is executive director of the the APT Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
