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December 22, 2006
Reddy takes Weatherhead job permanently
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 21, 2006 Case Western Reserve University has taken the "interim" off Mohan Reddy's dean title at the Weatherhead School of Management. The university announced that Reddy has been named permanent dean at the business school,...
Case retains its interim at school of business
The Plain Dealer, December 22, 2006 Case Western Reserve University on Thursday named N. Mohan Reddy dean of its Weatherhead School of Management. Reddy had been interim dean since August 1, when Myron Roomkin stepped down after two years....
Cleveland Heights to try wireless in '07
The Plain Dealer, December 22, 2006 Cleveland Heights -- A city that many cherish as eclectic will seek to strengthen its allure by adding wireless Internet access to the mix. The nonprofit OneCleveland will provide free service to users...
Case commuters love open bridge
The Plain Dealer, December 22, 2006 The Adelbert Road bridge near Case Western Reserve University might as well have been wrapped in shiny paper, tied with a bow and stamped "Do Not Open Until Christmas." For thousands of commuters,...
Holidays and children with ADHD: Tips to help parents cope
Star Beacon, December 20, 2006 It's a given: During the holidays, the youngsters are going to be more distracted, more fidgety, than normal. But for a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the natural excitement of the holidays...
Major move ahead?
Inside Higher Ed, December 22, 2006 California State University's Northridge campus already offers a minor in Central American studies. The next step, many hope, is for Northridge to offer a Central American studies major, which university officials say would...
'Sustainability' gains status on U.S. campuses
Christian Science Monitor, December 19, 2006 Somewhere in the curriculum, most colleges and universities include Henry David Thoreau. Now, many of them are trying to emulate him. Yes, sweeping the academic world is Walden Pond 101: the art of living...
December 21, 2006
Quadruple threat
Lancaster Online, December 20, 2006 All you really need to know about Joe Brenner can be boiled down to what happened when his college football team, Case Western Reserve University, played the University of Chicago back in 2004. Most...
Feline healer visits shelter
News-Herald, December 17, 2006 Cats have chakras, or points of energy. At least, they do if you ask Elaine Gallovic, a registered nurse and provider of craniosacral therapy and healing touch for pets. Gallovic, a longtime volunteer for the...
Public universities chase excellence, at a price
New York Times, December 20, 2006 More leading public universities are striving for national status and drawing increasingly impressive and increasingly affluent students, sometimes using financial aid to lure them. In the process, critics say, many are losing force...
December 20, 2006
Research knows no holiday
Columbus Dispatch, December 19, 2006 Many scientists who work at academic centers must squeeze their field research into a couple of months during the summer and several weeks between the end of fall classes and the beginning of winter...
A moral test for fighting terror
Baltimore Sun, December 19, 2006 Op-ed by Amos Guiora, director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Last week, the Israel Supreme Court rendered one of its most...
Short-term reprieve for affirmative action
Inside Higher Ed, December 20, 2006 Three Michigan universities on Tuesday won the right to keep their current admissions and financial aid policies -- the affirmative action portions of which could have been illegal in the state by the...
December 19, 2006
Lawmakers grapple with will of the people
Canton Repository, December 18, 2006 Last week, the hot-button topic at the Statehouse was not minimum wage or gun control. It was the people's will. Gov. Bob Taft issued the most significant veto of his tenure in an effort...
Latest editions
BBC World Service, December 14, 2006 A radio link features Amos Guiora, law professor and director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve Univesity. Guiora, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Israeli defense...
Teen tummies trimmed
WNYC, December 18, 2006 As the national waistline grows larger, more people are choosing to make their stomachs smaller. They're undergoing bariatric surgery, a category of various operations to reduce the size of the stomach or bypass it entirely....
Pollock paintings not so easy to spot
San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 2006 Finding a Jackson Pollock painting is the art world's equivalent of a winning lottery ticket. But proving a Pollock painting's authenticity isn't easy, which is why physicist Richard Taylor's theory that the famed...
Women in science: The battle moves to the trenches
New York Times, December 19, 2006 Since the 1970s, women have surged into science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, even at top-tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the undergraduate science majors and...
December 18, 2006
Quick Takes: Case Western's new chief
Inside Higher Ed, December 18, 2006 Barbara R. Snyder, provost of Ohio State University, was named the next president of Case Western Reserve University. In an e-mail interview, Snyder said she was confident she could collaborate with professors. "An...
Onetime Case prof is its new president
The Plain Dealer, December 16, 2006 The appointment of Barbara R. Snyder, the current provost at Ohio State University, as the new president of Case Western Reserve University is a homecoming of sorts for the esteemed administrator. Snyder, 51,...
Case appoints new president
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 15, 2006 Case Western Reserve University has hired its first female president in Barbara Snyder. Currently the executive vice president and provost at Ohio State University, Snyder will begin July 1, 2007, according to a...
Ohio awards nearly $168 million in high-tech grants
Akron Beacon Journal, December 15, 2006 Nine high-tech projects will receive a total of about $168 million in grants from the Ohio Third Frontier program, including a $60 million award to the Cleveland Clinic for a new heart research...
Casting a wide net
Inside Higher Ed, December 18, 2006 The Bush administration has not always been friendly to affirmative action in higher education--coming out against the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions plans, for example, when they were reviewed by the Supreme...
December 11, 2006
Case seeks aid for sublease of Halle space
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 11, 2006 Case Western Reserve University is taking a step that signals it may be preparing to drop or scale back its long-stalled plan to move about 300 employees from its University Circle campus to...
Case lecturer sees drop in GDP growth
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 11, 2006 Gross domestic product growth will slow and unemployment will rise, but the economy will remain in decent shape for 2007, according to an economic forecast by Sam Thomas, a senior lecturer in banking...
Happy returns: Hobbyists-turned-entrepreneurs make their leisure activities serious business
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 11, 2006 Art Good is a certified public accountant. As the owner of Arthur W. Good C.P.A. Inc. in Seven Hills, he provides tax planning and accounting system design services. He also is a Cecropia...
Study finds risk of getting HIV not raised by birth control pills
The Plain Dealer, December 9, 2006 Birth control pills and other forms of hormonal contraception do not elevate a woman's risk of contracting HIV, according to a large international study that included work by Case Western Reserve University. The...
The job security rankings
Inside Higher Ed, December 11, 2006 More than 62 percent of all faculty members are off the tenure track, including nearly 30 percent of those with full-time positions, according to an analysis released today by the American Association of...
December 08, 2006
Asian concern buying Hoover
The Plain Dealer, December 8, 2006 An emerging global corporation based in Hong Kong announced Thursday that it was adding long-suffering Hoover Co. to its list of international power-tool and appliance brand names. Techtronic Industries Co. said it will...
Standardizing ICU care would not harm patients
Reuters, December 7, 2006 Resources used by different physicians in intensive care units (ICU) vary widely without influencing patient outcomes, according to a report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Garland and colleagues from Case...
Rethinking tenure—and much more
Inside Higher Ed, December 8, 2006 A year ago, a special committee of the Modern Language Association outlined the makings of a revolution in the way English and foreign language professors might be hired, evaluated and promoted. On Thursday,...
December 07, 2006
Rich in fiber
Tucson Weekly, December 7, 2006 Could a concept from America's Rust Belt be used to technologically improve Sun Belt Tucson? Local advocates hope so, and look for action on the idea in 2007. To increase interconnections between public and...
Super kids: Boost your baby's brain power
News 14 Carolina online, December 7, 2006 Get moving: Researchers from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland studied the children of 20 women who continued to exercise throughout pregnancy and 20 expectant moms who quit exercising. At 5 years...
Promoting ethics in science
Inside Higher Ed, December 7, 2006 Increasingly, journals are appearing in front page scandals that expose undisclosed industry support of research and scientists who have faked results. Blackwell Publishing, trying to prevent such problems, recently released a comprehensive guide...
December 06, 2006
Pfizer problems emblematic of industry obstacles
NPR Online, December 5, 2006 The decision by Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, to abandon work on a promising cholesterol drug has some analysts wondering whether the industry can continue to grow at the same pace. Cardiologist Eric...
Alternatives to coal for alternative energy
Crain's Cleveland Business (Letters to the Editor), December 4, 2006 Written by Stephen Lamoreaux, economics major, Class of 2008 Allowing the city of Cleveland to invest in a coal-burning power plant, as noted in your November 13 story, "Cleveland...
Rethinking racial classifications
Inside Higher Ed, December 6, 2006 An Education Department plan to change the way colleges collect and report data on their students' racial and ethnic backgrounds is attracting growing criticism. Opposition is coming from a group that represents some...
December 05, 2006
Revamp of brain 'could slow CJD'
BBC News Online, December 4, 2006 Tests in mice with scrapie—a disease similar to CJD in humans and BSE in cattle—showed the life-extending treatment works. The method used by the German team involves molecules called special RNAs (siRNAs), Journal...
Theoreticians ponder why we exist: Scientists debate how anthropic reasoning predicts cosmological constant
MSNBC.com, December 4, 2006 The emergence of humans in the universe might not tell us anything concerning the fundamental constants of nature as scientists have speculated, new theoretical findings argue. The idea known as the anthropic principle states that...
Cities see death knell ringing on 'home rule'
The Plain Dealer, December 4, 2006 This year alone, the legislature has passed at least three bills that vaporized local laws in Cleveland and elsewhere. Another such bill is pending in the Senate. The way the legislature sees it,...
Supreme Court Weighs Use of Race in K-12
Inside Higher Ed, December 5, 2006 When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in June to hear two cases about the use of race as a factor in elementary and secondary public school assignments, many in higher education were understandably intrigued....
December 04, 2006
New moms and newborns need privacy, study shows
USA Today, December 3, 2006 Flowers are always nice, but perhaps the best gift you can give a brand-new mom is some quiet time alone with her baby. "I can remember when I first got into obstetrics, back in...
The case of Pollock's fractals focuses on physics
New York Times, December 2, 2006 In an article published this week in the prestigious science journal Nature, two physicists contend that a method intended to identify complex geometric patterns in the seemingly chaotic drip paintings of Jackson Pollock...
Growing health advocacy industry takes pressure off individuals
Crain's Cleveland Business, December 4, 2006 Tom Bregar spent two years writing what he calls the "perfect software program" to flush out errors and reconcile and compile medical bills and insurance. In 2002, he turned his idea into MedBill...
Just how precise is the balancing act that maintains life?
Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2006 If the laws of physics and the fundamental constants of nature were the slightest bit different, the world would not exist, at least in the form we see it. For years, many scientists...
Tough questions for transfer students
Inside Higher Ed, December 4, 2006 Say you're a student, trying to save some money, and you're trying to figure out which local institution to attend. Do you go for the least expensive or the best quality? According to...