January 26, 2007
Screen gems
The Plain Dealer, January 26, 2007 Seeing Billy Wilder's films on the big screen is a rare thrill, and you'll have a chance Monday night at 7 when the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque presents a restored 35 mm...
Three-week warm-up
Akron Beacon Journal, January 26, 2007 While current Cleveland Indians venture in and out, gathering equipment for next month's start of spring training, nestled in the stadium's visitors locker room are 18 minor-league prospects getting ready to complete the...
Diagnosis: boomeritis: Sports injuries are tripping up middle-agers
The Plain Dealer, January 25, 2007 When 59-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger fell on the ski slopes last month, the snap of his breaking femur joined a sort of sad symphony. Same with the thud of 60-year-old President Bush falling face...
Drug-testing lab in Mogadore takes a chance; rewards follow
Akron Beacon Journal, January 26, 2007 Omega Laboratories—a six-year-old Mogadore, Ohio, business that tests hair for drug use—is enjoying its status as the sixth-fastest growing company in Northeast Ohio, as ranked by the Weatherhead School of Management at Case...
The week
Crain's Cleveland Business, January 26, 2007 Opposite direction: Case Western Reserve University is forecasting a deficit for fiscal 2007 of $14 million, which is 33 percent larger than its previous projection of a $10.5 million deficit for the year...
Caltech, UCLA scientists tout circuit
FOX News.com, January 25, 2007 Researchers in California said they have created the world's densest memory circuit, one that's about 100 times denser than today's standard memory circuits, while remaining as small as a human white blood cell. Scientists from...
Colleges regroup after voters ban race preferences
The New York Times, January 26, 2007 With Michigan's new ban on affirmative action going into effect, and similar ballot initiatives looming in other states, many public universities are scrambling to find race-blind ways to attract more blacks and...
$600K for fired professor
Inside Higher Ed, January 26, 2007 Virginia State University has agreed to pay $600,000 to Jean R. Cobbs, whom it fired as a tenured professor in 2005 and whose claims against the university have been backed by several academic...
January 25, 2007
Department of Physiology and Biophysics ranked 2nd in the nation at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
dBusiness News Cleveland, January 25, 2007 Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Department of Physiology and Biophysics has recently been ranked second in the nation of academic medical centers offering doctoral programs by the Chronicle of Higher Education....
Coshocton kids score some cash
The Plain Dealer, January 25, 2007 (editorial) It's one thing to reward high-achieving students with a pizza party or a movie, but quite another to give them cold, hard cash. Or is it? Robert E. Simpson, a local businessman,...
Was Saddam trial fair? Yes, says legal expert
Cleveland Jewish News, January 25, 2007 Captured on cell-phone video, the execution of Saddam Hussein was a horrifying coda to a war-crimes trial rife with courtroom outbursts, boycotts, judges resigning, and the murder of three-defense counsel. Such a disastrous...
Who really cares about black teens?
The Plain Dealer, January 25, 2007 (column) Study after study, the evidence is clear: Black youths are overrepresented in every stage of the juvenile justice system. In fact, as more and more black children are taken from their homes...
A speech and its aftermath
Inside Higher Ed, January 25, 2007 When President Jimmy Carter shook his last hand Tuesday night and left Waltham, Mass., after a much-anticipated and controversial appearance, Brandeis University administrators most certainly exhaled. It was the culmination of a highly...
January 24, 2007
Will gender matter? Hillary Clinton's run for the White House
WKYC-TV, Channel 3, January 23, 2007 Joseph White, professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University, was interviewed by reporter Jennifer Murphy on WKYC-TV 3 for a segment regarding New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's announcement of her bid...
Military judge orders modest bail for Damra
The Plain Dealer, January 24, 2007 Fawaz Damra, the former spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, was ordered released from an Israeli prison on modest bail Tuesday. However, Israeli authorities exercised a right to delay the release...
Venture dollars drop for local biotechs
Crain's Cleveland Business, January 24, 2007 Investors injected $87 million into young health care companies in Northeast Ohio in 2006—barely half of what was raised in 2005, but $26 million more than 2004, according to an annual report by...
Advocates for black students worry that foes of affirmative action have found new avenue of attack
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 23, 2007 Many college administrators who gathered here this week for a national conference on educating black students said they saw a new threat to their programs emerging from a libertarian group's recent...
Foundation awards nearly $300,000 to Health Science Center for national study
San Antonio Business Journal, January 24, 2007 The Commonwealth Fund has donated $263,658 to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation...
January 09, 2007
Do startups really need formal business plans?
The Wall Street Journal online, January 9, 2007 (subscription required) Business schools and consultants have long preached that writing a formal business plan greatly improves a startup's odds of success. But a growing number of academics are questioning whether...
Case recruits Clinic administrator
Crain's Cleveland Business, January 9, 2007 Case Western Reserve University has snagged one of the Cleveland Clinic's top administrators to head up university relations and development. Bruce Loessin will take over as Case's senior vice president for university relations...
Everson says it's sticking with Pollock
The Syracuse Post Standard, January 9, 2007 As controversy swirls over the authenticity of a group of paintings by dribble-and-drip master Jackson Pollock, the Everson Museum of Art is staying with its plan to exhibit the works this summer....
Adult stem cells spur market rush, avoid embryo ban
Bloomberg News, January 9, 2007 Five-month-old Luis Fernando Rojo was near death in a Miami hospital, suffering with blisters and bloody diarrhea after his tiny body rejected part of a marrow transplant for a rare bone disorder. So U.S....
More jobs, fewer new Ph.D.'s
Inside Higher Ed, January 8, 2007 Arnita A. Jones almost gushed when she told historians about how many new Ph.D.'s she was chatting up at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta who were telling her,...
January 04, 2007
Weatherhead receives $2.4 million donation
The Plain Dealer, January 4, 2007 "There's no I in Sand," announces the Web site of Fairmount Minerals, a Chardon, Ohio-based company whose sand is sold by Toys "R" Us for sandboxes and is turned into glass for the...
Weatherhead gets $2.4M in gifts
Crain's Cleveland Business, January 4, 2007 Fairmount Minerals Ltd. of Chardon has made two gifts totaling $2.4 million to the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University to bolster the school's Center for Business as an Agent...
Provost named president of Case
The Lantern, January 3, 2007 Barbara Snyder, Ohio State's executive vice president and provost, has accepted an offer to become the first female president of Case Western Reserve University, in the midst of a search to replace President Karen...
Tethering students to their states
Inside Higher Ed, January 4, 2007 New state scholarship programs proposed in Indiana and Wisconsin would offer funds to students attending in-state institutions, with strings attached—or, as the man behind the Wisconsin proposal puts it, "tethers." "If we can't...
In dorms, men and women now room together
Christian Science Monitor, December 28, 2006 Some 20 universities and colleges have decided to allow undergraduates of the opposite sex to share an on-campus room. Most quietly made the move in the past five years, with Clark University in...
January 03, 2007
Coach told not to pay medical bills of victim
The Plain Dealer, January 3, 2007 A youth-baseball coach convicted of assaulting a concession worker who later died does not have to pay nearly $20,000 in medical bills because they were related to keeping Robert Abrams alive, not to...
Our Top 20 stories from Earth to Pluto
Columbus Dispatch, January 2, 2007 Science produced headlines in 2006: The public and politicians, shocked by high gasoline prices, rediscovered alternative energy during the spring and summer. "We've been ignoring alternative energy for so long, bioethanol, and wind energy...
Even as bookstores close, readers flock to writers
The Plain Dealer, December 31, 2006 Americans, especially young adults, are reading less. In the early 1990s, the United States boasted some 4,500 independent bookstores. There are only 1,800 today. In a more literary vein, Case Western Reserve University's...
An American university for Iraq, but not in Baghdad
New York Times, January 3, 2007 It would be an ambitious project even in a Middle Eastern country not embroiled in war: build an American-style university where classes are taught in English, teachers come from around the world and...