CWRU programs make "U.S. News"
top graduate, professional school rankings

Case Western Reserve’s health law program leapt to fifth in the nation and pediatrics climbed to 14th in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate and professional school rankings released on March 12. Those gains, coupled with a seven-point jump, to 30th, for the Weatherhead School of Management’s Part-Time MBA, signaled the university’s ability to make meaningful gains even as some programs struggle. Read more.

Spartan Club Announces Hall of
Fame Class of 2013

The Spartan Club, in conjunction with Case Western Reserve University Athletics, has announced its Hall of Fame induction class of 2013. Six former student-athletes will join the 324 members previously enshrined since the club’s inception in 1975. The new members will be enshrined at the annual Spartan Club banquet on Friday, April 26.

This year’s class includes five Case Western Reserve inductees and one Heritage selection. Read about the inductees. For details about this year's Spartan Club banquet, contact Lauren Phillips at 216.368.2420 or email lmp98@case.edu.

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School of Law

Law School’s Teams Excel
in Moot Court Competitions

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Weatherhead School of Management

Professor Boyatzis Brings Emotional Intelligence Online

This spring, Case Western Reserve University will dip a toe into the rapidly expanding world of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, and Richard Boyatzis, PhD, Distinguished University Professor and H.R. Horvitz Professor in Family Business, is taking the lead.

Boyatzis’ free online class, Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence, will begin on May 1, 2013, and will be six weeks long. It is the first MOOC to focus on leadership and will be offered through Coursera, a company that works with universities to set up their MOOCs. Watch Boyatzis talk about his class. Read more.

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Management news

Case School of Engineering

Two Case Western Reserve student teams—mentored by alumni—advanced to the Midwest Regionals of the Clean Energy Challenge, sponsored by the Department of Energy. The group NanoHarv is developing a micro-algae-harvesting device to clean water and create biofuel, and the group Ecospinners (pictured) is designing an electric fuel-cell-powered bicycle with a 100-mile range.

Both teams—made up of students from engineering, management and arts and sciences—head to the regional competition in Chicago on April 4. CWRU is the only university in the Midwest to have two teams move on to regionals. Learn more about the contest.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Chair Named Top Educator of First-Year Students in the U.S.

Professor Lee Thompson, chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences, has earned a national honor for her work with undergraduate students. In February, she received the McGraw-Hill Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award, the third person (and first from Case Western Reserve) to receive the recognition.

In 2001, Thompson was one of the founding co-directors of the SAGES program, which helps first-year students develop essential communication skills and acclimate to university life. Read more.

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Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

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Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

White House Invites Dan Flannery to Address School Violence Prevention  

When the White House assembled a panel of experts for last month's discussion about preventing school violence, Vice President Joseph Biden made sure Dan Flannery was on it.

Flannery, director of Case Western Reserve University’s Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, joined national education and safety experts to discuss ways to make schools, universities and community gathering places safer for the public. Read more.

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School of Dental Medicine

Multiple Testing Methods Needed to
Better Detect, Treat Infection in Low
Birth-Weight Newborns

New research by Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine finds that cultures commonly used to detect bacterial infections in low birth-weight newborns with early onset sepsis may actually overlook some germs.

The research done at Case Western Reserve supports the need for multiple detection methods, such as DNA genomic analyses and other independent culture technologies, to identify bacteria that culturing may miss, said Yiping Han, professor of Periodontics and Reproductive Biology at the Case Western Reserve dental school and the corresponding author on the study. Learn more.

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