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December 1999

• AIDS researchers get $10 million to continue studies (12/30)
• Israeli faculty and medical school launch exchange program (12/30)
• TB Research Unit receives $28 million grant (12/28)
• Bader to head CWRU's outreach activities in science, math (12/28)
• Mather Gallery exhibit to showcase work of Cleveland artist Dexter Davis (12/28)
• Registration opens for spring continuing education classes (12/28)
• Alumna returns to star in play at Eldred Theater (12/28)
• $3M grant from Howard Hughes Institute will build program in structural biology (12/20)
• Grant will help find genetic link for developing colon cancer (12/20)
• Women to forge vision for 2000 during April 8 summit (12/20)
• Study begins of welfare reform's impact on child welfare system (12/20)
• Sociologists awarded $1.6M for health care partnership study (12/20)
• Mihos gets grant to study galaxy evolution (12/20)
• Porter directs technical and professional communications (12/20)
• Cleveland named major site for geriatric medicine (12/20)
• Prentiss Foundation grant will expand Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Program (12/20)
• Researchers to find ways to aid perception of Alzheimer's, dementia patients (12/20)
  • Tips on boosting contrast to aid Alzheimer's patients' vision (12/20)
• Zebrafish may hold key to celestial human reproduction (12/20)
• MSASS adopts statement for community-based practice curriculum (12/20)
• Chatterjee book examines the welfare state (12/20)
• SciFinder offers Chemical Abstracts online (12/20)
• Kalhan studies perinatal/neontal metabolism (12/20)
• Workshop to address chronic childhood illnesses (12/20)
• Grabowski appointed to Krieger-Mueller professorship (12/20)
• Clochesy appointed to nursing professorship (12/20)
• Holland named visiting professor (12/20)
• Jentoft named to new NIH advisory group on regulatory burdens (12/16)
• Laidlaw named Weatherhead's associate dean for executive education (12/13)
• Krauss receives AAAS award for public understanding of science (12/10)
• Good economic times will continue to roll, says CWRU professor (12/10)
• Toy company is tops in 1999 Weatherhead 100 ranking (12/10)
• CWRU sets eight fundraising records (12/10)
• Firm selected to help CWRU develop new master plan (12/10)
• NIH funds $1.6M elderly-exercise study (12/10)
• Veale gift supports pool project (12/10)
• Robot will join Antarctic meteorite search (12/10)
• Can virtual reality therapy help in treating breast cancer? (12/10)
• Grants support kidney disease studies (12/10)
• Location of genetic abnormalities on X chromosome may affect health consequences (12/10)
• 71 undergraduates selected for Who's Who (12/10)
• Success can have a downside (12/10)
• Students build supercomputer cluster for high-power, low-cost computing (12/10)
• Support from doulas can have benefits during childbirth (12/10)
• Grant partners CWRU and Ukrainian researchers (12/10)
• Youngblut attends national research issues meetings (12/10)

November 1999

• Physicians to begin historic $13M study of diabetes (11/22)
• Do higher insurance premiums always yield better healthcare quality? (11/22)
• Faculty assess outcomes of educational efforts (11/22)
• CWRU joins National College Week celebration (11/22)
• Barker named interim VP of information services (11/22)
• Etiquette dinners put polish on undergraduates' savoir faire (11/22)
• In biotechnology job market, experience is necessary (11/22)
• Auston outlines goals, directions for CWRU in inaugural address (11/22)
• Weatherhead honored for social-issues training (11/22)
• Duffin is bard of Cleveland sports songs (11/22)
• Dance alums return as faculty (11/22)
• Stange elected to Institute of Medicine (11/22)
• Technology transfer statement published (11/22)
• CWRU prominent among Medical Hall of Fame nominees (11/22)
• Blame real life, not TV violence, for child violence, study says (11/22)
• Zdanis to retire after 12 years as provost (11/22)

October 1999

• Three engineering professorships established (10/25)
• R.M.S. Titanic discoverer's science program goes statewide in Ohio (10/22)
• Auston to be inaugurated CWRU president October 29 (10/19)
• Medical school launches $300 million campaign (10/19)
• Tissues' natural antibiotics fight disease-causing microorganisms (10/12)
• Conference to review high-tech tools for teaching the classics (10/12)
• Conference to examine "Innovations in Infancy Intervention" (10/1)
• Researchers discover location of a testicular cancer gene (10/1)

September 1999

• NIH gives $1.2 million to nurse-researcher (9/30)
• Centrifuge studies can help buildings weather earthquakes (9/30)
• Observatory to host open house (9/30)
• Pianist Taub to perform Beethoven sonatas (9/30)
• Gallery features print retrospective (9/30)
• Woollacott named associate dean of Arts & Sciences (9/30)
• Mullins named tech director at med school (9/30)
• Louis Jordan is subject of next American Music Masters conference (9/22)
• Event will examine Western Reserve in Washington's days (9/22)
• Arts & Sciences forges pact with Hebrew University (9/22)
• Study examines dual-doctor marriages (9/22)
• Geologists track river sediment movement (9/22)
• Book traces women's successes (9/22)

August 1999

• CWRU remains tops in Ohio in U.S. News rankings (8/20)
• Cleveland Free-Net, digital pioneer, exits information superhighway in September (8/17)
• Fan preference for whites shortens careers of blacks in NBA (8/6)
• Biology, engineering jointly train students in neuro-mechanics (8/4)
• Children who play creatively early show best creativity and problem-solving later (8/2)

July 1999

• Researchers develop novel mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (7/20)
• Physicists invent "supershielding" for MRI devices (7/19)
• Kostritsky named John Homer Kapp professor of law (7/19)
• Cities' incomes rise faster with more college-educated workers (7/19)
• Damaged spinal cord has more nerve-regrowth potential than thought possible (7/15)
• E-mail is best medium for delivering bad news (7/15)
• AIDS vaccine clinical trial begins in Uganda (7/15)
• Moody's raises CWRU's bond rating (7/15)
• Student to oversee sculpture restoration (7/15)
• Single mothers want to work, but need skills, child care (7/15)
• Readings, walking tour to commemorate Hart Crane (7/15)
• Dental students help close care gap at Indian reservation (7/7)
• Researchers take major step in identifying gene differences (7/6)
• Study suggests way advertisers may reach minorities and non-minorities with the same ad (7/6)
• Wright-Plaisance Fellowships offered for study abroad (7/1)

June 1999

New science center named for President Pytte (6/28)

Sharpe named to Drinko-Baker & Hostetler chair in law (6/10)

Davis named Holmes Economic Development Fellow (6/10)

May 1999

Great Lakes researchers meet at CWRU (5/20)

Grant to bolster communication skills of CWRU medical students (5/6)

Sun wins NSF grant for women researchers (5/6)

MSASS, CSU collaborate in community initiative (5/6)

Music, relaxation can complement pain medicine (5/6)

April 1999

Team discovers new species of hominid (4/29)

Nursing researcher gets grant to study COPD (4/29)

Faith healing and peyote in a cellular phone age (4/29)

Green tea can help prevent rheumatoid arthritis (4/22)

Follow-up care can reduce hospital readmission rate, cost (4/22)

CWRU'S five-year study celebrates 100 years of children's museums (4/22)

Mandel School debuts leadership fellows program (4/9)

March 1999

CWRU announces next president (3/9)

Grant will help improve physician communication skills (3/30)

Rosenbaum discovers "hidden clue" on cardiogram (3/24)

Grad student is lead author on arrhythmia paper (3/24)

Philip Johnson designs sculpture garden (3/24)

Med school's NIH funding keeps growing (3/24)

• Top 15 schools in NIH funding (federal fiscal year 1998) (3/24)

Moms of smallest babies have most postpartum stress (3/24)

Faculty research contributes to new cervical cancer treatment (3/24)

"Mr. Battery" Scherson brings charge to research (3/24)

Stimluation technique holds new promise for spinal cord injuries (3/24)

Liu named to Academic First Team (3/24)

Software can reduce unnecessary testing of animals (3/24)

Coalition launches engineering service course (3/24)

Study shows link between illiteracy and hospitalization in elderly (3/24)

Nord grants fund new approaches to teaching (3/24)

Blue-collar diamonds are a blue-chip idea (3/24)

Med school takes aim at malaria (3/24)

Hydrogel "scaffolds" support nerve regrowth (3/24)

Chemical engineering, macro science rank high in R&D listings (3/24)

Med school starts M.D.-Ph.D. program in health services research (3/24)

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