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December 2002

• University Hospitals & CWRU launch 50-year landmark partnership pact to create new model for education, research and patient care
• CWRU physicist on South Pole team that captures most detailed images of the early universe
• CWRU's new council increases University business with diverse suppliers
• CWRU employee's artwork adorns White House Christmas tree
• CWRU School of Medicine receives $10.2 million from tobacco fund to study GI cancers: School will partner with nine local biotech companies
• CWRU anthropologist discovers Ethiopians adaptations to high altitude living differs from Tibetans, Andeans
• CWRU's Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations is new home for national nonprofit council
• CWRU's dental school expands classes for dental auxiliaries
• CWRU's Weatherhead School names new associate dean of executive education
• CWRU's revenue from technology transfer doubles
• CWRU licensee secures $2 million in financing
• Princeton University president to keynote CWRU's first Research ShowCASE
• Baznik to lead CWRU's new community and government relations office
• CWRU alumnae inducted into hall of fame
• CWRU's Weatherhead School of Management hosts 29th annual economic forecast luncheon
• CWRU's antarctic search for meteorites program expands with support from $1.6 million NASA grant
• CWRU teams with Fisk in one of the nation's most distinctive partnerships
• CWRU students build lego robots, compete at Great Lakes Science Center
• CWRU professor focuses on students' ways of learning in new book

November 2002

• Geraldine Ferraro to speak at CWRU's 2003 commencement convocation
• Hundert responds to article in NY Times concerning gift to University from Peter B. Lewis
• CWRU receives $11.9 million for new research center
• CWRU professor's research takes him on religious pilgrimage
• CWRU ecologist searches for Ohio's old beech-maple forests
• Five CWRU School of Medicine faculty members newly appointed to professorships
• CWRU's Weatherhead School of Management teams with council of smaller enterprises
• CWRU's School of Medicine goes wireless
• Mandel Center receives $500,000 from Cleveland Foundation
• CWRU to seed tech transfer, companies with new funding source
• CWRU researchers demystify fatigue failure in polysilicon used in MEMS devices
• Unique CWRU School of Medicine program trains clergy in clinical ethics
• CWRU alumnus who served as surgeon general is honored for his work in mental health
• New therapy for heart failure? CWRU researchers try stem cells from an umbilical cord
• Student travels east to be first in CWRU's physician-engineer training program
• CWRU, CIM leap time and distance for Internet2 dance performance
• Hundert to refine elements that will form CWRU's vision, seeks more feedback from University community
• CWRU cross country runner's injury leads to .com honors
• Mohammed named one of 10 emerging leaders in the field of substance abuse prevention
• Shuckerow named Ohio's art educator of the year
• Naparstek helps build Jewish communities worldwide
• Robbins and Daniel travel fellowships awarded to fourth-year CWRU medical students
• CWRU offers opportunity to donate a place to sit that stands for more

October 2002

• CWRU forms bioterrorism task force
• CWRU begins design work on a revised verison of the first phase of its master plan
• CWRU/UHC psychiatry dept. dedicate new center of excellence for bipolar disorder
• Semifinalists for first annual bioscience track of business launch competition are announced
• Shurin appointed CWRU's first vice president and secretary of the corporation
• CWRU and ideastream WVIZ/PBS and 90.3WCPN form partnership
• CWRU's Weatherhead School of Management makes strong showing in business school rankings
• CWRU trustees adopt recommendations of board governance committee, elect four new trustees
• CWRU faculty report findings on evolution, intelligent design poll of Ohio's scientists
• Study shows donating a kidney does not benefit seller
• East wing of CWRU's medical school renamed to honor the University's sole resident Nobel Laureate
• CWRU's MBA program one of world's best
• Disney Week and "America's Role in the World of Information" continue campus-wide discourse on the part the United States plays internationally
• Award-winning Israeli playwright stands at the head of CWRU's new Hebrew classes
• CWRU football squad tops nation in offense
• CWRU medical students teach kids martial arts, valuable lessons
• Weatherhead School of Management dedicates Peter B. Lewis Building
• Weatherhead School of Management announces new bioscience entrepreneurship specialization
  
• CWRU's Bolton School, MetroHealth launch first flight nurse training program
• CWRU's Center for Science and Mathematics Education to work with Cleveland schools
• World's most advanced management school building to be dedicated
• CWRU, CIM leap time and distance for Internet2 dance performance
• State recommends CWRU's FastStart receive tech action board funds
• CWRU community to step in stride with Spartan pride for homecoming 2002

September 2002

• CWRU physicist's discovery to help in the development of new electronic devices
• CWRU names new vice president for development and alumni affairs
• CWRU law school sets record for number of applicants
• CWRU study examines Web sites that sold anthrax treatment after 2001 outbreak
• CWRU stars shine behind the scenes of new Warner Brothers movie
• CWRU one of only two universities nationwide to offer pure bioethics doctorate
• New CWRU twins study to look at environment and reading
• CWRU projects receive awards of achievement
• CWRU's Stein one of few featured in book of international social workers
• Fleisher to direct violence prevention center at CWRU's Mandel School
• CWRU national center for microgravity research on fluids and combustion receives $30 million
• CWRU moves up in U.S. News & World report rankings
• University Circle captures one week of experiences
• Researchers gather in Cleveland for international symposium on aging of skin
• Mummy teeth fascinate CWRU dental paleopathologist
• New chief hopes to ignite CWRU internal medicine research program
• New book by CWRU professor untangles complexities of Milosevic trial
• CWRU's Mandel School receives grant for leadership project
• CWRU researchers creating new gel to replace severed peripheral nerves
• CWRU study suggests the race for high IQs relates to access to information
• Krauss' career path paved with one more award
• Forest City Dental Society receives two national awards for programs based at CWRU's dental school
• CWRU physicist finds himself center stage
• CWRU's Johnson elected vice president of Student National Dental Association, testified before Congressional Black Caucus
• CWRU student's senior honors paper on gender and coaching wins first place in Alpha Kappa Delta competition
• CWRU symposium examines plight of independent farmers
• In pursuit of happiness: CWRU's Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Conference examines pharamceutical mixocologists and the hip hop generation
• CWRU names biomedical entreprenuership director for master of engineering and management program
• CWRU scientists reveal how magnesium works on ion channels important for regulating blood pressure
• Honky Tonk Blues: The Music, Life and Legacy of Hank Williams: Seventh Annual American Music Masters Conference at CWRU
• CWRU makes unprecedented deal with Dell: Computers to be offered to University community, partners at savings
• CWRU dental sealant program awarded $500,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
• CWRU to dedicate entire day to research highlights
• CWRU sets record for football recruits
• Medical school faculty make best docs
• CWRU to conduct seminar on access to health care for immigrants and other patients with limited proficiency in English

August 2002

• Famous Boomerang Project moves to CWRU with new physicist
• CWRU sociologists find social stimuli shape youths
• CWRU med school puts video stream about West Nile Virus on Web
• Campus memorial service to commemorate terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
• CWRU's Mandel School poised to become leader in dual diagnosis research
• The world's first campus-wide switched-gig network brings CWRU, NETGEAR together
• CWRU's Weatherhead School of Management receives major gift from Wolstein family
• CWRU study offers insight to control hypertension
• Rodriguez to headline CWRU humanities celebration of Americas
• CWRU historian shows U.S. shapes identity of Turk immigrants
• Sir Dr. Double-dean: Goldberg wears one more hat
• CWRU med alumni association honors three
• School choice plans need suburbs to be effective
• CWRU, Korean nurses compare health systems
• Grants to help expand one of country's top geriatric nurse programs
• CWRU to help set nation's new green standards
• Nonprofit program earns support from Gund

July 2002

• CWRU and City of Cleveland launch new partnership; establish The Center
  for Health, Science and Society
• School of Medicine receives outstanding accreditation review
• CWRU alumna becomes first woman to direct CDC
• CWRU researchers demystify protein at root of osteoarthritis
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute grants $1.2 million for undergraduate science education
• Drug delivery device to help treat cardiovascular disease
• CWRU receives only National Eye Institute Core Grant awarded
  to an academic medical center in Ohio
• CWRU scientists sail Lake Erie with EPA to explore, explain dead zone
• CWRU Constitutional law expert available for comment on school voucher case

June 2002

• Researchers create tiny cancer drug delivery device
• Newly formed college of medicine receives $100 million gift
• Twaddell awarded Fulbright to study health care in China
• Chemist unlocks mysteries of cholesterol, heart disease
• Researchers discover novel gene that may suppress colon cancer
• Intervention can greatly improve dialysis treatment
• Mouse, human genomes share similarities
• Gilmore named dean of Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
• Researchers genetically alter mosquitoes to impair malaria transmission
• Chemists are developing vaccine for skin cancer
• Definitive evidence: not smoking and exercise lead to longer lives for seniors
• CWRU, The Cleveland Clinic form historic partnership to train clinical investigators, physician-scientists
• Medical, software, engineering companies win business launch

May 2002

• Teaching awards 2002:
  • Lalumandier first to win provost's leadership award (5/23)
  • Stein wins Hovorka Prize
  • Diekhoff Award Winner: Albers gives students safe place to learn (5/23)
  • Diekhoff Award Winner: Sociology programs thrive under Kahana (5/23)
  • Wittke Award Winner: Cechner invites students to call him at home (5/23)
  • Wittke Award Winner: Orlock asks classes to keep finals for decades
• Carlson recommended for prestigious health policy fellowship (5/23)
• Emergency medicine, bioethics programs approved as new academic departments (5/23)
• Renowned writer/poet Maya Angelou calls graduates 'rainbows' during keynote address at CWRU Commencment (5/19)
• CWRU, Cleveland Clinic form historic partnership to train clinical investigators, physician-scientists (5/15)
• Commencement 2002 news:
  • Media advisory
  • Angelou to give commencement address; five honorary degrees to be awarded (5/9)
  • Schools to host diploma ceremonies (5/9)
  • Profiles of some outstanding graduates:
    • Family affair (5/9)
    • Three sport twins (5/9)
    • It all adds up (5/9)
    • Engineering the arts (5/9)
    • All the options (5/9)
    • A leader on the court and off (5/9)
    • The sky's the limit (5/9)
    • Law student inspired by Tienamen Square (5/9)
    • New doctor to put Spanish skills to use . . . and other med school graduation stories (5/9)
    • Dentistry grad improves health of Dominicans (5/9)
    • MSASS grad to carry on family tradition (5/9)
    • Stay-at-home dad turns nonprofit grad (5/9)
• Major CWRU research program adds theme of intermittent low oxygen found in sleep apnea (5/9)
• Forest City Dental Society honors CWRU's Jefferson Jones (5/9)
• Book by CWRU professor concludes today's businesses need to reinvigorate moral traditions (5/9)

April 2002

• At two years, cocaine babies suffer cognitive development effects (4/25)
• Colonies of fish, moth and crabs to make home in biology (4/25)
• CWRU's new free enterprise group wins regional honors (4/25)
• Researchers map protein, may lead to new antibiotics (4/18)
• CWRU publications staff wins second award for undergraduate project (4/18)
• Performing without pain interests CWRU faculty (4/18)
• CWRU professor shovels up new look at American history (4/18)
• Wilczek to give Michelson-Morley Award Lecture at CWRU (4/18)
• CWRU gets 'on the Six' to serve community (4/11)
• CWRU professor, best-selling author leads seminar on how business can better motivate employees (4/8)

March 2002

• CWRU recruits top fuel cell researcher as Ohio Eminent Scholar (3/27)
• CWRU'S med school ranks 15th in nation in research funding (3/26)
• Study from CWRU addresses disparity between African-American and white youths sentenced to detention facilities (3/26)
• CWRU researchers find link between cavities, ear infection (3/25)
• CWRU signs multimillion dollar agreement with Sprint to deliver powerful network solution (3/11)
• CWRU Science Report: Bacteria, not worms, are the main cause of river blindness (3/11)

February 2002

• CWRU senior named to USA Today All-USA College Academic First Team (2/28)
• World-renowned scientists to discuss evolution, creationism in school science (2/28)
• CWRU professor receives one of highest honors for engineers (2/28)
• Incubation programs of Enterprise Development Inc. boost technology and economic expansion in Ohio (2/28)
• CWRU anthropologist to study church healers in Mozambique (2/28)
• Hypertension reseracher wins award for contributions (2/28)
• Perumal is CWRU's second Mitchell Scholar (2/21)
• CWRU's Hokenstad receives lifetime achievement award (2/21)
• Beall elected to NAS council (2/21)
• CWRU Law School appoints international criminal law expert (2/21)
• Acting students from professional training program to stage Shakespeare's 'Measure by Measure' (2/21)
• Colitis study calls for different therapies (2/21)
• CWRU to perform four plays by Samuel Beckett (2/14)
• One of nation's leading HIV researchers joins CWRU (2/14)
• Engineers' Week kicks off February 17 (2/14)
• Governor visits CWRU, Bioenterprise Corp. to promote "Third Frontier Project"(2/14)
• CWRU's Manel School of Applied Social Sciences wins reaccreditation (2/14)
• CWRU¹S Wykle named to national panel to promote nursing (2/14)
• Dance students showcase talents, friendship in CWRU's 'Cusp' (2/7)
• CWRU Center for Surface Analysis open house to feature new 300,000-volt microscope (2/7)
• CWRU study shows how brain-injured, normal teens interact (2/7)
• Registration open for CWRU Mini Med School:Medical School for the Rest of Us (2/5)
• Alumni couples will celebrate "CWRU Love" at Valentine's Brunch (2/5)

January 2002

• Dental sealant program largest in city school's history (1/31)
• Premature babies grow to lower IQs, fewer risks (1/31)
• CWRU nursing professors receive $7 million for research (1/31)
• Area student stars in JASON broadcast (1/31)
• Edward Hundert named new University president (1/17)
• CWRU researchers create electronic nose to detect hazards(1/17)
• Grant to pay for nonprofit execs in CWRU doctorate program (1/17)
• CWRU first in nation in work-study jobs devoted to community service (1/17)
• Coalition to aid in domestic violence victims (1/17)
• Human emotions found to have third dimension (1/17)
• Visiting professor harnesses power of waves (1/17)
• Study gives first look at effects of cancer on survivors (1/10)
• CWRU geologists develop first means to measuer amount, type of soil erosion (1/10)
• CWRU med school creates protein periodic table (1/10)
• First oral histories of Tibet to go online (1/10)
• CWRU visiting professor's art writing class brings CIA, CWRU together (1/10)
• CWRU professor's art exhibit reconstructs childhood in ancient Greece (1/10)
• Nation's youngest lieutenant governor to speak at CWRU Martin Luther King Jr. event (1/10)
• CWRU researchers find snoring associated with head shape (1/10)
• Innovative engineering management degree approved (1/10)
• CWRU researchers find snoring associated with head shape (1/10)
• Innovative engineering management degree approved (1/10)

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