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July 2002

• CWRU's Weatherhead School of Management receives major gift from Wolstein family
• CWRU and City of Cleveland launch new partnership; establish The Center
  for Science, Health 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
• 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

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 (5/23)
• 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)