REI receives $1 million SBC Foundation grant

The Center for Regional Economic Issues at CWRU's Weatherhead School of Management has received a landmark $1 million, four-year grant from the SBC Foundation to support programs that will help advance the eight-county Northeast Ohio region's economic development.

TIIME receives NSF grant for biotech expansions

The Institute for the Integration of Management and Engineering (TIIME) at CWRU will receive a grant totaling $599,834 over the next three years from the Partnerships for Innovation Program (PFI), an arm of the National Science Foundation. CWRU will use the grant to help boost Northeast Ohio to the forefront of biotechnology innovation and entrepreneurial activity.

Meeting the mayor-elect

Jane Campbell, mayor-elect of Cleveland, visited campus November 13 to meet with Interim President James Wagner.

Reception welcomes two new VPs

Two new vice presidents -- Mark Coticchia (second from left) and Lev Gonick (second from right) -- joined CWRU October 1. A November 13 reception in the Tomlinson Hall Gallery helped welcome them to campus.

Celebrating CWRU's cultural diversity

CWRU's inaugural Heritage and Cultural Celebration featured more than a dozen groups and organizations November 8 in performances and displays in the Thwing Center Ballroom. Among cultures represented were African-American, Argentine, Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, Malaysian, and Serbian heritages.

Haynie named med school associate dean

Robert Haynie has been named associate dean of student affairs at CWRU's School of Medicine. Haynie is an expert in hypertension and a medical educator with a long history of service to the school as a faculty member and alumnus. He has served as interim associate dean for student affairs for the past year.

Lathers probes romance, reality of artists' models

Marie Lathers, CWRU's new Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, will talk about the history of the artist's model as a profession during a lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 18 in the Recital Hall of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Lathers is the author of a newly published book on this topic.