"For Your Information" from the 9-20-01 Campus News
Due to restricted air travel and security concerns for the artists participating in related concerts, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has postponed all American Music Masters programs honoring Bessie Smith.
This includes the conference which CWRU and the Rock Hall were to co-host Saturday, September 29 at Thwing Center.
New dates for the conference and other series programs have not yet been determined.
There is a new date for the reception to welcome Mohsen Anvari as dean of the Weatherhead School of Management. The event had been scheduled for Tuesday, September 11, but was postponed due to the tragic national events which took place earlier that day.
The reception has been rescheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday, November 5 in Tomlinson Hall. Please send e-mail to RSVP if you are planning to attend.
In response to last week's national tragedy, the University Counseling Service is offering a support group meeting for CWRU students, staff, and faculty. The event will offer a forum for talking about feelings and personal concerns regarding last week's incidents.
The meeting is from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, September 21 in Thwing Center's Meeting Room D. For more information, call 368-6689.
Amasa Stone Chapel will remain open from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. weekdays through Friday, September 21 for those who seek a quiet place for prayer and reflection.
The Office of Research Administration is now two separate, yet integrated offices -- the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration and the Office of Research Compliance.
This reorganization reflects the two distinct service units which have comprised ORA:
- Sponsored project administration: Reviewing and signing off on sponsored project proposals, negotiating and executing sponsored project agreements, establishing sponsored project accounts, and administering research conflict of interest disclosures. These activities have involved all sponsored projects, including research, training, and service projects.
- Research compliance: Providing regulatory oversight of human subject, animal subject, and recombinant DNA research, and administering the CWRU scientific misconduct policy and procedures.
"Creating a separate, and hopefully more visible, Office of Research Compliance reinforces the importance the University places on the ethical conduct of research," said Eric Cottington, associate vice president for research.
Christian LaMantia will direct the Office of Research Compliance. She will continue to report to Cottington, who will provide direction for the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration until a director is identified.
With any questions or concerns about this reorganization, contact Eric Cottington at 368-4515 or emc14.
Register by September 28 to participate in the first annual CWRU Heritage and Cultural Celebration, which will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, November 8 in the Thwing Center Ballroom.
For details or to register, contact Carolyn Gerich at 368-2458 or cag16, or visit http://www.cwru.edu/finadmin/humres/eerel/culture.html.
A new course will explore "The Entrepreneurial Perspective Series at CWRU: How to Transform Research into Commercial Opportunities."
Enterprise Development Inc. (EDI) is offering the course in conjunction with the Institute for the Integration of Management and Engineering (TIIME) and CWRU's Office of Research Administration. EDI is a subsidiary of CWRU and a joint venture with the Weatherhead School of Management. TIIME is a joint venture of Weatherhead and the Case School of Engineering.
The course is geared for CWRU faculty, staff, researchers, and graduate students engaged in research that may have commercial applications or who are interested in the process of technology commercialization.
Sessions will meet from noon to 1:30 p.m. every Tuesday in October at Enterprise Hall. Here is the schedule:
- October 2: "Do I have an innovative idea or breakthrough research?"
- October 9: "How do I protect my idea?"
- October 16: "How do I use my CWRU technology transfer resources?"
- October 23: "What about the money?"
- October 30: "Entrepreneurial revelations"
The course is free to CWRU faculty, staff, and graduate students, but registration is required to attend. The course is limited to 30 participants. A light lunch will be provided.
Wednesday, September 26 is the registration deadline. Register with Liz Pirnat at EDI at 229-9445 ext. 171 or lpirnat@edinc.org.
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities is holding a food drive for New York City rescue workers through Friday, September 21.
Food items needed include canned or boxed drinks, powdered drinks, small bottled water, and non-chocolate hard candy, including throat lozenges. The rescue workers also need personal supplies such as eye drops, toothbrushes, and wet and dry tissues.
The drop-off location is the Baker-Nord Center office in 206 Clark Hall.
The Share the Vision Committee and the Department of Music are co-sponsoring an all-campus program to respond to our recent national tragedy.
"Celebration and Renewal through Poetry and Music" will begin at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 25 in Harkness Chapel. This will be an informal program designed to bring members of the campus community together in the spirit of healing and renewal. By sharing words or music that have been personally meaningful, participants can help each other find renewed joy and promise.
Bring a poem to read or recite, a song to sing, or an instrument to play -- or come to listen. All members of the CWRU community are invited to attend and to participate.
Prospective parents interested in adopting can learn more about the adoption process and options associated with international adoptions at an open house at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 25 at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
The open house is being sponsored by Family Adoption Consultants, a licensed Ohio child-placement agency that offers direct agency programs in South Korea, China, Guatemala, and the Philippines.
For more information call 330-468-0673.
The Entrepreneur Venture Association (EVA) at CWRU will hold its startup meeting from3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday, September 27 in 400 Enterprise Hall. CWRU students and faculty will gather to discuss new venture ideas and this year's events, including the fifth annual Business Plan Competition.
"Many angel investors in the area have significant funds to invest but require good ideas to get into business," said
Tom Rusk, the association's president. "Turbulent times also heighten the need for visionary business leaders who can act quickly."
For more information, visit the association's Web site at http://weatherhead.cwru.edu/entrepreneur, or call 297-9291.
The Department of CWRUnet Services will hold an open forum on the status of CWRUnet from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, September 20 in 13 Crawford Hall.
During the event, Jeff Gumpf, the department's assistant director for engineering services, will present an update on the progress on CWRUnet over the summer and discuss the new plans for the year. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.
Brown-bag lunches are welcome.
The Department of Occupational and Environmental Safety (DOES) has moved its weekly initial training sessions under the OSHA standards from Monday afternoons to Tuesday afternoons.
The move is being done in conjunction with the Department of Human Resources, which has shifted its weekly New Employee Orientation to Tuesdays as well.
The times for each DOES session (1 p.m. for the OSHA Laboratory Safety Standard and 3 p.m. for the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard) remain the same.
With questions, call 368-2907 or send e-mail to eas16.
The Panini's store on Coventry is offering different food or drink specials every Wednesday night to CWRU faculty, staff, and students. Present a CWRU ID to take advantage of the discounts. The store is located at 1854 Coventry Road. Call 932-9996 for more information.
Rotary Clubs from the tri-state area of North and South Carolina and Georgia, representing more than 35,000 Rotarians, have awarded a $250,000 grant to the University Alzheimer Center of University Hospitals of Cleveland and CWRU's School of Medicine for research efforts into Alzheimer's disease.
Karl Herrup and Gary Landreth, both professors of neurosciences, were given the grant to further their studies on the development of new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The funds will be used to look for genes that underlie the disease process in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
"Our work is at an important crossroads. The CART funds will truly put our research on a fast track. The Rotary award could not have come at a better time," Herrup said.
The award came from the Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust (CART) Fund Inc. of Sumter, South Carolina. The fund was initiated by Roger Ackerman, a Rotarian in South Carolina whose mother-in-law suffered from the disease.
Looking for a way to fund programs researching Alzheimer's disease, Ackerman asked fellow Rotarians to voluntarily empty their pockets of spare change when attending meetings.
Since 1996, the fund has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to researchers who are looking for ways to prevent, cure or delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. "We have got to find an answer to this disease," Ackerman said.
The Alzheimer Center at UHC and CWRU is the only federally funded facility in Ohio specifically designated by the National Institute on Aging as an Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
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