Tuition to rise 7 percent, residential tech fee added

Tuition rates for undergraduate and graduate programs will increase by 7.1 percent in 2002–2003, but CWRU still remains among the least expensive of the nation's top private, research universities. Undergraduate and graduate tuition rates will rise from $21,000 to $22,500. Room rates will rise 5–7 percent, while the cost of board will increase by 12 percent. Undergraduates living in campus housing also will be assessed a $400 technology fee for the first time this year to help fund improvements to the computer network serving residence halls and Greek housing

Dorms to have nation's first switched gig network

Youngest lieutenant governor to speak at MLK event

The youngest lieutenant governor in the country—and the highest ranking African-American elected state official—will be the featured speaker at CWRU's 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation. Joe Rogers, lieutenant governor of Colorado, will headline the convocation, which is from noon to 1:30 p.m. January 24. The event has been moved from Amasa Stone Chapel to Strosacker Auditorium this year due to renovation projects in the chapel.

Gonick's first three months are busy ones

In his first 100 days on campus, Lev Gonick, CWRU's vice president for information services and the University's chief information officer, has worn through two pairs of shoes, logged more than 400 face-to-face meetings, issued two major RFPs (requests for proposals), begun a comprehensive review of the information services organization on campus and flown more than 30,000 miles.

Visiting professor harnesses power of waves

While the U.S. has focused on wind and solar power for alternative energy, the British Isles, surrounded by water, has another abundant power source: ocean waves. Nancy Nichols, CWRU's Flora Stone Mather Visiting Professor in mathematics who is from the University of Reading in England, collaborates with researchers from Ireland and Portugal to develop prototypes of oscillating wave columns that harness energy from the wave's motion to produce a clean renewable energy source.