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Dec. 23 made holiday this
year
Rhonda Gross, executive vice president and chief operating officers,
has announced that this year Monday, December 23, will be observed
as an official University holiday along with Tuesday, December
24, and Wednesday, December 25.
Network card drivers available
Updated NetGear network card drivers for Windows are available
to the campus community from the Software Center at http://www.cwru.edu/softwarecenter
in the "additional software" section. These drivers are of benefit
to anyone who runs the Eudora e-mail client, as the drivers fix
known issues which have prevented Eudora from working properly
with the NetGear network cards.
Apply for tuition waiver Jan.
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Faculty and staff can apply for tuition waiver certification
for the spring semester from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays from
January 2 through February 28 in the Benefits Office in 224 Crawford
Hall.
Alumna cited in Massachusetts
CWRU alumna Judith Miller has been named Massachusetts Professor
of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching.
Miller earned her doctorate in molecular biology and microbiology
from CWRU's School of Graduate Studies in 1978. She is a professor
of biology and biotechnology and director of the Center for Educational
Development, Technology and Assessment at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, where she has been on faculty since 1978.
Directories to be circulated
CWRU directories have arrived. The mailroom has been delivering
one copy of the CWRU directory to each full-time faculty and staff
person. If more directories are needed for a department, e-mail
cwrudir. The new online directory is at http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/phone/phonebook/local/.
This year is the last year for a printed directory. The online
directory will continue to be updated and available.
Faculty aid Ukraine med school
George Kikano, chair of family medicine, and Jason Chao, associate
professor of family medicine, both of the CWRU School of Medicine
and University Hospitals of Cleveland, are flying to L'viv, Ukraine,
to help that city's medical school with curriculum development.
The week-long trip is one of several that they and other health
care professionals have made as part of the L'viv-Cleveland primary
health care partnership that was formed in 1999 to work on health
care delivery and education issues.
Also involved from CWRU are Stephen Flynn, associate clinical
professor of family medicine at Fairview Hospital, and Carlyn
Yanda, instructor in reproduction biology and in the Center for
Adolescent Health.
Ostrach elected to AAAS council
Simon Ostrach, the Wilburt J. Austin Distinguished Professor
of Engineering at CWRU, director of the National Center for Microgravity
Research on Fluid and Combustion based at CWRU and NASA Glenn
Research Center and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences (AAAS) has been elected a member of the AAAS council.
As a member of the council, Ostrach will help to nominate and
elect other Midwest fellows.
He was elected to the academy in 2001.
Dentistry grad wins alum award
Henry John Sazima, a native Clevelander, became the first graduate
of the CWRU School of Dentistry to receive the President's Award
for Distinguished Alumni from the University.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Adelbert College in 1948
and continued at the University to receive his dental degree in
1953 from the Western Reserve University School of Dentistry.
After practicing dentistry with his father, Sazima entered the
U.S. Navy in 1962, where he had a 27-year career as a teacher,
researcher, author and scientist. He retired from the Navy in
1988 with the rank of Rear Admiral in the Dental Corps.
Sazima then served 12 years as executive director of the Academy
of Dentistry International, an international honor society with
members in 61 countries.
He also was instrumental in establishing the Naval Officers Scholarship
Endowment Fund at the CWRU dental school, which has reached an
endowment of $81,000.
Weight group to start session
The next session of CWRU's Weight Watchers At Work program begins
from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. January 9.
Fourteen sessions are available for the price of 12. The cost
is $138 payable by cash, check or charge. When paying by check,
members can make three $46 payments.
Contact Sara McIntyre at 368-3924 or e-mail sym2
to learn more.
Baumeister named APA fellow
Roy F. Baumeister, EB Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts and
professor of psychology, has been elected by his peers as a fellow
of the American Psychological Association (APA) for 2003.
APA fellows are selected for their contributions to the research,
teaching or practice of psychology.
Baumeister has worked at CWRU since 1979.
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