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February 28, 2002
Databases to be centralized, integrated campus-wideFaculty, staff and students may soon have personalized Web-based, even wireless, access to a centralized system of campus-wide transactions, records and data. In a major new initiative, the CWRU Integrated Applications Opportunity (CIAO) initiative has appointed a steering committee to investigate and eventually implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that will combine information—including human resource, financial, student and alumni records—into a single, integrated and unified database and Web interface. |
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Gould to discuss evolution, creationism in school scienceOne of the most hotly contested issues before the State Board of Education is the proposed inclusion of intelligent design theory, creationism, as a science in the new K-12 Ohio science standards. This issue will bring three world-renowned scientists, including best-selling science author Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard University, together in Cleveland. The public presentation, "Evolution and God: Why Intelligent Design Theory Isn't Science," will cover the facts and fiction of creationism at 1 p.m. March 2 in the Allen Theater, 1501 Euclid Avenue, on Playhouse Square. |
Campus to explore 'role in world'
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Engineering an egg drop . . .A proliferation of Pentecostal-like churches where the laying of the hands and other remedies heal troubled souls and bodies may be more a result of a new free-market economy than the AIDS epidemic, according to a CWRU anthropologist. |
Peckham receives one of highest honors for engineersP. Hunter Peckham, CWRU professor of biomedical engineering and research scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the academy is one of the highest professional honors for an engineer. Peckham is the only engineer elected from Ohio and one of only three biomedical engineers elected this year. |
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EDI companies make major impact in region
MFA acting students take spotlight in Shakespeare
Economy,
not illness, may spawn prophet-healing
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