New freshmen dean to join CWRU

A new dean for freshmen has been named, and she brings extensive experience in academic advising and coordinating and teaching first-year student seminars. Julie L. Amon will join CWRU as assistant dean for freshmen in the Office of Undergraduate Studies May 6.

Highest honor

Dorothy Humel Hovorka joins Lawrence Krauss, chair and Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, as he presents Frank Wilczek (center), a world-renowned physicist, with the Michelson-Morley Award.

Medical researcher studies oxygen levels to find therapy for the effects of sleep apnea

Nanduri R. Prabhakar, professor and vice chair of the School of Medicine's Department of Physiology and Biophysics, investigates why people who live high in the mountains, a low oxygen environment, function perfectly well, while someone living at sea level who experiences low oxygen episodically during sleep, like in sleep apnea, is at risk for developing heart and stroke problems.

Respiration project one of longest in CWRU history

Earth Day 2002

Members of CWRU's Sierra Club plant a red maple on the main quad outside Adelbert Hall in honor of Earth Day 2002.

Feldman: Businesses need morals

In studying the history of the literature on organizational culture, Steven Feldman, associate professor of management policy at the Weatherhead School of Management, finds moral traditions that have served American society in the past have been in decline for decades, contributing to the crises at Enron, Arthur Andersen and other troubled organizations.

CWRU wants you

Henry Prijatel, instructor at CWRU's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, a major in the U.S. Army Reserves and a certified nurse anesthetist, speaks to a group of area high school students at a recruiting event designed to showcase career opportunities available in nursing.

Off to work we go

Elli Morrison joins her mom, Barbara, assistant professor of nursing, for Take Your Child to Work Day.