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The University Center for Innovation in Teaching
and Education (UCITE) will highlight the work of last year's Nord
grant winners in its 2002 summer sessions.
Nord grants are awarded to faculty projects that
deal with issues of global importance or are interdisciplinary
or specifically enrich the Northeast Ohio community due to their
innovative nature or unique character.
All brown bag sessions are from noon to 1 p.m.
each Wednesday in L-5 Baker. To reserve a lunch, call UCITE at
368-1224 or e-mail ucite@po.cwru.edu.
The schedule of speakers is as follows:
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July 3: Eric Bettinger, economics, "Coffee with Julia: Personalizing
the Web as a Teaching Resource"
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July 10: Massood Tabib-Azar, electrical engineering, "Quantization
of Knowledge and Learning Through Experience"
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July 17: Hilary Bradbury, organizational behavior, "Making
Sustainability and Systems Thinking Personally Meaningful
to Students"
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July 24: T. Roma Jasinevicius with Michael Landers, dentistry,
"Using Virtual Patients to Teach Real Dentistry"
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July 31: Jinming Gao, biomedical engineering, "Providing
Biomedical Engineering Students with a 'Molecular Toolbox'"
The University's current cost-per-copy agreement
with IKON Office Solutions ends in June 2003. To ensure that the
new program implemented best meets the needs of the campus community,
faculty and staff can complete a survey, the results of which
will be used in the bid proposal process.
Surveys are being distributed to each machine
location. Employees also may complete the survey at http://isweb1.cwru.edu/copier/index.html.
Comments are not limited to key operators.
Input must be received no later than July 15.
Surveys should be returned to Carol Horvath, Purchasing Department,
CASC, 4909.
The Office of Publications now is taking orders
for the 2002-2004 General Bulletin, which is due to be
published in mid- to late summer.
An order form is available at http://www.cwru.edu/pubs/stupubs/styleguide.htm.
Completed forms must be mailed or faxed by June 28 to Stuart Kollar,
director of publications, Bellflower Hall, 7018.
CWRU Magazine has been honored by the
Press Club of Cleveland. Two articles, both by Greg Donley, from
the magazine won the club's Excellence in Journalism Awards.
For magazine writing in the arts, Donley took
second place for his story "Sculpture, Sculpture Everywhere,"
about the Putnam Collection. In the open print category for technology
writing, he took honorable mention for "Powerhouse," a story on
fuel cells.
Duncan Neuhauser and master's degree students
in his public health policy and management course have published
the third edition of Public Health Management and Policy,
a free online textbook intended for public use. Permission is
granted to copy its contents.
The text at http://www.cwru.edu/med/epidbio/mphp439/index.html
is organized into general areas of interest, including structure
of health care delivery, theories of public health management
and policy, general concepts of public health management, general
concepts of public health policy, special issues in public health
management and policy, leadership skills in public health management
and policy and a dictionary of key terms.
Juliet Kostritsky, the John Homer Kapp Professor
of Law, has been honored for the second time as the favorite teacher
of CWRU's first-year law students.
Kostritsky, named teacher of the year in 2000-2001,
was awarded the honor "for exemplary teaching in contracts." In
addition to contracts, her areas of expertise include contracts
jurisprudence, commercial paper and property.
An associate with the New York law firm of Milbank,
Tweed, Hadley & McCloy for four years prior to joining the CWRU
law faculty in 1984, Kostritsky was named associate professor
in 1987 and professor in 1990. She has held the Kapp chair since
1999.
Last year she was elected to the American Law
Institute, one of the nation's premier legal organizations.
Kostritsky has a bachelor's degree from Harvard
University and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin law
school.
The possession, shipment and transporting of
certain biological agents or toxins must be reported and tracked
under the new USA Patriot Act. Call the University Safety Services
Office at 368-2907 for a list of toxins and to learn special procedures
and restrictions for their use.
MSASS to display alum's
art
Approximately 50 oil paintings and watercolors
by local artist and CWRU graduate Stuart Abbey are on display
at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
Abbey describes his paintings as "interpretations
of something-a scene, person, object-that I found interesting
and hope to present in an interesting manner through color, line
and form." Watercolor is his preferred medium.
A resident of Mentor, Abbey received his bachelor's
degree in art studio from Western Reserve University in 1960.
The display runs through July 12. For more information, call 368-2284.
LASIK trials to be
conducted
Joseph Thomas at University Ophthalmologists
Inc. is conducting a study to evaluate changes in corneal thickness
before and after LASIK surgery. Patients eligible for bilateral
LASIK for the correction of nearsightedness and astigmatism may
be candidates for the study. Participants will be reimbursed a
portion of the surgery fees based on completed study visits. For
details, contact Diane at 844-8553.
Katherine Weichsel, with her project "Identification
of Immunodominant Human MBP Epitopes in DR4 Transgenic Shiverer
Mice" won first place in the Michelson-Morley Research Competition
in Biological Sciences.
Second place was awarded to Steven Gajda, Surbhi
Panchal placed third and Neeta Kappor finished fourth.
Gajda's project was on "Human Innate Immune Response to Filarial
Parasites are Dependent on the Endosymbiant Wolbachia." Panchal's
was titled "Anti-angiogenic Activity of High Molecular Weight
Kininogen Released from Lipid Microtubes" and Kappor's paper was
"Molecular Mechanisms of the Interaction Between Mink and DVLQTI
Potassium Channels."
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