First-of-its-kind colloquium to highlight inaugural

CWRU is hosting the first-ever national colloquium exploring academic and local government relationships as the backdrop for the inauguration of Edward M. Hundert as CWRU's president.

Former Cleveland Indian to speak at MLK tribute

Andre Thornton, one of the Cleveland Indians' most identifiable players during the late 1970s and 1980s, will be the featured speaker at CWRU's 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation.

Back to the future:
Krauss figures lower age for universe, substantiates presence of dark energy

Cosmologists from CWRU and Dartmouth College have continued efforts to refine the age of the universe by using new information from a variety of sources. This new lower age limit is 1.2 billion years higher than previous age limits.

Researchers in a National Science Foundation-funded project at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station captured some of the earliest and most detailed pictures of the universe ever recorded.

All aboard

Civis, a prototype of one of the proposed vehicles for the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project, recently stopped outside the Peter B. Lewis Building.

Scharf brings final frontier closer to home

At first glance, the triumphs and travails of the crew of the Starship Enterprise might seem light years from international trouble spots such as Kosovo and Iraq. Not so says Michael Scharf, professor at the CWRU School of Law.

Researchers come closer to stopping disfiguring disease

CWRU researchers have reached an important milestone in learning how to halt a major mosquito-borne disease affecting 120 million people around the world.

Bioscience businesses launch

Interventional Imaging Inc. is the $40,000 grand prize winner in the bioscience track of the Case Weatherhead Business Launch Competition.

CWRU institute to help break ground in understanding unselfish love for others

More than $1.7 million in grants have been awarded to 21 research projects to conduct groundbreaking investigations into the scientific nature of unselfish or "unlimited" love, including volunteerism, organ donations and rescue work.

Landmark partnership

CWRU and University Hospitals officials announce the approval of a landmark 50-year agreement to establish a unique and primary partnership between the CWRU School of Medicine and UHC.

Marks to handle development at dental school

Bonnie Marks will spearhead activities to enlist support and raise nearly $500,000 from alumni of the CWRU School of Dentistry as part of the dental school's Partners in Progress campaign.

Faculty Senate votes to move organizational development program

The Faculty Senate voted to support the transfer of the Master of Science Program in Organizational Development and Analysis from the school of graduate studies to the executive education division of the Weatherhead School of Management.

Wykle featured in calendar of African-American nurses

May Wykle, the dean and Florence Cellar professor at CWRU's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, is one of 12 nurses featured in an African-American History calendar for 2003.

More than 200 learn about smallpox

More than 200 health care workers and members of safety forces filled the auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for a conference on smallpox vaccination planning.

In Memoriam: Alperin taught at dental school for 34 years

Norman S. Alperin, an assistant clinical professor at the CWRU School of Dentistry, died of complications from esophageal cancer December 21 at Hillcrest Hospital, where he had been on the medical staff. He was 80.