Campus center is one step closer

CWRU has begun detailed planning for a new, $50-million campus center. When completed, it will be approximately twice the size of the current center and contain a wide variety of food and retail outlets, recreational spaces and offices for student services and activities.

Undergrads earn USA Today academic honors

Two CWRU undergraduates have been named to the 2003 All-USA College Academic teams sponsored by USA Today. Each year, the national newspaper honors outstanding college students from around the country.

National panel to help chart course in arts, sciences

A blue-ribbon national advisory panel—under the chairmanship of Frank Rhodes, former president of Cornell University—will build a "prospectus" for the College of Arts and Sciences that will aid in the search process for a new dean.

From shore to sea

School children across Northeast Ohio learned about marine life and ecology during JASON XIV: From Shore to Sea.

Cancer drug to begin trials

Researchers at the Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospitals of Cleveland and the CWRU School of Medicine are, for the first time in human clinical trials, using a new drug designed to sensitize cancer cells for destruction.

Engineered to perfection

Arthur Huckelbridge tests a balsa wood and carpenter's glue bridge engineered by one of the 400 high school students who competed in the School of Engineering's annual bridge building and racecar competition.

Tuition rates stay below peers

CWRU's undergraduate and graduate tuition rates will rise from $22,500 to $24,100 for the 2003-2004 academic year—an increase of 7.1 percent—but are expected to remain at least 10 percent below tuition rates at peer universities.

Roos joins treasurer's office

Arthur Roos has been appointed associate treasurer for financing, investments and risk management at CWRU. Roos joins CWRU following 25 years at Niagara Mohawk Holdings in Syracuse.

Law school receives its largest individual gift

The CWRU School of Law has received a $2 million gift to name its law library in honor of the late Judge Ben C. Green, a 1930 alumnus of the law school.

Premier journalist

Blaine Harden, Washington Post national correspondent, was the first speaker in the "Conversations with Some of America's Premier Journalists & Writers" series of the Susie Gharib Distinguished Lectureship in Journalism.

SAC to co-sponsor new student-staff event

Marcela Smid, a medical anthropology major, said she has noticed during her years at CWRU that many students often talk about University staff members as if they are all the same and mostly just a means to an end—their lunch, financial aid check, the copier, etc.

Air Force Reserves Brig. Gen. Timothy White, news anchor for WKYC in Cleveland, administered the oath commissioning several dental students as second lieutenants in the U.S. Air Force.

Professor shares secrets to cleaner teeth during dental health month

A CWRU dentistry professor says a good brushing in the morning and again in the evening, with a flossing before jumping into bed, will help adults and children stay healthier and keep their teeth longer.