Committee appointed to advise in search for new arts and sciences' dean

After receiving numerous nominations for members, President Edward M. Hundert has appointed the committee that will advise in the national search for a dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

CWRU selects architectural firms for West Quad

CWRU has selected the architectural team of Phillips Swager Associates Inc. of Naperville, Ill., and Robert P. Madison International of Cleveland to renovate the buildings of the West Quad.

Rudy earns national engineering honor

Yoram Rudy, the M. Frank and Margaret C. Rudy Professor of Cardiac Bioelectricity, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering

Baker-Nord grants to help fund faculty collaborations in humanities

For a number of years, William Deal and Brian Ruppert have talked about collaborating on a book about medieval Japanese Buddhism. This spring, the two religion scholars will move forward with their project.

Baker-Nord to accept grant proposals through March 21

Look out below

Senior engineering student Ian Charnas prepares to release a bubblewrapped egg from the top of the Veale parking tower during the Amazing Egg Drop competition.

CWRU joins groups defending affirmative action

CWRU has joined more than 300 organizations representing academia, major corporations and labor unions who—in more than 60 legal briefs—are defending affirmative action polices at the University of Michigan.

A helping hand

Marius Laniauskas, associate professor at the CWRU School of Dentistry, reviews X-rays with senior dental student Lisa Browning during Prophy Day 2003 at the dental clinic.

Bolton's place in state history to be marked

Frances Payne Bolton, the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio, noted philanthropist and the person for whom CWRU's school of nursing is named, will be honored with an official Ohio Historical Marker.

Connors returns to chair medicine department at MetroHealth

Alfred F. Connors Jr. has returned to the CWRU School of Medicine as the Charles H. Rammelkamp Jr. Professor of Medicine and as chairman of the Department of Medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center.

Symposium to look at justice, peace

With the United States and Iraq moving closer to an apparent armed showdown, the CWRU School of Law will inaugurate its Frederick K. Cox International Law Center War Crimes Research Symposium series with a day-long event examining the connection of peace and justice in international relations.

Tax credits available for working families

CWRU students, faculty or staff with families and low to moderate incomes may qualify for refunds over and above federal income taxes withheld during the course of a year.

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