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With the start of the new academic year, the Silver Spartan diner is extending its hours. Beginning this week the diner will be open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. On weekends it will open at 9 p.m. and remain open for late night dining. The diner will be open weekend days for special events such as football games. Weekend day openings and other information about the diner are posted on its Web site at http://www.case.edu/finadmin/security/auxiliary/diner.htm. Ownership of One-to-One Fitness Center has been transferred to Case Western Reserve University from University Hospitals of Cleveland. It is anticipated that within the next few months, Case will assume full ownership and operation of the Center. The University does not foresee any alterations in One-to-One's policies, hours, membership dues, staffing or services as a result of the ownership change.
Pilot funding is available through the American Cancer Society Institutional Research for full-time junior faculty interested in conducting cancer research in basic, clinical, behavioral or epidemiological areas. Junior faculty throughout the University are eligible as long as they have never received national grant support of their own other than postdoctoral fellowships. One-year awards of up to $20,000 are available for cancer research projects that will be used to seek future independent grants. Applications are due October 15. For details or an application, call Shirline Edwards at 844-8797 or e-mail swx12@case.edu.
This fall, Information Technology Services is offering faculty, staff and students MyCASE, a personalizable Web portal with real-time access to information, including grades, degree audit reports, news, e-mail, calendars, courses, library check-out records, weather, a stock ticker and more. Additional enhancements, including the ability to create portlets based on individual interests, are expected over the coming months. Go to http://my.case.edu for details.
A complete list of all faculty senior-level appointments and promotions, awards of tenure and emeritus appointments for fiscal year 2002-2003 is available at http://www.case.edu/pubs/cnews/2003/8-28/appts.htm.
MetroHealth Medical Center is hosting a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Forum as part of its annual Research Days September 12. An administrators' breakfast and NIH update, which includes the September meeting of the School of Medicine Administrators Forum, will be from 8:30-9 a.m. in the east dining room at MetroHealth. A faculty luncheon
and NIH update is from noon to 1 p.m. in Rammelkamp Room 170 at MetroHealth. All research administrators and faculty from Case, MetroHealth, University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Cleveland State University are invited to attend. RSVP to Marianne Ward at mward@metrohealth.org or 778-8526.
RTA has launched the new University Circle/Heights Area Circulator route. The bus route travels a 6.4-mile route through Shaker Square,
Cedar-Fairmount, University Circle, Little Italy and Coventry. The
Circulator also serves
the Shaker Square and University Circle Rapid Stations. Fares, which can be paid as passengers board the bus, are 75 cents for a one-way ride or $3 for an all-day pass. For more information visit http://www.universitycircle.org or http://www.riderta.com.
Jenifer Neils, CWRU's Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of art history, has helped organize the first major art exhibit exploring childhood in ancient Greece—The Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past—which will be on display at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College through December 14. Following the exhibition at the Hood, Coming of Age in Ancient Greece travels to the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati (May 1–August 1, 2004) and J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Calif. (September 14–December 5, 2004). A smaller version of the exhibit with a special section on the Olympic Spirit can be viewed at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York City January 19–April 1, 2004. Accompanying the exhibit is a fully illustrated catalogue published by Yale University Press. The prologue has been written by Jill Korbin, CWRU's associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of anthropology. During the research phase of exhibit, Neils received help from James Edmonson, CWRU curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center on nursing practices in antiquity.
The Center for Women Book Discussion Group had made reading selections for its meetings through the end of the year. The group also has scheduled a meeting to discuss future selections. It is from noon to 1 p.m. October 2 in Crawford 720. Books to be discussed over the next four months are "Crime in Question" by Margaret Yorke, September 10; "Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan" by Norma Khouri, October 1; "Delta Wedding" by Eudora Welty, November 5; and "Don't Let us Go to the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller, December 3. All meetings are from noon to 1 p.m. in Crawford 720, except for the September meeting, which will be in Crawford 14. To learn more, contact Rosemary Alexander at rosemary.alexander@case.edu.
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