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Campus News
January 15, 2004

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Dashboard to light up with vision success
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community soon will be able to gauge the university's success toward realizing its bold vision to become the world's most powerful learning environment—on a virtual dashboard

Case names new provost
John L. Anderson, who has served as dean of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering where he is also a professor of chemical engineering, will join Case Western Reserve University April 1 as provost and university vice president.

Rare find
Jane Leitch, representing the Association for Continuing Education, presented Case Western Reserve University President Edward M. Hundert and University Library Director Joanne Eustis with a rare copy of one of the first American satires.

Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Mandel School welcomes first undergraduates in two decades
Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is seeing something this semester it has not seen in more than two decades—undergraduates.

Case to come together at concert celebration
Case Western Reserve University's President's Ball has been transformed into an exclusive—and more inclusive—Case Concert Celebration.

University, community to share their dreams in memory of Martin Luther King
Members of the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland-area communities will have the opportunity to share their dreams for University Circle and Northeast Ohio during Case's 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at noon January 22 in Strosacker Auditorium.

College of Arts and Sciences
Case holds patent to create skin equivalents
Case Western Reserve University biologists generating human skin equivalents in lab cultures have received a patent for new technology that has the potential to regenerate skin for medical uses and for testing new skin care products.

Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Breast cancer gene found
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a new breast cancer gene that may play a role in estrogen-induced breast cancers.

Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Grant to help enhance courses in aging, geriatric social services
Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is enhancing its curriculum in the field of aging and geriatric services.

College of Arts and Sciences
Researchers find that aged cockroaches suffer from stiff joints
Case Western Reserve University researchers have discovered that as the roach's life wanes between 60-65 weeks after the onset of adulthood, the insect slows down, experiences stiff joints, has problems climbing and experiences decreased spontaneous fleeing response.


Also in this issue:

Carney joins campus planning office

JASON to give children taste of rainforests

In Memoriam:
Kruczek worked in information technology for three decades

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