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June 25, 2013
Aggression in school-age children may have its origins in children 3 years old and younger who witnessed violence between their mothers and partners, according to a new APP study. “People may think children that young are passive and unaware, but they pay attention to…
June 25, 2013
Medical advancements that extend the lives of patients with cancer, heart failure and other serious chronic diseases have created another need: more clinicians skilled in specialized care for people with terminal illnesses. Acknowledging this need, APP’s Frances Payne…
June 24, 2013
Glenn Nicholls will be honored on Thursday, June 27, at a reception to celebrate his retirement as vice president of student affairs after more than 25 years of service to APP. As the leader of the university’s Division of Student Affairs, Nicholls has overseen programs…
June 24, 2013
Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández, an assistant professor of chemistry, won a National Science Foundation CAREER award to investigate how compounds found in human cells and medicines trigger DNA mutations that can damage cells and lead to skin cancer when exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Crespo,…
June 21, 2013
Lynn T. Singer, deputy provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, has appointed Shannon B. Lundeen as Case Western Reserve’s new director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Lundeen succeeds Dorothy Miller, who is retiring June 30. “Shannon is a very dynamic individual,” Singer said.…
June 21, 2013
President Barbara R. Snyder presented three staff members with the 2013 President’s Award for Distinguished Service at the Staff Service Awards brunch June 12. The annual award, created in memory of staff member Roseanne Shaerban, recognizes employees whose outstanding contributions to the campus…
June 20, 2013
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report When APP officials conceived this week’s Day of Giving, the goal of 618 donors seemed a large leap of faith. Since the concept was entirely untested on this campus, no precedent existed to guide them. Would the…
June 20, 2013
A budding anthropologist, Frank Manzella first took an interest in Brazilian culture and the Portuguese language when he worked for an immunodermatologist in a clinic frequented by Brazilian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While reading for his master’s degree at the University of Oxford,…
June 19, 2013
APP officials announced today that the tuition deadline for the fall semester will be September 6, 2013, while the deadline for the spring semester is Jan. 24, 2014. The university has moved its payment due dates earlier to align more closely with peer institutions and…
June 19, 2013
The test began a few minutes after 9 a.m. Saturday. A text alert warned those involved that the campus faced imminent danger. Sirens sounded. Emergency crews descended. And for the next four hours, more than 200 participants put their emergency training up against a scenario none ever want to…