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Odds are long for any application for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship—only about 7 percent are awarded. Even longer are the odds that two professors from the same department each receive one of the prestigious grants in the same year. Unlikely as it may be, Erin Benay and…

Study: Older men adhere closely to an idealized masculinity script that is incompatible with the realities of later life As men age, they continue to follow dominant ideas of masculinity learned as youth, leaving them unequipped for the assaults of old age, according to a new study. The mismatch…

A ÃÛÌÒAPP research project that has become a national model for helping reshape how sexual assaults are investigated and prosecuted—including cases borne from rape kits 20-plus years old—will share two new grants totaling $3 million from the U.S. Department of Justice…

Entitlement—a personality trait driven by exaggerated feelings of deservingness and superiority—may lead to chronic disappointment, unmet expectations and a habitual, self-reinforcing cycle of behavior with dire psychological and social costs, according to new research by Case Western Reserve…

Testing backlogged sexual assault kits leads to the imprisonment of more rapists—preventing future sexual assaults and saving would-be victims and communities millions of dollars, according to a new analysis by ÃÛÌÒAPP. Thanks to access granted by the Cuyahoga County…

Henry Adams catalogues the first-ever retrospective of artist Dexter Davis Dexter Davis spends his days as a guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art, roaming its galleries and protecting prized works, including one of his own. As a Cleveland-based artist of national significance, Davis is the…

Among elite athletes, practice accounts for a scant 1 percent of the difference in their performances—and starting sports at an early age does not necessarily provide athletes an upper hand—according to new research. Brooke Macnamara “While practice is necessary for elite athletes to reach a…

New data challenges conventional wisdom about rape among scholars, advocates, police and prosecutors The testing of nearly 5,000 forgotten and backlogged rape kits in Cuyahoga County has led to investigations, indictments, prosecutions—and, already, more than 250 convictions. But besides bringing…

Elementary students who practiced playing at school significantly improved their organization of stories, imagination and frequency in showing emotion, according to a study by researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP. Students who struggled using their imaginations before the study also saw…

Behaviors that enable bullying—a significant public health problem for adolescents nationally—were reduced among students who completed a new online anti-bullying program, according to a new study from ÃÛÌÒAPP. “Part of convincing schools to use technology to address…