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“Hand Made,” an exhibit of work by Christopher Pekoc, part-time lecturer of art education, will be on display at the Akron Art Museum through April 26. There will be a free, public exhibition opening reception Sunday, Nov. 23, at 2 p.m. at the museum. While photographs—his own and from…

What began as legal analysis of the Affordable Care Act after it became law in 2010 now has ����APP School of Law Professor Jonathan Adler close to a case that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review. At stake is the future of the law known as Obamacare, which…

Linda Ehrlich, associate professor of modern languages and film studies, will give a 15-minute talk about the book she edited, Good Films, Cheap Wine, Few Friends: A Memoir by film director Juan Luis Buñuel, and provide an introduction to the showing of Viridiana, by Luis Buñuel, father of Juan…

Dale Nance, the John Homer Kapp Professor of Law, has been invited to present at “The Foundations of the Law of Evidence and Their Implications for Developing Countries” conference. Nance will present “The Weight of Evidence and the Design of Adjudicative Systems” at the conference, which will be…

In October, nine ����APP electrical engineering and computer science female students attended the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, the largest women in technology conference in the country. Leah Karasek, Larissa Marcich, Meaghan Fenelon, Haley Eisenshtadt,…

Students and moviegoers may find a helpful resource in a new pocket-sized guide to better understanding and interpreting film. ����APP film scholar Robert Spadoni published A Pocket Guide to Analyzing Films (University of California Press, 2014), a compact overview of the…

Two student startups do well in competition: Higher Education Roundup The Plain Dealer: Student startup Carbon Origins took third place and a $10,000 prize in the first Blackstone LaunchPad Demo Day in New York City. Other CWRU projects—Everykey and SensID—also competed.

It was a dark and chilling night in 2006 when Michele Hanks, a ����APP anthropologist and SAGES Fellow, waited for a ghost to appear. She sat, knees to her chin, with a half-dozen people in the lightless upstairs room of the haunted Golden Fleece, a pub in York, England, on…

Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, wrote three works that recently were published. “Super Soldiers (Part 1): What is Military Enhancement?” and “Super Soldiers (Part 2): The Ethical, Legal, and Operational…

Kathryn Mercer, professor of lawyering skills in the School of Law, has presented around the world in recent months. In May, she co-presented with Law Professor Jonathan Gordon at Global Legal Skills Conference IX in Verona, Italy. The title of their talk was “A Multi-Cultural Perspective on…