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Computer science student and team present, win award at IndieCade game festival
Senior computer science major John Billingsley and his teammates from the University of Southern California presented their video game, “Close Your,” at an independent game festival in Los Angeles known as IndieCade. Along with presenting, the game was nominated for and won the "Developer's Choice…
School of Medicine’s Ahmad Khalil selected to present at Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium
Ahmad Khalil, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at the School of Medicine, has been selected to speak at the 16th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium. The symposium, co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy…
Faculty member’s new book “Rhetoric in the Flesh” studies education in anatomy lab
Students in the gross anatomy lab stand with trepidation before their human cadavers, uneasy about making that first cut, writes T. Kenny Fountain in his new book, Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab (Routledge, 2014). The associate professor of…
Association for Computing Machinery members competed in hackathon at University of Michigan
Earlier this month, more than 30 members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, also informally known as Case Hacker Society) traveled to the University of Michigan to attend MHacks, one of the largest student-run hackathons in the country. Hackathons are marathon coding gatherings where…
Faculty member Sharona Hoffman to be published in “Berkeley Technology Law Journal”
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently had her work, “Citizen Science: The Law and Ethics of Public Access to Medical Big Data” accepted for publication in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
Social Justice Institute Director Rhonda Williams to serve on resistance movement panel
Rhonda Williams, associate professor of history and founder/director of the Social Justice Institute, will be a featured panelist on a plenary titled, “Cities In Revolt: Detroit, Chicago, Jackson-Mississippi, & Beyond,” Sept. 25-28 at Kalamazoo College. The panelists will examine resistance…
Law's Jonathan Adler presents testimony on environmental policy
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, presented testimony on “Constitutional Considerations: State vs. Federal Environmental Policy Implementation,” on July 11 in Washington, D.C. The testimony was presented before the subcommittee on Environment and the Economy of the…
Women and Gender Studies' Cheryl Toman co-authors book
Cheryl Toman, associate professor of French and director of the women's and gender studies program and the ethnic studies program, co-authored a new book, The Fury and Cries of Women, published by the University of Virginia Press. The book is a unique work that includes a novel originally written…
History's Miriam Levin takes South African research trip
Miriam Levin, professor of history, spent May and June on a research trip to South Africa. She visited archives in the eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal for a book on science teaching at foreign missionary schools for young women. This trip was funded by the Department of History’s Flora Stone…
Sixteen dental school students take Dominican Republic trip
Sixteen students from the APP School of Dental Medicine ventured to the Dominican Republic July 26-Aug. 3 to offer free dental care to 262 patients—80 children and 182 adults. In their week of work, there were 416 extracted teeth and 99 fillings. A video compilation of…