A team of scientists—including Associate Professor Beverly Saylor from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences—has announced the discovery of a 3.4 million-year-old partial foot from the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia.
Assistant Professor Jennell C. Vick of the Department of Psychological Sciences has been selected to receive a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. The prestigious honor from The Hartwell Foundation will provide Vick with $300,000 over a three-year period in support of her research project “Treatment for Severe Speech Disorders in Children: Identifying Target Consonant Movements for Use with Animated 3D Visual Feedback Software.”
The Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University has acquired the archives of the Cleveland Play House, consisting of more than 1,000 boxes of materials. The collection includes letters, manuscripts, research documents, notes, legal and financial records, printed materials, photographs, video and audio tapes, CDs and DVDs, posters and flyers, and artifacts, dating from the formation of CPH to present day.
If you are a people-pleaser who strives to keep your social relationships smooth and comfortable, you might find yourself overeating in certain social situations like Super Bowl watch parties. A new study from Case Western Reserve University found that, hungry or not, some people eat in an attempt to keep others comfortable.
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