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From Classroom to Cocoa Fields: How One Weatherhead Alum is Powering a Zero Waste Future
Big news for Cocoa Potash, the social enterprise co-founded by Weatherhead alum Ithabeleng Makhetha (BS ’24). They have been named one of the top 24 teams for the Hult Prize 2025 Global Accelerator. Out of 54 incredible startups in this year’s Incubator, they have been selected to join the in…
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September 01, 2017
Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth Madigan (GRS '92)
By Michelle Koski
This fall, Elizabeth Madigan, PhD, RN, FAAN, heads to Indianapolis for her new role as chief executive officer of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Madigan, who became the Independence Foundation Prof...
September 01, 2017
In Pursuit of Nursing Research
By Shelly Koski
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is known for educating the most innovative nurse scientists in the nation. Forefront asked to four of the school’s post-doctoral fellows what inspired them to become a nurse scientist and what advice they wou...
September 01, 2017
Story by Jessica Ullian
Photographs by Gary Yasaki
Nursing has long occupied a unique position in health care around the globe, combining expertise in clinical research with commitment to patient well-being. Now, with unprecedented technology and data collection tools, the health care industry is t...

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August 30, 2017
Kalle Lyytinen's work can be found at the intersection of two kinds of computing: wet computing—done by our brains—and the so-called dry computing of silicon microprocessors.
Kalle Lyytinen, in his first semester at ϳԹ, 2001 (courtesy of University Archives)
By studying how complex sources of d...
August 16, 2017
Convocation is coming up in a week, signaling the formal start of the ϳԹ academic year, but things are already gathering momentum. Our new medical students have begun Block 1 and our physician assistant students have had their anatomy final exam. Our bioethics masters program is headed for record ...

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August 11, 2017
The U.S. Embassy in Slovenia invited Michael Goldberg, assistant professor of design and innovation, to conduct seminars there in June.
The seminars were around his massive open online course, Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies. Goldberg’s visit was covered b...

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August 09, 2017
New program honors memory of legendary startup investor David Morgenthaler
Starting this fall semester, JumpStart and the Morgenthaler family, with ϳԹ trustee and venture capitalist Bob Pavey, will honor the memory of legendary startup investor David Morgenthaler by intr...

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August 04, 2017
Weatherhead School’s David Cooperrider named fellow of International Positive Psychology Association
At the Fifth World Congress on Positive Psychology last month, David Cooperrider, Distinguished University Professor and the Fairmount Santrol - David L. Cooperrider Professor in Appreciative Inquiry, was named a fellow of the International Positive Psychology Association.
The title honors scholars...

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July 31, 2017
Applications for admission are still being accepted for the Weatherhead School of Management’s Master of Science in Management (MSM)-Healthcare program.
The two-year, part-time program is designed for working professionals in a variety of healthcare settings, including research, regulation, adminis...

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July 28, 2017
J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, penned an op-ed in The New York Times on the “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act the Senate considered.
In his article, titled “Why ‘Skinny’ Obamacare Repeal Is a Terrible Idea,” Silvers called upon his...