Health education campus, higher education five-year efficiency plan, end of the library card and more

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Monday, October 5, 2015 - 11:45am (updated Monday, May 9, 2016 - 1:37pm)

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic break ground on $515 million health education campus 

Crain’s Cleveland Business, Oct. 1, 2015

Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic on Oct. 1, broke ground on their long-awaited 485,000-square-foot health education campus — a project that could cost a staggering $515 million and is expected to open in summer 2019…

 

Higher education task force ask institutions to create five-year efficiency plan, pass savings onto students 

Gongwer, Oct. 1, 2015

Savings that universities and colleges see from implementing efficiencies should be reinvested into efforts that will lower costs for students, a task force studying high education affordability recommended Thursday…

 

LeBron James' foundation and JPMorgan Chase are teaming up to help students 
Columbus Business First, Oct. 1, 2015

The LeBron James Family Foundation benefited from JPMorgan Chase’s fourth-annual Code for Good program, which brought computer science and engineering students together for a 24-hour hackathon-style competition…

 

New supercomputer software takes one giant step closer to simulating the human brain 

Phys, Oct. 2, 2015

Breakthrough computer software that will be used to power the world's fastest supercomputers of the future, allowing us to model and simulate incredibly complex systems such as the human brain or global weather patterns, is now being tested for use at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory, at Sci-Tech Daresbury in Cheshire…
 

The library catalog card? Time to pull it from the files

WGNO, Oct. 2, 2015

On Thursday, the Online Computer Library Center, the Ohio-based company that had printed catalog cards for public and university libraries for more than 40 years, said it had just printed its last batch…