A National Science Foundation report released this week reveals that Case Western Reserve University’s share of federal funding for research and development has grown dramatically over the past five years. The university ranked 26th in the nation in 2009 –18...
Erin Lavik An associate professor of biomedical engineering has received a $2.3 million New Innovator Award to further develop and broaden the uses of synthetic platelets and the technology that makes them work. Erin Lavik uses nanotechnology to build...
On Tuesday, the National Research Council released its data-based assessment of U.S. doctoral programs. The results of the assessment, based on surveys from 2006 and 2007, have been long awaited and are derived from an in-depth and complex methodology. In...
Melissa Pinto-Foltz While many young adults will share the details of their daily lives with dozens–sometimes hundreds–of friends on Facebook, communicating with their health care providers about mental illness is another story. “Roughly one in every five young adults...
Jim Sheeler In newsrooms, obituary writing often falls to the cub reporter or the veteran approaching retirement. At the Colorado weekly newspaper Boulder Planet, the assignment landed on the desk of relative newbie Jim Sheeler. “This assignment came with...
Eric Baum Eric Baum couldn’t find a job as an English teacher after graduating in 2004 with his bachelor’s degree and needed one with benefits. His father, a geriatrician from Concord, told him the local nursing home in Mentor...
The "waterfall swing" will be at Ingenuityfest this weekend. Ingenuity Fest 2010 takes place this weekend, and Case Western Reserve University is lending a “think beyond the possible” perspective to the celebration of arts and technology. Faculty and alumni...
Students practice fly fishing at the Museum of Art lagoon. Man met nature last week as fly-fishing lines and rods whipped through the air at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s lagoon and bluegills nipped at the lines. For 15...
Eric Fingerhut Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents Eric D. Fingerhut, addressing representatives from six Northern Ohio universities at Friday’s IDEAL Plenary Conference at the Mandel Center, said the future of an educated work force depends in large...
Arjun Appadurai. How has globalism changed from the time when camel caravans moved goods and cultures from one continent to another? That’s the question Case Western Reserve University Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities hopes to answer during its yearlong...
Friday is Case for Community Day. The eighth annual Case for Community Day is ready to take off and help our Cleveland neighbors. Hundreds of students, faculty, staff and alumni will assist campus neighbors and organizations in a communitywide...
Some families go to bed hungry. Others spend the night in shelters or on the streets. Thousands of Cleveland area residents find they face hardships in seeking resources to have a normal life with adequate food, shelter and medical...
Six regional universities work together on the IDEAL project. Three professors in the College of Arts and Sciences spent a year working on a plan aimed at improving the climate for faculty diversity in the science, technology, engineering and...
Anne Hiltner. Anne Hiltner, Case Western Reserve’s first female professor of engineering and an internationally recognized scientist and engineer, died Monday after a courageous battle with illness. She was 69. “Our campus has lost a remarkable academic leader,” President...
Case Western Reserve is a leader in wind power. Case Western Reserve University continues to make progress toward a multimillion-dollar wind energy research center. The first wind turbine, scheduled to be operational sometime during fall semester, will be near...
Vel's Purple Oasis Garden yields more than crops. Staff members in the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRC) program do more than just work together. They take turns tending to a community garden and get together regularly over...
Stan Brock with his Inamori Ethics Prize medal. On Wednesday, before a crowd of university and community members, the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence awarded its annual prize to Stan Brock, the founder of Remote Area Medical...
U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton came to campus late last month to meet with Case Western Reserve University faculty and learn about cutting-edge research taking place in the university’s labs and centers, as well as economic development and job creation...
CWRU has a partnership with an Indian institute. Case Western Reserve University and The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have reached a memorandum of understanding designed to build on the academic and research strengths of both institutions. The agreement...
