Marie Lathers Fifty-four years after the first screen portrayal of a human woman in space—in the 1929 German movie Woman in the Moon—the first female American astronaut, Sally Ride, took a real-life trip into space. For the most part,...
Mark A. Smith Professor Mark A. Smith, a renowned Alzheimer’s disease researcher and revered mentor and colleague, died early Sunday morning after being struck by a car in Bainbridge Township. “Mark Smith’s passion for scientific discovery was matched by...
Eight Case Western Reserve Students will travel to Laos to help put up the walls and fix the roof of this school. It almost sounds like an episode of Amazing Race as Rev. Donna Hughes from United Protestant Campus...
In addition to their work on the NISS, CWRU medical students tutor John Hay students at their school throughout the year. Fifteen students from the Cleveland School of Science and Medicine (CSSM) at John Hay Campus are on campus...
Michael Clune New to campus this semester, the English department’s Michael Clune created national buzz when The Daily Beast, a popular news blog, called his upper-level English seminar, Forms of Life, one of the year’s hottest college courses. The...
In the 1940s, headlines in black community papers, such as Cleveland’s Call & Post, Chicago’s Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier, pushed for integration of Major League Baseball. But that campaign—and the ensuing success of integrating major league baseball—had the unforeseen...
University Marketing & Communications team members (from left) Amy Raufman, Melissa Evans, Jacqueline Fitch and Gina Prodan won the November 10,000 Step Challenge. Photograph by Susan Griffith. What is it like to walk almost a million steps in a...
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty members are reaping the rewards of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the form of grants and contracts. The funding totals more than $6.4 million for four different...
Ruth Anderson Emerita professor and former administrator Ruth Anderson, PhD, has made a commitment to endow a faculty chair at the Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. The Ruth Anderson Professorship—an unrestricted chair to be...
Christopher Jennewein The university has named Christopher Jennewein, a senior Computer Science major, the first recipient of the Douglas W. Nock Endowment Scholarship. The award recognizes outstanding undergraduate or admitted high school graduates for advancing the mission of the...
Helen Han, second-year chemistry and anthropology major, shared a bowl of gelato from La Gelateria, with Sean Hobson, a senior. The two were taking a study break Sunday night at the Thwing Study Over. Studying for nearly seven hours...
Shirley Moore “Where can I find a behavioral specialist when I need one?” It’s a plea heard across campus by researchers who are increasingly required to understand how behavior relates to health issues. Within the next year, a new...
If you should find yourself running from the police, watch your step. If you fall and break an ankle, chances are you’ll receive less pain medication when they take you to the ER for treatment. Susan Hinze That’s one of...
