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Professor Max Mehlman to Lead Work on $ 1.6 Million NIH Grant
Max Mehlman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, is co-principal investigator on a project recently awarded a four-year $1.6 million grant by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dean Jessica Berg, an expert on informed consent, is…
A place to call home: Cleveland's Black community is hit hardest in affordable housing search
Freshwater Cleveland: Amy T. Khare, research assistant professor and research director for the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, discussed the ongoing need to address continued concentrated poverty and racial segregation on Cleveland’s East Side, weighing in on the ​​HUD-funded…
The Business of Building a Better World Shortlisted for International Book Award
The Business of Building A Better World by David Cooperrider and Audrey Selian, published by Berrett-Koehler in 2021, is announced to be on the shortlist for the getAbstract International Book Award 2022 in the Business Impact catagory.
Peer Coaching Offers Unexpected Benefits in Women’s Leadership Program
We all have a tendency to gravitate toward what is comfortable.  In fact, the more volatile and uncertain our world becomes, the stronger our instinct grows to seek solace in the familiar. But sometimes the things that provide us comfort also block us from making the changes we desire in life. No…
CWRU School of Law Conference on Sept. 30 to Examine the Consequences of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The Feb. 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international response has ushered in the most dangerous period since the height of the Cold War. Just this week, Russia mobilized 300,000 troops, organized a sham referendum on independence in occupied Ukrainian territory and threatened the use of…
New study reveals mechanism for how disease-spreading prions can jump from one species to another
Finding suggests transmission between species may be possible In a new study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the structure of protein fibrils linked to a hereditary form of human prion disease.   This insight, they say, reveals the mechanism…
Coaching program for first-year engineering students launches
Be one of the first to take advantage of this exciting new coaching program for first-year Engineering students! The program will consist of individual appointments for topics that include unlocking your potential, identifying & clarifying short and long-term goals, making the most of your…
CWRU Nritya to release new video
CWRU Nritya is releasing a video that premiers on YouTube on Friday, September 30 at 8 pm. Bharatanatyam dancers dance to a remix of a popular Indian film song. In this video, we are also spreading awareness of an organization that helps rural children in India called AIM For Seva.
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Begun Center’s Daniel Flannery discussed a likely cause in increased drug overdoses
2021 saw record fatal ODs, gun deaths, car crashes in Ohio over 15 years, data shows Ohio Capital Journal: Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, said the increase in drug overdoses is likely driven by synthetic opioids like fentanyl or…
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Advancing new technologies to halt bleeding
Case Western Reserve University bioengineer awarded $2.5 million from U.S. Army to boost nanotechnology for treating wounded soldiers and patients with bleeding defects The research arm of the U.S. Army has awarded Case Western Reserve University blood surrogate pioneer Anirban Sen Gupta a…