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As of June 20, 2023, all members of Case Western Reserve University admissions teams must attend a mandatory training session on new admissions rules. This includes administrative staff members, directors, reviewers, readers, interviewers, panelists, final decision-makers, and anyone else involved i...

Senate Votes to Cut $930 Billion From Medicaid Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said that the GOP’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” slashes $930 billion from Medicaid, endangering maternity care in rural hospitals nationwide. She also noted that ...

Why Jolly Ranchers Are Banned in the UK but Not the US Lindsay Malone, registered dietitian and nutrition instructor at the School of Medicine, noted that several Jolly Rancher candies were banned in the United Kingdom for containing Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons (MOAH), a possible carcinogen. ...

Millions of young people read Anne Frank’s diary each year. The book and its author have become international icons to diverse groups for differing reasons. Join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program to dive into the book The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin from Yale University Press. Thi...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the summer 2025 issue of Forward Thinking magazine. Charlotte Hooker has never been one to follow just a single path. A rising third-year student at Case Western Reserve University, she’s majoring in both neuroscience and dance—disciplines that...

Amazon’s Prime Day sale ends today. How to use AI to get the best deals before time runs out. Michael Goldberg, professor at Weatherhead School of Management and associate vice president of the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, suggested that before shopping Amazon Prime Day deals, customers mi...

‘A tool of autocrats’: Trump’s DOJ targets naturalized Americans Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker Hostetler Professor of Law, warned that President Trump’s justice department could weaponize denaturalization against millions, not just criminals. A new memo grants broad prosec...

Building connection and community within the university is a core value of the University Wellness Program. Reflection Point, one of the program’s long-term wellness series, brings professor-led literature seminars to the university to build confidence, critical thinking, communication, collaboratio...

How to Make Sure Your Doctor Turns Your Symptoms Into an Accurate Diagnosis Rosanne Paul, an associate professor of dermatology at the School of Medicine, said that autoimmune skin conditions—which disproportionately affect midlife women—are often misdiagnosed or dismissed....

In January 2024, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising master’s degree students, known as “Mandel Scholars.” “It is rare to receive such a sub...