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Strengthen your mental health awareness with "Anxiety Toolbox" seminars
"Anxiety Toolbox" is a fast-paced, three-session virtual seminar intended to help increase understanding and knowledge about anxiety. The goal of the workshop is to provide students with skills to recognize and handle anxiety symptoms they may experience. The September sessions will be held Sept.…
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Stay strong during stressful times with "Building Hope and Resiliency" workshop
"Building Hope and Resiliency" is a three-session skills-based workshop designed to help students learn new coping strategies to manage stress and build resiliency during stressful times. Students will learn skills that will help combat anxious thoughts, manage emotions in healthier ways, improve…
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UCITE First Fridays: "(Re)-Engaging Students in Pandemic Learning Environments"
Students entering college this fall learned in a variety of teaching formats over the past 18 months. Remote learning, alternate schedules and access points, and navigation of home and school in new ways all made this period a challenging time to finish high school and transition to college.  To…
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First atomic-level imaging of lethal prions provides sharpened focus for potential treatments
Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and National Institutes of Health open door to new level of detail in study of abnormal proteins that cause untreatable neurodegenerative conditions The highest-ever resolution imaging of an…
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Increase your understanding of mental health symptoms with "Getting Unstuck" seminars
"Getting Unstuck" is a fast-paced, three-session virtual seminar intended to help increase understanding and knowledge about depression. The goal of the workshop is to provide students with the skills to recognize and manage symptoms they may experience. Sessions will be held Sept. 3, 10 and 17…
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Submit nominations for honorary degrees
Case Western Reserve University invites nominations for award of honorary degrees by which the university can recognize persons who exemplify in their work the highest ideals and standards of “excellence in any valued aspect of human endeavor, including the realm of scholarship, public service, and…
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Frontiers in Biological Sciences Lecture: "Neurobiology of the World's Most Dangerous Animal" with Leslie B. Vosshall
The Department of Neurosciences invites community members to attend the next Frontiers in Biological Sciences Lecture Series with speaker Leslie B. Vosshall Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. ET via Zoom. Vosshall, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Robin Chemers Neustein…
PhD students receive white coats in "Seeds of Discovery" celebration
Eric B. Photography The School of Medicine welcomed the incoming class of PhD students beginning their biomedical research career at the annual “Seeds of Discovery” White Coat Ceremony on Friday, Aug. 20. Interim Dean Stan Gerson stressed the importance of donning the white coat as a…
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CWRU Law Students File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Prevent U.S. From Keeping Secret Post-9/11 CIA Torture Program Details
Case Western Reserve University School of Law students Reece Disney and Jessica Foo helped coordinate and draft amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs to the United States Supreme Court in a civil case involving efforts to obtain information about the brutal interrogation tactics the United…
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NIH Award Advances Drug Discovery Research into Chemotherapy-Associated Kidney Injury
Jianjun Zhao, MD, PhD, has received a five-year, nearly $2.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to investigate a new approach for treating chemotherapy-associated kidney damage. In study results published last year, Dr. Zhao and his team…