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In light of Ohio's confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Cuyahoga County and state actions to mitigate further spread, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University has canceled the 2020 Cleveland Humanities Festival: TRUTH. “The health and safety of our students,…

Kathryn Lavelle, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently gave a presentation titled “Regime Complexity and Territory: Environmental Climate Change and Actors and Interests in the Arctic” at the Barcelona Workshop on Global Governance. The…

Erika Trapl was named director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, effective Feb. 1, succeeding Elaine A. Borawski, the founding director, whose vision led the Center in addressing chronic health issues faced in disadvantaged Greater Cleveland neighborhoods for more than 10…

Scott Wilkes, assistant professor and assistant dean of academic affairs at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine to the Counselor, Social Work, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board, for a term beginning Feb. 28, 2020, and ending…

Janet Gbur Janet Gbur, research associate in materials science and engineering, was elected to a two-year term as treasurer of the Leadership Council of the Microscopy Society of America during the group's leadership elections in December. The Microscopy Society of America was founded as the…

Join the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship on Monday, March 16, at noon for a roundtable discussion with Jay Jamison, chief product and technology officer at Quick Base. Jamison will discuss his career journey, entrepreneurship and product management. This conversation will be facilitated by…

Kelly Rindfleisch Marcus is the kind of person whose interests can only be described as “varied.” “I have a personal saying. ‘I enjoy doing weird things with strange people,’” she said. Rindfleisch Marcus is a small-time chicken farmer, mother, puppeteer, crisis victim actor and volunteer. As the…

Congratulations to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine for the #20 ranking as reported by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding received by medical schools in the U.S for 2019. This is a significant uptick over past years’…

This tagline captures a great deal of the work of our School of Medicine. This week, these values were rewarded by our rise to #20 in medical school NIH research funding reported by the Blue Ridge Institute for Biomedical Research rankings. Congratulations to all of our investigators!

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A research article co-authored by Anna Mitchell, associate professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Michiko Watanabe, professor of pediatrics, has been published in Birth Defects Research. Mitchell’s and Watanabe’s article is part of a special issue of Birth Defects…