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The eighth annual Back-to-School Supply Drive, hosted by the Staff Advisory Council’s Community Service Committee, is collecting donations. The drive will end Thursday, Aug. 16. Last year, the drive gathered 62 boxes of back-to-school supplies, the most ever collected, for three…

Researchers at Great Lakes Energy Institute partner with Johnson Controls to begin marketing lower-cost technology to small businesses Case Western Reserve University and Johnson Controls Inc. are working together to bring dramatically less expensive energy audits to small- to medium-size…

CWRU will now allow students to choose gender identity other than one assigned at birth Cleveland Scene: LGBT Center Director Liz Roccoforte and Assistant Director AmariYah Israel discussed the new option in the Student Information System that allows students to select their preferred pronoun and…

Legal filings reveal that immigrant shelters are overmedicating unaccompanied minors Pacific Standard: Some immigrant minors in detention centers are not giving consent, or getting consent from their parents, to receive drug prescriptions. Jessica Berg, co-dean of the School of Law, interpreted…

Scientists are pushing the limits of 3-D printing with these shape-shifting materials NBC: Jim McGuffin-Cawley, interim dean of the Case School of Engineering and the Arthur S. Holden Professor of Engineering, commented on 3D-printed objects, created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

A math theory for why people hallucinate Quanta Magazine: Peter Thomas, professor of mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, spoke about work that he and other researchers are doing to better understand the mathematical principles behind the shapes people see in hallucinations.

Will the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade? And if it does, what happens to abortion rights? The Conversation: Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law and associate dean for academic affairs, wrote an article contemplating the potential changes to Roe v. Wade, and therefore abortion…

Student team organizes park cleanup for project management course To Fehmida Kapadia, an adjunct professor in the Master of Engineering and Management (MEM) program, the best way to learn is through doing. “You’re not going to learn anything if you don’t have real-world experience—at least…

The 2018 North Coast Conference on Precision Medicine, the fourth in an annual series organized by Case Western Reserve University's Institute for Computational Biology (ICB), will take place Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Cleveland Botanical Garden (11030 East Blvd.). Each year, the conference covers…

University Technology ([U]Tech) will conduct maintenance on the Case Western Reserve University network Thursday, Aug. 9, from midnight to 6 a.m. The work may result in momentary disruption of network services, including: Internet connectivity; Access to campus phone/voicemail service; …