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The Case Western Reserve University Technology and Validation Start-Up Fund Program (CTP) recently selected four projects for its third funding round. CTP is awarded by the Ohio Third Frontier and managed through the CWRU Technology Transfer Office. The project aims to accelerate and fund the…

David Schiraldi, chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering and the Peter A. Asseff Professor, was honored with the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division Distinguished Service Award. For the past two decades, Schiraldi has played an important role in…

A few university-supported applications will be unavailable to the campus community for scheduled maintenance during set timeframes next week. PeopleSoft SIS and SIS Mobile will be unavailable from Friday, Dec. 29, at 11 p.m. to Saturday Dec. 30 at 8 a.m. HCM will be unavailable Saturday, Dec.…

The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Police Department selected Mark Singer, the Leonard W. Mayo Professor in Family and Child Welfare, for its Citizen’s Award. Singer also is the deputy director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education. Annually, the award is…

The CVS Health Foundation awarded the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center $130,000 to expand its smoking-cessation program and reach more at-risk patients. The center was one of eight Association of American Cancer Institute member cancer centers to receive funding, with $1 million awarded in…

Case Western Reserve University will be closed Dec. 25–Jan. 1. In addition to previously scheduled holidays on Dec. 25, 26 and 29 and Jan. 1, President Barbara R. Snyder announced before Thanksgiving that the university also would close Dec. 27 and Dec. 28 to give employees an additional two days…

Can’t visit the Dittrick Museum of Medical History over break? Take a look at its online exhibits, which feature audio lectures, written histories, photos and recommended readings on a variety of topics. Some of the current exhibits explore: Smallpox, The history of birth control, Lake…

Editor’s Note: After consultation with the Faculty Senate in 2014, the president’s annual State of the University report transitioned from a spoken address to a written account. Below is 2017’s edition; readers are encouraged to post questions and comments. To the Case Western Reserve University…

In November, Dhamakapella placed first at Jeena 2017, an a cappella competition hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. The group went up against teams from Texas A&M, University of Miami, University of California, Davis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon…

Fish sense water motion the same way humans sense sound, according to new research out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Researchers discovered a gene also found in humans helps zebrafish convert water motion into electrical impulses that are sent to the brain for perception.…