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Stay healthy, CWRU! Looking for a place to workout over winter break? CWRU's 121 Fitness Center is open and is offering special temporary membership for CWRU students and employees. Students pay just $30 and Employees pay $40 for a 3-week membership! Receive full access to the facility, including…

Sara Lee may be new to the role of director of health services at Case Western Reserve University, but she’s no stranger to the university. Lee graduated from the School of Medicine in 2001 and started working as an attending physician at University Health Service in 2008. But years before, during…

After Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, received a NEPTUNE Ancillary Studies Grant from NephCure in October, he discussed his work for a piece on NephCure’s website. Madabhushi, also the director of The Center of Computational Imaging and Personalized…

John Broich, an associate professor of history, wrote the true account of the British Royal Navy’s crusade to put an end to the African slave trade in a book titled Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade. Book description Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade…

Jonathan Lass, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, discussed his research on how preservation time of donated corneas could be extended. They made a recommendation that eye banks could keep cornea tissues up to 11 days, four days longer than the previously suggested time period. He…

Several researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) recently gave presentations on their work. Sarah Drewes-Jones and Elaine Borawski Sarah Drewes-Jones, IMPACT core manager, and Elaine Borawski, PRCHN director and principal investigator, presented…

In honor of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s 150th anniversary, John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, wrote a book titled Cleveland A to Z: Historical Essentials for Newcomers and Residents in Northeast Ohio. Published by the historical society, the book details…

Justine Howe, assistant professor of religious studies, recently wrote a piece for The Immanent Frame, which is an interdisciplinary publication produced in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere. Howe’s piece, titled “What is scholarship…

Editor's Note: As of June 30, 2019, Case Western Reserve uses Rave Guardian. CWRU Shield is no longer active and should be deleted from all mobile devices. Download Rave Guardian on the App Store and Google Play. At this time of year, the sun sets earlier and students can be out studying later.…

As the university moves closer to decommissioning Blackboard on June 1, the university community is encouraged to begin pulling any materials they may need in the future out of Blackboard. Individuals can move their content from Blackboard to Canvas manually, use the automatic Canvas Wizard tool or…