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Next week, rising third-year law student Krithika Rajkumar (CWR ’14) could make history. She’s one of 29 finalists in the America’s Miss World pageant—and if she wins, she’ll be the first Indian-American to represent the U.S. in the global Miss World competition. Rajkumar, who was born in India…

Environmental Health and Safety advises the university community that Remel has warned of fungal contamination in some unsterilized prepared media plates with expiration dates from May 29, 2017 to Feb. 7, 2018. The company recommends discarding all plates within a package that appear to have…

The clue we provided Monday. The answer to this week’s Guess Where photo didn’t get by many. Nearly all who answered were able to correctly identify the photo as the Kent Hale Smith Building, home of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering and The Center for Layered Polymeric…

The Student Information System (SIS) will undergo scheduled maintenance Sunday, Aug. 6, from 3 to 6 a.m. The SIS and SIS Mobile systems will not be available to the university community during this timeframe. For assistance with any technology product or service at Case Western Reserve, visit…

At the Fifth World Congress on Positive Psychology last month, David Cooperrider, Distinguished University Professor and the Fairmount Santrol - David L. Cooperrider Professor in Appreciative Inquiry, was named a fellow of the International Positive Psychology Association. The title honors…

Sara Lee is the new director of health services at Case Western Reserve. Lee is a board-certified pediatrician with an additional board certification in adolescent medicine. She did her undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins University and is an alumna of Case Western Reserve University School of…

The Case School of Engineering named Alexis Abramson interim chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. A nationally recognized leader in advanced energy research, Abramson, the Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation and director of the Great Lakes…

Modern human beings have been around for around 200,000 years and we have recorded history for less than 10,000 years. However, through the science of paleontology, we have gained a detailed knowledge about what life was like stretching back billions of years. Professor of Anatomy Darin Croft,…

Auditor Dave Yost; health care and politics; Statehouse update ideastream: J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, discussed the uncertainty surrounding health care insurance.

This gene editing milestone raises big ethical questions PBS NewsHour: Jessica Berg, co-dean of the School of Law and the Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law, discussed the ethical concerns surrounding the breakthrough research that resulted in successfully editing genes in an embryo.