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Three second year medical students at Case Western Reserve founded a brand new organization with the express mission of encouraging charitable donations in exchange for homemade loaves of bread. After Thanksgiving break, Anisha Garg and Kelsey Jensen with technical assistance from Sanjit Datta…

Odds are long for any application for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship—only about 7 percent are awarded. Even longer are the odds that two professors from the same department each receive one of the prestigious grants in the same year. Unlikely as it may be, Erin Benay and…

The Daily will not be published Dec. 23-Jan. 2. Publication will resume Jan. 3. Submit your announcements now for the Jan. 3 edition at thedaily.case.edu/about/submit-to-the-daily/.

Program renewed for second year; now accepting students and software ideas CWRUcible, a novel software development program based in the university’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), proved so successful in its first year that it’s just been renewed for a second. The program teams Weatherhead…

Final exams will end Dec. 21. Leutner Commons dining services will end after dinner hours that day, but Jolly Scholar will remain open and accept meal swipes. Get a list of other important upcoming dates for the rest of the semester and the start of spring semester.

Join the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Department of Pharmacology in a day-long workshop to discuss the progression, pathology and therapeutic opportunities of Stargardt Disease. The workshop will be held Friday, Feb. 17, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the- Tinkham Veale University Center. To…

Kangaroo care for preemies shows profound power of touch CBC: Lydia Furman, professor of pediatrics, talked about how Kangaroo Mother Care helps babies and families.

Meet Chewie, the biggest Australopithecus on record Nature: Bruce Latimer, a paleoanthropologist and visiting professor of orthodontics, discussed the discovery of new hominin footprints at the same site where footprints of the oldest-known ancient human relative were discovered in the 1970s.

As we enter the holiday season, it is a good time to reflect on the accomplishments and challenges of the past twelve months as well as our plans for the new year. In 2016 we continued to fulfill our mission by providing superb medical education, making great discoveries in our labs and moving them…

Case Western Reserve University receives third round of federal funding Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are scaling up a prototype iron-flow battery to provide cleaner and cheaper power when renewable energy sources are ebbing or demand is peaking. The battery would also efficiently…