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Candidates want to raise the economic tide to lift opportunity, but how? NPR: Amid the presidential candidates’ discussions and debates on growing the economy, Susan Helper, the Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics, said the best way to boost growth is spending government money on…

Sara's Circle: Finding justice with Dr. Rhonda Williams WKYC: Rhonda Williams, founder and director of the Social Justice Institute, is profiled on her activism, community service, and work at CWRU and throughout Cleveland.

A mysterious polio-like illness that paralyzes people may be surging this year The Washington Post: A polio-like illness called acute flaccid myelitis appears to be surging this year. Max Wiznitzer, professor of pediatrics and neurology, discussed the prevalence, cause and treatment of the illness.

Was the Fed right to delay raising interest rates? Two scholars react The Conversation: After the Federal Reserve decided to leave its target interest rate unchanged, Mark Sniderman, executive in residence and adjunct professor of economics, wrote why he thinks the Fed should have increased rates…

Cleveland poverty numbers drop sharply cleveland.com: Though a new study shows fewer Cleveland residents are living in poverty than at any time since 2008, Claudia Coulton, founder and co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, talked about the difficulties for those…

Why Germany still pursues justice for victims of Nazis Christian Science Monitor: Kenneth Ledford, chair of the Department of History, explained why it’s difficult to prosecute individuals accused of Holocaust-related crimes, why such trials often get delayed and why convictions, decades later,…

What if eliminating physical pain was a matter of flipping a switch to block it? No drug needed. When it’s time to stop the block, just turn it off. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University hope to eventually treat chronic or acute pain by using energy-based neuromodulation technology. The…

CWRU, Posse Foundation to recruit and select 10 students to receive full tuition to join the Class of 2021 Case Western Reserve announced today that it has partnered with The Posse Foundation, a nationally renowned organization dedicated to increasing college access for promising urban students…

Topics for the next three sessions of the Ethics Table Brown Bag Lunches have been determined, thanks in part to Connor Wolfe, a junior who asked at the Sept. 14 meeting, “Can we address the question of how students can be happy at school?” On Wednesday, Sept. 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (stop…

The Student Information System (SIS) has experienced several issues resulting in unplanned outages since the beginning of the semester. University Technology ([U]Tech) determined that each of the three events were centered around the SIS Mobile extended usage application, and a bug was detected in…