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In order for prolonged exposure therapy—an evidence-based psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)—to reach its full potential, any ruptures in trust and communication between therapist and client need to be fixed, according to a new Case Western Reserve University study. The study,…

Juscelino F. Colares, professor of law, presented “Climate Change-Related Litigation: Signal or Noise?” at the  University of Tennessee’s College of Law Sept. 20 and “The Limits of WTO Adjudication: Is Compliance the Problem? A 2013 Update,” at the University of Arizona on Sept. 26. He also gave…

Leon Gabinet, the Coleman P. Burke Professor of Law, had an updated version of his article, which appeared in Volume 30 of The Journal of Taxation of Investments, republished in the fall 2013 issue (Volume 31) of the journal. The updated article's title is "Taxation of Same-Sex Married Couples…

Richard Romaniuk, instructor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently wrote an article for the National Association of Social Workers' Ohio Chapter, titled "Jambo Bwana, Habari Gani? Mzuri Sana!" The article is available in full on the NASW…

The Office of Planning and Institutional Research has released 13 new reports about the first-year experience at Case Western Reserve. One report provides information about the academic experiences of 2012-13 first-year students. Results indicate that 79 percent of students said it was easy to…

Developing new technologies to improve treatment of arterial fibrillation In a matter of years, a doctor may see real-time images of a patient’s beating heart and steer a robotic catheter through its chambers using the push and pull of magnetic fields while the patient lies inside a magnetic…

Cleveland Hillel will host a discussion on the international crisis in Syria and its effects on Israel, the United States and Iran, led by former Israeli Defense Forces Col. Kobi Marom. The talk will be held Thursday, Nov. 21, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Cleveland Hillel Foundation Building. A…

CWRU Pride, the Case Western Reserve University LGBT Alumni Network, invites faculty and staff to join alumni and friends of the university for the first Cosmos for Case. Attendees will mix and mingle over cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, meeting old friends and making new ones while raising funds to…

Michigan shooting: Reasonable self-defense or second-degree murder? (+video) The Christian Science Monitor: Michael Benza, senior instructor in law, weighed in on a recent self-defense case in Michigan where a man is being charged with manslaughter in the death of a woman who came to his door in…

CWRU, Cleveland Clinic researchers get $3.5 million to study genetic changes of parasite that causes malaria The Plain Dealer: A team of researchers led by Peter Zimmerman, professor of international health, biology and genetics, and David Serre, assistant professor of genomics, received a…