Connect

With an event-packed fall semester, the Case Western Reserve University has plenty to be excited for—however, according to this week’s Connect poll, there’s one event they’re overwhelmingly looking forward to. The university community is getting ready for this year’s Homecoming and Reunion Celebrat...

With so many architecturally interesting buildings around the Case Western Reserve University campus, this week’s Connect photo presented a challenge. The wooden door we featured is an entrance to Florence Harkness Memorial Chapel, which only 28 percent of respondents correctly guessed. The most p...

Case Western Reserve University’s student radio station—WRUW-FM—has a deeply rooted history. While we asked about Western Reserve University’s radio station’s call letters when it launched in 1955, the station has even earlier ties with the Flora Stone Mather College for Women. Students at the coll...

Some first-year students will arrive on campus as early as next Wednesday, and their upperclassmen counterparts had plenty of advice on making the most of their time at Case Western Reserve. From academic to social, respondents to this week’s Connect question wanted to make sure new students were p...

AAAAA is for arrested translation The Scientist: Jeff Coller, associate professor in the Division of General Medical Sciences and associate director of The Center for RNA Molecular Biology, discussed a recent study out of the University of Maryland about arrest in mRNA sequence. “There’s a growing b...

Newborns' first poop can reveal their future 'cognitive' status ANI News: Meeyoung O. Min, research assistant professor in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, led a study that revealed a baby’s first stool has the potential to predict future cognitive problems. As p...

Many were able to recognize this week’s Connect photo as the outside of Kent Hale Smith Building. The Kent Hale Smith Building, built in 1993, houses the Macromolecular Science and Engineering program and The Center for Layered Polymeric Systems. The Adelbert Road building is named in honor of Ken...

Nearly all of those who answered this week’s trivia question were right about the original purpose of Adelbert Gymnasium. The building, constructed between 1918 and 1919, was intended to be World War I armory. However, by the time the armory was compete, the war had ended, so it was never used for ...

The Case Western Reserve University community is full of globetrotters this summer. This week we asked where faculty, staff and students have traveled or would be traveling this summer. The top three locations people who responded to our Connect question had traveled to were: The Netherlands Cal...

The answer is Frederick Reines. The campus community knows its physics history as 78 percent of respondents knew the correct answer. Reines received the award for his co-detection of the neutrino with physicist Clyde Cowan in 1956. He was a professor and chair of the Department of Physics at Case W...