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Over the past year, students have faced extraordinary challenges. From a pandemic disrupting traditional learning modes to calls for racial justice, many students are reporting added anxieties to the typical stresses of college life. In response, the staff in Case Western Reserve University’s…

One of just 12 researchers nationally chosen for biomedical study to potentially benefit children Yolanda Fortenberry Yolanda Fortenberry, an associate professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University studying possible therapies for debilitating sickle cell disease, is one of just 12…

How one graduating senior’s CWRU experience helped him achieve his goals In the spring of 2017, Daniel Shao was disappointed. A high school senior at the time, the New Jersey native found himself on the receiving end of rejection letters from nearly all of the 15 top-ranked colleges to which…

In April 2020, just one month into the COVID-19 pandemic, the members of Case Western Reserve University's Class of 2020 were invited to share their postgraduate plans through the annual First Destination Survey. “The Class of 2020 had the unenviable distinction of graduating into a global…

By John Garcia With summer just around the corner, students are looking forward to the sunshine and an exciting lineup of summer classes. Undergraduate registration for the summer semester starts today (April 12), depending on the school (graduate program registration may already have started or…

The Kelvin Smith Library is home to 50,000 rare books, hundreds of manuscript collections and thousands of photos that attract attention from researchers, students, faculty and curiosity seekers worldwide. Among the many treasures in its Special Collections and Archives are a first-edition book…

Marc H. Morial has been described as a national leader with the rare combination of “street smarts” and “boardroom savvy.” He launched his first business venture at age 15, served as Louisiana state senator, worked as a New Orleans lawyer and then as the city’s mayor.  And since 2003, Morial has…

As president of Graduate Student Council (GSC), sixth-year PhD candidate Aaron McPeck is an essential link between the university’s administration and its graduate and professional students. It’s a role he relishes as an aspiring higher education administrator. “I love watching people succeed, and…

Journey to multi-million dollar Amgen acquisition required curiosity, collaboration and commercial expertise Twenty years after starting a cancer fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Sanford “Sandy” Markowitz published a groundbreaking study regarding the role of a gene called…

By Jonathan Sadowsky, the Castele Professor of Medical History  I often start a new class by asking why we should study history. I don’t allow the cliché “History repeats itself,” without specific examples. The history of epidemics provides some: racist scapegoating, denialism, resistance to…