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U.S. News & World Report releases graduate and professional program rankings
Case Western Reserve’s health-related graduate and professional programs continued their prominence in this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings, with eight specialty programs among the top 15 in the nation, and our medical school still in the top 25. The Frances Payne Bolton School of…
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Nursing’s Heather K. Hardin explores trust in health care professionals
When nurse researcher Heather K. Hardin was working as a Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nurse serving a population of mostly low-income mothers, she kept hearing the same question. “Moms would tell me, ‘I don’t trust so and so,’ or ‘Can I come back and talk to you about this?’ I was a PhD…
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Double alumnus, former Microsoft COO Robert Herbold commits $2 million to Case Western Reserve for an endowed professorship recognizing transformative teaching
Robert Herbold While Robert Herbold had multiple options for graduate school, Case Western Reserve University emerged as his top choice for two reasons: smaller class sizes and, more importantly, professors who embraced hands-on teaching practices.  Decades later, Herbold, who earned his MS in…
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Staff Spotlight: Bethany Pope helps undergraduate researchers thrive
For Bethany Pope, coordinator in the Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) office and a self-described “people person,” the past year has been challenging. Used to managing student employees and working closely with students to help them find research opportunities,…
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Interim President Scott Cowen to announce COVID-19 Champions March 29; participate in other Employee Appreciation Month events
Join Interim President Scott Cowen virtually at noon, Monday, March 29, when he announces the faculty and staff selected as Case Western Reserve’s COVID-19 Champions. Earlier in March Interim President Cowen announced that the community’s contributions this academic year had been so significant…
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2021 Cleveland Humanities Festival: IDENTITY
Over the next two months, the annual festival from Case Western Reserve University partners with numerous cultural organizations to stage a diverse spate of events on race, class, gender, ethnicity and other identity-related topics The 2021 Cleveland Humanities Festival (CHF) will explore a theme…
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New CWRU School of Medicine biophysics program partnering with U.S. Air Force research laboratory to develop biosensors for stress and fatigue
Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have established the Case Center for Biomarker Structure and Integration for Sensors (BioSIS), a program to advance biosensor technologies using biophysical techniques to understand and improve sensing of markers of stress and…
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School of Medicine Class of 2021 matches to residency programs
The School of Medicine Class of 2021 were matched to their residency hospitals on Friday, March 19. These fourth-year students achieved a milestone on their journey to become physicians on that day—learning where they will be spending their next years as a resident. In compliance with pandemic…
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Taking new steps with artificial platelets
Case Western Reserve’s Anirban Sen Gupta leads team to advance bioinspired nanotechnology to enhance blood clotting to stop severe traumatic bleeding A team of researchers, led by biomedical engineering professor Anirban Sen Gupta, is working toward innovating and advancing platelet-inspired…
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Vaccine hesitancy: What it is and what it is not
The term vaccine hesitancy is frequently in the news these days, but what does it mean and why is it important to understand it as we continue the COVID-19 vaccine roll out? Janet McGrath, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, shared her…