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Penelope Foudeas was the kind of person who lifted the spirits of everyone around her. Whether the master’s of nutrition student was visiting her father’s native Greece or assisting patients at a Columbus children’s hospital, she brought energy and enthusiasm to almost every experience—even the…

New initiative supporting children’s behavioral health programs to be part of university’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education A new, multi-million-dollar statewide effort to transform adolescent behavioral health programs and agencies will be housed at Case Western…

Each of Case Western Reserve’s COVID-19 Champion honorees can claim particular expertise: English and engineering, medicine and nursing, custodial services, resiliency and technology. But they all share a common commitment: preventing the pandemic from imperiling health or education. Selected…

In early March Interim President Cowen announced that the community’s contributions this academic year had been so significant that the traditional Employee Appreciation Week was too brief a time to celebrate faculty and staff. Instead, he extended it for the entire month. Though the month of…

April 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the official declaration of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)—just one piece of a much larger movement to increase both awareness and prevention of sexual assault, harassment and abuse. This year, It’s On CWRU—Case Western Reserve University’s sexual…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…