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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…
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Employee Spotlight: Head Athletic Trainer Tom Monagan oversees safe return to sports
Eight months into his role as the head athletic trainer at Case Western Reserve University, Tom Monagan had his first opportunity to work at an athletic competition last weekend when the softball team returned to action. It had been over a year since he last attended an event in his previous role…
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A new kind of optical coating
Case Western Reserve researchers, collaborators create new class of thin film coating; innovative technology could solve major hurdles for solar energy generation Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Rochester have developed a new class of optical coatings they say…
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COVID-19 vaccinations: A Q&A with Ali Raja, Weatherhead School doctoral student and Massachusetts General Hospital physician
When Ali Raja began the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program in person at Weatherhead School of Management in August 2018, his focus was on the opioid epidemic.  But at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, it quickly became apparent he needed to shift to treating patients with…
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Submit nominations for COVID-19 Champions; free Stretch at Your Workstation session Friday
Case Western Reserve’s Employee Appreciation Month continues this week with a free Stretch at Your Workstation session at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow (Friday, March 19).  Also, the deadline to submit your nominations for the university’s COVID-19 Champions is 5 p.m. tomorrow. COVID-19 Champions are people…