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Editor’s Note: After consultation with the Faculty Senate in 2014, the president’s annual State of the University report transitioned from a spoken address to a written account. Below is 2020’s edition. Interim President Scott Cowen To the Case Western Reserve University Community: The year 2020…

By any measure, 2020—the start of a new decade—was an eventful year around the world: an historic pandemic, renewed calls for racial justice and a presidential election in the United States. Here at Case Western Reserve University, the year was full of big headlines as it relates to all of those…

In a year as full of news as 2020, it’s no surprise the expertise of Case Western Reserve University faculty was called upon often by the media. To audiences around the world, university experts helped make sense of the year’s unfolding realities, its latest discoveries—and offered valuable…

Case Western Reserve this week is mourning the passing of Elizabeth Meckes, a professor of mathematics renowned worldwide for her brilliance—and beloved on campus for her compassion. An undergraduate alumna who earned her doctorate at Stanford in 2006 and became a full professor here in 2018,…

With a $2,028,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Case Western Reserve University will establish a training program for humanities faculty and graduate students that promotes equity and diversity in academic leadership. The four-year award will fund a new Humanities in Leadership…

Annual local pitch competition encourages problem solving and creative solutions among entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs Each spring, undergraduate students from across the region convene to flex their business skills at ideaLabs, a competition in which they develop and pitch entrepreneurial ideas.…

During a virtual ceremony on Dec. 4, Stan Gerson, interim dean for the School of Medicine, awarded Cliff Harding the Case Medal for Excellence in Health Science Innovation. Harding was recognized for his groundbreaking research, skilled department management, and deep dedication to his students…

Editor's note: Due to a high interest in our CWRU Cookie Decorating contest, we are no longer accepting sign ups through Dec. 13 and have closed the form. Emails will be sent to students who signed up; students have 24 hours to confirm their interest in the cookie contest. Further details will be…

Emeritus Trustee A. Malachi Mixon, an entrepreneur whose leadership transformed a little-known Northeast Ohio business into a global powerhouse, died Monday, Nov. 30. He was 80. Raised in an Oklahoma town of barely 1,500 residents, Mixon went on to earn two Harvard degrees, fulfill military…

Case Western Reserve University biomedical engineering leaders Scott Bruder, Anant Madabhushi honored for ‘spirit of innovation’ Scott Bruder and Anant Madabhushi, a pair of Case Western Reserve University biomedical engineering innovators and leaders in their respective fields over the last two…