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By Sarthak Shah Though our students may be spread across the country—and the world—our regular online undergraduate registration for the fall semester still begins today (depending on the school, graduate program registration may already have started or may begin in coming weeks). While much of…

As the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms health care systems and disrupts industries worldwide, daily life may feel like uncharted territory. But the truth is, we’ve been here before: More than a century ago, the Spanish flu of 1918 worked its way across the globe, prompting many of the same public…

Further advances hand-held blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted XaTek Inc. a “Breakthrough Devices Designation” for ClotChip, an important step in advancing the company’s portable blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization. The…

Manufacturers in Akron, Cleveland and Erie (PA) to produce 5,000 shields per day An engineering team from Case Western Reserve University, Nottingham Spirk and Penn State Behrend have partnered with manufacturers in Northeast Ohio and Erie, Pennsylvania, to launch rapid production of face shields…

Weatherhead School of Management’s xLab will partner with Cleveland Clinic’s Hwang Lab, Dataswift, Ethical Tech Alliance and HAT-LAB, along with a growing number of global partners, to host Hack from Home, a global hackathon that aims to find technology solutions to fight the spread of…

On March 26, Kyle Crowley became the first student in the history of the Case Western Reserve University Department of Physics to defend a PhD dissertation remotely. The following day, Jagjit Sidhu became the second. Aided by Zoom technology and keeping with the university mandate that all…

Lab led by researcher Blanton Tolbert partners with international scientists, seeks expanded NIH support to "target virus at molecular level" A team of scientists, including Blanton Tolbert, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University, and his research…

Faculty researchers from across campus stepping up to lend their expertise The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has established a Coronavirus Task Force, led by immunologist Rafick-Pierre Sekaly and virologist Jonathan Karn. Since its inception less than two weeks ago, an…

Even as Case Western Reserve continues to respond to issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, its community also contended with near-record-high waters over the weekend. Heavy rains late Saturday into Sunday morning led the Cuyahoga River to crest at 21.62 feet, its seventh-highest mark ever,…

Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the School of Medicine, was a part of the rapid-response research team during the severe acute…