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President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of an accomplished scientist and academic leader as the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Joy K. Ward, an associate dean for research and dean’s professor at the University of Kansas (KU), will…

Jonathan Arms had an insatiable thirst for knowledge. When he was 9, he asked his mom to purchase Minecraft—not so he could play it, like other kids his age, but so he could use it to teach himself programming. He taught himself Russian in high school—a language he continued studying as a Case…

To the Case Western Reserve Community: We start this decade amid significant uncertainty. From recent military escalation in Iran to ongoing effects of climate change, the new year dawns with ample cause for concern. Yet to me, it offers even greater reason for hope. Just last week, the American…

When Laura Graham applied last year to serve as a student officer with the Yemen Accountability Project at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, she wasn’t planning to lead the effort. But that’s exactly what James Johnson, director of the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office,…

Case Western Reserve and NASA Glenn scientists aim to keep effervescence from obstructing scientific equipment on spacecraft in frigid seas of Saturn’s largest moon If scientists someday send a spacecraft to the surface of Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, it could very well be a small…

Case Western Reserve researcher finds new use for revolutionary gene-splicing tool; electrochemical platform could lead to blood test for HPV, parvo or others The gene-editing tool CRISPR has been heralded as a scientific miracle destined to eradicate diseases from sickle-cell anemia to cancer,…

From password protection entrepreneur to an Alexa hackathon champion, teams sponsored by university and LaunchNet programs are ready to demo From “tricked-out” robots to augmented and virtual reality to sound-warping software, the entrepreneurial and inventive best from Case Western Reserve…

Supported with three-year, $2.75M grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation With a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Foundation, researchers from Case Western Reserve University will lead a community-wide initiative to create and apply innovative methods to…

U.S. Department of Energy awards newest ‘Industrial Assessment Center’ to Case Western Reserve University, covering parts of Ohio, Michigan and Western Pennsylvania Case Western Reserve University will soon offer free energy-efficiency assessments to qualifying manufacturing companies and water…

On a single summer day in 1990, Mahmoud Ghannoum’s life changed completely. The research scientist was speaking at a conference in Washington, D.C., while his wife and children continued their family vacation in England. But then, on Aug. 2, Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait. And…