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5 questions with… Anne Cunningham, development officer with a global perspective
Anne Cunningham encourages everyone to have a passport. “The best education you will ever have in your life is to just get outside of your own comfort zone,” she said. And Cunningham would know; she does it often in her role at Case Western Reserve, where she was recently named the associate…
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Marthe Cohn—undercover Jewish spy in Nazi Germany during World War II—to speak on campus Sept. 18
Free tickets are available to hear Cohn’s first-hand account of how she lived through one of the worst times in human history—losing family members to the Nazis and surviving by spying for the French resistance Only more than a half-century after Jewish teenager Marthe Cohn spied on the Nazis for…
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Driving dental care into the neighborhood
Case Western Reserve’s School of Dental Medicine launches new partnership with Hough Heritage to bring oral health care to seniors The "Lifelong Smiles" van is adding a new stop on its tour to deliver high-quality, discounted dental care to Cleveland-area seniors. The geriatric dental van is part…
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How ‘legacy’ companies can embrace—not fear—the dawning digital future
From Oct. 14 to 16, industry leaders in digital transformation will gather at the first-ever Digital Futures Conference at Case Western Reserve University; early bird registration ends Sept. 13 Northeast Ohio is home to hundreds of “legacy” companies; while many have a strong history of capturing…
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CWRU advances in U.S. News & World Report rankings
Case Western Reserve climbed to 40th in this year’s U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings of national universities—regaining two of the five positions lost last year, when the publication significantly changed its methodology. The move came thanks to modest improvements in…
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Electric scooters come to Cleveland: What to know about staying safe on the new devices
A new mode of transportation has arrived in Cleveland: dockless, electric scooters. Earlier this month, the city launched a six-month pilot program that will allow four companies to operate these scooters in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: Bird, Lime, Spin and VeoRide. (Some electric bikes…
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5 questions with… law student, Arena Football player Quentin Sims
For two weeks last spring, Quentin Sims flew back and forth between Albany and Cleveland, alternating between taking exams as he completed his first year of law school and playing in Arena Football League games with the Albany Empire. Last month, the team secured the Arena Football…
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CWRU drops in Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings
A change in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (WSJ/THE) rankings methodology sent Case Western Reserve’s ranking tumbling to 52nd this year, 13 slots below its standing in 2018. For the rankings released last night, the publications chose to apply a new metric to measure student…
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Case Western Reserve University and Akouos sign exclusive licensing agreement to advance development of gene therapy technology as a potential treatment for a type of Usher syndrome
Case Western Reserve University and Boston-based Akouos have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to develop a patented gene therapy with the potential to treat hearing loss associated with a type of Usher syndrome,  the most common deaf-blind disorder. Usher syndrome is characterized by…
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Case Western Reserve announces 2019-20 Think Forum lecture series
Lineup features award-winning authors, a playwright, leading-edge researchers on compassion and love, and taking back your life from that ubiquitous cell phone A playwright who has been compared to no less than dramatist Arthur Miller. A renaissance man named among TIME’s most influential people.…