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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…

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…

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.…

The university's new Center for Engineering Action is giving a boost to student and faculty humanitarian projects Under a scorching Costa Rican sun, Neil Chavan shoveled a load of sand into a wheelbarrow and hauled it down a dirt road to where fellow Case Western Reserve University students used…

Heather Broihier already felt indebted to legendary neurobiologist Story Landis for her scientific success. After all, Landis founded Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Neurosciences, Broihier’s professional home since 2005. Landis also recruited Lynn Landmesser, the chair who hired…

The Case Western Reserve University Class of 2023 wraps up its first week of classes today. Since the new students arrived on campus almost two weeks ago, they’ve been busy learning about the university and Cleveland. What have they been up to? Watch a video to recap their Discover Week experience…

CWRU researchers among team discovering “remarkably complete” cranium of early human ancestor species Yohannes Haile-Selassie—a Case Western Reserve University adjunct professor and curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History—and a team of researchers have discovered a “remarkably complete”…

Antibiotic resistance, which develops when harmful bacteria and other damaging microorganisms become resistant to the antibiotics that once killed them, threatens to undo many of the powerful health gains achieved by the use of antibiotics. The problem arises from overuse and misuse of antibiotics…

Maybe an answer to the vexing neurological mysteries of epilepsy will come to Dominique Durand during his preferred thinking time: on his 7-mile bicycle commute from his home in Shaker Heights to Case Western Reserve University. Or maybe the critical bioengineering breakthrough Durand…

Cocaine-exposed infants, children with chronic lung disease arising from prematurity, babies suffering from the effects of fetal exposure to the drug Ecstasy—all are benefitting from the scholar’s eye and compassionate heart of Lynn Singer, professor of population and quantitative health sciences,…