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President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson announced today that Case Western Reserve has relaunched its search for the university’s next Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity. As the two wrote in a June email to faculty and staff, the 2018-19 search “drew many…

Case Western Reserve professor Anant Madabhushi’s research looks to improve diagnoses, treatment of patients Winning recognition for one of 2018’s top 10 medical breakthroughs has only intensified Anant Madabhushi’s drive to bring the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) closer to patients.…

When Jaime Bouvier decided to try aerial circus acts nine years ago, she wasn’t particularly good at it. In fact, she said it was a place for her to be bad at something she enjoyed doing. And, she noted, it helped give her a new perspective into her law students. She had only recently stepped…

Editor's note: This article has been updated to include the date and time of the service for McGuire. Richard McGuire, who was set to begin his fourth year as a student at the School of Dental Medicine, passed away this week from complications of sickle cell disease. He was 27. A native of…

Case Western Reserve researcher takes next step toward helping NASA with future, longer-distance space travel If humans are going to successfully make longer-distance space trips, it will depend on discovering and engineering new materials for continuous fresh air supply—and doing it in…

Blazing trails is one thing, but to be named a national Social Work Pioneer is quite another. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) selected Claudia Coulton, a Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, as a 2019 Social Work Pioneer. The NASW distinction…

Vice President for Research and Technology Management Suzanne Rivera was a 35-year-old mother of two when she started her PhD, but by that point, she had long worked in higher education, and more specifically, research administration. “After years of working as a university research administrator,…

Within four hours of a traumatic experience, certain physiological markers—namely, sweating—are higher in people who go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study by a researcher at Case Western Reserve University and other institutions. Around 90% of people who…

Convelo Therapeutics Inc., a Cleveland company based on the research findings of Paul Tesar and Drew Adams at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has entered into a strategic partnership with Genentech to develop new therapeutic drugs to repair damaged myelin insulation on nerve…

Mothers of young children with autism who focus on improving the quality of their own relationship skills—as opposed to teaching developmental skills to their children—experience dramatic improvements in their level of parenting stress and depression. That’s according to a new research study…