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Shane Brown, maintenance group leader at the Case Western Reserve University farm, considers the Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms grounds in nearby Hunting Valley “the university’s best-kept secret.” But the farm—just 10 miles from campus—isn’t intended to be a secret, and the staff doesn’t…

New research links excessive artificial light to developmental issues in toads; possible connection to worldwide amphibian crisis A pair of researchers at Case Western Reserve University are suggesting that excessive, human-caused artificial light at night may be contributing to a worldwide…

Case Western Reserve University has a long, rich history in social work. As the nation’s first university-affiliated professional graduate school of social work, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences holds a special place in history. That historical account is now…

U.S. Department of Energy awards $10.75 million to establish Energy Frontier Research Center at Case Western Reserve University The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Case Western Reserve University $10.75 million over four years to establish a research center to explore “Breakthrough…

As a sophomore nursing student, Edward C. Bennett Jr. stepped into an elevator one day feeling overwhelmed. By the time he stepped out, he’d gained two new mentors and a clear sense of direction. Bennett had given then-postdoctoral scholars Kathy Wright (now at Ohio State University) and Lenette…

Many of the Cleveland neighborhoods that banks “redlined” almost a century ago have some of the city’s highest rates of poverty and crime. Although the lending practice of rejecting mortgage applications in specific neighborhoods—more accurately, to minorities—was banned more than 50 years ago,…

Over the past week, a new public art installation has taken shape at Toby’s Plaza: Judy’s Hand Pavilion, part of this summer’s FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. The piece, designed by Chicago-based artist Tony Tasset, is a silver hand that stands at about 25 feet tall…

Amputees use new, naturalistic sensory device at home for daily tasks, gain greater sense of personal well-being and connection to loved ones In the first known study of how amputees use  advanced sensory-enabled prostheses outside the lab, subjects used a mechanical hand more regularly and for…

President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the leader of one of the nation’s top programs for electrical and computer engineering will become the Case School of Engineering’s next dean this fall. An accomplished researcher in system and control theory, Venkataramanan “Ragu” Balakrishnan has…

Case Western Reserve researchers, collaborators from two other universities, identify two new ancient mammals in Bolivia dig Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two other universities have discovered the 13-million-year-old fossils of a pair of new species of extinct hoofed mammals…