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June 04, 2018
CWRU law professor suggests how to address nation’s looming health care and economic crisis caused by surging baby-boom population
Skyrocketing drug prices and the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare are just two of many pressing issues caused by America’s surging baby-boom…
June 04, 2018
Nanoparticle technology mimics blood platelets to prevent and treat bleeding from trauma, surgery
Case Western Reserve University and Haima Therapeutics LLC, a Cleveland-based biotechnology company, have signed a two-year option to license a hemostatic nanotechnology, called SynthoPlate, to prevent…
June 01, 2018
Hundreds gathered Thursday evening to dedicate the Nord Family Greenway, a 2,200-foot-long expanse that exemplifies the accomplishments possible when organizations collaborate toward a common goal. Begun years ago as a project to ease pedestrian transit between Case Western Reserve University’s…
May 31, 2018
Community-based service professionals think that helping clients navigate a financial crisis—such as foreclosure—is a good idea. We know that because researchers from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University asked them. In a…
May 31, 2018
Richard Martin, professor of pediatrics, reproductive biology and physiology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and director of neonatal research programs and Drusinsky-Fanaroff Chair in Neonatology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, has been selected as the recipient of the…
May 30, 2018
Tension between the bottom line and efforts to improve society mirrors the conflicting neurological realities of our own brains Corporate programs aimed at offsetting the negative societal impacts caused by their profit-seeking tend to devalue the very people they intend to help. This unintended…
May 29, 2018
For Katie Wede, just making it to the NCAA Division III Championships for softball in Oklahoma City was a dream come true. Last week, she accomplished that as a member of the Case Western Reserve University Spartans softball team that qualified for the championships after winning in both the…
May 25, 2018
At commencement convocation Sunday, Robin Dubin stood at the podium on stage at the outset of the event and declared: “The 2018 commencement convocation ceremony of Case Western Reserve University is hereby convened.” Dubin relished the moment, realizing it would be the last time she’d have the…
May 24, 2018
More than a half-dozen Nobel Prize winners coming to Case Western Reserve campus to mark 50 years since seminal theory began to emerge Every October, the world’s largest and most prestigious group of physicists gathers in Stockholm, Sweden, to honor those among their ranks who will join a…
May 23, 2018
Judge: Prison officials may not forcibly cut Rastafarian inmate’s dreadlocks, violating his religious freedom A team of Case Western Reserve University law students prevailed in a federal lawsuit arguing that an Ohio inmate should be allowed to keep his dreadlocks, protecting his religious…