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Federal offices are scheduled to reopen today after President Donald Trump signed a compromise measure Monday evening that funds government operations through Friday, Feb. 8. As a result, the closures and delays detailed in Monday’s Daily are no longer in effect, with the impact on university opera...

The impact of the federal government’s shutdown on members of the university community depends largely on how long it lasts. If Congress and the White House quickly reach agreement on a new budget—or temporarily extend funding to provide more time to strike a deal—few will feel effects. Even if the...

In the mid-2000s, a sense that the Islamophobia brought on by the 9/11 terror attacks had somewhat eased gave rise to a new feeling of optimism among some Muslim communities in the United States. They saw an opportunity to remake certain aspects of their public perception, setting out to prove them...

Case Western Reserve University has been selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to offer valuable research grants and extensive mentorship to undergraduate students in chemistry and the biological sciences. The university is one of just 12 institutions chosen nationally in 2018 to offe...

The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) unanimously selected Grover C. Gilmore, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, as an honorary fellow. This honor is a status reserved for a very small number of major figures in social work who ha...

To the Case Western Reserve Community: It is my great pleasure to welcome you to a new semester. As much as we appreciate the arrival of winter break after the intensity of the term’s final weeks, the campus is not fully itself without the curiosity and energy of students—and the passion and expert...

Growing up along Ohio’s northeastern shore, Dave Lucas felt the poetry of Lake Erie many years before he knew its landscapes could be thought of that way. A moment of epiphany for him came as a teenager, reading Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio—a poem that not only name-dropped a place familiar...

With a focus on gender, new NIH-funded research continues two decades of study at Case Western Reserve University into effects of prenatal cocaine exposure Teens whose mothers used cocaine during pregnancy are more likely to have aggression and attention problems—known predictors of later drug use a...

Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is among 45 newly elected members of the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI). The 90-year-old institute comprises exceptional judges, lawyers and legal academics internationally. "It is a...

Largest university presence at consumer electronics show Case Western Reserve University will again show off some of its best innovations at CES 2018 Jan. 9-12 in Las Vegas, including self-powered “smart building” sensors and low-cost, hand-held blood analysis devices and more among its 10 exhibits....