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Celebrating 125-year legacy of community dental service
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine marks milestone with medical museum exhibit Reaching out into the community with dental care is hardly a new idea among Northeast Ohio dentists or students, faculty and staff at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. ...
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Changes to 2018 benefits determined
Premium costs for Case Western Reserve’s primary insurance programs will climb significantly less than forecast next year after officials adopted changes that faculty and staff supported in town hall meetings and a campus-wide survey. Accelerating health costs nationally, coupled with university em...
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CWRU among best in the country for commercialization of research
New Brookings Institution report highlights advantages of urban universities in research-related economic activity Case Western Reserve ranked 13th in the country—ahead of Harvard, Georgia Tech, and the University of Chicago—in a new study of research universities’ effectiveness in translating resea...
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School of Law graduates post best bar-passage rate in Ohio for first-time test-takers
Case Western Reserve’s overhaul of how it prepares law students reaped impressive results this year, as its graduates posted a 93 percent passage rate on Ohio’s July bar examination. The figure—for first-time test-takers—bested every other law school in the state, with the margin ranging from 6 to ...
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5 questions with … new Etsy CTO, CWRU alum and adjunct professor (and ultra marathoner) Mike Fisher
Adorning Mike Fisher’s Brooklyn, New York, apartment is a print of Cleveland’s skyline he bought years ago on Etsy, a global online marketplace of which he is now chief technology officer. Since taking the executive-level position in August, the skyline has served as a workweek reminder of his Nort...
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Saturday of Service to bring campus community together for volunteer opportunities
For the first time since its inception in 2006, students won’t be the only volunteers participating in Case Western Reserve’s annual Saturday of Service Nov. 4. As part of the university’s renewed efforts to connect the campus community to surrounding neighborhoods, this year’s event is also open t...
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Team of CWRU undergraduates takes first place in Cleveland Medical Hackathon
Wrist-device concept monitors wearer’s cardiac health in real time They thought they had no chance. After all, most of the 150-plus competitors comprising 22 teams in last weekend’s Cleveland Medical Hackathon at the Global Center for Health Innovation downtown were health professionals with PhDs a...
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New federal planning grant to help manufacturers, workforce on Cleveland’s West Side adapt to “Internet of Things” connectivity
“Smart” technologies and connected systems—enabled by “the Internet of Things” (IoT)—are profoundly changing how people live and work. To support research that helps communities understand and adapt to that transformational change, the National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated a Smart & Connected...
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5 questions with… Sheryl Hirsh, a staff member educating the community on substance abuse
"What do you think an addict is?" That was the question Sheryl Hirsh, assistant director of the Laura and Alvin Siegal Jewish Lifelong Learning Program, posed to more than 100 law enforcement officials at the Ohio Attorney General's Law Enforcement Conference last fall. Some answers included: “dish...
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Threatening behavior—of any kind—unacceptable at CWRU
To Our Students, Faculty and Staff: I write today to condemn the anti-LGBTQ flier recently posted on the campus of Cleveland State University (CSU) and to reaffirm Case Western Reserve’s commitment to support diversity and inclusion. The flier, discovered as CSU’s first LGBTQ+ Center opened, inclu...