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CWRU School of Medicine receives $2.5 million grant for Cleveland minority students Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in partnership with the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded a five-year grant totaling $2.5 million to engage underrepresented minorities in…

CWRU researcher working with NASA, other partners to build small, battery-powered aircraft in next several years Need to catch a fast ride from Cleveland to Pittsburgh? Get ready to hail your first “air taxi”—and maybe sooner than you think. Vikas Prakash, a Case Western Reserve University…

This fall, 10 first-year students came to Case Western Reserve University from New Orleans as the university’s first Posse Scholars. Now, the founder and president of the foundation that helped bring them to campus will deliver the second 2017-18 Think Forum lecture. Education strategist Deborah…

Nurse entrepreneur’s homemade innovation may soon be available worldwide As an operating room nurse, Jill Byrne saw how heat shortened the tempers and focus of stressed, sweating surgeons. “When even brilliant and confident surgeons look like they’ve been in a dunk tank, you worry about their…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…