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Fatal opioid traffickers targeted by nearly $1 million federal grant
Streamlining investigations and prosecutions of opiate dealers is goal of three-year U.S. Department of Justice-funded research Seeking faster indictments and prosecutions of drug dealers after opioid overdose deaths, Case Western Reserve University researchers will rework protocols followed by Clev...
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Benefits survey responses to help guide 2018 programs
More than 1,800 faculty and staff completed Case Western Reserve’s benefits survey this month, and on two points in particular, their consensus is clear: When it comes to out-of-pocket costs, they prefer predictability, and they are willing to spend more to keep the same services covered. Officials...
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Students create wind-tunnel sandstorms on visit to China
CWRU chemical engineering students conduct electrostatic experiments, experience Asian culture for summer project A trio of Case Western Reserve University students this summer began a three-year research project in a western China wind tunnel that could play a role in advancing our understanding of...
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Electrical nerve-block research by Case Western Reserve researchers aims at asthma, heart failure
Biomedical engineering researchers at Case Western Reserve University are refining more than 15 years of work on an electrical nerve-block implant, focusing their next step on new applications related to treating asthma and heart failure. Niloy Bhadra The research by Niloy Bhadra, an assistant re...
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5 questions with … graduate student, leader of Puerto Rico supply drive Edwin Colón
Edwin Pacheco Colón had never heard his mother so scared. Calming her as she crouched in her room, he stayed on the line while Hurricane Maria battered her home and the rest of Puerto Rico. Then, silence. For days. And not just from his mother—nothing came from family members spread around the isl...
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Provost Search Committee to hold open meetings for campus community
The people leading the search for Case Western Reserve’s next provost want to hear from the campus community. Starting next week, the Provost Search Committee will hold a series of open meetings to learn more about the knowledge, talents and experiences people would like to see in the university’s ...
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Hands-on medical history: Interactive digital wall debuts at Dittrick Museum
“How Medicine Became Modern” exhibition opens at tech symposium Friday You can put your hands directly on history starting this weekend at the Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western Reserve University. On Friday evening, the Dittrick Museum, on the third floor of the Allen Memorial Medical...
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Remembering emeritus professor, triple alumnus Harry W. Mergler
Services will be held this weekend for an emeritus professor and three-time alumnus who made a major impact on Case Western Reserve University and on the field of engineering. Harry W. Mergler, a member of the university’s faculty for more than 30 years, died last month at the age of 93. As a child...
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CWRU, Cleveland Clinic break ground on new dental clinic, set to open summer 2019
Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic broke ground Tuesday on a new dental clinic building that is part of their ambitious Health Education Campus, opening in the summer of 2019. The three-story, 126,000-square-foot structure will provide School of Dental Medicine students a spacious...
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First-ever Classics Day to make the ancient world come alive for Cleveland-area high school students
On Friday, Oct. 13, more than 100 Cleveland-area high school students studying the Classics will come to University Circle to learn firsthand from scholars of the ancient world. The inaugural Classics Day—a collaboration between Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Cleveland Museum of Art...