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October 12, 2017
“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…
October 12, 2017
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…
October 11, 2017
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…
October 11, 2017
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…
October 10, 2017
Homecoming weekend is always a celebration, but this year, Case Western Reserve had even more to mark: the surpassing of the university’s $1.5 billion capital campaign goal. The announcement came during the Blue Block Party, the official kickoff to homecoming festivities. In addition to the…
October 10, 2017
More than 1,000 quilt squares, containing 2,200 personal stories, have been displayed in 22 cities across the United States As a national touring collection of stories from survivors of rape and abuse, the Monument Quilt will visit Cleveland, with a display on Case Western Reserve University’s…
October 09, 2017
Case Western Reserve University alumnus Richard H. Thaler (ADL ’67, HON ’03) today received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for pioneering work in behavioral economics. Thaler, a professor of economics and behavioral science at the University of Chicago since 1995, is known for…
October 09, 2017
President Barbara R. Snyder today announced that Biology Professor Roy Ritzmann and Vice President for Research Suzanne Rivera will co-chair the committee leading the search for Case Western Reserve’s next provost. Ritzmann, a faculty member since 1977 and former Faculty Senate chair, is an…
October 06, 2017
President Barbara R. Snyder thanks supporters; adds, “We are not finished yet” Buoyed by commitments from nearly 55,000 donors and philanthropic organizations, Case Western Reserve has surpassed its expanded $1.5 billion capital campaign goal. The historic achievement also marked the second time…
October 06, 2017
Cleveland-based Theramalin Inc., a privately held company founded by a Case Western Reserve University diabetes researcher, has partnered with Sanofi, a multi-national pharmaceutical firm, in a collaboration that involves $17.5 million in venture-capital financing for new insulin therapies. The…