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A program that partially forgives student loans for doctoral students who go on to teach nursing is expanding at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, thanks to a new $1.5 million federal grant. The grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration…

Next week, rising third-year law student Krithika Rajkumar (CWR ’14) could make history. She’s one of 29 finalists in the America’s Miss World pageant—and if she wins, she’ll be the first Indian-American to represent the U.S. in the global Miss World competition. Rajkumar, who was born in India…

Even among people who had just joined a gym and expected to visit regularly, getting paid to exercise did little to make their commitment stick, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University. Mariana Carrera The rewards also had no lasting effect: Gym visits stabilized after the…

Scott Del Rosa was 20 years old when he joined Case Western Reserve’s security unit. Over nearly three decades at the university, he helped keep the campus safe as enrollments grew and his own small team evolved into a 24/7 police department. No matter how much changed, though, Del Rosa himself…

Holly Witchey traveled more than 3,200 miles in seconds—and speed wasn’t even the most impressive part of the feat. Standing in the basement of a building on Case Western Reserve University’s campus, the adjunct professor of art history and art suddenly found herself standing in The Courtauld…

Alex Huang’s battle to defeat childhood cancers got another boost last week when the St. Baldrick’s Foundation named him among the year’s leading researchers in the field. The volunteer-driven organization, which focuses solely on pediatric and adolescent cancers, awarded 90 grants to scientists…

Last fall, when Eliana Ondrejko stepped out on top of the wind turbine on campus and looked out over Cleveland, she saw the city from a whole new angle. “Rather than being just a skyline view, it was almost like looking at an angled view of Google Maps, with the 3-D buildings—but in real life,”…

Insight suggests ways to communicate with people who ignore evidence that contradicts cherished beliefs Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western Reserve University may help explain the extreme…

Five years ago, Emily Pentzer was an aspiring faculty member trying to navigate the path toward a career in academia. To help make more sense of the process, she attended a Future Faculty Workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars hoping to have a career as a faculty member. “In…

Anthropology’s Lee Hoffer and Trustee Linda Burnes Bolton take stock of the opioid issue in federal report, while offering recommendations to curb the crisis Though the total number of prescriptions for opiate medications have fallen, overdoses from the drugs, including its illicit forms, such as…