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Everyone has his or her “thing.” For Gabriella Kaddu, a sophomore pre-med student studying biochemistry and sociology, that “thing” is volunteering. Gabriella Kaddu (second from right) poses for a photo with other CWRU student volunteers. Despite little experience with community service before co...

A Washington Post profile of Marian Wright Edelman describes a scene from 1967 in which she, as a 27-year-old civil rights attorney, leads Sen. Robert F. Kennedy through the Mississippi Delta to meet sharecroppers. She wanted him to see their dire conditions first-hand—especially the starving childr...

Having two of the nation’s top eight qualifiers for the final round of South by Southwest’s (SXSW) “Student Startup Madness” competition was already impressive. To have both student entrepreneurial teams from Case Western Reserve University finish among the top three in the country this week was be...

Thanks to gains in research and admissions, Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine maintained its top-25 position in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings. For several other programs, improvements in individual categories weren’t enough to avoid slight dips in their over...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) is hosting three days of activities at multiple University Circle institutions this month as part of its programming for children of members of the Case Western Reserve community. Titled “Museum Hopping,” the programs for children in kindergarten throu...

Nobel Laureate George Olah, a professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry here during the 1960s and ‘70s, died last week at his home in California. He was 89. Originally from Budapest, Hungary, Olah fled the country with his family during a Soviet military crackdown in 1956. Olah and his fam...

When sports fans in Northeast Ohio were on edge through the Cleveland Cavaliers’ championship run last June, second-year medical student Ann Xing was right along with them—in the front row. Xing reported on the Cavs through the 2015-16 season for the popular Chinese TV network LeSports, and travele...

Passersby pause and watch or stick their heads into the tucked-away nook for a better view. Some snap photos. Natalie Lanese This week, the two-story white wall—actually 29 feet wide by nearly 28 feet tall—behind the Grand Staircase at the center of the Tinkham Veale University Center is evolving...

Second annual festival unites 25 cultural institutions for artistic and educational events from March 15 to April 24, including a presentation by Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico. The history and contemporary shape of immigration in Northeast Ohio—itself a rich fabric of diverse neighborhoods...

From club-tailed armadillos as big as Volkswagen Beetles to carnivorous saber-toothed marsupials to sloths that swam in the Peruvian surf, South America boasts a world of prehistoric animals different from the rest of the continents. Readers are offered a walk through the time, called the Cenozoic ...