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Before arriving for her first year as a Case Western Reserve University student in the fall of 2015, Ellen Kendall had never seen a line of code. Her all-girls high school in Northern Kentucky didn’t offer computer science courses, so she had never even considered it as a potential career…

Three Case Western Reserve University junior faculty members have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants, totaling nearly $1.7 million. The five-year grants support research into: Movements of nanoparticles through confined spaces, with…

Study shows acorn ants quickly adjust, suggesting the insects may be able to cope with other sources of warming, including climate change   CLEVELAND—The speed at which a tiny ant evolves to cope to its warming city environment suggests that some species may evolve quickly enough to survive, or…

While military ethics have been studied for more than 2,000 years, the field has lacked a common entry point for professional training—until now. Case Western Reserve University has established the nation’s first graduate program in the field. Shannon French, leader of the new degree program and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…