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The running joke in Alex Huang’s pediatric oncology immunotherapy lab is that, to become a member of the research team, you have to shave your head. While that’s not really the case, many do so anyway—for a good cause. The researchers in Huang’s lab will “brave the shave” once again at the 2017 Cas...

Investigational drug may help combat this serious global health threat The deadly fungus, Candida auris, which has been found in hospitals, is resistant to entire classes of antimicrobial drugs, limiting treatment options for those infected. First reported in 2009, the fungus has been linked to inva...

The transition from adolescence to adulthood is focus of inaugural Kessler-Freedheim Lecture on March 7 As the Schubert Center for Child Studies prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary, a new lecture series honoring two seminal figures in its history is set to launch with a discussion of how chil...

Preparing to participate in a single Model United Nations competition can take upward of 40 hours of work. But planning a conference—in addition to being a full-time student (and a double major, no less)? That takes months. Siddharth Hariharan, a sophomore majoring in political science and biochemi...

For years, Daniel Lacks has taken Case Western Reserve University engineering students to African villages, showing them a different way of life and, more recently, aiding those they visited by installing solar panels in their villages. What he and his students didn’t realize, though, was the inher...

Nearly 300 years after Johann Sebastian Bach wrote St. John Passion, the piece is still being performed, held up by some as a masterpiece—and acting as a flashpoint for discussions of anti-Semitism. Before the Cleveland Orchestra performs the passion this month, David J. Rothenberg, chair of Case W...

As a 24-year-old attorney—one of few African-American lawyers in his home state of Alabama in 1955—Fred Gray would meet with a department store employee over lunch and discuss her frustrations as a black woman riding the city’s segregated buses. And he'd counsel her about what she might do if asked ...

From left: Mia Ulery , B-Buzz Chairman Wendell Fields and James Walsh A recently resurrected historic Cleveland youth baseball league is gaining legal and financial footing, thanks to the work of two Case Western Reserve University students. Since fall, third-year law students Mia Ulery and James ...

Krzysztof Palczewski is a visionary—in some cases, literally. Renowned for breakthroughs that expanded our understanding of how the eye functions, he has conducted research that illuminates pathways to stop and even reverse degenerative conditions that can lead to blindness. A member of the Case W...

Former university employee and 1994 graduate won an Oscar for innovations in facial animation—his hobby-turned-career Geoff Wedig made Brad Pitt look old and Jeff Bridges look young. And now he has an Academy Award to show for it. The Case Western Reserve alum is the first to admit it’s an unlikely...