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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…