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Odds are long for any application for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship—only about 7 percent are awarded. Even longer are the odds that two professors from the same department each receive one of the prestigious grants in the same year. Unlikely as it may be, Erin Benay and M...

Program renewed for second year; now accepting students and software ideas CWRUcible, a novel software development program based in the university’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), proved so successful in its first year that it’s just been renewed for a second. The program teams Weatherhead Schoo...

Case Western Reserve University receives third round of federal funding Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are scaling up a prototype iron-flow battery to provide cleaner and cheaper power when renewable energy sources are ebbing or demand is peaking. The battery would also efficiently s...

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost William A. “Bud” Baeslack encourage all faculty and staff to stop by the annual Adelbert Hall Open House this afternoon. With food and drink on every floor, the event provides members of the university community an opportunity to gather with friends and colle...

Family members of the more than 10 million adults with bipolar disorder in the United States often see their own heath suffer from the demands of taking care of them. With a four-year, $2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, nurse scientists at Case Western Reserve University will con...

Recent years have marked a dramatic transition from paper to electronic medical records. Simultaneously, Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems allow for the creation of medical “big data”—massive collections of electronic data that can be used for medical research, public health initiatives and oth...

Below is an updated version of last week’s report. The Case Western Reserve law student killed by a Hudson police officer Dec. 4 was shot five times, the Summit County Medical Examiner’s office reported yesterday. The information came a day after Ohio authorities announced that Saif Nasser Mubarak...

HoloAnatomy, the mixed-reality app that Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic introduced last spring, has won yet another accolade. It is one of 50 winners of a 2017 Digital Edge Award, a competition so fierce that the organization managing it actually doubled the number of recipient...

Two Case Western Reserve University researchers have been elected National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows for lifetime achievements and leadership in innovation and scientific discovery. Case School of Engineering Dean Jeffrey Duerk, the Leonard Case Professor of Engineering, and Francis Papay,...

New book exposes consumer caveats in an expanding digital economy Buy a book at the bookstore and you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is that true with e-books or other digital goods you buy? Retailers a...