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June 06, 2016
Popular music thrives as a form of entertainment, but it also influences history and culture—from songs that stoked public support for U.S. involvement in World War I to today’s artists addressing race and gender issues through their work. To further research and awareness of the importance of…
June 02, 2016
The first third-party app in the Microsoft HoloLens store comes not from a video game giant or 3D design leader, but instead a Cleveland-based university and hospital. HoloAnatomy goes beyond the on-stage demonstrations that hundreds of thousands watched in person and online during the last two…
June 01, 2016
Case Western Reserve staff cited increased compensation, clear career ladders within job families and an additional floating holiday as their top priorities in the climate survey conducted this spring. The university-wide initiative began in 2014 at the urging of the Staff Advisory Council (SAC),…
June 01, 2016
Case Western Reserve’s second summer of giving employees two hours of paid leave on Fridays begins this Friday, June 3—just in time for the program to get its new name, "CWRU Take Two." The suggestion, from University Events’ Laura Klingler, emerged as the favorite among 376 entries in an online…
May 31, 2016
When Nicole Ward stepped on stage to give a talk to one of her professional organizations, she was thinking about the speech—not the pioneering gesture taking the podium would be. It had a catchy main title, “Modeling Mayhem,” and focused on a key aspect of her life’s work: what goes wrong in the…
May 31, 2016
With seven weeks left until the start of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump passed the 1,237-delegate threshold to secure his party’s presidential nomination. And now, all GOP eyes turn to Cleveland—along with millions more of people not affiliated with the Grand Old Party. Case…
May 27, 2016
Olivia Ortega spent the summer between her junior and senior years crashing in the living room of a place she found on Craigslist in order to make interning at the immigration department of the International Rescue Committee in Oakland, California, a reality. While many would have balked at such…
May 26, 2016
Mapping of the full-length TRPV2 protein structure could advance design of innovative pharmaceutical compounds A team led by researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine has identified a promising new target for the development of treatments for chronic pain and some…
May 26, 2016
Four Case Western Reserve University tennis players will return to the NCAA Individual Championships, which begin today (May 26) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Recent graduates CJ Krimbill and Louis Stuerke will represent the men’s tennis team, with Krimbill competing in the singles draw and both pairing…
May 25, 2016
In the 1960s, when matchmakers paired writers with receptive readers overseas, so-called “World Literature” was born The spark for William Marling’s new book—Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s—came 20-odd years ago, while lecturing on the hard-boiled detective story as…