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May 24, 2016
Finding may help in understanding memory formation, treating epilepsy Researchers at Case Western Reserve University discovered a new way that brain waves spread through the hippocampus—a possible step toward understanding and treating epilepsy. The researchers discovered a traveling spike…
May 23, 2016
Five-year, $6.7 million federal grant for new Center for Multimodal Evaluation of Engineered Cartilage aims to make cartilage knee implants from patients’ cellsCase Western Reserve University will open a new center designed to develop evaluation technology and set standards for testing and…
May 23, 2016
Case Western Reserve University will launch a nationally recognized violence prevention program this fall after securing a state grant supporting institutions’ efforts to change campus culture. The program, called Green Dot, builds on earlier university education and training efforts designed to…
May 20, 2016
Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art today announced an innovative urban landscape project that will connect the western edge of the university’s main campus to its West Campus parcel, home of The Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple – Tifereth…
May 19, 2016
Case Western Reserve officials are reviewing federal overtime rules announced Wednesday to determine which university employees will be affected—and how. Under the policies Vice President Joe Biden detailed during an event in Columbus, the threshold under which employees are eligible for overtime…
May 19, 2016
The 70th anniversary of the annual Case Western Reserve University Book Sale will feature display tables filled with more than 70,000 items—books, prints, maps and atlases, sheet music, CDs, DVDs, records, play scripts and memorabilia. The sale, a fundraiser for Case Western Reserve's Association…
May 18, 2016
Just before the midpoint in the season, the Spartan baseball team was facing an 8-9 record. The young team was playing well, but just couldn’t quite close out games. But, head coach Matt Englander, said, something shifted shortly after the team returned from a string of games played in…
May 17, 2016
Note to Readers: This article is a corrected version of the piece that appeared in Tuesday’s edition of the daily. The university regrets the errors. At the recent 24th annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Singapore, Case Western Reserve…
May 17, 2016
When Ryan Anthony first felt sharp pains in his ribs while blowing into his trumpet, he never imagined he’d be diagnosed with multiple myeloma—a cancer of the cells formed in his bone marrow—and given two to three years to live. Anthony was just 43, with an extremely rare and incurable disease…
May 16, 2016
A plumber’s son from Scranton, Pa., drew on his dad’s advice in offering the final words of his commencement address to Case Western Reserve University’s Class of 2016. “No matter what I achieved, he always said the same thing,” said double alumnus and university trustee Mark A. Weinberger.…