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Important changes to CWRU password reset process
Recently, the Division of Information Technology Services (ITS) discovered suspicious attempts to compromise Case Western Reserve University user accounts via the password reset tool. The password reset tool allows members of the university community to reset their password in the event that they do...
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Efforts to destroy ISIS have permanently changed international law, legal researcher concludes
International law authority examines right to use force in self-defense against threats within a nation that can’t or won’t stop terror attacks An urgent need to respond with force to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has permanently changed the use of self-defense in international law to a...
Four professors selected for Faculty Distinguished Research Award
More than 1,000 stakeholders and community members are expected to visit Research ShowCASE April 15 to see the latest innovations from faculty and students at Case Western Reserve University. Among them: Four of the university’s most prominent researchers, who will be recognized as Faculty Distingui...
Senior biomedical engineer Henry Wu passes away
Senior biomedical engineering major Henry Wu died unexpectedly this weekend. He was 22. Wu, from the Woodhaven neighborhood of Queens, New York, arrived at Case Western Reserve in 2012 after graduating from Stuyvesant High School, an elite specialized secondary school in New York City. While at Stu...
As Graduate Student Appreciation Week comes to a close, meet three student leaders
At 6,219 strong, graduate students represent the largest group of campus community members. And whether through groundbreaking research, teaching and mentoring, or leadership of organizations—and oftentimes all of the above—these students help shape Case Western Reserve University. Since 2012, the ...
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Research finds mindfulness in the workplace improves employee focus, attention, behavior
Mindfulness is often viewed as either a touchy-feely fad or valuable management tool that can lift an entire workplace. A new comprehensive analysis of mindfulness research, co-directed by a management scientist at Case Western Reserve University, suggests the latter—that injecting a corporate cult...
CWRU researchers make biosensor 1 million times more sensitive
Advance aims at detecting cancers earlier, improving treatment and outcomes Physicists and engineers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an optical sensor, based on nanostructured metamaterials, that’s 1 million times more sensitive than the current best available—one capable of identi...
"Nature Medicine" editor Roxanne Khamsi to open Research ShowCASE 2016
Roxanne Khamsi, chief news editor of Nature Medicine, will present the keynote address for Case Western Reserve University’s annual Research ShowCASE, where hundreds of scientists, scholars, faculty members and students come together to exhibit, demonstrate and explain their research projects rangin...
Universities team up to pursue energy innovation
Four leading research universities are joining forces to accelerate innovations to address challenges and opportunities facing the energy sector. Case Western Reserve University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University are forming the Tri-State Universi...
Free database shows where to find some of the world’s most toxic snakes
Case Western Reserve University PhD student focuses on tropical islands Snakes known to produce some of the most toxic venoms swim the shallows of the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans and sun themselves on island coasts from southwestern Japan to Indonesia, the Andaman Islands to Fiji. But...