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Longer lifespans, due to advances in medicine and public health, also mean people are living longer with multiple chronic conditions. To help people avoid long, slow declines in health, the national health care system should promote disease prevention earlier in life instead of emphasizing…

Full day of events planned with regional leaders, stakeholders and “makers” Inventor Adam Savage, host of the Emmy-nominated show MythBusters and advocate of the “maker” movement as a national economic development engine, will spend Wednesday, April 27, in Cleveland, meeting with local makers,…

UPDATE: This story was updated April 28 to reflect new ticketing information. Brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, award-winning film and television directors, will return to Case Western Reserve University on Monday, May 2, for a special advance screening of Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Civil War…

When the first of several devastating earthquakes struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, Case Western Reserve University graduate students Nirmala Lekhak and her husband, Tirth Bhatta, felt an urgent and deep-seated need to help their home country. While they have not been able to visit Nepal in the year…

The first time Evan Ostrowski stepped foot on campus, he was immersed in one of Case Western Reserve University’s richest traditions—the Hudson Relays. As a high school senior, Ostrowski, now a chemical engineering student and member of the Class of 2017, paid his visit to CWRU on the day the…

When global media was abuzz last month about the release of the first Microsoft HoloLens developer kits, Case Western Reserve’s Haley Eisenshtadt had a better idea than most of just what the recipients would be getting. The third-year computer science major got her own firsthand view of the…

Behaviors that enable bullying—a significant public health problem for adolescents nationally—were reduced among students who completed a new online anti-bullying program, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University. “Part of convincing schools to use technology to address…

The Hartwell Foundation, a Memphis-based philanthropic institution committed to funding innovative biomedical pediatrics research, has named Case Western Reserve University among its national Top 10 Centers of Biomedical Research. The prestigious designation allows Case Western Reserve to nominate…

A Case Western Reserve University researcher has been awarded more than $3 million in federal and foundation grants to turn common plant viruses into cancer sleuths and search-and-destroy emissaries. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will customize tobacco mosaic…

Known for his signature eye patch, Dale Chihuly lost sight in his left eye at the height of his career in the 1970’s, losing the depth perception so critical to precise glassblowing. Forcing a pivot in the artist’s process, the injury led to the very kinds of asymmetrical glass forms that have…