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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…

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…

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…

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…

The conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Babson College have found. Clashes between the use of faith vs. scientific evidence to explain the world around us dates back centuries and is perhaps…

Case Western Reserve long has been known as one of the nation’s top universities. Now, it’s officially among the country’s best places to work. In its 2016 rankings, Forbes named Case Western Reserve the No. 11 midsize employer (5,000 to 10,000 employees) across all industries, and second in the…

It’s been a whirlwind of a year—complete with international travel—for Case Western Reserve University students and saxophonists Matthew Castner, Leah Feitl, Collin Kemeny and Ryan Rose, who comprise the Ingeniare Quartet (named for their backgrounds in engineering). Next up: Performing at the…

Last spring, Professor Mark Griswold told a global audience about the potential of Microsoft HoloLens to transform learning. Twelve months later, Griswold showed the world exactly how—or at least his hologram did. Speaking at Microsoft’s annual Build conference for the second consecutive year,…

When some 30 Case Western Reserve students clad in matching T-shirts assembled near the stage during the university’s annual Momentum event Tuesday, they offered a simple but powerful message to those in attendance: “Thank you.” Momentum, which celebrates the university’s philanthropic supporters,…

When Michael Goldberg started his Massive Open Online Course two years ago, he hoped it would empower students around the globe to launch their own businesses. He never imagined that Case Western Reserve undergraduates would travel to another continent to help them. But that’s precisely what…