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Pediatricians test their powers of persuasion to deliver more children to dentist Suchitra Nelson Convincing more parents and caregivers to take young children to the dentist begins with persuasive pediatricians—that’s the belief behind a new Case Western Reserve University research project testin...

A memorial service will be held Friday for alumnus and trustee Joseph B. “J.B.” Richey II, developer of the first commercially available full-body CAT scan and one of the first major donors to the university’s innovation hub, the Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[ box ]. Richey, whose chil...

[Editor’s Note: After consultation with the Faculty Senate, the President’s annual State of the University report transitioned from a spoken address to a written account. Below is 2015’s edition; readers are encouraged to post questions and comments.] We begin the semester’s final week of classes a...

Last Monday, Peter Shulman sat in his Mather House office considering the present-day refugee situation in Syria. Hadn’t the world, he thought—and, more specifically, the U.S.—been here before? So the associate professor of history began scouring digitized newspaper archives, and soon found a publ...

The year was 1967. Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Here in Cleveland, Carl Stokes became the first African-American elected mayor U.S. city. And at Case Western Reserve, Jefferson J. Jones, Ohio’s first African-American endodontist, ac...

A program to promote gender equity in academic science and engineering careers across universities in northern Ohio is being expanded to western Pennsylvania. With a new three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advance Program, Case Western Reserve University will lead ...

Two years ago, Joseph and Nancy Keithley named three reasons for their $15 million commitment to Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The first two were obvious—they felt a passion for art history, and devotion to each institution. The third? As the pair explained in a ...

It’s been an uncharacteristically warm fall here in Cleveland—but halfway around the world, Jean Castillo has spent months swept up in a Snowstorm. Castillo, a fourth-year Case Western Reserve undergraduate, is studying abroad this semester at the National University of Singapore (NUS). There, he’s...

Researcher Chao-Pin Hsiao, an assistant professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Fatigue from prostate cancer and its treatment can be debilitating. The symptom, which can’t be relieved with rest, can lead to increased depression, impaired cognitive function, sleep disturbance and h...

Students and faculty at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Dental Medicine are treating Cleveland-area seniors in a dentist’s office on wheels—a 38-foot van, in fact, renovated to provide full-service oral care. The “Lifelong Smiles” van—believed to be the first of its kind in Northeast Oh...