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Treatment one day after injury is effective in preventing cascade of immune responses that often lead to loss of bodily functions Jerry Silver When a blunt-force blow injures the spinal cord, the body’s immune system can be both friend and foe. Sensing the injury, the immune system dispatches an…

When asked about his career accomplishments, Robert Brown’s answer always centers on one theme: his students. It’s a fitting response for someone who, over the years, has not only earned the university’s highest faculty honor—Distinguished University Professor—but also the university’s Carl F.…

Cleveland Water Alliance also part of joint effort aimed at regional economic development NASA Glenn Research Center scientists and students in Case Western Reserve University’s interdisciplinary Fusion program are studying a novel water-purification technology and how to commercialize it. Senior…

Case Western Reserve University is mourning the sudden death last week of fourth-year medical student Hilary M. Rosenheim, a Wisconsin native who came to Cleveland to pursue her dream of becoming an emergency room physician or family medicine practitioner. She was 26. Rosenheim, who married…

Thomas Hart Benton captured early- to mid-20th century America with a style and swagger uniquely his own. Capturing what made the painter tick—and tick-off so many people—has been a career-long pursuit of art historian Henry Adams. In fact, Adams was one of the first scholars to take Benton…

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…

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…

[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…

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…

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,…