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As employees visit the annual Benefits Fair today and tomorrow, they should keep in mind that coverage enrollment deadlines are not the only ones fast approaching. As in previous years, faculty and staff who participate in the university’s two wellness incentive programs can earn up to $500 during ...

An on-campus memorial service will be held this week in remembrance of Mohammad Jamal, a first-year student who died in a car accident last month. The Middle Eastern Cultural Association and Muslim Student Association—organizations in which Jamal was active during his two months on campus—along wit...

Persistence proved to be the key to installing a traffic light at the three-way intersection of Adelbert Road and Circle Drive. For many years, the Staff Advisory Council (SAC) lobbied to have a light replace the stop signs at the intersection. The intersection had become a safety concern for many ...

Earns American Heart Association’s prestigious 2015 Clinical Research Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cardiovascular Science Jackson T. Wright Jr. When Jackson T. Wright Jr. began practicing medicine in the 1980’s, physicians knew that the risks of high blood pressure were greater in African-...

The Case Western Reserve community is mourning the death of Agnar “Ag” Pytte, who led the university from 1987 to 1999 and contributed enormously to the physical growth of the campus, the quality of the undergraduate experience, and the strength of its finances. Pytte died Friday, Nov. 6. He was 82....

Ed Caner vividly remembers the first time he took the stage with Smokey Robinson. It was 1990, and Caner was playing violin for Robinson’s fans on a floating stage in the Cuyahoga River. The crowd, Caner recalled, was “overwhelmingly supercharged.” After that first night, Caner was hooked. Since t...

Ronald Hickman A new $2.48 million federal grant will allow researchers at Case Western Reserve University to revise and test the effectiveness of an interactive avatar-based technology that helps users make end-of-life decisions well in advance of an emergency. Each year, millions of Americans ar...

Mark your calendar for Town Hall forum Nov. 12 From the infrastructure that powers collaboration to the enhancements that innovate classrooms, information technology (IT) plays a critical role in the day-to-day operations of Case Western Reserve University. Given that IT affects the entire campus c...

Michelle Leslie and Shannon Smith both had applied for the Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarships before. Leslie, a PhD candidate studying macromolecular science and engineering, applied twice as an undergraduate. Smith, a senior studying m...

A new five-year, $1.17 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will prepare 20 nurses from underrepresented ethnic groups to pursue doctorate degrees at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. The NIH-funded “Bridges to the Doctorate” training pr...