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To the Case Western Reserve Community: The crosswalks at Adelbert and Euclid are crowded. The Binary Walkway is filled. The first years have spelled C-W-R-U on the football field. Finally, the campus feels right again. True, the weeks before commencement are such an activity-packed sprint that…

Timothy Beal is committed to engaging mass amounts of people in academic thought and discussion. Over the past two years, he’s earned two National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants to do just that—including, most recently, one last month—and he also chaired Case Western Reserve University’s…

Case Western Reserve President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the Board of Trustees has approved the appointments of Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf as deans of the School of Law. The two have led the school on a temporary basis since the fall of 2013; since then, the school has made…

Today is the last day to complete the campus-wide survey regarding this summer’s early release Friday program. In recognition of employee contributions, President Barbara R. Snyder launched a pilot program involving eight Fridays in June and July where staff could leave at 3 p.m. (or, if the…

From Ferguson, Mo., to Baltimore, Cleveland and beyond, issues of understanding, diversity and racism are gripping the nation. Like many university campuses, Case Western Reserve is exploring these questions as well. Some of the efforts—such as the Power of Diversity lecture series—are…

Louis Stokes, Ohio’s first African-American congressman and an alumnus and faculty member of Case Western Reserve, died Tuesday with his wife, Jay, by his side. He was 90, and had been diagnosed with lung and brain cancer this summer. “Case Western Reserve, Cleveland and our entire country have…

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that detects aggressive breast cancer tumors and micrometastases much smaller than current agents. “Currently, there is no imaging technology in clinical use that can detect tumors or…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $2.3 million to Case Western Reserve to lead a collaborative study of how changes in food options affect residents’ nutritional choices and health over time. Called the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood Study (dubbed foodNEST), the three-year study…

This afternoon, the undergraduate Class of 2019 officially will join the Case Western Reserve University community, as 1,250 new students attend a welcome address as part of orientation activities. The students represent the most competitive class admitted to the university: only 36 percent of…

Case Western Reserve discovery explains KLF4 and mitochondrial connection in heart failure Case Western Reserve University scientists have discovered that a protein called Kruppel-like Factor 4 (KLF4) controls mitochondria—the “power plants” in cells that catalyze energy production. Specifically,…