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Note: This post was updated at 5:40 p.m. to reflect an updated event start time of 9:45 a.m. Due to higher-than-expected response, the campaign for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has moved Thursday morning’s public event to Freiberger Field, immediately west of the Tinkham Veale University…

The campaign for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has announced she will hold a “community organizing” meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Tinkham Veale University Center. Other details—in particular those regarding federal security procedures and how they may affect traffic around…

Two Cleveland researchers receive $18.5 million to continue legacy in rheumatic, immunologic disorders and infectious disease Building on its previous gifts to Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, the Richard J. Fasenmyer Foundation awarded $18.5 million in new…

As a Case Western Reserve biology major, Andrew Zajac relished any opportunity to go into the field. “Clouds of bugs, pouring rain and hot sun never seemed to dampen his spirits,” said Mike Benard, George B. Mayer Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology. “He loved wading around in ponds,…

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…