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Faculty-student team participating in summer cohort of research commercialization program
A faculty-student team from Case Western Reserve University is participating in a state-funded effort to accelerate the commercialization of university research designed to serve as an economic development tool for new businesses and jobs. Called I-Corps@Ohio, the program is modeled after a…
An alert for parents: CWRU nursing school researcher raises awareness of flame-retardant dangers in household products
Parents might be surprised to learn their cellphones, living room sofas, baby carriers, bouncy baby chairs and even some pizza boxes may contain chemicals harmful to young children, according to Case Western Reserve University nursing school researcher Laura Distelhorst. Distelhorst, an instructor…
CWRU, Japan’s Tohoku University agree on research collaboration and student exchange program
Case Western Reserve University and Japan’s Tohoku University will collaborate on research and student exchanges after the institution’s respective leaders signed formal agreements Wednesday. Tohoku University President Susumu Satomi and Kazuyuki Katayama, Japan’s Detroit-based consul general,…
5 questions with… economics, entrepreneurial studies professor Scott Shane
Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and professor of economics, started teaching at Case Western Reserve University 12 years ago. At that time, entrepreneurship was taught in a classroom with textbooks; there was no think[ box ], Blackstone LaunchPad or IP…
New CWRU study finds newborn’s first stool could alert doctors to long-term cognitive issues
A newborn’s first stool can signal the child may struggle with persistent cognitive problems, according to Case Western Reserve University Project Newborn researchers. In particular, high levels of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE) found in the meconium (a newborn’s first stool) from a mother’s…
Leading AIDS researcher appointed to Fasenmyer Professorship in School of Medicine
For more than 30 years, Northeast Ohio institutions have partnered to work at the forefront of HIV/AIDS and immunology research. Case Western Reserve celebrated the next phase of that legacy of innovation and collaboration Tuesday as Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, PhD, one of the world’s leading…
CWRU welcomes new Alumni Association leader
After spending nearly two decades in Florida—a state where temperatures average in the mid-70s in winter—Bradford Crews knows Cleveland’s cold will require an adjustment. But so much about Case Western Reserve appealed to Crews that he quickly warmed to the idea of moving here to lead the…
Novel algorithm identifies DNA copy-number landscapes in African-American colon cancers
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations—and it comes from Case Western Reserve University. Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant…
5 questions with… postdoctoral fellow, research advocate Lynn Ulatowski
Last month, Lynn Ulatowski joined students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country on Capitol Hill as part of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Hill Day. There, they explained the impact of their work to legislators—and urged them to vote in favor of…
New $2.9 million federal grant supports faculty loan program to nursing school
A new $2.9 million grant from the federal Health Resources and Service Administration for the 2015-16 academic year will support efforts at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing to build a corps of professional nurse educators. Combined with support from the…