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July 31, 2015
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,…
July 31, 2015
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…
July 30, 2015
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…
July 29, 2015
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…
July 28, 2015
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…
July 27, 2015
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…
July 24, 2015
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…
July 23, 2015
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…
July 22, 2015
Since 1994, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have studied mothers—some who used cocaine while pregnant and others who did not—to understand how the drug affected their children’s cognitive and social development. Their latest findings suggest a link between prenatal cocaine exposure…
July 21, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University medical student known for always giving to others now needs the community’s assistance as he recovers from a near-deadly injury suffered during a cancer research fundraiser. Life Flight had to transport second-year student Brady Tucker to MetroHealth Medical…