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July 10, 2015
Editor's Note: As of June 30, 2019, Case Western Reserve uses Rave Guardian. CWRU Shield is no longer active and should be deleted from all mobile devices. Download Rave Guardian on the App Store and Google Play. Daniel Schemmel was an undergraduate with an undecided major when a criminal justice…
July 09, 2015
Case Western Reserve scientists find mouse models of IBD most closely resembling human forms of the illness Fabio Cominelli A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer a new advantage to modern-day medicine. In findings published this month in Nature Communications,…
July 08, 2015
Randall Cebul A new study published in the July issue of Health Affairs, the preeminent journal on health care policy, found that poor, uninsured patients who enrolled in a Medicaid-like insurance plan had better care and health outcomes than those who remained uninsured. In addition, across all…
July 07, 2015
Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University, recently solved not one, but two mysteries in the arts world. First, he figured out a puzzle about Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour's Lost. Weeks later, he discovered what appears to be a depiction of…
July 06, 2015
Four decades after he graduated, Oreste “Russ” Zanni still felt a special tie to Case Western Reserve’s School of Dental Medicine. For one thing, the place provided him a powerful foundation for a flourishing career that spanned treatment, research and teaching. For another, it remained home to…
July 01, 2015
Megan Holmes As part of a larger initiative to promote active learning at Case Western Reserve University, researchers from the social work school participated in a yearlong project to integrate active instruction and academic technologies into their courses. The use of interactive technology and…
July 01, 2015
Case Western Reserve has hosted plenty of ribbon cuttings and groundbreakings during the Forward Thinking capital campaign, but this week marked a new kind of ceremony to kick off construction: the hammer swing. As more than 135 guests watched, 93-year-old Mort Mandel (CWR ’13) pounded on a faux…
June 30, 2015
The end of the calendar year may have big parties and the ball drop at Times Square. But the end of the fiscal year—which, for Case Western Reserve, is June 30—never has sub-zero temperatures or snowfall measured in feet. And so, as the 2014–15 fiscal year comes to a close, the daily thought…
June 30, 2015
The Case Western Reserve University Career Center received the gold level of the 2015 LGBTQ Career Center Certification awarded by Out for Work (OFW), marking the third straight year the center has attained the organization’s top grade. The certification program assesses career resources for…
June 29, 2015
Northeast Ohio’s Bonacker and Warburton families exemplify the spirit of interprofessional health care. Now, their foundation will advance a similar spirit in education. Last week at a panel discussion featuring health sciences deans and students, President Barbara R. Snyder announced a $2.27…