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P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional ...

With age, postmenopausal women with osteoporosis are at greater risk of losing their teeth. But what treatment for tooth loss provides women with the highest degree of satisfaction in their work and social lives? A new study by Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researchers s...

Case Western Reserve employees earning $50,000 or less per year will receive a 20 percent discount on 2015-2016 parking rates as part of a series of initiatives President Barbara R. Snyder has launched in response to staff suggestions. The rates themselves will grow 2 percent over 2014-2015 costs f...

Research focuses on select tissues injured through disease, surgery and transplants, but early findings indicate potential for broad applications The concept sounds like the stuff of science fiction: take a pill, and suddenly new tissues grow to replace damaged ones. Researchers at Case Western Res...

Thirty years ago, Gene Matthews completed his associate’s degree at Lorain Community College, while working as assistant director of facilities at Oberlin College. The Monday after his graduation, his boss gave him an ultimatum: complete his bachelor’s degree in the next two years or lose his job. ...

It’s rare when an entire academic journal is dedicated to a single scholar. But Annals of Science did just that, devoting a recent issue to the contributions of Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University’s Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History and Distinguished University Professor. The journ...

Weatherhead School of Management Department of Design & Innovation project assists family-run Rittman Orchards A family-run business near Doylestown and Rittman in Northeast Ohio is well known for growing and selling a wide variety of apples, as well as other fruits and vegetables. Now, with input f...

Pushpa Pandiyan Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine have unraveled one of the mysteries of how a small group of immune cells work: That some inflammation-fighting immune cells may actually convert into cells that trigger disease. Their findings, recently report...

Instrument’s super-magnification of retina would enhance early detection of eye disease and could accelerate developing new eye therapies Krzysztof Palczewski Imagine an instrument that peers deep inside the eye and sees how well the retina’s cells function. Such advanced technology would provide ...

Chanelle Brown first showed up for the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) camp at Case Western Reserve in 2004—and she keeps coming back, year after year. Brown has been involved with the program for 11 years—first as a camper, then as a volunteer and now as a staff member. “She’s just an all-ar...