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The President’s Committee on Child Care Options (PCCCO) announced today that it is sponsoring a three-day spring break camp March 30–April 1 with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Children of Case Western Reserve faculty, staff and students who are in kindergarten through sixth grade are eli...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University received a four-year, $588,000 grant from the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute to provide tuition to 20 social workers from 10 Northeast Ohio county child welfare agencies. The Mandel S...

Case Western Reserve University pole vaulter Mark Kulinski runs down the lane— counting his steps in cycles of threes—with only a split second to decide to jump or bail out. He sticks the pole into the plant, bending the pole with his weight. The tension propels Kulinski up and over, as he acrobatic...

New company developing “point-of-care” blood analyzer Punkaj Ahuja (left) and Patrick Leimkuehler (right) with a functional prototype blood test analyzer. A blood test yields a wealth of information crucial to a person's health. What's needed is a device that is small and inexpensive, yet capable ...

Mitch Drumm’s pioneering academic career began with a pursuit called “chromosome jumping.” The phrase may evoke images of skiers navigating moguls, but in fact represents an even more daunting challenge: navigating the complexity of human DNA to determine precisely where and how genetic materials c...

Today, sports and law combine once more when Peter A. Carfagna, adjunct professor in the School of Law and Distinguished Visiting Practitioner, resumes “Representing the Professional Athlete.” This is the second offering of Carfagna’s massive open online course (MOOC), which is produced in partnersh...

Case Western Reserve University dental researcher Pushpa Pandiyan discovered a new way to model how infection-fighting T cells cause inflammation in mice. The hope is that the discovery can lead to new therapies or drugs that jump-start weakened or poorly functioning immune systems, said Pandiyan, ...

Thanks to significant improvements in admissions selectivity and other factors, Case Western Reserve’s School of Law posted a five-point gain in this spring’s U.S. News & World Report rankings, to No. 59—the largest increase of any of the university programs assessed in 2015. “Credit for this progr...

Senior Dane McLoughlin has already made hoops history several times at Case Western Reserve. But now, in the final moments of his collegiate athletic career, he yearns for one last shot: the chance to play in the national Division III All-Star game. But to capitalize on the opportunity, he needs hi...

Susan Mazanec After studying cancer survivors and their family caregivers, researchers at Case Western Reserve University concluded that the period between the final cancer treatment and first post-treatment checkup may be an ideal time for the entire household to jumpstart a healthy lifestyle. “A...