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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…

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…

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…

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…

Almost immediately after he joined the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), DaShawn Hickman knew he wanted to help lead it. Four years later, he’s getting that opportunity. In January, the dual MD-PhD biomedical engineering student was named the national chair of SNMA, and he’ll officially…

People are more likely to blame God for their bad moral behavior when they believe they were born to act that way, according to an ongoing Case Western Reserve project on spirituality and religion. A growing body of research demonstrates that feelings of anger, disappointment, or mistrust toward…

Case Western Reserve University researchers have tracked their development since birth Since 1994, researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences have studied children prenatally exposed to cocaine and their mothers to track their…

Information Technology Services (ITS) will open a new Customer Assistance Resource and Education (CARE) Center in the Kelvin Smith Library (KSL) on March 9. The new facility will be located in the lower level of the library, adjacent to room LL06. The library location joins ITS’ two existing CARE…

The man Time magazine once dubbed one of the nation’s 10 best college presidents has been named a new Case Western Reserve University trustee. Scott Cowen, who retired earlier this year as president of Tulane University, joins the board of the institution he served for more than two decades—first…