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Finding brings scientists closer to developing treatments that target causes of painful, inflammatory skin condition Nicole Ward. Photo by Billy Delfs. Case Western Reserve University scientists have taken a huge leap toward identifying root causes of psoriasis, an inflammatory skin condition affe...

Faculty members Anna Samia and Clemens Burda have built careers on chemistry—and a life on the chemistry they feel toward each other. Burda and Samia met at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. Both were studying chemistry—Burda as a postdoctoral fellow and Samia as a PhD candidate. Their rela...

Cleveland photographer and Case Western Reserve instructor Barney Taxel presents what he describes as a “visual symphony,” with four melodic themes of “The Vision,” “The Place,” “The Heart” and “The Journey” in his latest book, The Lake View Cemetery: Photographs from Cleveland’s Historic Landmark (...

Elizabeth Madigan Changing planes in Chicago after a recent health care conference became a teachable moment for Elizabeth Madigan, associate dean of academic affairs and the Independence Foundation Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s nursing school. The situation was used to dispel a p...

Study suggests sunny weather can breed “buy” optimism, providing evidence that it can also affect stock prices Weather changes may affect how institutional investors decide on stock plays, according to a new study by a team of finance researchers. Their findings suggest sunny skies put professional ...

When people first began imagining the potential of Uptown more than a decade ago, the area east of the Mayfield Road-Euclid Avenue intersection was a stretch of tired businesses and craggy parking lots in an otherwise lively cultural city center. In a tribute that’s as much a recognition of their c...

Provost and Executive Vice President W. A. “Bud” Baeslack III announced today that the leader of finance and administration for the Weatherhead School of Management will become the university’s new associate vice president for planning and administration. Victoria Wright, a longtime banking executi...

Alan D. Levine, PhD, a professor of medicine, molecular biology and microbiology, pathology and pharmacology, is one of five scientists nationwide to receive the competitive 2015 National Institute on Drug Abuse Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS Research. In addition to the $2.5 million Avante-Garde Aw...

Dustin Tyler created this version of the prosthetic arm, which only can be used in the lab. Case Western Reserve University researchers who helped restore a sense of touch to amputees in a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs lab in Cleveland are finalizing contract negotiations for a $4.4 million g...

This semester, Chris Bohan, visiting assistant professor of theater, is teaching a SAGES course on theater criticism. The first subject? Slowgirl—a two-person play co-starring Bohan at the Dobama Theater in Cleveland Heights. The performance, which runs through Feb. 15, tries to answer a complicate...