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February 10, 2015
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…
February 10, 2015
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…
February 09, 2015
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…
February 08, 2015
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…
February 06, 2015
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…
February 05, 2015
In partnership with the Division of Finance, Office of Sponsored Projects Accounting and Office of Administration, Information Technology Services will resume the in-person courses of the Case Western Reserve University Administrative Professional Series (CAPS) on Feb. 9. CAPS serves to educate…
February 05, 2015
Still early in his career, Paul Tesar’s continuous string of accomplishments grew even more robust on Jan. 20 when he was named the recipient of the prestigious International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the premier international award for young stem…
February 04, 2015
Nicole Steinmetz Health care workers must diagnose and isolate Ebola victims at an early stage to have a chance to save them and prevent the virus from spreading. But the most sensitive and quickest diagnostic test produces a small percentage of false negative results that undermine efforts to…
February 03, 2015
What drives ordinary citizens to corruption? Neither greed nor personal gain, necessarily, but desperation, concludes Kelly McMann, a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University and author of the recently released book Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia…
February 03, 2015
Case Western Reserve is about to go through its version of a final exam—and students are among the graders. As part of the accreditation review that takes place every 10 years, The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) asked students to participate in a survey regarding their experiences and…