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Colin Worden’s involvement in Class Officer Collective (COC) was the result of a collective movement among his housemates more than three years ago. As a first-year in Storrs House, Worden’s friends pushed him to run for first-year class president. With their help campaigning, he won the election an...

For his Miami high school science fair project, Felipe Gomez del Campo set out to discover how plasma and flames interacted—using a Bunsen burner and propane from his family’s grill. Four years later, with the help of think[ box ] and support from a generous alumni donor, that backyard project has t...

Case Western Reserve University malaria specialist Brian T. Grimberg is among Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014, who were honored earlier this week in Washington, D.C. Grimberg, of the Center for Global Health and Diseases at the School of Medicine, received the honor fo...

Case Western Reserve’s Office of Human Resources (HR) is conducting its inaugural survey of employee satisfaction this month. Its goal is to identify key ways to strengthen the services that HR provides to faculty and staff across the campus. “As President [Barbara] Snyder often has said, Case West...

A common telephone scam involving callers posing as police officers has reached Case Western Reserve in recent days. Members of the campus community report that they have been told by callers that warrants have been issued for their arrest, according to university police and information security sta...

For the first time, scientists have vividly mapped the shapes and textures of high-order modes of Brownian motions—in this case, the collective macroscopic movement of molecules in microdisk resonators—researchers at Case Western Reserve University report. To do this, they used a record-setting sca...

A natural sciences and world literature double major. An award-winning student entrepreneur. A nationally renowned figure skater. Meet William Littlefield. Littlefield has long excelled in academics, but it's his interests outside the classroom that might be most impressive. Littlefield began figu...

A simple act of kindness can have a major impact—and can inspire others to share the positivity as well. This idea is what drives the simple efforts of the Case Western Reserve University Acts of Random Kindness (ARK) Club every day—but especially today, World Kindness Day. World Kindness Day is an...

The authors of the new book Adopting Older Children: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Children over Age Four (New Horizon Press) hope to help guide parents through the process of adopting an older child. Three adoption and child development experts, including Victor Groza, the Grace F. Br...

Single gene enables female fruit flies to choose (Mr.) right Ah, to be a fruit fly. No meddling matchmakers, creepy dates or frog kissing. Females process the sights, smell, sounds and touch of love to choose Mr. Right in 15 minutes. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University discovered the neu...