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School of Law professor has analyzed data from 178 environmental lawsuits Legal attempts to deter major emitters of environment-damaging greenhouse gases (GHGs) have been ineffective and are unlikely to have much effect for years, a Case Western Reserve School of Law professor concludes in peer-revi...

What began as legal analysis of the Affordable Care Act after it became law in 2010 now has Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Jonathan Adler close to a case that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review. At stake is the future of the law known as Obamacare, which authori...

Medical school’s Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods wins grant renewal; government and nonprofits secure awards to promote healthy eating and exercise in select neighborhoods The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at Case Western Reserve University School ...

Case Western Reserve University theorists suggest the Standard Model may account for the stuff The physics community has spent three decades searching for and finding no evidence that dark matter is made of tiny exotic particles. Case Western Reserve University theoretical physicists suggest researc...

[Editor’s Note: Effective this year and upon consultation with the Faculty Senate, the President’s annual State of the University report will be presented in written form, rather than presented verbally as an address. This transition in format allows for a more detailed account and reflection that r...

When Bob Stiller, CEO of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, sought to guide his company toward the next stage of significant growth, he sent his private jet to fetch David L. Cooperrider. Cooperrider, a pioneering organizational behavior professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead Schoo...

Students and moviegoers may find a helpful resource in a new pocket-sized guide to better understanding and interpreting film. Case Western Reserve University film scholar Robert Spadoni published A Pocket Guide to Analyzing Films (University of California Press, 2014), a compact overview of the el...

Case Western Reserve scientists lead study documenting that two approved FDA drugs disrupt signaling that drives breast tumor growth The uncontrolled growth of cancer cells arises from their ability to hijack the cell’s normal growth program and checkpoints. Usually after therapy, a second cancer-si...

Case Western Reserve University mental health researcher Joseph Galanek spent a cumulative nine months in an Oregon maximum-security prison to learn first-hand how the prison manages inmates with mental illness. What he found, through 430 hours of prison observations and interviews, is that inmates...

Six Case Western Reserve scientists are part of an international team that discovered two compounds that show promise in decreasing inflammation associated with diseases such as ulcerative colitis, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. The compounds, dubbed OD36 and OD38, specifically appear to curtail ...