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Case Western Reserve scientists developed a new chemical compound that shows extraordinary promise in restoring function lost to spinal cord injury. The compound, which the researchers dubbed intracellular sigma peptide (ISP), allowed paralyzed muscles to activate in more than 80 percent of the…

Those stressed by this month’s final papers and exams have a new option to assuage anxiety: crash some pins. Starting Wednesday, an upscale bowling experience is available in Uptown—specifically at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road. With 17 lanes, event space, two bars and a…

Throughout the year, the university’s student-run emergency medical service (EMS) provides medical support to faculty, staff and students. In 2013, 60 members of the campus community gave back to the organization by donating nearly $500 through Case Western Reserve’s first-ever foray into the…

A five-year, $2.35 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research will allow researchers from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University to study how brain activity motivates the chronically…

Artificial platelet mimics developed by a collaborative research team from Case Western Reserve University and University of California, Santa Barbara, are able to halt bleeding in mouse models 65 percent faster than nature can on its own. For the first time, the researchers have been able to…

The new book Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom (Springer Publishing, 2014) implores nurses to speak up and be heard, from the hospital corridors to the floors of Congress. Be the voice for change, advised Rebecca M. Patton, the past two-term president of the American Nurses…

State-of-the-art unified campus will allow students to learn team-based health care together Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic are expanding their health education collaboration to include dental and nursing students on the campus already planned for the institutions’ medical…

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University received a two-year, $200,000 grant to study why some children thrive, achieve and develop despite being abused and witnessing violence in the home. Megan R. Holmes, assistant professor of…

The City of Cleveland and OneCommunity are installing the nation’s first commercially available metropolitan 100-gigabit network. The 100-gigabit network will connect in downtown Cleveland, through Cleveland’s Health-Tech Corridor (HTC) to University Circle. The innovative $1.02 million project…

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…